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Kira sat backstage, staring at the ring. She still hadn't gotten around to telling people, if she were a normal female she suppose she would have told everyone and would be all too excited over it. She didn't really feel any different. They hadn't talked about wedding things and such. As far as she was concerned a wedding was still something far away. She was by no means ready to be married. Well, more like what was expected after being married. He would wait of course, though she knew it was torture for him to do so. Expressly after that one night...she had certainly never acted that way before but she blamed the fight, there was always something about fighting that made her feel something, which was why she was drawn to it.

Love... Now if she could just understand it, what it was to feel like. She believed if she was willing to take out her own heart to give him a straight answer that she must love, care about him for sure. Her life was better when entered her life for sure.

"Earth to boss lady." Cody's voice said.

Kira looked up, "Hmm? Is it time?" she asked, and Cody nodded.

"Yes, and after this number you can go home." Cody added with a grin.

Kira raised an eyebrow. "Why are you grinning like that?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Just can't believe you going to be tied down. Swear it seemed like you weren't interested in romance at all." Cody said, yeah he flirted but it was completely harmless.

Kira got up, flicking his ear. "Only tied down if I want to be. I don't exactly chit chat about my personal life with you guys as much as you all pry." she said with a smirk then walked off to the stage.

Cody rubbed his ear. "I totally can see you being kinky like that." he said.

"Remember I sign your paychecks so I suggest you watch what you say." Kira reminded him as she headed out with Lorenzo, who she did most of her dances with, having a background in dance, not to say he was 'safe' one to dance with.

They performed The Baddest Girl

They then returned to backstage. "We will have a meeting on Monday. I'm adding something new to the line up." Kira announced, she then headed off out of the lounge.

Kira stared at the ad she was going to put out to find a couple of female dancers, she was expanding what the Majestic Lounge would do. While the beef cakes were still going to be the main thing as they drew in the females rather well since this town catered to the men with all the tasteless strip clubs. The club was packed as well for the nights that she did numbers, either alone or with a few of the beef cakes.

She rested her head on her hands with her elbows on the counter of the bar. She may have to hire some women servers soon though. If more men came here, she was sure the straight ones anyway wouldn't want scantly dressed men serving them.

She suppose the beef cakes were a nice start, it boomed the business which all businesses could face failing within the first year. She could take some risks now, if this didn't work out, she could just change back.

"Hey boss lady. Hope your new year was good." Cody said with some eyebrow wiggles.

Kira tilted her head. "I feel that you are suggesting something bad." she said, she hadn't heard the guys enter.

"Well now we know that you have a man, I'm sure his imagination is just going wild now." Lorenzo replied.

"What, come on, we all know she has to be an.." Cody was cut off by Sam who knocked him upside the head before he could finish what he said. "Hey, what was that for!"

"If you still want a job I suggest you don't finish that sentence." Sam replied as they all took a seat at the round table.

Kira jumped off the stool she was on, raising an eyebrow. "Well now I'm just curious." she said, "Since its you Cody, I say its something perverted.." she added, taking a seat with them.

Cody laughed nervously. "Okay maybe I shouldn't say anything. You might be in the mood to fire someone." he said.

Kira grinned, "Maybe...this is a meeting.." she said, making him squirm while she was still curious what he was going to say, it most likely wasn't worth it or it was going to piss her off.

"Soo...what is this meeting about? Things coming up this year?" Gethro asked, trying to stir the topic away from any firing.

"Yes, sort of." Kira replied, "This place has been doing good. And I have you all to thank for that for fulfilling this vision I had." she added, "I'm going to take a risk and add on to our line up. I'm going to be hiring two female dancers to dance with me in a just girl dance group. Of course we will all do numbers together some times."

"More females!" Cody said excited.

Kira had an evil smirk on her face, "Sexual harassment, remember that Cody." she said coldly.

Cody gulped, "I'll behave.." he muttered.

"I'll be doing try outs, dwindle it down." Kira said, "Renzo will help with that. No one else." she added and stood up. "That's all for the meeting. Thought think about what kind of songs to use for some shows and we'll go over it next time." she said.

After the guys left, Kira headed off to the newspaper to put in the ad. She was hoping for good dancers and people she could get along with. Even though she didn't trust males, she was sure she got along better with them than other females. Besides a very select group of females.

Kira stared at the list of names of all the girls who were going to try out. Being able to hear their giggles and chatter didn't help matters either. She got along better with males than she did females, it had to be certain females. She could already tell which of these females she would rather cut their throat open than to hire them. She closed her eyes, trying to focus on the fact that they needed to be able to dance and dance well. No...if she couldn't get along with them then it just wasn't worth it.

