- "How is getting bit by a vampire sexier than having sex with one?,"
- Life was tough. Becoming superhuman hadn't changed that.
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Buffy and Giles discuss what to do about Elektra. Jeta wows Spike and tries to put the moves on Dru. Deb and Dev and friends get in their biggest brawl yet, and Harmony shows what she can do when given responsibility.
"Completely naked?," Xander asks as he drinks coffee with Buffy, Giles and Gretchen on Sunday morning.
"Not a stitch," Gretchen replies. "Can you imagine?" Xander looks intrigued. Buffy looks worried.
"Absolutely not," Xander falsely answers.
"So nothing like that ever happened in Sunnydale?"
"I once found a body stashed in the girls' locker room," Buffy replies. "But never any attacks."
"And then the Slayers chase her halfway across the city," Xander adds. "While she's still naked. It's amazing nobody caught this on videotape." Buffy rolls her eyes.
"Clearly this vampire is bold, yet crafty," Giles concludes.
"And getting bolder," Gretchen notes. "She's actively sought out our Slayers in three different locations, and never really fought any of them. Vampires either fight or avoid. She does neither."
"She could be a thrill seeker," Xander guesses.
"Or she's advertising," Buffy theorizes. "Taking on two Slayers in their own backyard is a great way to get noticed."
"Which clearly this vampire wants," Gretchen concurs.
"Hence the nudity," Xander adds.
"So she gets minions, attacks in force, and Rona and Vi cut them down," Buffy predicts.
"I think there's more to it than that," Giles cautions. "She's been criss-crossing the country. Either this vampire likes to travel, or she's recruiting."
"You mean the vampire all-star team you've been fearing?," Gretchen infers.
"Perhaps we should put two more girls in Cleveland, just to be safe."
"Most of our reserve is currently out of commission," Buffy reminds him, referring to the dozen Slayers Elektra's brother gleefully maimed. "And Rona and Vi have already taken care of most of the vampires in Cleveland. I'm sure they can handle this final handful, even if they are getting help from the Ultra-Slut-Bomb-of-all-Time."
Speaking of Elektra, The Slayers' surprise hotel room visit had left her temporarily homeless and extremely angry. This girl was not used to roughing it. Plus, the attack had cost her plenty of nice new clothes and jewelry. She was not taking this setback lightly. The doggedness of her new enemies unnerved her. Elektra begins to panic. She fears that if she goes to another hotel, they'll find her there and burst in during the daytime, while she's sleeping and defenseless. Giving in to her fear, Elektra leaves town in her car and drives thirty miles south to Devlin's home town of Akron. But before fleeing, she kills and disembowels a homeless man, spreading his guts along the sidewalk as a taunt to the Slayers, and a reminder that she would be back.
Diego, Melanie and Danielle huddle in a corner of the ballroom on the upper level of the Excalibur. The lower level contains rooms where the vampires and their willing victims can enjoy more privacy. The ballroom is draped with dark velvet. The vampires and humans wear mostly black, with some purple and red. Bauhaus plays on the loudspeakers. "What an demeaning stereotype," Diego says to the women. "If I were one of these vampires, I'd be insulted."
"Give the people what they want," Melanie jokes.
"In this case, what they want is to be seduced and bitten," Danielle adds.
"How is getting bit by a vampire sexier than having sex with one?," Diego asks. "Granted, I haven't done both. But I can't imagine how sucking can be better than fucking."
"For which one?," Danielle wonders. "The vampire or the person?" This causes all of them to worry about their vampire lovers' desires. Harmony runs over.
"Come on people. Mingle! Remember why you're here." She grabs Mel and Danielle and drags them out onto the floor. Diego, left alone, starts whistling and looks at the floor, until he sees someone's black boots and looks up. It's a very tall blonde woman wearing a black miniskirt and a black corset, with heavy mascara, dark eyeshadow and bright red lips.
"Hello there, handsome," she says with a smile.
"Oh. Hi."
"Is this your first time?"
"Sort of," he replies with a nervous smirk.
"Are you afraid?"
"Of course. That's where the rush comes from," he replies with a smile. She thinks he's referring to risking his life by getting bit, but he's really referring to risking his life by trying to slay her. They're both predators seducing their prey, but only Diego recognizes this delicious reciprocity.
