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CHAPTER 3-THE FIGHT AND A NEWBY
Katy tore out of the back room in the lead, having shoved the odd necklace in her pocket as she scrambled out of the room. Maria brought up the rear with a piece of one of the chairs held tightly in her right hand like a club. They made it back to the main room of the club before they spotted a young blonde woman shrieking in terror and crying her eyes out, pressed back up against the front doors of the club, a look of sheer terror on her face.
"Hey…stop screaming," Katy shouted back with a frustrated grimace on her face as she clamped her hands over her ears.
"We're not going to hurt you," Maria started to add with an angry look on her face before she remembered that she was holding a weapon and quickly tossed it aside.
"Stay away from me," The young woman shouted with a very scared look on her face as she scrambled to slip her key back into the lock and open the door.
"We won't hurt you," Katy said with a very hurried expression on her face before she leapt over a few bodies and grabbed the woman around the waist just as she was starting to push the door back open.
"Let go of me vampire," The young woman exclaimed with an almost frantic look on her face as she did her best to get Katy to let go of her.
"We are not vampires," Katy snarled back with a now very angry scowl on her face before she used her slayer strength to pick the woman up off of her feet and back out of the club, nearly breaking the doors in the process.
"Let go of me or else I'll," The woman continued to shout with an outraged expression on her face as she began to kick and claw at Katy to dislodge her, gouging out several deep scratches across Katy's toned stomach.
"We told you, we're not vampires…look we're outside, in the sun," Maria shouted with an angry tone to her voice as she followed the two back out of the club as the young woman continued to try to get Katy off of her. The two continued to fight for several more moments before the young woman seemed to realize that she and her supposed attacker were fighting outside in the parking lot, under the full glare of the sun, and she wasn't bursting into flames. After a few more moments she stopped fighting and seemed to calm down.
"Finally…God you stupid bitch, look at my…sorry," Katy started to growl with a furious sneer on her face before she regained her senses and apologized, feeling foolish for getting so angry.
"It's okay…we're not going to hurt you, who are you," Maria asked with a very nervous look on her face as she slowly and cautiously approached the young woman, who's tank top had been ripped during the fight and had fallen down, revealing a pierced left nipple.
"Who am I…who are you," The young woman snapped back with a still confused look on her face as she scooted back a few inches.
"I'm Katy and this is Maria, we were here last night but left before any of this happened, we came back this morning to get our luggage, we had just started when you showed up," Katy said with a forced calm tone to her voice as she slowly stood back up and began to dust herself off.
"D…Diane, my name is Diane, I work here, I was sick last night and came in to make sure that I still had a job and…," Diane stammered out with a very nervous and overwhelmed look on her face as she tried to steady her breathing.
"So it was your police costume that Katy used to," Maria said with a deeply thoughtful look on her face as she remembered the costume that Katy had danced in the night before.
"Used to what…you used my costume, who told you that you could use my costume," Diane growled with an unhappy and scared for her job look on her face as she leapt up to her feet and looked almost ready to confront Katy.
"We don't know her name but she was a brunette, a little taller than me," Maria started to explain with a serious look on her face as she recounted the description of the dancer that had later been revealed as a vampiress that had tried to kill them before Katy jumped in.
"And she couldn't take her eyes off of me, while I was dancing Alice practically had to hose her down to keep her from jumping me, almost makes up for her being a vampire…almost," Katy interjected with a devilishly sarcastic smirk on her face before she wiped a little of the blood off of the cuts on her stomach and was hopeful that she wouldn't have a scar.
"No, Chucky said that she would be spared…damn, this is all Anastasia's fault," Diane growled with an unhappy and humiliated look on her face as she cursed herself for having believed a lie.
"Anastasia, who's that," Maria asked with an interested and serious look on her face, as she looked first over at Katy before looking back to Diane.
"The dancer that was checking you out, the one that said that you could use my costume, nothing but trouble if you ask me, but I just dance here, what do I know," Diane said with an unhappy and slightly troubled look on her face as she picked a couple of blades of grass out of her hair.
"Great, I've only been back a few short hours and I've already got a vampiress hot for my body…by the way, about the…," Katy said with a nervous shrug of her shoulders as she started to approach Diane before she nodded with her head down towards her chest until Diane got the message and quickly covered up.
"The rings, they were a joke at first, but the crowd seemed to love them so I worked them into my act, of course though Anastasia would always give me the eye whenever I was backstage, she even made a few comments about how they made her horny every time that she saw them, glad I never took her up on any of her offers," Diane said with at first a relaxed look on her face before she shuddered at the end.
