The first thing Kai had done upon arriving in the city of London was to sneak out of the carriage unnoticed. It was actually a lot harder that it seemed, the carriage rocked with such small momentum that he had to prop the dead body on the seat behind him to even out the weight distribution on the rear axle.

He saw a large thoroughfare, with a slow and steady trail of carriages. It was too good an opportunity to pass up, so he carefully opened the carriage door and hopped out when it was stationary.

The coachman didn't notice, and if he did Kai didn't much care. He had sloped off in the dead of night, giving him perhaps a few more hours to find shelter and to get his bearings. The coachman may have thought he hit a pothole, it wasn't unheard of after all, besides many a carriage lost a good wheel after doing the exact same thing.

Now free of the moving wooden carriage he took a deep breath in and instantly regretted it, he was hit with the most hideous smells possible. It was a mixture of pungent odours and rotting foods, coupled with the odd smell of embalming fluid, formaldehyde and disease. So completely overwhelming to the fresh air he had travelled from. He didn't particularly like the stronger smells but it seemed that whatever they used, masked the smell of death and disease, therefore he quickly learned to accept it.

Once his nose got used to the stench, he picked up other smells, some were pleasant others were foreign, musky masculine scents. Then there was a feminine scent mostly laden with floral rose and lavenders. Luckily for him, the scent of Wolfsbane was very mild and it seemed to accompany a much stronger masculine scent. He took it to mean that whomsoever held the plant that could lead to his demise, was also a male.

Another positive to being here was the population was obscenely high. He was extremely happy for the fact that there were so many more people here than the countryside he had travelled from, it was like a veritable banquet.

'All you possibly eat and everything is ripe for the picking.'

A couple of days had passed since his arrival and he was near to the river. He didn't want to get too close, the stench made his stomach turn. The closer he got to it the more it hid the more important smells he so desired, so he stayed back from it. All the while wanting to know where his sister was and where his brothers were. He'd never felt so lonely in all of his life, but at the time he'd never felt such power.

He could smell it on the breeze, he knew he was so much closer to that heavenly scent. It was so close he could taste it. He allowed himself a quick expedition and he trailed it back to a large black bricked house, he frowned with disappointment upon finding the large house was empty.

Standing at the front door, he took a deep breath in, he could smell two male occupants who would normally reside here, one of which was absent and had only recently left for a quick jaunt. The other, he noted, had been gone for a few days and no more.

There were traces of his blood all over the large house, as well as other scents of blood. He had wondered if he had come across a butcher's shop, hidden away from all, looking completely inconspicuous to all who passed.

Now he knew where the owner of the delectable blood lived, now he could stay here and watch. Watch and wait, in the hope that he would not be long to return, he wasn't sure his appetite could wait that long.

His nose told him that whoever lived here, held a secret so dear that they didn't want anyone to know of it, The other, less interesting blood that he could smell was so faint, the strong smell of disinfectant and iodine covered most of it up.

He waited for a few more days, sucking dry the odd homeless person as a snack, it was certainly worth it. Even more so when he caught another scent on the air, other than the stink of the river. He could smell a vaguely familiar oriental scent of cherry and vanilla, it was coming from nearby.

His nose and strong sense of smell brought him to an alleyway, it ended near some crates, one stacked upon another all nailed closed.

Once he had ripped the top off, he peered in and saw a waking female. Of course, he recognised her at once. "What the...Nya!" He said loudly, quickly clamping a hand over his mouth. "Nya?" He mumbled again, quietly, stroking her dark ringlets from her dusty face.

"Imagine my surprise when I find you, of all people hiding in a shipping crate!" He smiled, it stretched across his face, as he scooped her out. He tried his best to keep his stony unemotional face hidden, he was so close to losing it.

"Kai?" she responded weakly, she looked like she'd been sleeping for a while..

He embraced her so tightly, he didn't want to let her go, he didn't dare. "I've been looking for you for two days…" His voice was broken and he looked away in shame. "I couldn't remember anything, I mean I still can't, some things are sketchy." He still hadn't let her go. "You, you were all I could think of." His head fell into the crook of her neck. "It is you isn't it?" He laughed quietly.

She nodded and cried into his shoulder. "We're not safe here Kai, we both have enemies." She shivered in the cold night air.

He frowned at her, thinking that maybe she'd been hurt. As far as he knew, he hadn't come across any mortal enemies yet. He couldn't for the life of him remember who his enemy was.

"Even the sun is against us." She replied dejectedly, she was sobbing into his shoulder.

He bit his lip, dreading to even contemplate what she may have been subjected to since they had been here. He held her close, "Nya, I'm here now. You're not alone."

Her head was buried in the crook of his neck, "I was scared, I've never been so scared in all my life."

"So we're creatures of the night then?" He said lifting her chin up. "Cold blooded?"

She didn't answer him, she couldn't even contemplate their situation let alone what he was saying or what it all meant. All she wanted to know was where he had been for almost three nights. "What have you been doing Kai? Where have you been, I've been stuck here for days with Helsing watching my every move."

Kai didn't click onto the name, "So you've got a guy watching you already huh?" He laughed gently.

She slowly shook her head but still remained close to her brother reciprocating the small laugh, "I-I thought that if I stayed here for long enough he'd lose interest but every night he's been watching me."

She looked up into his burning hazel eyes, he seemed more alive, stronger than she remembered and somehow more sinister looking in the cold dark of night. "You stink like a wet dog Kai! And where have you been?"

He couldn't tell her what he'd been doing for those weeks, she'd probably be disgusted with him. "I've been busy and uhm, s-sorry about the smell, it sort of comes with the...err suit." He chuckled, it was a partial truth.