"How bout we go somewhere where I can get to know you better?" He doesn't want to leave the ballroom, but he has to seem eager to get bitten.
"Sure. But first, can I meet some of your friends?" She chivalrously takes his right arm with her left and walks him over to meet the gang.
"What is it with Diego and blondes?," Danielle asks.
"What is it with Diego and blonde vampires?," Melanie wonders.
"Whatever it is, I'm not feeling it," Harmony replies. "Ooh! There's Ramon. Yoohoo. Over here!" She waves. He walks over. Ramon is tall and thin, with long, slicked-back black hair, black pants, black button-down shirt, and a black cape with a red inner lining. Mel and Danielle try to keep from laughing.
"Evening ladies," he says, kissing Melanie's hand. She giggles.
"Do you just act this way for the tourists?," she asks.
"The cape's a bit much," Danielle opines. "I mean, you'd look really cool even without it," she adds nervously, remembering to stay in character.
"So where are your fangs?," Melanie queries, also trying to sound like an eager neophyte. Harmony walks off to mingle. Two more male vampires converge around Mel and Danielle. Diego's new friend is getting very cozy with him, pressing the boy against the wall, running her fingers through his hair and discreetly glancing down at his neck. Harmony's work is done. She walks over to a female vampire.
"So. Whadya think?"
"Yummy. Much yummier than most of what we attract," she replies, gesturing to the three dozen other humans.
"Maybe you could lose the whole goth thing," Harm suggests. "Go with something a little more current."
"I've tried to tell that to Ramon. I'm old enough to remember when this WAS current. But he insists it's a niche market, and we have to exploit that niche. He's kinda gotta point. I mean, how many Avril Lavigne and Justin Timberlake fans could you draw to a place like this?"
"You should make it like the Bronze. That was my old place back in Sunnydale. I always thought that would make the coolest vampire hangout. You know, without the Slayer."
"And the demon-killing vampire traitors," she adds, making Harmony nervous. "Sorry. Didn't mean to bring up your old boyfriend."
"You know about me and Spike?"
"Girlfriend, everybody knows about you and Spike."
"Do they know that I broke up with him? Both times? And that when he came on to me at the office, I rejected him?"
Theo and Cynthia walk around the room, taking in the scene and trying to look cool. "I should have worn more black," he whispers.
"And then I could have died my hair." He looks his girlfriend over. He appears to like the idea.
"And dress yourself all in leather."
"Stop it."
"Maybe carry a whip."
"Theo. I had no idea."
"Just for the look. Not for use." A male and female vampire approach the new arrivals.
"We do couples," the woman says with the polite smile of a saleswoman.
"Actually umm, we're umm, what I'm trying to say is, I'd like you alone," Theo tells her. "And my girl here would like him alone." Cynthia's a little upset her guy could get into character so easily, but joins in lest she blow their cover and get them killed.
"It's more intimate and special that way," she tells the guy with a smile. He stares at her as if his gaze has power, which it doesn't, so she finds it funny. Devlin's got many shortcomings in Cynthia's eyes, but at least he doesn't put on airs and try to act all Anne Rice. The vampires she knows act like, well, people.
"We're swingers," Theo continues.
"Not that we have an open relationship - "
"But biting isn't cheating, now is it?" The four of them laugh.
Spike and Jeta lie on the floor of a Madrid apartment, amidst the corpses of two men, two women and three children, as well as their still-living translator who, after witnessing the deaths of his fellow Germans on top of all the other atrocities his captors have committed, is on the verge of suicide. "I don't care what anybody else says. I like German food," Spike jokes in English. Dieter winces as he renders it into Deutsche for Jeta's enjoyment. She puts her left hand to Spike's face and stares deeply into his eyes. Her gaze does have power.
"This time with you is the first time I've been happy in a very long time."
"Well of course it is. You're with me, babe." She plays with his hair.
"You should change the color back before seeing her."
"Looks like that'll be a while. I say we hit Barcelona next."
"She's in Naples."
"How the bloody hell do you know?"
"I just do."
"Right. That Gypsy mojo." Dieter struggles to find a proper German translation of "mojo."
"If I am right, can I stay with you two?" Spike thinks about this and smiles.
"If Dru goes for it."
"She will. I am very good at getting what I want."
"I've noticed." Spike rolls on top of Jeta and they kiss. Suddenly, she throws him to the side, leaps up and grabs Dieter, who tried to leave while the vampires were distracted.
