John sighed he hated pointless fights but this one was hard to ignore. He smiled in a evil way to the strong looking demon with its fist blades. John waited till the demon came after him and at the last second John Blocked the demons blade and as the other ones saw blades spun it plunged into the demon heart and tore its chest apart.

~Poppy Lyra~

Poppy walked around the streets of Las Vegas. She smiled and inhaled deeply. The smell of smoke, sweat, blood, and stress filled her lungs. Her lips spread into a grin. She loved this. She felt so at home here in the city. She stepped quietly out of the hotel, licking her lips and feeling the hot wind on her skin. Today, she wasn't wearing anything to complicated.

Along with high, black heels and a black choker, she looked stunning and horrifying at the same time. The dagger she carried at all times was hidden beneath the dress, strapped to her thigh and the whip was tied around her nick like a belt, the long end hanging from her waist. She sighed, looking out at the people on the street and tried to hide the disgusting scar running from her neck. She grinned savagely and licked her lips, running her tongue over one of her fangs.

Today would be fun. She knew it.

John sighed as he cleaned the blood off of him he looked nice now without blood on him. He walked out into the city he always found this place fun even though he didn't gamble he loved to kill what tried to kill him. He saw a lady walking past him he decided to flirt a bit he saw some other guys to intimidated by her to walk up to her. He walked behind her "Hi saw you passing and though i would talk to you unlike theses other weaklings that are to spineless to even talk to you.". He liked to flirt maybe she would flirt back because of is pure cockiness.

~Poppy Lyra~

Poppy whirled around, her eyes meeting the other person's. She gave a smirk and laughed a little at his attempt to flirt with her. "Those weaklings have good judgement." she said, flicking his forehead. It was light to her, but her strength made it seem a lot stronger. "But I guess it'd be nice to have someone to talk to." she flipped her hair back, putting a hand on her hip. "But sweetheart, don't think you'll be able to get anywhere with me." She said with a smirk. Poppy was royalty after all, to the First Vampire Mistress herself, she shouldn't waste her emotions or time on someone like him.

John loved a lady that played hard to get "Oh I heard that phrase before even by some royalty and those girls are easy to win their hearts." He gave a smile "And fun to break them once i get bored." He had a feeling that her family is royal and a long line in it. He himself is the son of one of the greatest being in the universe but he didn't let it go to his head on who he will charm. He followed right next to her he was lucky that his powers hid his blades from the normal eye only people with weapons of their own can see his.

Honip smirked as he strode by the sleeping Limax. "Oy, Li! Wake your sorry ass up, it's time to go! We've got a mission!" The smirk immediately dropped off his face as he felt cold steel touch his neck, and the shadow doppleganger faed away. "You should know better by now, you dolt. I don't sleep. And besides, I've known about it for an hour. I've been waiting for you." He gave the older boy a look of disdain as he walked towards one of the many disguised entrances to the underground compound, stepping out into the crisp Nevada nighttime air. "Well, are you coming? You know mother doesn't like it when we dawdle." He slid into the shadows, and disappeared with the kind of skills only a lifetime member of the guild would know. Honip shook his head, patting the satchel on his waist, trying to draw comfort from his weapon, in the face of this kid. Frankly, his partner bothered him. He had been raised with the Guild, his mother being the operations deputy, in charge of conducting missions, etc. He had had that weird gauntlet since about five. And it was all creepy as hell to Honip, who had only been in for around six years. The fact that the kid was a genius with a condescending view didn't exactly help. Running to catch up, Honip took a deep breath, and stepped into the lights of the Avenue.

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Honip sneered at the man, brandishing his whip menacingly. "You sure you want to try running? this baby has quite the reach. He cracked it above his head, and the blades began their spinning. Before he could even bring it to the ground, the man fell, and Limax threw a rebar rod into the whip, effectively slowing it down enough to avoid destroying the pavement. "I reiterate," he hissed, slinking out from behind the man." You should know better by now, you dolt. We aren't supposed to leave a trace. Massive amounts of gore and destruction could probably be safely called, a 'trace'. Now come, we've got some free time before Mother wants us back, and I want to people watch. I enjoy seeing them cry when they've lost it all, and the joy of those who won it from them. This truly is a fascinating city." Sulking, Honip followed him out of the alleyway, re-holstering his whip, and watched as a man walked by wooing a rather stately woman. He looked at them longingly. What he wouldn't give for a relationship.

