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Samantha sat and waited on the couch in the main office of the medical facility. Most of the hallways were white and clean giving her a sort of empty feeling as did the room she sat in. Frozen sat next to her reading a news magazine to which she was unsure of what the title was, whether it was GNN or something else, she was unsure. A moment later her father appeared from one of the doors escorting a flat bed with a man in bandages on it down the hallway towards another door. Her father appeared busy and she still hadn't had the time to properly give him a hug as well she had no clue of how to think of him. Since her memories of her father had turned out to be her memories of her mother, she now thought towards the memories of her mother which had to have been the memories of her father. The thoughts confused her and she decided that it was best just to relax which she did, lying her head on Frozen's lap.

"Alright, the doctor will see you now Ms. Grey." A lady appeared out of nowhere from behind the counter and fixed her glasses.

She was upset that she had just begun to relax, but of course, excited to get the transfusion over with. She stood up and followed the lady into an adjacent room her tail waving with excitement. She was instructed to sit on a bed that seemed to hover in the air which she did with only slight difficulty. She smiled happily as she moved her legs forward and backwards watching as Frozen sat down on a stood in the corner of the room. "Is this going to hurt?"

"I'm pretty sure they're going to put you to sleep." He snickered slightly. "You won't be feeling anything at all."

A moment later and a doctor came in and began to take a look a her, taking her temperture and testing her reflexes which all came out slightly normal. Then the doctor asked her to hold out her finger. She did so and recieved a small sharp pain as the doctor took some of her blood. Then the doctor abrutly left and did not come back for a long time. Samantha heard a small beeping sound as Frozen reached into his pocket and pulled out a small phone.

"Hey, whats up?" He smiled of course, but a moment later he kind of turned from a smile to a look of disbelief. "Sure, yeah she'll be fine in here." He clicked the phone shut and stood up. "I'll be right back. Angel Eyes needs to show me something." He leaned forward and handed her his phone. "Call me if you need me for any reason at all. Dad's phone number is in there as well."

"Ok, don't take too long." Samantha felt worried very suddenly and watched as Frozen rushed out of the doorway and down the hall. She watched as several staff ran past the door as well as her father. She wondered what was happening and if she didn't feel the importance of her blood transfusion was top priority, she would have gone to look as well.

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Frozen stepped outside underneath a dark cloud and quickly ran down to Angel Eyes who was standing at the top of the hill just behind a wall near the gravel. "Whats going on?"

"Look." He pointed up towards the sky which was blackened by clouds, several flashes of thunder, and what appeared to be an incoming storm.

"So? It's going to rain, that's not very important."

"Look again, there's something up in those clouds." Jason commented and pointed slightly more directly at what exactly it was they meant."Looks like a trade lane sort of." He watched as the object continued to get closer. The storm seemed to be caused by the tradelane like object. It continued to close until it suddenly stopped above the gravel shoreline.

"So are we just going to stand here like idiots gaping at something flying in the sky or what?" Frozen's father suddenly appeared behind him. "Just because you've never seen it before doesn't mean you should just...stand there!" As if jarred by his words, the object began to activate. A small glowing ring appeared in the middle of it and the clouds began to seperate slightly. A moment later the four small objects began to glow with a great intensity and the similarity dissapeared as they began to spin around. Frozen noticed that they were attached to something else with small poles and other similiar objects that were spinning as well.

"They look like...magnets." Angel Eyes finnally spoke up and just as he did something came into clear sight. It appeared as though it might hit the planet with such a force that there would be nothing left of them, but, just as it hit the final circle of objects, it slowed to almost a halt. It appeared to be a very large suit of powered armor. When the head of it had left the circle of energy, it dropped like a rock and slammed into the gravel barely staying on it's feet. For the moment it appeared to be inactive, but a bolt of lightning came down and stuck it several times before it began to humm.

"Ah ****, everyone get behind some cover!" Jason didn't wait for the thing to start up, instead he shouldered his new favorite weapon and aimed, gripping as tightly as he could and watched as a round tore the sky itself as it traveled directly into the activating machine's chest. It had enough force to knock the machine over and for a moment it looked like it was dead.

"You idiot! We're not told to fire first! We're mercenaries remember?" Angel Eyes slapped Jason on the back of the head.

"It's not dead." Frozen stated aloud.

"What? He just slammed that hunk of metal."

