Booty Call? {Bael}

[Xesa]

How had Xesa made it to this joint in the first place? She had nooo idea. She recalled the last bar she was at she was having some shots of ambrosia. This new bar she had brought out her own bottle of ambrosia, sipping it while offering it up to a few people. The thing was she wasn't smart enough to try and charge people. She was passing the alcohol off to anyone that asked.

A couple of guys were stuck to her like glue, kept asking for a refill. She could barely hold the bottle steady as she refilled their drinks. The big guy grinned. "I'll hold that for you." He took the bottle from her smoothly. She scrunched her nose up and stared at him. Did his eyes just flash red? No sooner had she thought it the memory of it was gone. Ambrosia had never affected her quite like this.

The man handed it back. "Have another round with us." He pressed her shot glass back into her hand. She nodded, vaguely feeling like she was floating. She tipped the glass back and swayed in her seat.

Bringing a finger up, she pulled her phone out and pulled up Bael's number. It took her a few tries before she got the call to go through. When he answered, she was swaying to some weird song in the background. She spoke rather loudly into the phone, but her voice was husky and she let out a little growl. "What are you wearing?" She heard some reply and was about to tell him where she was at, except a strange wave of sounds came over her phone.

She pulled the contraption back and stared at it. "I never understood these things," she slurred. When she lifted her blue eyes she noticed the flash of red eyes on the man again. What the hell? "Are you a demon?"

The man flashed her a grin. It hit her then why the ambrosia affected her like it had. "That wasn't my ambrosia in that glass, was it?"

The whole time she never hung up her phone. The static had died down at that point, giving Bael a clear listen of what was being said. In the background the DJ went to put on a new song and welcomed on the newcomers to Sinners Bin.

She slid from her seat quickly, dropping her phone at this point. The man behind her brought his hand onto the back of her head. The moment he did she felt like she was free falling. One minute she was in the bar -- the next she was standing in front of Hades. "If you try to break his deal with me I'll make you burn in Hell for eternity."

Xesa threw her fist out at Hades. Then she was back in the bar. Her fist connected with some random person's jaw. At least it hadn't been a full force punch, and her fist had barely tapped his jaw. She was too doped up to get a good swing out, but the power behind her was enough to give the man a bloody lip. The disorientation from whatever the demons' had given her, slamming back into her body, and her arm swinging brought her flat on her back.

"Oh shit," she grumbled and tried to focus on the face. "You wouldn't believe me if I said I didn't mean to do that, would you?" The man rubbed his jaw with a growl then jumped her.

[Bael]

The bounty this time around was to clear out a particular nasty bunch of vampires who were praying on innocents and calling too much attention to themselves. It was kind of unnerving that his contractor was hiring him for that not because he cared about the innocents being drained to death, no it was because the leeches where attracting attention to the guy’s little supernatural corner of world.

But like Coop used to say, money was money, right? And what do you know, the guy had his ugly face again, needed a snack and had tagged along for a midnight snack.

It was just so quiet…until the first vamp bit it, crashing through the glass window and turning into ash before he even hit the street bellow. It was the good thing about taking out vamps, they turned into ashes so all you needed was a broom to clean up afterwards.

The demon and the ghoul were vampire slayers now. There probably was a crappy Hollywood movie being written amongst those lines right about now. But the sound of Elvis’ All Shook Up started to cut through the brawl sound, Bael quit such musings and pulled the phone to his ear. One of the vamps prepared to jump at him, but the demon raised a brow at him. “Not a good idea buddy!” When the vampire didn’t listen and lunged forward, he was stopped and thrown to the floor by Cooper who went on his midnight snack.

“Geez!” Bael winced at the, but Coop barely pulled back long enough to smile sheepishly at the demon before continuing the happy munching. “Told the stupid fuck it wasn’t a good idea…” the demon muttered to himself before answering the phone.

“Talk to me.”

Xesa’s voice on the other end made him smile. Yeah, long legs, blue eyes, golden hair and a godly shaped ass, that was his girl.

“Whatever I’m wearing, this conversation better end with ‘I’m ripping it off of you with my teeth’ babe.”

