Stage Set Up: Underground Club

Light.

Blinding, flashing colors streaking every which way, falling upon the thick crowd of dancers.
From where Mao stood behind the bar, leaning his elbows to the counter top, he could smell their sweat and the alcohol on their breath. He hated this place, only because the music was always so loud. The pros of the underground nightclub were that he found a place where he fit in - everyone here was labeled "freak" by the rest of the world.

There were girls with mohawks, guys wearing fishnet, people with glowing paint all over their bodies, and piercings galore.

Actually, Mao stood out a little at this place because he seemed rather normal in looks, if only a little feminine. The reason he felt comfortable though was because under his skin, he too was a freak, but nowhere near like these dancers and club goers.

No...

He was much much different...

Not even his "clients" knew his little secret.

And as the techno music thundered on, he got his first break of the night, content to look out into the crowd and wonder when someone would come and pay him to kill someone else.

Walking in, Leading Lilith by the hand and laughing, Kagune's Ears heard the loud music and automatically flushed out the sound as though it were a fly. Looking around, he saw all of the dancers, felt their pulse and smelled their sweat as it floated through the air like perfume.

His eyes washed over the ocean of people, seeing every shape and size, every clothing style and metal in flesh as he had seen grow over time. Walking up to the bar and leading Lilith, carefully pushed his way through and having a grasp on her hand so as not to loose her; he made his way to the bar where he caught Eye contact with the Bar tender.

"Evening, a glass of Scotch please...and Well Lilith what would you like?" He said as he turned to Lilith.

Lilith followed watching other dressed like her dancing. The tecno music sort of lulled her as she listened to it. She was a wonder how humans could come up with so many new styles of music. She shook her head in amusement and turned her attention back to Kagune and glanced at the bar tender. She was thristy for something quite different from the stuff up on the bar. She sighed inwardly she really didn't need people in this town freaking out and trying to hunt her down. "How about a shot Disaronno???" Lilith replied loudely enough so that the bar tender could hear her. She was suprised by her own choice in liquor. She hadn't had anything Italian in a while but grinned as she pushed the thought away.

The moment the pair entered the club, all of Mao's senses tingled with a certain dislike he'd learned to ignore. There were always people that gave him feelings of discomfort but he could never explain why.

Was it their looks?
Or maybe the way they walked and talked?
Maybe it was because their every pore leaked the stench of death.

His job required him to talk with each customer, so he put on a smile as he poured out their respective drinks and said, "How is your evening going? You two are new faces around here. Visitors?"

"yeah, our first time here; we're locals though." Smiling as he made conversation. For some reason, Kagune got this odd smell from this young man; he didn't know what it was though. "hows your evening so far?" he asked politely as he waited for his drink patiently.

Okay, so it was pretty damn clear that these two weren't intoxicated so Mao pushed the drinks across the countertop toward them and wiped away the persperation trail the glasses left behind.

"Pretty boring really. People come here to dance more than drink." Though he kept a pleasant smile on his lips, his warning signals were going off in his head so loudly he could barely think! There was something very strange about the pair... "Is there anything else you would like?"

He wasn't so sure he would help them with...darker services. Besides, he had a feeling they wouldn't need any help in that department.

"No, I am just fine thank you mr...?" He said as he waited for a name, though he didn't push for it. As he began sipping his drinking and waiting for the answer, a couple of men began to throw punches and hand landed one upon Kagune's chin as he went to take another sip. Groaning and sighing, he grabbed both of the men by the collar of their shirts and saw the door open; and chucked them both out of the club and out into the streets.

"If you're gonna behave like animals, than I'll treat you like some animals." He said as he wiped his shirt and took in the rest of his drink.

Smiling as he finished, he looked at Mao and sighed.
"I just realized your secret, pup." he said as his eyes flashed green to yellow, to red and than back. Even with the flashing lights, his eyes were so vibrant that even a plane from the sky could spot him out.

