BUFFY (hushed) Did you hear that, too? Jehonas doesn't respond, and they both make a left. Just as they take a few steps down the tunnel. He shoots out his arm, stopping Buffy. He listens. He turns his head, glancing behind them, searching. HIS POV: Nothing but darkness down the tunnel. Water dripping as loud as lead being dropped into a bucket. Rats SQUEEKING louder than their size would hint. His senses are amplified many times more than a human. BUFFY What is it? JEHONAS It's been a while since I walked down these tunnels. Simple nostalgia. Let's go. He turns back. At the end of corridor, Jehonas notices a wooden door there partially opened. Twirling his blade once, he inches closer, trying to peek inside. Buffy wrinkles her nose. Jehonas gives her a hand signal, to be ready. He slowly pushes open the door. INT. CATACOMBS - ROOM - DAY Entering the room, the first thing they see horrifies them. THEIR POV: BODIES. Nearly a dozen, torn and mangled, bloodied, strewn all about the room. Lifeless eyes watching back at Jehonas and Buffy where they stand. Jehonas starts to move among the corpses. Their flesh, purple and crimson red. Some exposed to the open air causing rot. BUFFY Is it me, or is this starting to look not vampire? JEHONAS (nodding) The Priest was wrong. I have seen this before. Jehonas crouches down next to a body of AN OBESE MAN, the insides of the chest cavity exposed completely. It's like something took two handfuls of his lungs and ripped them out. JEHONAS I saw a guy once in Milan... he died like this. The vampire council believed it was the work of Garou. BUFFY Grow, what? JEHONAS Werewolves. Explains that smell. BUFFY No big deal. They're bad. They're evil. We can kick their butts. Jehonas starts working on the corpse, noting the PURPLISH coloring of the wound area. JEHONAS This man died not too long ago. (beat) Have you hunted werewolves before? BUFFY Uh, sort of, but he turned out okay, in some doggish way. JEHONAS Good. He looks around the room, grim. JEHONAS Chloe isn't here. We can hope she might still be... An UNEARTHLY HOWL echoes through the tunnels. Buffy snaps alert, spins to the door. Jehonas stands up straight. Another eerie HOWL echoes through the maze. They both look further into the tunnel and see A PAIR OF GLOWING YELLOW EYES staring back at them out of the darkness. We see the dim outline of the massive wolf- like beast. JEHONAS Look what reared its ugly... With a horrible ROAR, the eyes lunge at them. Buffy lets loose the Browning -- BOOM! -- just as the beast comes crashing in. The force of the blast blows the beast back through the door. Another beast tears around the corner, SNARLS. Buffy jacks around the shotgun fast, fires again. The beast manages to spin away, avoiding the blast. The shell reduces the corner into a mess of concrete and dust. Jehonas breaks into a sprint, past Buffy. He turns the corner with his sword ready to slash. The beast already gone, making tracks down. The padding of bestial feet growing distant. Jehonas gives chase. Buffy is trying to keep up while reloading her shotgun. He emerges into an opening. A sudden noise to his right. Jehonas slashes at the direction of the sound in one swing with his sword. The attacker adjusts just as fast, stops and backs away a fraction of a second away from the blade. The BEAST rears up onto its hind legs for another attack, jumps at Jehonas but he moves so lightning fast we don't even have time to register his blade coming upwards, slashing deep. The beast HOWLS in pain. Jehonas spins the blade, slashes again, and AGAIN in precise cuts. The beast falls backward dead. Buffy jumps in behind him and fires her shotgun just as another beast tries to tackle Jehonas from behind. BOOM! She blows it off screen. BUFFY Bad doggie! JEHONAS Follow. There's another. They take off down the tunnel. The path is serpentine, with many smaller passages and anterooms off to the sides. Jehonas and Buffy move rapidly, turning left and right, the walls behind them becoming a blur. They come into the LARGE MAIN ANTECHAMBER, with dozens of huge support pillars. Jehonas barely catching the profile of the beast before it disappears around a corner. He gives another hand signal, and they split up, ready to catch the beast on both flanks. TIGHT ON BUFFY, running, ready to turn another corner and -- SLAM! Something barrels into her -- it's a TEENAGE GIRL. Actually, the same girl from the first photo, CHLOE. The girl's covered in grime, clothes torn. She backpedals into a combat stance, breathing hard. CHLOE (screaming) Qui êtes-vous? Buffy pulls back her shotgun. BUFFY Um... Je m'appelle Buffy. Jehonas slides into view behind Chloe. BUFFY Je suis le... um, help here. Chloe sees her eyes, spins around to the man. She visibly relaxes. JEHONAS Chloe? CHLOE Le Professeur! (heavy accent) And American Slayer? JEHONAS Où est le monstre? CHLOE It took off down the tunnel. I went the other way. There are four in the pack. Jehonas races off. INT. STALAGMITE HELL - NIGHT Another large room with deep recesses and alcoves into the walls for the dead. Stalagmites, stalactites. It's like staring into an ugly maw. The beast races across the room just as -- JEHONAS dashes across an upper level, LEAPS, stomps the beast with one foot, then landing on the ground in one motion.
