After the end: Chapter 8

After that recounting of the wizard wars Juan and Vincent decided to hit the red light district for a drink. Well Vincent decided he wanted a jack and coke so he dragged Juan with him to a really ritzy bar. As Juan sipped his glass of Water Vincent was already draining his second glass and laughing merrily with a group of dwarven wizards.

"So then I fell on my balls and I just screamed." he chuckles along with the dwarves.

"Ah I'll agree a fall to the jewels would be terrible, but not as bad as when my brother Onyx dropped a shovel on me foot." a dwarf says

"Been there done that." Vincent replies before taking a drink he laughs along with the dwarves before Juan sighs "Hey I'm going to take a leak." he says but Vincent doesn't hear him. Juan groans before heading to the head as another drink was given towards Vincent. He takes notice of the drink "Hey bartender, what's with the third drink?" he asks "thought there was a two drink minimum?"

The bartender a surly looking ogre puffing a cigarette wiping a glass replies "The drink's courtesy of the woman with the twintales."  Vincent looks through the bar to see a beautiful young woman with two long blonde twintails sipping a daiquiri and giving Vincent bedroom eyes. Vincent looked her in the eyes and immediately he felt something pull on his heart as his face went red and it wasn't part of the alcohol.

He felt this feeling before, but he couldn't quite remember where. It felt like when he was back in junior year and he had a crush on the Chinese girl, but not quite that. It felt like when he was back in middle school and he had a crush on the girl with the biggest boobs in his other class. Yet it didn't feel quite like that.

Vincent felt himself gliding, towards her even though he was just walking towards her. His heart rate was rising and he was sweating more than usual, he took a drink of the cocktail to calm down. His condition wasn't changed.

All the while this mysterious woman kept on giving him the bedroom eyes. He felt something in this woman that he didn't feel with his previous two crushes, then he remembered; he was shot down and outright rejected with those two. This woman felt guaranteed to not turn him down like that. He then arrived to her.

"Hey..." he said sounding somewhat breathless, he felt himself melting "You....g-g-gave...m-m-me a drink."  he stammered and the young woman chuckled "Did I?" she asked playfully "you seemed like you were getting bored just hanging out with old men, so I decided to buy a handsome man such as yourself a drink."

"Well you'd be right." He chuckles trying to compose himself as he felt himself going light headed. "So does this handsome young man have a name?" she asks and Vincent chuckled stupidly "Only if my beautiful woman has a name too." he chuckles giddily before the woman whispers in her ear "Natalie..." and Vincent chuckles like goofy "I'm Vincent." he chuckles like goofy again and it was getting kind of audible.

"Well tell me Vincent, are you interested in finding a room?" Natalie whispers in his ears and Vincent was now just walking pudding at this point.

"Well that does sound...." Vincent began

"Damn it Vincent!" Juan says wrenching Vincent away from Natalie which snaps him back from whatever rose colored haze he was in. Once Vincent was out of that haze, Vincent's stomach churned.

"What the fuck?" Vincent exclaims as he covered his mouth expecting to vomit.

"Vincent if you were just going to the bar to hookup you could've told me." he groans and then an arm looped around him.

"Who's your friend here?" Natalie asks somehow that feeling returned to Vincent as if it never left.

"Huh?" Vincent asks

"Vincent who is-" Juan was stopped when Natalie pressed a finger on his lip and shushed him gently "Hey now, there's no need to stop the fun. Why don't the three of us find a room together?"  Juan was going to object but then he made eye contact with Natalie and immediately he felt his heart throb.

"uhh....." he trailed off

"That's a good boy, why don't we go find a big enough room just for the three of us?" Natalie chuckled

"I don't mind being shared by the two of you."

"Sharing a woman with Juan?" Vincent trailed off his heart steadying a bit before he punched him in the face.

"Ow fuck!" Juan says as he fell down to the ground "What the hell?"

"When you balls decide to drop, maybe you can get a woman too." Vincent says his eyes an inhuman shade of red.

"What the hell?"

Natalie smirked at Juan before she allowed Vincent to wrap an arm around her. That look in Vincent's eyes....

