"I am so high, I can hear heaven
I am so
high, I can hear heaven
Whoa, but heaven...no, heaven don't hear
me
And they say
That a hero could save us
I'm
not gonna stand here and wait
I'll hold onto the wings of the
eagles
Watch as we all fly away
Someone told me
Love would all save us
But,
how can that be
Look what love gave us
A world full of killing
And blood
spilling
That world never came
And they say
That a hero could save us
I'm
not gonna stand here and wait
I'll hold onto the wings of the
eagles
Watch as we all fly away
Now that the world isn't ending
It's love
that I'm sending to you
It isn't the love of a hero
And that's
why I fear it won't do
And they say
That a hero could save us
I'm
not gonna stand here and wait
I'll hold onto the wings of the
eagles
Watch as we all fly away
And they're watching us
They're watching
us
As we all fly away
whaoo…"
Humans, Demons, Vampires and card players all clapped as Niko finished his song and gazed at the crowded back room of Tropicana but he was only interested in one person and that wasn't even about if he was any good or not.
"So" The Russian Vampire walked over to a table with two demons, both in red suits. But one demon was green and the other was red.
"So what" the red demon interrupted as Niko was obviously directing the question towards the green one.
"I'm sorry are you as confused as I am" Niko turned acidicly.
"Calm down sugar plum" the green tried to intervene taking Niko aback.
"I mean what with fashion faux pas, both in Dior suits" He laughed a the same time as inwardly cussing since Val was right he had been in L.A. too long. The Red Demon smiled slightly and clicked his fingers to turn the suit and glowing green.
"Oh you Nikolai. How about we finish this discussion later Sweety." The Green Demon nodded to the red who smiled again and disappeared, well not really he just walked over to the stage for a performance but either way he left Niko and the empath demon.
"So do I call you host still or is this a new job title." Niko sat where the demon was who is now performing 'I don't feel like Dancing' by the Scissors Sisters although the song hasn't even been thought of in this dimension yet, only in torture dimensions to punish the ignorant "ga loo BOY" Niko looked at him.
"Don't mind him he's sweet." He laughed inwardly then turned to Niko. "Listen my title isn't important, cause you asked I'll say call me Lorne, but it doesn't matter." He downed his red drink okay did I miss the memo Niko thought as he looked at his Emporio standard trousers and a G-Starr Raw tee-shirt all dark grey/black. He cursed inwardly as he realised Harmony was right, he wasn't spending enough time in L.A.
"So what it is, Folk" He asked with a hint of jealousy
"Well it is you." He replied cryptically and before Niko could ask for an expansion of the answer the red demon dubbed Sweet slumped down.
"Cheeky mare" He nodded towards the stage where a provocatively dressed woman was finishing her Aerosmith song.
Dream on, dream on
Dream
yourself a dream come true
Dream on, dream on
Dream until your
dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on...
Sing with me, sing for the
years
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tears
Sing with
me, if its just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take
you away
She finished, they clapped. "Kras nee?" Niko commented on the outfit she was donning which went well with her crimson streak in her long flowing brunette hair.
"I could make her dance till she dies" Sweet sweetly smiled. "But then I would have morality issues" He sighed to Lorne. "How was she?"
"Her…" He hesitated. "She will meet our dark avenger and then get realise there is a cure in L.I.S.A."
"Oh lesbianism" Sweet laughed as she banged into Niko lifting his wallet in the process. "What disease?."
"Death" Niko said sternly he got up and went after her. "Miss"
"What" She spun around. "if you liked the show I'm not going on for another few years so you might have to wait a while" she remarked a about three feet away from Niko who looked at her. "What you staring at?"
"You remind of a girl called faith used to be" Niko smiled "Any way I have nothing but time" She went to walk away. "But you could help me though"
"Oh yeah and what's that?" She replied petulantly.
"My wallet" Niko got closer very fast.
"and what makes you think I can help you." She said after a second of thinking.
"Because" he lifted up her gloved hand to reveal his wallet enclosed within it. "You seem to have found it" he said sarcastically.
"no Actually I stole it" she smirked as she head butted him to the floor. She took off as soon as he fell.
"She isn't human" he turned to Lorne and morphed into his vampire image and chased after her.
"So is she the other slayer…Hope is it?" Sweet asked Lorne innocently.