"Bad Dieter. I'll have to tie you up again. And this time it will hurt." She hog ties the hapless Nazi, who Spike's almost starting to feel sorry for. She walks up to Spike, squeezes his wrists, and growls. "Kill. Feed. Destroy."
"Learning the essentials of the King's English, I see." She uses her fangs to make two pricks in Spike's right wrist and slowly licks and sucks the blood. She looks at him with her yellow eyes and her vampire face.
"More. Now."
"Yes. Please," he replies with a smirk and a chuckle. They walk out of the flat, leaving Dieter trapped on the floor amidst the corpses.
Devlin drives a stolen, hotwired boat towards The Castle with Debbie, Sidney, Paul and Luiz aboard. "Hurry up," Paul nervously requests.
"If anything happens to Danielle - " Luiz adds before being interrupted by Devlin.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. You'll lynch me. Chill out, Lou. These vampires aren't even killing."
"Like us?," Sidney asks mischievously.
"No. They feed. And they'll kill once the heat's off."
"What if they find out Diego's a spy?," Sidney asks.
"Then it's his own damn fault he's dead, and you can't blame me," Dev replies coldy. He swings around to approach the Castle from the west, not the mainland, since they'd be less prepared for an attack from this side. Five boats are docked on the east side, including the one that brought over Harmony and their friends. Once they get next to the barge, the four vampires scale the forty five foot-high wall. Debbie, who lacks their gripping ability, hangs onto Devlin's back. When they reach the parapet, the five of them leap down fifteen feet onto the deck. Sid, Paul and Luiz open the weapons bags they carried up and take out the portable arsenal.
"All we have to do now is get in," Debbie points out. They look around in vain for easy access to below deck. Then a trap door opens sixty feet behind them. The vampires turn to face the noise and sees Harmony's head. She smiles and waves. They rush over as Harmony savors being part of the gang.
"It's going great," she whispers. "The vampires are totally buying that your friends want to get bit." Sid, Luiz and Paul don't look pleased. "Hurry up! Before we get caught and they, you know, kill everyone."
"You do wonders for morale," Deb sarcastically tells Harm, who hears a vampire approaching from behind.
"Harmony, what are you doing?"
"Umm. Ugh. I think I see bad people approaching. Come up and take a look." As the vampire does this, she kicks her in the face, knocking the vampire down. "Too late." Debbie jumps down and is grabbed by the vampire.
"Slayer!"
"I have a name, you know," Deb jokes, head-butting the vampire, throwing her down and staking her. A male vampire rushes to the noise and sees the Slayer with her vampire helpers.
"Fuck!" He runs away. Debbie hurls her stake and dusts him.
"That's right. You're fucked." Dev smiles at his girlfriend. She smiles back.
"Charge!," Sidney yells, running to her boyfriend's rescue along with Luiz and Paul. Deb and Dev follow, with Harmony urging all of them to calm down.
"Stop! You don't know the way."
"I'm following the noise, Harm," Sidney responds.
"The tunnels are kind of, you know, mazey."
"Labyrinthine?," Devlin asks.
"God, you are a geek." Harmony guides them on the shortest path to the ballroom. Sidney and Paul kick open an exit. The six of them burst in laden with weapons, the five vampire all nice and bumpy. Everyone turns to see who's crashing the party. The vampires look very angry. The humans look very afraid. They assume these new arrivals want to kill them. Many of the guests, including Danielle and Melanie, were waltzing with vampires. Diego is pinned along the wall, a tall female vampire kissing his neck.
"Diego!?," Sidney screams, rushing over to her apparently cheating boyfriend. Paul and Luiz stare at their girlfriends, who are in the arms of other vampires.
"We weren't having fun," Melanie assures Paul. The men sprint to the vampires who were macking in their women. These vampires respond by trying to bite the women. The leader spots Harmony, and marches towards her.
"You lying cunt!," he yells about her betrayal.
"At least I'm not a pathetic Dracula wanna-be," she responds. He puts up his fists, and she replies in kind. "That's right. Bring it on!"
The vampires talking to Theo and Cynthia don't suspect they're part of the ruse and leave the two humans. When the coast is clear, they run towards Debbie.
