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Job name: Blood runners
Client: Revallious Delivery Service
Location: The tunnels of Grand Cross
Slots: 4- Heirou and Kadar.
Details: Believe it or not, Grand Cross has always had a bit of a troubling situation.
They don't usually have problems with the Crimsons, but the only reason for that is because of the clan of Vampires and the deal we have with them.
You see, Grand Cross used to have a fairly decent defensive army in the form of the Vanguard. But, within the last eight months the Crimsons have raided the town, not for goods or anything, but rather the Vanguard. They either killed or ran out every single Vanguardier in the town, and then started to do what Crimsons do and demand things.
However, in recent times with the assault on New Kastria, they've weakened their grip and allowed a group of Vampires to move in and take them all out.
They were pretty cool, until they started demanding blood and goods every so often.
So, we gave them extra blood from the hospital, but soon those ran dry. So we've been having couriers our come in and deliver blood from them, but frankly they've just been taking them and well, they haven't gotten back!
So, what we want you to do is take one of our couriers and well, teach them a lesson!

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"Well, this shouldn't be so difficult." Heirou muttered sarcastically as he and Kadar took a stroll down to the location of which their mission would be starting. His thick blue coat flapped about in the evening breeze, made him wish that he wore a hoodie everywhere instead.
Given the details, this clan of vampires just so happened to be able to run a group of Crimsons out of town, albeit a weakened force, but it was still a decent group of Crimsons. This seemed like the type of job to bring Tau on, you know, the big hulking tank of a demon that could tear down a building with a few blows?
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"I've been working way too hard for you peasants!" Midori had said earlier, while sitting naked in the bathtub, she was taking a bubble bath. With Tau giving her a pedicure with his broadsword. Tau grunted a couple of times.
"I think it's time that I have a day off! Maybe spend it with my lovable sister?" She said, then Prairie went scampering in, with a couple of magazines from the demonic realm.
"Tau says that he approves, and that he would like to serve us all day long!" She said, sitting on the edge of the tub and passing Midori one of the magazines, the flipped it open and then tossed a brick of soap at Heirou.
"Now get the @#$##$%#$%#%$#%# out and go do a mission, take Kadar with you!"
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Heirou stood at the stop sign beside a manhole. They were surprisingly not the late ones. But what kind of courier was late to a delivery?
"Tch." He grumbled, leaning against it.
"Late courier... what kind of sense does that make?"
I just said that!

"Tch, giving my luck we'll get that Sylvia chick." Heirou muttered, rubbing his forehead gently. Sylvia was indeed one of the Revallious delivery corps. But she sure as hell didn't seem to take too much of a liking to Heirou. "It'd be a blessing if we get anyone besides her." Running through his head now was an image of an old man in a minivan tossing papers and packages out of a steam powered cannon. That would be amusing, but what kind of vampire would want to suck old person blood?
Heirou pulled away from the stop sign and walked down to the manhole, tapping it with the edge of his boot.
Just then, some person on a motor bike pulled up to the curb, spraying the two mercenaries with leftover rain water from a storm that had passed earlier.
"Hey! Who the hell do you think you are!?" Heirou wasn't happy about this one bit, he waved his fist in the air and stomped on over to the mystery rider, who got off of their bike and removed their helmet to reveal, not an old person. But rather a young and hot brunette, with short, clean hair falling to both sides of her neck, and a bit on her shoulders.
"Hmm?" She asked, taking off her biker coat to reveal an outfit quite similar to Sylvia's, a short sleeved, red and white button up T-shirt with a loose tie.
Only instead of it being a full shirt, it was kind of a half-shirt, only going down past her chest, which was actually quite big, the top two of four buttons on her top undone.
As for stuff that she wore on her lowerhalf, she wore a pair of short shorts, primarily red with white back pockets.
And yes, her hips were quite nice as well.
"Hey, are you guys... Arrow and Kaybar?" She looked at a piece of paper she had, inside of a courier bag that was slung over her shoulder.

Heirou's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets at the sight of this babe.
In fact, she had a tattoo on her forearm that said "BABE," on a letter.
"It's...It's Heirou...And-and you are?" he asked, grinning idiotcally.
"Oh, I'm Zaza." She held her hand out to Heirou and shaking his hand.
Heirou nearly melted into mush, his hand practically liquified during the shaking!

