Drink Up!(Open)

[Maze Riley]

She walked down the street aimlessly dressed in skinny jeans, a grey baggy cotton v-neck, with her sueded moccasins, and her hair tossed up into a messy ponytail. The night was young and she had no certain plans. Originally she thought she'd stop by the bronze, grab a drink and mingle, but tonight she wasn't in the mood to deal with grabby guys and a packed dance floor.

As she continued down the sidewalk away from the Espresso Pump, the Magic Shop, and the rest of the main staples on mainstreet in Sunnydale her eyes caught a glimpse of Willy's. A smile spread across her face. Perfect. A demon bar where thoughts would be a bit harder to grasp and she could have fun talking to Willy or whomever else was around. Sure, it was a little stupid for a human to walk into a bar like that, but she had done it a few times before and hadn't had an issue. If Willy was still alive after all these years she figured it was safe enough.

Heading down the concrete steps she grasped the handle to the door of the bar and pulled it open. Walking inside she smiled when Willy looked up from serving a demon and waved. She sat down at the bar and waited.

"Maze, didn't expect you in tonight. How've you been?" Willy said in passing.

"I've been good. It's good to see you. How are you?"

"Oh you know same old same old. What'll you have?"

"I'll take a beer please." She said with a soft smile. Watching as he sauntered off to grab it. Hopefully tonight would be a good night.

[Kage Kaji Youkai]

A few minutes after Maze had the demon bar, a black and silver canine creature walks in. Whether or not that it is time for a full moon he is in the were form that most commonly happens to newly bitten werewolves. But this seemly cursed creature seems different, not the rampaging type like a werewolf, more like a intelligent being standing straight and tall like a human would, instead of hunched over and about ready to run on all fours and attack everyone.

He is wearing a of jeans shorts that reach down to the top of jeans, and that fit him just right, along with a muscle gray t-shirt, that almost matches his gray markings on his arms and legs. He walks to the end of the bar with his tails slowly swaying back and forth behind him as he walks past Maze to the other end of the bar and sits down. He then waits for Willy to come over and orders the finest wine that he have in the bar.

He takes a sip of his glass of wine, and smiles. “Hmm… I guess the rumors were true that you do have some of the rare wines.” He gives a toothy grin and then goes back to sipping his wine and relaxing at the bar. As he, scoops out the scene here seeing what kind of demons come and go at this place, since he is still new to this town and wanting to learn what demons live here. He had seen Maze when he walked in, and he at first thought she was a vampire, but he didn’t get a blood or an undead scents from her. He glances at her again trying to figure out what demon she might be if not a vampire, and then looks away again glancing over the other demons. Then he turns back around to face the bar while he drinks more of the wine he ordered.

[Maze Riley]

Her hand reached out, as Willy opened and slid a bottle of corona down the bar top, and grasped the bottle before lifting it up to take a swig. Setting the bottle back down onto the bar she noticed out of the corner of her eye a canine like demon come into the bar and sit down. It didn't shock or surprise her. He looked more normal than most of the creatures that came into the bar.

A few minutes passed and she continued to drink her beer, her eyes on the eleven o'clock news that Willy had muted in the background. More mysterious killings and the high school science fair was coming up.. That was about the gist of the Sunnydale news. She sighed. Taking another sip she felt the hairs on the back of her neck tingle slightly. Someone was watching her. Wanting to know who she looked down the bar toward Willy, "Another when you get the chance Will?" She said sweetly, taking notice of the same demon that had sauntered in glance at her. Her eyes went back to the screen. Demons always got weird vibes from her and so it didn't bother her much when they tried to figure out why she was sitting in a demon bar. She didn't want to provoke any trouble. Most of the time the demons that come in here were pretty friendly, but she always kept on guard just in case.