Frozen turned toward him, his eyes glowing yellow. "Did you hear me? It's not dead. When you ride in one of those for several years you know when 'It's dead'." Angel Eyes looked shocked and his eyes looked up toward the soundless machine. The humming came again as thought a generator was being charged up and the humanoid armor gripped the gravel as it sat up in defiance. Several yellow lights began to glow around the chest and head area and it became clear that the shot hadn't even dented it.

"I just shot that thing with my new rail gun! It's almost as good as a MAG. BULL****!" Jason slammed his fist into the wall and chipped it. "Even tanks get dented by rail guns!"

"Well, tank's are made out of almost all metal but other than that, they're basically the same. Filled with hydraulic fluid and cryo fluid." He pointed to canisters on it's back. "And only people with cryo blood can survive in that cold temperature."

Jason stood up with his foot on the wall and his other one planted firmly on the ground. The powered armor stood fully up and it became clear that it too had a shoulder mounted weapon. "How about this you son of a *****!" Jason fired another round and this one landed dead center in the powered armor's forehead. It only served to send the machine's head back slightly before it looked forward again. "No way..."

The machine suddenly began to speak in a semi sort of human cyborg way. "BFM - unit deploying. Primary objective......Ensure Experiment Remains Prepared." The powered armor took a step forward with a very slow and exageratted step. The shoulder mounted weapon began to glow as the top part filled with water, the gun acted as a sort of hotplate and the water began to boil. A yellowish fluid was then injected into the cylinder and the water became a mix of hot yellowish liquid.

"What the hell is that?" Jason looked over toward Frozen.

"In simplified terms, a fireball cannon."

"Ah, ****." Jason turned around toward all the men that were taking cover. "Open Fire!" A moment later the air was filled with gunfire of all kinds, the shots only served to slow the machine in it's path. It showed no signs of stopping as the mixture of fluids began to glow a bright color from the incredible heat, the gun was also glowing red hot at certain areas. An odd colored liquid began to pump into the compartment and Jason knew they were out of time.

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Samantha smiled as the doctor patted her on the head. "Well now all I have to do is get ready for the operation. I'm sure everything is ok out there." The doctor backed up out of the doorway and was just about to turn around when the space that was behind him lit up a bright orangish color. Samantha could feel the heat on her face and had to close her eyes for a moment before opening them. A moment later she opened her eyes and spotted the doctor who appeared unharmed, but as she watched him fall down she noticed that the fireball had melted more than half of him. Samantha felt her stomach twist and she almost threw up, forcing herself to close her eyes and look away.

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Jason looked over to his left where the wall had literally been turned to lava and resolidified. He had been only inches away from the same fate and literally felt grooves in his armor where it had been partially melted. He resumed his Kneeling stance and replaced his hand on his weapon, watching as the power armor began to get close to them."How many times can that gun fire?"

"I have no idea." Frozen stated as he looked over the wall.

"But I do." Angel Eyes stated as he ran out directly in front of the suit of powered armor. "Over here tin can!" He waved his arms and of course was noticed by the suit of armor which stood only a few feet over him. A blue fluid quickly sprayed out and over the entire gun followed by it immediately heating up again, water injecting into the canister again. The yellow fluid quickly appeared as the gun aimed directly at him.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Jason didn't fire for fear he might hit Angel Eyes.

"Comon, you can hit me with that big old gun of yours!" He watched as the red fluid began to pump in and thats when he pulled out his pistol and opened fire on the coolant canister next to the gun. It burst open and coolant spilled all over the hot gun causing the metal to crack and fail, the heated liquid began to spill out slightly, but mostly stayed put right inside the cylinder. A moment later the liquid turned completely oranged and exploded causing the massive power armor to lose it's whole left side and fall over on it's right side. Blue liquid spilled all over as the powered armor's arm fell off and a moment later, exploded as well.

"Yeah! That's using your head Angel Eyes." Jason shouted as he ran up to the machine and kicked it hard in the shin.

"Hey, why did it's arm explode?"

"Failsafe so that it's technology doesn't fall into our hands." Frozen's father stated.

"Then why didn't it's body explode?" Jason backed away from it in case it did and after a moment, the blue fluid stopped leaking and the armor began to glow again. Using it's one good arm, the suit of armor began to stand up again.

"You're kidding me....it's head it half gone!" Jason lifted his gun up but before he could fire, the powered armor unexpectedly grabbed the weapon and crushed it while it was still on his shoulder.

