Eric breathed in Himeno's scent. It was full of life, sweet, and rich. He could be happy with just her scent, but with her holding him, it was one of the few moments he felt at peace. A new scent quickly ended that bliss. "Oh, why in hell is she here?"
The door to the basement opened up. She was instantly by him ready for some sort of angry rant speech, but paused right as she looked at Himeno. "You forgot about Sookie for her? Not that I really care, but.."
"Jessica, if you ever speak ill of Himeno, your maker will feel slightly sad for a day due to the fact his prodigy was beheaded." Eric's cold gaze froze Jessica as Himeno looked at her in confusion.
"Yikes, okay. But what are you doing here Eric? Bill is being far overworked right now."
"It is a long story, and I am not in the mood to tell it. Wait over there, I am busy right now." He turned back to Himeno, and out of sight from anyone else, slipped his hand down her back.
Jessica rolled her eyes and started to curse to herself when Eric heard his voice say, "Pardon me, Eric, but you are her sheriff?" Something about Redshirt1 always bothered Eric, but he could not place it.
"Yes?"
"Jessica bit me rather forcefully without permission."
Himeno looked at him, "I don't see any bites."
"I heal quickly, and she didn't drink much."
Eric thought it over and finally said, "Jessica, don't do that." His voice was not very convincing. "Also, Jessica, what did he taste like?"
Jessica looked at Red and simply said, "Wrong."
Eric felt pleased. Redshirt1 had odd blood, that was it.
Redshirt1 walked away saying something about why vampires have a bad rap.
At the same time, Roy and Slowhand were setting up a spot in the shelter. Roy kept glancing and Slow. Slow felt like he was asking, "What is with that book?", without saying a word. Slow thought to herself, "Damn it Red, why did you have to draw so much attention to it." Riza walked up to help them.
Slow was glad for the distraction, but noticed that Riza kept giving her the oddest glances, and ones at Roy too. In a small way, she felt sorry for Riza, but one look at Roy made her feel a little bit less sorry.
Crescendo was waiting for Jack near the entrance. She wasn't visible still. But through Red's memories, she could smell Jack, felt his friendly touch, "Damn I wish I had a corporeal body!" Though Red never got romantic with Jack, there was a true friendship while they served on the same ship. Of course, Red was very different then. Now, he was in tune, and she was playing in harmony.
Red's thoughts were rushing by. The pain had gone away so the anger over being bit had gone. "To quick forgive that man." He was still trying to remember what the alert from Section 23 was about. "Horrible memory that man." And then he thought 'I can hear you Cres.' "Good 'hearing' that man, hehe." She felt him roll his eyes.
It was hard to describe how she felt about him. Joint twins sounds like the best analogy, though they were definitely not twins. She waited to see Jack, but a sound was becoming clearer and clearer. A sound that was wrong. It came from above, a distance away, but getting closer and closer. She feed the sound to Red, but he could not place the meaning of it. Yet, deep down, he knew.
Crescendo thought for a moment. Red tended to recall things during his time away from life. "Sorry Red, but this is very important."
Eric was nibbling on Himeno's ear and slowly inching his hand near her thigh. Right as he was about to do a slow stroke, a sound hit him at an odd pitch. Instantly his fangs were bare and he nearly bit Himeno, but the sound didn't compel him any further. "What is this!?"
Himeno seemed surprised and asked, "What is wrong? Why are your fangs out?"
Wicca's scream and Roy's shout made Eric move faster than normal to the spot where the smell of blood was coming. Jessica had torn into Redshirt1 like a mad bull dog. Both Tyler and Roy were trying to move her away from the corpse, but she was drinking like there was no tomorrow. The sound stopped, and instantly Jessica stopped as well. Eric gave her an odd look as did everyone else.
"I don't know, that sound made me do it! It went straight into my head! Gah, you can't acquire that taste."
Eric looked but did not see Crescendo. "What is that Mu doing?"
Wicca was resting when the others came in. She was with everyone else already in the basement. Eric and Himeno were having some alone time earlier. Nyu was playing by her. She even let Wicca brush her hair.
When Red came in with a strange red headed female, it caught everyone's attention. She darted towards Eric and Red followed in a glum pace. Roy and Slow went to a spot and both seemed to have something on their minds.
Wicca was a bit calmer after the events of last night and in the morning, but still, an unusual uneasiness kept coming at her. Red walked back with the new girl and said, "This is Jessica, a vampire acquaintance of Eric. Tyler, she is all yours."
"Gah, no need to be so Emo, Redshirt1, it is not like I.." The sound was odd to Wicca, but instantly Jessica bared her fangs and ripped into Redshirt1. Purple blood sprayed the entire area as just kept taking chucks of flesh from his body. The sight alone made her scream. She watched Eric run in as Roy and Tyler tried to stop her, but then she just stopped on her own with the sound.
"Poor Red." Wicca thought. Who knew how long he was going to take to come back. Nyu was standing up looking slightly startled. Wicca looked closer and realized she was really startled. "Nyu?"
Lucy answered back, "My vectors do not work in close proximity to Red. I knew he could no longer produce a vector, but his part Diclonian still has some affect." Wicca realized how lucky Jessica was right then. She looked back at Lucy, but all she got was "Nyu?"
Jack walked into the basement to see everyone cleaning up a large amount of purple blood. "OKAY! That is IT! STOP KILLING THE REDSHIRT!" He thought to himself, "This is like that history lesson about those poor bastards during the time of the Federation. Wait a second..." He continued to walk down pondering that thought when a girl was suddenly walking next to him.
She wore an odd uniform with a large hat and carried a very long staff with her. Everyone stared at her as she simply walked in and sat near Red's dissolving corpse. Jack finally spoke, "Who are you?"
"Fumika is my name. I am delivering a Shigofumi. Though I really think it is bending the rules to far to have the person being addressed too be the same person who sent the letter. Though it was pointed out, he can do so with his circumstances. And he can do it again if it warrants it. Just when I thought living people couldn't get any worse."
The staff said, "This is annoying."
Jack shook his head and looked at the letter in her hand. He paused when he saw the Federation letters saying, "To Redshirt1: From Redshirt1: URGENT! Danger from above explained inside."....
Edit: Some raunchy ladies in here tonight, geez
