p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A red scathed figure was nursing his glass of red wine while sitting at a bar stool, away from the noisiness of the dance floor, but still close enough to keep up with what was happening. His long form seemed unreachable and too intimidating for anyone to express the slightest interest of being too close to him. His interest peeked up slightly when the bar owner introduced the singer who was going to entertain the clients for the night./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"There she stood tall in her plum, silk dress that showed off her collarbones and was synched at the waist with a black corset. She had a pearl necklace around her neck, which matched her pearl earnings and the rings that adorned her gloved hands. The white fluffy boa which enveloped her shoulders and contrasted nicely against her raven locks; completed the femme fatale picture she painted./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She gave her audience a simple greeting before she gave out a gesture to the band that would accompany her, which set the performance in motion. Her singing voice perfectly matched her appearance, as she graced the bar with love songs that finally brought out a spark in her eyes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"At first, he dismissed her as just a random woman who's simply pleasing to the eyes with an enjoyable voice. However, the more he scrutinized her features, the more images of a past event from his past life as a prince, surfaced ftom the pits of his memory. That face belonged to one of those people who were paid to sing his honours for him way back then. He wondered if he would have to take care of her, if she was going to make him use his bullets on her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He focused his senses on her aura, searching for a clue for her nature. But he couldn't distinguish exactly what she was. She wasn't something that he recognized. He could recognize those of his supposed kin and she obviously defied the norms of the length of a human's life. Then who is she ? Who could this new being be ?/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The singer, sensing an intense stare trying to burn a hole through her, she turned her head to stare down whoever it was. That's when her gaze finally landed on him. He was quite the uncanny sight, with his pale skin, vintage outfit and the red lenses which barely hid the intensity of his scarlet gaze. She knew when she was faced with the unnatural and this man didn't seem too bothered with hiding what he was, especially to non-humans. Seeing that there was nothing which could be done, she unflinchingly continued to hold his stare, all while singing./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"To the onlookers, it looked like the performer was courageous enough to flirt with the man with red specs that no one dared to get close to since he first sat at the bar, addressing the overly romantic lyrics to him. Alucard, slightly surprised that this seemingly dainty woman wasn't the slightest bit creeped out from their non-verbal interaction, also realizes this and is amused by her uncaring attitude towards this./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As for her, she only put on this show of "flirting" to test him out, to see if the reason he was staring at her was because he desired something out of her. She quickly figured out that this stranger was searching for something else. After this conclusion, she continues on with her act anyways. She didn't want to lose this staring "competition" and he could be of use to her after all, to ward off anyone who stared at her lustfully./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"In a corner of the club, a group of men who were rowdy from the start of the night were trying to make advances on the girl who served them their orders. The poor thing was just trying to leave in peace while politely refusing them. The noisiness drew Alucard's attention. He had early on set his senses on them since they acted way too similar to the desperate trash he usually got rid of. After all, his trip to this bar wasn't done merely out of personal pleasure. He came here on a mission to investigate some recent vampire attacks whose victims all had one common feature: frequenting the bar where he was currently in./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It seemed that he was right in his assumptions, as they quickly got angry that they weren't getting the girl to comply with them and showed their true nature all while holding her a hostage. One of them barked out: "Y'all better stay still in your seats or we blow this bitch's head and yours afterwards !"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"While all of this mess was happening, Alucard glanced at the mysterious singer to see if she would get scared or show any reaction to the situation every one found themselves in. One look at her showed that she wasn't phased at all, her body language only showing signs of annoyance at having her performance interrupted and intrigue in what was going to happen next./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alucard figured that she wasn't going to act yet, so he stood up from his stool and casually walked up to his victims of the night all while smugly taunting them:" I came here to have a good time and yet I suddenly find it interrupted by cretins like you who cannot keep their urges in check. It's frankly sad that an unworthy lot like you are supposedly vampires."