"Four 'yea' votes, none fo' 'nay'! The 'Mericun sissum o' democracy is doin' it's wondahs, ladies an' gentlemen!" Neo said in a Transatlantic accent, wanting to invoke the mental image of an old-timey showman. "Now, all-a dis rests on wun final vote!" He turned to Andy and asked her, "Whaddya thunk o' it, missy?"<br/><br/>Andy was taken aback by the sudden focus on her. It took her a few seconds to realize that the fate of a vampire is now on her hands. Anything she will say can make or break the pale and defeated undead woman on her knees, and she didn't anticipate that she will deliver the final word. Thus, she was hesitant to answer. "...I don't know." She answered.<br/><br/>"Whaddya mean ya' dunno? There ain't no 'I dunno' option in dis poll! Ya' make up ya' mind, baby!" Neo said, annoyed at her explicitly indecisive answer.<br/><br/>"I mean, we're here to solve this city incident, right? Maybe we can get some information from her if we ask her or something," she answered. "This is certainly a good chance to know something more, isn't it?"<br/><br/>Neo paused for a minute before laughing at himself. He said to her, "Yo' righ', yanno? Ya' righ'. So lemme ask dis vamp bitch sum' bullshit befo' an'than' else."<br/><br/>"Wait, she's gonna get spared, then?" She asked him.<br/><br/>"Wait a sec, m'kay?" He turned to ask the defeated vampire. "Awright, I kno' y'all been drawn 'ere by the old-ass white el'phant built by the Feds out der' in the plains 'nd it's free energy hummin's. Whaddya kno' 'bout it?"<br/><br/>With resentment, the vampire woman said, "A greater creature does not bother herself with the questions of her prey."<br/><br/>"'Kay, ya' retarded bitch. Ya' see dat fireplace?" He thumbed to the place of the penthouse he was referring to. "Ya' got four votes to ligh' it up, baby. Don't fuck wit' me, 'cause I might jus' fuck ya' sideways."<br/><br/>"We're simply finding our younger kins who were naive enough to be drawn to that power." She immediately answered, as frustrated as she was. "We tried to ignore it first, but that aura only grew stronger the more it attracted many of our kind. We eventually had to know where exactly it came from, so that we can either have a share of it, or put an end to it."<br/><br/>"But how about the city folks who got victimized by the vampires, though?" Andy interjected her question. "Don't tell me it was needed for that search."<br/><br/>"It certainly was." She replied to the redheaded young mage. "After all, we have to sustain ourselves while looking for that place of power. Thus, we did what is necessary for us, and that is to forage and feed on cattle, like you are."<br/><br/>"It's funny how you still have the guts to tell us we're like cows to you when you're in that position." Andy snapped back at her.<br/><br/>"Where I am right now doesn't matter, neither if your kind has the advantage over me, nor if we are in your electric and machine-run hives." A tinge of pride was in the vampire's declarations. "The truth is that we are better than you, as we are more capable and we have ascended beyond death. You know nothing about the feeling of not worrying about your youth not being stolen after a hundred years or so. I have seen all of it. So what do you humans know about that?"<br/><br/>"Shit, nig! Ya' been dere w'en Coon Chicken Inn wuz da best place fo' fry chikkin? Or at 'Nam? How 'bout at Stonewall Inn? I din' see ya' face dere!" Neo suddenly chimed in.<br/><br/>"Such silly occurrences or places do not concern a high creature like me." The vampire answered.<br/><br/>"Bitch, I wuz in all o' them places I jus' said. I wuz fresh off the boat at Ellis Island back in the 1900s from Yurop, y'know? I've been 'Murican since then, and I've been servin' this goddamn United States of Whatevah, baby." Neo boasted with a smug grin. "'Nd if there one thang, just one thang, I've learned through the fuckin' years, izzat nobody can see it all, 'nd who says so is lyin' or bullshitin'."<br/><br/>The undead woman's eyes widened as she heard Neo speak. It was incomprehensible to her on how someone, or something, she only looks at as a source of sustenance can live that long. "...That's impossible."<br/><br/>"Can't believe it either, so ya' bettah shuddafuck up 'bout dis seen-it-all shit, m'kay? I dun lik' hearin' 'bout dat bullshit. Nobody in mah crew likes that eit'a'," Neo said. "But I gotta guess dis is what ya' get w'en alchemy is yo' game, m'kay?"<br/><br/>The vampire woman only closed her eyes. She felt as if her ego was wounded, and she didn't anticipate encountering someone like the blonde mage. What's worse is that she wanted to get enraged as she saw people like him as a threat to their status and power, yet there she was, at the mercy of these threats.<br/><br/>Neo, on the other hand, wasn't done with her yet. He went on talking. "Also, I had t'is vamp gurl an' she was mah gurl back in da 60s at SanFran. We're hippies back den. Yeah, a vampire hippie. Her names Martha, but our tribe called 'er 'Starlight' and mah name was 'Cap'n Candy Floss'. No shit, das muh name. And we talked 'bout dis for awhile, 'bout vampire pride o' shit? Ya' know wha' she told me?"<br/><br/>"...What did she?" She asked him.<br/><br/>"She said dat vamps who act lik' you? They ar' less t'an a hundred years old. Makes a shitload of sense, 'cause they're still savorin' their new powers." Neo answered without hesitation, as if he wanted to emphasize something to her. He pointed at his handgun and said, "See dis shit? This wuz released in 1911. Dis gun is older than yo' dumb ass. An' I'm fuckin' older than it!"<br/><br/>Upon hearing those words, the vampire woman gritted her teeth and her composure began to crack up. She knew she was frustrated, humiliated and helpless at the same time, and the fanged grimace she had showed that to the rest clearly. "H-how dare you disgrace me like this!" She was stuttering, and she knew it.<br/><br/>"Neo, you shouldn't have provoked her like this," Andy said. "If your plan was to let her survive, what assures she won't attack you if you do?"<br/><br/>"I kno' dat. But if ya' think the vote fo' lightin' up the fireplace mo' is to make 'er live, y'all wrong." Neo replied.<br/><br/>"What?!" Andy was shocked. "Then what was that vote for?"<br/><br/>"Watch me, baby." He turned and said to the vampire woman, in his native Briton accent. "We will have the vote again. But you have two options, my dear. It is either that I toss your body to the fireplace to light it up, or we can spare you, instead, but only if you beg to the redhead and the two fae that they do so. It's either you get a shot at reaching that hundred years of power, or you save your precious honor by turning into dust. The choice is yours, and yours alone. And remember, if you get spared and try to attack any of us again, we will not be so kind the next time. Do you understand that?"<br/><br/>At that point, the pale husk of a once living woman sobbed. She turned herself towards Aderyn and Islwyn, asking "...P-please, spare me. Spare my existence from the void after death. I want to live more. I have learned my lesson. I was a fool. So, I beg you, my pride has been shattered. I have nothing to gain if I betray you, and it will only make more less noble. Please spare me!"