Harry Potter and the Phoenix's Daughter: Chapter 2: Alucard's intentions

Harry and Hermione walked all the way from the MGM grand hotel to the old part of Las Vegas where the Freemont and Four Queens casinos were. They entered the mini four corner section of the casinos. Every side of them was a casino, slot machines ringing, people smoking, people screaming, and the occasional baby crying. It was a good vacation Harry thought to himself while walking with Hermione holding his hand. It was long needed he wasn't to worried that any one would find him here. Harry knew that the English vampires had many connections throughout the world, but he also knew that American vampires did not like the English vampires and probably weren't happy about helping them out. Hermione watched Harry as he was thinking, she knew that he was always thinking about her protection which she loved by she didn't want him worrying to much about her. Harry and Hermione passed a small magic shop in the middle of a buffet restaurant and a mini casino. They both smiled at each other and walked into check it out. Many people crowded around a man with a table in front of him. Harry looked at the man noticing that he was paler then most humans; he had a long curved nose and bluish green eyes with short brown hair. The man's hands move extremely quick as he was shuffling a deck of cards and letting a person in the crowd to pick a card. Hermione seemed intrigued her eyes continually gazed upon the man's hands and how fast they moved. To Harry they seemed to move slow and he noticed that the man was doing more thing then it seemed.

"And your card is." The man looked to the person who was the guest in the magic trick. Harry opened his mind up to listen to the person's thoughts.

'Ace of spades' the guest thought out loud.

"The ten. wait. no the Ace of spades!" The man roared so that everyone in the store could hear. Harry smiled at the man's delight and Hermione clapped along with the rest of the people in the store. The guest seemed a bit shocked as he gave back the card to the man and exiting the shop with many thoughts running through his head.

'How did he know, I switched a the ten of clubs for the Ace of spades, he couldn't have known I did that.' The guest left Harry's range of mind reading. This left Harry with some thoughts, could the man be another vampire that was bitten by Dracula? But if he was is he working for Dracula? Why would he be so far away from home? Harry and Hermione waited until the entire store was empty before walking up to the man. The man looked up at the coupled and gave a warming smile.

"And what may I do for the pretty lady and the handsome gentleman that stands before me." The man said.

"How did you know the card? I heard the man saying that he had switched the original cards." Harry asked surprising Hermione a bit.

"A magician never revel's his tricks." Spoke the man who now was starting to shuffle his cards.

"Can I try?" Harry asked.

"Sure." The man said as he handed the cards over to Harry. Harry shuffled them with ease in his hands; to him it was like feathers. The man seemed a bit interested in how Harry was handling the cards. Hermione just watched as if nothing unusual was happening.

"Pick a card any card." Harry smiled. The man returned a brief laugh before choosing a card.

'Queen of Hearts' the man thought out loud.

"Alright put it back in" Harry said as he fanned out the cards in his hands. The man quickly placed the card back into the deck and waited as Harry shuffled them again.

"Cut them in half please." Said Harry. The man did that exactly and wondered. Hermione smiled and gripped Harry's arm tighter.

"You card is." Harry quickly went through the cards looking for the Queen of Hearts. Finally arriving at the card he immediately flipped it out of the deck and onto the table, the man's face turned into a smile. "The Queen of Hearts"

"Exactly right!" exclaimed the man as he took back the deck from Harry. "Mind telling me how you did it?" asked the man. "Magicians never reveal there tricks." Harry responded.

"Quite right, Quite right. The name is Radu." Radu held out his hand. Harry took it and it confirmed his theory, Radu was a vampire. His hand was extremely cold like Harry's. Radu looked up at Harry and gave a smile, Harry looked back and smiled back. Hermione on the other hand seemed a bit confused as she looked at the both of them.

"Well, want to get something to eat sometime tonight? My treat." Asked Radu.

"Sure, we will meet you at the lobby in the MGM grand." Harry said before walking out of the store with Hermione.

"What was all that about? And why are you having dinner with a stranger?" Hermione asked while they walked to another store.

"Well, he's another vampire." Harry said as Hermione eyes almost fell out of her head.

"They are here to?" Hermione asked.

"Yep, they are every where. He's an American Vampire." Said Harry. Hermione looked a bit confused.

"Is there a difference?" Hermione said.

"Not really, well not how our bodies work, but it seems that the American vampires don't care to much for us English vampires. Something happened in the past which I'm still unsure of." Harry spoke softly as they entered a Guess store. Hermione nodded and decided to leave it alone as they looked through some clothes.

"So what to were tonight?" Hermione smiled.