Poppy rolled her eyes at the man. The way he was trying to win her like it was all a game. Disgusting. She hated people like that. "Listen, company would be nice, but you won't get anywhere with me beyond that. Especially when you just want to toy with me." she said harshly. Her words and eyes were filled with disgust, but her overall appearance was calm. "If you still want to toy with me, then you're in trouble." she said with a smirk, showing off a delicately curved fang under her upper lip.

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Poppy looked accross the street, seeing some men. She narrowed her eyes, her vision perfect in the night. She laughed softly to herself. Doing this, murder, destruction, even just spreading blood, they would get caught in no time. Hopefully it would be assigned to her to assassinate them. But for now, she thought to herself, I'll wait and see what they do.

John nodded and then he felt a powerful demon near by he swore "ONE NIGHT IS ALL I ASK FOR!" he looked very annoyed and with out saying anything to the lady he ran to the side of the wall and ran up the wall and reached the roof and was encountered with a demon even at the size of a human still very strong it smiled and then ran after him. John drew his weapon and blocked the attack the blades on his sword spun and let off sparks that flew everywhere. John kicked the demon then cut it in half. Then another demon showed up and then more soon the whole roof was covered with the disgusting monsters John smiled and lightning sparked off his blades and his body making a powerful display.

Honip blinked slightly as the man ran up the wall, right in polain sight of the civvies. He wasn't exactly surprised that the man had strange abilities, as most everyone he knew did. He was, however, surprised at the lack of care he put into disguising it from the rest of the world. Hmmm...must be relying on a glamour of some sort... He casually walked up to the woman, and looked at her. She probably wouldn't bother talking to some punk teenager, but he just had to know. "You, uh...didn't happen to see that just now, did you?" He was tense inside, knowing that this one man could have blown the cover for every organization like theirs in the world. Idiot.

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Limax stood in shadow on the rooftop, looking on as the man with the swords waged war on the next building over. Lights flashing across the sky, Limax sighed, and pulled out the phone he had taken off the man earlier. "Mother. I might need a cleanup crew. Somebody's making a bit of a ruckus out here, and mind wipes may be needed. Prep a team for me?" A pause. "Got it. I'll let you know if I need them." He sighed, dropping the phone off the building, and made an easy hop across the alleyway to the other roof. Without a word, Forlorn, who had been strangely quiet tonight, morphed into a large halberd, and grinning eerily, Honip began to sweep it across the horde of demons. "Feeding time."

Poppy crouched slightly, about to leap up onto the roof, but then stopped as a man beat her there. She let out a laugh. Surely, people on the streets would notice if two people were on a roof slaughtering demons. She was about to yell at them to stop, or simply jump up and help, but another boy came and began to speak to her. 'Two in one day? You've got to be kidding me.' She thought he was just some other teenager trying to hit on her, but she suddenly felt his aura and her eyes widened. 'Perhaps this boy can tell me something.' "Yes, I saw the whole thing." she said, wondering if this boy was as strong as his aura felt. She saw a whip on the boy's neck and laughed softly to herself. "Whips are popular nowadays, aren't they?" she asked, motioning to the whip wrapped around her own waist like a belt. She looked up onto the rooftop and inhaled deeply, licking her lips. "They smell delicious, but I won't bother going up there. Two is already a crowd." she looked to the boy. He seemed to be a bit... uptight. No, that wasn't the word for it. He seemed worried. "Hey, kid, you okay?"

Honip nodded, looking up at where his partner had gone. He knew he could take care of himself, but even knew this was a bad idea in such plain sight. Hopefully he had some sort of plan. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just worried about our partners up there. I assume he's your partner anyways. Come on, stop staring." He nudged her in the ribs. "The civvies are starting to look up. If they haven't noticed yet, they will soon." He nodded towards a nearby man starting to look at the flashing lights overhead. "Heh, these Vegas places sure have some crazy ways of getting our attention. Probably some laser show on the next street over." As he did so, the mans eyes glossed over for a few minutes, and he knew he was now seeing the lights as a laser show. He looked at his companions. "Yeah, he's probably right. Come on guys. Hey, take care of yourself tonight kid. Don't get yourself mugged or anything." He turned away, and strolled off into the night. Tugging on the woman's sleeve, he angled towards a nearby side street. "Come on, I know where we can watch the fireworks."

