Note: Yes, Hugue has finally made his long-awaited appearance! However, it is a little bit difficult to really convey the whole slicing-and-dicing thing in straight dialogue, so I will do my humble best. Sorry to them's that are easily confused.

One thing I do very much have in common with Johanna is what in gaming terms is referred to as the Psychological Limitation: 'Must Mouth Off to Vastly More Powerful Opponent.' (My Champions character, Midnight, was infamous for this trait, but that's another story.)

Update: Thanks to some (well-deserved) criticism from one of the TrinityBlood LJ community members, this chapter has been rewritten to make it a bit in-character.


Unexpected Results, Part XXVIII

Vampire: "Who the-"

Me: "Please... help me-"

Vampire: "SHUT UP!"

Me: "Oww! Cowardly bastard... hitting a... woman..."

Hugue: "Let her go. If you don't, you die."

Vampire: "Just for that, I'll kill her, then you."

Me: "Oh, God, nooooo-"

Hugue: "Die, then."

Vampire: "You bast-"

Me: "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!"

Vampire: "-tard... w-what... h-how..."

Hugue: "You cannot kill me, vampire. Nor will you kill her."

Me: "You... he... how the hell did you DO that?! All I did was blink and he was in two! I've NEVER seen sword skills like THAT!"

Hugue: "You shouldn't take such risks, Sister."

Me: "A fine thing, coming from you. Father Hugue de Watteau, I presume. If you are, thank God, we've been looking all over for you. If you're not, thank you anyway for saving me. But either way, if you don't mind, please don't go anywhere. I'll be right back."

Hugue: "Where are you going?"

Me: "I have to go save Father Abel and Father Leon. Unless you feel like helping, that is- Owwwwwwwwww..."

Hugue: "What?"

Me: "I think he broke my hand, the bastard."

Hugue: "How do you plan to help if your right hand is injured?"

Me: "I still have my left."


Hugue: "What makes you think you need to save them?"

Me: "Because they were supposed to step in and save me if anything like that happened. Given that they didn't, and they're still not showing themselves, I'm guessing they're in trouble."

Hugue: "Fine. Stay here."

Me: "The hell with that. I'm in pain, I'm scared half out of my mind, and I'm so pissed off I can hardly see straight. So sorry, but after what that creep did to me, I'm not letting you have all the fun."


Vampire #5: "Our friend should just now be finishing up with the good Sister-"

Me: "FATHERS!"

Vampire #5: "What?!"

Abel: "Johanna, what are you-"

Vampire #5: "But how- ARGH!"

Me: "GET AWAY FROM THEM!"

Vampire #4: "What the- AGH!"

Hugue: "One..."

Father Leon: "Hey, Hugue! Nice timing!"

Vampire #2: "Where- AAGH!"

Hugue: "Two..."

Vampire #3: "But how- AAGH!"

Hugue: "Three..."

Vampire #6: "Get them- AGH!"

Hugue: "Four..."

Father Leon: "Glad to see you were able to join the party, Hugue."

Vampire #5: "You Vatican scum!"

Me: "WHAT?!"

Father Leon: "Johanna, he's behind you!"

Me: "OH SHI-"

Father Leon: "SHOOT!"

Vampire #5: "I'll kill you, you little-"

Me: "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!"

Abel: "Johanna, stop!"

Me: "Oh, God..."

Abel: "He's dead."

Father Leon: "Considering she emptied the entire magazine into him..."


Father Leon: "Johanna, you okay?"

Me: "Y-yeah... but I had no idea head shots sounded that gross..."

Father Leon: "Anti-vampire rounds do that..."

Abel: "Johanna, thank God you're all right!"

Me: "Thank Father Hugue for that... are you all right?"

Abel: "We're fine... more worried about you. We heard you screaming and saw that vampire doing something to your hand-"

Me: "We can worry about that later. In the meantime, what happened?"

Father Leon: "We were about to step in and help you when these five came out of nowhere. They were working with the one that came after you."

Me: "That makes sense, based on what he was blathering about before Father Hugue stepped in. Owwwwww... urgh."

Abel: "Johanna, are you sure you're all right? You look as white as a ghost..."

Me: "I'll be fine... Um, excuse the pun, but can one of you give me a hand? I want to see if any of them have ID of some kind."

Father Leon: "Sure..."

Me: "Don't take their wallets or anything, I just want to know who they are. That way I can get some more research done on how they knew who we are."

Abel: "In the meantime, I'm glad to see that Father Tres' training did in fact pay off. Not bad, Johanna. I didn't know you were left-handed."

Me: "I'm not... Thirty years of playing the piano helps with ambidexterity. So I had Father Tres teach me to shoot with either hand. But did you see Father Hugue take those vampires apart? He had that sword out faster than I could even track!"

Father Leon: "For that matter, I'm surprised Hugue didn't just jump right in at first."

Me: "Oh, he wanted to, but he was enough of a gentleman to let me have first shot, as it were."

Abel: "Very funny, Johanna."

Hugue: "Who exactly are you?"

Me: "Sister Johanna Sinclair, lately of Rome, before that, Phoenix, circa AD 2007. Pleasure to meet you."

Abel: "It's a long story, Hugue."

Me: "Nice to see that the trend continues of the AX priests being totally hot. Tall, blond, gorgeous, and hell itself with a sword. Yeah, just my luck that I meet you AFTER I got married. Right now, though, I vote the four of us get the hell out of here. However, Fathers, if you don't mind, one of you will have to carry me, because I'm going to faint now."

Father Leon: "Johanna!"

Abel: "Is she all right?"

Father Leon: "Looks like that vampire messed her right hand up pretty good, but thankfully most of this blood doesn't seem to be hers. I wonder why she didn't use her power on that vampire when he attacked her..."

Hugue: "Her power?"

Abel: "We'll fill you in. In the meantime, we need to get back to Our Lady's Cathedral. There's a lot you need to know."

To be continued...