The First Attempt

Cheri Noble happened upon a friend, the werewolf Laurits, late one night.  Unfortunately, a very peculiar looking creature, like a vampire that was mixed with a zombie, happened upon them.  This creature seemed to have a rather singular purpose, to collect Laurits and take him off… somewhere.  Laurits had no intention of being abducted by this creature, but couldn’t quite handle him alone.

Cheri stepped in and took care of the threat, ending up covered in blood.  She did what she had to do to protect Laurits and herself yet it seemed far more haunting than it should have been.

Harry Returned

Harry had been gone for six months, almost seven.  Even the most devoted and loyal would begin to lose hope.  Nickolaus Richter, who was supposed to be working as a guardian angel for the Mansel family had refused to even try to look for Harry.  Cheri Noble had looked a few times in London to no avail.  Mephistopheles couldn’t find him.  None of Harry’s family (both that of blood or business) could find him.  Yet he appeared, through a magical portal, into Elena’s office in Lynn Security.

He spoke of faeries and their stupid faerie games and not wanting to play anymore.  He seemed emaciated and had lost tone throughout his body.  His scientists took what they could to investigate, including the small treasure chest that accompanied him.  Elena called upon Cheri to help fix him the next day, knowing that while he might be able to afford the best doctors, Harry couldn’t afford to be seen as weak in business.

None except the most intimate of Harry’s inner circle knows the truth of where he had been, most assuming that he suffered from a work related incident.  Luckily, Elena had everything running smoothly in the business while Harry was away, and quickly came up with an equivocation about where he had been all that time.

Queen Ze’Lucyn

Over the course of several weeks, six homeless men were found dead within a few blocks of the abandoned Drake hotel. Cheri Noble, having noticed that each bore 2 very prim puncture marks in their necks, and that they had been completely passed out and drunk at the time of their deaths, decided to investigate.  Inside the hotel, Cheri found a young woman, who appeared 18.

That woman is quite delusional, speaking to and apparently leading a court of imaginary people.  She introduced herself as Ze’Lucyn Malka, welcoming Cheri to the shambles of the hotel as if it were a magnificent castle.  After Cheri spoke to Ze’Lucyn, it seemed that Ze’Lucyn did understand there is some sort of danger afoot, and she has been vigilantly hunting throughout Toronto, trying to figure out who or what would be targeting her people for such abuse.

Since their initial meeting, Cheri has checked up on Ze’Lucyn and they have gone on a slew of adventures, including meeting a human named Georgie, Seraph Lazarus following Cheri, and meeting a very confused man named Teagan who it seems might have a mixture of demon and vampire heritage.

New Entity- Or is it Two?

The latest string of events across of Toronto seem unconnected, but it seems that perhaps there is more than meets the eye.  A blond man with dreadlocks in his hair happened upon Nickolaus, Elena, Cheri, and James, asking for nothing more than to be shown the night life.

That man, Garraty, has come to mean far more to Cheri than he should have been able to.  Though she first spurned him, she now seems quite taken by him… and the thrall he puts her into.  Though some can fight the compulsion, most humans will not be able to actively feel it or notice it.  Supernatural creatures, on the other hand, will likely have an idea what the man is.

Elena, who was friendly and cordial to Garraty, and offered to help him, found reason to watch him given his psychotic behaviour towards her– friendly one moment, and threatening the next.  She found him in a diner with another new figure who seemed… off.  The girl was small, and her skin seemed to have an odd pallor, which appeared… grey.

Major Player Update

Things can be so hectic when one lives in a big city, as all in Toronto have learned throughout the years.  Though updating appeared to take a hiatus, the lives have continued to change, move on, and as always, there is much to mention in the news of the illustrious Toronto By Night.

Ash J. Hunter
Ash had become reclusive, or so one would think.  The truth was that he was off chasing something, though one was never sure what.  For a long time Elena kept up Hunter Investigations in his absence, paying his bills, cleaning the place, taking phone calls and doing the investigations that poured in, sometimes taking Sven or Seraph along if supernatural elements were called for.  When Ash did return for a short bit, he had Elena and Sven in for a meeting, and effectively fired her when he learned she had become connected to a supernatural creature, and he certainly did not approve.  Afterwards, he once again disappeared off, and though the office door continues to say his name, one has to worry who has kept the bills paid.

Cal Sarrion
The ever accident prone Cal managed to have his apartment in Regent Park broken into within the first week of his tenancy, Cal had a hard start at adulthood.  Despite that, he managed to inherit enough money to make his dream a reality and set about to start Keeping Classy– what would become a burlesque club.  He requested Elena become his head of PR, and it was expected that she would likely end up on the stage some nights as well (at least to help with promotions!)  It has been under heavy renovations inside and out for the past few years.

Sven Hazard
Sven had to chose between taking hold of daddy’s supernatural demon empire or leaving all of the factions to open warfare trying to claim the throne. He decided to take control, having a shaky peace at best. He asked Cheri to come and live with him due to their mutual affection towards each other, but ultimately left her a few weeks ago, presumably due to Valentin.

