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Hur, Heriou didn't need to tell Kadar to look around and make observations! He was already just doing that by taking in every painting on that floor he could come across. There was one painting that made him feel strange or maybe creeped out. He frowned, "I feel like I'm being watched." The painting was a portrait of a woman with a great posture and a nice rack. He squinted at the quality of the painting, but before he could gasp and jump backwards, the woman from the painting stuck out her hand and grabbed his neck. He smacked her with his fishy bag of fish, which she screeched and dropped him onto the floor. He hit the flashlight on and shone it onto the female vampire. "Begone evil vampire! Dissolve into a pool of weakness!" he rolled up and noticed that the female vampire disappeared. "That worked?" he sweated and took steps backwards. He jogged over by Heriou and Zaza. "Guys!" he turned off the flashlight, "I made a vampire into ash." He was like a little toddler who finally learned how to use the toliet. Yet, the female vampire was right behind him. "She's right behind me, isn't she?" he gaped.

Kadar dodged the whizzing bullets by keeping still. That was how you dodge bullets, right? The female vampire stepped into the darkness to ultimately avoid every Heriou bullet. She slithered over to Heriou and smacked his guns out of his hands. "Shut up. You'll alert them," she stepped in front of everyone.

"Are you a good vampire?" Kadar asked like a little boy. She shook her head. "Then?"

She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. She closed it and partly smiled, "You can say that I'm a spy of some sort. Huh, you aren't the usual courier," she squinted at all of them. "Are you all going to rescue the couriers and the town?" she blinked multiple times.

"Yeah," Kadar kicked at the ground. How did she know?

She crossed her arms, "I'll help you, then."

The female vampire picked up Heriou's handguns from the darkness and slipped them into a cloth belt. "Really? Thanks," she smiled, "I never get issued any weapon."

Even though Kadar didn't like women, who pretended to be a damsel in distress, he went with the flow. Who couldn't resist a babe cooing? And, even if the babe's not cooing at you, it's still all good. With that said, Heriou being loud and scared like a whale wasn't a problem Kadar had to keep in mind. Heriou had confidence, so his shots were probably better and he doesn't need to freeze himself in place to dodge the bullets. He rolled his eyes at the female vampire, "Three questions. Aren't you a vampire? Who are you a spy for? Aren't you a traitor?"

She placed her index finger over her mouth. "I can tell you that one of my jobs is to drive away these vampires, and hey, aren't you mercenaries traitors to your race anyway? You fire bullets at one another." She did have a point. "Anyway," her hands were behind her and fiddling at something, "if you really want to sneak in, you can't be looking all fleshy and yummy. Dress like a vampire, and they won't really bother you too much, especially since right now is lunch time." She whipped out two cases of baby powder and insisted that they smear it onto their skin.

"Well, better not turn into a blood sucking genie, eh?" Kadar took it and began going to town with it. When he stuck it out to Heriou, he appeared to be a snowman.

"Remember the place you came from?" she pointed upstairs, which Kadar nodded. "You," she fixed her hat, "could have gone through the normal courier route. That doorway leads to a spot that would trigger a cage to drop down upon the courier." The female vampire snatched the baby powders and slipped them behind her. "That way," she pointed at the door Heriou opened before, "is where they keep the blood processing machines. They check every blood package for disease and separate them according to blood type. If we keep going, we'll head into the cafeteria. We'll find the couriers there."

Kadar smiled eagerly. "Well, what are we waiting for?" he put on his big boy pants and swiftly entered through the doorway and into the well-lit processing room. The female vampire gasped and reached out for Kadar, but it was too late.

There was one problem that the vampire didn't mention. "Uh, hello, mister?" he was face to face with a large and overly muscled leg towering him. He back away, centimeter by centimeter. The owner of that leg was a large greenish-yellow skin man, who looked like a wrestler on steroids and was sent to the magnification room to make him into a giant. It grinned, and Kadar trembled at the sight of his blood sucking fangs.

"Er, this is the part where we either run or fight this guy to the death," the vampire said, as she whipped out the two golden handguns. With both of them in her hands, she fired them at the same time at the vampire giant. "Dude!" she shouted at Kadar, "Get out of the way!" He did by diving to the right, but just barely. A bullet flew through the little extra in his hoodie. He rolled onto the floor, trying to get away from the giant. It roared in anger at the bullets flying towards him. He charged at the female vampire and knocked her off of her feet. "Oof!" she kept on firing, but soon she was out of bullets. The giant snatched her and tossed her off to the side, behind a conveyor belt carrying blood packets.