"Pri.Pri.Pri. Mary objective complete. Retrieving target." The powered armor lifted Jason and calmly tossed him to the side. Another one of the cannon's rose from the it's remaining shoulder and began to charge. This time however, the canister on the other side had drained out in an attempt to replace lost cryo fluid.

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Samantha had managed to step out over the dead man and looked into the burnt hallway. The walls had been charred or melted and the remainder of the facility had been blown to nothingness. She looked down the hallway towards the exit of the facility where the fireball had come from and spotted something glowing. A moment later and it stepped into the light, a suit of armor with half of it's body missing. On the remaining half of the body she spotted it's name, Bold Full Metal. It rung a bell in her head but she couldn't think for the moment as it drew closer to her, something on it's shoulder was glowing an intense yellow color.

"Come with me Ms. Grey." The armor held out it's hand as though to grab her but she quickly ducked into a seperate room that the suit of armor had trouble fitting in. It dissapeared for a moment and it got quiet. A second later and the ceiling to the place disintegrated as another fireball burst over her head. She crawled as far into the corner as she could go and watched as the terrifying armor approached her. "You must fullfill your destiny Ms. Grey." She could hear people at the window screaming something about being unable to get inside and to climb onto the roof, but Samantha could only see the armor getting closer to her.

"No! I don't want to go with you!"

"Samantha, you know me....we went to school together. Come with me and everything will be alright." She recognized the voice and she felt even more afraid. She noticed behind the armor a man in bandages slowly sliding closer to the two, she had to make sure that it didn't notice.

"Oh no, what have they done to you?" The armor seemed shocked for a moment as though it had actually felt what she had said.

"They made me stronger. I must support my clan and you must support your clan like your mother did. She refused and she had to die." The armor put it's hand out again. "Samantha, I don't want to have to kill you too."

"You owe me a bottle of alcohol AND a C4 charge." Samantha could hear a small clicking sound followed by a large explosion. She watched as the armor's chest exploded causing it to fall over.

"Sa.Sa.Sa.Sa.Samantha......They...will...be back." The powered armor finnally began to fade for a moment before it began to glow a light blueish color followed by a small explosion over several parts of it's body, enough to destroy all forms of technology, but not enough to create havoc.

"I'm sorry Bold. My mother told me, you had died in your mech's explosion, but I guess not. I hope now you can finnally rest." Samantha looked up towards the man with the bandages all over his body as he approached her.

"Next time...Don't break out without me."

"What do we do now?" Samantha asked while she sat on a stone just outside the ruined lab. She was covered in the hydralic and cryogenic fluid that had burst out of the powered armor when the C4 had gone off. She could also feel bits of flesh and see the mutated blood in her hair. Somehow, only the most disgusting sites seemed to set her off. The ocean waves were crashing against the shore as what appeared to be a real storm approaching, but no one wanted to take that chance.

"We'll explain when we get on board and are heading back towards the spaceport." Her father stated as he gave her a signal to follow.

"Ok." She stood up and thought it would sound odd calling him father, but she still obeyed him like she would her imaginary father. She stepped onboard the ship before a few of the remaining mercenaries did. The bounty hunters had the feeling they weren't really hunting a bounty anymore, but of course were paid like mercenaries. Samantha followed her father to a room with a bathtub in it and of course, she was instantly revulsed and almost didnt' step inside.

"Relax, it's got a shower. Just thought you needed one." He stepped out behind her and Frozen appeared at the doorway.

"Here, brought you some clothes." He sat down on a chair next to the doorway and closed the door. For a moment Samantha thought he was just waiting to say something, but then she frustratedly looked over at him.

"I'm not getting undressed with you in the room."

"You think I wanna see or something?" He stood up and pulled a large screen window used for changing and wrapped it around the doorway."I'm just making sure no one comes to take you away is all."

Although still frustrated with him, she decided she didn't care that much and she undressed and placed her ruined clothes in a box before entering the shower curtains. "So, what do we do now?"

"Well, when you're all 'squeky clean', i'll discuss it with you."

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"Alright, I don't want to have to fight another one of those things, so we're heading out to space ok?" Angel Eyes gripped the sticks to operate the hovercraft forward and gritted his teeth looking at the storm to his right.

"Yeah, seems I was wrong when I said I'd rather fight something without shields." Jason laughed slightly and sat back further in his chair. The door to the cabin opened and Samantha's father came in and took a good long second to sit down in one of the chairs in the deck room. "How about that fight there?"