[Kage Kaji Youkai]

He continued to slowly sip on his wine and gone back to looking over other demons. Just glancing at each of them, and he had seemed to pull out a book from somewhere, and is now writing a few things down. While he sat there doing his writing he stopped for a moment and then and Willy come over to him. In a kind jester, he ordered the whole place a free round of drinks on him, even though he handed Willy enough money for two rounds. However, it was just his kind jester in tipping the bartender for the wine and generosity to a new demon in town. He also requested to have a glass of the sweet rich wine sent to Maze. Along with the glass of wine, he also sent her a white rose that at the tip of its petals is lined in a purple color. He glanced toward Maze again to make sure she got the drink and flower before he looked back down at his book and wrote away.

While he writes, his tail twitches some, but when it twitched to one side, it looks like there is a second tail that twitches the other way. Then again, mostly only demons can see that he haves more than one tail, but there are a few humans that can see them to. Mostly the gifted humans such as those like Maze, witches, and slayers can see them, and those that know the watchers books and read them, could tell he is a breed of an ancient and very power race of demons. In which that is estimated to be about, at least five out of every one-hundred humans that haves that gift to see his tails.

[Faith Lehane]

(Hope it's okay if I join, just thought to do a bit of Faith here hehe)

It had been a long night. She had gone on patrol, dusted a few vamps and now she was ready to unwind. After stopping at her apartment, taking a shower and changing into a crimson red top and black leather pants, Faith slipped her leather duster on and left the apartment, making her way down the street.

Stopping outside of Willy's she grinned and shrugged. She knew she would be stepping on a few toes, but hey, what the hell? The younger slayer was always living on the wild side and she didn't much give a care for protocol. Pushing open the door, she pushed her dark hair behind her shoulders and looked around.

Walking to the end of the bar, she barely noticed the looks she was getting from some of the demons. She knew that she would be recognized as being a slayer and she knew that some of the demons didn't particularly like her. Sure enough, as she sat down on the stool at the end of the bar and slipped her jacket off, hanging it on the hook next to the bar, she felt a hand on her shoulder. Or was it claw?

Turning slowly in her seat, she looked up to see a demon that was twice her height and size looking her up and down. "We don't want your kind around here..." Arching an eyebrow and hearing his comment, she shook her head and turned back around in her seat. She would ignore him for now.

Suddenly she was spun around in her seat and she came face to face with the demon again "Maybe you didn't hear me..."

He was immediately cut off as she stood suddenly and kneed him in the groin. "Yeah well...I'm off duty. Now...why don't you go back over to your friends, have a nice drink and just forget I'm here...I don't want this to have to get nasty."

She had indeed softened from when she first came to Sunnydale. She had grown a conscience and had figured out which demons were dangerous and which demons weren't so dangerous. And this demon...even though he talked big and tried to act all tough...he wasn't so dangerous.

Turning back in her seat, she listened to him gasping then felt another hand on her shoulder. His buddy had joined the party. Looking back at him, she raised an eyebrow "You want to get that hand off my shoulder?" All of a sudden a punch was thrown at her head. Damn it...she was gonna have to get a little violent.

Dodging the punch quickly, she leaped up from her seat and slammed the attacking demon's head onto the bar and pinned it there "I said I'm off duty...follow my advice...go sit back down and forget I'm here." She always seemed to attract trouble wherever she went even in the friendliest of places like Willy's. But tonight she just wasn't in the mood for a fight.

Letting him up and seeing the astonished looks on both demons' faces, Faith watched them walk back to their table then turned around "Willy...can I get some scotch on the rocks?" Seeing Kage and Maze for the first time at the bar, she raised an eyebrow "Sorry about that...sort of comes with the job I have."

[Maze Riley]

Then news had turned into some sitcom that Maze wasn't particularly interested in. She took another swig of her beer and as she put the bottle down onto the counter Willy took it away. When he didn't replace it with a new one she arched an eyebrow at him. "Will... I don't have a drinking problem." It was then that he presented her with the rose and the wine and gestured toward Kage halfway down the bar. Her eyes followed the gesture and she caught his eye before he looked back down to his book and started to write.

