WELCOME

[Valac]

Valac sat at the Inn of Sardon. His body wrapped by a dark cloak, a hood covering his head and face. He watched as people passed him, going about their daily routine. The city of Sardom was a beautiful place. Not yet affected by the rest of the world. A small utopia. There wasn't many in the world today. Valac made his way to the bar of the Inn and sat down.

"Ale, please..."

He spoke to the bartender, who in turn gave him his drink. Valac took a sip from the glass and waited.

[Grim]

Grim lept from one rooftop to another as he looked down upon the City of Sardon. He lept again, landing on the next roof then quickly hopped down onto the ground infront of the Inn. He stepped in through the door and looked around. He quickly spotted him at the bar. He made his way there and placed a hand on the man's shoulder. The man looked back to see who had a hold of him and smiled.

"Good to see you again Valac..."

[Valac]

Valac stood up and smiled, happy to see an old friend. He removed his hood to reveal himself to Grim. His orange eye seemed to glow slightly from behind his dark blue hair. Valac's other eye was masked by an eyepatch, which he adjusted upon lowering his hood. He then reached into the cloak her worn and removed a piece of paper.

"So this letter you sent me, is it true?"

[Grim]

Grim smirked. Same old Valac. Nothing had changed about him, and why should it? He took the letter, looking it now. Handing it back to Valac he nodded and chuckled.

"So I take you're interested?"

Grim sat down at the bar, on the chair next to the one Valac was sitting on.

[Valac]

Valac sat down beside Grim and took another drink from his glass. He brushed some stray hairs away from his face and looked over to Grim with a smirk upon his face.

"Come now Grim, Do you really need to ask? You know I'm there anytime you need me to be. It will be just like old times again. Fighting side by side as one."

Valac laughed to himself then took another drink. Remembering all the old times Grim and himself had. They made a perfect team and everyone that came in their path knew it.

[TwistedPhreak]

Rose quietly walked into the Inn of Sardon and took a look around. Nothing interesting going on, a couple men at the bar, people just doing their normal business. She thought to herself she would love to grab a drink and walked up to the bar.

"Hello, I would enjoy a glass of wine please"

The bartender smiled and handed her the drink she had ordered.

"Thank you"

She smiled back, grabbed her drink, and took a seat at a near by table.

[Valac]

Valac watched the women as she walked in, his eyes following her every action. He recognized her from somewhere, but where? Then it came to him. Rose. Before Grim had become a Mercenary he had a relationship with Rose. The once human women that fell in love with Grim. The same women Grim turned into a Vampire all those years ago. He had left her without notice, not by choice but because he had to. Nobody knew why but Valac knew there must have been a good reason.

"Grim...That girl over there. Do you know who that is?"

Valac tapped Grim on the arm and after getting his attention, pointed to the girl sitting at the table. Sipping from her glass of wine.

[Grim]

Grim looked at Valac, then turned in his seat to look at the women he spoke of. Instantly he knew. Her red and black hair. Her red eyes, and her blood stained lips.

"Rose..."

Grim stood up from his seat and looked just at the women. It had been many years since he had seen her. Many years since he had to part with her. He wasn't sure if Rose would even want to see him but decided to go and talk to her anyway. He made his way to the table and remained standing.

"Rose? Is that you?"

The words from his mouth almost didn't escape. His voice low, almost to a whisper.

[TwistedPhreak]

Rose heard a very quiet sound behind her. She thought it sounded like a voice, calling her name. That voice sounded very familiar. She slowly turned around to see the face that called out her name.

"Yes? My name is Rose."

It was Grim. All these emotions filled her soul, she wanted to cry, and she wanted to be mad at him. But she couldn't because, long ago Rose was so in love with Grim, she would die for him, become the living dead for him, but when she woke one morning, he was gone. And she never heard from him since. She looked up at him. He was the way she remembered with his gorgeous breath-taking eyes, and long dark hair.

"Grim? Is that really you? Where have you been? I have been looking and waiting for you"

[Grim]

Grim sat down, a look of shame upon his face. He just sat there a moment, looking at Rose. He couldn't believe it was her. He sighed and looked down.