"Yeah, how's your new toy coming along there?" He laughed slightly at the wreckage that was down by Jason's side.

"Shut up. I guess i'll have to try and buy one of those gauss rifles or a MAG."

"Why don't you buy a Rave Cannon?" Angel Eyes let out a small chuckle, remembering when Jason thought it was an actual gun.

"I remember that whole incident like it was yesterday. You tricked me into taking that thing to some party and no one could stop laughing at me. That gun had to be the most useless piece of trash I ever used."

"Not much of a difference between a gun that makes Rave music and one that doesn't make sound at all when both their purposes should be to kill?" He point to his gun.

"OK enough. Lets focus on getting out of here. I dont' want another, 'stick Jason to the floor with gum' routine going on." Samantha's father looked a bit puzzled but Angel Eyes filled him in.

"Inside joke, don't even worry about it."

"Yeah so hurry up and get us to the space port." Jason tossed a piece of trash at the back of Angel Eyes head and smirked to himself. "Didn't you say you had a new ship or something you were going to let Samantha pilot?"

"Yes, but I was hoping to have gotten her the blood transfusion. It's going to be hard for her to concentrate with very little oxygen to her brain. Frozen said he'd cure that though so i'm sure everything will be ok." He put his fingers up into the ok signal and smiled.

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Samantha smiled to herself and was very happy to have similiar clothes ready for her when she exited the shower. Her clothes were like a sleeveless sweater and a pair of shorts very similiar to her old ones. In fact, it almost appeared as thought he had gotten her the same outfit and cut off the sleeves."Hey..."

"I knew you'd have something to say, come here." She walked forward over to him and he quickly slipped an arm warmer up her right arm. "There, last time you looked so unbalanced without it." He then started the long process of wrapping her arm up with a bandage, taking his good time. "Angel Eyes told me how you hated everything, so I just bought you the same thing, minus the sleeves."

Samantha gave him an annoyed look. Just because she didnt like anything he was showing her didnt mean she didnt' like clothes of all sorts. "You better never take me shopping in a store with lots of black and white or i'll empty out your pockets so fa...."

"I highly doubt it." He intterupted her and smiled as her tail and ears went stiff with anger. "Now sit down in front of me and quit making a fuss." She sighed and did as she was told feeling a brush going through her hair. "You're the second weirdest girl I know."

"Who's the first." Samantha politely placed her hands in her lap.

"My girlfriend, Luna. She goes from incredibly angry, to kissing me and telling me she loves me."

"That is kind of weird. Didn't she come here with you?"

"You hurt her arm pretty badly, she stayed in the infirmary. She's not our blood and she doesn't heal very fast." Samantha winced as he combed her hair a bit hard.

"Do you love her?" Samantha asked and purred lightly her tail rubbing up against his leg.

"Quit that." He whacked her tail lightly with the brush and resumed brushing her hair. "Yes I love her very much. Sometimes I'll tease her just so she'll pout."

"Do you love me too?" Samantha looked back up at him and grabbed onto his knees pouting lightly. He snickered slightly and began to pet her.

"You may only be half my blood, but I definitely care about you." He cleared his throat. "And it's going to be weird telling you how we're going to get that blood out of you."

"What do you mean?" Samantha cocked her head slightly to the side.

"Well, i'm not exactly sure who's coming after you and all, but while you have that blood in you, they seem like not only can they find you, but they can use you." He lifted her onto his lap before he pressed a finger to her mouth indicating for her to open it. "See, we're not vampires or anything like that, but sometimes as a sort of...um...when you say you love someone....in a more intimate way....kind of like a kiss...." He seemed puzzled as he pressed a finger to her Incisor. "Anyway, some species can actually drain blood using this tooth and give blood using this tooth....." He pointed first to her right one, then the left one. "And um...it's meant to be a sort of intimate thing where both male and female...." He coughed. "It's supposed to be....Ah forget it. Just bite someone and start....sucking?" He shrugged and wasn't sure himself.

"Are you trying to say we have sex with our teeth?" Samantha's bluntness caught him off gaurd and of course he started to sweat a bit.

"No, you're not supposed to have sex with your teeth. Normally you're supposed to bite each other and it's a sort of intimate thing ya know?"