Oh great, a lady. Everyone who was anyone could tell where this was going. Heirou looked like he was going to throw Kadar over the hill and into the old folk's home on it. He stomped up to Kadar, about to do the deed when Zaza started talking again.
"Oh, the bike?" She looked back to her motorcycle and shook her head. "Nope, they'd hear us a mile away!" She seemed to not give two damns about the way Kaybar had introduced himself,
She walked around the two men and bent over in front of the manhole, pulling out a crowbar from his delivery bag and jimmied it open.
Of course, this gave the guys a bit of a show. Heirou, totally not being creepy or perverted, walked up beside her.
"We're going...down there?" He asked, a bit skeptical on the productiveness of sneaking into a Vampire's layer through the sewers.
"Mmmhm." She nodded, already wearing some pretty high boots. "They made their lair underground, and while there is an easier way to get there, it's on the surface and they watch it like hawks. So if we go underground, we'd have the element of surprise."
"But.. it's a sewer... Heroes don't use sewers..." Heirou repeated, watching Zaza already climb down.
"Don't worry, Grand Cross furnished it down here, so it doesn't smell nearly as bad. And after they did that, the Vampires tricked out their little sector, so it's actually pretty nice!"
She was down there already, and Heirou wasn't about to pass up such a hot lady. So he quickly hopped down there after her.
"Well, you're the courier. I believe you know what you're doing."
"You'd better." Zaza responded, placing her hands in her back pockets as she strolled down the path. "It's not 30 minutes or less for no reason."

Zaza crossed her arms and laid a hand on the tip of her chin. "Well, they're all a bit pale." She noted, "they're more like Dracula and no, they don't all slur their words." She said, passing a group of candles placed on boxes alongside the other side of the tunnel. Lighting their silhouettes along the walls.
Heirou took note of all of the shadow curves.
"And the reason they're taking us couriers specifically is probably because we're all women, or babes as we're called." She said, quite casually.
This came as a bit of a shock to Heirou, in the good way.
"Wait-so you're all women?" He asked, a bit startled. So that could mean that there's possibly an old lady in a minivan."
"Yeah, we're all women from ages eighteen to thirty five." She stated. "And you have to rank at least a seven on the hotness scale, and have to be a dirt bike extraordinaire."
Heirou's images of an old lady were gone, now they were just flooded with pictures of hundreds and hundreds of Marys on motorcycles!
And one Sylvia, who drove a moped for some reason.
By the way, did you know that Mary's full name is Marian?
"And your chest and hips measurements have to add up to a certain number." She seemed fairly plain about it. Like it she was reading off a menu at some burger joint.
"Well... that's interesting." Heirou tried not to be excited about it, he was going to go home and order everything he needed, and in different carts, too!"

"Because that's when I got here." Zaza retorted, hands to her hips. "Do you think this is the only place I had to go today?" She grumbled, taking out her delivery list and tossing it to Kadar. "I had to be all over the area, and that was just today!"
Heirou started taking notice of how not damsel-esque Zaza acted, they were supposed to somehow trick the vampires by offering her to them. And actually sneaking into their lair didn't seem like much of an offer. Maybe they could've somehow played it off somehow?
"And no, I can't wait until tomorrow, because I have a fresh list of deliveries tomorrow, too!"
"So have you made a delivery here before?"
"Not directly to them, but I have made a blood delivery to their frontman. And no, I don't know if they're all men or not." She stated, gently scratching her cheek.
As they walked, the scents of good food and airspray became stronger, and the paneled floors beneath their feet started to gain carpets and other furnishes. There was even a little fishing post!
"Who would want to fish in a sewer?" Heirou asked himself, still noticing that they were starting to get closer to the source of all of this town's troubles.

