So sorry for the late update, I've been battling the flu and AP classes and trying to raise money for my trip to Spain in March, and things have gotten so crazy. I know I've been neglecting this story and I apologize. So please don't hate me.

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'The plan, the plan, am I supposed to come up with this plan?' she snapped at him.

'Yes.'

'Okay okay, let me think. We need more hunters.'

'More hunters?' echoed Carl.

'Yes, we're too few. Even with both of our experiences combined Gabriel and I are no match for a coven of vampires with a legion of werewolves at their disposal. We need more.' She explained, rolling her eyes.

'Well I don't know about you, but I don't have a book with a list of names of all the vampire hunters in the world.' Gabriel broke in sarcastically.

'Maybe you don't, but what about your Order? The Nights of the Holy Order, wouldn't they know?' she asked him, curious.

'They might, but, I will probably be in trouble for staying without telling them and I doubt they'll want to help me all that much.' He snapped at her, resentment in his voice.

'They wouldn't want you to be helped?' she asked him, surprise in her question, wondering why an Order that sent a hunter out to his possible death each night wouldn't want to help him destroy the very creatures that they had been told God ordained him to kill.

'They want to help, but…' he trailed off, unsure of exactly what he wanted to say and she sent him a superior smirk.

'They help us, we'll be able to take this coven down.' She nodded, sure that what she was telling the three men before her was the truth.

'It'll take too long, there must be more monster hunters but they must come from all over the world, we can't wait for them to appear.' Carl was always the voice was reason.

'Carl's right Adalia, you don't have the time, especially since the coven knows of both you and Mr. Van Helsing.' Michael agreed with the monk.

Phoenix sighed and rubbed her now throbbing temples.

'Very well, I suppose you're right. But we could ask for their help and stall for time.'

'How much time?' Gabriel looked over at Carl who did a quick calculation in his head.

'A few weeks at best.'

'Damn.' Phoenix swore, 'Think we can stall that long?'

'Probably not, there are too many and now that they knew we're here, they could come after us.'

'What if you went after them?' asked Carl.

'How exactly is that stalling?' asked Phoenix as she turned on him, annoyance in her voice.

'He's only trying to help.' Snapped Gabriel and Phoenix bit her tongue, sighing and mentally counting to ten before replying.

'I'm sorry Carl, forgive me, I'm just worried is all.'

Carl nodded, the look on his face telling her that he knew she hadn't meant it and he forgave her.

'How do we stall?' asked Michael, coming into the conversation.

'Is there any way that we could, possibly, find something else to occupy them with?' asked Phoenix, curious as to the other's points of view.

'I don't know, what are they concentrating on now?'

'That's the problem, we don't really know.'

'So we have to distract them from something that we don't know about, using ways we haven't figured out yet, so that monster hunters whom we've never heard of, can get here and help us stop them from doing whatever it is that we don't know they're doing.' Michael summed up and while Carl and Gabriel gave him disbelieving and confused looks Phoenix giggled.

'Exactly.'

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