Tadhg shielded his eyes from the bright sun outside. Its strange, a few hours ago he was writhing in pain, now everything seems all but calm. There just the smallest hint of it in his bones waiting to sneak back out. They stopped at a food stall, and he chose a meat dish that was very common among orcs. This was what hes been used to since he got to this land. He had spent all that time in the village hiding, but why? “I'm surprised a welp like you could stomach that food,” laughed an orc. Tadhg looked at him, and moved his hair aside to show the stub of his horn, “Dagol.” The Orc nodded, and backed away leaving him to his meal.
They left, and began to browse stall after stall. He watched the vampiress as she seemed uninterested. He rubbed his stomach as a flash of pain hit him. He stuttered for a second, but tried to hide it from her. The pain had slammed back, and passed just like that. She sighed of relief as she walked over to a stall of stuff, and was looking at a goblet someone was trying to get people to buy. To be honest it was the only interesting looking thing in his collection, the rest was junk. The demon stared, mouth open in amazement, as the man drunk from the goblet, and it refilled itself.
Tadhg looked through his collection with renewed interest after seeing the goblet. As he thought nothing else. The two took off once again, he giggled as she mentioned not having to hunt as often. If it works, it works he thought. They were stopped by a bard in a flashy outfit who offered a coin for a song. The demon handed him a few coins, but nodded off the song, and they continued on. The bard followed them across the city as they walked. The vampiress quietly scolded Tadhg for giving the money and causing the bard to follow them. “What haven't I heard Bard?” he asked seriously, “What is your favorite song to play?” The bard stopped, and looked puzzled, he raised his lute, and was about to start playing then lowered it. The vampiress, and demon shot each other confused looks. The bard bowed, “I don't believe my music is good enough for someone of your generosity.” He withdrew a black coin, flipped it. As it came back down he clapped his hands together around it, and then opened his hands to reveal a crow. “Its a familiar, “ said the bard, then he dispelled it and flipped the coin at Tadhg, “Give the coin some on your blood to create the bond.” The demon did as he instructed and bleed on the coin. He mimicked the bard, and opened his hands to reveal an albino crow. “Is that normal.” He asked, but the bard had just vanished.
They stopped outside of the city walls but the river as Tadhg bent over to get a drink of water. He collapsed suddenly on the ground from pain. It was back, and with a vengeance, he thought he saw the demon again. He was right, Laughlin approached from under the stone bridge to the left. He tsk tsked as he saw Tadhg hunched over, “Can you be anymore pathetic?” The blonde haired demon twirled his mustache that was just a few shades darker than his hair. The differences were well pronounced, as Tadhg had no horns, this demon had a magnificent pair which resembled the horns of a goat. He also had more muscles than Tadhg, and dressed in fancy clothes like a nobleman. “Are you fucking kidding me?” He ridiculed Tadhg, “ We send you here to produce a plague, and you fall for some lowly vampire.” Laughlin shot a gaze over to the vampiress, “ How does an elf even become a vampire, aren't your bodies a bit to fragile for that?” he laughed loudly. He pulled a rapier out, and approached Tadhg. He pointed it toward her, and gave her the choice of walking away, and she'd be sparred, or die for the “pseudo demon.”
Tadhg looked at his mistress and motioned towards Laughlin with his eyes. The blonde haired demon, kicked him over, “ It's rude to ignore those superior to you, filthy low class trash!” Tadhg only glared at him angrily. “What you though we'd send someone important to do this work?” he laughed out loud, “No its a job for servants not lords,” He fist balled up, and he punched Tadhg in the face, “But because you refuse to do what you're told, I have to waste my time and come to this dump, and share the company of all these lower beings.” He motioned to the vampiress as he said that. “So the journal give it to me so I can get things finished up.” He picked Tadhg up, and used a finger nail to ground down the stump of his horns. The rapier shone in the sunlight as it was readied.
A gust of wind blew past them as the Mistress appeared pinning the blonde haired demon to the ground. “Not so weak now am I?” she snarled. “Magic eh, not weak my but,” he tried to move but was still pinned to the ground by her. “Get up my demon,” she struggled to get the words out as she put more strength into pinning the other one. “Tadhg take care of the filth, and all will be forgiven” Laughlin groaned as he struggled. Tadhg used all the strength he had to stand and retrieve the rapier. In a flash he raised it, pulled the vampiress off him, and drove the sword through his chest. The demon tried to moved but the sword was in deep. “Seriously, a vampire?” “Im getting the last laugh prick,” Tadhg said as he sunk his fangs into Laughlin's neck, and began to drain is blood. Laughlin was flailing violently as Tadhg got close to completely draining him. “Shield your eyes,” Tadhg said as he got up wiping his mouth off. He grabbed one of Laughlin's horns and yanked. With a very guttural snap and scream the horn came off in his hands, “Now the other.” Laughlin fell slump as Tadhg impaled a horn through his skull. He fell to the ground and began bawling like crazy. He had just went beserk, and killed somebody. Very brutally at that, he glanced a the vampiress, and begged forgiveness for his transgressions.