Chapter 28: Volton's Gift
Tyler and Ara's shooting for the film is about to end. They've been busy with the endorsement of the movie and exposures of the casts. All the crews, director, talent managers and investors hold a party to celebrate their hard work. Both Slacovich and Volton attends the party to celebrate with the others. The House of Flame and Demon's Fang Entertainment talents enjoyed the night together. Tyler and Ara still kept their distance and chooses to mingle with others to keep their relationship hidden. Even Slacovich and the others go with the act to keep her connection with them hidden. Timothy and Ara's closeness makes Tyler uncomfortable but he needs to just ignore it. What they don't know is that Volton already has something planned for the night.
"President Demonfire, I'm so glad you and your team made it to the party." Volton shakes his hand squeezes it tightly.
"Why won't we be here. It's both our project anyways." He squeezes his hand back before they let go.
"I haven't seen the princess and the doctor, I wonder where they are." He grinned devilishly.
"They left for something important, I bet you already know where they'll be going. You've done your research pretty well this time."
"Thanks for reminding me of my dumbness. I should have done it earlier. Hope you won't regret your arrogance."
"Why not treat me for some drinks next time as a sign of gratitude if you really want to thank me."
"I know what your doing, I'll play along. Just set the time and place I'll sure treat you for a drink."
"As expected from a great man, I'll update you then." Slacovich turn his back to leave Volton when all the light turned off for a few seconds. When the lights came back, Volton's men are already in the area.
"Why not recieve my thank you gift tonight." He chuckled and sits on the chair facing Slacovich.
"This is unexpected, what's your game?"
"Nothing really, I just wanna remind you that I am far superior than you. Right my dear Theresse?" Dr. Spencer walks towards Volton then sits in his lap wrapping her arms around her nape.
"Yes my darling, this will be a great night." Dr. Spencer kissed him deeply in front of everyone. The talents and crews are already confused of the situation. All the staff from the DFE are all humans while some of staff from HFE are vampires.
"Now, now, bring all th women in front of me." Volton ordered his men. They grabbed every women in the party but Slacovich defended his subordinates.
"Your not touching my people. We made a contract you should oblige to it!" He angrily steps forward protecting everyone behind him. Diego and Tyler told them to stay behind Secretary Li who's already deplyong two drones circling their position in defense mode.
"I won't harm anyone from your staff as promised. I won't breech the contract." Volton's men gathered all women in front of him that includes Ara. He signals his men to move back as he stands up and studied every faces of the women in front of him. Dr. Spencer walks beside him and looks into each of every one of the women. When her eyes focuses on Ara she then whispered to Volton before she steps back.
"Volton Hellgazer what do you intend to do?" Tyler clenches his fist in anger.
"Be patient boy, your as impatient as your father. I won't do any harm to these women, but I wont promise." He chuckled loudly.
"You-----" Diego stops Tyler and calms him down.
"Oh, why are you so triggered? Are you worried I'll hurt one of them? By any chance, is she that important to the Demonfire? Well, I'm just about to start the show. Ladies, be good and show me your true colors." The crew and the actresses turns into their vampire state including Stacy who secretly undergo the experiment just to surpass Ara by all means. What she doesn't know is that Ara's one of them.
"You monster! What did you do to them?" Li bursted out in anger.
"They aren't test subjects! You're a coward Volton hiding behind an army of your failed experiments." Diego stands beside Slacovich ready to fight.
"I'm not here to start some trouble. But I don't know about them. All of my people are vampires, everyone that worked for me went through all the trouble to be one. They volunteered except for one." He looks at Ara who's clenching her fist.
"I'm sure that she's the missing piece of the puzzle." Dr. Spencer walks closer to Volton.
"Indeed she is. No wonder President Demonfire desperately partners up for this project to protect her." Volton flashed towards Ara's side and grip her by the throat. He squeezes his grip tightly but Ara swings her legs locking up to his gripping hand and twisted it making him let go. She then runs towards Slacovich's side.
"I'm sorry I failed my mission. I never thought he'll figure out this soon." Ara's face saddens.
"It's alright, you've done good so far. It's my fault for being too arrogant at that moment." Slacovich stands straight removing his coat and tie handing them over to one of the staff.
"What's the plan of action?" Diego asked.
"No matter what happens, don't change into your vampire forms. Understood?" He almost murmured but Li and the others except for the human heard it.