But then the signal got weak or something because all Bael was getting was static. He called out the Amazon’s name a few times, but no reply. He was about to turn off the phone and get back to the business at hand when it got clear again and he listened to the end of a conversation that didn’t leave him very happy.

Sinner’s Bin, he had heard of that place, some shady types around. Cooper had told him, the ghoul was a freaking walking information oracle of who was who in the town. The owner was a bad assed shifter and the place had a don’t ask, don’t tell the cops unless you want to be in a body bag kind of vibe. What the hell Xesa was doing there? Anyways he was going to find it out soon enough.

Just as he dealt with the stupid vampire that moved against him. Bael’s big hand closed on the vamp’s head, bashing it against a wall a few times. “This.Was. Rude.” He told the vampire with clenched teeth, bashing his head again and again between each word. “I’m. On. The. Phone. With. My. Girl!”

When he grew tired of the ‘wack a vampire’ game, he tossed the leech back over his shoulder as if he was weightless. “Yo Coop, got dessert for you!”

The last thing Bael heard was the vampire screaming as he made it for the door and hurried into his truck and down to the Sinner’s Bin.


(Hope it is any good, took me long enough)

[Xesa]

Xesa was not sure how many times the stupid human had clocked her a good one. She couldn't exactly recall anything from five seconds ago. Hell, she had already forgotten that she had made that phone call to Bael. The only thing that really seemed to leave a lasting impression was that stupid ass Hades. She wanted to kill him.

After however many punches though, she really tried to think hard on why she was at this bar and who the fuck this man was. She pushed the man off of her and was up, launching herself at him. Her fist connected with his face and sent him slamming against the bar, and he did not get up. He crumbled to the ground while she brought a hand to her face, working her jaw. When she brought her hand back down she realized their was blood on it. For a human he was fuckin’ strong.

Or she thought the man was human and had crumbled to the ground. As she started to stroll off and figure out where the hell she was there was a loud rumble behind her. The man was about to get the upper hand because she couldn't even get her ass to remember why she was being pummeled by someone, let alone keep her damn thoughts straight.

She turned almost in slow motion as the man slammed into her. His eyes glowed, he had huge teeth, and his claws reminded her of huge knives. "Oh my, grandma, what big teeth you have." Her hands latched onto his wrists then her hips jerked, putting her on top, so the man couldn't eat her throat out. Oh shit, the room was spinning from moving so quickly.

The people around them parted like a big wave, giving them room to fight. Not to mention that they were all very shocked at how well the tall woman was handling herself, but their view was about to change if Xesa couldn't get her head cleared up.

She had a strange feeling that she would not recall any of this come tomorrow morning. She had already forgotten why she was even fighting this shifter below her. Her blue eyes hardened and she growled. "Who are you? Where the hell am I?"

An ache slammed in the forefront of her brain. Her right hand released the man's wrist to press it against her forehead. That was all it took for the shifter to lift her and slam her back onto her back. His snarly face was up in hers, showing off his pretty sharp canines. She let out a grunt, too worried about the pain slamming in her head. "You should try a breath mint," she growled again, not even realizing just how precarious this situation had become.

That was until someone broke the two up, dragging Xesa right along to God knows where. She was too incoherent to give a shit where she was being hauled off to. The last thing she recalled before lights went out was asking if anyone had seen a big, red guy.

[Bael]

Ah man! Just great, just freaking great! Five minutes and he would be on his way home, but noooo, a couple of morons just had to go and start a fight on his watch, didn’t they? The big bouncer sighed, uncrossed his arms, stepped away from the wall he was leaning on and walked amidst the party goers that knew better than to step on the way of the man with the eye patch.

“ALRIGHT, BREAK UP YOU TWO. DON’T MAKE ME KICK YOUR SORRY ASSESS!” he said with a snarl and tilted his head slightly to the side. Alright, one sexy leggy girl and one with a Freddy Krueger complex, but still….no one started a brawl on his watch. Grabbing the shifter by the back of his shirt, he pulled the guy away from the woman as he hissed and struggled against the bouncer’s hold. Where the hell was Saint, he could use a big bad panther to help him handle the shifter. He could handle himself quite well, but in a room full of idiots to stand around a hissing and sharp clawed shifter, it was hard to make sure no one else got hurt.

