51

Project Bloodlust

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"I'm not catching on. What about Pico De Gallo?" I asked.

Amy turned towards me. "The Pico hotel...it's haunted and shut down to the public. Have fun going there"

"Sounds like the Makai on Earth", I replied. "Morrigan, come here"

I stepped away from the crowd and waited for her by our hammock. Everyone else were scrambling around chatting from one person to another.

"Yes?" said the girl approaching.

"You ever been to Tokyo?"

"Yes. Have you?"

"Nope. Wish I could go"

"You can"

"Yea, it's on my to do list. Right now, let's do this & make Father proud"

Morrigan smiled. My hands snuck down to her love handles as my gaze was focused on her lips. She placed her hands on my arms and leaned towards me. We shared a kiss until her lips departed from mine.

"Let's get to it" she said happily.

^V^

I watched the four girls stand across from us in my backyard as they waited for departure. Somehow, I found myself in a stare contest with Morrigan. The green faded from her eyes and became violet.

'She must be overflowing with emotions'

She then blinked as if she snapped out of her thoughts and turned away. She used the ring on her finger to tear a open a portal. She allowed her teammates to enter first. Afterwards, she stepped forward and paused. She looked back at me, smiled and stepped through. The portal quickly closed behind her.

In the back of my mind, I couldnt stop pondering that something horrifics about to happen. I just don't know what.

I powered on my suit now ready to head out.

"Our turn. Everyone needs to place a hand on me"

"You know I could really be enjoying a voyage with Felicia at the moment..."

I looked at the silver haired guy beside me as he slapped a hand on my right shoulder.

"But then I'd be lying" he said, looking at me with a small grin.

I chuckled. Talbain was one intimidating man, but behind that exterior a was unique sense of humour.

Rochella came next and placed a hand on my other shoulder. We made eye contact for only a short moment before she looked away. Her distance gave me a feeling she still doesn't favor me much.

Akena came around and pressed her palm on my chest, smiling after doing so.

She must've been longing for this...anyway-

"3-2-Take off"

In less than a second, I heard traffic horns and citizens. I observed our surroundings to see us in an alley way.

"5:18" I said under my breath.

'How would I lure out one of these bloodsuckers?'

I thought of what Morrigan had told me. I turned around and looked at Rochella and Akena.

"Hey, girls...not trying to sound weird but are either one of you a virgin?"

Rochella folded her arms and glanced at Akena. Akena looked at Rochella and at me.

Her cheeks instantly grew red. "Unwillingly" she said, looking away.

"Cool, then I got just the task for you"

Akena looked at me curiously.

^V^

I crouched behind a garbage can with Talbain as Rochella hid besides us. The sun was setting and the freaks would be out anytime now. Akena stood at the entrance of the alley.

"What's taking so long? This alley wreaks" Rochella asked.

"Patience is a virtue Rochella" Talbain stated.

Akena paced back and forth fidgeting with her phone. I got a call a few seconds later. I accepted the call. Akenas voice met my ears. "I'm still waiting"

Just as I was about to respond, a girl with blonde hair came and stood by Akena. She wore shades and had a yellow shirt and black jeans on.

"Give it a few, trust me. Yellow shirt could be it"

"Okay. Bye"

"Yea"

I hung up.

We continued to watch as the girl with the shades moved closer to Akena. They started to engage in conversation. Suddenly, a new girl with dark brown hair appeared in all black. She joined the two and out of nowhere they began walking towards the alley with Akena in the middle.

I looked over at the gang leader.

"Here's what you've been waiting for Rochella"

She looked over at me and back at her friend.

As the two pale girls and Akena grew closer, the knight began to tussle. She spotted me and winked. She then head-butted the girl with the shades. The girl stumbled over. Akena then elbowed the gothic girl in her jaw.

"Let's go!" I said. I dashed from behind the trashcan towards the girls. Talbain and Rochella followed.

The strangers were still fighting against Akena as we closed in.

Rochella jumped on top of a trashcan and leaped off, spinning mid air.

"Hey!"

The girl with the shades turned to Rochella with a grimace. Her fangs showed clear as day. Rochella placed her heel right upside the girls jaw.