She looked back to Willy, "Thanks." She stared at him for a moment or so picking up on his thoughts. Nothing but fear, the dodgers, and some lingering resentment that the demon had sent her wine. And why hadn't he thought of that? She smiled and picking up the wine glass she got up off of her stool. Walking down the bar she stood a stool away from him and leant against the bar. "Hey, thanks for the wine. I'm Maze." She extended a hand, her eyes taking in every detail of him. She noticed about his tail, but it didn't phase her. She'd seen weirder. She tried to get a lock on his thoughts, but demons thoughts were more veiled than humans and all she could register was a swirling of murmurs she couldn't quite make out.

When Faith came into the bar the room became loud with thoughts. Especially Willy's. He was worried there might be a problem. Maze thought it was silly, the girl seemed like she didn't want any trouble. However, then trouble seemed to find her. Her eye contact with Kage broke when the demons tried to pick a fight with Faith. She watched as Faith kicked some ass. She'd never actually seen a slayer in action before. It was amazing. When Faith apologized to her and Kage she shook her head, "Hey, no problem." She said warmly.

(Welcome!!)

[Kage Kaji Youkai]

When she first tried to get into his thoughts, she only heard ‘defiantly human scent from her’ in his mind as he write something in the book, then nothing at all from him. It was as if he had sensed that she was trying to listen to his thoughts. He looked up from his writing, which the writing wasn’t in English it was in Kanji, Japanese writing. He reached up and shook her hand. “You are welcome and I am Kage.” When he shook her hand, she could feel the fur on his hand is silky soft.

He wasn’t paying any attention to Faith at first though one of his large fox ears was cocked over when one of the demons had came over and tried to make her leave. Then he looked over when she apologized for the interruption. “That is no problem Miss; it is understandable that it comes with the territory of the kind of work.” He gives her a toothy grin as he tries and smiles in his lycan fox form. “Though you wouldn’t be the first Slayer I have met in my life time.”

He sips on his wine again and then looks back at Maze. “Though for you Maze, it is rare to met a human that would rather hang out with demons then her own kind.” Then he looks between the two girls again and shrugs to himself and smiles. When Willy came to give Faith her drink, Kage nodded to let him know her drink is on the house with the rest he had bought before she came in. The book he was writing in, when he closes it, it turns into a leaf and he sits it into his pant pocket, and then goes back to sipping on his wine.

[Faith Lehane]

Blinking and smiling at Willy, winking at him, Faith turned in her seat then nodded to Maze then to Kage. "Thanks for the drink." Taking a drink from it, she sighed and rolled her shoulders back then turned her face back to Kage "You've known other slayers before? Let me guess...you've met Buffy and her crew."

Smiling, she shrugged "They're good...in fact, I actually came back and joined them not too long ago." Looking back at the demons that attacked her, she sighed "But when I was here the first time, I made a kind of reputation for myself that I'm trying to shake...It wasn't the good kind either."

Shrugging she looked back at her drink then at Maze curiously. It was strange that a human would be in a demon bar. Hell, what was she, herself thinking? But Faith could take the demons, she was a Slayer after all. Looking between her and Kage, she smiled again "My name's Faith by the way."

[Kage Kaji Youkai]

He turns around in the stool and leans back on the bar. “I met Buffy, but no I did not know she was a slayer. However, that isn’t what I was saying; I am not your average everyday demon here. I am one of those immortal types. I guess you could say I am like your typical vampire; however, my kind has lived longer. Hell… I am older then the Count Dracula himself.” He gives a toothy grin at the mention of that and drinks the last of his wine in his glass and handed the glass to Willy to refill. When his glass is full again, he takes a sip and then sets it to the side.

He leans over to Maze and whispers lowly, so that she can only hear him, “and you dear mortal just some friendly advice. I would suggest to keep your gift to yourself if you see another of my kind. Not all Kyuubi’s don’t take it too kindly at being listened in on.” He smiles at her and pats her shoulder. Then he leans back again and smiles as he speaks up some. “I on the other hand don’t mind, I am not like my brethren.” He sips on his wine again and looks at Faith, “oh, before I forget my manners, I am Kage.”

