Gevaden: Here is another chapter, hopefully you're all still mourning at the loss of Ryan, a valuable member of the story, luckily Selene holds some of his ancient and powerful blood.

If you want a Vampire or Lycon you made up in the fic tell me and I'll probably put them into it. After watching Underworld last night I am convinced that it's based in America, so Markus's Coven that Ryan took over before being blown up is the American coven!

Selene was had dropped to her knees and she continued to cry. So many things ran through her mind, who did it? Why did they do it? Maybe he survived? But it explained why she couldn't sense him or his power anymore. She didn't know what to do, then it came to her, she had to find out who did this and kill him or her.

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A week later the surviving Elites were standing on trial, it was a very bad sign that Elites would be alive when The Arbiters were dead. A temporary council was looking over the case and deciding what would be done.

"We have decided what we shall do." Said one of three replacement Councillors.

"Yes, Your failure to protect The Arbiters is the greatest failure ever seen since the birth of our existence." Said another.

"We have decided it best to retire the Vampires from position of Elites." Said the third.

The surviving Elites looked at the Councillors, Vampires had always been the faithful protectors of The Arbiters.

"You cannot do this! Elites have always been Vampires!" Said Daniel, the leader of Ryan's Elite.

"And why not? Have you not failed every single Arbiter? They are all dead! At least we still have Master Cremin. Do you think the choices of the Council are unwise Vampire?" Said a councillor with a grim face and a deathly tone to his voice.

"No, I do not think your choices are unwise." Said Daniel, he knew he should have opposed them but these lot seemed rather merciless and failure to win there good sides back could cost him his life.

Daniel and the other Elites heard footsteps behind them, they all looked back, it was a group of Lycons, old ones.

"Meet the new Elites." Said a councillor with a big proud smile. Daniels jaw dropped with disgust, Lycons as Elites? Its practically heresy.

"Ryan would never have done this!" Shouted Daniel, uproar from the other vampires proved their agreement.

"Well boy, Ryan's dead because of your incompetence! That man was the closest thing to a prophet we ever had and now he's dead."

The Lycons pulled the ceremonial equipment from the Vampires and put them on, The Elites had gauntlets, swords, cloaks, pistols and various other things as part of there equipment, they all bore the Elite insignia; a burning fist holding a sword. All the equipment was made with the finest craftsmanship and skill the world could muster, the richest human alive couldn't afford this gear if it gave their maker everything he owned. Truly if god had armour, it was similar to this gear.

Daniel was nearly sick as he watched a Lycon put on his gear, Daniels Elite equipment was now on a Lycon! Daniel had nothing against Lycons but the role of Elite was saved for Vampires not Lycons, that's how it had been since the Elites had been created.

Daniel led the other Vampires out to the night streets to start a campaign to earn back their positions, that council will regret the day they made Lycons Elites!

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It seemed that Lycons were getting a little power hungry over in Ireland. As Conor had brought the Lycons to Phil demanding that Phil give them more control over Ireland.

"What we want is simple, we want you to give us complete territorial control over the east and south of Ireland, there is to be no Vampires or Vampire influence at all!" Conor had a stern face and was not leaving with no for an answer.

"I cannot give you that." Said Phil with a tiny little smile.

"Why? Tell me now!"

"Fine, We cannot give you that land because I am the Coven master of Ireland. I have had this position of over one thousand years and we have had stability in Ireland ever since, there is no reason to change anything." Said Phil with various hand gestures to accompany his words.

"Well, there's instability now! Give us the right to prowl that land and take our new cubs from that land or you shall have two wars on your hands." Conor said this and suddenly the fun of the conversation seemed to die for Phil.

"You would declare war when Anub'Arak threatens are land anyway?"

"Yes."

"Then you have war." Said Phil beginning to stand up. Conor left with no for an answer.

-

Selene wasn't finished mourning really, but now she was forced to fight as Markus had broken out of the basement and was leading a little revolution in the coven house. Selene had her pistols at her waist but was using two Uzi's at the moment. She saw two Vampires running at her so she shot at them till they dropped to the floor. She was being very easy with her ammo and was firing far too much, but it didn't matter anymore. A nearby door broke open and three Vampires came out.

"Selene, we have to make our way to the armoury!" said a man with skin as dark as coal and fire in his eyes.

"Whys that?"

"Because right now those fiends have no weapons, but if they make it down there they will outnumber us two to one and have enough fire power to blast us back to Egypt."

"That's all I need to know." Selene sensed where they were and led the three the quickest way to cut them off.

