Alana's World Tour: Roanapur
Chapter 4: What? I'm a Fledgeling?
Disclaimer: I do not own Black Lagoon or the concept of Intelligent Devices
Rock gently knocked on Revy's door, it had been an hour since Alana entered the room alongside Revy insisting on taking care of her injuries and Rock was worried something had happened between them. After knocking he opened the door and found Revy seemingly out like a light with her back to the door, which was strange and caused Rock to venture closer.
Stepping closer, Rock noticed spots on Revy's skin that were wet and where she'd been shot during the gun battle, he also noticed a spot on the left side of Revy's neck, right on top of the jugular vein. Putting one knee on the bed, Rock went to wake her up only to find her laying there with her eyes wide open and her cheeks flushed red, something he'd hardly ever seen before.
"Revy, hey, what's going on? Where's Alana-san?" Rock asked and regretted it immediately as Revy looked at him and her faced turned even redder before she turned over and kicked him off the bed before sitting up and when he yelled up "What the hell did ya do that for?" she snapped "Rock, shut up! Alana said something before she left and it's fucking with me, okay?"
"You wanna talk about it?"
"What? Ah fuck. Fine, just don't tell anybody about this, alright?"
"Yea, I won't tell anyone about it"
"Here's what happened"
Flashback start
Revy, try as she might, couldn't stop Alana from dragging her into her bedroom so she sat down on her bed and snapped "What the fuck, Alana? Why'd you stop me like that?" Alana smiled warmly before sitting down next to her and gently picking up her arm and gingerly tracing her fingers across a gunshot wound before looking a little saddened. "Please, forgive me, for this morning." Alana said softly and Revy's face turned red and this time she was unable to hide it from view.
"You know I am telepathic, right?" Alana said before softly running her tongue along Revy's arm around the gunshot and then over it, cleaning the wound of blood as well as healing it as a shiver ran through Revy's arm as she replied "Yea, what about it?" and Alana looked up and removed her tongue from Revy's arm as she said "When I was intoxicated, I forced Rokuro-kun to lay with me right in front of you, and only once I heard your thoughts about him did I understand. I'm sorry if it seemed like I was trying to take him from you. It was a sense of nostalgia I had naught realized I missed. Rokuro-kun was my first after all."
Revy's face turned red as a beet from Alana's statement, which prevented her from resisting when Alana gently pushed her down on the bed and began licking around a wound on her side, the feel of Alana's tongue and the relaxing sensations it invoked as it stroked it's way across her skin caused Revy to keep from fighting back as Alana went to each wound and cleaned around it before healing it. After she was finished she said "That was rather ill-advised, to just charge at a man carrying twin pistols like that."
"Yea? Well going into shadows to travel is pretty damn freaky to somebody like me. So what are you going to do with the twin Desert Eagles the guy had?"
"I am naught sure. Mr. Chang had refused to take them after I offered them to him, so for now I guess I shall keep them with me until I can send them to Argall so that my uncle Gunther can encase them for me."
"Yea, that sounds like a plan. I wonder why he didn't take care of that Gang guy himself. I mean, Mr. Chang is better than me, and he did train that guy"
"I believe that is the reason why he did naught take care of this himself. Gang could have been like a son to him. And you couldn't…"
"Yeah, yeah. I get what you're saying. He couldn't kill his own son, so… he asked us to do it." Revy remarked and Alana nodded warmly before Revy said "So what are you going to do now?"
"I will talk with Sir Bao about what I need to know. That is my mission here after all. Now then… "Alana began and to Revy's shock she saw Alana's mouth open as she leaned over to Revy's neck and very gently sink her fangs into Revy's neck, a very slight pain in her neck marking the entry as Alana drank just enough to knock her out for a short period then healed the bite before shutting the light off with telekinesis and disappearing into the shadows.
Flashback end
"I see. Before you start Revy no I didn't have sex with Alana-san at any time, we were just kids." Rock said to her and she chuckled before saying "Riiight, whatever Rocky baby." then Rock continued saying "she was most likely referring to the fact that before me she had only drank from blood transfusion bags. I was her first live meal. I'm guessing I was her first intoxication partner, with the way she reacted to getting drunk."
"Yeah, that makes sense." Revy remarked and Rock looked out her window as he said softly "I just hope she stays out of trouble."
(Yellow Flag)
"Two Bloody Mary's, one Sex on the Beach, and one Vodka. Straight up." Bao said.
"Two BM's, one SOTB, and one Vodka, straight up. Coming up." Alana said as she pulled the bottles from underneath the bar and started pouring the drinks.