Seraph Lazarus
An old vampire employed by Elena Lynn at Lynn Security, he’s been known to disappear for more than his fair amount of time off work.  Nonetheless he is kept on retainer, and always returns eventually.  On one of these outings, his usual jovial demeanor was replaced by sullen depression; his once normal eyes filled in completely with black.  Although asked, he would not reveal anything except that he was dealing with his past, something he keeps hidden even from his close friends, though his infinite connection with voids and shadows is undeniable.  When Sven once upset Elena, Seraph made certain to set him in his place– though whether or not it was due to her being his boss, or more like a little sister, is unknown.

Cheri Noble
Having turned her first human, Cheri later left Tarric.  Upon reentering society a single girl, she was scooped up and turned into a puppet– a role she rather despised, and escaped from thanks to the witch Skye Nickels.  Unfortunately, the puppeteer culprit was never found.  Returning to the night and darkness, she agreed to be with Sven Hazard, though he recently left her, coincidentally around the same time Valentin revealed himself once again.  Cheri seems to have lost the spark needed to feed herself properly, and has been becoming more and more dark eyed, sullen, and has since the loss of her half demon beau.

Nickolaus Richter
Nickolaus slowly became friends with Cheri and Elena.  Soon after a love potion was placed on him, and he became enamoured with Elena.  It was discovered that the rare breed he is, that he would die unless married.  Elena agreed, but through miscommunication, ended up inadvertently helping him turn into a demon.  He almost died when the witch, Skye Nickels, did a special ritual to change him back to what he was, and he and Elena soon parted ways.  He disappeared to Germany for a while, played at being a talent scout, before finding himself back in Toronto with a new girlfriend, Imogen Harper.  Through another accident with Elena, he recently earned himself a temporary status as Elena’s family guardian– a position that will likely determine his fate.

Harry.
A mobster from London happened into a pizza parlor when Elena and Cheri were having a bite (or Elena was).  Having recognized her from a party with another mobster in California, he and Elena quickly became business associates.  While working on a registry for supernatural creatures that he intended to use for his lab/experiments, Harry and Elena became close.  Through Elena he also met Mephistopheles, Despite likely not planning to settle down so soon, he did fall in love with Elena.  He brought her on a cruise, where she reunited, quite by accident, with a former ballet partner, James Mason.  Once she had met Harry’s family and he had shown her around London, he proposed and she readily accepted.  The two were married, and had twins nine months later.  During that time he met and began considering a business arrangement with Cheri’s Sire, Valentin.  Although happy and in love, Harry recently has been out of contact after stating that he had business in London, and he wouldn’t be gone long.

Elena Lynn
Lost in her work, Elena often traveled back to the US when the opportunity presented itself.  Through her ballet connections, it was easy for her to have at least one source of income.  She fell into an unusual lifestyle due to one of her more intriguing investigations, and for a long time was never seen at night.  During this time period she had played both the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and Giselle in Swan Lake.  She met Harry while eating pizza with Cheri and had a whirlwind romance, with her leaving ballet in order to have their twins, though she has since returned to both of her jobs.

Mephistopheles
The demon of Faustian legend has been seen across both London and Toronto.  Though no one can pinpoint anything in particular that he’s done, he’s been seen with many, and one never knows who has agreed to a deal, that is, until it gets… messy.

Valentin Thorne
The Sire of Cheri Noble, and her husband, it seems that the vampire has returned to claim what is rightfully his, though he hasn’t approached her, yet.  Having met Elena and Harry, Val casually offered a business arrangement between some of Val’s experiments and Harry’s, and it’s unknown if this ever came to be.  True evil and unpredictability run hand in hand, so it’s hard to say what Val might have in mind to reach his ultimate desires.

Illegal Gun Disturbance

The streets of Toronto were quiet and normal as Sven meet up with Elena, intending to make sure that she and the half angel/half demon Nickolaus Richter were over and done for good.  While they were beginning to chat a disturbance occurred and Sven went into action when gunfire started, pulling Elena close and up to a rooftop, to safety, or so he thought.  The disturbance was caused by the city’s newest half demon, Yuuto.

Yuuto is young, 15, inexperienced, and poor mannered.  Somehow managing to obtain illegal firearms and having taken out a large crew of men (that had perhaps been supernatural) Yuuto then looked about for another target and found Sven and Elena on the rooftop.  Sven’s aura saved them from the first plethora of bullets and they began an intense fight, with Sven happy to be able to teach the boy a lesson since apparently they had an altercation a few days prior.

Elena called Seraph Lazarus to get her out of the fray, and the fight went on between the two half breeds.  Eventually the vampiress Cheri showed up with a gun, managing to get Yuuto to calm down for a bit before disappearing into an alleyway that Sven, after telling Yuuto that he was “Impulsive, undisciplined, and stupid.”  An associate of Sven’s appeared and made sure that the damage from their long supernatural battle managed to look like it came from a gas leak before the cops came.