"I had to leave. I was being hunted. Hunted as a Vampire. Not long after I had turned you, word spread that I was a vampire. People in town feared me and so they called in a man by the name of Alastor. Alastor specializes in the execution of Demonic beings."

Grim looked up into the eyes of Rose.

"Nobody knew of you becoming a vampire and so I left. To protect you for Alastor learning of your secret. It's been all these years and still he hunts me."

Grim turned to look over at Valac, still sitting at the bar. Drinking his drink.

"That's why I came here, to recruit Valac back to my side. Alastor has been hunting him just as long as he has I. So with both of us here together, we hope to lure him here and end his hunt once and for all..."

Grim then turned back to Rose, a look of concern swept over his face as he thought about the plan he had created.

"But now you're here. And Alastor is on his way. All these years without you, having to leave to protect you. It was all in vain. Alastor is going to know you are a Vampire now too. And in knowing so, he will hunt you down like us..."

[Yokomota Tokogowa]

A man clad in silver chains and pentagrams his hair of pure silver and his skin pale walks into the Inn. He tilts his head to the side slightly before moving to sit at a table in the corner where the shadows all seem to have gathered suddenly. All that can be seen of this mans face is his quiet and distant expression while his sunglasses and hair hide his eyes from sight. The man takes his seat in the shadows carefully setting a small bag that looks to be of royal fabrics and leathers on the part of the table that isn't hidden from the light. Within a few seconds a maid goes over to the table and vanishes into the shadows.

[TwistedPhreak]

Rose thought about everything Grim was saying. He was right, no one knew the girl I had become. I always waited until the moon was bright in the sky to go out of my house. I hid in the shadows my whole life. I would only feed my thirst when the victims were deep in their sleep. She thought of how she never had anyone, so she would do anything to keep Grim.

"I am not afraid Grim, not at all."

She brushed the hair away from her pale cold skinned face and continued to tell him....

" I know when you knew me, I was a weak human, but trust me Grim, I had nothing to do, so I trained, taught myself the art of combat. I trained so long and so hard. Grim I am strong, I have the powers of a vampire, plus I am a master at hand-to-hand combat. Take me with you Grim. I am not afraid of this Alastor you speak of."

She looked down, with a deep sad look on her face.

"I can't bare to lose you again."

Those words could barely come out, as she was so choked up.

[Grim]

Grim placed his hand upon Rose's and smiled.

"Of course I will. Together we will fight, and we will win..."

Grim's head perked up slightly as his eyes darted over to the corner. The man that had just walked in was seated there. The maid that had went to take his order had vanished. Grim slowly stood up and motioned to Valac, informing him of the man. The two of them advanced on the man slowly from each side. As Grim reached the table infront of the man and didn't nothing but pull it away from him and stand there.

[Yokomota Tokogowa]

The waitress that had vanished into the shadows a while ago steps forward into the light as the table is pulled away. She looks first at Grim then Valac her eyes seemingly either glazed over from boredom or just plain death it is hard to tell which. She turns her attention to Grim and in a language that seems to resonate through his entire body and mind making him realize it is old demonic she is speaking and not just recently old but centuries old.

"What business do you have with this gentleman I suggest you take elsewhere..."

Loki stirs in the shadows letting his sunglasses slide down enough to where he could look through his bangs at the two men before him. He looks each of them over a couple of times before sliding his glasses back up under his hair to cover his eyes. Loki lets his body meld with the shadows allowing him to seep through the chair he had been seated in and rematerialize against the wall his body already starting to move with such small movements that not even a vampire's eye could tell if he was moving or not.

[TwistedPhreak]

When Grim grabbed Roses hand it made everything around her stop. All she could do was think of his cold touch, which always warmed her heart.

"Grim, Thank you. Trust me, I won't let you down."

Rose got up from the table, pushed in her chair then followed right behind Grim. She brushed Grims handed lightly as it dangled beside his body. In her head she was wondering if he had noticed.