"Faith actually and no, she seems to be shockingly human." He laughed inwardly as they turned to see two men named Lee DeMarco and his assistant Spencer come strolling over.
""
"Why are you running?" Niko growled as he gained on the exhausted thief in a back ally.
"'Cause maybe she doesn't want to die" a female voice said as Niko fell to the floor writhing in pain as a jolt of electricity went through him.
"She has stolen my wallet" He roared as he was put down again by the unseen ally.
"Thanks" She turned around heavily breathing looking at where the electricity came from. "Names Gwen" she was gasping for oxygen. Especially after she was hit from a jolt of electricity. "Aww crap" Gwen got up and ran.
"Leave her, deal with the vampire." A male voice commanded. A woman clad in all black combats with standard black kevlar over her chest. She had blonde hair pulled back with a black bobble, she has minimalistic make-up applied to her snow white skin which was accentuated by a big copper and black tazer gun she slung over her back.
"She got straight back up though with the same voltage as I shot this vampire she could be sub-terrestrial" She responded as she pulled out a collapsible stake and a combat knife.
"But you shot the vampire twice which could of short fused it any way I will send Valen to deal with her." A man dressed exactly like the woman came out of the shadows but he was sporting a black beret atop of his short brown hair. "Agent Lockley Kill the vampire" he ordered
"With pleasure, sir" with that she thrusted her stake towards Niko who quickly reversed her momentum and captured her with one arm around her throat the other pointing the Tazer gun towards the Commanding Officer.
"You guys reek of government initiative" Niko slurred still feeling woozy off the two shots of voltage. Men also donning black outfits like the two he was with in the alley. rappelled down into the alley way. "I swear Spike said that the government closed you guys down."
"We are not the initiative we are the sub-terrestrial extermination spec ops team." The man replied.
"Kinda mouthful" Niko sneered as he looked at the extra operatives arming themselves then finally at the man in front of him. "You!" He released Lockley behind him where two other operatives checked her over. "I'm sorry can't remember your name."
"Special Agent Miller" He replied confidently. "Kate are you all right? I know first hand that this one is a monster." Graham seethed as two operatives flanked him on both sides.
"I think I saved your life comrade, don't you think it's time for pay back." Niko asked cautiously as he lowered his commandeered gun. But before Miller could answer he had levelled it at the squad leader and released a full blast jolt of electricity at him causing the former Sunnydale UC student to be temporarily paralysed. After that all six of the remaining armed operatives unleashed their voltage just a bit slow as Niko had already leaped in the air and descended on a unsuspecting operative two more operatives were taken out by friendly tazer fire, while the rookie Kate Lockley ducked down in a doorway in the alley way.
"There" the burliest operative yelled towards Niko but as they turned Niko brought the butt of his rifle into a nose of the closest one. The two which are left fired again catching Niko and flooring the St. Petersburg native.
"Lockley, Do you want the honours?" The Burley one spoke again as He ordered Kate to approach the vampire with her stake. "Enough of this subduing horse crap" He whipped out his pistol and started loading it eventually the other operative
followed suit as Niko slowly rose as Kate got closer.
"That is going straight against the CO's orders is it not." Niko laughed weakly.
"I bet he won't lose any sleep over-" Niko had once again had Kate in his grasp mid sentence but before he could boast the burley one opened fire while the other one fumbled around with his silencer and ammunition magazine. "maw CHAA za VEE yets PAAL ka" He quickly twirled around, like Olga Korbut in the 1972 and 1976 summer Olympic games where she claimed four gold medals between the two events, he then tossed Kate like a hammer throw straight into the burley man knocking both off their feet.
"Oscar!" The one fumbling around with his pistol cried before he turned into a hard fist from Niko followed up with a sharp push landing him through the door way which earlier was used as shelter for Kate who was now against the wall as Oscar tried to find his gun.
"I don't thinks so, drook" Niko laughed as he stamped on Oscars knee snapping it out his socket and skin, which sounded horrible but was matched by his neck snapping as Niko twisted it. Niko went after the Aerosmith fan but was stopped by the clicking of a gun.
"I don't think so, drook" Niko turned slowly to see Kate pointing Oscars gun dead at on him. "You…erm…took a bullet for me." Her aim wavered as she saw the bullet holes in his tee-shirt where he had save her.
"Bullets…I took plural for you" Niko said even though he didn't think she had survived.
