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Yuuki spent a lot of time thinking after that. At first she thought about how little she knew about her silvery hunter friend. His greatest wish had been to be a conductor. Go figure.
After she'd grappled with that concept for awhile, she started thinking about why she had been brought along. All she did was spend her day watching Zero as he piloted his train through the great grasslands of America. Apparently the passengers were not in the least bit afraid that their conductor spoke only Japanese and carried and gun with him everywhere he went. Yuuki, who was always good with languages, was able to chat with them long enough to find out that their destination was Chicago.
When she complained to Zero that she had nothing to do, he handed her a book of railroad history. Not having anything else to do, she leafed through it.
Most of it was boring. Yuuki found herself yawning through almost all of the chapters, until she came upon a particular passage that outraged her too much to bore her.
Years before the buffalo had roamed free through the American grasslands. However, using railroads, men had shot down the majestic beasts until they were all but extinct.
Well, Yuuki wasn't about to let that go! She was going to bring back the buffalo. After all, she was a pureblood, she could do freaky stuff like that, right?
So she used her pureblood magic to create a portal through which two buffalo crawled. She named them Jimmy Bob and Mary Ann, since she was pretty sure that was what all Americans were named, and she shooed them off into the wild.
Later that day she came up to Zero. She was smiling. Zero, who had been so transfixed by the glory of conducting a train that he hadn't noticed her in days, turned, a little bit shocked. "Yuuki. Why do you look so happy?"
"I've just done something good."
"Oh?"
"You know about how settlers came in and slaughtered all the buffalo?"
"With good reason."
"Yeah—wait, what?"
"The hunter's council was the organization the led the extermination of the buffalo."
"What? Why?"
"Because, Yuuki, buffalo are good for two things. Making more buffalo, and drinking human blood."
"You don't mean—"
"Yes. All buffalo…are vampires. Yuuki, why do you look so pale?"
The buffalo were like a great mass of cows stretching out in every direction without deadly intent, except instead of cows they were buffalo, and instead of being without deadly intent, they had it.
Naturally, Zero wasted no time in arming the passengers.
"Take this gun," he said to a brave looking man. "Make sure to fire at the females first. And avoid the fireballs if you can. This is going to be long, deadly fight, but I promise you we'll make it through this."
The man watched Zero for a moment, and then blinked. "Dude. I don't speak Japanese."
After some more awkwardness he managed to get weapons into the hands of everyone on board.
The battle the ensued was totally awesome. You know the battle in World of Warcraft where the combined forces of the Alliance and the Horde join to storm the Wrath Gate, but then the Lich King is all like, No! and he hits Saurfang and then everything goes poisonous and then the dragons fly in and they're like pew pew, magical fire breath, pew pew, and the dragon queen Alexastrasza is standing next to her mate Korialstrasz and everything ends and then you go fight demons? No? Well it doesn't matter cause this battle was like six times more awesome than that.
By the time it was over, Zero had even broken a sweat. He wiped it away, and a man approached him. "That was quite impressive young man," he said in fluent Japanese.
It turned out that the man was the head of the police department in Chicago, which, for the purpose of this story, is composed entirely of Japanese people. He offered Zero a job.
Zero took it.
And that was how Zero became a rogue cop.
What could happen next? Updates coming eventually.