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Harry and Hermione stood by the entrance of the lobby waiting for Radu. Harry looked at his watch Radu was a just a few minutes late. Hermione was starting to anxious and hungry, just then Radu walked through the panel glass doors dressing in all black.

"Hello" said Radu as he walked up, his eyes fixed upon Hermione. "Hello my lady of the night." Radu smiled charmingly. Hermione smiled back briefly before holding onto Harry tighter.

"Hello." Both Harry and Hermione said in unison.

"Well Radu where do you want to eat?" Harry asked.

"I know of this place just west of the strip, great place for both humans and vampires." Said Radu.

"Are you sure?" Hermione curiously asked.

"Very." Replied Radu.

Harry smiled and tugged Hermione along as they followed Radu out to the limo that waited there for them. It didn't take them long to get to the small club, outside was the famous red carpet guard by three huge guards all wearing black glasses and black Italian suits. Radu got out of the limo first followed by Hermione and then Harry. All three of the guards looked at Radu and stepped aside letting all three of them in. Immediately the air was filled with the scent of blood, sweat, and sex. It was a dimly lit place for Hermione but to Harry and Radu it seemed as light as day.

In the middle of the room was a dance floor off to the left seemed to be a long hallway, and on the right was a bar where a many people gathered. The music of the room was a techno beat with a few lyrics involved. Hermione shivered slightly as a hand ran across her neck, quickly Hermione turned around to see a young around Harry's age boy looking at her with lust in his eyes. Hermione pulled Harry closer, Harry looked at her and gave her a warming smiling, 'No one is going to hurt you here.' Harry said in her mind. Hermione returned the smile but still clung onto Harry.

"So what do you two want to drink?" Radu asked as he lead them to the bar.

"Water." Hermione said making everyone turn and look at her. Hermione gulped in fear as they looked at her as if she was food.

"You touch her I'll personally kick all of your asses." Harry said. "Bad move man. it's not a good time to already start to make enemies. especial if you're English." Radu said quietly.

Immediately after Radu finishing his words two hulk size men walked over and towered over Harry, they had to be at least in the seven foot range, Harry thought to himself.

"Don't you threaten us young one." One of the two huge men spoke with a deep voice.

Harry had to look up at them both; they were twins, tall twins. One had some black glasses on while the other had slivery eyes. Harry gave a cocky smirk to them both. "As I said before, you touch her you are going to have hell to pay." Sternly Harry said.

Quickly the sliver eye twin swung his hand at Hermione, suddenly the twin yelped in pain just before touching Hermione. Harry stood there watching the twin cringe in pain, to the twin and everyone else it seemed that if he had hit air made of steel.

"I told you, don't touch her." This time Harry's voice seemed more threatening then before.

"Kid you don't know who you are playing with." The twin with the glasses said. This time everyone started to gather around, even the people from the long hallway seemed to immerge.

"Alright break it up, the kid is just playing, but she is off limits." Radu said stepping in front of Harry and the twins.

"No Radu, this kid thinks he can come in here with his food and think he isn't going to share?" the twin with the glasses said. This infuriated Harry for them to think that Hermione was just his food.

"Radu step out of the way, they want a fight, and I'm going to give them a fight." Said Harry.

"Harry stop it, I'm sure we can find -"

The sliver eye twin swung his hand again this time at Harry who quickly ducked out of the way but only to see that Hermione had gotten hit in the process and fell the ground unconscious. Harry stood back up straight, looking at the sliver eye twin with his bright green eyes.

"Just a petty human" The dark glasses twin said as he moved away from his brother. "Steve he's all yours."

Steve, the sliver eyed twin stepped a little closer to Harry closing the small gap already. Hermione started to regain coconsciousness, she groaned letting Harry know that she was alright. Radu helped her to a barstool away from the fight arena.

"Does your boyfriend know how to fight?" Radu asked Hermione who rubbed the welt that was forming on her face.

"Sure he does." Hermione knew that there wasn't a chance in hell these buffoon of twins were going to win.

Harry stood there looking at Steve, his eyes quickly then flickered to there regular sliver which shocked Steve.

"Brother he's -"

Steve didn't' have time to say anything as he felt something sharp ram right through his stomach. Blood spurted every where in the hall, but a shield was placed over Hermione who didn't even get a drop on her. Steve quickly fell apart as Harry seemed to stand there. Two halves of Steve was on the ground before Harry's feat. The other twin seemed to stare in shock a long with the rest of the crowd main Radu. Slowly the body just turned to dust leaving the other twin to walk up in front of Harry, "How did you do that?"