"Offers," Maria asked with a confused look on her face as she pulled the front door back open and let Diane and Katy walk in.
"You said she was eyeing you up and down, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what she was offering," Diane replied with a scared laugh as she stepped back into the club and pinched her nose closed to keep the smell from overwhelming her.
"I should have staked her," Maria grumbled with an unhappy frown on her face as they started to make their way into the club before Katy abruptly stopped them.
"What is it, what's wrong," Diane asked with a confused and nervous look on her face as she did her best to tie the cut strands of her tank top together so that she would be covered up.
"Uh…didn't there used to be a body here," Katy said with a confused and eerie expression on her face as she stopped walking and stared down at the ground at the remains of a broken table.
"Ya know what…I think you're right, I wonder where it," Maria started to say with a nervous and increasingly scared tone to her voice as she also looked at the location on the floor before she was jumped from behind and was put in a headlock by the vampire that had previously been dead on the floor.
"Maria," Katy exclaimed with a shocked and surprised look on her face before she shoved one half of the broken table away and was about to go to Maria's aid when her feet were pulled out form under her by the dead young woman that she had found the odd chain and symbol under earlier, now sporting a game face and yellow eyes.
"Don't fight it, we shall," The new vampiress started to say with a very confidant snarl on her face as she continued to try to draw Katy's neck closer to her bared fangs before Katy interrupted.
"Get bent," Katy growled with a very angry scowl on her face as she managed to get enough force behind her and she slammed her heel into the vampiress' jaw, making her let go long enough for Katy to flip over onto her stomach and scramble away.
"Katy," Maria exclaimed with a scared tone to her voice as she fought hard against the vampire that had her in a headlock while trying not to let her fear control her.
"Let go of her," Diane shouted with a flurry of anger as she began to kick and punch at the vampire that was holding Maria, finally distracting him long enough for Maria to compose herself and take charge, as she snapped into action, slamming her foot down onto the vampire's toes. With a loud growl he broke the hold and staggered back, dropping down to a knee to try to squelch the pain coming from his foot. As she started to gasp for air a hurried thought came to Maria's mind. Grabbing a hold of a leg of one of the broken chairs she flipped the end around and drove the jagged and broken end straight into the chest of the vampire that had attacked her, reducing him to a pile of dust.
"You bitch," The young vampiress growled with a furious snarl as she leapt to her feet and tried to strangle Maria but she couldn't turn around in time and so only knocked her hands over a bit and they finally landed around Diane's neck.
"Stacy," Diane gasped out in shock, horror, and surprise as she realized who the vampiress that was choking her had been.
"Let go of her," Maria growled with an angry scowl on her face as she tried to pull the vampiress off of Diane long enough to get a good shot at driving the chair leg through her heart. After a bit of a struggle it worked and Maria took her shot, driving the chair leg straight into the sweet spot, smiling brightly as she exploded into a cloud of dust.
"Thank you," Diane said with a scared and relieved look on her face as she reached up and rubbed her neck where the vampiress had tried to strangle her.
"You're welcome," Maria replied with a half smile on her face before her attention was drawn away by Katy grunting in anger as another of the vampires got in a good shot on her ribs.
"A little help here," Katy spat out in between labored breaths as she dropped to her knees and grabbed her sides, a rib more than likely broken as she coughed up a little blood.
"On it," Maria shouted back with a scared and worried look on her face as she left Diane where she was, vaulted over a couple of trashed chairs and then had to hurry her attack as instead of directly confronting the two vampires that were attacking Katy she instead resorted to simply tackling them. Diane snapped out of her shock of watching the fight and ran to Katy, offering her a shoulder to lean on as she painfully got back up to her feet.
"Thanks," Katy weakly mumbled back with a pained look on her face as Maria rolled off of one of the vampires and started to fight with the other, trying to drive the stake through its heart. The other vampire started to sit up to jump Maria from behind but Katy snapped her foot out and cracked him across the jaw, knocking her away from Maria.
"Look out," Diane shouted in alarm as she saw the vampire that Maria was fighting with grab a piece of a chair and start to swing it at Maria's head. When she saw that Maria didn't instantly react Diane left Katy in the lurch and dove down onto the vampire, taking its first swing on the shoulder. The sudden loss of support sent Katy staggering backwards until she bumped into the stage and grabbed a hold of one of the poles. As Katy struggled to draw in a full breath she watched Maria and Diane fight the vampire with the club, wincing slightly when the other vampire reentered the fray and kicked Diane in the shoulder, almost knocking her aside.
