flame_born_twins | A'hunting we will go...

Who: Niiiika and any
When: Some years into the time Azzy is Out of Body in another realm living his life.
What: Some tasks take specialists. Like Nika.

"Mmmm, not that kind of club babe," Nika drawled as she poked her head out of the bedroom to see Frankie's hopeful look. No. Not that kind of club at all. "You're staying here or with Zom...or better have Zom stay here with you okay? Hunt took an...interesting turn.

Sure.

Interesting.

In all the worst ways really.

It was one thing to get roped in on a Burning Woman case, missing people weren't her preference, objects were far less fussy, but the woman had a compelling and deep reason to keep looking for her child, and it had taken something other like Nika to get her bound to her a word. A year for someone else to find the child.

Lucky her the ghost was in a slower time pocket from the one the hunt had led to. Find the boy.

The demon bred boy forced on a woman so broken and abused she hadn't remembered fire and glory in her own bloodlines until she was long past dead. Demons did like breaking their toys, better if they could besmirch one of the old Abraham bloodlines. Demons.

Feh.

She'd traced in her quiet way until she realized something interesting. The demon layer whose resonance she was tracing...was recruiting. Desperately hunting. That meant if she was seen, knowing she had dealt demons fair in the past, they'd remember she was a hunter, and her quarry might come to her. Better, she was strong enough that they had to come at her properly about a job.

They just might be desperate enough for that hmmmm?

But it meant some unsavory club, and places far less mortal friendly than she preferred to be at with her boyfriend and his best friend black. "There'll be blood babe, think gothic torture chamber levels, though I promise no one else gets to lick blood off sensitive bits okay?" she teased gently, petting the pretty little ebony corset Frankie had been hoping to get her into with a sigh. "I love it. We'll go clean clubbing after this hunt I promise. I'll need it, you'll need it, Blot will steal a wine bottle from the bar..." Because there was nothing like the promise of coming back to something good and clean to get a girl through dancing with demons yes.

"I told you lately how lucky I am that you date me?" Utterly. He wasn't exactly human anymore, not being a close to death as he had been for so long then getting firebird ashed (and other birdie bits she was happy to share behind closed doors!) but he was closer to normal and healthy than many people she'd come across over the years and it was good for her yes. Important it wasn't a one way dating type deal.

Yup.

"Plus you babysit Blot." Her little dope of an ink dragon loved hanging out at the tattoo parlor Frankie and Zom ran, getting absolutely spoiled on ink pigments and cooing at pretty art that didn't coo back. Idiot boy. "Seriously though, ANYTHING puts your back up you're moving in here or the shop okay?" Just in case. The last time demons had tried the collateral damage thing with her or Aloysha they'd lost an entire Hell realm, but some demons didn't know that.

She'd pity them but really, why bother? Demons didn't appreciate it.

A good kiss and she was dropping the real apartment keys in Frankie's hand. The ring with the anchor stone to her actual locks, safest way she knew to make him in her absence yes. If anything tried to take a swing at her lover the apartment protections would wrap around him no matter where he was! Then she was laughing and goosing him proper before slipping away sideways and down a bit in reality to some of the darker sides of darker towns.

She always loved dancing in any club honestly, she'd been in most clubs, good and bad to do just that. Making another set of rounds wasn't at all out of the ordinary for her, and she looked gorgeous in glitter dust and blood, it shimmered like dark rubies against her dancing flame. They'd see how many clubs it took before the demons of the right resonance got up their nerve hmmm?

They had to be pretty desperate to be willing to talk to someone like her.

Pretty desperate indeed.

Odds were pretty good that the desperation was tangled up with her own hunt, important things tended to fall together like that. Time would tell.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

code_jaeger

Aiden didn’t want to find his half brother. He really didn’t. The imp had freed himself but their father didn’t allow his possessions to be free. So there he was, compelled by the ever tightening feel of barbed wire in his soul.

The woman he was looking for had been seen in the area the day before so there he was wandering in circles in an alley wondering what the hell she’d been doing it for.

From:

flame_born_twins

Well, honestly, she'd been seen in clubs not back alleys but hey, bartenders and dancers alike tended to exit through the back and leaving doors showing glimpses of the people inside, right?

From:

code_jaeger

We’ll it wasn’t a club alley. It was a random alley in NewYork.

From:

flame_born_twins

...he was great at this 'find a person' thing wasn't he? Or really didn't want to find a glowing birdie girl huh? Was he asking around? She kinda needed something to work with...

...or hey some demons snickering about some black rose realm kid being lost in New York like a fucking tourist would do it. He got a lot of people wandering off to see him then!

From:

code_jaeger

There was a door in the alleyway that hadn’t been there before. Huh... going in.

From:

flame_born_twins

Yeah, the bouncer was laughing his ass off? "You lost? I know you from back of beyond Hicksville Hell but..."

From:

code_jaeger

“Fuck off.” He growled.

From:

flame_born_twins

"You came in baby Rose, cover charge," he grinned, holding his hand out.

From:

code_jaeger

He didn’t have time for this bullshit. Shoving past him yes.

From:

flame_born_twins

"Look, we're fucking civilized here, you want in, you pay you royal ass," the bouncer growled, large hand wrapping around the kid's waist. "Everyone pays, from fucking Noah to his high and mighty rose cult lordship."

From:

code_jaeger

Aiden.... slit that very large wrist with a straight razor yes. “Don’t TOUCH me.”

From:

flame_born_twins

That just made the hand tighten in annoyance, "oh he thinks he has teeth," he snorted.

"He's obviously a first timer," Nika laughed, perching on a catwalk above them. "Tell him the price, hard to pay otherwise!"

"Mind your own birdie, you can't adopt everyone."

From:

code_jaeger

Well... the giant spider that crawled up and out of his throat to spit acid in the guy’s face yes.

From:

petal_storm

The bouncer screamed, more rage than agony though, but it did make the crowd shift to look and laugh? The bartender took pity on...everyone, yes, "fifty bucks on the bar kid, or one lost soul, four hopeless causes, or a single pure emotion and you're in and under protections."

From:

code_jaeger

He didn’t really have any of those things so.... yeah.

From:

petal_storm

"Seriously kid, what have you got on you?" He sighed, polishing a glass. "You can ask someone to pay your entry fee too but that's between you and debts so..."

From:

code_jaeger

“You, bird come outside.” He growled ignoring them all.”

From:

petal_storm

"...you don't get to make demands of patrons kid."

Nika at least looked at him, vaguely amused? "Why should I?"

From:

code_jaeger

“Because I said so.”

From:

petal_storm

"No. Learn how to ask nice and maybe you can buy me a drink," she snorted.

From:

code_jaeger

“Useless. You’re all useless.” He snarled snaking his way free and wandering off.

From:

petal_storm

As long as he was leaving that was fine? Further into the club wasn't going to work.

From:

code_jaeger

Yes. He was leaving.

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flame_born_twins

Well the patrons had a good laugh about ignorant, outdated demons and went back to business? Nika danced for hours yet before going up to sit on the roof yes. They'd see just how rude rude boy was!