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The shadier parts of town

Finally, night had fallen. Stalking some of the less... friendly parts of the town was a lone vampire. She was looking for heroin or opium- more specifically an addict. A fine needle like that would not be able to pierce her skin, and any other method was ineffective. She had to take the blood from someone that had the drug in their blood.

No, she was not an addict. That was one of the benefits of being a vampire. They did not gain addictions. Their body was too busy constantly repairing any damages and undoing any changes.

She just loved the rush of euphoria. It was something those she drank from got to experience every time she drank. Why should she not feel the same every so often?

And so she wandered among these shadier parts. Who knows who- or what she might run in to?

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She glided into view as if she had always been there, and in a way she had been. She had seen everything transpire, and had indeed enjoyed the show. It was always so much more interesting to see the killing of a person when they least expected it. When that pathetic policewomen had reminded her of the girl that ripped apart by pyramid head, inwardly she had smiled. A part of her, a very big one, always got pleasure from doing away with her enemy, and in that case, it had been those disgusting humans and their cult. The vampire did her killing for a different reason, but it was still one that Alessa could respect.

"I did," she said, pacing around Nanashi slowly. "You're the vampire I spoke to earlier: denying it would be stupid. I've met all the other ones, and each of you would have done this killing differently. You chose her specifically because she had something that would intensify your feed. It's base, but hardly my place to judge. We all feed in different ways."

She twirled to face Alessa more fully. She could tell from a sort of inexplicable feeling that this child was far older than she looked. Since the girl knew who Nanashi was, she only could be Alessa. Nanashi laughed- no, she giggled and said, "Why would I deny who I am to you? You were so helpful. I am glad you enjoyed it. Yes, it may be base, but it is fun It just feels so good. Why would I, who cannot get physically addicted to this drug, not enjoy its effects when I am able?" Her eyes were wide, with a great smile on her face.

"It is impossible to have a beautiful soul, all adults are ugly inside, and they try to hide this ugliness with false kindness. It is only those who are perfectly true to every desire that are really honest. And so, here I am, enjoying one of my many desires. That is not to say I am not dishonest, I just try to be more honest than most." And this was true. It was very rare for Nanashi to outright lie. She told half truths, she would tell the truth in a different light, but she rarely lied.

Alessa smiled in spite of herself. "You really do enjoy what you do then." It wasn't an admonishment, or even a negative way of looking at things. Top be honest, she always thought there was an art to doing things like this, and even the reply from this vampire amused her. "Interesting."

That caught her ears though, something she had not expected from anyone on the ship: adults are liars. It was startling to see someone else who understood what that even meant. "So you are saying you are perfectly true to all of your desires then. I can understand that. I just wonder...what will you do, when these activities are noticed on the ship? You can't keep them up except on shore leave, after all."

Nanashi giggled again. She rarely actually giggled. "Not to all of them. I am an adult after all. Like I said, I am not completely honest. I can give up some of my desires if it means that I can have all of them in the long term. I have curtailed them on the ship... for now. I am the planning sort, and I can wait." She smiled widely. "Of course, if you mention this to anyone, I will deny it. I have done nothing to make anyone suspect of me of much of anything." She laughed, "But I am in too good of a mood to think of any sort of issues like that!"

Nanashi walked closer to Alessa and put her hand on her shoulder, "what about you child? How do you feel about these things? And aside, what is it that you do for pleasure?" She emphasized 'child' and laughed a little to indicate that it was a joke. She had sensed it on the comms that the girl was no child, only in a child's body.

Alessa waved her hand dismissively. "Don't be stupid. I'm not loyal to these people. They have never given me a reason. If these dumb humans never learn of what you do, it will certainly not keep me up at night. If this sort of thing is what you like to do, you are more than welcome to it. I was just curious."

Here, Alessa grimaced a little. "I should be killing things." She shook her head. "When I am not, I am restless. I hoped this shore leave would have had a break in which I could fight and kill, but that is impossible now. I hope I'm not falling into the emotional tailspin about what I do."

She shrugged. "You know I'm not a child. Come on now. I have no problems with what you do. I just find it interesting."

