The building was ahead of me and I had full view of it as I peered through the thick shrubbery. Occasionally the average looking human would walk in and the door would close behind them. The only thing was, if it's a bar...doesn't one usually hear the music or talking leak out of the opened door when a customer walks in? yes. But this isn't what happened here. Dead silence greeted the outside atmosphere instead of the boisterous noise that normally blasted through any normal bar and grill. In fact, the silence started to irritate me. Every time someone walked in I'd strain to listen in but couldn't hear even the slightest bit of conversation or music or anything and every time I heard nothing I threw my arms up in exasperation and huffed loud enough to get my frustration out but not enough to alert anyone of my presence. So, I grew bigger balls and walked up to the door, threw it open, and walked in.
I was confused by the setting before me. There was no one in the large room cluttered with round tables and chairs for sitting. A pool table in the back, a bar tucked against a wall with a single bartender sluggishly polishing already shining glasses, and neon signs that advertised alcohol brands is all that took place in the room. Nothing else.
"Are you lookin' fer the entrance?" the bartender asked, his words muffled by his thick graying mustache.
" ummm wel-", I began to say, looking back at the door I had just entered with a confused expression, but the bartender just stopped and walked into a hall in the back of the room. So, stupidly, I followed.
He led me through a passage of confusing and intertwining halls that would befuzzle even the brightest of puzzle solvers to a single door at the end of a particularly loooong hallway. The man sniffed and headed back down the halls; my eyes following him as he went.
I turned to the door, took a deep breath and shook myself out, reaching for the door knob. As soon as I slightly opened the door I felt a pull from the other side and a mass of florescent aqua slam into me. I'd run into someone who was on their way out of the door.
"OH HELL-WHAT THE-", I gasped with a pissed off expression as I jumped back not only from the surprise of bumping into someone but also because that someone happened to be a tall large breasted woman...with florescent blue skin. She smiled politely and apologized, making her way around and down the hall. My eyes followed her too and as they did they watched her reach back to her shoulder blades and pull a thin film of real skin that was perfectly pale beige, over her head, covering her body, and to her toes like a huge skin tight (literally) cloak.
I felt my eye twitch slightly and I dragged my eyes away from her to the door. As I see it now, the door is slightly cracked and from inside I notice I clearly hear the booming of music, 'so this is where the shit happens, huh? in the back?'. I gently push the door open to reveal the partaaay and am seriously overwhelmed with the sight before me. Beings with horns and multi-colored skin; beings with scales and glowing skin like the lady from earlier; creatures like the one I had seen earlier; and creatures that resembled demons and fairies and things that were supposed to only exist in the imagination of small children and slightly more creative adults. A...band? was playing upbeat music but the musicians were clearly not human and even had multiple hands, which came in handy (heh heh punny) quite a lot when playing an instrument.
The creatures danced and swayed, drank and ate (although drank and ate what will never be known by me), and conversed in diverse languages. There was a bar just like the one in the lifeless room before but this one had actual customers and a bartender that didn't look like he might fall apart by the slightest touch, in fact, this one was particularly buff..and pretty damn scary. Despite this factor, I made my way to the bar with cautious glances around me making sure I don't touch anyone incase they might be made of acid or who knows what. The buff bartender asked if I wanted anything to drink but I dismissed him quickly and continued to observe the odd surrounding and actually really enjoyable music. That's when he came into view. Yeah, I know, totally cliché but...like..damn. He was tall and tan with bright green eyes and medium length wavy brown hair that framed his sweet yet totally hot face. He was dressed in quite a fancy outfit that was at the same time old looking. It was sort of pirate like..but none the less added to his complete sexy look. And all he was doing was casually leaning against a wall in the back next to a elegantly decorated door talking to a rather aristocratic looking group of people. I was in the middle of dying mentally when a woman with deer antlers and ears and bright red lipstick sat beside me, leaned over without me noticing, and whispered in my ear.
"Fresh meat, huh? You're not the first to be dying over him", her bright lips curving into a smile. There must have been something soothing about her because she's the only one I hadn't had a small heart attack over from uniqueness if that's what you want to call it.
"Damn I can imagine. The bastard's totally hot", I mumbled, slightly annoyed by conversation with people but still willing to have my input." Who is he?".
" He is the boss: Antonio Fernandez Carriedo. The head warlock...and the sexiest mother fucker alive." she said, with a knowing croak in her voice.
" He's probably a pompous asshole" I chuckled, smirking slightly. The girl look at me with her eyebrows raised.
"yep, probably, but I wouldn't know. I've never gotten within a few feet of him. Oh, by the way, I'm Elizabeta but most people just call me Lizi. I don't really care what you call me though" she added with a smile.
"oh um...yeah I don't swing that way. I'm gay." I said carelessly. She laughed harshly in return.
" haha! oh honey, puleeeeaase, I only have interest in guys with glasses...or red eyes oddly enough." she choked slightly on her drink because she was laughing so much. spavaldo cagna. She's an arrogant bitch...
I ignored her and looked back over at Antonio who was now talking with a different group of fancy looking people; laughing and smiling with them but dark hints of bitter amusement were visibly flecked in his eyes. Those eyes drifted over to me and we stared each other down. He looked shocked at first but interest and curiosity took over his features after.
To appear to be having at least a mildly good time I turned around and ordered the first thing on the drink menu. It turned out to be a bright purplish color and to have wisps of smoking coming off the top of it but I downed it anyway, I had to pull the sexy and confident look off well. I turned back to Lizi, Who apparently had been talking to me the whole time I was in my dazed stare off with Mr. Sexy Boss Warlock.
" yeaaahhh- uh huh", I nodded in response to the needy blabbing she was producing, trying to make her think I'd been listening.
" oh I knew you weren't listening, I can see your thoughts, stupid" she said, breaking out of her stream of jibber but officially catching my attention.
" what?! bastardo! stay out of my head!" I angrily say but not really paying attention because, I mean, who cares what she saw? what if Mr. Warlock Spaniard could see my thoughts?! I glance back over to Antonio but I noticed he was gone. I didn't like that at all...he was a nice view plus looking for him would give me an excuse to get out of this stupid argument. So, I get up and I propel myself out into the mingling creatures of the room, find my sexy warlock Spaniard and seduced him. Yeah..no, what really happened was that drink started to take effect. My feet felt like bricks of concrete and my knees felt like noodles. My vision blurred and the already vast array of colors before me morph together like melted clay; the loud fast paced music slowed into a sluggish blur of mumbled words as if the singer was drowning in thick tar. Then, BAM. I hit the floor. I knew it too because suddenly the blurred creatures around me grew feet in height and I vaguely saw Lizi looming over me with a ridiculous grin on her face as she laughed at my stupidity.
But, she wasn't the last thing I saw. Nope, the last thing I saw was beautiful soft brown hair and bright eyes that shifted through all possible shades of green.