The blades crossed, forming an "X" that would have cut through Alessandro had he still been there.

But he wasn't; he flipped over their blades and kicked them both square in the back before he spun again and landed gracefully on the ground.

The twins, however, did not land so softly, and were sent flying face-down into the stage floor.

"Heh. If the only thing that you two can do together is try to attack me at the same time, you might as well just stay down."

They didn't listen.

Saya got up and ran at him again, slashing at him horizontally.

He jumped up over the blade and kicked her in the chest, knocking her clean-off the stage.

But her attack hadn't been the main course.

Diva had positioned herself behind Saya's legs and as her sister was knocked away she stabbed upwards at the still-airborne Alessandro, who literally had nowhere to run.

This however, didn't seem to be a problem for him, as he simply kept rising until he was high enough to dodge her blow, and landed on the sword, standing on it.

"You can thank Kill Bill for this one."

Then he flipped again, kicking Diva's chin and shooting her off the stage once again, though this time she managed to keep herself from being hit all the way into the back wall.

The sisters didn't stop though; they instantly lined up next to each other and ran down the aisle towards the stage again, swiping at Alessandro's feet.

He sighed before hopping up a distance even a human could and then landed on their blades, keeping the twins from withdrawing them.

"Is that really all you've got?"

Then he pushed his feet towards them with enough force to send both of them back out into the seats.

"This is dramatic and all, a real Rocky moment of determination. But you two aren't doing anything. You're just scrambling around hacking at me whatever chance you get. You call that a strategy?"

Diva managed to free herself from the seats, but Saya didn't have enough strength to get out so quickly.

She glared up at him, not even the slightest bit intimidated.

His grin widened into a feral snarl.

"Haha. A girl with spirit. Okay then. Let's make this a bit more interesting."

Then he snapped his fingers and the Chiropterans who had until recently been bowing patiently on the edge of the aisles stood up and glared at Saya, their eyes glowing red.

As Saya freed herself they ran at her, seeming intent on tearing her to shreds.

Diva leapt back up onto the stage, not seeming to notice it, or not caring.

"I hate it when people talk more than I do." She stated, irritated.

His face changed into feign-shock for a moment.

"Then why don't you silence me?"

She grinned herself.

"Gladly."

She chased after him, sending a flurry of thrusts and slashes at the arrogant Chiropteran-man. But he wasn't getting hit by any of them.

Alessandro would either block the attacks with his hands or dodge them entirely.

He jumped up over her head and twisted, kicking her in an aerial-roundhouse and hitting her once again into a wall.

This time though he caught her sword and looked at it for a second before licking the length of it, cutting his tongue in the process, and then flung the sword into her shoulder.

Almost immediately she started screaming out in pain while grasping at the sharp object.

"Because Kings are "meant" to protect and mate with Queens, our blood doesn't really kill anyone. But it hurts like a royal-"

"Didn't I tell you to shut up?" Diva asked him with hatred in her voice reinforced by the pain she felt.

"You think a little sting is going to make me drool and lose consciousness? Please, it's just been a while since anything hurt me. This doesn't even qualify as a scrape compared to what else I've felt."

He seemed genuinely amused.

"Is that so?"

Then before she could even notice him move she saw a black blur and he was in front of her, a bit of blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"Well, let's see how much we can remind you of then."

With that he grabbed a handful of Diva's hair and spat his blood into one of her eyes.

She shrieked as the blood felt like it boiled through her skull and then her brain.

Diva felt fingers softly trail down her body until they reached a specific area in her stomach.

"Let's see, this should be the right place."

Then he bit his free hand and stabbed it into her stomach, "injecting" his blood into her intestines.

She screamed louder than before.

His hand withdrew and Alessandro lifted her chin with the bloody hand; even with it not connecting with a wound it still burned.

"How about now? Is this a bit better?"

She got a sort of maniacal smile on her face and her eyes widened with madness.

"Not yet."

Then she grabbed his shoulders and bit into his neck, ignoring the magma-like feeling of his blood going down her throat as long as she could.

But she didn't feel him getting any weaker; in fact, he seemed to actually be enjoying it.