Nanashi moved her normal speed, which was faster than the mortal eye could follow, making her look like she just teleported, and put her hands on Alessa's shoulders. Whispering in the demon's ear, "Look around you. Pick any of these to kill. Who will miss these dirty, ugly people? They have no homes, no family aside from their drugs. If they go missing and have anyone who cares enough to notice, they will eventually suspect an overdose." Nanashi's eyes were bright, practically sparkling like they were filled with icicles, pulled towards the outside world. Her smile was wild, insane. "Here, this is your break, you should have fun with it!"

Alessa closed her eyes, listening to her instincts. She turned to the girl, looking at her plainly. "You are lucky. You can kill with a precision that I can only hope for. It comes easy or not, and you can decide it here. If I do not kill in this place, I will kill on the ship. Whatever hate I have for those people, I will not allow myself to be killed where Shadow and Sasami are watching. I care about those people."

She shrugged. "What fun did you have in mindZ?"

Nanashi cackled, "You should pick one of these pitiful excuses for humans- take them, rip them limb from limb, do whatever you think is the most entertaining. Cover the street in blood, fill them all with terror! I do not care much what you do, It is your choice as to what fun is for you!"

Whispering again in a gleeful tone she continued, "If you do not want to kill on the ship, satisfy all your desires here."

Alessa took a good look at the vampire. "If I did that, my appetite would be insatiable. Those filthy humans on the ship are already watching me, waiting for me to do just that. I almost think I envy you, being only a vampire. No one quite blames vampires for what they do because of their thirst for blood. But I am a demon. Blood is not sustenance for me: just death."

As she said this, a man stumbling drunk into the alleyway was quickly beheaded, and before a moment could pass his body started to become shredded and then seemed to disappear into thin air. "I do not have fun."

Nanashi raised her brow. In her world what vampires did was not so easily excused by humans. That was the whole basis for the war. Still, she could understand that it was different here. Still, she did not quite understand that she lived off of death. Not completely. "So, it is death that gives you substance? How does that work? And you do not enjoy it? It seems such an odd concept to me." Nanashi was already looking for another person taking either heroin or opium. She wanted to keep the high rolling for at least a few hours.

"It isn't something easily understood," Alessa said. "I deal in vengeance: specifically, I was called to a place awhile ago to bring about someone's wrath on the town that stole her childhood from her. I do feed on death, but the death of people is nothing more than a shallow wound compared to the vengeance reaping I have done. It makes it so I don't kill needlessly on the ship. As for enjoying it...I can't. I shouldn't even be here."

Nanashi nodded. "I have a deep respect for you. I try above all else to protect children. Whether or not you did it for selfish reasons, I am thankful that at least you helped this girl get her revenge. A child is the worst thing to abuse. However, what do you mean that you should not be here?"

"I did it because she deserved her revenge," Alessa said plainly. "I am a demon, of course I did it partly for me. But that child was robbed of everything that was precious to her, and in the end, they barely left her with a life. I was more than happy to make those filthy people pay."

She said this matter of fact. "But when I finally did get her revenge, I should have faded away, and instead found myself on the ship. I don;t understand what my purpose is, being here."

Nanashi grabbed Alessa's hand, "As I see it, there is one more group threatening her. The ohm. We can defeat them and set our worlds right- or something like that." Nanashi was not completely convinced herself, but it sounded pretty. "Can she hear me?" She was curious. Not that her vicious acts would corrupt the girl more than she was, but rather, Nanashi hoped to say something to the girl, perhaps to console her, or something."

Alessa shook her head. "You misunderstand. When I finally reaped the revenge I sought, when I killed all of those chaotic people, Alessa and Sharon became one, and I disappeared. It was over. I shouldn't be here. I should have ceased to exist."

She looked down at Nanashi's hands. "It's upsetting. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing on this ship."

Nanashi looked concerned. "Perhaps it is just because you are powerful enough to take on the Ohm. aside from that I have no answers for you. All we can do is try to fix things, is it not?" Nanashi still did not fully understand. Who was this Sharon? Even if Alessa was a demon- and most definitely an adult- she still hated seeing a child's face troubled.

Alessa would never allow herself to look troubled. If anything, the demon girl was in that rare grouping of "line facers" on the ship: her expression was usually impassive. "I am not consumed by thoughts of revenge agaist the Ohm," she said. "These people on the ship lost their homes, and they are angry about it. I lost mine, but I don;t necessarily feel sorrow or rage. If its possible I can fight the Ohm, all the better for me, but what is my motivation for fighting them?"