'Damn'

She hit a 180 degree turn before smacking face first into the pavement. Talbain ran ahead of me and morphed into his true self. The gothic vampire grabbed Akena by the throat, Akena reversed the attack and backhanded the girl.

Talbain rushed past Akena and pounced the vampire, he wrapped a hand around her neck, picked her up and slammed her against the wall. The other ran to grab her shades before Rochella grabbed her and tossed her in front of me. I placed a foot on the girls back.

"Too predictable" I released my foot off of her back. The girl immediately leaped up to attack me. I teleported behind her.

"Here I am"

The girl turned around, aggravated.

"I'll give you what you need if you return the favor"

"Blood!" She said hastily.

"Yeah, take us to Demitri"

"Nevana- No!" The other girl yelled. Talbain growled at her and raised her higher against the wall.

The girl looked at her vampire accomplice and towards me.

"Blood- NOW!"

I walked towards the girl and released my aura.

"Take me to Demitri...NOW!"

I walked towards her. I stopped once we were inches apart. Suddenly, the hostility in her face vanished.

"Jay?"

'You know my name?'

I removed the shades from her face and tossed them to the side. I slowly recognized who she was. She had a scar over her right eye. Her right eye was blood red. Last time I saw her they were blue.

She looked down in shame.

"Nevana?"

"You two know each other?" Rochella asked, surprised.

I turned to her. "Yeah. Talbain, release her"

Talbain dropped the girl, she hit the ground clenching her neck. I focused back on my acquaintance in front of me.

"Who did this to you?" I asked. I lifted her face, examining her scar.

"...Demitri" she said.

"Take us to him"

"What are you going to do?" She asked.

"Kill him"

^V^

I powered on my gleams as the six of us roamed the underground tunnels of Los Angeles. I had Nevana's pal walk in front.

"How did it happen?" I asked as she walked beside me.

"A night at the club with my friend Sonya up there. He had approached me inside and at first I thought the charm and all was genuine. We stepped outside and it all went haywire from there"

A quick flashback of Nina in my arms went through my head.

"Then?" I asked.

"We had walked down the street until we came by an alley...he made his move. I thought he was trying to rape me. He held me down, and stroked my face with his finger. I spat on him and he turned into this devil and scratched my face. Next thing I knew, he'd bitten into my neck"

"Shit. I thought you had transferred this whole time" I replied while I disected her story.

"I had wanted to, Trint didn't want me anymore anyway after I told him about...our night. I felt so empty inside I ended up adapting to Demitri, he kept me trapped in his home all day until he trusted me. I just wish I could be me again"

"Don't beat yourself up, his reign is coming to an end. Which way?"

We had a choice to go left or right.

'Time for my intuition to kick in'

"Right"

I looked at Sonya who was going left.

"Hey!" I yelled.

She bolted for the door and we rushed after her. She entered and disappeared out of sight. I heard Talbains nostrils sniffing the air.

"She's close...actually...everywhere" he said.

"I'm not here to play peek a boo"

I ignited my hand in flames and shot a fireball at the ceiling. The light revealed a horde of vampires surrounding us who looked as if we interrupted their sleep. They hissed and snarled not hesitating to close us in.

"We're outnumbered" Rochella stated.

"Shit!"

I grabbed Rochella, Akena and Talbain. I teleported back to the entrance. I immediately cut on my gleams.

"Jay!"

I turned to the voice. Nevana stood at the other hallway.

"Rochella, Akena, stay behind me"

I walked in front of Talbain and watched the horde of vampires stampede their narrow way towards us.

I fired up my temperature.

"Youre at 850°, 1K will leave no trace of them" my A.I said.

"Nuff said. Keep it rising"

I shot a ton of hand beams to slow the half breeds down.

"990°"

I proceeded to keep trailing backwards.

'I have to keep them in one line. Here we go'

"Incina-Ray!"

At my command, a burst of blue fire emitted from my chest onto the stampede ahead of us. Screams filled my ears then came to a cease.

'Burn like your master will'

The blue glow vanished from the walls of the tunnel. The smoke cleared and nothing was left but ashes. I turned to Nevana until I picked up on a noise. I looked back.

