Arie smiled at Kenji as they walked through the park, "This is nice." She looked at the flowers and the nearby pond.
He grinned at her. "Not as nice as you, mon cherie."
"So, why do you stick around here instead of going back to France?"
He paused before speaking. "Let's just say I'm a political refugee. I'm also completely alone if I return."
Arie nodded, "The group has become your family too?"
"Oui. They accept me, flaws and all."
"I'm sure you don't have many flaws."
"Tell that to my roommate. He listed them once on the bulletin board and invited the guys to add things. Last count was 144." He grinned widely, his eyes dancing.
Arie laughed in response.
He laughed happily, entwining their hands as they walked. "And why I do admit snoring can be annoying, how is my natural athleticism a flaw?"
She smiled, "Doesn't seem like one to me."
He laughed again, releasing her hand and proceeding to do several back flips in front of her.
"Maybe sometime you should teach me how to backflip."
"Anytime you like, cherie." He took a breath as he grinned.
She smiled softly and took his hand again, continuing to walk.
He kissed her cheek, then looked around. "Beautiful surroundings for a beautiful woman."
Arie blushed before kissing his cheek in return.
He smiled wider as he also blushed.
Arie looked up at the stars beginning to appear in the sky.
"Do you want me to drop you home?"
"If you'd like," she smiled.
He shrugged. "I just don't want you to possibly get hurt." His eyes roamed the park intently.
"Andy's been trying to teach me how to fight, so I probably will be fine."
"Unless you are like your sister, you can be controlled by a vampire. And this is the beginning of their nightly feeding."
Arie nodded before smiling, "I'll have to see if Andy can control me or not."
He stiffened as he saw several dark shapes slinking toward them. "Might be too late for that."
Arie turned to look at them, trying to remember any of the killing spells Andy tried to teach her.
"What do we have here? A pair of not very smart lovers?" A creepy looking vampire licked his fangs.
Kenji pushed Arie behind him. "More like a pack of suicidal vampires."
The creep scowled as he recognized the Frenchman. "You're one of them. You can't keep our King from us forever."
Kenji gave a smirk. "Maybe not, but you won't get to see him crowned." He tossed a UV grenade to him, then covered Arie's eyes as it went off and the vamp screamed, disintegrating.
When it was done, Arie looked around for more vamps, "We should get out of here."
"Agreed." He took her hand and began to run toward his bike. Suddenly he was yanked away from her by three large vampires.
"Arie, teleport!" Kenji screamed as they bit into him simultaneously.
Arie stared in shock for a moment before finally nodding, teleporting to Andy.
"What's wrong?" Andy looked at her expression.
"Kenji.. vampires.."
"Ok, deep breath. Stay here, I'll be right back."
"I want to help."
Andy winced but agreed, teleporting to Kenji. Arie focused on trying to recite a killing spell, while Andy bared her fangs, quickly biting into one of the vampires.
He snarled, thinking she was trying to get to Kenji's exposed arm.
She drank from him quickly, watching him topple over before she turned to the other two. One fell as Arie finished her spell so it was just Andy versus one vamp left.
He dropped the limp shifter and charged at her.
She shifted into panther form and ran at him, sinking her claws into his flesh.
He hissed, his fangs snapping at her.
She growled, biting into him and tearing him apart. When she was done, she reverted then knelt beside Kenji. She looked up at Arie, "We'll get him to the infirmary and take care of him there, okay?" She teleported them both back to base, getting Kenji in a bed and healing up the wounds before setting up a transfusion.
Arie stared at Kenji with worry, tears in her eyes. She looked at Andy, "How can you stay so calm, especially after having to fight?"
Andy shrugged, "It's part of the job. Being a normal doctor takes a lot of patience and dealing with things going wrong. Being a doctor here, it's even more common and to some extent you get used to it."
Arie nodded slowly.
Andy checked the transfusion before trying to revive Kenji. The gold light surrounded him but soon faded with no reaction.
Arie let out a sob, "What happened?"
"I don't know. It didn't work," Andy frowned as she checked a few different things. Arie watched her working, occasionally looking down at the pale Kenji. She started crying as Andy continued to take longer.
After another transfusion bag, Andy tried the revival again. Arie let out a small sigh of relief as he finally sucked in air. She sat beside him once Andy was out of the way and waited for him to wake.
Ten minutes later, his eyelids fluttered. He whispered Arie's name weakly as he forced his eyes open. "You're safe.."
"Yeah. So are you. Just relax," she gave him a small smile.
He returned it before his eyes closed again.