"No I don't get what you're saying. Do you bite Luna or something like that and now she's going to have babies?" Frozen couldn't keep himself from laughing. Samantha of course had a puzzled look on her face. She had heard plenty about sex and where babies came from, but no one had ever exlained it to her. "Am I going to have a half niece?"

"No no no. Ok listen, find some random person and bite them ok?"

"Ewwww, no way. How about I bite you?"

"What? Don't even think about that you imbr..."He stopped himself. "Fine, find someone you like in someway and then do it and...exchange blood with them so you'll have less of that mutated blood and more regular blood ok?"

"You just dont want me to bite you so you don't get pregnant. I think Luna would be so mad then." She crossed her arms and then barred her teeth jokingly.

"Apparently no one ever taught you anything about the birds and the bees. And none of that, I'm only seven crap because I know you've got to be older mentally."

"Well then...go on...tell me how it's done...or why don't you show me on Luna." Frozen blushed for a moment and then stood up.

"I think we're done here." He patted her on the head."Just, remember what I said ok?" He smiled and then turned around leaving indicating for her to follow.

"Sure, biting gets people pregnant." She smiled teasingly and nipped at his hand. "So where were we going?"

Samantha sat on the edge of the bed and looked up through the see through glass, spotting the odd looking storm clouds before spotting an opening in the sky with small spinning objects. She was not familiar with what it was as stared directly up into the spinning objects and her gaze didn't leave it. She spotted something coming towards her at an amazing speed before it stopped and began to drop down towards her which propelled her into action. She jumped off the bed toward Jake and knocked him over backwards into Luna just as the object smashed through the ceiling and landed next to the bed. She sat up off of Luna and Jake and looked back at the familiar powered armor, this time it appeared to be smaller and it's hands were slightly oversized. What appeared to be armored cords ran from it's hands to it's back where there was a large canister filled with blue liquid. Two bolts of lightning struck the inactive powered armor before it began to hum with life, several lights on it began to glow as it stood straight up and spoke.

"Activating the Hell Raiser." The machine had a slightly hispanic accent, it's eyes began to glow a devilish red as it rose from it's kneeling position. Samantha recognized the name and she immediately began backing out of the room even before Jake and Luna had gotten to a standing position.

"What is that thing?" Luna asked as she looked at it with his mouth agape.

"Don't look and wonder, just get the hell out!" Jake shoved Luna toward the door as the powered armor brought it's hands up to grab them. Luna quickly followed Samantha's example and began running down the hallway towards the exit as Jake closed the door behind him. Samantha looked back and watched as Jake had barely gotten two steps before the door splintered and exploded outward behind him. She decided that looking back wasn't the best idea and so she looked forward toward the outside courtyard.

"What's going on here? All the members of my mother's clan are coming back to haunt me!" Samantha suddenly stopped dead in her tracks as the powered armor landed directly in front of her.

"Capturing Target." The Powered armor reached toward her, it's hands stopping only a few inches from her. Luna Scooped Samantha up as blue liquid sprayed out of the back of the armor's hands down onto the ground. She watched as the liquid quickly solidified and rolled across the ground like a ball.

"Don't stand still sweetheart, that thing wants you." Luna set Samantha down as she pulled something small from her pocket and turned back towards the large powered armor.

"Luna, I'll distract it, You get it from behind." Jake shouted as he ran up towards the powered armor and delivered a heavy kick to it's chest and this only caused it to reel back slightly. The armor didnt' seem as well protected as the other one had, but even a bullet might not penetrate it. The powered armor swung hard and fast with it's closest hand, sending Jake sprawling across the ground into the gate nearby. It then turned it's sight on Samantha who was now standing across the courtyard unable to get to the exit that it was blocking.

"Come take your mother's place Samantha. Huron says he'll forgive your actions." The powered armor reached it's hand out in a very human like gesture as if the pilot within was a human. Samantha didn't doubt the possibility and knew she had to buy Luna a good distraction. Luna took the moment to move out of the way of the powered armor which of course, didnt seem to want to let her. It watched her every move until Samantha spoke up.

"You don't exist anymore hell raiser. You were reported dead from a friendly mech explosion and here and now you say you exist? Prove that you're the real hell raiser." The machine looked befuddled by her words. It took it's gaze away from Luna and looked at the ground.

