The Christmas Challenge

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Collins: "Reed!“

Daniel: "What?“

Collins: "Behind you!“

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So much for my “Villain gets moved by the power of forgiveness and reforms” plot. Coco apparently assumed some ulterior motive to the Reeds’ kindness and pulled Daniel into a fight.
As an experienced vampire she had a variety of high level skills. Fitness was not among those. Coco didn’t expect to need combat skills against the gentle blonde homemaker…

…who is, as we know, an Apex tier werewolf with the Alpha Wolf power and has recently maxed out his Fitness skill.

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Cocochimetl had mastered all three ranks of the Dampened Emotions technique, meaning she hardly felt anything other than FINE. At the rare occasions when she panicked, she panicked rationally! Like the moment when her opponent suddenly transformed into a bipedal wolf, when the moon was neither full nor even up in the sky. But what was even more frightening was the crimson aura that surrounded Daniel during the change.

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Coco: “That bright glow… what was that? I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’ve lived through… through more years than you might believe.”

Daniel: *roars*

Coco: “Pardon? You were saying?”

Daniel: “Long story. Bottomline is that we launched a giant space station without realizing that it would mess up the moonbeams, so now werewolves are subject to what we call Moonfury instead of once-per-month transformations.”

The people of this age had done what?! Okay. NOW was time to panic.

(Her mimic is rather varied despite the Dampening perk, so I have a hard time to write Coco as emotionless as she was planned to be.)

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Defeated, Cocochimetl turned into a cloud and fled into the forest. Giving chase now was futile, by the time the DPD would arrive, Coco might have left the area already. Although the circumstances suggested there being more to it, technically all that had happened was a simple brawl, nothing you’d put the SWAT team into action for.

And so Detective Collins wrote a citation for Coco and left it at the host station.
(Good thing he had come to the restaurant together with Wilson!)

Cocochimetl hadn’t fled the area at all.

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She had merely circled the house and then swooped through a crevice into the restaurant’s bathrooms. After relieving herself of the contents her stomach couldn’t process anymore, Coco waited for some time until her retainers signaled that the cops had left.

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Host: “Would you like a drink now, boss?”

Coco: “Yes, please! A racoon to help me think…”