"Nevana...are you- really betraying us?" Sonya asked. She leaned against the wall as she stumbled towards us. Her body was badly injured with third degree burns. Nevana walked past me towards Sonya.

"If you ever thought I dreamt of staying here, you're insane"

"You know...you're dead right?" I watched Sonya as she started to sink to the floor. "Demitris almost...at full recovery. You...could have had... everything. Now it's...too late"

"Don't compare me to you!" Nevana then slammed her fist into Sonya's chest. She took out her heart and bit into it.

I almost puked from what I just witnessed. I took a quick look at the other three behind me. Their facial expressions shared the same thoughts I had. Nevana tossed the girls organ and wiped her mouth. She looked back at me and the others.

"Sorry"

"Oh, no. Do what you need" Akena replied.

"Shall we go?" Rochella asked.

I took it she wanted to get away from the gruesome scene we all just witnessed and I couldn't blame her.

"Yes, ahem. This way" Nevana stated.

The team and I proceeded to follow the vampire deeper into the tunnels.

"So where have you been all this time?" Nevana asked.

As we walked up an eroded flight of stairs, I thought carefully of what to tell her. She didn't have my full trust, not one bit.

"Out and about. Taking things one step at a time"

'Pun intended'

"Im guessing that journey doesn't stop here huh?"

"Not planning to, I got a job to fulfill. What are you gonna do once you're free?"

"I'm still figuring that out" she replied.

I glanced at her.

'Anyone seeking an end to their bondage would've been well aware of their next move'

We now reached a higher level, light from the outside peered through the cracks of the walls giving just a bit of a layout of the room. Skeletons covered in dust lied on the ground. I watched my steps, making sure to crush every last one.

"Large power source nearby" my A.I notified.

I kept note and continued towards the door.

"Demitri needs better maids...this hellhole is wretched" Rochella stated, placing her collar over her nose.

"Tell me about it" Nevana replied.

BRACK!

Suddenly the door ahead burst open, flying off the henges. A crowd of people I presumed to be more vampires stampeded our way.

'Alfred Hitchcock wouldn't believe this'

"This is pissing me off!" Talbain yelled as he ran towards the action. I followed right after, with one hand beam after another. The vampires adapted fast and ducked and dodged.

'Time for a switch up'

I summoned a machine gun on my right shoulder and let it spin.

"Talbain get down!"

As the sound of the gun went off, bodies vanished as my light beams incinerated one ghoul after the other.

After a millennium, the ruckus came to an end.

I carefully proceeded towards the entrance ahead. There was a flight of stairs leading up higher.

'Cmon already with these damn stairs'

I led the way. I opened the door to see a mans chest in a grey shirt in front of me. Before I could look up to see his face, I received a boot to my gut.

"Gugh!"

I felt my body fly through the bricks behind us. I crashed like meteorite into the gravel.

I shook off the dizziness as I stood up. I realized the giant had kicked me back to the entrance of where we just exited. I heard up the stairs the yells of Talbain and the girls. I hurried and flew back to the action. The door was closed and I hurried and swung it open.

"What the-"

The giant still stood there. This time I got the second to make eye contact with the red eyed freak just before he kicked me again in the chest.

'Plot twist'

I caught his leg however and spun him. He crashed through the brick walls and tumbled down the flight of stairs. I turned around to see the group battling more vampires with Nevana. I stepped forward to help them out until I was struck in the back of the head with an object. I turned around to see the giant with a brick in his right hand.

I could close the door and leave, locking him down here, but I figured with his size that I'd only prolong the inevitable.

I escaped my thoughts when he hurled the brick at me. I shot it with a beam and flew towards him. I punched him and he turned back and grinned. His fangs were huge.

"Oh shit"

Next thing I knew, I felt a huge hand wrap around my neck before being slammed into the ground. He picked me back up and tossed me into the wall. I slid down and stared at the bald abomination.

"You have all these vampire whores in here, however, looking at you, I can see why you're not jolly"

The giant scoffed. He lunged forward with a huge fist coming towards my head. I dodged it and rammed my fist into his liver. He stumbled back so I hit him with another and another. He then placed his hands together and slammed them into my back, sending me crashing into the floor.