Devlin sees the four remaining vampires surrounding him and Deb. He calmy slaps his forehead with his right hand and winces. "This is a fucking disaster." While he's distracted by his team's tactical priorities, a vampire punches his face.
"Dev. Dev!," Debbie shouts, fending off two vampires.
"Say it," he requests blandly while pushing back the vampire who struck him.
"You can be so immature sometimes," she replies in despair while leaping above her three opponents, kicking one of them, and getting kicked by another when she lands.
"Say it." Two vampires grab her arms.
"Okay. I need you!"
"If you insist." Cynthia and Theo, crossbows in hand, want to help their friend who's about to get killed.
"The doors. Go!," she orders, always seeing the big picture, just like Devlin.
Spike and Jeta took the train back to Cadiz. During the trip, Dieter continued to teach her English as quickly as possible. In exchange, she awarded him his freedom and dropped him off at his apartment. Dieter hung himself a few weeks later, unable to deal with the horrors he witnessed. Neither vampire realized the humor in their being able to kill a Nazi spy and member of the SS with an attack of conscience. Everyone has their limits, as Jeta was about to discover the hard way. The two of them snuck into Gibraltar and stowed away on a supply ship heading for Naples, just behind the American and British front lines. The city was bursting with newly-arrived soldiers eager for a good time and their weary comrades from the front desperate for a respite. But Jeta has her eyes on the young Italian women, as does Spike. The two of them stalk a young couple down a dusty street. Spike grabs and terrifies the girl, expecting Jeta to take the guy. Instead, she bites the girl from behind while staring at the helpless boyfriend's shocked face. As she drinks, Jeta runs her left hand up the girl's left leg, unnerving Spike. But then she puts her right hand on his crotch, and he decides that whatever gets her in the mood is fine with him. The drained girl's corpse falls to the ground, and the two vampires' bodies meet. They look at the boy with their bloody, deformed faces. He screams and runs, hysterically yelling something about killer demons.
Spike puts his right arm around Jeta's waist and pulls her close. They growl and snarl, then kiss. While their lips meet, their faces return to human appearance. Spike backs her into a wall and hikes up her long skirt. (Even as a sexy vampire seductress, Jeta's Gypsy modesty makes her balk at showing a lot of skin.) She wraps her legs around his waist and pulls down his pants. Spike starts to groan with delight. Jeta puts her left hand to her chin, then to Spike's right cheek, wiping the blood on, then licking it off. She moans and yells out some stuff in Romany that Spike can't understand but definitely appreciates.
Such behavior is bound to get noticed, and before long, they are met by a torch-wielding mob, which just turns Spike on even more. After killing a few attackers, the two of them flee this neighborhood for the anonymity and liveliness of the bustling old city. They walk cheek-to-cheek, Jeta leaning her body against his. Her right hand is under his coat and around his waist, while her left hand is against his stomach. Spike and her have so much in common. They fear no one, human or vampire, and act boldly without caring about repercussions. They are slaves to passion, and run on emotion. Jeta believes she can start a wonderful new life with this sexy beast. And his sire. Spike finally remembers why he's in Naples, and begins his search. Jeta can sense any vampire within about a kilometer with her magical "vamp-dar," and they ruthlessly interrogate three vampires they find, to no avail. But Spike can feel his sire if she's nearby, and shortly before sunrise he spots Drusilla wondering along one of the harbor fort's old bastions, looking out forlornly at the sea with a daisy in her hand. He watches her for a little while from a hundred yards away and smiles.
"You are bloody amazing," he says to Jeta, who somehow knew where in all of Europe to find a woman she'd never even met. Jeta doesn't quite understand all his words, but gets that it's a compliment. She smiles and waits for Dru to turn around and face them so she can get a better look at the new woman in her life.
"Moi baby's returned," Dru says, turning round and seeing Spike two hundred feet away. He runs to her as she jumps up and down and screams with joy. They embrace and kiss and laugh.
"Not even the bloody Third Reich could keep me from you, doves."
"The sparrow awlways finds his nest." Entranced by the bird metaphor, Jeta starts whistling like a bird, and Dru looks over Spike's shoulder.
"Love, this is Yetta. She helped me find my way back to you. Girl's young, but she's got plenty of talent." Dru pushes Spike to the side as Jeta slowly approaches. They stare silently into each other's eyes and stand nose-to-nose for what to Jeta feels like an eternity. Dru smiles. Her eyes light up.
