Jack's pov

Back at the base, I was looking at the vampire experiment though the door, he seemed so calm and cool. Chills went up my spine when he turns to face my direction, I hate vampires but never had I thought they existed here. Liz was about to walk in, I stopped her.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"I'm going in there, I have some things to ask him?"

"No way! The guy...." All I could think about was that kiss, why was that in my mind, "Ya know, he kidnapped you."

Liz walked on, Kimi and Turret came walking out. I saw Liz sitting down in front of the table. The two were talking for at least half an hour, I thought about walking in but why do I care. Why do I care about Liz, I can't stand her, the sooner I find my wife's killer, the sooner I won't have to see Liz again. When I thought of that, all I could think about was that kiss between us. I shook my head, why am I thinking that?

I begin to walk down the hallway of the broken base, suddenly I heard something coming from a room. It sounded like a bird. I opened the door, it looked like Liz's room because her sabers were left there, lying against the wall. There was trash everywhere on the ground, there were some clothes on the ground too.

Liz's room was a mess, it reminded me a lot of the RV, man I missed it but this base reminded me of it too, the only difference is a little bit more room. There was a room in the room that went up to the roof and a tree was growing through it, Liz's clothes were everywhere, where did she get all these clothes so fast. There was this weird looking robe that had a hood on it. The robe was orange and red, and it also had this weird flaming bird looking symbol on the back. I've seen this before, but where? There were books everywhere as well, some of them were in a different language but had lots of pictures, like of weird looking people, and they looked a lot of monsters. I remembered when I met my first monster.

Flashback

It was a few months after my Angela died and I started to work for Tom, and it was after I killed the man who died a little girl and my Angela, so I thought. Tom sent me to Venice, Italy. Normally, he wouldn't send me too far but he thought I was ready for the toughest bounty yet. There is a killer in the city of water who has been killing people at night but no one alive has seen it. The mayor was paying big time for anyone who would catch or kill this thing.

I finally arrived in Venice; he was able to sneak into the airplane without any problem. The place seemed nice, I didn't really like all that water, thanks to this metal arm, and it was easy for me to sink now. I got on one of those boats where a guy would row the boat for you.

"What has brought you here, to our beautiful city?"

I wasn't in no mood for small talk, I just ignored the question.

"Well, sir-" The man fell silent; I looked up to see the horror on his face, like he saw a ghost. I turned to his direction, to see the saw horror. The channels were red with blood as bodies were floating in the water, some with missing limbs like a head.

"That was the bounty hunter from yesterday." The man gulped.

There were cops already around the area, carrying out some of the bodies and trying to seal the scene up from tourist, but I could see the horror.

Each day, bodies mounted up until the point that no one was allow outside after dark. The mayor seemed like he knew about something. I decided to walk out during night by myself, as the full moon hovered over me, revealing the shadows of the walls of the buildings, not to mention creeping me out. Every time I looked away, I felt this evil presence behind me, I could hear the tumbling small rocks from the roofs or a footstep, or even when I walked close to any of the channels, the water seem to vibrate. Then I would turn around and nothing was there, until I finally walked in the town square, where I turned around. At first, I couldn't see a thing, until I looked carefully, from the shadows of a wall; I could see a figure moving slowly towards me.

Well, I finally met up with the human who was killing all those people just to find out that it was a-

End of Flashback

"Ahem." I heard someone cough behind me; I turned around to see Liz, who was leaning against the door, "What are you doing in my room?"

"Nothing, I heard something in here."

"Yeah, "She walked up to me, taking the book from my hand, looking at the cover.

"I better be going." I backed up, just about to walk out when she stopped me.

"Ya know, that vampire experiment you were fighting, he's a bounty hunter. He wants to talk to you, he said that he needs your help." I felt uncomfortable when Liz's tail wrapped slowly around my throat, "His name is Blade, Blade Nightshade."

My eyes widened, "The Blade Nightshade!" Almost every bounty hunter in the galaxies knew about him, he once took down the God of Crime lords, the Kingpin Kong himself. Kingpin Kong was so powerful that people denied that he even exist until one bounty hunter brought the guy to justice and almost in pieces, but no one even seen Blade.

"I thought you might be excited about that. I thought he could stay and help us out as well."

I turned to see Liz sitting on her small bed that was lying up against the wall on the opposite side of where the tree was growing, "Without asking me?"

"I knew what you would say, Kimi told me about your little fear of blood suckers. I knew your judgment might be clouded."

Now I was mad, "So you just decided to make decisions without me?"

"You make it sound like we're a couple, "Liz smiled a little, I was trying hard to hard my blushing, "Besides, it wouldn't hurt. Imagine having a vampire on your side. You'll find your wife's killer in no time."

"Yeah, and when this is over, you're outta here." I saw Liz's stern look turn to a somewhat shock look, "Yeah….I said it. I mean, you don't listen to a weird I say."

She sighed, "Hear we go again. What did you wanted me to do stand back and let him beat the crap out of you. Jack, vampires are different okay. They're stronger, faster, and they have dark magic…what could you possibly have that could have defeated him?"

"Hey, I faced worse…a lot worse!!"

"Yeah right! In case you didn't notice he could have almost killed you if Kimi and Turret wasn't there to save your ass!!!"

"What about you! He kidnapped you! What kind of witch gets kidnapped by a vampire?"

"The one who was hypnotized! I let my guard down okay!"

"That's the point! You can't let your guard down, not once!! That's how you die! Not in this kind of business!!"

"DON'T TELL ME ABOUT NOT LETTING MY GUARD DOWN! AND AS FOR THIS BUSINESS, COMPARED TO THE ONE I WAS IN BEFORE, IT'S A-" She stopped a second and crossed her arms, "Why can't you be more like Blade? At least he thinks before he acts sometimes. And he doesn't let his personal feelings get in the way of his work!"

"What?"

"Yeah, you're too busy acting like an asshole to see it, always acting like you don't need anyone and you push almost everyone away!!"

"Oh yeah, look who's talking! None of us know about you!! We don't even know if you're really 611 or not!! We don't know even if this family of yours ever existed!!!" I could see that look in Liz's face, she was still in pain about it.

"I'm sorry." I looked down.

"I never talked about your dead wife, do I? Of course my family existed. Talk to Blade, he wants to interrogate Vask. And...Get...The ...Hell...Away...From....ME!!!" Liz walked out of her room. I saw Blade leaning up against the wall, shaking his head at me while lighting a cigarette by snapping his finger with brought this strange purple fire.

"Hey the-"

"She told me, let's get this over with vampire."

"Half on my father's side anyway. Sorry that you two had to fight over me, damn I hate to see couples fight."

"Why does everyone think that we're a couple. We can't even stand each other!"

"Wait, you're not. The way she talks about you, ya'll sound like it." Blade had that cool like stern face, I can't believe this is the guy and he's an experiment, we stood in front of the door where Vask was being held in, "But I think she likes you."

"I wouldn't care." I crossed my arms.

Blade pulls out his gun, loading some special bullets into it, "Solar Bullets. A Vampire's worst nightmare."