She leaned back into her chair, Renzo and her had a table in front of the stage. The girls were behind them at the moment. Her green eyes focused on Renzo for a moment. "Let's get this over with." she said. She stood up and looked at the group. "Thank you all for coming. I'm Kira, the owner here. This is Lorenzo, he is second in command sort to speak and we both are the choreographers for the shows here. I'm only looking for two ladies to dance with me in an all female group. If it goes well, I might expand to two more. Of course you saw on the application that we are also looking for servers as well, if you don't make it as a dancer, you can be a server. Some of you marked you don't want to be a server but all dancers here also serve during times that there are not any shows so they still get paid."

"You will be split into two groups. One will work with me, the other will work with Renzo. We will teach you the exact same dance, we will spend at least an hour on it before you will perform it without us. We will watch, grade you, take off points for things such as missing step. After that stage, we will allow you to pick a song and come up with your own dance. Be creative, show us what you got and why we should hire you." Kira explained to them, she then split them off into groups.

They only had one practice room so each group got 30 mins out on stage and in the practice. Renzo had suggested bringing in some mirrors for the stage but Kira couldn't risk her reflection not being how she looked. The practice room was only safe because of the web cam interface mirror thingy a bob, yeah Kira had no idea what exactly Dru did to it but it was pure freakin genius. All the mirrors in her home had them.

Within ten minutes, one of the girl's in her group was far too interested in what was going on with her phone then paying attention to the moves that Kira was teaching them. Kira stopped the music and strolled over to the girl, "I sure hope that's an important message.." she said, the girl looked like why are you talking to me.

"This whole thing is your job interview and if you can't give it your 100% attention then you are in the wrong place right now." Kira added coldly, using her powers. "Get your things and go."

The girl huffed and quickly left.

Kira turned and went to the front again, turning the music back on. "Let's try this again." she said, showing them moves. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." she counted off.

Time passed and Kira's group had time with the mirrors, this was much needed so she could correct anything she saw wrong. She corrected a few things, but other wise it looked like her group was ready to go.

They all moved to the main area in front of the stage. "Renzo's group, you're up first." she said, taking her seat next to Renzo who gave them all two thumbs up.

During the group's dance, Renzo and Kira marked down some things. They were all wearing name tags as she wasn't about to try to remember them at first meeting. "Alright, thank you. My group, please take the stage." she said, the song started again once they were up there and they wrote some things down. Kira asked them to wait in the practice room while Renzo and her compared notes. They narrowed it down a little and went back to tell them who was out. Whoever wanted to be a server was given what times to show up starting next week. Those who didn't want to serve, left without a job at all. And the rest were set free to practice their free style dance.

Renzo and Kira watched each girl, they narrowed it down to who would be hired. Kira stood up, "Izett, Lisa. You will be performing with me, welcome to the Majestic Rockers." she said, faking a smile as it would be proper to smile right now.

Kira relaxed backstage, the Beef Cakes were doing a number right now then the Majestic Rockers would do a number with them as an intro of the new dance group.

The other two members of the female dance group stood close enough to watch the stage. Kira could tell they were nervous. Kira suppose she could have picked a easier performance for the first show together but once the creative juices start flowing, you don't jar it up. "We have the dance down. The people are going to love it." Kira said, it might have sounded better if there was any sign of emotion to her voice but she didn't feel like trying right now.

Izett and Lisa both looked at her for a moment but then the stage lights went off, the boys were done.

Kira got to her feet, Lorenzo joined her. Cody and Ivan were with the other two girls. They performed a mashup of Hey Momma/Hit The Road Jack by Pentatonix.

When everyone left the stage to go to the backstage, Lisa and Izett cheered. "That was great. They loved it." Lisa said.

Kira nodded, "It was well worth putting this group together." she replied. She could see her profits increasing. "Shall have a meeting next week where we'll work out some ideas for some new shows." she added, she went to her dressing room. She changed out of the outfit to her normal clothes. Her green eyes drifted to the mirror, she lowered her eyes and sighed.

She got up and headed home, to check on her animals then to pass out for the day.

Kira was spacing off while her workers chatted among themselves about their next show. She wasn't normally the type to space off but her mind was miles away lately. She felt like she had completely withdrew from the vampire world, which made her feel lonely. When Reggie was gone, that's when it started. She just kept up appearances with her work, nothing more. He may have returned from the shadow realm and things were back to some kind of norm, she still hadn't gone out into that world again. She had no childer to speak of now and she wished she had reached out to Lexy but hadn't. Why did this happen?

