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Soundtrack

Walking at Night/the Alley- Dishonored Soundtrack: Street's suspense 0:00-0:20/0:41-0:54 Assassin's Creed Jack the Ripper Fog and the Cobble stone 1:34-1:47

Billie's death- Tale-Tale Heart Nox Arcana(or some other dark soundtrack from them)

Salon, France, night

Billie was walking down the street in fast pace, looking around. She pulled her coat tighter around herself and shuddered, at sudden rush of cold. She had a distinct feeling of someone or something watching her and it wasn't anything good. But she was a seeker and she was not going to let anyone scare her, so she walked for a little while before ducking into a small side-street that she knew would be empty at the time. If anyone wanted to get her whenever they were regular person or a seeker they would be in for a nasty surprise. She waited for a while, clutching the amulet on her neck, waiting but nothing happened. She tightened her grip on the amulet even more, as the adrenaline rose in her veins. She was just about to ask the person to come out when she felt a chill to her side, and felt a became keenly aware that somebody was standing right beside her. She turned her head and her eyes winded. She didn't even have the time to scream when the blow came.

Morning

Dante followed Metz, as they walked down the street towards the Foundation run museum in Salon. They have been called here for a nasty business. Billy, the young foundation agent who worked in the museum has been found dead, murdered this morning. It was an unexpected and shocking incident. While the seeker job had it's dangers, it was mostly the field agents that fell victim to those. Billie was a researcher with a desk job. She never went on missions, and since they defeated Blood Spirals last year there was no real enemy that could strike. Of course this could have been a regular murder...could have if it haven't been for the call he got even before the Foundation informed him of the event. His musings were soon interrupted as the chief of French Unit- Nasher came up to them. The man looked worn out and tried, but who could blame him? Billie was his employee.

"Chairman Metz" he greeted solemnly "Dante"

"Nasher" said Metz, while Dante only nodded his head "my deepest condolences! This is a mournful day indeed"

Nasher said nothing but his dark eyes flashed with anger for a brief moment before returning to their grim look.

"Billie was our best agent" he said at long last "the body is through here..." he added, lifting the yellow tape and leading them further into the back alley on the right side of the museum. There were two medics there and technicians, most of them vampires or other immortals or magical people. They were accompanied by a man and a woman. The woman was brown, tall and big dark eyes and long jet-black hair. She was dressed in a white shirt, beige jacket and jeans. companion was her total opposite, pale, blond and blue-eyed. His outfit was more casual yet elegant and most defiantly expensive. It was François de la Croix, the leader of the French clan and the one who called Dante earlier.

"François" greeted him Dante, causing both the blond and the woman to turn around.

"My Lord, Chairman Metz" said the vampire bowing lightly "let me introduce" he said pointing at the woman "this is Fareeha our leading investigating expert"

The woman gave Dante a curt nod

"It is honour to finally meet you, Lord Dante" she said politely "Mr. Metz" she added, nodding at Metz "I am incredibly sorry for your loss. You have my deepest condolences" she said

"And mine as well, of course" added François "it is sorry sight to see such a young person die in such a tragic way"

Dante nodded, he didn't know how much of François' words were how he really felt and how much of it was politeness. He knew that while not stone-heart monsters vampires didn't care very much for mortals; but he guessed that if you lived for centuries you had to develop some distance, it was self-preservation of sorts. And you eventually did loose some contact with the ever-changing world of mortals. However it was neither time nor place to think about immortality and it's burdens, so he chased these thoughts away, concentrating on the grim situation at hand.

"Thank you" he said "could you tell us what was the cause of her death?" he asked. In that moment one of the vampire medics came up to them.

"To put it simply and shortly magic" she said "blood magic" she added "one often used by wizard guilds, so it defiantly wasn't one of your people that got her"

"Can you tell us what guild it was?" asked Nasher, causing the medic, Fareeha and Francois to raise their eyebrows a bit.

"Unfortunately, no" shook her head Fareeha "there are dozens of guilds and many of them use darker magic. And those are only the registered ones. There are hundreds of rouge wizards or ones that work alone. Your seeker world is much different from the rest of the supernatural one, we do not have such strict rules. Using blood or necromantic spell for example does not make a guild or person using them evil by default. So finding the culprit is going to take some time"

Metz and Nasher did not look pleased by the answer, while Dante only sighed sadly, having already known that fact thanks to lessons on the world he has received as a child. Nina had been most firm that he should know the ways of the magical world outside of the seeker niche. He was after all to become a king of vampires, he had to know the world he was part of.

"But we will be able to tell you something more after post mortem" said the vampire medic "are we allowed to take the body for examination?"

Metz and Nasher looked between each other and Dante felt that they were a little bit doubtful. He could not blame them, after all seeker world has been separated from the rest of magical one for ages, so far that almost every seeker thought that creatures like vampires or werewolves were just seekers or titans. Dealing with real vampires was something fresh for them and they still had to get used to it. Finally Metz turned his eyes back to Fareeha and Francois.

"Of course" he said "we want to know as much as we can"

Fareeha nodded, and the medics picked up the body and carried it away.

"Web will of course keep in contact and work with you closely on this case" she told Metz " you will be informed of everything"

"Thank you" said the man, bowing his head.

With that the conversation was concluded, at least in the alley as they moved to the Museum to give a statement and answer some basic questions about Billie. After two hours they were finally let out.

"We will have to call emergency meeting of the council and inform every seeker of this danger" he said "as well as appoint someone to work with Ms. Fareeha"

Dante nodded wordlessly, because what was there to say? It was what they had to do. Still his mind could not help but go back to the fact that wizards were apparently targeting seekers. Why?

So here is prolouge 1st chapter...

WELCOME BACK. Yeah, I know I've taken my time but well other things. Other fandoms occupied me and I simply didn't have any ideas what to do about Huntik. I really just had none, the Aus came up with simply didn't fit with Huntik and it's characters. But then I got idea for this, with my supernatural UA. It is not a sequel to You win or You die, though some elements like vampires helping from afar during Spiral War will appear here too. It's just part of the this divergence/alternation that Dante asked them to help. Though this time everything went exactly like with the show. Only that the victory had little side help due to...seekers not being too many. Anyway I thought long what other enemy to give and decided that instead of usual full out war to save the entire world I'm going to make this solely about seekers and Foundation/Casterwill sort of inner magical thing rather than 'these people want to destroy the earth' sort of thing. More private matter I guess. :) I hope you will find it compelling.