Chapter 2

Just an Average Day

The Monster Police Force, or as it's known to many the M.P.F, founded over a little half a year ago their duty was simple, to keep the streets safe from any monster related threat while the human police force kept their attention on human criminals. It was a simple but effective system, those who came quietly would be subjugated to special classes that would explain to them why what they did was bad and would teach them other ways to pass the time, the ones who refused though, well they were captured and arrested unless worst came to worse then they would be terminated. It took some time for Alucard to learn the ropes and to not pulverize every criminal he saw, but eventually he got the hang of it. Even so it was nice and it worked rather well.

The day was going by rather swimmingly for Frank and his teammates as he threw their newest edition to their jail into the slammer. After the battle between them and Nightmare one of the abandoned factories were redone and with a bit of magic and some elbow grease it was transformed into a high security prison where there was no way out, even by magical standards. Almost eight stories down with over a hundred cells for their pesky little friends, that would do the trick.

"So how did it go out there? Have any trouble bringing him in?" asked Vlad as he sat on his desk, sipping his coffee mixed with a bit of blood.

"Nah, your son and his partner sure have been wracking up quite the numbers lately."

"Oh, what's their count at now?"

"At around twenty for this month."

"Oh that's my boy! Oh sorry." he said as he quieted himself down.

"Yeah, I think not having to hide anymore has a helped him a lot too. No more human forms, just our true selves, wouldn't you agree that that's better?"

"Hells yes, it feel so good to stretch my real legs for a change. Heck I can remember when I first started hiding among the humans, it was frightening but I learned a lot." he said as he took another sip.

"Now look, yep things seem to be getting better around here. Oh you said you had something you needed to show me?"

"Yeah one of our men managed to get a picture of whatever it is." he replied as he handed him the large photo.

It wasn't much though, just a blurred out photo with something dark taking up half the picture.

"Where did he take this from?"

"He claimed he saw it while vacationing in the U.K, but he wasn't really specific as to where. I don't know I think he may be going a bit wonky."

"Yeah plus what use it this? All it looks like is a black blob."

"Right, so up for the club later?"

"You? Wouldn't Eva get mad though, you remember how mad you got the first time she saw you there?"

"Yeah she grabbed me and dragged me home by my collar, but then we made up and had some..."

"Alright enough, I don't need to know about your love life." he said as he threw the picture in the trash can.

Meanwhile at the daycare down town things were really picking up with Locke and Mellina, both of which were helping out with the kids parents by watching over them while they were away. They had their own little facility they could use as well payed for by the city, it wasn't too big but it got the job done. Inside there were toys, books, and a T.V along with a few movies. As it stood it was both of their jobs to make sure they didn't get into too much trouble.

"And then book my dad and the police destroyed the first marker. That's when we knew we were close to victory. Then bam, Rorik took out the the last target before my friend Alucard and his partner finished him off for good. Yeah, it was a great day for us indeed." he said in such a proud tone as the kids turned all ears towards him.

"Tah like that was real, I saw that on T.V and it looked so fake."

Great, Travis Harper, the new kid who moved in just weeks before. Nine years old and he still had a loud mouth, weren't kids suppose to be easy to handle?

"Oh what makes you say that?" asked Mellina.

"Just look at him, that's the cheapest Halloween make up I've ever seen. People said that there were real monsters here well I haven't see any."

"Hm, alright well how about this. Close your eyes and I'll prove to you that I'm a true blue monster then."

"Fine, but you're not." he said as he closed his eyes.

What was he going to show him? Some fake parlor tricks he had seen before or maybe a fake bat? Whatever it was he wasn't scared, or at least that's what he thought before something landed in his hands. It was smooth but cold and it was kind of lumpy as well. As soon as he opened his eyes though he was greeted with the disembodied head of his caretaker as his eyes stared straight up at him.

"Boo..." he said just as he dropped his head.

As he backed up though he noticed none of the other kids weren't scared at all, in fact they were laughing at the sight of him backing up.

"Now do you believe us?" she asked as she used her power of levitation to lay his head back on his body.

"But you, monsters aren't real are they?" he asked himself.

"Look kid when we first revealed ourselves people were just as confused as you are right now. Heck some even wanted us gone, but as time passed and they saw we weren't doing anything bad to them it all eventually died off. Trust me, we aren't as scary as you think we are." he said as he pushed his bandana onto the kids head.

And with that little lesson learned it was time for the kids to leave once again. Parent by parent came in to pick up their kids as they all waved goodbye to them all. When Travis's mother came in though she stopped to thank them for their services.

"Thank you both for watching over my little boy. I hope he didn't cause too much trouble."

"No, no not at all, we had a lot of fun today." said Locke.

As he looked down at Travis though he seemed a bit more calm now that his mother was there.

"Oh that's good. Well I hope you two have a good day then." she told them as they both left.

Speaking of the day the sun was staring to reach its limit as it approached the horizon.

"Ah well that was an interesting day. Best I better get home though." he told her as he turned to leave.

"Hey Locke don't you think you went a bit too far with that kid? I mean he's only nine and you kind of threw your head into his hands."

"I guess, but hey kids are hardheaded. It's best to show them the truth rather than try and explain it or else we would had carried on for the rest of the time with his questions."

"Right, so I'll see you back here tomorrow?"

"Yep, catch you later." he replied as she turned the lights off and locked the door after another days work.

Working in the human world was actually pretty different than working in the Underground, but it wasn't impossible and in fact it was a bit more fun. She could had went into the medical field but school wasn't really her thing, plus she liked working with kids more. It was strange though that Locke had decided to partner up with her though, after all he didn't really seem like the kid type. In fact she began to notice a lot of things about him that she hadn't before, he was strong, brave, a quick thinker, and he was good with kids. It kind of made her re-think about going after Alucard as a mate. Only time would tell though if she would end up feeling that way about him though and as the sun began to set so did the events of that day.