"Stop right," Katy started to shout through the pain as she saw the vampire that had just kicked Diane start to lunge forward, fangs bared, aiming for her neck. She acted just in the nick of time and threw herself into the vampire, sending the two down in at least for Katy what was a very painful heap as Diane only realized how close she had come to death after she heard Katy's first grunt of pain upon hitting the floor.
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The rest of the fight was a blur; with Katy almost losing consciousness twice and Diane getting more than her fair share of cuts and bruises. Maria ended up as the one that did most of the remaining fighting and so when it was over she flopped down in front of the stage and rested her back up against it. Katy used the poles on stage to cross it and lie down on her back on the stage near where Maria was sitting. Meanwhile Diane was trying to scrounge up another shirt as the tank top that she had been wearing had been ripped apart in the battle and she didn't fancy walking around topless all day. She disappeared into the dressing room for a few moments before walking back out and pulling on a two sizes to small shirt along the way.
"It was the only thing that I could find," Diane said with a defensive look on her face as she struggled briefly to pull the shirt on and down far enough to make herself presentable.
"It looks like something Katy would wear," Maria joked with a tired but sly grin on her face as she brushed a few curls off of her face and took a deep breath.
"Nah…to big, mine are smaller," Katy replied with a tired and impish smirk on her face as she lazily adjusted her top, scowling slightly when she noticed how dirty she had become as a result of the fight.
"What happened here," Diane asked with a sad and pained look on her face as she sat down on the edge of the stage near Katy's feet.
"Alice and Anastasia were vampires, part of Chucky's gang, we tried to fight them but there were to many so we ran, we came back here this morning to find that we were the lucky ones, you're probably only alive because you were sick yesterday," Maria replied with a tired look on her face as she turned and looked up at Diane.
"I knew Anastasia was…but I had no clue about Alice, I thought that she was stronger than that, didn't think she swung that way," Diane said with a perplexed and sadly surprised look on her face before she hung her head and looked away.
"That might not have mattered, ole Chucky might have turned her himself," Katy interjected with a helpful look on her face though her tone of voice was one of regret and sadness.
"This is bad…Chucky and his gang travel all over the country, they've visited nearly every strip club from here to Boulder, if they did to them what they did here," Diane said with a very worried look on her face as she looked quickly at first Katy and then at Maria.
"Then either they've killed hundreds or then there are hundreds of vampire strippers out there moving around completely underneath the radar," Katy said with a very worried and somewhat scared look on her face as she forced herself to sit up.
"You realize this all sounds like a bad idea for a porno," Diane said with slightly skeptical and nervous look on her face as she turned her head to look over at Katy, who shrugged her shoulders but nodded her head.
"But if it's right then everyone could be in trouble, say one of the vampires turns one of the club goers and then he goes home and turns his entire family, then his friends, and so on and so forth," Maria offered up with a worried look on her face as she politely began to pick some dirt out from under her fingernails.
"Then somebody's going to have to stop them," Katy said with at first a serious and confidant look on her face as she slid off of the stage and stood up, before biting her lower lip to keep from crying out as her broken rib hadn't healed yet.
"And why do I get the sinking feeling that you're going to say that it's up to the two of us to stop them," Maria grumbled with a somber sigh as she shook her head and watched her dreams of going to college go up in smoke.
"Because the two of us are the only ones that give a damn about a group of people that most could care less about, because we're slayers and that's what we do," Katy replied softly after having summoned up enough strength to get through a long answer without doubling over in pain.
"You're not going anywhere without me," Diane stated with a defiant look on her face as she stepped in between the two and clenched her fists tightly.
"This isn't your fight, it's not really ours either, but since you haven't listened to a single word that I've said since we left London I doubt that anything I say right now will have a chance in hell of changing your mind, so taking that into consideration where to next," Maria replied with a wickedly sarcastic look on her face as she pushed herself back up to her feet and turned to Diane first before looking over at Katy.
"They killed friends of mine, good friends, if you think that I'm going to just sit on my hands while Alice and Anastasia get away with this you're crazy," Diane growled with an angry and frustrated look on her face as she took a step back and glared at first Maria and then Katy.
"Sound familiar," Maria asked with a sly smirk on her face as she slid her hands into her back pockets and waited for Katy to react.
"Okay you can come, but if you get hurt it's your own damn fault, now all we need to do is find a car, we can't ride the bus like this and there's no way in hell I'm going in that shower," Katy grumbled with a slightly embarrassed look on her face as she shook her head and leaned heavily up against the railing of the clubs main level.
END OF CHAPTER 3