She felt like something in her broke and she has yet to figure out how to mend it. And now..and now things have changed. What brought her back to the chatter around her was the word vampire and her name. She blinked, her green eyes focusing on her workers. "What..?" she said.

"We were talking about this whole vampire thing." Cody said, Kira realized they were all looking at her intently. "Always thought you were strange..." he kind of trailed off without really getting to the point.

"Was there a question in there somewhere?" Kira asked, tapping her finger on the table annoyed.

Cody gulped like he was just about to bring down mass murder on their heads. "Are you a vampire..?"

Kira tilted her head before leaning forward. "If I was, does it make any difference? Have I not been a good boss?" she asked, "A good person? Have we not shared many laughs and happiness here?" Not that she saw herself a truly good person..

"Well yeah.." Cody said, "But you didn't answer the question.."

Kira swore this boy had rocks for brains. Course if she was a truly bad person, Cody would have been dead some time ago but the boy could dance. "Anyone have a problem with me being a vampire? Not that I'm confirming or denying it."

They all shook their heads.

"Hey I don't care who signs my paycheck, as long as I get one." Lisa said with a laugh.

"Dude, it be cool working for a vampire actually." Cody said thoughtfully.

"We've known you too long for it to really matter." Lorenzo replied with a shrug. "Can we get back to planning our next show?"

They agreed to get back to work. Kira never came out and said she was a vampire, it didn't change anything here. But what would change would be everything else...what would happen between vampires and humans. She could imagine all the bad that could happen...would the two be able to work things out and live side by side?

It was a typical night at The Majestic Lounge, Kira went backstage to see if the other two of the Majestic Rockers were ready to after the Beef Cakes did their number. What she found was Lisa trying to cover a black eye with makeup. Izett was next to her, whispering carefully but Kira heard her anyway. "He did this didn't he?"

They both looked to Kira and Lisa flustered as she quickly looked back to the mirror. Kira pulled up a chair next to Lisa and sat down, "Gemme." she said, taking the makeup brush. Kira only knew how to cover up bruises from her time in New York when she was doing cage fighting for money. She didn't really have to worry about marks now. Other than that, she never been much into makeup and always had someone else do it if she did require it. Times change though. Now that she had this business she started to learn and use makeup more often.

"Lisa.." Kira said softly, "You've been getting hurt a lot lately.."

"I'm just rather clumsy.." Lisa started to lie.

Kira's eyes narrowed. "Do not give me that ****." she snapped. "You are a dancer. You are nothing close to clumsy." she added. "No man is worth this. You can end up in the hospital or worse." she put the makeup aside. "You have my number. Leave him. If you are scared for your life, you call me. I'll be there in a flash. Okay?"

Lisa looked like she was trying not to tear up. She nodded. She waved her face, "Alright, shall try not to mess up the makeup now." she said as she stood up and they left for the stage.

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A week later, it was day time and Kira was passed out. She felt like she kept hearing her phone go off but she couldn't wake, not until the sun went down. Her eyes snapped open, she quickly grabbed her phone, looking at all the missed calls and texts. Only one had been from Lisa, the others were from Lorenzo and Cody. The call from Lisa didn't make it to voicemail. The voicemail from the guys both said that Lisa was in the hospital and told her to come right away.

Kira's anger quickly rose as she changed clothes and teleported not far from the hospital and ran rest of the way there. She asked for the room number for Lisa and found that everyone from the lounge was outside Lisa's room.

"Kira...where have you been?" Izett said in tears while Renzo hugged her. "You said.." but the rest was lost from sobs.

Kira looked through the glass, her hands tightened into fists. She looked around for hospital staff before speaking. "There's a reason why none of you have seen me out in the daylight." she said, "It's not something I can help. I can not wake up while the sun is out." she moved closer to the glass. "How is she..?"

"He threw her down the stairs, that was after he was done pounding on her and he managed to get the cops to think it was just the stairs that did that damage, that she just fell." Renzo replied.

Kira's eyes took on the shape of a cat's. "Oh, he's about to have his own accident." she said, turning around and walked down the hall. She left the hospital and speed off to the address on file for Lisa.

She would have broke down the door but that would make too much noise, not to say Lisa would want her place intact. Finding the door locked was no problem though, she just picked it and walked in. She found the ******** sitting and watching TV while drinking a beer.

Kira shook her head. "So you send your girl off to the hospital, close to death and here you are just chilling." she said.

The man jumped up, "Who the hell are you!" he said then really looked at her. "Hey, you're her boss. You want some of this too or something?" he had been to the shows before and knew who Kira was.

Kira smirked, she was next to him in a blink of an eye. She grabbed his arm and teleported him out of town. She tossed him away a couple of feet.