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Since they were all carrying guns, they immediately started shooting at him all at once, trying to get rid of him quickly. Alucard just took all of bullets, his body merely flinching back from the weight, without showing any signs of pain, his grin staying on his face, creating a bloody and disturbing scenery for the rest of the bar clients, who were horrified at the thought of who might go through the same fate as the tail man with the red jacket./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The woman whose staring "competition" with said man; was just watching, noting down his reactions all while waiting for how he was going to retaliate. The red eyed stranger didn't feel like a human and she was awaiting almost impatiently what he was capable of. Said stranger, seeing that he wasn't fooling the singer into showing her powers to help him, furthermore remembering his master's orders to not have outsiders come to harm; decided to bring this matter to an end. Only seconds after the foolish vampires believed he was done for and stopped shooting, he stood up, pulled out his two guns and began shooting at them. None of his bullets missed their targets, as he rid himself and the world of this weaklings./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"While he was finishing up the trash in front of him, one of them slipped up from behind the rest and made a final, desperate attempt to escape the same punishment as his companions. He reached out towards the singer who seemed to have something going on with the vampire; "Oi, you bastard ! if you don't want harm coming to pretty face here, you better let me go !"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alucard turned his head after being done with what was in front of him. After hearing what the leftover coward, from the group he just killed, attempted to use in order to threaten him, his mouth twisted up into a huge smirk; "Unfortunately for you, I won't need to deal with you. She's plenty capable of doing that on her own." Unlike the vampire behind her, his position allowed to see perfectly how the singer's eyes flashed with a dangerous green glint to them./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"His words proved to be true. When what he said settled in the poor fool's mind, he found his hands pierced all over with poisonous needs that, ironically, sucked out the life out of him too fast for his mind to truly catch up. Alucard appreciated the quick show of ruthlessness, as he finally got a glimpse of what this singer was capable of./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She didn't bother with checking if they had truly died, this poison was one of her many creations, she was sure about its effects. She always polished and perfected her skills in any of the arts which held her interest. She merely sighed, disappointed that she didn't get to finish performing all of the songs she prepared beforehand for her show. Slightly curious, now that the excitement of the battle passed, she glanced up at the abnormal man who seemed to share her inhumanity and was clearly stronger than she estimated./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"There she stood tall in her plum, silk dress that showed off her collarbones and was synched at the waist with a black corset. She had a pearl necklace around her neck, which matched her pearl earnings and the rings that adorned her gloved hands. The white fluffy boa which enveloped her shoulders and contrasted nicely against her raven locks; completed the femme fatale picture she painted./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She gave her audience a simple greeting before she gave out a gesture to the band that would accompany her, which set the performance in motion. Her singing voice perfectly matched her appearance, as she graced the bar with love songs that finally brought out a spark in her eyes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"At first, he dismissed her as just a random woman who's simply pleasing to the eyes with an enjoyable voice. However, the more he scrutinized her features, the more images of a past event from his past life as a prince, surfaced ftom the pits of his memory. That face belonged to one of those people who were paid to sing his honours for him way back then. He wondered if he would have to take care of her, if she was going to make him use his bullets on her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He focused his senses on her aura, searching for a clue for her nature. But he couldn't distinguish exactly what she was. She wasn't something that he recognized. He could recognize those of his supposed kin and she obviously defied the norms of the length of a human's life. Then who is she ? Who could this new being be ?/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The singer, sensing an intense stare trying to burn a hole through her, she turned her head to stare down whoever it was. That's when her gaze finally landed on him. He was quite the uncanny sight, with his pale skin, vintage outfit and the red lenses which barely hid the intensity of his scarlet gaze. She knew when she was faced with the unnatural and this man didn't seem too bothered with hiding what he was, especially to non-humans. Seeing that there was nothing which could be done, she unflinchingly continued to hold his stare, all while singing./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"To the onlookers, it looked like the performer was courageous enough to flirt with the man with red specs that no one dared to get close to since he first sat at the bar, addressing the overly romantic lyrics to him. Alucard, slightly surprised that this seemingly dainty woman