"I visited you when you were still a child. Don't you remember?" The machine stood tall and let it's hands raise in the air as an act of arrogance, proving the there was indeed a human pilot who could make mistakes. "I am the hell raiser! No one messes with the hell raiser!" A moment after they finished their speech they quickly leaned forward as Luna grabbed onto their back. Luna quickly pressed her hands up under the powered armor's neck plated and tugged hard on the sealing, twisting it to one side and then the other. The small object she had in her hand appeared to be an eletronic lockpick to which she was using on the suit's complicated sealing. There was a low hiss before there was a light beeping sound that seemed to take Luna off gaurd. "My mission is a failure..." The helmet part clicked off and a small confined blue colored explosion took place where the armor existed, but Luna didn't appear as though she had been caught in it.

"They changed it again and I couldn't save the person within." Luna landed next to Samantha and had been holding onto a pole when the explosion had occured, however her hands seemed slightly singed.

"You know about them too?" Samantha turned towards Luna with a troubled look.

"Frozen's my boyfriend, I have to know everything about him. He was a tank mercenary in their clan for some time." Luna looked at the smoking wreckage as it finnally collapsed. "They're coming for you and your blood, you have to get rid of it and fast!" Luna looked toward Jake and quickly realized he'd been injured. She made her way over to him and knelt next to him.

Samantha thought to herself about her mother's clan. She barely remembered anything about them but with the members that had come back from the grave, she could remember them. She saw several others looking down at her from her crib but their faces were a haze to her. She also couldn't remember the name of the clan her mother had been in. She shook her head and tried to shake the memories. She had to find a way to exchange her blood with a phantom. "Where am I going to find a phantom. It's not like they hang out on New Tokyo." Samantha looked in towards the city and noted a very large building that was glowing with activity. It reminded her of a ball with dancing and singing and people with dresses and tuxedoes. She spit on the ground and hated looking formal and all the people who looked down upon her dark attitude as well as their snobby dislike of social outcasts. She loved to wear what she did and she loved to command her own ship even if she had gotten it blown to pieces the last time she'd used it. A thought ran across her mind as she watched Jake stand up and hobble back in towards the hospital where several nurses helped him back in towards his bed.

"Alright Samantha, let me take you to your father where it's at least slightly safer than it is here."

"Yes, take me to my father, I want to hold a ball to attract all the rich snobs."

Luna looked at her and rose an eyebrow. "I'm sorry?"

"I mean, I want my father to hold a ball so I can look for the most handsome man whom I'd love to transfer my blood to." She smiled delicately at Luna who laughed out loud.

"Sure, sure. My prize boy has always been the skinny short boy though, but you go ahead." She took Samantha's hand and tugged her lightly towards the hospital.

"Well, you're in luck because it just so happens that tonight I have to meet with the emperors son." Samantha's father was already dressed up in a tuxedo with a small annoying bowtie.

"So you're dressing up in a suit?" Samantha crossed her arms and lowered her ears with dissaproval.

"It's going to be just like you were suggesting, a grand ball with the emperors son." Her father looked in the mirror at himself and adjusted his bowtie. "He can't just meet me or certain people will become quite suspicious and we can't have that."

"Good, It'll be the perfect place for pha...I mean suitable blood transfers." She smiled innocently at her father and was glad when she saw that he wasn't paying much attention to her.

"Of course. I'm guessing that Frozen and that troublesome girl of his went to the Kyushu sytem again so it'll be just me and you." He turned towards her and smiled. "And I got something for you."

"Really?" Samantha smiled lightly. "You shouldnt have." Her father guided her to the closet and pulled out a frilly dress that matched her outfit. Samantha's ears lowered as she felt incredibly annoyed. "You really shouldn't have."

"You go ahead and get dressed, I'm going to be downstairs waiting outside." Samantha looked flustered and grabbed him by the collar although she was too short to seem very intimidating.

"There's no way I'm wearing this, EVER!" She showed her teeth and hissed at him, hear ears becoming erect. Her father stood straight up and looked down on her and smiled with a light laugh.

"See, now I have to force it on you." Samantha felt his heavy shadow for a moment on her before his hands settled on her shoulders and sent a chill down her spine. Over the next few minutes she spent the time struggling with her father and refusing the wear the dress, of course, when it was over and done with, aside from a few scratches that were upon her father's face, he was relatively unscathed. Samantha could barely walk in the high heels her father had forced onto her and in order to prevent her from removing them he had leather wrapped around her ankles at the top of her socks.

"I don't want to be seen in this!" Samantha's face was on fire, partially from anger and partially from embarassment. The cool air on her bare back made her feel incredibly uncomfortable and she was not too fond of it on her bare legs either.

