Dean Street and Grand Ave:
Carla had followed the guy named Fredrick Cazalet to a restaurant in lower Manhattan. She knew from her contacts on the street, that in the back of the restaurant a bunch of guys got together to play poker. He was also the guy she punched the day she rescued Autumn.

As she is sitting in her car watching the place. She thought she spotted some movement in the back alleyway. She grabs her expanding pike bo-staff and exists from her car. She moves quickly across the street and heads towards the alleyway.

As Carla enters the alleyway. She hears gunshots coming from the back room of the restaurant. She moves towards the back door and tries to open it, but finds it locked. She could hear screams and gunshots coming from inside the building. She places a black puck on the lock and steps aside before it explodes.

“1,2,3. BANG!” A smile appears on Carla's face when she hears the puck explode.

She moves quickly inside the restaurant and follows the sound of gunfire. As she comes to the room where the gunfire was coming from. She spots a woman with long silvery color hair, dressed in a black cowboy outfit and wearing a black cowboy hat. She was shooting at the men in the room. There were at least eight men in the room and three of them were laying on the floor bleeding.

When the woman turns to fire her gun at one of the guys that were firing at her. There was no skin on the woman’s face. It was just a skull with glowing red eyes.

“What the hell!” Carla couldn’t believe what she was seeing. She has never seen anything like whatever it was.

Carla noticed when the woman got hit by several bullets, they just pass through the clothes she was wearing. The woman’s hands looked normal as she fired at the other guys. A shiver runs throughout her body when the woman looks at her.

The woman turns away from her and fires at another one of the poker players. When the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, it was surrounded by flames as it struck the man she had aimed at. The figure fires again at another player and the same type of bullet struck them. The young woman looks at Fredrick Cazalet and fires at him.

Carla noticed the bullet that left the gun was a different color. Instead of having a bright reddish color like the last bullet did, this one had a black color to it. She watches as the bullet hits Fredrick Cazalet and starts decaying instantly.

His skin starts shriveling up and turning to dust as he decays instantly. Whatever was causing Fredrick to decay as fast as he was. It was like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The female figure puts her gun into the holsters hanging down from her hip. She turns and walks through the nearest wall and disappears.

“What the hell!” Carla couldn’t believe that the person walked through the wall.

She pulls out her cellphone and takes pictures of everything. When she takes pictures of the other poker players, she notices the look on their faces. The look they had, was the same look you would find on someone who was scared to death.

Carla could hear the sirens coming towards her location. She runs out of the building and heads back to her car. She watches as the police pull up to her location. She has never encountered anything like she did tonight.

While the police and forensics team is busy, she manages to slip away. As Carla is driving back to her place. She wonders what that creature was that killed Fredrick Cazalet. She has never seen anything like it before.

She heads home where her wife and Autumn were. Something about what she encountered tonight gave her a chill. She arrives home after thirty minutes of driving and goes up to her library looking for a book on supernatural creatures.

She grabs a few that she hopes to have the answers she was looking for and sits down at her desk and starts going through the books. Something about how the creature looked reminded her of something. What, she couldn’t remember, but she knew she had read something about that creature.

By early morning and on her seventh book, she finds what she was looking for. The book was written in Ancient Greek, but she knew how to translate it. She had bought it when she was studying overseas. She flips through the pages until she comes to the description of the creature that she saw tonight.

According to the writing, the creature she saw tonight was a servant of the Greek goddess Nyx. She knew Nyx was the goddess of night and lived in Tartarus. Carla leans back against her big leather chair and was wondering why a servant of Nyx was doing here in New York, and going after ordinary people?

Carla looks at the electronic clock sitting on her desk and notices it was five in the morning. She stands up and walks to the kitchen to fix herself a cup of coffee. While the coffee is brewing, she wonders if the creature she encountered tonight, is going after Fredrick's partner and after Autumn’s father as well.