12

I told Whistler where I'd be going and of course he told me to check with my brother, but I figured my absence enough would let him know where I was going. He is a smart man. Since I did not have my jacket, I wore one of my other coats that had a leather hood on top of it.

My sai and fans were tucked calmly under them and I kept my hands in my pocket and my head down. It was soon to be light, so I knew everything was mildly hectic. Vampires were trying to get their fill of blood before the sun came up. I asked some of the humans where I could find Brady. He was not here, instead last scene at a night club known as La Rouge which was down town. I knew that club and it was mostly ran by vampires.

I wondered if he was in trouble. I still had time, the club would still be busy. I just needed information. It took me only a couple of minutes to arrive at the club on my bike. I looked up at the sky and saw it brightening some. I needed to hurry. The music's bass could still be heard even from the parking lot. I got off and moved towards the black graffiti painted warehouse. There seemed to be two large floors. Let me guess, one floor to do the dancing and the feeding and the next floor to do the feeding and the turning and the drugs in the humans case. The door was opened to me, and I was met with the blaring music of the club.

Everyone was in black dancing as if they would be alive forever to dance. I looked around at the place, my green eyes illuminating as the bright lights from above hit it. I was right. On the first floor was dancing and bars and small stages where people could get up and dance. On the top floor was another bar and halls apparently. On both sides of the room were two large stairs. I continued to look around and see if I could find Brady.

Would he be on the dance floor or on the second floor? Only one way to find out. With speed, I moved into the dance floor feeling every body part moving against me.

Nomak's POV

Ah La Rouge, a place where humans come to die and be reborn. Pathetic in my mind. Humans were ungrateful creatures to me, but it mattered not. Soon my venom will be in them all vampire or human. I was in one of the halls now with a human man against the wall, my fangs deep within his throat. He was the human I saw a while back who spoke with…her. As I sucked his blood, my venom moved into his wounds. Once he was infected enough I pulled back with a hiss and felt my mouth closing back up. I felt warm blood on my chin and shirt and soon this one will infect others and like a virus I will spread. A scent then catches my nose and my eyes slowly turn and look down the hall in the direction of all the mindless dancing.

I remember that scent. Rich cocoa with emerald eyes. I slowly moved out onto the second floor and moved to the rails placing my hands slowly on them. I looked over into the wild crowd and easily spotted her. There she was, in the heart of the crowd, the vampiric flower. I inhaled some with minor shock. She was here, in the same room as me. Beauty in the beast's domain.

She did not know she was in danger, in danger of me. Why was she here? Obviously looking for the human. I will know her name before the sun comes up. But how does a monster get the emerald eyed beauty's attention? After careful thought I merely disappeared into the darkness of the room.

Tamara's POV

I searched the entire down stairs area meaning he had to be on the next floor. But what if he wasn't here? Sooner or later my brother would be here to crash the party. I guess I had better hurry. I moved through the crowd pushing past everyone and even face shoving some vampires who hissed in my direction. Once I was out of the crowd I took the stairs onto the next level and removed my hood and looked around. On my right was a long bar with a few tables in front of them. Like vampires sat down and actually conversed. It had to be for the humans. Some people were standing on the black rails looking down on the floor. None of them was Brady. I walked past them all and moved into the first hallway out of three.

I could still hear the loud base of the music and there was laughter coming from all around me. I almost slide on something and I stopped and looked down to see a long stream of blood. It's going all the way down the hall then turning into a room with a black closed door. I moved my hand into my coat pocket and removed my fan spreading it open quickly. With caution I moved down the hall and over to the door.

Slowly I opened it and was met with a dark empty room. I looked on the wall for the light switch but did not find one. There was a window on the other side of the room showing the dim sky. I wouldn't be surprised if I came inside and then walked out and saw the warehouse empty with only a few humans left in it.

I walked inside and looked around the lounging room and saw a long sofa and table and other things. What I didn't see was a body. A scent caught my nose, and I turned quickly only to see a creature on the wall and with a roar landed on me with a hard thud sending me down on the ground. Before I could even think of an attack my body is lifted and slammed chest first into the wall. A hard grip tightens around my wrist, so hard that I drop my fan. I feel a body pressed into mine, and a low growl in my ear.

"Ah we meet again daywalker." he said lowly and roughly. I knew that voice. It was the vampire from the blood bank.