"Awww, what a cute girl you've become." He smiled and laughed to himself. "No, but seriously. I don't want you standing out." Her father looked at her seriously. "We want as little attention drawn to us as possible. You never know who's watching."

"The people who're trying to capture me?" A breeze came in the window and caused her to shiver, glad that she still had the bandage on her left arm.

"Of course. Now come on, we can't be late."

"One last thing."

"Yeah?" Samantha took a moment to rip the bowtie off her father's neck and toss it to the floor, stepping on it when it hit the floor.

"Now we can go." She smiled up at him.


Samantha frowned upon seeing all the people wearing fancy outfits and diamond jewelry around their necks and on their fingers. The whole room was filled with diamond light fixtures as well as the plates the appetizers were held upon and there was a very large swan in the middle of the room that sat in a fountain with water spraying from it's mouth. The rest of the room was well lit and full of people talking and dancing with music that made it very hard for her to think. Her nose did however catch something that she was very attracted to, the smell of exotic seafood which she did love with a passion similiar to her bloodlust.

"Ok, I'm going to make my way up to the emperors son and you hang close by ok?" Her father's words fell on deaf ears as he watched Samantha's tail dissapear among the thick crowd of people who were gradually surrounding him to speak with him. Of course he was quite popular with the people of New Tokyo, but he hadn't planned on having to speak with so many people. He'd have to pick his daughter up on the way out.

Samantha put her hands together and looked at the many different foods set out on the table. She could smell the pieces of crab and lobster as well as the suishi that lie before her. She couldn't resist tasting them all many different times. Perhaps people with money weren't so bad, so long as they provided yummy food at their parties she would be interested. Samantha took a step back to look around and met with resistance as she collided with a waiter who was about to place another tray down. She watched in slow motion as the plate clearly tipped sideways and under any normal circumstance, the food would have spilled all over the floor, but on this occasion the man's reflexes were quick enough to recover the plate without a single appetizer falling off.

"Sorry!" Samantha turned around to apologize to the man and noted that he was unusual to say the least.

"It's alright, I got it." He spoke the sentence, placed the tray and made his way towards a set of doors off in the distance. Among the crowd she wouldn't have noticed him, however something felt weird about him and she decided it would be in her best interest to investigate. Without the help of the high heels, she matched the man's speed and watched as he went through the doors to a rather quiet area of the large building. It didn't look as though it was the kitchen where waiters went to get more plates of food. She took a moment to make sure no one was watching and slipped through the doors to the next room where the man was just entering another room that appeared to be very dark. She made her way to the door as quickly and quietly as she could where she opened the door a crack to look inside. It was dark to the point where she could only see the pool lights that were shining down onto the indoor pool, but her ears picked up a conversation on a radio.

"I'm getting ready to right now. I'll head up to the rafters, just make sure that you're ready to evac as soon as possible." The voice was low and it was followed by a click sound. Samantha couldn't help but open the door more and creep in, the sound of the door closing behind her being soundless. She carefully approached the poolside where she spotted the man from before kneeling next to an open case. In his hands was a very large rifle that didn't seem as though it was for decorating cookies."This operation lacks something." Samantha felt her smile began to crawl across her face, her heart began to pump faster as sniffed the air. This man had to be a phantom and he seemed perfect for a blood transfer.

"Yummy..." Samantha couldn't help but let the words slip from her mouth and almost felt the urge to try and stop herself, the man appearing as though he had gained a sort of afterimage to his movements as he stood up and pulled something from his belt. He didn't waste time asking questions and opened fire with a silenced weapon which of course caused Samantha to bolt behind a support pillar. The phantom's shots had been in the dark and had still managed to nick her bandaged shoulder which caused her to curse the heels that were strapped to her feet. She pushed the thoughts out of her head and felt as though she could literally see the man moving while she stood behind the pillar.

Samantha ran from one pillar to the next and again bullets nearly hit her, but she counted the amount of coughs that came from the pistol and noted that although a good shot, they wasted their ammo very fast. She waited a moment before popped out from behind the pillar and darted toward the man who was just now noticing that his clip was empty. She reached out to grab onto him, but instead felt the handled of the gun come down onto her head. There was a moment of dissorientation and headache before she noted that she had impacted the man still and caused him to drop his weapon.