"Understood! Copy!" They replied.
"Ara how sad I felt the moment you turned your back at us." Timothy stands beside Volton.
"That's why I felt indifference towards her everytime were together. She's an enemy right from the start." Stacy walks towards Timothy's side.
"You know that the whole process you've been through isn't perfect. But why Stacy? I treated you as a friend." Ara cried out.
"Don't shed a tear for them, they're not worthy enough. I find this more convenient anyway, no more hiding. I won't allow my woman to be treated that way." Tyler wiped her tears off and kisses her forehead.
"I'm glad there's no more pretending between us. But what about Elizabeth?" She looks at Elizabeth who's shaking in fear.
"D-Don't w-worry about me. I-I just look at him as a brother. Really." Diego takes off his coat and wraps it around her.
"Let's stop the drama, it's so annoying." Stacy smirks.
"Keep me entertained then." Volton taps their shoulders and sits back on his chair while pulling Dr. Spencer to sit on his lap as he wraps his arms around her waist.
"As you wish. I won't hold back. Ara's mine." Stacy rushed forward to hit Ara but Tyler grabbed her hand before it could land. Timothy grabbed his hand as well.
"You're mine!" Timothy forcefully throws Tyler to the ground but the latter manages to land on his feet.
"How lame." Tyler provokes Timothy as Ara kicks Stacy flinching her a few steps back.
Slacovich asked Li to escort their people to a safe place. Volton's men stops them and prepares to attack. She switches the drones denfense mode to attack mode. She let's out her gun and shoots anyone who dares to step closer to them. Diego assisted Li and helped escort the girls protecting them from behind. Their enemies attacks at the same time, the drones rapidly fires at them with silver bullets that keeps them down and paralyzed. Diego grabs two enemies and bumped their heads at one another taking the chance to take out his silver dagger and stab them on the heart turning them to ashes. Their human subordinates screamed in fear as one of them was bitten. Li then shoot the attacker on the head and disappears into ashes. She then tends to the injured guy and stops the bleeding to contain the smells of blood. She then wounded her finger making the scent of her blood overlaps the human blood. Harry discovered that their blood isn't that tempting to vampires at all. She managed to cover the scent and continue to fight back to escort them all to safety. The safest place for a vampire attack is their office's basement. It's highly equipped with high end drones and security traps. Diego and Li will take them there. Slacovich stands calmly waiting for anyone to attack him. Seems like he's the one that no one dares to touch. He grabbed a chair and walks towards where Volton is. He then puts the chair in front and sits facing Volton just a meter away from each other. Volton's men are on guard but he just drive them away keeping a distance from them.
"I don't really like your gift. Now that the project is done, we should end the contract as well."
"The moment you planted a spy on my territory the contract has been void." Volton tears their contract and burns them.
Tyler and Timothy went all out, without their vampire form Tyler and Ara seems at the edge of the fight. When Slacovich finally senses that there's no more danger lying around his human subordinates he then stands up and told Tyler and Ara to fight seriously. Both change into their vampire forms. Ara spread her batwings and flies up. Stacy can't deploy her wings for the serum injected to her is the recreated one that Dr. Spencer leads. Timothy can only a bit of his vampire form. Both of them are on the process of observation. Stacy's anger makes the serum boil inside her blood. She then starts having trouble breathing and her face starts deforming. Stacy then climbs on the highest part of the area and jumps on Ara's back. She chokes her up but Ara's strength is far more dominant than hers. Ara grabs both Stacy's hand and throws her to the ground. Stacy's back slams down on the ground, her cracking bones can be heard on that strong throw. Volton's men rushed to attack Ara but Slacovich flashed in front of her kicking the attackers away. Tyler consecutively lays a punch on Timothy's body making him fall to the ground.
"How pity, seems like the recreated serum wasn't that effective at all." He stands up and fixes his suit.
"Recreated serum? You mean you're already conducting mutation on humans. Are you really out of your mind?" Slacovich kicks the table aiming it towards Volton. He just dodges it and grins.
"I won't stop till I have my perfect army. You must create your own if you want to destroy me and my army all at once." He left the area and his men carried Stacy and Timothy's well beaten bodies.
"An army of our own? Tch! What a joke." Slacovich, Tyler and Ara left the area as well. Diego on the other hand altered the witnesses memory about the party and took them home one by one.
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