"Not bad" I mumbled under my breath.

His hand gripped the back of my neck. He lifted me up and threw me to the ground.

I hit the ground in a push up formation fighting his pressure. The giant groaned, determined to make me eat dirt.

My vision slowly went blue as my blood rushed faster through me.

"Grrrraaghh!" I bolted up off the ground and spin kicked the giant in his head.

He rubbed the blood off of his forehead and gave it a look. He looked at me surprised and tasted it. He took a few steps back and turned to punch a whole in the wall. He grabbed a pipe and detached it. He turned around and patted it in his palm.

I looked at the pipe and back at the giant with a blank stare.

"Batter up" I smirked. I turned my right forearm into a whip.

As brave as can be, Sammy Sosa approached and took his swing. My whip wrapped around the weapon and I pulled him in. I had my foot meet the side of his face out of impact caused him to drop the pipe. He stumbled backwards. His hands covered his nose, leaking blood. I took the opportunity and slid into his shins and tripped him. Before he could react, I made a hard step on his left ankle. I ignited my foot in flames and twisted and turned until I felt his joints crumble beneath me. He roared in pain and got up to a kneel.

"For a giant you swing like a toddler. But lucky for you, I can show you how to hit a home run"

I opened my helmet.

I kicked up the pipe into my hands. I walked around him to face him. I smirked at the expression on the giants face.

"You look nervous. No way. Not you. What happened to that kick-a-motherfucker-down-the-stairs energy huh? Maybe this will knock it back into you"

I prepared to swing. He raised his hands to block, causing him not to see me vanish. I appeared behind and swung. I watched as his head left his shoulders and splattered against the wall. His body slowly made its way to the ground with a thud.

I sighed. "Guess it won't if your dead...Heheh"

I dropped the blood stained pipe and jogged back to the upper floor. All of the racket was gone.

'There's no way they just left without me'

I scanned the dark room. There was no sign of the girls or Talbain.

'Where'd they go?'

"Hmmm, looking for your crew?"

I turned around to face whoever this was watching me. The voice was of a man. I'm sure he's not here to be a help. Just to make sure tho...

"Who are you?"

"Your tour guide, and you are?"

'Nice, I got myself a secretive smartass'

"I'll tell you once you step out the shadows and show yourself" I released my aura to provide light. I shortly began to make out the outline of a man before me. We shared the same height, he clearly wasn't my age though. He had slicked back grey hair with a fat grey mustache and beard as well. His purple bowtie and grey suit was the next thing I spotted that let me know this man isn't a nobody. His suit was tailored like one a butler would wear.

"Nice fit, Demitri make that for you?" I asked, digging for context clues.

"Thank you. I earned it, I guess it's safe to say. Now, who are you?"

With the negative atmosphere Im in, I can only interpret that as in someone died over it.

'Fuckin vamps, this man knows damn well who I am'

"I'm your guest and since you're my tour guide, you mind leading me to my friends?"

"Ahh, how clever. I thought you'd like to join them. They're being held in the higher level waiting for you. Your old friend here will be happy to lead you there" The skinny old man extended forth his right hand, indicating the position of someones presence.

I looked to my left. A blonde girl with a scar over her face stared at me with her mix-matched eyes. Her stare was lifeless. I looked at the rest of her. She was no longer in her street clothes. Instead, a red, skin tight body suit engulfed her body. Some threads were blue or white, hence Demitri's style.

"Nevana?" I honestly was a bit shocked. But at the same time, "I knew it"

'It was too good to be true'

"Lord Demitri has grown quite fond of her. So much to the point that he's made her into a superhuman half-breed"

"Why her?"

"Simple. Eye for an eye. Lord Demitri has the girl you once had and you have the girl he once had"

'What!? Demitri...and Morrigan...?'

My hands curled into fists.

"With that being said, I'll leave you two to...catch up"

The old man snapped his fingers and faded into the shadows.

Just then, I heard a couple footsteps come from my left. I looked at the girl beside me. Nevana stood closer to me with the same dull look. Then she finally blinked.

"I've missed you Jay"