((...wait...did Kagune just throw two guys across the club and out the doors all super-human-like? xD))

((yeah, but no one is noticing because people are drunk, high, or to pulled into the music to notice XD))

((haha okidoki xD))

With everything happening so fast, the bartender didn't have much time to introduce himself as "Mao..." before his attention was pulled in several directions.

Those same two guys! He'd told them time and time again not to come into the club if they were only going to fight!

I'll deal with them later....

He'd been considering a proper way to 'deal with them' when his train of thought came to a screeching halt via crashing right into an 'oh shit!' wall. His normally thin eyes went wide at the scene that unfolded before him; he'd been right to think that the couple were definitely not human because no human could toss two full-grown men around like dolls!

He didn't quite know just how to react to it all and for a moment he stood behind the bar, hands gripping a glass he'd been in the process of drying with a towel - the glass that exploded under his grip when he heard the other call him 'pup'. At once, he knew he was in trouble. No one was supposed to know his secret! This wasn't good at all!

"I don't know what you're talking about, sir." He quickly hid his surprise and fear and pointed a finger at the man. "But I don't think you belong here. Please leave right now or I'll have security help you."

Lilith shook her head and watched Kagune through the guys across the room she turned her attending back to the bartender and narrowed her eyes at his reaction. "Thats plain foolish of both you men to try and get us killed wiht stunts like that" She said icily before taking a sip. "Kagune quit teasing the wolf." She had figured out the scent quite well though where she had learned of it was when she was but a child. Her eyes had changed to a white as she stood there knowing well enough they would get into trouble if they went anywhere with their eyes like such.

She shook her head at the bartender. "Atleast allow us to stay and finish our drinks Mao." She said more softly though the ice still lined her once sweet word. She looked around the club and hoped noone else had seen this happen. She sneezed from the wet dog smell coming from Mao and made a face. She looked at Kagune and shook her head. "We shouldn't have come here out in the open Kagune." She said so softly that only he could hear. She knew very well what could be looking for them right then and there.

Trina made it just in time to her shift at the club. She sighed softly and stepped over the two men laying face down on the sidewalk and smiled at the bouncer as she walked past. She scoped the crowd as she began making her way to the bar. I was a fairly large crowd maybe she could make a better amount of tips tonight. She was lost in thought until she was about to the bar and eyes Mao and immediately turned on her heel making her way to the back room.

Trina's heart was pounding, just the sight of Mao made her weak all over. She just wanted to curl up on the floor next to him and lavish with his attention as his hands stroked her lovingly. Her fist hit the wall going partly through it, "Shut up this is not normal! I'm not an animal!" Trina cried out to her mind and body as she was still having trouble coming to terms with what she was. Sighing she pulled her hand from the wall knowing that it was bleeding. She went to the sink and washed her hand off the best she could. Her wounds would heal soon as they never really lasted that long do to the inhuman healing powers she had. She smelled herself because of her stupid crush on a stupid boy that would probably try and shoot her with silver if he ever knew the truth. She sighed as she smelt like the woods where she lived, the river that she bathed and blood. She shrugged as she must have gotten some on her jeans but no one that she knew of had superhuman anything, except her. Maybe things would be easier if she knew how to find someone like her. Trina tied her apron around her waist and made her way back towards Mao. She smiled as she came into the last bit of conversation with a couple that he apparently asked to leave and were commonly asking to finish first.

Something about them smelled funny but she had no idea what it was, she looked at them for a moment before she collected a tab of paper and a pen. She stuffed them into the apron pockets. She was concentrating on her rapid heartbeat as she looked up at Mao smiling. "Evening." her word was soft and she didn't know if he could hear it in a louder tone she said, "I'll go get some orders for you."

((Good start. now if people would get on and post here))

From the moment she entered the club, Trina stole Mao's attention away from the strange supernatural couple. He could smell her even before he caught sight of her. She always had this outdoorsy scent that appealed to his beastly side. He figured she must live outside the city. And God, how her beautiful eyes captured him, even though she was quick to disappear to the back, leaving him alone with the creepy couple again.