He scrambled to get to his feet. "You...you're one of those vampires aren't you..?"

Kira grinned, her fangs showing. "Oh, I'm just a girl who is going to kick your ***." she said, now having control over when her wings show up, she let everything shift to make her look even more terrorizing. Razor claws with Feral Mutation, the man pissed his pants. She laughed and let the frightening sides of her go back to normal. "I have to have some fun before I really play with you. It's been awhile since I've enjoyed a kill." she said as she grabbed his wrist, turning it sharply, hearing a crank. "Let's see, you did something to her wrist a few months back." she said over his screaming. She punched him in the face, "Black eye a week ago." she said, kicking him in the ribs.

"Stop..." he said as he rolled in pain on the ground.

"Stop?" Kira said, "She told you to stop, didn't she?" she asked, she grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him up to his feet. "Didn't she!" she yelled at him.

"Yes...I won't...touch her again. I swear. Just let me go." he said, whimpering.

Kira dropped him on the ground, "You're damn right you're not going to touch her again." she said, taking out one of her blades. "Because you're not leaving this area alive." she said, she silenced his scream with a slash to his neck. She watched him choke on his own blood before the life left him. She dragged the body off to an area she could burn it before returning back to town, she had to go home for a shower but she soon returned to the hospital where they were still waiting.

Cody was so happy to see her, he gave her a hug which made her tense up. "Why are you hugging me?" Kira snapped at him.

"I was worried about you." Cody said. Kira shook her head and pushed him off.

"Why? I'm badass remember?" Kira replied, straightened out her jacket like nothing happened. No one questioned her about what happened. The attention was on Lisa, who opened her eyes but she couldn't speak very well but it was clear she was happy to see them.

One by one after visiting, they left until Kira was the only one there. "You will find that he won't be bothering you anymore. He left the city." she said. "You, just focus on healing, okay?" she said with a smile.

Kira left the room, making sure she took care of the would be bills before heading home.

The changes the city was going through, Kira wasn't sure what to think. She joined the little militia thing that was going against the undead. She wasn't sure why they want zombie ears other than to prove you killed them. It doesn't take long to get a ton of them, its a quick buck.

She however noticed a lot of gangsters. Everywhere she went, casino, clubs, there they be. She stayed back, her green eyes staring them down. That old urge to just kill them all was at the back of her head. She really needed to behave though, killing them all would not be good. It wouldn't be good to go back to old habits.

OOC: The concert part is open to anyone to have seen unless you work for her then the rest of it might have been seen as well.

Kira leaned in closer to her phone that was propped up on the table at the Majestic Lounge. She was watching some JPop.

“I wouldn’t take you as a JPop fan..” Cody said in disbelief.

“The males are very pretty.” Kira said, “And music is music, it’s pretty good even without knowing what they are saying.”

“Surprising for you to say they are pretty.” Lisa replied.

“I may not act like it but I can appreciate a good looking male.” Kira said, “Their dancing is amazing..”

She took in a deep breath. “Dru liked JPop…” she said sadly.

“Our costume maker?” Cody asked. “I haven’t seen her in forever.”

Kira nodded, though now she didn’t need to hide who Dru really was. “She was my vampire sister actually...she’s gone. It’s just me now.” she said, there was pain in her eyes. She quickly got up. “Okay so we need to get ready for this charity concert.” she said, changing the subject before they could ask any questions.

“I was going to have it just Halestorm and some original songs but I’m going to add some other songs.” Kira said. She was going to start the concert with daughters of darkness but that really screamed vampire in a way.

“And Cody, you finally get to do a dance with me,” Kira said.

Cody grinned, “Really? Finally!”

“Just know, I only picked you because your the youngest and the song is Innocence. I need someone to look the part for this song.” Kira replied, Cody’s ego was a little deflated but he didn’t care, she never picked him as her partner for dances.

“Let’s see, still debating on the Halestorm songs. I like You call me a ***** and I miss the misery, and Amen. As much as I like Love bites, most likely won’t do that one. Mz. Hyde is also a good one. Freak like me might not be a good one to do for this. Can always do the cut ones at a later time here.” she said, “So, four Halestorm songs.”

“What other songs are we going to have then. Four songs isn’t very long.” Ivan asked.

“Not myself tonight by Christina Aguilera. Night Nurse and Sinner on the Dancefloor by Cascada.” Kira replied, “So that’s three more. I got a couple of original songs.
“Really wish you’d do a Britney Spears song.” Cody said, “Doesn’t even have to be sexy song. Can be like Lair, I can see you do that.” he added, even though he rather see her do Slumber Party, he’s had dreams of her doing the S&M song though.

