I spun around and marched down the road and was all fired in a hurry to tear out Jean's throat with my fangs.
I'd use my hypnotic powers to make Colette forget the incident,and turn her into a vampire like myself.
I was so deep into the vampire stuff I'd forgotten the part about Dracula lying in a coffin of blood,or the part about the need to cut off the head of a vampire ,Lucy's floating about as a ghostly white lady luring the
children to feed on them,the derelict vampire ship with the dead Captain aboard,etc
Basically I'd put aside the "animated corpse" bit in favour of the cuddlier fuzzy feely "good vampire"
myth.
So it hadn't occured to me that perhaps the makers of the Wish Rings had placed various checks and balances
on the things,and the one adorning my cold white finger with the pointy fingernails was sending
out amber alerts to the Powers That Be.
I just kept marching along,intent on undead crime sprees,when the lady in the long black crocodile scale dress stepped out of the bushes with her pet lioness.
She looked like something out of a WW1 German spy silent film and she was holding a Luger pistol
pointing directly at my heart.
In a slurred German accent she told me to hand over the Wish Ring to her pet lioness.
Or else.
Being a newbie,I didn't realize I was looking at one of the checks and balances of the Ring.
So I rushed her and she leapt over me and I slammed into the brick wall behind her.
Not dazed,I spun around,snarling,and charged her as she once again ordered me to
hand over the Wish Ring to the lioness.
Or else.
She again leapt out of my way.
I spun around and roared mindlessly.
Bleep Jean,I wanted to rip out the throat of this Amelia Earhart-Mata Hari wannabe.
Then came the thrumming throbbing sound behind me,and I felt a icy cold spot on my cold dead back.
The lady again repeated her request,and motioned for me to turn around to see what the "Or else"
was
I turned around and my stilled heart briefly spasmed back to life.
For hovering in the air behind me,was a 200 foot long zeppelin,of a fantastic design I'd never seen before.
Roughly a cross between the Count's style and a Buck Rogers type rocket ship.
The thing had the Teutonic Cross in its fins,and a snarling Germanic wolf's heart was painted
on the fabric of its bow,snarling directly at me with its mouth agape,
and in that mouth I could see the 2 foot diameter magneto-pulse cannon that had me in its
sights.
Further back I could see the control window house,where a blonde Aryan looking fellow in a WW1 German officers uniform
and a shorter jovial looking guy with square rimmed glasses were looking at me.
"Meet Air Wulf" said the lady behind me."Hand over the Wish Ring" to the Lioness
Aruthra or be annihilated,the choice is your"