"You have no weapon and I doubt you can beat me in hand to hand with such a small body so I suggest you quietly come here so I can kill you." The phantom stood on both his feet just as suddenly as he had hit her on the head. She could still feel the pain of being hit so hard, but her adrenaline blocked most of it out as she dashed towards him again ignoring the warning.

"All I want is a taste..." The phantom seemed a bit surprised by the sudden rush, but it didn't change the outcome. Samantha made it close enough to get ready to cling to him, but felt something heavy push her into the air as she felt the feeling of being unable to breathe force it's way into her lungs. She felt the ground touch her feet and immediately fell to her knees holding her stomach. She gasped for air but couldn't quite get it back.

"Hmm...Fiesty I see." Her vision was slightly blurred and the throbbing feeling in her head had begun to subside.

"No, not yet..." Samantha felt the man grab her dress and lift her to her feet.

"Awww, why not?" Samantha breathed in deeply and looked forward toward the phantom. She couldn't give up just yet. She remembered passing out and immitated it as best she could, letting her body go completely limp. "Well, I've no use for someone who can't even hurt me." She felt the man's grip loosen and she quickly sprang into action, tearing away from him. It seemed to surprise the phantom yet again as she dodged between his legs and crawled up his back, feeling her heart starting to race as her claws dug into the man's chest. Her temples pounded on her thoughts as her high heels dug into the mans waist.

"Finally, phantom blood..." She slid her teeth along the man's bare neck slowly for a moment, feeling something odd inside of her as she dug her teeth deep inside of his neck. She could feel her heart pumping in the phantom's blood and out her own mutated blood. She had no doubt the phantom would have some odd effects to him, she was not concerned with the effects however. She was concerned with what the phantom was doing at the immediate moment, which to her was quite disturbing.

"Mmmmnn....harder....I like it rough...." Samantha had quite mixed emotions. She knew what Frozen meant by being intimate with his girlfriend and biting one another, but she wasn't intimate with this man so why did he sound so excited? The thoughts creeped into her head until she could no longer stand the ideas that rushed through her mind. There was a momentary lightheaded feeling followed by a deep sense of satisfaction as her heart beat the new blood away from her head. She took a deep breath of the air and quickly jumped from the phantom's back onto the floor behind him. She felt exhilerated and her body didn't feel nearly as cold as it had before even if her clothes did feel alittle bit tighter on her as though her nerves were more responsive now or if she had grown a few ages older.

"Thank you for you blood...now if you're excuse me..." Samantha didn't want the phantom to rouse from his dream and so she quickly made her exit.

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"I'm going to need to call a mission abort." The phantom spoke into his radio as he sat back next to the pool feeling slightly weak.

"What happened? Are you in trouble?"

"No I'm fine, but if we try now they'll be too aware."

"Did someone find you?"

"Yeah...and they bit me..."

There was a moment of silence over the radio. "...what?"

"Nothing, nevermind, over and out."

"Roger." The radio went silent. The phantom sighed as he looked up through the glass roof.

"If only more girls bit and clawed me."

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Samantha made her way back into the main ball room and spotted her father who was already leaving. She had grown used to the high heels and was standing next to him in a moment. She smiled up at him and obviously hadn't noticed the blood dripping from her right cheek nor the fact that her dress wasn't exactly the most beautifull on her at the moment. Her father only gave her an odd look and a few words.

"That better not be phantom blood." Samantha looked up at him with a false look of shock on her face.

"What, No of course not." She attempted to straighten her dress and clean the blood off with her father's bowtie. Her father continued to look directly at her, not at all upset by the blood, but he could see right through her lie.

"Ya know, your mother often said what she though sex with a phantom would be like."

"Ew father, I didn't have sex with a phantom." Samantha blushed deeply and put her hands up in defiance.

"Sex with a dragon she always said." Her father turned around and headed for the car.

"I didn't do it!" Her ears went limp with embarassment.

"So you admit to having sex with a dragon then?" Her father turned towards her and opened the door.

"No, I just bit a phantom..." Samantha covered her mouth realizing she'd be tricked and looked sheepishly towards him. He grinned at her.

"Just had to have your phantom blood."

"Yes..." She looked away from him. "But, don't worry, I'll never do it again."

"Oh? and why's that?" He smiled even more and seemed as though he might bust out laughing.

"Lets just say the dragon wanted me to do it 'harder'." She stepped into the car and sat back in the seat. Her father of course, snickered the whole way back to the hotel.