“Ooh Ooh Baby would be a good one for us to do a dance with but that is all up to Kira since she hates Spears so much.” Lorenzo replied. “Also Change your mind is a good one. We would get a good following if we did some songs.”

“No damn Spears songs.” Kira hissed at them. “Now, let's get started on the songs we have. Cody why don’t we start with our song.” she said, Cody gulped, wondering if he was about to get hurt.

It took a month to get everything down, before then she started to advertise it with flyers and internet.

Charity Concert! The dancers of the Majestic Lounge, give their all for their community. All money raised goes towards local homeless shelters, animals shelters, and driving back the undead to make the streets safe. Taking place within a gated area so everyone can enjoy the concert without fear of the undead.

The night of the concert, her wraith was trying to tell her what to wear and how to do her makeup while she was trying to get ready. “Tess, shut it. I have all the outfits for the songs picked out already.” Kira said, most of the songs she had a rocker look going on which was pretty much how she normally dressed anyway. Some of the other songs she had nicer outfits, dresses and skirts but always with shorts under them.

She straighten her hair, putting streaks of color in it.

Cody looked out of the makeshift stage. “That’s a lot of people.” he said.

“Nervous?” Kira asked.

“Yes!” Cody said, “That’s more than the lounge can handle.”

“Well, we might end up with a new following after this. Have to stick to the fire code though..” Kira said, tapping her chin. “We might have to move to a bigger building.”

She shrugged and walked off, “Everyone ready?”

“Let’s do this!” Lisa said excited.


They did a big intro with some music, stopping in the middle of the stage before rolling right into the first number.

When it came to the song that Kira had wrote and produced, she wore a flowing uneven dress and was barefoot with her violin. She danced as she sung and played.

“I didn’t know what love was, my chest where my heart should be was empty. I kept my walls up, I didn’t want to learn what it was to be with someone. You walked into my life and turned it completely upside down. As much as I resisted, slowly you broke my down my walls.

I didn’t want to feel. My heart was missing but you filled the void. You built me up then let me fall. Why did I let you in! You keep messing with my head and the heart that you made whole only to break it. How dare you break my wings, chaining this dark angel to the ground.

Why don’t you make up your mind? Are you here or are you going to stay away? Are you going to just keep me hanging on? Take these shackles off me and let me be free if you’re not going to stay forever.

I didn’t want to feel...and now I regret everything you taught me. It hurts so much for this heart you put in the void in my chest. You made me rise only to watch me fall because you cut my wings, never to let me fly again.

You have me looking in the mirror wondering if I’m flawed, that’s there something wrong with me. If you truly loved me, you would never leave my side. But where are you now? Not here, no no not here!

You about to lose me, do you even know. Do you care? There are others who would gladly take your place by my side.

I don’t want to feel. Is it time to just let go of the memories we made? Watch it burn away and turn to dust. We’re like shattered glass, never to be whole again...just like my heart.”

The song and dance was filled with emotion. The stage went dark and Kira went the backstage. She dropped off her violin then came back on stage with the lights coming back up.

“Thank you all for coming. This has been a wonderful turn out and I’m sure we raised a lot of money.” Kira said, “If you haven’t been living under a rock then you know about vampires and zombies, that they are all real. I am a vampire. All my dancers are human. They’re not under any sort of spell to work for me, they do what they love and I take care of them like any other employer. I want you to know that just like humans, there are good and bad vampires. Please do not lump us all as bad. I hope that we can all get along. Why can’t we be friends?”

“The money you all raised tonight, I will match it and put it towards keeping the streets clear of the undead. Thank you all again. Please be careful heading home. Security is making sure this area is safe.” Kira said before the lights dimmed again and she went backstage again. “Well, I think this went rather well. Hopefully if there were any vampire haters, maybe they will change their minds. Tomorrow I will get the money to where it needs to go. You will also see a paycheck tomorrow as well.”

“Wait really?” Cody said with blink.

“Yes, you didn’t really think you all were doing this for free? You all put a lot of work into this. It’s also coming from me like matching the donations. But I see a lot of business coming our way so I’m sure I’ll make it back.” Kira said with a smile. “I wish I could give you all a week off but I’m expecting an increase in business. I can at least give you all a couple of days off though.”

“Alright, now, be careful going home.” Kira added, the stagehands she hired was starting the breakdown and getting the equipment to take it back to the lounge. Kira went straight home, with only the animals to greet her like every night.

OOC: Kira's song, lyrics by me. Wish I had written down the lyrics I came up with while I was driving. Always like that.