While Kadar was off wasting cash on raw fish, Zaza and Heirou had come to a small overpass, that spread across the river of lemon scented sewage and lead up to what appeared to be the back door.
"You know, the back door probably isn't really the best way to go about it." Heirou noted, being quite skilled in the act of sneaking around.
"Do you know of a better way in Mr.Smartass?" Zaza retorted, throwing the door open and alerting the nearest Vampire, who was just having a sandwich by the door.
Did he alert anyone else? Nope, because he was too busy reeling from the door being smashed into his face and then being tossed into the river of sweet scents.
"See, now that wasn't too bad was it?" She asked smugly, walking inside.
Heirou followed her inside, his eyes still pinned to her backside. "Well... uh..." He stammered, not sure of what to think of this.
They were standing in what appeared to be some sort of attic.
"Hey... did the world flip upside down or something?" He asked, noticing all of the attic like furnishing, creaky wooden floors with all sorts of fluff on the walls and some old crates.
"Well, they made this their lair, so wouldn't you like to have an attic?"
"But...this is underground.."
"Who said an attic has to be above ground, Vampires don't tell you how to live your life..."
"Well, where do we go from here!?" Heirou turned frantic, completely confused. Zaza simply pointed towards a door at the other side and a hatch. "The door leads to the hallway where most Couriers show up, and the hatch leads to the rest of the building, it's kind of like an underground parking lot." She stated, Heirou simply put his palm to his forehead, this was starting to be a bit of a hassle, with this lady bossing them around. Maybe they would have been better off with Sylvia? She definitely was acting like a mercenary herself, she definitely didn't seem like they needed them. But she really didn't look armed with anything, unless she had a pistol inside of that bag.

Zaza rolled her eyes at all of the questions being chucked in her general direction. "Okay, one. We all have to be able to defend ourselves, but many of us are primarily pacifist." She pointed out. "I, however am not pacifist." she pointed out the obvious as she started climbing down the ladder that dropped out of the hatch. "We all are assigned to areas in squads, and my squad has mostly been kidnapped by these guys, which is why I'm here." She stepped away from the ladder so that Heirou and Kadar could drop down after her.
"Two. It's still a house, lair, facility, or whatever it is. And the highest room is considered the attic. And three. I don't know anything about people I deliver to, so why would I know anything about these vampires?"
Looking at the area around them, it looked a bit like the mansion Heirou had been to with Zau a few weeks in the past, only a lot darker, and a lot more... round. The structure was quite drill like, with the walls all curving around to some point. It was quite interesting!
"So, we're going to head on down to the bottom of this place, free the others and then you two go and save the town, understand?"
"...understood." Heirou stated, pulling out a couple of golden handguns, and started loading them with silver bullets.
"Vampires were killed with silver bullets, right?" He asked, looking about at the others.

"Tch, they're both from horror movies." Was Heirou's response, now suddenly deciding to put on his big boy pants, he head out ahead of Zaza. "It's time for us to do what we're getting paid for." And so, the trio started making their way down the spiraling underground tower, there sure as hell wasn't too much in the way of cover. So if they ran into someone in the stairwell, they'd simply just have to take them out without alerting everyone. However, the spiral only went for so long before splitting out into branches, and it was a bit of a surprise to not see anyone here.
Or was it?
"I guess everyone's out on the prowl." Heirou guessed, "Did you plan this?" He looked back at the lady they were escorting, who was-for some reason- chewing bubblegum while reading details on the box of said bubble gum.
"What? Oh, yeah, of course." She spewed out whatever words first came to her head.
Heirou walked out into the hallway, looking at some of the decorations they had hung up on the dim stone walls. It felt a bit cold, even to Heirou being all wrapped up in a snuggly coat. "Hmm, this guy seems pretty big." He changed the subject, looking at some grey haired man in a painting drinking what appeared to be a glass of wine. It was probably blood, though.
"No, this guy's dead." Zaza said, actually paying attention now. She pointed out the little name template, it was too dark to make out, but there were two years, which meant that the guy was obviously dead.
"Speaking of dead... maybe we should check some of these doors down here?" Heirou suggested.
"You're the mercenaries." Zaza shrugged, sitting back against the wall.
Heirou scratched his head, this lady reminded him of Mary, and that's not just talking about her chest.
"Well, Kadar. Time to do some recon, search the floor and see what you find." He suggested, gently opening one of the doors and stepping inside.