"Yes, my William. You've caught something very special. This girl has the gift. I can feel it awl around her." She puts her left hand over Jeta's skull, about half an inch above her hair. "Your moind's bursting with fresh little candies, ready to eat. And wot's this? A spark." Spike's delighted that the girls are getting on well. They seem so compatible. Two dark beauties of identical height and similar talents. Both with unorthodox but effective ways of communicating. Jeta also senses the connection. She leans in closer, tilts her head to the left, puckers her lips, puts her right hand behind Dru's head, pulls her close and kisses her. As Jeta closes her eyes, savoring the feel of Drusilla's lips, Dru's eyes bug out. Jeta puts her left hand around Dru's waist and pulls her tight so their midsections are touching. Drusilla struggles to break free, finally pushing Jeta away after after six terrifying seconds. She starts jumping up and down, shaking her hands and moaning with displeasure. Spike walks over to hug and comfort his shaken sire.
Rather than feel embarrassed, Jeta is furious. There's only one thing to do with vampires who resist her considerable charms. Jeta goes bumpy and charges Dru, who pushes Spike away, grabs her attacker and hurls her over her shoulder down to the water more than one hundred feet below. Yeta crashes into the sea and learns a lesson about taking on much stronger vampires. Dru looks at Spike, worried about his connection to this girl.
"Don't ruffle your feathers, pet. She meant nothing." They kiss and walk back to Dru's place arm-in-arm. He tells her about his harrowing voyage and escape (minus the part with Angel), and she tells him about all the wonderful American G.I.'s she's been eating. Dru loves Americans. They're as well-fed as they are naive and trusting.
Jeta, who does not know how to swim, flails wildly and struggles to grab hold of a fishing boat, which she climbs onto before jumping to shore. She's lost the one male vampire she ever cared about, was rejected by the sexiest, most mystically powerful female vampire she's ever met, and on top of everything else, she's soaking wet and smells like fish. As she waddles back to town, heartbroken and lonely, Jeta sees the sun creep up over the horizon. Life was tough. Becoming superhuman hadn't changed that.
As the vampire leans in to bite Debbie's neck, Dev leaps over Deb's left shoulder, throws his legs forward, reaches back to grab the vampire's head, and drags the vampire down to the ground with him so they're sitting back-to-back. "Take down. Two points," the former high school wrestler announces. Keeping his left arm under the vamps neck, Dev gets to his feet, spins around and uses the headlock to snap the vampire's neck. "No reversal. You always gotta have a reversal." Debbie sweeps the legs of the vampire to her right and punches the vamp to her left with a right cross. Then she turns to face the fourth opponent. Meanwhile, the vampire she just knocked down gets up and tries to attack her from behind, but Dev stakes him. The vamp she tripped goes after Dev from behind, and he spins and hits this opponent with a right clothesline, sending him flipping through the air and landing on his face. "Am I this good, or are you this bad?," he asks the vampires. While revelling in his effortless butt-kicking, Dev notices a pile of weapons that his vampires jettisoned when they attacked in a jealous rage, leaving their human companions defenseless. But as he rushes to the weapons, the vampire he just clotheslined gets up and tries to attack Deb from behind. Dev turns and nails him in the chest with a right reverse kick, sending into one of the dozens of human onlookers. Both of them go down. Dev picks him up and drives his head through the wall. "Don't worry," he tells the startled human. "I'm one of the good guys." She isn't so sure. Dev grabs a stave, ax and sword and goes to Debbie's friends, deciding they need help more than she does.
Sidney's having an especially ferocious cat fight with the taller vampire who was hitting on Diego. Dev runs over and tosses Diego a wooden stave as he watches helplessly. "I've always wanted to have two women fight over me," Dev tells the guy. "Savor this moment." He pats Diego on the shoulder and goes to Melanie, who's watching her boyfriend and her erstwhile suitor pummel one another. He hands her an ax. "Enough hitting, Paul. Go for the kill already. She was only acting!" Dev leaves them, comes at Danielle from behind and puts his right arm around her shoulders, startling her. In his left hand is a sword. "When you tire of this spectacle, feel free," he tells her, putting the sword in her hands.
"What is it with you and Slayer-lovers?," Harmony's opponent asks her.
"At least I'm not a twenty dollar whore," she replies, punching him in the face.