"Leave here. I want nothing to do with you," he warned them in a low voice because other customers were approaching the bar. "Don't even bother paying for your drinks, just leave." He wanted more than anything to help them leave but he wasn't going to risk people realizing his nature. Instead, he moved a little down the bar to attend to the other customers.

That's when Trina returned, brightening the club and Mao's mood with her sweet voice and even sweeter smile. It was a pity she never really gave him time to say anything back; she was always running off before he could even think. For a moment, he watched her retreating into the crowd, most likely heading to the tables on the other side. Then he tended to the customers, mixing drinks and pulling bottles of beer from the fridge, waiting almost anxiously for the pretty waitress to return and make his heart skip a beat or two~

Trina smiled as she took order after order. She had ten drink orders and two serving trays full of dirty cups but she didn't mind. The dish washing station was right beside Mao. How he made her feel like a giddy school girl with her first crush. Her heart raced as she started to make her way back to him.

One of the people dancing made some kind of freak move dropping to the floor and kicking his feet up in the air. What really happened is that he dropped down and as he moved his fee out to kick up Trina tripped over them. There was a small scream and a huge clatter of shattering glass. Trina was still on the floor trying to scramble out of the mess and broken glass.

Trina looked around her mortified as people were laughing and clapping at her. Her ankle hurt as she twisted it in her fall. She attempted to ask fro some help standing but everyone around her was too busy making fun of her. Tears started to cloud her vision but she refused to cry in front of these people and give them another satisfaction.

The scream forced Mao's heart into a beating frenzy but the clatter quickly calmed him again. He knew it was Trina because the other waitress working tonight looked and sounded like a man (she was a frightening woman really). At once, he excused himself from the customers and hurried through the crowd while one of the bouncers stepped behind the bar to keep an eye on it.

"Trina?" he called, shoving people out of the way, desperately trying not to use too much force lest it seem inhuman. Finally when he managed to weasel his way through, he saw the poor girl on the floor, broken glass all about and quickly dropped to his knees beside her to make sure she was alright. "What happened? Did someone hurt you?" he asked, leaning close and speaking into her ear since the music was much too loud. He ignored how the glass cut at his knees - it wasn't important, only Trina's well being.

Gently, he lifted her up into his arms and carried her through the crowd to the backroom, taking a seat with her on his lap. "There...away from all those eyes staring."

Trina heard her name called, her head turned to the voice and her heart skipped three beats. Mao. Her jaw dropped in disbelief as her heart threatened to burst out of her chest with it's incessant pounding. Trina didn't notice that she stuck her hand into some shattered glass, when she shifted her weight, as she watched him walk towards her.

Mao smelled so good and his breath smelt so warm on her skin that Trina missed whatever it was that he asked in her ear. Mao was a distraction into himself for Trina and she just stared at him. A blush searing her cheeks when he lifted her from the ground. Trina's arms instinctively around his neck as he carried her.

His touch was so gentle, just as she imagined it would be. He was talking again as he settled her on his lap. Her temperature was rising as her blush intensified. She didn't know what to do or say as she stared at him with a soft wonderment shining into her eyes. Trina realized that she was not breathing and took a deep breath of air that sounded mostly like a sigh. The blood lingering in the air smelled like wolf, like another wolf, but that couldn't be right. Maybe Mao just messed with her senses that much. "Thank you." Trina managed to strangle out in a whisper.

The girl was nervous - Mao could sense that much just by the way she sat on his lap, so tense that should could have been mistaken for a board. He didn't blame her, especially after what she'd just gone through. All those people laughing at her... how horrible! He would have killed them all if he hadn't been so afraid of showing his true nature.

"It's nothing," he replied to her gratitude, gently tugging off her shoe to examine the injured ankle. It was a little swollen but nothing a good rest wouldn't fix. "I'll go get you some ice alright?" He set her down on the bench and rose to his feet. But at that moment - at the very precise moment - he caught the sweet and utterly hypnotizing scent of blood.

