We're her bloody army after all *wedding tie-in/open*

[Artemis]

Jasmine Elizabeth O'Malley did not want to go to her cousin Sean's wedding. Cousin. This whole convoluted family tree gave her a headache every time she thought about it.

{{Ichigo and Kei the demon children, Damon the vampire, Kendra the weapon's experiment}} she thought as she stood outside the gates of the conservatory and watched throngs of people traipse into the grounds. {{Likely not a sane one of us in the bunch, I bet, if we are so ready to go to war for her. Why here? Why now?}} she continued to muse as she watched a group of vampires sizing up the wait staff a bit too eagerly. {{And what is up with that?}}

"Hey! They are the help, not the menu items!" Jasmine Elizabeth shouted as she tried to get the waiters away from the vampires. "Invitations! I want to see them now!" There was suddenly a blur in front of her as she tried to step forward, and the wait staff members were gone. Damon was standing in their place.

"OK, Fang Gangers! Little sister is also not a menu item. Let's see those shiny invites, shall we?" he asked as the vampires finally pulled out their invitations. "Splendid! The blood tent is over near the west parking area," he added as the group moved off. "This is not your home world, Jazzie, so best not to get the locals too upset."
 

[Damon MacFeorais]

Damon grinned as he watched his sister fume about his nickname for her. He knew she hated it, but he used it anyway. "Why don't we go inside and find some milk and cookies for you while I raid the bourbon stash?" he asked as he tried to guide her into the main party area.

"Get your hands off me!"Jasmine Elizabeth snapped as she glared at Damon. "I'm not six. I can drink if I want to. I just choose not to most days. But today I might make an exception if you keep being so stupidly annoying!"

"Siblings. Gotta love them!" Damon said to one of the guests as his sister stormed off. "Or is that gotta sell them off to the highest bidder? Jazzie, wait up!" he shouted as he followed her around the perimeter of the reception area. "I was kidding!"

[Kai Kawaguchi MacFeorais]

"I swear that you will all be the death of me," Kai Kawaguchi MacFeorais said as he materialized from a ribbon of black smoke as it swirled around the gates to the conservatory. "Jasmine, what did Damon do now?"

"He treats me like I'm six when I am only trying to keep this party safe for everyone--guests and staff alike," Artemis huffed as she turned and glared at the approaching Damon. "I can't help it if the Shadowhunter in me goes into overdrive!"

"She's just having a hissy fit because I called her Jazzie, Uncle Kai," Damon said as he rolled his eyes at his sister. "Where did you come from, Unc? And I see you went to that tailor Logan favors on the Ginza. Nice suit."

"Your mother insisted I come in better attire this time," Kai said with a chuckle as he looked around the area. "Where is Kari?"

"Back there some place trying to find the Gabester," Damon replied as he saw Jasmine spin on her heel and head off. "And that can't be good!"

[Bogatyr]

"Will you all slow down!" Stepan Vasiliev shouted as he ran up behind Damon, Kai and the fleeing Jasmine Elizabeth. "I am still getting used to this place, and I am forever getting lost."

Damon looked at Stepan and shot him a fanged smile. "Where are Itchy and Cookie?" he asked, using his pet names for brother and sister Ichigo and Kei. "Don't tell me they let their pet demons loose again? If that Stitch one is here, he'll eat the wedding cake!"

"I do not know where they are," Stepan said as he glared at the two men. He was still not used to this world, and he was not used to being around the bastard son of Ronan the Everlasting. "I am sorry, but this is insane! There have been reports of protesters heading toward the wedding, and we do not need Little Sister losing it again."

Stepan had arrived just before the contretemps between this world's version of his "sister" Kari and Jean Grey. He knew the world was lucky to still be in one piece after the night-black raven goddess and the fiery Phoenix went to war high above the Golden Gate Bridge.

"Unc, please," Damon said as he put a hand on Stepan's shoulder. He might not have been blood, but if Kari said he was family, then he was. "We have an army here. No one is going to trash this wedding."
 

[Artemis]

Jasmine Elizabeth turned on her heels and went back to the three men that had been following her in the midst of this wedding insanity. "Either snap to or get out of my way," she muttered as she turned to see if her father Thom Sr. or this world's version of her brother Thom Jr. were nearby. "I do not like the feel of this whole stupid affair."

"Why don't you just go home then?" Stepan asked as Jasmine Elizabeth snarled and threw her hands up in the air. "Is it such an insane question?" he queried as his "niece" seemed to be turning color as they all stood there. "Bozhe moi! Your skin! It's black like onyx!"

"Oh, not this again!" she spouted as she calmed herself and started to return to her normal hue. "I don't have time to explain it all. I'm fine."