"Now that's unfair," Devlin announces. "Ramon's at least a forty dollar whore."
"Traitors," Ramon growls, blocking Harmony's punches, pushing her down and showing more ferocity than his effete persona would indicate he possessed. "You're both traitors." When Harmony gets up, he belts her in the stomach with a straight right kick and in the face with a left hook kick.
"Perhaps," Dev concedes. "But in the morning, we'll still exist." Harmony lunges at Ramon and throws a fury of blows, a few of which she lands. The attack throws Ramon on the defensive as he puts his hands up and his head down. Devlin meows. "You're starting to turn on some of the men here," he tells Harmony. She kicks Ramon in the chin and walks over to Dev.
"Including you?"
"No comment," he slyly replies. Ramon steps up and hits the distracted Harmony in the face with a right cross. Harmony blocks a left hook and pops him in the nose with a left jab.
"I don't believe this!," Ramon announces with a chuckle. "Didn't you learn your lesson the first time?"
"I don't like Devlin." She hits his chin with a straight right kick. "Not in that way."
"Bullshit."
"He's a total dork." Ramon blocks her right hook and lands another right cross.
"A total dork you're working for." She ducks a right hook kick and sweeps his left leg.
"At least I don't give suck jobs to losers."
"That's right. You don't even bite."
"If I did, at least I'd have the guts to kill."
Sid and the tall blonde vamp roll around on the floor, toss each other into the wall, and even engage in a little hair pulling. "You shoulda sired him when you had the chance," Sid's opponent tells her, alarming Diego.
"Nah. I like warm bloods." Diego finds that a rather dehumanizing way to refer to him. Sid gets on top and lands several right hooks to her opponent's face. She manages to grab both of Sid's wrists, head butt her, throw her to the side and get up. Diego tries to stake her, but she blocks it and knocks him down with a left hook.
"Nobody hits my boyfriend!," Sidney announces, running over and throwing a right hook, which gets blocked. They lock arms, spin around, and Sidney gets tossed. The vampire turns towards Diego again. He throws his stave past her and towards Sidney.
"That was stupid," she says of his decision to jettison his only weapon. She pushes him against the wall and leans in to bite him.
"No," he replies, maintaining his composure thanks to months of close calls. "Getting staked in the back is stupid." She turns around just in time to grab the stave. Sidney kicks her twice in the stomach, knocking her opponent back. She ducks a right hook, uses the stave to sweep her opponent's legs and stakes her through the heart before she can put up her hands to defend herself.
"Tell me you weren't turned-on by that ho," she says to Diego after returning to her human face.
"Trust me. I was thinking of you the whole time."
"She reminded you of me!?"
"No. Of course not. What I meant was, I didn't want to die. So I blended. By being friendly."
She puts her left hand to his right eye. "Did she hurt you?," Sidney asks tenderly.
"That-a-way to make your guy feel emasculated," he jokes. She kisses him on the lips. "Well, if that's emasculation." He puts his arms around her and they kiss some more, forgetting the melee around them.
"Where have you been?," an annoyed Debbie asks Devlin while fending off two vampires.
"Helping those who needed it most. I'm surprised you haven't killed anyone so far." She knocks down the vampire to her right with a left roundhouse kick, but the other vampire grabs her from behind. She flips him over.
"Yeah, well, they have teamwork."
"So do we."
"I suppose," she shrugs. He stands to Deb's left. When the vampires attack, they each knock one back, then criss-cross to work on the other one. After landing a few more blows, they send the vampires' foreheads crashing together, and both of them fall down.
"I think you should have these kills," Dev says to Deb.
"I earned them," she replies, a bit peeved at his presumption of power.
"And it would be odd for the Slayer not to do any actual slaying." She hits one vampire with a left jab, right cross, right hook kick and left roundhouse kick, staking him as he staggers backwards. The other vampire attacks from behind. Debbie spins and tries to punch him, but he grabs her right arm and lands a right hook to her jaw. She ducks under a right kick and hits him with a backflip kick. Dev puts the vampire in a full nelson, and Debbie dusts him. She takes Dev's right hand in her left hand and leans her head against his left shoulder as they watch their friends and Harmony finish off the rest of the gang. Deb doesn't notice that Dev's still bumpy.
"Were we always this good?," she asks Dev.