While the giant was distracted with the female vampire, he picked himself up and took out his gun. He switched on the flashlight and began feverishly pointing at the giant, who had just thrown the other vampire away. It looked confused at why anyone would think vampires and flashlights didn't mix. He laughed and stomped over to Kadar for a big slap on the face, yet the genie crouched down and fired at the giant's left leg. It growled and kicked the genie away to a power box. The giant turned around and eyed at the blue haired, pale man and the sexy courier. His small eyes that hid in his sockets sparkled with some kind of fixation. It was quite possible that this was the only time he had something fun to do.

Was Kadar down for the count? Of course not! No matter how many broken bones and shots he'll get, he'll get keep being cool. Using the power box as back support, he slowly shagged his way back onto his feet with his hands stuck outwards with his gun. He aimed for the vampire's skull because a being with a broken brain is, well, injured. He pulled the trigger, and a shot of blood spewed out of the vampire giant's skull. Like a bat on its base and a little breeze passing by and knocking it over, the giant fell right beside Heriou. It looked like Heriou didn't need to use his sword today! But, Kadar gaped at what happened. He was already out of bullets, so he didn't fire that shot.

The female vampire appeared out of nowhere and patted Kadar on the shoulder, "Nice head shot!" He partly smiled, but he felt guilty for taking the honor from someone else. The vampire went over to the fallen giant and nudged it with her foot. It twitched, causing her to pounce backwards. The giant chuckled and proceeded to say something, but it seemed that his time for now was over. She fixed her hat and turned to look at the cafeteria's entrance, "She had two mercenaries and one spy. She didn't need to run onto the vampires' plates, did she?" She sighed with her head shaking. "We better get in there. I only fear the worse."

Kadar used to find the easy parts on missions great, but he was uneasy on why it was so easy to kill the vampire giant without even trying? Usually, there were twists and turns on missions like the one where they had to go under the sea, and it turned out that Mirre was the evil guy all along. It was the absence of difficulty that plagued him. He was right behind Heriou, shuffling along and trying to act like a vampire. They all acted so human-like or maybe, these were just normal vampire characteristics? How would he know anything from movies and books? "Gah, it would be helpful to have Violet's book of species," he nipped in his head. He clutched his bag of fish tighter than ever when a vampire pointed at him. He bit down hard on his lower lip, since his toothpick was lost forever back in the processing room.

"Nice," the vampire with green hair smiled and walked out.

"Tch," he frowned at how much pressure that guy just gave him.

The female vampire playfully punched his shoulder, "He was just trying to have small talk. Why do you have fish?" Kadar rolled his eyes and told her how it's obviously a survival tactic against vampires, but he couldn't exactly explain to her. She shrugged and walked ahead of Heriou towards the mess of flipped over chairs and tables. There was a trail going off to what seemed to be the back area for the holding cage, which was strangely empty. "Oh right," she rolled her eyes, "there was no courier today." Kadar moved his head in agreement. With quick feet, she disappeared through the doorway.

It was now Kadar's chance. He grabbed a hold of Heriou's shoulder. "Wait," he whispered, "don't you think this vampire is a bit fishy. I mean," his eyes were shifty, "she might have ulterior motives. And, I wasn't the one to get a head shot." He was sure that Heriou would listen. . .

Kadar grimaced in irritation. Heriou didn't care whatever came out of his mouth because Heriou was that kind of guy. Geez, he didn't even know why Violet pushed him onto this mission in the first place. "Whatever," he brushed past Heriou and entered through the doorway himself. Once the two were in past the door, his eyes beheld a corridor of terror.

There were axes being swung back and forth and fire spewing out of the walls at some kind of fixed rate. In the corner of his eyes, he noticed a sign that read, "Boobs may pass safely." He rolled his eyes and eyed at Heriou's vest. He glanced at his bag of fish. "Let's stuff some fish into our chests." He never knew he'd say that.

"Oh, these are blow fish," he pointed out the spines and the puffed up form of the fish. He slipped off his hoodie and stared at his undershirt. He had seen women in bras and such, so a blow fish plus an undershirt would be a bra shirt. He shrugged and stabbed himself with the dead fish's spines. It hurt, but that wasn't going to make him lose his cool. "Look!" he grinned, "the spines and barbs make it stay in place." He placed another blow fish onto the other side of his chest, except this fish was significantly smaller. He wanted to fix it, but Heriou was rushing him. "Yeah, I'll go first," he put back his hoodie and grabbed the fish bag, which was still very full.

"One step as a try," inched his foot over the threshold. A flash of a green light made him feel at ease, "It worked!" He bounced up and down to the end of the hall, which his proportional fish boobs bounced as well. However, there was another obstacle to be cleared. "Aw, crap," his cheery voice deflated when a keypad popped out from the only door in the corridor. "Do you know the password?"