Chapter 33: 33
Despite its fame, Undeath was not a very spectacular venue, it was even small compared to other clubs in other areas of Barcelona. At the entrance, after a cloakroom, you could find a room with some high tables with the toilets directly to the left as you enter and an L-shaped room with a long bar on the wall next to the toilets.
On the other side, to the right, there was the dance floor where people danced and at the back there was a stage for the concerts that were sometimes held in the room. The only thing that made it special was the gloomy and gothic decoration and above all the people who were there.
Pablo would have gone unnoticed if it weren't for his physique. The majority of the guys there, even if they were as tall as him, seemed scrawny, without muscle, languid in attitude and body posture. Pablo, however, was imposing, and even more so now with his pale face and the depth of his blue eyes and his jet-black hair.
As chance would have it, two of Gisela's friends were already there.
"Hey, you guys got here early, huh?"
"Well, there wasn't much to do, so here we are. Hey, don't be a freak and introduce us to this guy, I'm Julen."
"I'm Pablo, and you?"
Julen, despite his goth looks, was openly gay or bisexual, as he had revealed with his gaze. The other guy, however, seemed a little more shy, although when he spoke, he did so in a deep voice that didn't fit with his careful attire.
"Sorry, man, I was distracted with the phone, I'm Marcel, hey Gis, Alba says she's not coming, that she had to stay with her brother, but Ariadna and Ceci will come in a while"
"What a pain, that they keep using her as a babysitter doesn't seem fair to me"
Pablo joined in the conversation as best he could, on the one hand they were older than his physical age at that moment, on the other hand they seemed like kids, when Pablo spoke he seemed more mature than them, on the other hand he did everything possible to have fun.
The shots flowed down the bar, and even with a couple of drinks they were encouraged to start dancing to that dark electro music that they were playing in the place while it was filling up with people. The two girls missing from the pack turned out to be a young girl who was the same age as Pablo, she was the one they called Ceci, blonde, pale, also wearing the clothes of that urban tribe, talkative, and with a good figure. The other friend, however, was quite difficult in character. Pablo thought she was deliberately being harsh with him, but he didn't give it the slightest importance; he continued to act the same, open, mature and willing to be unprejudiced.
Ariadna's clothes didn't seem to fit with the other four who were clearly gothic or at least emos, this girl was heavier, less dressed up, less made up, and also less pretty because it goes without saying.
However, it was clear that they all knew each other for a long time by the confidence with which they spoke to each other, Pablo went to the bar with Julen and Mar when the door of the place opened and two boys and a woman entered. Pablo didn't need much to smell them, to not hear any heart beating in their chests, to detect that their paleness was not the effect of makeup. They were vampires, however there was something strange about them, the smell of the parasite was weak, especially if he compared it to the vampire he smelled in Castelldefels or the smell he had smelled when he entered, it was as if their blood was from many generations later than that of the weakest among the vampires of his time.
For a second one of them looked at him, it seemed strange, he was probably doing the same thing as him, but it was clear that a heart was still beating in Pablo's chest, so after a second he looked away without giving it much importance.
With those three came more girls and boys, this time humans, although it seemed that they followed the others' lead without objecting to anything. The newcomers went to the back of the place, it seemed that they were very infiltrated in that environment and that the rest of the people left their place for them, as if they were the owners of the place.
The average age in the group must have been twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, they were the veterans and the oldest in the place so far.
"It seems that those are the masters of the place, don't they?"
"They are assholes, but it is better not to mess with them, it won't be the first one they beat up"
"Don't exaggerate Julen, people respect them because they have been coming here all their lives, the only thing is that they are closed-minded"
"Look Marcel, maybe you don't remember, but I still remember when the brainless blond-haired guy broke a bottle on the Bofias's head and kicked him to the ground"
"That was just a fight, not a beating"
"Yeah, of course, have you seen Pere el Bofias around here again? Damn, I asked Leire where he went after that and he told me that he sent him a message because his parents had moved from Barcelona"
"Damn, what do you want then, there you have your mystery"
"Bah, a twenty-five-year-old guy is going to move from Barcelona to go to a lost town in Aragon? That smells weird and I don't like those people, what do you think Pablo?"
Pablo didn't want to verbalize what he was thinking, but deep down the conversation was something that interested him a lot. He was even recording the smell of those three in his head in case he could follow their trail and thus have some clue.
"Well, I agree that I don't like their attitude at all, but from there to thinking that they go around making people disappear there is a step"
The three of them continued chatting about other things while the drinks arrived, when they turned to take them to the girls Pablo could see how one of the three, a vampire of one meter eighty with half of his head shaved and on the other side long hair who had his body covered in tattoos looked at Gisela.
He knew that look, it was that of a hunter seeing an appetizing prey, and in the case of a vampire it could be to seduce her or to eat her. However, it seemed that the vampire's gaze was not making a dent in the girl, in fact Gisela had not even turned towards him as was usual when they used their ocular abilities.
With the arrival of the drinks the group returned to focusing on having fun, on dancing to strange music, but one that invited them to let off steam. The undeath was filling up with people, more and more excited, more and more drunk, and many more and more drugged.
It was not one or two girls, nor boys who undressed Pablo with their gaze, there had been many more, but he did not care, he was not there for that kind of hunt.
The lack of effect of the vampire's abilities seemed like they were being mocked by the other two, while the humiliated one began to gesticulate. In the end the other vampire looked at the girl who had the smell of the oldest lineage even though she was weak. She nodded her head.
Pablo did not miss these gestures even if it was through a sideways glance. But the biggest trigger was when Gisela began to dance with Pablo in a sensual way, they did not cut themselves short in kissing each other with passion and morbidity.
"Pablo, can you bring me another rum and coke?"
"I'll take advantage and go to the bathroom first"
Pablo left the dance floor and went to the entrance of the club, entered the unisex bathrooms and calmly began to pee in the urinal. Some girls who were taking advantage to touch up their makeup did not hesitate to whisper behind his back, even to glance at him through the mirror, but the boy did not even flinch.
The bathroom had suddenly become silent, it seemed that everyone had left, Pablo calmly pulled up his pants and in front of him was three of the vampires' henchmen. He smiled, he could not say that he did not expect it.
"Well, who is going to be the first fool to stand in front?"
The three of them were surprised by this boy's attitude, but no one said anything and Pablo began to walk towards them. At that moment he could feel how the magic, Gisela's protection seal had been activated, the vampire was trying to mark her. Pablo took a step closer to the door. One of the boys spoke.
"Get out of the place if you know what's good for you."
"And here we have the lucky one..."
Pablo's smile gave the three vampire slaves a chill that not even their masters were able to generate.