"I told him to not touch her." Harry sneered while walking over to Hermione. The twin with the darken glass quickly grabbed Harry by the shoulder and took a punch at him. Harry bent away from the punch and kicked the man in the stomach sending him back onto the dance floor. Dusting his shoulder off as he continued over to Hermione.

"Are you ok?" Harry asked.

Hermione nodded while rubbing her face which now had a purple welt. Harry took a closer look before muttering something as the wound returned to its normal state. Radu looked at Harry with a curious look. Harry felt another hand on his shoulder; quickly he spun around to see the same twin there ready to strike once more.

Harry looked stunned but quickly regain his senses as he saw the twin's fist strike his nose. Harry fell back onto Radu's lap before getting another punch to the chest and then getting thrown across the room. Harry heard a chair crack behind his back as he fell and landed with a wooden leg sticking through his arm. Growling low Harry pulled out the leg before standing up and looking at the twin.

"Let's do this right." Harry smirked before waiting for the dark glasses twin to attack. The twin blurred right to Harry who twirled and ducked out of the way and withdrawing his wrist blades from the back of his belt before finishing his twirl and slicing the shins of the twin. The twin tripped to the ground which quickly became a puddle of blood. The wound sealed up quickly but it didn't leave the twin's mind, in fact it only enraged him as he stood up again and looked at Harry who was cleaning off his blade.

"Where did you get that?" Said the twin. Radu looked at the blade and seemed to give a small sneer gripping Hermione tighter; Hermione gave a small squeal just loud enough for Harry to hear. Harry's head quickly turned and looked at Radu, he mentally made Radu peel his fingers off of Hermione slowly and painfully.

"You, look at who you are going to fight." Roared the twin.

"Radu, don't you ever touch my girlfriend like that" Snarled Harry who paid no attention to the twin behind him. Radu seemed to give a cocky smile.

"It seems that you've been trained and bitten by my brother." Radu said as he got up from his barstool. The entire hall gave an ah, then complete silence. Hermione looked confused; all the text books said that Radu had died by his brother.

"Interesting." Harry murmured under his breath.

"Harry watch out" screamed Hermione. Harry quickly spun around just in time to see a blade right in front of his face, Harry moved just in time to only let the blade slice his cheek. Quickly Harry used both of his hands and pushed the air that was between him and the twin towards the twin sending him back into the wall. Just then the bar phone rang, Radu quickly reached over and answered it.

"Yeh, Yeh. Yeh." Radu slammed the phone and raised his hand as all the vampires started to rush to Hermione.

"Get away from her, Hermione run." Harry yelled, quickly as she could Hermione shot up from the chair and ran over to Harry only to be caught by Radu.

"Let her go now!" Harry growled.

"Harry, Harry, Harry. you know who was on the phone right now." Said Radu.

"Let me guess, Alucard" responded Harry.

"Good guess, it seems that you have left there band of Vampires and they want you back." Radu tighten his grip on Hermione's shoulder. "Of course I'm going to give you an option, I'll let your little lady go if you agree or we kill her and then take you."

"Neither." Harry quickly ripped Radu's hands away from Hermione and brought her over to him and covered her while slipping on his other wrist blade.

"Hermione, if anything is to happen to me I want you to take the port-key back to your house." Harry whispered to Hermione while slipping her a small little sliver spoon, Hermione quickly grabbed hold of it noting to herself that the port-key would open up in ten minutes, seemed easy enough if they survived that long. Hermione quickly kissed Harry on the cheek and waited.

Harry quickly found himself staring at Radu and a few other men that stood in front of him.

"Harry, Harry, Harry... why can't you make this easy for us?" said Radu.

"Cause, I left them because they screwed me over." Replied Harry.

"Umm. capture him alive. Kill the girl." Radu announced to his men.

Hermione looked a bit scared and a bit confident while pulling out her wand. She took quick aim at the twin and said a vampire stunning spell. The twin quickly dropped as he was hit with a red bolt of light. Harry turned to look at Hermione who looked usually more powerful then before and her eyes were clouded a small red aura surrounded her body. Radu and his men didn't move after seeing there fellow member fall to the ground like a rock. Suddenly Hermione vanished in a swirling mass of light leaving Harry there with the stunned crowd of vampires.

"Well, it's just me and you guys now." Harry smiled before positioning himself for a fight.

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Hermione appeared in her living room while her parents were watching T.V. She quickly fell into her fathers arms weeping for Harry. Mrs. Granger quickly got up to get some warm milk while Mr. Granger held his daughter with caring arms.