Instantly, his mouth watered and he could feel his body aching to transform. Not now! Not her! he cursed at himself, forcing the beastly urge to subside. It was then that he noticed the particularly familiarity of the scent. It smelled.....wolfish. But that wasn't right at all. It wasn't his own blood - he knew that scent all too well. That only left...

Without thinking, he turned to face Trina again. He should have been more careful, knowing that his eyes often shone like the golden sun when he caught the scent of blood. He closed his eyes, praying he wasn't too slow, and cocked his head to the side. "You hurt your hand... I'll bring the first aid kit then," he added and quickly strode out of the room to get the kit under the bar.

Kagune stared around until he saw a set of men with oddly colored faces and horns coming out of their forehead.
"Where the hell did demons come from?" He spoke quietly to himself as he put his drink down and Told Lilith that he would be right back; restroom.
As he followed the demons out as quickly and silently as he could, he finally trailed up on them and stopped with his hands in his pockets, purposely splashing in a puddle of water out in the alley of the club.
"Hey, hotheads!" He shouted as they kept walking, not even looking back. Smiling, he vanished and appeared before them with his claws already in the chest of one of them; causing the demon to combust into flames and vanish. Smirking, he looked at the rest of them who snarled and waited for them to attack.
"Attacking a Pup isn't very nice, boys. you should learn to play nicer." He said as he thrusted out once more into one's throat this time.

Trina blushed as his hands were so gently and warm on her twisted ankle. She fought down the whimper in her throat as he set her down just as she fought the urge to nuzzle his neck. Trina fought her animal instincts all of the way but it seemed almost impossible around him.

Trina froze as she she felt something shift in the room, like the surge of power that went through her when she shifted, then she saw the amber of his eyes. Her mouth was slightly open as she watched Mao leave the room. "Tricks. It's just the light playing tricks on my eyes." She nodded and clenched her fists taking a calming breath.

Trina yipped, the sound was loud and all wolf, as she ground some glass deeper into her hand. On instinct she pressed her hand over her mouth to muffle the sound that she had hoped the music of the club drowned out. Unfortunately for Trina the hand she pressed to her mouth was the one with glass embedded in it, successfully cutting her lips. She shot up off of the bench and clattered back to the floor as her ankle was still not healing. Her healing abilities were diminished as she had not eaten in a few days. Sure there was hunt in the woods but as she worked late, making almost no money as the past few nights at the club were slow. Trina was just too exhausted from the extensive hike "home" to actually shift and hunt that she just fell asleep.

Trina whimpered as she pulled herself back to the bench Mao had laid her on. "I'm so pathetic. Do I just loose all sense of my self when he is near?" Trina talked to herself as she often did. Wishing she has tweezers Trina started her attempt to pull the glass out of her hand. She decided it would be best to not try and rub the blood off of her lips because how her night was already going she might just injure herself more. "I might just be the only wol...person alive that could injure themselves more just by sitting. He must think I'm pathetic and hopeless." With a soft sigh and a look of longing at the door for him she turned to set back to her task.

Lilith shook her head as she watched the incident happened and decided to help find the first aid kit. She noded to Kagune with understanding as she caught the scent of strange creatures. She was sure she wanted no part of it. She walked towards the bar tender and held out the first aid kit. "We don't bit all the time pup and I will still pay for the drinks it's the least I can do and it will help pay for the mess." She said softly and calmly as she looked at the floor. The scent off blood on him from the girl and him was making her dizzy. She backed up a couple steps and shook her head before peering at the wolf and then trying to find where Kagune was so that they could get out of there as fast as possible. She should never had agreed to this and knew it was completely foolish.

Silently, and just a little cautiously, Mao took the first aid kit from the woman, keeping his gaze on her until she left - probably to go find her other half. It was better this way because now the wolf wouldn't have to worry about the couple's intentions. He made a quick return to the backroom and the waiting Trina, this time fighting down his beastly attraction to the scent of her blood.