But what the hell, he connected his fist against the Freddie wannabe to silence the guy up while the waitress Amy helped the leggy blonde up and was taking her to a seat across the bar.

However Amy, One eye and the shifter fell frozen as a huge red demon walked through the club doors. The look on his face wasn’t the ‘mess with me and die’ variety as he looked at the scene before him, looking at the shifter and the blonde and back and it wasn’t hard to see he was piecing things together.

And then a huge red hand came to grab the shifter that gulped hard. “Do you mind?” the demon asked the bouncer that just shook his head and stepped back as Freddie there was lifted from the floor and smacked senseless by the demon.

Should he offer that guy a job at the Bin? Surely Saint could use a guy like this. Even if he was a sight that got a number of the patrons running for the hills.

Amy gulped hard as she watched the huge red demon and looked at the tall blonde woman she was helping out. She had just asked of big and red guy, right?

“Oh my gosh! I think I just saw him honey,” she replied with a gasp before the woman passed out on her hands and she tried to hold her. Good thing big and red came to help her and took the woman in his arms before both women would end falling to the ground.

“Xesa? Babe?” Bael asked the unconscious Amazon in his arms, keeping her cradled in his protective arms.

[Xesa]

((I can't remember what my plot was for this. ;-; But, I guess we can wing it.))

There was a lot of commotion going on around Xesa. She kept getting little fragments in her hazy mind. The only problem was that she kept slipping in and out of consciousness. Each time she went unconscious she'd get a snip of Hades laughing. She knew this would happen one day. He'd figure out a way to trap her or get her back.

Another voice entered her thoughts, one very familiar. Her eyes tugged open to look at Bael, which she asked him where she was before slipping back under. What the hell had Hades done? Those demons had given her something by him. Whatever it had been was making it hard for her to think straight and now she was slipping in and out of consciousness. It must have been something vile to cause such things.

Deep down all she could think was that Hades wanted Bael to come to him. It was why he had done this. How could she work around this? She didn't want Bael going to him.

It wouldn't really matter though. It was as if Hades knew she would do this, so one of the demon's that had given her that drink came up behind Bael and whispered. "Hades said for you two to come to him if you don't want her slipping into a coma." The demon chuckled and disappeared into the crowd.

[Bael]

Bael didn’t get a rat’s furry ass for the whole ‘oh’ and ‘ah’ the people around here were giving at the sight of the red mountain of muscles that he was. Let the idiots that went screaming for the door run on their merry way and the idiot praying to God that if He didn’t let the demon take his soul to ass that he would not ever cheat on his wife again. If Bael wasn’t so focused on Xesa right now, he would go up to that guy and scary him senseless so he would pee himself if he ever taught of another women other than his wife again.

The demon that sneaked behind him and told him about Hades calling would had a huge fist running right through his head if he hadn’t done the vanishing act just then, causing Bael’s huge fist to make a big hole in the wall that had Amy grabbing to One Eye’s arm to stop her from fainting. Hopefully the big red guy wouldn’t start a fuzz and with Saint being in foul mood as usual, the place could get bloody…and she wasn’t in the mood of scrubbing blood away from the ceiling again.

“Dammit!” Bael cursed as he held on to his blonde amazon warrior. No one messed with his babe and walked away with it. That demon that had just give him the slip hadn’t seen the last of him for sure. And Hades, he would go see the bastard after all he had promised to serve the god in exchange of him letting Xesa go, but he hadn’t promised he wouldn’t give him a good kick in the godly nuts if he messed with her. Hades would be singing soprano at first sight.

“Take it ease babe,” he told her, “I’m here and everything will be alright. I will get you back home when you’re safe, call an old friend and go have a little heart to heart with Hades.”

Heart to heart, yeah, right about his right foot connected to the god’s privates. Coop would keep her safe while he went on to that, the ghoul owed him, and he could trust the guy to protect her to his death…and beyond.



((Sorry for the delay, hope my reply on pair to yours. Didn't want to move you much because we haven't discussed where to go from here and if you have any ideas, let me know *hugs*))

[Xesa]

One thing was for certain, as Xesa tried to break this hold on her unconscious state, she could feel Bael's presence the moment he entered. Being in this state even allowed her to hear him talking to her. Of course she would. Leave it to Hades to trap her in her own body with her own thoughts.