They met a few of them in a lounge and were forced to fight, Selene started to pin them down and the others closed in for the kill, it was an effective method at taking them down but they had missed a few that were getting two close for comfort. Selene ran after Markus who she could feel was getting particularly close to where the guns were kept. She found pockets of them left behind to try and slow her down but she just shot at them and ran past, leaving the other three to deal with them.

Selene made it to the armoury too late; Markus and six others were very well equipped. She ducked behind a wall and threw some empty magazines out to their view, it distracted them for a moment and she took her chance to shoot and few rounds in their direction, but she failed to hit. She could hear them slowly stepping towards her.

She tried to calm down and hear their thoughts, it worked! She jumped out and ran around the room to another hiding spot, this time moving to fast for most of them to keep sight of her, she was able to kill two of them but she spent all her Uzi ammo in the process. She could just barely hear a helicopter land outside, it must be Michael! But she couldn't get his help from here; she heard Markus and his goons take turns firing at her hiding place. Suddenly the three friends ran in and started shooting, they killed some more but were gunned down themselves.

Fights were erupting all around the mansion, Vampires were slaughtering other vampires and it was chaos everywhere. Everyone was coming down here in the end and a small battle was forming, Selene and her Vampires sat in a defensive position while Markus's increasing numbers were loading up guns and waiting for someone to pop out and try to be the hero.

"Do you want to know who set up Ryan?" Asked Markus. Selene bit her lip until it bled.

"Well I'll tell you, I did. I had the bomb placed there, I had someone set off the bomb and I had the help of a very powerful man, and that's not all of it, if people aren't convinced that Anub'Arak is all powerful then they will soon when he incinerates all of London with nothing but his mental power."

Selene jumped up and started shooting and everyone joined her, the gun battle was a furious one and the noise it made told Michael were everyone was, Michael rushed down and gave Selene a hand. The troops that followed him were able to turn the fight in there favour.

Markus tried to run but Selene followed him, he escaped the mansion and drove away but she followed. She tried rear-ending him several times but never to any great effect, they had reached the middle of a city before anything happened, Markus crashed and jumped down a manhole, Selene followed.

She jumped down the hole and at the water rippling; she followed Markus and soon caught up with him. But he ran and ran, he eventually left the sewers and ran through the streets, and eventually ran down somewhere that looked like a sewer again.

"Do you remember this place Selene?" He said with a scowl.

"I do." It was where she had killed Viktor.

"Well let's have a little fight here shall we?" he said as he drew a sword from his side and spun it around. He ran at her and started swinging, she leaned back to dodge it and then pressed herself against him and pushed him down into the water. He quickly span from the floor spinning his legs around in an attempt to hit her before jumping up. He swung the sword again then dropped it down to try and cleave her head in half, he missed.

She pulled out a pistol and started shooting but she wasn't able to get a proper shot and she eventually ran out of ammo as he jumped out of the way. She dropped the pistol and pulled a pipe out of some concrete, it still had a large piece of stone stuck on at one end so she decided to use it like a hammer. The two were swinging and clashing but Selene was the first to land a successful shot and the concrete shattered as it hit Markus in the chest, he fell back and dropped his silver sword somewhere in the water.

She swung again but he jumped back and then made a grab for the pipe, he caught it and bent it around her arm and then delivered a head butt that landed right on target, Selene fell back and crashed into the water. Markus jumped on top of her, his elbow landed on her stomach and he held her head under the water. She pulled out her other gun and started shooting into random directions in a hope to hit him, but after firing a shot or two he grabbed her hand and bit down deep, she swung her free hand up and smashed him with the pipe wrapped around her arm. He fell back but jumped to safety quickly, Selene was a bit slower to get up as she also tried to breathe a little. She saw him run at her again so she span around and stuck up a leg in hope of getting him in the gut but he grabbed her foot and swung her around and around until he threw her into a wall, she crashed hard and felt something in her back was damaged. She got on her hands and knees trying to recover a little but Markus gave her no break as he kicked her into the stomach.

"Is that all you can manage? Did that ancient prat teach you anything? Maybe it's a good thing he was blown to bits, now someone decent can do the teaching; I'm sure they'll ask me to be an Arbiter. And once I do the Lycons will be back in chains and Anub'Arak will have government influence through me until he takes over and turns humans into our slaves and food." Markus gave a little snigger. Selene tried to get up, if she could just get to her feet, she saw a Lycon jump at Markus from behind, Markus sensed the incoming attacker and turned to defend himself but was still rather caught off guard and the Lycon was able to get his teeth stuck in Markus's neck.

Markus gave the creature a punch and kicked it back.