Bao smiled but uneasily as he thought about how his boss' granddaughter of all things, had decided to help him when business picked up enough to swamp him, causing him to ask her to wait until the crowds left for her briefing. He wasn't surprised with her dexterity as she poured the drinks with no spillage.
The evening was going along well now. There had been a steady crowd of people, no fights, no shooting, and his help was doing an excellent job on her first night helping him. However, that didn't last long as a familiar looking woman entered the bar.
'Oh shit! Shenhua!' Bao gasped when he recognized the Taiwanese knife-wielder. To his surprise she walked over to the bar then sat down and ordered a drink.
Alana nodded with a warm smile and poured her one.
'Huh. Wonder what that is about?' Bao asked as he poured another pitcher of beer for another table. 'Shenhua normally doesn't come in here, unless there's trouble.'
Just then, trouble walked in the door.
The entire bar, except Alana, froze when they saw a tall woman dressed in a maid's outfit, thin-rimmed glasses, and with a suitcase in one hand and a parasol in the other, walk into the bar and take a seat at a table at the back. Alana immediately recognizing the folding stock for a SPAS-12 combat shotgun in the shape of the parasol's handle.
"Miss Alana" Bao said softly.
"Yes, sir?" Alana asked
"Take Table 8"
"Yes, sir."
It was Table '8', however, that the shotgun disguised as a parasol-wielding maid sat at.
Alana, knowing at a glance from reading surface emotions felt as if the woman in the maid outfit was far more dangerous than she seemed, made her way over to it, a pad and pencil in hand.
"Good evening. My name is Alana. Can I take your order?" Alana asked with a pleasant, welcoming smile.
Roberta looked up at Alana and raised an eyebrow.
"You must be new here." she said.
"Yes, I am." she replied.
"Coffee. Black. Two Sugars."
"Anything else?"
"No."
"Be right back." she said with a small nod.
As Alana walked away, Roberta wondered why she felt something 'off' about the young waitress. She wasn't afraid of her, which only meant that she didn't know who she was.
Suddenly the door exploded open and a group of five men entered the bar, knives and guns in their hands, and scanned the bar, looking for someone. Their eyes trained on Roberta sitting at the back and moved towards her.
However, Alana was halfway to her table with her coffee and had noticed the men heading to the same table as her using her peripheral vision.
"May I help you, gentlemen?" Alana asked.
"Get The Fuck Out Of Our Way, Or We'll Rip Your Intestines Out!" the lead man said.
"As enticing as the offer sounds, I must ask that you take a seat and I will be with you in a moment."
"Move it bitch!" the man yelled, swinging at Alana, only to have his underlings suddenly bum rush him as shimmers revealed Alana's wires wrapped around them. "What?"
"Sir I now must insist that you leave, you are disrupting a place of business." Alana said, controlling his men with her wires, not even spilling the cup of coffee.
"Get the fuck off me!" the man shouted as he bodily hauled his men off of himself and Alana retracted her wires. "As asking politely does naught get the message across, we shall do this your way. Are you prepared?" Alana asked as she quickly righted her hand before tossing the cup of coffee into the air.
The patrons of the bar were speechless as they, and the thugs watched the cup fly up, forgetting to watch the weapon-laden waitress as she shot forward, spinning her leg, sweeping it in order to knock one man off his feet before springing up and kicking a second man away before flipping herself into the air, kicking and punching down two more men, leaving the leader of the group by himself as Alana came forward and connected with a hard punch to his gut, then caught the cup of coffee, without spilling a drop or losing the spoon.
Looking at the unconscious men, Alana walked back to Table 8 and set the cup down.
"Oh, my apologies." she said to the woman.
"About what?" Roberta asked.
"I forgot your sugar. I'll be right back," she said. "After I take out this refuse."
Roberta stared in surprise and shock as the young woman casually walked back to the unconscious group of men and dragged them out of the bar and into the street.
Interesting. This one will bare watching. Roberta thought as she waited for her sugar.
Across the way, Bao breathed a sigh of relief. Alana was working out exactly as he had hoped she would. At the bar, Shenhua just smiled as she watched Alana take care of the intruders. They had come there to hurt Roberta and she supposed they got off lucky. Alana had beaten them, but they would live. Roberta would have killed them.
It was one in the morning when Alana had finished talking with Bao about her targets and where to resupply, and Alana left the bar to go to her objective. The patrons in the bar had stared in shock and surprise when Alana's hair and eyes had changed colors as the sun went down, but after a little while they had gotten used to the change and went about their merry business, although 'merry' would be putting it idealistically. This bunch would have shot the hell out of both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham and taken the loot for themselves before calling it 'all in a day's work'.