In her mind she wanted to kill Hades. He was never one to be kind at how he handled things. It was showing right here. He was upset that Xesa had been trying and was still working on getting Bael out of the agreement he had with Hades.

She should have known this could happen. She bet he would go to her grandfather and use her as a bargaining chip if he didn't do something about this coma-type state that he had put her in.

Screw the Gods! If they wanted to play hardball, well, they were going to get hardball. When she got out of this she was going to be so careful and conniving. She'll get them back one way or another. She'll have them all wishing they had left her alone and let her go about her own life in the human world.

It was obvious that inside it was like she was completely awake, but unable to talk. She was quite aware of everything happening. If only she could figure out a way to talk to Bael. She had to think about this. She was an Amazon Goddess. She should be able to do something..

She opened up her mind and tried to push words or images into Bael's mind. Honestly, she didn't think it'd work, but she was up for trying anything at the moment. And Hades kept sending her little mental images of himself. If he could figure out how to do it...she should be able to do something similar.

Maybe she was just getting flustered at being in this state. She hate this and was really trying not to panic.

[Bael]

Cradling the amazon in his arms, Bael turned away to leave the night club. The bouncer with the eye patch stepped on his way for just a second before realizing it wasn’t the best idea and stepped away. Saint would get pissed with the damage to his club, but he would be even more if the big red guy used his bouncer’s face to smash other walls or tables, plus poor Amy seemed about to faint if she did see his ass getting kicked. No, Saint was the only one in the place that had any chance against the read dude, so it was time to be smart and out of the way.

As Bael walked onwards, those who had the guts to stay around had the brains to part away and not stay on his path. The way his anger was boiling, he wouldn’t think twice before smashing the head of some poor idiot. So he carried the amazon to his car, just as some weird foggy images crossed his mind…what the hell was all about?

“Hang in there babe, you will be alright!”

Next stop was Cooper’s place, the ghoul owed a few favors to him and was more than happy to take care of Xesa in retribution. He was a good friend, actually it was kind of funny that his best friend was a dead guy, but Bael didn’t have time to dwell on such ironies.

Good thing the ghoul was well connected, and with over half of the supernatural community in the city owing him favors, it wasn’t a long wait until he found a wish that could teleport him to Mount Olympus where he stood before the arrogantly smiling Hades.

“I’m here to honor our bargain, I said I would do as you ordered if you gave her back to me safe and sound…but one thing you got to know…I never promised I wouldn’t do this is if you messed with her again,” for a mere second, Hades blinked in confusion, before a massive knee moved quickly and smashed in his privates, a move that would get even a god on his knew and yelping in pain.

Raising a brow, Bael crossed his arms over his massive chest.
“Now tell me what you want and give me what I need to get Xesa again or I will start trashing this place.”

[Xesa]

If Xesa could speak to that big red ape he'd understand those damn images! She didn't want him to go to Hades. That's what that damn God wanted him to do. To run right to him. He had something planned, but she couldn't figure it out, especially not in the dream-like state she was in.

She cursed the Gods! Cursed them all! Not a single one of them had ever done her any good. All they had done was caused her heartache.

It didn't even dawn on her that they were leaving the bar. She couldn't feel nothing, just think to herself, mostly. She was trapped in her own body...just what she fuckin' needed. When she came out of this, she was going to kill Hades or die trying. There was no if, ands, or buts about it. He was going to feel her wrath.

If she knew Bael was with Hades now...she'd be so pissed. That stupid God didn't deserve shit.

Hades, after much pain, finally got back to his feet. "You hit hard," he smiled. "Mm...yes, I do have a job for you." Hades lifted his palm out and held out a strange metal piece. It looked broken, like it was missing the other half. "There's a location in Ireland that has some burnt ruins. I can't make an appearance there, but you can. I want you to put this piece back where it belongs."

He smiled slowly, evilly, very calculating. Of course, he left out that Bael would open a portal to Hell, something only a demon such as Bael could do - according to his ancestry, which Hades had done a lot of digging to find. Once Bael connected the two pieces there would be nothing to stop it, short of a miracle.