"Sure you are," Damon said as he shook his head. "Just as fine as I am if I don't feed."

 

 

[Celtica]

"And don't we all look like we are going to be sent to some dire fate?" Adaryn said with a smirk as she, Marrac, Jackson and Niamh all arrived via portal near the group around Jasmine Elizabeth. Jackson was already pulling at the collar of his dress shirt, and Adaryn crossed her arms and looked particularly vexed by his actions. "I take it we will all be either leaving early or hitting up the wait staff for some bubbly--and that does not include the two of you," she said to her youngest children.

"Auntie Ryn, where is old Shell Head?" Damon asked before Jasmine Elizabeth hit him in the arm. "You hit hard for a girl!"

"Don't mind him," Artemis said as she walked toward her cousins, all the while giving Damon the stink eye. "We should go listen to the band later. Want to scope the entrances with me first? We may get protesters."

"What?" Adaryn asked as she looked at her niece and then back toward the main entrance. "You can't be serious."

"As a heart attack," Damon added before he got hit in the arm again by anyone else.

[Shinigami]

"Kei, will you please tell old Pikachu there to stop lighting up!" Ichigo shouted to his younger sister and brother as the trio seemed to be leading a live action Pokemon Go event in the middle of the wedding. "He's going to fry somebody, and we do not need that Coulson guy in the suit showing up and being a pain."

As he turned around, Ichigo saw Kei and Yuki running after the demon wearing what amount to a mystical Pikachu costume over what was its normal scary skin full of black scales. "Did I hear you guys say protesters? There are a bunch of flower children out front protesting Old Man Rydenborne's latest weapons deal with that scary bunch of guys in Eastern Europe."

"Flower children?" Adaryn asked with a very disbelieving look on her face. "Hippies? Did we travel back in time or something?"

[Kai Kawaguchi MacFeorais]

"Benihime! Yukinko! Stitch is running the other way!" Kai yelled as the blue demon made a break for it and started to run right for the people outside the gate. "Pardon me, sister," he said as he bowed to Adaryn and ran after the squealing little monster. He turned into a ribbon of smoke and wrapped himself around the creature, pulling it along and back toward Ichigo. It dropped down at the young man's feet, and then his uncle turned to human form again.

"You little stinker," Ichigo said to the demon as it stuck out its tongue at him. "If you don't shape up, I'm taking you back home."

"Why did you bring these creatures here anyway?" Kai asked as Ichigo shook his head. "Wait. They protect Benihime. She goes nowhere without them."

"A gift from Grandpa Masahiko when Kei was born," Ichigo replied as the little blue demon finally started to behave. "When Mom and Dad died, they got a little obsessed with their jobs."
 
"I see," Kai replied as he looked at the ruckus by the main gate. he had no idea what was going on, but he was very glad no demons seemed to be involved.

[Damon MacFeorais]

"Gang, I hate to be a party pooper, but these vines are getting a bit too frisky," Damon said as he pointed at his feet where tendrils were snaking up his legs. "I have heard of being punked, but this stinks! Sis, is this your handiwork?" he yelled to Jasmine before noticing that she and Jackson and Niamh Stark were also being accosted by the plant life. "Where is Aunt Fiona when you need her?" Damon asked as he pulled out a dagger and started to slash at the vines. "She'd have these vines behaving in no time!"

"Benihime! Yukinko!" Kai yelled as he looked to see if they had been trapped by the vines as well, but they seemed to have evaded the plants due to Yuki's ice powers. "Stay where you are!"

"Unc, the gate is not the best place to be," Damon said as he pointed toward the zombies wandering in. "Let's get the small fry out of here, and then we can get these plants subdued and the zombie horde eating the cake and not the guests!"

[Ballistic]

Sarah had not been invited to the wedding, but Dazzler's SOS was enough to get her and some of the kiddie corps there pronto. "Cynara, Angie, Becka, you ladies do whatever the hell it is you do! I'll see...oh pop rocks!" Sarah wanted to curse up a storm, but the students being there made her shut that down fast. The sight of the flying whacko contingent of the Purifiers was enough to make her throw up in her mouth. "Back up! I've got this!" she screamed as she set off a volley of shots from the palms of her hands. "I am so going to need to eat soon!"

As she kept firing, she saw the portal off to her left and noticed Branan and some dude in a hat tossing baddies inside it. "Ladies, get the goons and herd them over to Professor Branan and his very Western looking pal there! That dude is hot..."

"What was that you said?" Rebecka Lonstein asked as she took to the air.

"Dude looks hot in that outfit, Becka!" Sarah replied as she blushed a bit. "Hey, I'm human, too!" she added as she kept firing at the flying nightmares.