A second later he pulled her head away by tugging on her hair.

"Another reason we were removed from the little evolutionary chain is because our blood doesn't help Queens. And also, in case you didn't hear me before, we don't need blood anyway."

Her smile was gone, having left with the failure of her self-sacrificing plan.

"We can have a milliliter of blood left and still feel like a million bucks. But still…" His teeth grew much longer than either a Queen's or a Chevalier's did when they fed, and resembled the canines of a Wolf more than the fangs of a Bat.

Then his head lurched forward and he bit into her neck.

"That doesn't mean we don't enjoy the occasional little bite to eat."

It felt like she'd just been mauled by a Lion.

Her vision started to fade as her blood was drained from her body and Diva weakly pushed against him in an attempt to free herself.

The bite went on for seconds until it became a minute, and then a minute more.

But when he finally departed from her it was because he had become full, not because Diva had succeeded in pushing him away.

Her hands had fallen limp within the first thirty seconds.

"Hm. It would seem your sister is doing a tiny bit better than you are."

Diva's sleepy eyes rolled over to hazily gaze at Saya, who was starting to become overwhelmed by the Chiropterans.

"Perhaps I should tell those Chiropterans to try and mate with her. See if her children have horns."

After his perversely-sadistic comment Alessandro started laughing and she felt her lips move up in a weak scowl.

His hand came up again and began to snap, but Diva's hand somehow rose and grabbed his wrist, not physically stopping him, but interesting him enough for him to stop it himself.

"Oh? All these years you've spent trying to kill each other and now you're protecting your big sis? How touching."

"I'm the only one who can hurt her. I won't let something like you do it." She spoke weakly, but resolutely.

"Some 'thing'?" He asked with interest.

Her grin returned.

"A mutated worm that was too disgusting to stay in our species shouldn't be allowed to hurt one of the more evolved versions."

He scowled and punched her with enough force to crush her internal organs for several seconds.

"What the hell would the likes of you know about what's superior in the species?!" He snapped at her.

A few seconds went by and then he regained his composure, including his grin.

"Besides, you aren't exactly a normal Chiropteran yourself. Did you know that your mother was the first and only one to have a Chevalier's children? The stupid whore was more attracted to that rat of a Chevalier than she was to the opposite King. If anything, you're even lower than I am. Though… that's not really saying much. Of all the Chiropteran in our entire history, you're easily the most pathetic. Being given a name by your sister? Enslaved for years by humans? You even turned one of the scientists who were experimenting on you into your Chevalier. Your eldest one no less."

He shook her hand from his wrist and then raised it up into the air, snapping his fingers again.

At once the Chiropterans surrounding Saya converged on her and she was buried underneath them in mere seconds.

"Don't worry. As disgusting of an example of Queens as you both are, I've decided to have a bit of mercy on her. She'll be devoured as opposed to soiled. After all, our species has already been tainted by a change in its mating mannerisms. I'm not going to let the same thing happen again."

But just as he finished speaking something crashed down through the roof of the theatre and slammed into the Chiropterans.

After a few seconds Haji could be seen standing in the midst of the shocked Chiropterans, holding Saya's already-bitten body in his arms.

"Well if it isn't one of the vermin themselves." Alessandro spoke smugly.

Diva grasped out at him, but Alessandro moved away from her weak hand.

"Fine. I'll give you two a bit longer to live. I've waited for centuries after all. I can wait a few more days."

With that he bowed curtly, and then there was a black flash, and he was gone.


Ah yes, I forgot the disclaimer. I don't own anything within the Blood+ universe, though I do own Alessandro's character I suppose. Thank you Kyuubi123 for your extremely generous review. I will, evidently, continue this story. I also want to state right now that any kind of sexist comments Alessandro makes aren't just a subtle way for me to say something offensive. He is obviously disgruntled as far as the Queens/Kings thing goes and is as a result, basically a jerk towards girls. (And Chevaliers, for you people out there who happen to be ones.) But don't think the sisters won't get their own little jabs in at his ego. Haha. I'll update as soon as possible.