"Nope. I think we just keep getting better and better."
"Until when?"
"Until we rule the world," he half-jokes.
"Nice ax," the vampire says to Melanie, lunging for the weapon. Paul grabs the vampire and pushes him away.
"Mel, help your friends. I can take care of myself."
"I thought you liked me taking care of you?" Paul's opponent laughs and hits him with a right hook.
"You're pathetic." He blocks Paul's right hook and lands left and right crosses. "Gettin' walked over by a girl." Paul lands a left jab, but his opponent ducks a right cross and puts him on his back with a right uppercut. Melanie, who's standing to Paul's right, swings her ax and beheads the vampire who didn't take her seriously.
"Better than getting killed by one," she taunts. Paul pulls her down and gets on top while she laughs. He pins her arms and goes back to his human face. "Just so you know who's on top when it counts," she reminds him.
"Gimme the sword," Luiz says to Danielle.
"No. I need it more."
"But I can use it better."
"Says who?" Luiz sighs and trades punches with his opponent.
"That's funny," he says to Luiz. "I don't see any marks on her arms." Luiz hits him in the stomach, but gets clubbed in the back and kneed in the face.
"He doesn't bite me!," an outraged Danielle declares. The vampire looks at Luiz, flashing a smile on his bruised and bloody face.
"You mean she neutered you?"
"That does it." Luiz charges in like a bull and drives the vampire back. His right hook gets blocked, but he lands a left hook. The vampire kicks Luiz in the stomach with his right foot. When Luiz tries a right cross, the vampire grabs his right arm and pushes him to the left. He heads right and leaps for Danielle. She screams, takes two steps back and swings the sword with both hands, taking off the vampire's head. Luiz, who had been racing back to save her, stops and savors the sight of his girl holding up her sword. "That's a good look for you."
"Wish I could say the same." Luiz feels insulted until he realizes she's talking about his vampire face.
"Is this cause I wouldn't sleep with you?," Ramon asks Harmony.
"As if! I would never sleep with you." She knocks him down with a leaping right kick to the chin and feels proud of her martial prowess. "You call yourself a vampire?" Ramon gets up and looks around, noticing that his friends are gone. He makes a dash for the nearest door, which Cynthia is blocking. Harmony tries to cut him off. Cynthia fires, but misses Ramon and hits Harmony in the right shoulder. Harmony pulls it out without missing a step and yells as she leaps for Ramon's legs and tackles him. "Say goodnight, scumbag." She rolls Ramon over and stakes him with the arrow, then stands up and smiles.
"This slaying thing's not so tough," Harm says to Debbie, who puts her right arm around Devlin's waist and glares at the vampire she thinks is after her man.
"The hard part is coming up with snappy catch phrases," Devlin quips. The gang comes together.
"Sorry," Cynthia says to Harmony.
"I know. You meant to hit me in the heart," Harmony replies.
"Touche," Cynthia concedes. Once the immediate thrill of victory wears off, they realize they are not alone. More than thirty people stare at them with confusion, fear and outrage.
"Party's over. Go home," Dev tells them.
"No," a man replies, walking over, folding his arms and standing pat along with several others. "We paid good money to be here."
"I don't believe this," Debbie says, shaking her head.
"Isn't that why you came and killed them?," another man asks. "To take over?"
"Take over what?," Debbie scoffs. "This dump?"
"Actually, it's pretty nice," Theo deadpans. Cynthia glares at him. "What? Just cause they're evil I can't admit they did a good job with the upkeep?" Sid, Paul and Luiz starting whispering and giggling.
"Willing victims," Sidney notes with a smile. "This is new." Along with Paul and Luiz, she starts eyeing the crowd for choice specimens.
"We don't like to be called victims," a man complains. Harmony smiles, walks up to him and goes bumpy, revelling in this unprecedented situation.
"I'll call you whatever I wanna call you, and you'll like it."
"Yes, dark mistress." Harmony savors being both adored and feared. Plus, she's looking to get over losing Alex. Meanwhile, Diego, Melanie and Danielle appear nervous.
"Don't worry," Debbie assures them. "It's a joke. They're just playing with ya. Right Dev?" He goes bumpy and wades into the crowd. She runs after him, grabs the back of Dev's shirt and pulls him around. "Very funny."
"No one's going to die. I don't see the harm. No pun intended."