wasn't the slightest bit creeped out from their non-verbal interaction, also realizes this and is amused by her uncaring attitude towards this./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As for her, she only put on this show of "flirting" to test him out, to see if the reason he was staring at her was because he desired something out of her. She quickly figured out that this stranger was searching for something else. After this conclusion, she continues on with her act anyways. She didn't want to lose this staring "competition" and he could be of use to her after all, to ward off anyone who stared at her lustfully./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"In a corner of the club, a group of men who were rowdy from the start of the night were trying to make advances on the girl who served them their orders. The poor thing was just trying to leave in peace while politely refusing them. The noisiness drew Alucard's attention. He had early on set his senses on them since they acted way too similar to the desperate trash he usually got rid of. After all, his trip to this bar wasn't done merely out of personal pleasure. He came here on a mission to investigate some recent vampire attacks whose victims all had one common feature: frequenting the bar where he was currently in./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It seemed that he was right in his assumptions, as they quickly got angry that they weren't getting the girl to comply with them and showed their true nature all while holding her a hostage. One of them barked out: "Y'all better stay still in your seats or we blow this bitch's head and yours afterwards !"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"While all of this mess was happening, Alucard glanced at the mysterious singer to see if she would get scared or show any reaction to the situation every one found themselves in. One look at her showed that she wasn't phased at all, her body language only showing signs of annoyance at having her performance interrupted and intrigue in what was going to happen next./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alucard figured that she wasn't going to act yet, so he stood up from his stool and casually walked up to his victims of the night all while smugly taunting them:" I came here to have a good time and yet I suddenly find it interrupted by cretins like you who cannot keep their urges in check. It's frankly sad that an unworthy lot like you are supposedly vampires."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Since they were all carrying guns, they immediately started shooting at him all at once, trying to get rid of him quickly. Alucard just took all of bullets, his body merely flinching back from the weight, without showing any signs of pain, his grin staying on his face, creating a bloody and disturbing scenery for the rest of the bar clients, who were horrified at the thought of who might go through the same fate as the tail man with the red jacket./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The woman whose staring "competition" with said man; was just watching, noting down his reactions all while waiting for how he was going to retaliate. The red eyed stranger didn't feel like a human and she was awaiting almost impatiently what he was capable of. Said stranger, seeing that he wasn't fooling the singer into showing her powers to help him, furthermore remembering his master's orders to not have outsiders come to harm; decided to bring this matter to an end. Only seconds after the foolish vampires believed he was done for and stopped shooting, he stood up, pulled out his two guns and began shooting at them. None of his bullets missed their targets, as he rid himself and the world of this weaklings./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"While he was finishing up the trash in front of him, one of them slipped up from behind the rest and made a final, desperate attempt to escape the same punishment as his companions. He reached out towards the singer who seemed to have something going on with the vampire; "Oi, you bastard ! if you don't want harm coming to pretty face here, you better let me go !"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alucard turned his head after being done with what was in front of him. After hearing what the leftover coward, from the group he just killed, attempted to use in order to threaten him, his mouth twisted up into a huge smirk; "Unfortunately for you, I won't need to deal with you. She's plenty capable of doing that on her own." Unlike the vampire behind her, his position allowed to see perfectly how the singer's eyes flashed with a dangerous green glint to them./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"His words proved to be true. When what he said settled in the poor fool's mind, he found his hands pierced all over with poisonous needs that, ironically, sucked out the life out of him too fast for his mind to truly catch up. Alucard appreciated the quick show of ruthlessness, as he finally got a glimpse of what this singer was capable of./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She didn't bother with checking if they had truly died, this poison was one of her many creations, she was sure about its effects. She always polished and perfected her skills in any of the arts which held her interest. She merely sighed, disappointed that she didn't get to finish performing all of the songs she prepared beforehand for her show. Slightly curious, now that the excitement of the battle passed, she glanced up at the abnormal man who seemed to share her inhumanity and was clearly stronger than she estimated./p