"Well I can't let you leave" The gun went straight at him suddenly. Niko smiled as he unsheathed his Kindjal sword slicing the pistol in half during the process .
"Now you can" with that he cracked her in her nose with his forehead. "if you don't mind I have an appointment with a girl called Gwen before an agent called Valen gets to her" he turned on his heel and started after the red clad beauty.
2002 L.A.
"Well looky here, If it isn't the Russian AK himself" Eve smiled as she saw Niko walk through the Wolfram and Hart halls.
"Eve, how you been?" Niko asked. "Still getting groomed to take on the company or what ever your doing?" Niko half smiled seemingly in a rush.
"Well at the moment I'm just waiting on a report from some science geek. "Knox or something like that.
"About what" it was like he had to go to the bathroom.
"Angel's son is here." Niko's head turned super human fast.
"He has a son!" Niko looked gob smacked. "I knew there were legends but Angel!"
"I know, Sanshu prophecy and the Nyazian Scrolls" Eve began.
"Well Spike has a soul now, he could be a champion" Niko winced at something.
"What do want?" Eve asked who got a blank face from Niko. "Nik I know you hate asking for stuff so I order you to tell me what do you want."
"…Information on Gwen Raiden" He eventually succumbed. But before Eve could answer Knox came running
"Excuse me miss are you the Interim liaison for the Lilah Morgan on the Angel slash Connor another slash Stephen case" he laughed at his own joke which got two deadpan replies.
"Yes" Eve said simply.
"Well your just stunningly beautiful" Know kissed her hand earning an instinctive growl off Niko.
"Vampire" Knox deducted. "What religion are you again?" he asked Eve
"I'm not human so I don't have a need to cling onto such things." Eve turned towards the route to the room holding Connor and Lilah.
"Yeah but come on what about some god like icons perhaps the old ones" Knox smiled.
"Funny I've met the arc angel Gabriel" Niko said as he fell into step with them.
"Knox this is Niko, a slightly unorthodox vampire." Eve laughed not believing him.
"why do I even bother" He muttered to himself as something shook the building..
"It's the beast, it's the beast" A few security guards stormed past with there two way radios blaring.
"The Beast?" Niko looked towards Eve.
"Oh my God" Eve started to hyperventilate.
"Religion eh?" Niko said before turning towards Knox.
"The Beast…..erm A demon origins unknown was on earth before don't know what happened he rose from the place Connor was born." Knox started running with Eve close second.
"Knox" Niko roared after him.
"Honestly" He stammered as he got caught thanks to the chaos ensued by the attack. Then Wolfram and Hart locked down.
"Oh no" Knox said.
"What" Niko ordered but Knox wasn't responding.
"It's in case we get attacked we become a fortress." Eve said as she came back from the elevator. "it's on the fourth floor already." She looked ready to wet herself.
"Where's old McDonald now eh?" Niko said as he walked over to her "There must be a fail safe some where." He looked her straight in the eye.
"I know where!" came a voice from behind Niko. Two men standing nex to each other one with frizzy hair the other short brown both lawyers. "But it's down on the fourth, I'll take you if you defend me and my associate." He stammered out.
"What's your name" Niko asked the frizzy haired who had spoken.
"T.J." he stammered out again.
"I swear double cross me and you will deal with a very angry Russian Mafia boss." Niko straitened up to appear taller, "Do you know who I am?" he asked as he remembered to the time him and Luke helped Al Pacino play Don Corleone and Tony Montana.
"Errr" T.J. look at his friend who shook his head not knowing. "I'm sorry we have never met." He offered his hand.
"Vladamir Kumarin's son" he didn't take his hand. "my Bratva are down stairs, they dead yes.?"
"Well if you want we could go down and see, Mr Kumarin" T.J. said even more scarred.
"If you ever want representation in the board room for you , your father or your Tambov gang." The friend offered a card but Niko merely snarled and he retracted.
"Show me the way out" Niko followed T.J. and his friend, Niko was followed by Eve and Knox.
"Hey Niko I didn't know that Vladimir Kumarin had a son let alone a Vampire son." Knox laughed as Niko stopped and back handed him to the floor.
Niko reached down and lifted Knox to his mouth. "You are the first to die when we see the beast." Niko pushed Knox in front of him.
