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Gabby Is Melting?
The end of the last issue saw Laura going back to her apartment to find Gabby sitting on the front porch, the skin on her face half melted off her face. After Laura and Gabby helped Xarus, the son of Dracula, defend the world from the rampant vampire problem that popped up during the “Blood Hunt” event, Gabby decided to hang around the half-vampire and take down some more supernatural threats. The team took their undead-butt-kicking specialty to the Ossuary in Paris, where they battled the witch Strega and her legion of demon-vampire drones. To Strega, the transformed tourists were like her children, and the insult of Gabby trying to take them was unforgivable. Strega and her ilk vanished, but not before leaving a curse on Gabby, which led to the whole skin rolling off her face business. Worse yet, the curse was spreading even as her healing factor fought it off, taking her arms next.
Laura, for her part, blew up at Xarus for getting her little sister into this mess, and mentally declared that Gabby only needed her to look after her. She was openly hostile to the son of Dracula, but Gabby insisted that he only wanted to help her and that he wasn’t to blame. Laura begrudgingly accepted this, and declared that she knew who could help cleanse Gabby of whatever this was. Leaving the adorable Jonathan the wolverine (the animal) to guard their home, the trio took off for the Sanctum Sanctorum to talk to Clea Strange. The former Sorceress Supreme brought the Kinney sisters inside, but said that the Sanctum would not allow Xarus to cross its boundary. Once within the halls of the Sanctum Sanctorum, Clea cast a spell to purge the curse from Gabby, but warned her that the dark magic that infected her could easily hold some kind of complication. That complication was immediately revealed as Gabby coughed up gunk that transformed into more demon-vampires and Strega herself.
