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On the south side of the Island, directly between the east and west side of the island is a small harbor town run by both Vampire and Lycan, this town is a neutral zone were trade happens. Here is were you may begin your journey in relative safety, but once you leave these walls you are fair game to either side.

The crowded streets of the Neutral harbor town were a buzz with rumors of the dark ominous clouds seen in the distance. They were slowly moving towards the harbor town. The black lightning that flashed across the horizon were also a cause for concern.

Then suddenly the clouds appeared over the Neutral harbor town without warning. They just seemed to appear from thin air. Or maybe they where there all the time? What ever the case the crowded streets were, for once in a hundred years, quiet. Quiet as the citizens looked up at the clouds with breathes held. Then the lightning struck. It struck a citizen, his body engulfed in black fire as it began to twist and deform. Becoming a horrible creature of nightmares. Then panic. People screaming and running in every direction as the black lighting struck more people. Turned more into horrible monsters.

Through the commotion a shady looking man bolted out of an alleyway. He trips over a freshly slain body and a small vial flies from his hands. A look of despair is on the shady man's face as the vial smashes against the ground. The vicious looking liquid seems to dissolve the very stone. A nearby rat sniffs at the fumes and instantly curls up as it's body is wracked with convulsions. It is still seconds later. The shady man looks around as if to see if he had been caught and pushes his way through the panicked crowds towards the docks.

The shady man turns his head to look behind him as he runs. Somehow knowing that Kross was shouting at him. If he had been paying attention to what was in front of him. The shady man would have noticed the foul creature that steps in his path.

A vicious clawed hand pierces the mans stomach. A look of surprise replaces the fear on his face as he turns to look at his attacker. The creature hisses in the man's face and tosses him to the ground. The man feebly tries to cover the gaping hole that now adorns his stomach. And the creature raises it's now bloody claw to finish the man off.

People are still screaming and running in all directions. Some to the docks. Others duck into their house only to come bolting out moments later. Being chased by a changed family member. No one comes to the aid of the man being assaulted. And in a few moments any clues he had would be silenced forever.

The shady man watches his attacker get mauled with a grin of satisfaction. He coughs up blood, "So they finally caught up to me eh?" He coughs again as the life slowly leaves his body. "Well you won't find the lair, no sir, you wont!" He reaches into his clothes and pulls out a small slip of paper. He brings it to his mouth in an attempt to chew it up. But the piece of paper never makes it. His eye's dull and his hand falls heavily to his side.

Whether he knew who Kross was was to be questioned. Perhaps in his last moments he just assumed someone was sent after him. Whatever the case. The piece of paper clenched tightly in his dead hand was important enough to try and destroy.

More creatures begin to appear as the lightning continues to fall. People where rushing aboard ships and boats alike to escape the doomed town. A few run away into the surrounding wilderness. Probably hoping to seek refuge in the castles of the two races. Two more of the mutated creatures surround Kross. Each one more hideous than it's brethren. The only similarities was the fact that they where hideously mutated. Their skin stretched to splitting. Muscles exposed in places. Even bone being exposed to the light of the sun.

On the bloodied slip of parchment one can barley make out the scratchings of a map. With some luck and brains one can figure out that the map leads to a forgotten sewer system under the Neutral Harbor Town. The entrance of which - ironically - is next to the local Quest Master hut. The map then seems to shift. As if alive! The scratchings moving and repositioning themselves. And reveals the extensive tunnels of the sewers. A trail of blood traces itself through the drawings of the tunnels. Obviously pulled by the magic now apparent in the parchment. It finally stops on what looks like a large room within the sewers.

All around Kross the chaos still reigns. But it seems that the creatures are too preoccupied with hunting easier prey then to go after one who had just killed three of them. But who knows what these monstrosities will do when they've run out of easy prey....

The sewers didn't go on for very long. The familiar walls and floors of the sewers ended suddenly into a series of carved out caves and tunnels. It seemed like these caves have been here even before the Neutral Harbor was built. Seems like whoever started building a sewer system down here gave up. Rats and other small creatures scurry about and seem to ignore the new intruder in their home. In fact they all seem to be running in one direction. Away from the harbor town.

Voices echo from down the tunnels and just ahead one can make out a faint fire. And the outlines of two figures. Whether they are friend or foe is yet to be seen.