Razor Vex, son of Dead Man Dexter Vex, was standing in the meeting room of the English Sanctuary waiting for the Council of Elders, when long-time friend and companion, Nicholas Rue walked in.

"I can't believe it!" Nicholas cried storming up to Razor.

Razor sighed and rolled his eyes. "What is it now?"

Nicholas started to sputter, waving his arms around crazily. "They, they. They're out of coffee!"

Razor laughed. He had been traveling the world with Nicholas for over two hundred years, but it still amazed him with how dependent the man was on the beverage. He could swear; Nicholas couldn't survive an hour without at least five double-choco-mega espressos.

Nicholas scowled. "Shut up Razor, you're just jealous because that girl in Italy choose me over you."

"That was a pity date."

"Was not."

"Was too."

This continued on for a few minutes before both grew bored and stood in silence for a while.

The doors opened and Razor and Nicholas looked at the English Council of Elders. Grand Mage Ode strode in proudly, flanked by his fellow Elders, Illori Reticent and Palaver Graves. Cleavers followed, standing on either side of the Council and next to the door.

Ode sighed. "I cannot believe we have sunk to this level, but we need your help."

"I'm sorry?" Razor said. "What was that?"

Ode ground his teeth. "I said, we need your help."

"What? A little louder."

"I SAID WE NEED YOUR HELP!"

Razor took out his ear buds. "Oh. You need our help? Sorry, one of my favorite songs was playing and I couldn't hear you."

Ode took in a long breath then let it out. "A man named Isaac Slade has apparently put together some hare-brained plan to put together a weapon that will help him accomplish world domination. But to do this he needs some certain gems with magical properties in them. So he's hired four criminals to get them."

He gestured and Graves handed him four files. "These are the people Slade as enlisted."

Razor took the files and opened the first one. Nicholas leaned over his shoulder to see it better. "Dusk?"

"Yes," Illori said, nodding wisely. "The Vampire is one of them."

Razor closed the file and went to the next one. "Billy-Ray Sanguine?"

The Elders nodded.

Nicholas grabbed the next file and opened it. He frowned. "Who's Ray-Roy Sanguine?"

"Billy-Ray's son."

"Holy crap."

Razor and Nicholas stared at the file then at the Elders then back at the file.

"Some woman actually had a kid with that psychopath?" Nicholas gawked.

"Apparently so," Illori said. "Apparently, he's Sanguine's little partner in crime and follows him on a lot of his jobs."

"Well what's the last one? Please don't tell me Dusk has a kid too."

Razor opened the file and stared. "She's hot."

"Let me see." Nicholas grabbed the file and ripped it out of his friend's hands.

He stared. "Wow. She is hot."

"What's her name? Who is she?"

"All we know is her name." Graves said. "And that she was only able to be held in the German Sanctuary for two hours. And she appears to have only done that to break Dusk out of prison."

"What's her name?" Razor asked.

"Vendetta." Illori said. "We don't know of her origin or if she has any relation to the Vampire, Dusk, like you were worried about. She has so far eluded capture but is wanted all over the world. Many want her behind bars, others want her dead."

Razor nodded. "A team worthy of our involvement. Where shall we head?"

"Last we heard," Ode said. "Ray-Roy and Vendetta had left Egypt and were boarding a plane headed to Brazil. Sanguine and Dusk are still in Australia, planning to depart to a mine in the state of Nevada. We have others working on them. You two will be headed to the next stop on Vendetta and Ray-Roy's list."

"And where is that?"

The only characters I own are Vendetta and Ray-Roy. realtawit helped me come up with Razor and Nicholas. Derek Landy owns everything else. Please review! :)