Blood Halo: Comic!Miguel O'Hara x OC Imagine

Mamba Negra

   " Working with Gus is amazing, he's very charismatic and nice with the clients, and Meowy makes it even better: Some clients pet him, which is adorable. The store is more full now, but not as it was before the Court event, but it's a beginning! "
   - Hey, Selene - Gus comes closer, I close my sketchbook - I'll go to the bathroom real quick, can you take care?
   - Sure..! - I replie, he goes to the bathroom on his house and I stay there with the 3 costumes, looking at the guitars.
   After a bit, I hear the bell ring and two other people enter: One is a tall guy with dark skin, small black dreadlocks which cup his head and holographic sunglasses. His clothes are quite formal, a formal shirt, a formal vest and formal shoes, but his pants are quite large and baggy with some chains. And he also has a silver cross on his neck. The other person is a girl smaller than him with sun-kissed skin, dark-redish petal-shaped eyes and long black hair with gray locks tied in pigtails. She also has a black mask with some tubes, a big jacket, spikey choker, a gray corset, a weird metal skirt with a short and fishnets underneath, spikey knee-high boots and two guns... I don't know what they want or what they're doing here, but they don't seem to be good... I can feel the death omen again...
   - Excuse me, Miss - the guy comes to me with a small charming smile and a nice voice - me and my comrade are looking for a man named Gustavo del Rei.
   - He's out at the moment but he'll be back in a few minutes, if you don't mind waiting, of course - I replie, trying to keep my cool and be nice.
   - Ok... - he says and walks away from the cashier dask, walking around the store with the girl, they seem to be talking in sign language and all the other clients leave... This is weird...
   Now I notice they have a symbol on the back of their clothes: It's a black snake, I think it's a naja, with a red bat inside of the snake's neck... They're either matching clothes or belong to something related... The other clients avoid them like they were scared... Even the cat seems to be scared and uncomfortable, ready to anything with its fur skewered...
   - Did you miss me? - Gus opens the door behind me with a smile - what's wrong..?
   - They're looking for you - I point to the two people who were looking for him.
   - Oh mierda... - he mumbles, they turn around and come closer to us.
   - Hello, Mr. Del Rei - the guy says with that smile - I don't think I'll have to explain why are we here... You know exactly why... And we won't accept silver as well...
   - Oh, r-rigth..! L-let me get the m-money - Gus replies in fear, he grabs a Gizmo, puts the value on the hologram above the dice, shaking, and he puts the dice against another that that guy took of his pocket, doing the payment.
   - Great... - the guy puts the dice back to his pocket - we'll come back next month at this same time and place to get the next part.
   - And you know exactly what happened if you don't have the money - the girl says with a very weird robotic voice, extremely artificial and distorted while pointing the gun to Gus, my eyes wide as he nods in fear with wide eyes as well. This looks like this is a glass about to breake.
   - Good evening... - the guy says as the girl puts the gun down and they both walk out the store like nothing happened. Everyone seems scared... That was tense...
   - Gus, what just happened..? - I looks at him, he's still a bit tense.
   - It's complicated, Selene... - he sits down in one of the black leather stools near the cashier desk, calming down.
   - Tell me... - I sit next to him and pet his shoulder.
   - Well - he starts a bit scared - those guys aren't good people, they're part of a vampire mafia called Mamba Negra, they have been around here since the 1940's, and they have a huge power on the vampire community around here... Everyone fears them, but at the same time relie on them for some loans with cheap taxes, protection, favors (if you know what I mean) and so on...
    - Damn... So you're owing them the money of the surgery...
   - Yep, I didn't had enough money so my only option was to ask that for them in order to pay the cheapest option avaliable... And I don't know if I'll be able to pay in the next month considering all the other things we have to pay and the unforeseens as well...
   - Don't worry, I'll help...
   - I appreciate your help... But it might be dangerous for you because Mamba isn't known for liking half vampires... And humans in general as well...
   - Wait, what?! - what type of shitty eugenic discourse is that?!
   - I don't know why, but they do believe in that completely nonsense...
   - Damn... And you can only relie on a homogeneous mafia?
   - Unfortunately, yes... Mamba is our only way to get any sort of dignity, even if it costs our lives or we don't agree with them...
   - Oh... - I stay in silence. Will I have a day of peace one day? Fuck...
   - Don't worry, Selene, it's my battle, not yours - he pets my shoulder and gets up with a smile - we have a long night on the way..!
   I smile. He always knows how to light the mood... But Mamba... I may try to do something to help Gus, he's my friend and that's what friends are supposed to do.