Kai turned cautiously and saw a man who stood leaning against a lamp post, at the end of the darkened alleyway. "Is that him?" That same smell came back, it blocked his senses, leaving him more vulnerable than he cared to admit.

Nya nodded, "We need to leave, NOW!, can't risk you falling into his radar."

He didn't need any further encouragement, he scooped her up and they ran off in the opposite direction. "Just hold onto me and I'll get you to safety."

He smiled as he carried her away from danger. "FSM Nya, When did you last eat?"

"I haven't, for a few days at least, I'm so hungry. I tried the normal food but I couldn't stomach it." She turned her nose up.

He cocked his head to the side, "Well that would explain why you feel lighter at least!"

She managed a small grin, "not that you could call it food, it was gross, I've tasted better at YoSushi and Chen's noodle house."

He smiled at that. "Great, so I got a feast lined up for you, just around the corner from here and likely away from his territory too."

He let his nose guide him back to the black bricked townhouse, her scent was somewhat slightly distracting. "The thought of drinking blood turns my stomach Kai, I can't take someone's life."

She chuckled at his choice of words though, she'd only just picked up on them. "Territory, Kai? You're talking more like a dog now."

He shook his head and bit back a sarcastic retort, it was good to see her smiling, in fact it was good to see her in general. "It's either eat or die Nya, we chose these forms, this is just a stupid story, no-one's gonna get hurt are they?"

He grinned at her and she saw the energy in his eyes. "Besides, who said anything about killing?"

He placed her down gently and they waited as a dark carriage pulled up. The carriage was as dark as the horses and everything was the same colour as the night. Everything was black and reminded him of a funeral hearse. "So what are you saying?"

"A feast, something to fill us both up."

She was interested now. "Who is it then? One of these men?"

Kai cocked his brow at the tall dark haired man who exited the carriage. He was certainly smartly dressed, not a hair out of place. Even Nya caught a scent and licked her lips.

"Not him Nya…"

Another person came out of the carriage but his profile was harder to distinguish. His scent was still strong. To Kai, it was stronger than the dark haired man, and the darker haired man smelled older. That in itself was odd, although he looked not a day over 18 he smelled like he was over a hundred. He seemed more mature.

The other one, however, his scent was heavily masked with cologne. Kai could smell the pheromones coming from him, likely the need for the cologne. He thought.

He tried listening in to the conversation, slightly annoyed at the cats screeching at him from nearby. He caught the tail end of it before both guests were invited in. "Thanks, Igor, I'm glad he was successful. He doesn't belong in there but glad he's on his way home."

"Come in, he shouldn't be long, doesn't take too long to travel across town."

He turned to Nya. "We need to get in there, how are you at climbing?"

She turned to look at him incredulously. "Have you ever tried climbing in a dress with a corset?" Her hand was resting on her hip, her expression was mostly unimpressed.

He shook his head a little. "Turn around then."

He walked up behind her and cut at the boned parts of her dress with his sharpened nails. His fingers grazed some very bony prominences and he pulled out each thin sliver of whale bone from her corset. The front seemed to stay put, but the backbones were removed swiftly allowing her to take in a deep invigorating breath.

"Better?" He asked as he cast the bones onto the floor.

She nodded again. "The only problem is, I've just realised how hungry I am. And there's still this!" She said pointing to the longer part of her dress. "Can't climb in a long dress can I?"

He bit his lip, he was unsure about this. He didn't exactly have the money to replace her dress, and from what he had seen, the women of this day and age wore dresses to the floor, covering them in their entirety. The only noticeable parts that he saw in the eyeful, was the bosoms, the corsets made them stand out even worse, but he was a man, it was in his nature to look.

He wasn't sure that he wanted men looking at his sister in that manner. Women's right weren't exactly high on the agenda in the 19th century. At least that was what he had noticed since being in London, seeing it for the past few nights at how much the females suffered.

"Come on Kai, you've seen me in short dresses before." She said with a wink.

"Yeah, but that's different. Ninjago isn't 19th century London is it?"

Reluctantly he agreed. "First spinjitzu master Nya! Fine, turn around then." He almost growled at her. He roughly grabbed the lowest part of her scarlet gown.

He roughly grabbed the lowest part of her scarlet gown and bit into a section of it.

His hunger was guiding his patience, he had been holding off for the best part of a day just to feast on the one he had been trailing for the last few days. "Hehe you know you won't get the deposit back right?" He asked with a small grin.

"Needs must, just do it already." She felt a tug and then heard an almighty rip. She watched with baited breath as Kai seemed to expertly rip the bottom half of her dress, allowing her the flexibility of moving her legs once she had discarded her boned underskirt.

"Finally, free." She pulled her legs up one by one and stretched out ready to climb. "Ugh, whoever invented these awful things for women needs a good talking to in the subject of comfort and flexibility."

"Nya, I really don't think it's meant for comfort, pretty sure it's meant to attract, it's the fashion right?"

She adjusted herself accordingly. "Seriously, next time we go to a costume party don't let me go as villains' love interest."

He half smiled as he looked at the height of the building they were about to climb. "I won't!"

He began scaling the building, climbing onto the first window ledge before offering his hand to Nya. "You coming then?"

She climbed up and followed his lead, copying his footwork. They couldn't afford to fall, although to be fair, Kai had made sure there was no debris to land on. Anything at this height could be construed as a stake if they fell on it awkwardly.

"Come on, it'll be worth it." He smirked and pulled her to the next ledge. At least twelve feet off the ground now, Kai knew what he was looking for. He could see an open window, it was too good to be true.