Children of Fey and Night: Chapter Six

The Legion of Thieves

Children of Fey and Night

Suckerstone Bar

Lissa Altanik 

"You sure about this?" Max said uncomfortably.

"Certo," Dawn said. "If you want, you can wait out here. Or, better yet, find some iron weapons."

We had decided that Max should stay out of the bar. His aura was far too bright to be stealthy - nothing like Dawn's, or even mine. If we didn't want to attract attention, we needed to blend in with the vampires. Dawn already passed for one, if the queen was any indication, and my own heritage comes from Hecate - the inventor of vampires.

Dawn and I walked into the Suckerstone Bar. It was a totally empty room, apart from a set of stone stairs leading underground. Dawn walked down, and I followed her.

The bar looked insane. The walls were all dark grey stone with small chunks of rusty metal scattered randomly about them. There were two billiards tables; one that people were playing on, and one that was in three pieces and stained with blood. There was only one light, and it was a dim red that hung from a wire overhead.

Oh, and there were two people who had just stood up from stools - one had spilled the red liquid in his mug - and started to fight.

One of them, a greased-blonde wearing black jeans and a white button-down, made the first punch. His opponent, a slender guy with messy black hair, was caught off-guard and fell to the ground.

"Oh, it's on, now," the dark-haired one said with a massive grin that showed off his long, sharp canines. Without getting up off the floor, he swung his legs around the blonde guy and swept him off his feet. They both got up again. The blonde one kept punching and kicking, while the dark-haired one dodged and struck whenever his foe was open.

I took my eyes away from the brawling vampires when Dawn kicked another guy in the face. "Hands off, bastardo."

The guy lingered a bit, then Dawn shouted, "I said fanculo, and I mean it."

I nudged her shoulder. "We're trying not to grab too much attention..."

Something hit the back of my head, and I fell a bit. "Hey, watch it," Dawn said to the blonde brawler. I looked up and got a pretty good idea of what had happened; he'd tried punching the other guy, other guy dodged, the punch hit me.

"That... was a low blow," the dark-haired one said. He leaned back, putting both his hands on the ground, and started kicking the blonde one repeatedly. Now the blonde one was on the ground. "This was a fight between you and me. You do not hurt someone else."

"Like you're any better, Trey." The blonde spat his name like it was physically repulsive. "I accidentally hit one chick because you keep ducking and I'm the bad guy, but when you put the entire va

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