I was sitting at home one day. My home just to clarify is a whole building like you might see in the centre of a city, 8 floors, numerous rooms, underground garage full of cars. Even have a helipad on the roof. Thinking of getting a jet pad (for VTOL) installed at some point. Oh yes I live in the middle of Atlanta.
We are by the way the new 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', or LXG for short. We do not live together, but own buildings in separate cities. We were however not enjoying the administration part of our job, the report writing. We were currently describing the recent events on the last preternatural menace that my team and I had recently killed. We keep a copy of this report on our computers, and also send one copy to the BPRD, known as the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defence. We have a lot of contact with them, and quite often work together.
The LXG have a few temporary members that can be called on if the situations arises, Hellboy, and of course the most famous daywalker of all; Blade.
"Mark, have you finished yet, what are doing writing it in another language?" that was my team mate Hugo.
"I'll be right there"
Hugo is 'master vampire' or another term would be 'elder', of equal ability to old Viktor before Selene killed him. Although Hugo is slightly different, able to shape change into bat, mist etc, with many other powers attributed to folklore. He has quite an array of talents after almost 900 years of life. He is not undead like in fiction, his heart does beat, albeit very slowly. As you would expect he has an athletic build, and about 6 foot tall. He has all the luck with the ladies, damn him and his vampire charms.
Another member of our team is Michelle. She looks like any keep fit fanatic who goes to the gym, tanned skin with brunette hair, but those piercing emerald eyes. Nothing preternatural in them. They're like looking into a huge ocean, sometimes you feel like you could drown. She was a 'child of Genomex' and been altered by the military a little more to become part of psi ops, bloody Manticore! Well that's where I recruited her from and she's our resident Psychic powerhouse. She makes both Hugo, and Maglor look like children despite their age. But she does have 'demon' DNA in with her human genes.
She can be quite ruthless when it comes to our job. I've seen her perform 'mind rape', and felt the psychic aftermath, and I'm not psychic; not one jot. Both Hugo, and Maglor went pale had to have a lie down due to migraines. She does scare me sometimes, but we have a rule never to read one another mystically.
Remember the Elf Immortal friend of mine, Maglor Mithrandir, well he's in our team too. He is now about 1500 years old. The best way to describe him is like a very refined English Lord. All prim and proper, but when it comes to getting low down and dirty; he does so with the best of them.
The last member is Santos. He is a Lycan lord, These are a virtually 'mystical' breed of lycan, able to shape change into a Wolf, Tiger, Bear and a few others to boot. He is almost eight hundred years old, with an array of skills too. Age hath it privileges someone once said. He is a very well built, about 6'6", and of African descent. He is a good man, and been a good friend to me with the other league members for quite a few years now, almost eighty years!