John smiled he had a hard time keeping his power locked up when he is around humans but now it was a fight black lightning was everywhere when he was final all ready he came at the first demon cutting it in half and then he was swarmed demon all around him trying to kill him. He swung his sword their saw like blades spinning out of control. Then the all got on top of him and started to beat him with their demonic hands he only let them have few blows and then he summed up a large amount of power and he saw them all burn up and become nothing. Then more and more came and he just killed them he knew there was a mage some where because demons didn't gather up this ever he looked around and saw the mage and launched a bolt of lightning towards him and killed him then when he killed a demon there wasn't another one to replace it and he kept on hacking until he found none of them were left he smiled and then sat on a air vent and took out a strip of jerky from his bag that he has on. He ate the meat and he pulled out his Ipod and listened to it still eating jerky

Poppy sighed and shook her head as the last of the demons were slaughtered. "Fools. They're making too much of a show." she said so only the boy beside her could hear her. She looked behind her at a woman about her own height. "Do you know where I can get a few drinks?" her voice sounded as if she'd already had too many drinks. "Um, I honestly don't know, ma'am." she said, slowly inching away from her and a little closer to the boy. As the drunk waddled away, she turned to the boy. "Fireworks would be nice... I haven't had too much company since..." she paused. "Maybe the 1800s or so." her eyes widened and she clapped a hand over her mouth. "You didn't hear that, right?" she cursed in her head. He was simply too easy to talk to.

Honip chuckled a bit. Sure thing. And don't worry, I can be trusted. Not like I haven't met unique people before, in my line of work. Let me guess. Demon? Vampire? Magician?" He chuckled once more, and headed over to a nondescript tall building. Stepping into the elevator, he told the bellhop to take them to the lookout point, claiming it was official business. Once he reached the top, he looked down at the woman. He waved her up, figuring she could find a way, and sat back, watching the man work. He could see Limax helping discreetly, destroying the beasts with a smaller blade, keeping quiet. He was pretty sure the man didn't even know he was there. As he waited, he pulled out the small two way radio he kept with him. "Hey, Limax. Don't worry about the civvies. I took care of them. Just try to keep that guy from building too big ruckus." He closed his eyes, and waited to see if anyone would join him.

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Limax stood off to the side of the man, watching him calmly eating beef jerky, closing his eyes and listening to music. He boldly strode up, hauled back an arm and slapped him. He may have been a kid but it probably stung a bit. He hissed at the man, yanking out his earbuds. "What the hell kind of idiot are you? Every civvie in the area saw that. If it weren't for my partner 'suggesting' it was something entirely natural, you would have blown the cover off of every operation in the city. Have you no common sense? I don't care what guild you're with, or if you're freelance, or whatever. That was reckless." He stepped back, and folded his arms, waiting for a response, finished ranting for now.

John felt someone slapped him and then yell at him "He stood up and was tall compared to him "First of all ow second I'm John nice to meet you oh and i am an ex member of the master guild it was boring all the rules and third do you know where a good place to get a pizza?". John completely calm about some child yelling at him for breaking rules that he doesn't even care about hopefully his great past as being part of the master guild doesn't strike a clue to this kid. He yawned and then offered him beef jerky he felt the souls he collect regenerate him and he felt stronger he love collecting and having his soul eat the souls he collected it made him and his weapons stronger.