"Here," was the only thing he said to her as he tended to her injuries. He tenderly placed a cold pack for her swelling ankle and then took her hand in his left, tweezers from the kit in his right. He should have said something more, like "I'll try not to hurt you too much" but he was both distracted and rather nervous all of a sudden.

Maybe it was because her skin was incredibly soft against his touch? Then again, it could have been the sweetness of her blood. He licked his lips as he pulled pieces of glass from her injured hand and his tongue just barely caught wisps of that sweetness. His heart beat just a little quicker. And yet he couldn't tell if it was because of his blood lust or because of just plain old lust.

Only when her hand was glass-free and bandaged did he look up at her, his gaze catching on her bloodied lips. His brain stopped working then because he didn't so much as hesitate before he leaned closed and gently licked blood off her bottom lip.

Trinas heart pounded over the gentle, warm touch of Mao's hands. As he plucked the glass from her hands Trina had turned her head to the side as though she was offering the bare flesh of her neck in submission to him. Her breathing came in pants as the tedious process of removing the glass took a little wile.

The room sparked and sizzled with the tension between Mao and Trina. She heard every breath that he took and shivered every time his breath caressed over her skin. It was so hot and luxurious that Trina clenched her free hand on the bench just to stop herself from touching him.

Trina turned her head as she felt Mao pull away so she could look at him. It all happened so fast. Mao was looking down at her then his tongue was on her lip licking her lip. Trina didn't know if her heart stopped beating or exploded in her chest. A deep wolfish purr escaped her lips as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Trina rubbed her body against his, where they were touching, marking him with her scent.

Mao had pushed her to the edge of control. Everything territorial and possessive in wolves was comming out and starting to claim Mao as her own. God would she tear any bitch apart, limb from limb if they even looked at him wrong.

Trina didn't realize that the wolf part of her personality was coming out as she was so taken with him. Her green eyes were speckling with the amber of the wolves as she closed them and crushed her fingers into his styled blond hair and kissed him.

Just a taste~

That was what he'd been after. Only a tiny, innocent little taste of her lips... But Mao should have known better than to think that he could get away with it and still be able to control his emotions.

Trina's lips on his were so tantalizing that he couldn't bare the thought of pulling away. Her blood mingling with her lipstick was a new and exciting flavor that he just couldn't refuse. Kissing her back, he wound his arms around her thin waist and drew her as close to himself as he could manage.

He could feel her heart pounding wildly in her chest.

But then a knock at the door shocked him back to his senses and he gingerly pulled away from Trina, wiping her lipstick off of his lips with a finger. "What is it?" he asked the third member of the party, trying not to snap at the young lady.

"I-I can come back la-"

"No...it's fine..." Mao mumbled, getting to his feet. He closed the first aid kit and tucked it under his arm... And here, he chanced a glance toward Trina, something close to an apology covering his face. Forgive me for letting you think I could be there for you... He turned back to the other woman and said, "We'll talk outside if you'll follow me."

Trina reveled in the feel of his lips, his arms and his hard lead body pressed against hers. His scent filled every pore of her being and she still couldn't get enough of him. Her eyes were fully amber of the wolf when the knock sounded.

And he let her go, the room was suddenly hot and frigid at the same time. If looks could kill that bitch... THAT BITCH!!! Trina clenched her teeth and wanted nothing more then some fresh meat. Trina stood up and went to take a step forward as Mao turned to her with a look. That seemed to attempt an apology, Trina turned her head to the side averting her amber eyes from him as she held back her hot tears of anger and disappointment.

People always came to see Mao, Trina knew she was being a fool for thinking that she could have something when she was a monster that lurked in the nights. Shaking her head Trina left the back room and made her way out to the bar that seemed to be almost dead, again.

Trina sighed as she went and started to take orders. She had to work fast to make some actual money. Trina didn't think she could survive another night without eating. The thought of food made her stomach growl in protest and it hurt. Trina decided to avoid Mao and traded with another waitress for the other bartender. Trina made it a point to avoid contact with him but it was so hard as his smell invaded her every sense.