Soul Eater: Black Moon Chapter 2 Part 1
"Are you sure this is the right place Free? I don't like the look of this, ribbit."
"Quit your whining." Free replied. "If you want to survive we're going to have to find work."
Night had fallen as Free lead Eruka into the seedy underbelly of Death City. Eruka had grown more and more nervous as she followed him closely through back alleys and down sidewalks lined with thugs and streetwalkers. The air was filled with an odd smoke that made her nose twitch. She felt way out of her comfort zone.
Free had finally stopped in front of an establishment labeled with a bright red neon sign that read "Blood Drinkers" along with a curved line underneath in the shape of two fangs.
Free turned to gauge Eruka's reaction and saw the obvious discomfort in her eyes.
"Relax." He tried to reassure her. "As long as you stick by me I won't let any harm come to you." He set a hand on her shoulder. Eruka's eyes brightened as she looked up at him.
"Besides," Free said, turning around and facing the entrance. "It's not like we've got anywhere else to go as long as that bitch Maba is looking for us. I can't believe the damn DWMA is working with her."
"It doesn't surprise me." Eruka snorted. "They're all a bunch of fools. If only Medusa hadn't been a fool herself, maybe her plan would have worked."
"What even was her plan? Beyond releasing the Kishin I mean."
"Beats me." Eruka followed Free through the swinging saloon doors of the bar. "I was too busy trying to stay alive."
Eruka looked into the dark room and tried to analyze the faces of the patrons that stared curiously from their booths at her and Free. She tried to return their looks of grim fascination with a steely gaze of her own, but she knew she probably didn't look very intimidating in her polka-dot dress and frog hat. Eruka hoped Free would be sufficient muscle to discourage anyone from messing with them.
Free strode up to the bar counter and pounded his fist lightly on it's wooden surface. The bar tender turned from his beer taps behind the counter and gave the pair a skeptical up and down with his beady eyes.
"We're looking for your postings." Free announced.
The man behind the bar nodded to the right. "They're in the back." He grumbled, turning away quickly to fill up drinks.
Free walked around to the right side of the bar with Eruka close behind and found a doorframe that lead into a small hallway with several closed doors branching off on both sides. Both walls of the narrow passage were covered in wanted posters. Free began to browse though them, and a moment later Eruka decided she should probably do the same.
Most of the posters were for rough-looking outlaws and murderers. They all seemed to have some odd deformity and a row of rotting teeth in their picture. Only a few stood out to Eruka at first glance. One had a drawing of a strange looking alien thing. The text at the bottom read: "The Holy Sword Excalibur; WANTED for calling the Duke of Winchester a 'Fool', infiltrating into the Royal Palace without invitation, and being a huge pain in the ass."
Eruka's eyes shifted away from that bounty before she even got to the reward. She grabbed the other two that she'd noticed off the wall and held them up for Free.
"What about either of these?" She asked him. One had a photo of a pear-shaped man in a diving suit who was labeled 'The Fisher King' and the other was a handsome, pale, clean shaven gentleman who had looked equally out of place on the wall. When Free turned and saw the papers Eruka held, his eyes narrowed and he grabbed the one of the pale man. He stared at it, reading over the details of the bounty.
"This is the one." Free decided. "Dracula's had it coming for years."
"Dracula? Who is that?" Asked Eruka.
"Damn" Free chuckled at Eruka's naivety. "don't you know anything about the monster world? Dracula is practically the father of all vampires, and one of the biggest bastards I've ever met. The sooner I can sink my claws into him the better." He smiled.