Limax sighed, shaking his head. This man obviously had no regard for the secrecy of their society. "Look, I don't care what you think of us guilds, I would certainly appreciate it if you didn't show off your powers to the civvies. Trust me, you don't want us mad at you. I can be a formidable foe. Let alone my entire guild. And thanks." He took the piece of meat, and sat down beside the man, legs dangling over the edge of the building. "So, 'master guild' eh? Never heard of it. What did you guys do? Because I'm sure they don't control us. We work for ourselves." He flexed his wrist a bit, and watched as Forlorn faded into darkness, and reformed as a gauntlet on his arm, its natural form. Good fight kid. Those demons sure filled me up. I think I'll be okay for a while. The image of a disembodied grin floated into Limax' mind. Unless of course you feel like fighting again. I'm always ready to take in more darkness.

Poppy looked at the teen and blinked in surprised. "You guessed right. I'm a vampire." she said softly, so none of the civvies would hear her. She watched as he disappeared into a building and reappeared moments later on top. As he waved a hand, motioning for her to get up there somehow. She sighed. She truly hated using her 'powers' in the public, but she was too lazy to use human transportation at the moment. She leaped and jumped back and forth between buildings, finally reaching where he was only a minute later. "By the way. That idiot who put up a show over there was certainly NOT my partner."

John sighed and got up "well young one I'm out I need to eat some pizza and if you see the vampire tell her i say good bye." He waved and then jumped of the building and landed on the floor. He cracked his neck and left the alley.

Poppy saw the man get up out of the corner of her eye and silently said "Good-bye." She knew he probably couldn't hear it, but she paid no mind and turned to the boy in front of her.

Limax chuckled slightly, chewing on the piece of jerky, nodding at the fool who so openly used his powers. Seeing Honip across the way, he smiled. Well, if they can show off, as can I." He stepped back into the shadows of the next building over.

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Honip smiled. "Thought it was something like that. And don't worry, I understand. I don't think I would associate with someone like that either, at least not publicly. A powerful ally he may be though." He stroked his chin thoughtfully, watching the man jump down to the street. He glanced back up to see what Limax was up to. Seeing him step into the shadows, he laughed. "We may have some company soon, m'lady." Stepping out of a nearby shadow, Limax nodded to the woman. "Indeed. Greetings, madame. I am Limax. This is my slightly less intelligent and rather more brutish partner, Honip. A pleasure to meet you I'm sure. Vampire?" He held out his hand for her to shake.

Poppy nodded her head, her earrings jangling with the movement. "I agree. He would be a strong ally, if he learned to control himself." she said, rolling her eyes a little. In the darkness, she looked like a true hunter of the night. The animal-like gleam in her eye, her beautiful looks, and even the way she moved - almost like gliding. Poppy sensed the man before he actually came before her and gave a dazzling grin. "Greetings." she said simply. She laughed softly at his guess and took his hand to shake. "Yes, very observant." she said, clicking her fangs once.

John sighed he sat on the wall man this is so boring I need something to do. He remembered the girl "Man she was cute and the first person that rejected me the second time". He pulled out his swords he knew only one more person that was more powerful than him and they were alike in many ways but the other guy he hasn't seen in hundreds of year's.

Poppy felt the familiar burning in her lungs. She needed to feed. Now. She looked to the two teens and supposed they wouldn't miss her if it was only for a moment. "Excuse me, boys." she said quickly, jumpingnoff of the roof and landing softly on her feet. She ran through the streets, looking for a good place. She was taking deep breaths, but no oxygen could teach her lungs. She needed blood. Poppy hid in an ally and backed up, seeing the man from before. "Hey, idiot," she hissed, trying to control her thirst. "Nice show before. Just go ahead and tell the world that demons exist." she cringed as she could feel her muscles cramping up.

John saw her pain then he noticed she needed to feed he stood up and walked towards her "Here drink my blood don't worry about anything like changing me or killing me OK just drink my blood before you pass out." He offered up his neck or wrist he really didnt want anything from her he was doing simply to be nice. His blood was easy to recover and his immortal side kept him from changing.

Poppy didn't need for him to repeat himself. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, she lunged forward, sinking her sharp fangs into his neck. Immdiately, she felt relief. 'All of this blood... Delicious.' She knew she couldn't go overboard, however. After she'd taken enough, she stepped away, the blood shining on her lips. "Thank you." she said, her eyes glowing in the moonlight. She looked even more beautiful in her vampire form, her fangs peeking out from behind her lips, her eyes bright red and glowing.