""
"It's right around here in a utility closet." T.J. said as they turned the corner to see Gavin Parks flattened by the Beast. "Oh boy" his friend visibly wet himself. "Monty" he looked at his friend but Monty seemed to far gone to care.
"Eve take this" Niko withdrew his Kindjal sword and passed it to his former lover. "Knox if she dies you die understand." He looked at the scientist who nodded. "T.J. is there another way to the closet?"
"We could go through Weavers cubical and out into the corridor behind the Beast and hope he has moved on" T.J. pondered aloud.
"Go!" He ordered as the Beast looked upon Niko.
"Vampire with a soul who's not Angel, You must be Spike." The beast had an unusual gentlemen like voice.
"I have not got a soul!" Niko shifted into his vampiric face and leapt towards The beast who effortlessly knocked him straight back where he came from into the wall and didn't stop until hitting the concrete stud.
"Klyast" Niko was pinned into the wall about a foot deep, his face changed back all bruised on his left side and his nose has popped. He shrugged and fell to the floor.
"Your not British you cannot be Spike" he was looming above the Russian vampire half conscious. He lifted the Vampire up to his face. "Tell me…how do I get to Mesekthet?" The Beast asked
"Who" He was repeatedly head butted by the monstrosity forming several cuts and gashes from the Beasts horns and rocky features. "I don't know who you are talking about" He shouted.
"You don't work for Wolfram and Hart?" The Beast asked.
"No, I was looking for someone." Niko tried to gasp unnecessary breaths, but was again head butted.
"Then you are no use to me." He effortlessly tossed Niko back where the Beast came from next to Gavin Parks and the Utility closet.
"Niko" Eve whispered as the Beast strode off in the direction the group had gone not knowing they were just behind him.
"Leave him the Beast will track us we don't have time." Knox said. As he opened the utility closet.
"T.J., Monty pick him up and take him with us or else." Eve levelled the Kindjal sword on the three men. "Knox find that lever" as the men went to work she had to keep watch. "Eeer guys" her voice became urgent.
"What is the beast coming." Knox became frightened.
"nope something else" She pointed to the rising body of Parks. "Hurry Up"
"Got it" Knox pulled the emergency lever. They fell into the sewers and the four rose slowly leaving Niko to wallow in the human filth of the sewer. "Well that was weird."
"What you expecting a pillow at the end of the tunnel." Eve remarked back fishing through her pockets.
"No, someone else had pulled it first. That's all" He looked around the tunnel then back up the shaft.
"What now" T.J. asked
"I'm in charge." Monty said menacingly as he held the Kindjal sword.
"No your not" Niko said as leapt up pinning him against the sewer wall. "Eve" Niko turned to Eve as he rested against the wall next to a returned state of shock, Monty.
"Good job Lindsey gave me this" She revealed a little rusty trinket with a red gem in it. She recited a different Latin incantation the immortal did. "This will keep me invisible seven days enough to get to Lindsey apparently so that power shared between five gives us at least a day each so make the most of it." With that Knox walked off straight away knowing he will be safe in the order of Illyria until he is paged by Wolfram and Hart. T.J. and Monty followed him but Knox lost them before he entered the temple.
"So , how you holding up Eve" Niko asked nearing unconsciousness as they eve was trying to steady his walk.
"Better then you it seems." Eve slightly smiled.
"You're a product of Wolfram and Hart they will find you" Niko warned as they came to a clearing.
"Yeah we'll see" Eve rested him against a ladder leading to the surface.
"We can stay here tonight, I'll protect you." Niko said easing Eve a little bit but as she went to respond. "Shush…Angel is down by the exit, he has come for his son" Niko said before slipping into unconsciousness as Eve got his sword.
"Looks like I'll take first shift" Eve said to the knocked out Vampire.
"maw CHAA za VEE yets PAAL ka" russian for 'Piss on a stick'
"Drook" russian for 'Mate'
"ga loo BOY" russian for 'Gay' (Don't mean to offend anyone's sexual orientation but older people are generally not as excepting as younger so I 4t that niko wud act like that seeing what he saw.)
"Kras nee" russian for 'red'
Bratva aka brotherhood aka the mafia
The two lawyers are the two lawyers from 'life of the party' who comment on last years Halloween party, so I 4t I shud make them be alive there and live threw it. I don't why I had Knox there I think he mentioned a few times he had bin the a while but im definatly sure he didn't say he was new.