FIRE DEMON

CHAPTER 3

"Your just in time, we're about to run the test." Zack said as I walked into the lab. He seems to be more like his old self; my partner that I can always count on.

Our dog is still out cold lying on a table. "I don't want to do this, but I know it has to be done. Go ahead do it." The lab tech swabbed the dog's mouth and put it in the machine. "How long do we have to wait?" "Not long, it should be just about done."

Normally it takes hours to get our results, but the thing beeped. "It would appear we have a match. This poor fella is the one that attacked and killed that girl. I'm sorry buddy. I didn't want this to happen to you." I nodded. "Do it." The tech injected him with something, putting him to sleep. Once it's done, they covered him with a sheet and started filling out the proper paper work. "You have to sign here, and here." He said handed me the board. I signed and Zack and I went back upstairs to our desks.

"Well I think that this is the quickest we have ever solved a case." "I know. I don't know what to think about that." He nodded. "I know. And listen about our fight. I didn't mean it, I was just frustrated, and I took it out on you, so I'm sorry." "I know, and thank you."

Just then my phone started to ring; looking at it. "Oh crap. It's Alexander. You know what that means." Answering it. "Hello Alexander..... Yeah..... Crap. We'll be right there." Hanging up the phone.

"We have to get down to the club. Something major has happened, they need us there now." He nodded. "Ok. But if any of them say anything, to me, or look at me like I don't want them to, and I'm out of there. You understand me?"

"Understood, now let's go. If something has happened, bad enough that he had to call me, then we have to get there quick."

He nodded and grabbed his coat and gun. "You know you won't need that." "I don't care; I'm not going down there without it."

We headed out to my car. "We don't have any idea what's going on there, but we have to be prepared for whatever we could be walking into." "What do you think it could be?" "I have no idea. But it's not good, I can tell you that much." Pulling out of the parking lot, the thirst isn't far from the station, but the traffic is getting heavier since it's almost noon. The 'thirst' is a vampire only club, there's only one instance that they allow humans in, and that's if there about to be turned, but that is very rarely that, that happens anymore.

The bouncer is a friend of mine; so as soon as he saw us he told us to go right in.

The bar is torn up; it looks like a tornado ripped through the place. There's blood all over the place, but there aren't any bodies anywhere so I'm taking that as a good sign. Alexander saw us, and sudden relief flooded his face, coming up to us.

"Thank god you came. I had no one else to call." "It's okay. What the hell happened here?" I asked looking around. Sighing he said. "I don't really know. I wasn't here, I had an appointment, and when I came back the place was like this, and I called you." "Do you know who was here when it happened?" He nodded. "Follow me." We walked towards the back, where several people sat on bar stools, covered in blood.

No one looked at us as Zack and I walked up to them.

"So who wants to tell us what happened here?" No one said a word. "We have all day here, and we will find out what happened in here this day. It is just a matter of time."

I took Alexanders arm pulling him away from the group; my nails digging into his arm. "Alex you know I have a job; a human job. I can't just come whenever someone from this world calls. You have to get them to tell me what happened; or I can't help you."