She paused when she caught a certain scent in the air and noticed a familiar and sexy woman leaning against the wall next to the door, cleaning under her finger nails with a knife.
"Ms. Shenhua." she said.
"Alana accept Shenhua help?" she replied.
Alana looked at her in appreciation at that. She waited for her, just to ask if she could help?
Not that she didn't want the help or the company, but dealing with an army of ghouls led by a vampire tended to be rather fatal even for a well-prepared human of normal stock.
"But of course, but I must inform you of what I am doing here."
The pair walked towards the Colombian Cartel's territory as Alana explained what she was doing that eve. About how one of the lower level vampires serving her primary target had been biting people and turning them into ghouls and using a rather large house in Cartel territory as a hideout. After walking a while, Alana looked up and saw the night sky and the moon, the sky having turned an eerie red with the moon a sickly yellow, almost as if the sky itself knew evil was afoot and endangering those who needn't get involved with it.
"A perfect night. A night like this always makes me desire a bite to drink." Alana said under her breath as she kept moving and flashed one fang, Shenhua hearing her and getting nervous at it.
As they moved through the area, they saw that the area was strangely deserted, no living soul out on the streets, raising their suspicions as Alana subtly began walking more cautiously, though her stride and outer appearance never changed.
Nearing the plaza in front of the house they suddenly heard a sign of life when a man yelled out "Qué chingados! Bastardo!" and they took off at a run to reach the plaza, running in to see a large number of bodies lying on the ground while a vampiress wearing a crop top and low-ride pants with sandals held the man who had called out as he struggled against her grip before she pulled the guy to her and called out "Who fuck are you? Puta?" and Alana waved Shenhua back as she stepped forward saying "Such cowardice, thus why I hunt the filth amongst my kind. I am Alana Helsing. Heir to the Helsing Clan and Vampire Master."
"I think you should die now, puta." the vampiress remarked as she growled and the bodies in the plaza stood up, revealing themselves to be the undead and packing pistols and revolvers as Alana simply smiled in a predatory fashion and said "Do you intend to willingly betray the King of Vampires? Attacking me equates to betraying our majesty."
"You arrogant perra!" the vampires said as she raised one hand and snapped her fingers.
As soon as the ghouls opened fire, Alana seemingly began teleporting across the plaza dodging bullets and sending her wires out as she said "This is a rather unimpressive army you have assembled. After all, a Ghoul is naught but a ghoul. Threatening in theory and undoubtedly tenacious. Oh, but they are a far cry from indestructible or invincible." At that she pulled her wires taught, ripping the ghouls to pieces and killing them all in a single move as blood pooled the ground and splashed on the two vampires and the man held captive.
Walking forward, Alana saw the vampiress grow desperate and worried as she put her free hand against the man's throat and said "You can't kill him, he is the last survivor."
"Is that a fact?"
"Yes! You kill him and you won't be able to find my master!"
"An interesting assumption to be sure. Hood, I can sense that you do naught wish to perish this eve, so would you like to accompany me?" Alana replied and the rogue vampiress grow worried as she looked at the guy she held hostage, who seemed to be thinking about it as Alana said "You must make this choice of your own free will, so make the choice!" then she unlimbered the Velsignet Vind and aimed it at the vampiress and said "This pistol fires a .454 round. A blessed silver cross was melted down to make the alloy for the bullets, prepare for an eternity in the Underworld, thrice damned traitor."
As Shenhua, Alana, and the vampiress stared at each other, they were drawn back to the hostage as they heard him say "Yes, Alana Helsing. I, Baldomero de la Cruz, would like to accompany you." and following those few seconds, Alana pulled the trigger on the Velsignet Vind, the powerful pistol blowing through the right side of Baldomero's chest and blasting through the vampiress' heart to the sound of the pistol's bark. Baldomero fell to the ground as the vampiress flew backwards as she turned into a bloody pool and vanished.
Shenhua was shocked at the events as she watched Alana walk through the blood pooling the ground and to Baldomero's side.
Reaching him Alana knelt down and said "Remember that from this day forth, the choice was made by you, and no one else." She then gently licked off the blood on his chin and gently lifted his head as she gently bit down on his jugular, drinking his blood and allowing her vampirism to flow through the bite and into him. After she was finished, she stood up and absorbed all the blood in the plaza before it could stain the ground and then hoisted Baldomero up so he was on his own feet but unsteady as Shenhua walked up and helped Alana hold the Spaniard up as they left the plaza.
As they walked, Shenhua and Baldomero heard Alana say softly "It was a perfect night, right?" as the sky and moon returned to normal.