Juan was going to kill him! He pushes himself up to his feet and runs towards Vincent ready to kick his ass only for him to get Vincent's foot on the side of his head.

"Get real." Vincent chuckles as he felt Natalie's chest pressed against his arm.

Juan spat out some blood and a tooth and in his haze of getting up, he noticed that Natalie had a tail coming out from under her skirt.

"What the fuck?" he asks and then it dawned on him.

"Oh fuck!"

He was going to call for help when helped came in the form of Eve. "Vincent where the hell do you think you're going with that whore?" she says in an imposing almost scolding tone.

Natalie's eyes widen as she gasps "Oh my gosh, Eve what are you doing here?" Natalie asks giddily

"Wondering where my headache is coming from, now I see it's you trying to kill my partner." Eve replies

"Partner?" Natalie asks as she looked at Vincent who's brains were now just mash potatoes floating inside his thick skull.

"Partner, but I was your partner back during the year of fire." Natalie replies

"You weren't my partner, you were my soldier. I was your commander, and you only thought that I was your partner because I didn't outright throw you away when you proved to be more useful than useless like all the other soldiers I had under me."

Natalie began tearing up "you..." she began weeping before her tears became laughter "I could not keep that up, and now that I know that this one here is soul bonded to you I don't have to waste time trying to kill you."

Her twintails turn into multiple tendrils and they begin to wrap around Vincent's neck before they fell to the ground.

Juan looked to see that instead of using her whip Eve's hand turned into very elegant and very sharp claws. Her hands looked like beautifully crafted gauntlets with a ebony finish, yet they were a part of her.

She held out her hand and Vincent flew to her arms before she pressed her thumb onto his head before handing him to Juan.

"Look after him for me, he's going to be out for a while."

Juan took Vincent and his weight nearly crushed him. There was a gathering crowd at the possible cat fight coming and Eve scoff before saying "Let's take this outside."

Natalie chuckled before heading out first Eve followed behind her and as soon as they were on the streets of the silver city. Natalie's twintail tendrils regrew as she sprouted her own claws and got into a fighting stance.

"Let's finish what we started bitch." she chuckles

Eve rolled her eyes and got into her fighting stance as the tendrils whipped at her except she back flipped at the right moment to dodge and landing on her feet she charges Natalie and they booth lock claws.

Natalie smirked accomplished as Eve gritted her teeth before Natalie's tendrils began wrapping around her neck.

"That crap isn't going to work on me!" Eve states before locking her claws with Natalie's and picking her up she slams into a smart car. Eve grabs the tendrils that were still wrapped around her neck before severing them. Eve walks towards Natalie at a steady pace before Natalie throws a rock at Eve who catches it. "Is that all you can do?" Eve asks as she raises her eyebrow

"No..." Natalie began

"This is!" she says before her darts towards only for it to be captured in a vice like grip by Eve. Natalie winced as Eve never relented.

"Okay you win, I give up." she chuckles nervously

"This isn't one of your childish games Natalie, don't start a fight with me if you're not prepared to finish it!" She growls her eyes glowing like hot embers

"Alright I get it you win, now let me go!" Natalie wailed

Eve's feature softened before she relaxed her grip

Natalie smiled hopefully before she felt a gust of wind and the next thing she saw was Eve holding her black whip-sword. Her eyes widened before before collapsing, a red line forming on her neck before her head fell down.

"Holy crap, you just killed her." Juan gasps which Eve scoffs at.

"Trust me, she would've done a lot worse had I let her live." she says before her sword turns back into a whip, which she wraps around her waist.

She sees Vincent in Juan's arms before sighing.

"Come on tiny, let's get you home and undo this charm." She says before taking Vince

"Is he going to be okay?" Juan asks while rubbing his face

"He'll be fine, I'd take care of those marks he left you." she replies as she lead him to the car.

"I'll call you when  he gets his brains back." she says as she put him in the passengers seat and she began to drive off.

Juan felt his face starting to puff up, so he decided to head home.

Today was stressful enough.