"Avenging all of the children on all of these worlds that did not make it to this ship. All of those that those bugs ripped apart," Sam replied as he made his entrance. He had smelt blood and followed it. When he found these two, he wasn't particularly surprised. He dropped down from the rooftop to a crouch. When he stood, he brushed the dirt off of the knee of his trousers and buttoned his blazer. "Sorry I'm late," he said, nodding to Nanashi.

Nanashi's teeth clenched. She did not want to be reminded of that so brutally until she was about to fight the ohm herself. Still, Sam had a point. "Indeed. Aside from that, there are many children here who are suffering because of those beasts." A drop of blood entered the sound of Nanashi's voice as she growled, "That is why I will rip them limb. From. Limb."

Nanashi nodded back to Sam, indicating that she did not mind in the least.

Alessa watched for both reactions: one from Sam, the gentle vampire, and then from Nanashi, the vampire that was not afraid to get her hands dirty. The three of the, it seemed, had something in common: children were the focus of their protection. Alessa had an idea that despite this, she might be still a darker person than either of them, but this information she kept to herself.

"The threat of the Ohm is nothing to take for granted," Alessa said. "They are the most dangerous of any enemy we would have ever faced. Even now we are being lulled into a false sense of security. So eat, the both of you...I have to kill. It is important to gather our strength."

Sam understood the implication in Alessa's words and shook his head a bit sadly. "I'm no warrior. I'm a doctor. My older brother is much more of a warrior than I am." He glanced around at their surroundings. He found the sources of the blood easily enough. One was Nanashi's handiwork, and the other had to be Alessa's. He remembered the latter's interaction with that young girl vampire, and swallowed.

He strode closer to Nanashi. "I have good news," he said to her quietly. "I've managed to acquire quite a bit of animal blood, enough to keep us satisfied for a while. We will still need the slop for our primary source of food, but it should keep things calm for us." Calm he said, but the scent of fresh blood was a bit overwhelming for him. His fingers twitched slightly.

Nanashi's nose wrinkled. "Animal blood still pales in comparison to human. I do not know about how your physiology works" She turned to Alessa, "Or yours, but I, the more I drink, the longer I can go without blood."

Of course, after a point, each meal dropped exponentially in effectiveness. Nanashi smiled- a lot less of a crazy smile than she had shared with Alessa before, even if she felt the same way. Now there was just an audience "We can gouge ourselves on these humans. Not that I will kill another, too many deaths will bring attention. Aside from that I would like to see if this world has any company that caters to the needs of a vampire. Perhaps they buy human blood off of people, which we can buy off of them."

Nanashi turned to Sam, "Can you take blood with the right equipment?"

Physiology. Feeding. Blood. These were things Alessa understood someone like Nanashi and Sam needed, but for a demon like Alessa, the truth was a bit more complicated. The talk of blood she could understand easily enough. Different things consumed things in their own ways.

"I feed on chaos, death...that is why I went to this away mission. Killing random people in allies is not how I usually work. I'm in the fight, crushing, ripping, destroying the enemy. I cannot do that in secret. If you can do this on the planet, good luck to you. But I would wonder how that might sit with those security people on the ship."

"Of course. I could get some from willing donors easily with the right equipment. I'll need a little time to get it." He looked at his watch. "We don't have a lot of time until we have to get back to Stacy. Whatever we do we have to do it quickly.

He lowered his voice so that others around wouldn't hear. "So we'll have to have our meal here before we go." He glanced around, sensing out his own target. He found a young woman, clearly over 18. He hoped there wasn't anything truly heinous in her system. Her forearms were heavily tracked, but a bit old. With any luck, she'd been scared off the harder stuff into something a bit lighter. It was clear she was drunk, at least.

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She scoffed a bit, "I get the feeling that security on the ship will never feel safe with people who are the predators of humans on the ship." Nanashi already had one Seritavi on board. She would likely over time create others. She still was not going to pass up the option to sample as many others as she could, or to stock the ship as well. If they had an upcoming mission, Nanashi could not afford to weaken her Seritavi.

Nanashi held Sam's shoulder, following his gaze. She knew that Sam did not like the idea of drugs. She, on the other hand, clearly did not mind. In a flash she was beside the girl, her fangs in her neck, though not at the artery. That was not something you opened for a test sip. Covering the girl's mouth Nanashi beckoned for Sam. The only drug in her system was alcohol.

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