[Maze Riley]

She took a sip of wine while she listened to Kage and Faith's exchange. When the slayer broke the conversation and looked to her and introduced herself she set down the glass. "Nice to meet you faith. I'm Maze." She knew that it seemed odd that she would come to a place like this. But most of the time it was the only place that she could get any kind of quiet. Human minds were fickle and easy to listen in on. Most of the time she had to mentally block herself from listening in. In here most demons kept their thoughts to themselves.

When Kage told her that he knew of her capability and to be careful of listening in to others she wasn't surprised. "I'm glad you are not." She said quietly when he assured her that he wasn't like his bretheren. Besides her telepathy she also had telekinesis. However she rarely used it. It was definitely dangerous in a town like this to be using any power.

(Sorry for the long delay guys, school's been intense.)

[Faith Lehane]

(Yeah, same here)

Blinking and listening to Kage, Faith took a gulp of her drink, knocking it back like a pro. Wiping her mouth clean, she nodded "Ah, Kyuubi eh? Yeah well, B said something about Kyuubi...didn't really pay attention much. I'm more the take charge kinda gal...at least, I used to be all 'slay now, ask questions later'. Kinda learned my lesson though."

Looking at Maze she arched an eyebrow "Nice to meet you both...so...Maze, what are you doing in a place like this if you don't mind my asking? Do you not like hanging out with other people?" There she was, being all frank and honest again...when was she going to learn?

Sighing, she pushed a lock of her hair out of her eyes "Sorry, that wasn't polite. B and the others said I have to learn to work on my 'people skills' more often."

[Maze Riley]

Willy came up and took the glass from her. He mumbled something about refilling it but she shook her head, "I'm good Will." She said. As she turned back to face the two of them Faith hit her with the usual question she caught from most who came here. She didn't mind it, "It's fine. You aren't the first to ask that." She said leaning against the bar. She liked that Faith was blunt, it was better to be that way then hold things back. "I spend time with other people, I just prefer coming here on busy nights at the Bronze or the Espresso Pump. It's a lot quieter and the beers a lot cheaper." She smirked. "Plus, I'm getting sick of those crappy cover bands they've been having recently at the Bronze. Have you been recently?"

[Kage Kaji Youkai]

He nods some while he looks up at Maze. “That is very understandable when you have a gift that you cannot control hundred percent of the time.” Then he looks back at Faith, “and your people skills are better than the first slayer I ever ran into in Japan. I can tell you, is I was lucky then, because I was still young and reckless, but I knew how to shift my form. If I didn’t know that, I most likely wouldn’t be sitting here today.” One of his tails twitch and he finishes of his second glass of wine and allows Willy to take it away, this time not wanting a refill.

He looks back at Maze and smiles some. “I have yet to be to this Bronze place you speak of, then again, I dought I be welcome there in this form.” He is speaking of his true demon form as he is sitting before them.

[Maze Riley]

Maze leant back against the bar. One of her hands fishing into her pocket to pull out a pack of Marlboro's. Fingers eased the top of the pack open and she pulled out a cigarette. She then placed it between her lips. Closing the pack she put it gingerly back into her pocket, pulled out a lighter, and flicked the trigger sending a flame up. Leaning the tip into the flame she inhaled. After lighting it, she put the lighter back as well, and took the cig from her lips and exhaled. "Yeah.. People tend to think all at once and in waves. Crowds of people can be harmful if I can't block it all out." She said with a smile to Kage, "And don't worry you aren't missing much having not been there. This might be a little forward, but do you ever change forms?"

[Kage Kaji Youkai]

He chuckles some at Maze’s question about him changing his forms. “Yes I do, especially if I want to blend into the human world.” He gives a toothy grin and before Maze and Faith eyes along with anyone else in the bar, he changes his form. His tails, fur all disappear, while his head takes on a human shape. When he is in his human state, or were state, he still wears the same clothing during shifts unless he has to go into full animal form. Right now, he is in a pair of snug jeans and a black muscle t-shit that they couldn’t see on him because of his black fur.

He looks like he should be an actor, and even though he isn’t from the states he doesn’t have the oriental look besides the black hair, tan skin, and his Japanese accent that says otherwise. “Is this much better for you ladies?” He asks kindly and smiles at them and leans back against the bar.