A smell wafted around the room, the mixture of booze, smoke, and blood, the floor was littered with empty cans and broken glass. A glowing cigarette was flung into the air and came to rest in a pool of crimson liquid and the slow went out with a sizzle. The source of the cigarette butt pulled out a packet from the pocket of his black leather jacket and lifted a cigarette to his grinning mouth and proceeded to light it up with a deep exhale. "Well that's those old bastards out of the way"

Dismembered limbs strewn across the room there is no way to tell how many people where involved in the massacre , the lab technicians garbed in their white hazmat suits where going through the scene meticulously bagging and tagging everything they came across .

Outside the room which was guarded by several ISSP agents, bob was standing there with a bored expression as he went through his cigarettes with a bored expression as he stood by his superior who was talking seriously with a shady looking syndicate commander.

Bob looked out the window of the skyscraper looking at the streets far below, the hotel, thePenanggalancasino was one of the largest casino hotels in mars, since the downfall of the red dragon syndicate, a large power vacuum had been left in its wake the was a major war going on behind the scenes between the two strongest powers the Bratva Mafiya, and the winter hill gang. The Bratva where the most brutal of the two and had swiftly taken the initiative and had taken over 60% of the red dragons territory while the winter hill held onto 35% the remaining 5 was still under dispute , therefore tensions where high between the two groups the last thing this powder keg needed was the assassination of three prominent members of the Bratva , the three were senior members and kapitains of their own branches which extended throughout the system, their deaths would ultimately lead to warfare between the two groups and a war that would span planets and would bring an incalculable amount of deaths.

The ISSP had assigned Bob to review security footage from the building and been a skyscraper with 300 floors and roughly 100 cameras on each floor this was going to be extensive research and he begrudgingly sat in his office going through the footage of the lobby, when he noted one suspicious character garbed in a black leather jacket, he zoomed in on the subject and gasped when he saw the blood stained hands and a knife attached to his belt .he grinned "thank fuck"

"Hola, cowboys its time for the big shot of the day, today is a very special case, the man responsible for the murder of 3 high ranked member s of the bratva has earned himself a bounty of 400 million woolong"

"Wow punch, bag that and you're set for life"

"That's right Judy, however this guy has yet to be named all we have is a picture, and the only thing known is that he has no affiliations with the Bratva and the white hill gang"

"heres the picture of him now punch" the picture of the man from the lobby was shown and zoomed into his face which was rugged and handsome with a scar which ran down the left side of his face, his hair was shoulder length and was black in color, the most interesting thing about his face where his eyes which were so blue they where almost silver in appearance.

"Ooh he's such a hottie"

"well Judy he's one bad guy ……… , I'm afraid we have no further information lets have a commercial "

Spike was watching the show with a bored expression when 400 million woolong was uttered he flinched and heard and bump behind him, he slowly turned his head and bore a grimace when he saw a happy looking Faye.

"I guess we're going after this guy then"

"What do you mean we, I'm going after this guy 400 million imagine what I could buy with it, ah the clothes the jewelry with that amount I'd be set for life,"

"What do you mean life you'd have it all spent in a matter of months like at the ponies and the casinos and don't you still have that ridiculous debt to pay off"

He earned himself a punch in the head for that statement but she quickly recovered and skipped off to find Ed "Oh Edward…"

"Damn crazy broad"

Sitting in front of the monitor jet was catching up with Bob, they chatted about the higher ups in the ISSP and how they where little better than the syndicates nowadays taking bribes and certain members even socializing with senior syndicate members.

"Oi jet you've probably already heard about the 400 million bounty head already"

"Oh yeah, I've heard the shouting between the women aboard about 400million and shoes and ponies"

Bob gave him a blank look "Aha, well anyway seeing as you're my bud if you catch him give me 20% of the bounty, it's a good deal I was on the scene and all I've got all the footage from the hotel"

"20% seems a bit high to me, I'd be more willing to part with 25%"

"………..fine I'm sending you the data now, oh and be careful on this one, this guys a sick freak the coroners report says that they were cut up posthumously into little bits "

"Sounds like a bit of a psycho"

"That's just the beginning it took the coroner long enough but they couldn't find their hearts"

" What the? Their hearts, that's odd" he scratched his head and thought of the blood sucker he had onboard, well it's not as if I haven't encountered something weirder.

"Ah sorry jet gotta go, still have to go through more surveillance tapes this'll never end"

The screen went black as he signed off and jet took the disk out of the drive to bring to Ed.

"Their hearts huh "

Ed had been tapping away at her computer for several hours pulling up all the images she could of the crime scene , Faye was lying on the couch beside her flipping through a fashion magazine . Finished flipping through the magazine she proceeded to look up the newspapers flipping to the horseracing results

"Tch, no winners huh"

Looking over to Ed who seemed to not have any new information, she creeped behind Ed looking over her shoulder and saw the picture of the perp

"Hmm that him, kinda hot"

She looked at the paper with the horse racing and then to the exit

"Ahem I think I'll go out and research on the bounty head"

A dry voice from in front of the tv called out "don't blow too much cash at the ponies fang girl"

"Shut up … you .. you moss head"

"Great come back Faye"

"shut up spike, anyhow I'm off see you later" she slammed the hatch as she left"

Faye landed in front of the largest horse track on mars , the track was divided into three levels the lowest was you're average track, the middle was higher in class with several bars and restaurants , the top level was the vip section which catered to the rich and famous and all this belonged to the white hill gang leader James "Buddy" McLean.

As faye walked in she couldn't help but notice the over the top security at the racetrack she shrugged it off as she went inside , after a trip to on of the bookies she went to the bar in order to make the experience more enjoyable

She leaned against the bar "hey barkeep a JD over here please"

Up above in the VIP section buddy was sitting in his office which overlooked the track he watched as the horses where let out of the gates and started to race, he heard a movement behind him and turned around only to loose his head in the process, the man stood there with a grin on his face.

The glass fell from Fayes hand as she felt a painful twinge in her stomach which made her double over, "what the" she felt her fangs begin to extend she could feel herself losing to blood lust "what the this shouldn't be happening a drank a baggie this morning" the bar staff came over to her concerned at her behaviour

"miss are you alright"

"stay away" she pushed him back with a little too much force which lifted him into the air and fall back down.

"shit this is why I said to stay away" she ran as best she could for her pod she was almost at the exit when she completely froze as she felt a presence she had never experienced before . she apun around and stared into silver eyes which stared back at hers his frown swiftly turned into a grin.

"found you"

and there you have i still can't come up with a good name for mystery man here any suggestions would be cool , maybe i should just flick through wikipedia again . any way sorry for the delay i'm lazy and didn't quite know how to proceed but i think this chapter turned out alright probably gets incoherent to the end its like 4.30am now so anything doesn't look right let me know cos i'm too sleepy a the moment to go through this all

rate and review please makes me get off my ass if i know people want more