"Mangy dog!" He said as he put his hand to the bite mark. Selene took the chance and jumped to his back and started to bite him as well and her teeth stuck in deep, Markus jumped backwards and crushed her into a wall. But that blood was just about old enough to heal her back to fighting state. The Lycon rushed at Markus and the two got stuck in a grapple, Markus threw it down and picked up a pipe similar to the one Selene had wrapped around her hand, he started to lash it against the Lycons side. After cracking it against the Lycon a dozen times he dropped it and started to change.

"You stupid beast, you've only turned me into a hybrid! Now you will both die." As he said this several Lycons jumped down from the hole in the wall that Viktor had knocked Michael through all those years ago. They tried to land on Markus but he was able to throw them around. All the Lycons surrounded him and then quickly rushed him, he started punching at them and knocked them back with ease but every now and then they got him with a claw or bit him and after awhile he was forced to retreat.

"I'll be back soon Selene, and mark my words you will die." He ran off with his hands covering his cut up ribs. Selene looked at the Lycons; she backed into a corner and watched as they slowly approached.

"Are you going to kill me?" She asked. The Lycons changed back to their human states, one of them was familiar. It was the Lycon Raze.

"No, we shall not. We have nothing against Vampires; in the war we defended ourselves not attacked. You are hurt, come with us and we can help you." He said with authenticity. Selene slowly and slightly reluctantly followed them; they led her to a derelict house that served them as a home.

"Why are you still here?" she asked Raze.

"We have nowhere else to go, so we stay here and guard the body of Lucien." He said before bringing her to a coffin. Selene rubbed her fingers against the coffin.

"So you just stay here?" she asked.

"Yes, although we have started a new den."

"How many of you are there?"

"Thirty, most of which are mere cubs. Your death dealers did a good job when Viktor came here and Kraven killed Lucien."

"Why don't you go foreign and join a coven?"

"Where? Where will we be wanted."

"Egypt, the leader there is a good man…" she said before remembering that Markus had blown up Ryan.

"Would he really accept us?"

"Well the thing is I just remembered that he's dead."

"Hmph."

"But come with me to Egypt, the coven will have a new leader soon, or you could go to Ireland, I've heard about their leader and he sounds like a reasonable person."

"Perhaps and perhaps not." Selene left soon after to go to the mansion. She found Michael waiting for her.

"Selene, I was worried, did you kill him?"

"No, I couldn't kill him, he was too strong for me. A Lycon bit him and he became a hybrid." Michael heard her say this and swallowed hard.

"Well we can still stop him, he doesn't have any more followers, he's on his own."

"I suppose."

Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door, Michael answered and several Lycons charged in.

"We are the new Elites. Selene, we shall take over here until a new leader is chosen."

These Lycons were very old and looked rather different to the Lycons she was used to, they looked more like Hybrids with the fur of a Lycon. Selene didn't know it but this was because they were becoming more like a hybrid, this is the way Lycons evolve, Vampires got psychic power and Lycons became more humanoid in appearance, this also allowed them to use weapons as their fingers were human like, they still had claws but they were rather small yet they were far sharper.

Selene was glad they came to take over; it meant she could go back to Egypt.

-

Philip was discussing the war in Ireland with his advisors; the Lycons were killing tens of vampires. They struck in the day; they just opened the coffins and exposed the Vampires to the sunlight.

"We must give in, they are have killed over fifty vampires!" said an elderly looking Vampire with dark robes covering his body.

"I shall not give in, I shall challenge Conor to Meshnak." The advisors sat back, Meshnak was an ancient barbaric competition, the two leaders would fight until one was dead or gave up, the winner would take control of the losers territory, Phil was about eight hundred years older then Conor but Conor fed very regularly. He was one of the most blood-bloated beings in existence; his evolution was hundreds of years ahead of anyone else his age.

"Is this wise?" asked another advisor.

"Of course not, but drastic times calls for drastic measures."

"Well then that settles that then, now onto the next part of business. The emergency council is pleading with you to take place as an Arbiter, and we think you should."

"I do not want such power, I will not risk becoming corrupt or doing our people damage."

"Master Cremin, you are the finest we have, the late Master McCarthy was considered to be your pupil by most, the both of you even thought so." Said his chief advisor, a man whit long blonde hair and grey eyes, dressed in the finest silk and velvet.

"Yes, perhaps."

"Not perhaps, indeed."

"Fine, I shall take the position after my clash with Conor, but it shall be a temporary role just until things are back to normal, but I tell you now, something is deceiving us. Something or someone is tricking us somehow and even I do not know who or what, there is a grand scheme that has not yet been revealed."

That's the next chapter, if anybody has anything they'd like to see happen please tell me as I might throw it in if it doesn't clash with the story too much, Thanks!