Important Things

CHAPTER 5

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Important things.

‍‍Regal walked into Fang Fantasy, one of the most popular and elite clubhouse in fang city,  The whole place was dimly lighted, with rotating lights, and the whole house was blaring with loud music and dancing vampires.

He scanned the room and as expected his friends were nowhere to be found, they definitely were in the elite room and that was usually upstairs, he walked forward flipping his Toyota tortoise car keys, his father had given him the car that year for his sixteenth birthday.

Only high elites in Fang city had cars, since the vampires traded with both humans and Werewolves it was easy to get those things unlike in Luna Land.

some adults smirked at him as he walked past them to the staircase, he knew he wasn't supposed to be there. This was a place adults did their dirty dealing but who cares.

After all, if it wasn't because everyone in fang city knew him and when he was born, who could tell from his body that he was below eighteen. "I am here to have fun and you guys can't stop me" He muttered. "You better get used to seeing me here or you can as well excuse yourself" he added under his breath not wanting to draw more attention.

This was his first time at this clubhouse, Jerry, one of his friends had recommended it, "because I like it here" he added. Usually, he went to another elite clubhouse which might have been higher than this one, but this looked classier.

He passed by a group of girls that were surely older than him. Definitely, none of them were less than 18. The girls clustered around him, "Hi Regal", they said in unison, "Hello pretties", Regal said, in situations like this his confidence never dwindled.

He strode forward in his usual majestic grace, he was smart and knew that most of these girls and even his friends never really love him or even like him to say the least, they were just there for the gains.

Although, for the girl he knew it wasn't only him being the king's son that made them swamp around him, his looks also got credit, thanks to his mature statue too! But then again this was something he took from his father, Raymond was also a very handsome and well-built man, and even in his 50s, he still was strong and full of vigor.

Regal sometimes taught his father must have also lived his early days carefreely like him, if not, what other reasons explain why he didn't settle down much earlier. If he had married at twenty-six or at most, thirty then he probably would have a child of about twenty years of age by now.

Regal got into the room his eyes wandered around for a moment, then caught sight of his friends at one edge of the hall close to the bar. The girls had insisted on keeping him company. He approached the bar where the three boys were. Two standing and Jerry sitting between them.

He walked up to them, "Hey man" he said shaking each of them. Jerry stood up, allowing him to take over the chair. He was the active player among them and so he welcomed the girls "hello ladies how are you doing?" He said with a smile that seemed to intentionally showcase all his white shining teeth, "fine" they all chorused.

"Come on girls why don't we get ourselves more comfortable," Jerry said as he gestured towards a corner with sofas. This was Jerry for you, always trying to win the 'best gentleman award' though it was quite known that he was the biggest womanizer among them. He was about four years older than Regal, and the worst among the gang.

Soon enough, the boys were all settled, "why don't we all get some drinks" Regal said as he raised his hands to flag a waiter... "Not so quick", Derrick said "at least not until we are done with the fistfight", he concluded.

"He already knows he would lose bro, so let him buy the drinks". ken another of the boys said as he laughed out loud, the other boys joined in the laugh, including Regal. "Come on, am the king's only son, your prince, I have people who would guard me at all cost in the future even if it means paying with their life," Regal said as he laughed.

"But man, even at that you've got to learn the basics of self-defense, except you are ready to have guards, guard you even in your toilets," ken said as they all busted into another round of laughter. Soon the laughter wore out as they began stretching their hands and arms for the fistfight.

"Fine am going to indulge you guys this time," Regal said as he joined in stretching his hand. "Don't be so surprised, I might give you guys a shocker" he said, "I doubt that" ken argued.

"What are we going to do while you guys have your fight?" Jessica one of the girls complained as the boys placed their hands on the table to start. "You could just watch and learn or pick sides and cheer us on," Derrick said as he handcuffed Jerry while Regal's right hand cuffed ken's.

"Seriously?" Jessica replied irritated. she was there for the catch not to watch some stupid dumb fistfight game. She thought since Regal was there he was going to be spending good money buying expensive wines, meat, and other things.

"It could be fun..." Another girl said as she jab her shoulder and turned to the other girl. "I think Jerry would win," she said as she turned to eye Jerry's muscles. He was wearing a very light short sleeve top. And was quite muscular, fair and handsome, good enough to get girls all over him. Jerry turned to catch her staring and winked at her, the girl giggled and looked away.

Jessica rolled her eyes, "Well, Jerry is well built but I think Derrick would win" the other girl whispered as she kept looking at derrick well structured and determined face. Jessica couldn't care less she just watched casually as the boys struggled to win.

Derrick won Jerry and ken won over Regal. Then they swapped with the two winner pairing and the two losers doing the same. Jerry beat Regal and Derrick beat ken. Next ken and Jerry played for third place with Derrick already taking first and Regal last. Jerry beat ken, so in decreasing order, it was Derrick, Jerry, ken, and then Regal.

"What a waste!" Jessica hoofed as she scowled at Regal who wasn't even looking at her as he mocked ken "so after all your mountain talk you still took third, am the one even giving you hope if I didn't play you obviously would have come last!" Regal said as he burst into another round of laughter and the others joined him, excluding Ken.

"It's just because I am not in the mood today, ken defended. "But you are in the mood to make jest of me, right?" Regal fired. "Fine at least am not buying the drinks," Ken said. "I've got the money and I have no problem spending it," Regal said as he flagged a waiter. "Show-off" ken muttered.

"Two bottles of drinks and a bowl of meat for everyone on the table" Regal ordered, "any other thing?" He asked as he turned to the others who were still talking, "add a plate of pepper sauce alongside the meat". Jessica replied sweetly almost immediately.

This was the moment she was waiting for, not some foolish fistfight, "I will also need an extra bowl of meat, chicken preferably, a bottle of velvet special(this was the elite version of the most common vampires blood drink), and alcohol to mix" "a very expensive alcohol" she added with a very sassy attitude. 

"You heard her," Regal said as he dismissed the waiter." oh that's true man, you didn't order velvet wine for us, can't believe you won't even patronize your father's company" Derrick teased.

Velvet wine is a company Raymond founded himself. The vampires were known to consume blood, it was a big part of their diet, one that contributed to their strength, just like their fuel. Raymond noticed it was stressful for Vampires to always go hunting for animals every time they needed blood so he introduced velvet wine.

He extracted a quantity of blood from animals without killing them, he bottled them up and stored them in such a way that they remained fresh.

Velvet special came in when some of the high elite in fang city started complaining that they didn't want to share the same drink with the commoners, they asked for a different brand to be made for them to respect their classism system.

Raymond being the wise king that he was, just changed the package the delivery process, and prices but didn't tamper with the quality and that was how Velvet special was introduced.

The Elite were satisfied, their special velvet wine was made only available in the top clubhouses and restaurants, also the commoners were not offended, their velvet wine quality was still the same, that was all that mattered to them.

Raymond even allowed for competition when people showed interest in the business, he wanted to grow the vampire economy so he permitted other business owners to go into the business, but none could beat velvet wine.

He also didn't want to grow his wealth on his people's sweat so he practiced various other businesses, including being very active in the mining industry. He was soon recorded as the most wealthy king of fang city.

"I have got enough of that at the palace!" If you guys need some, go ahead and suit your self" Regal replied like it was no big deal, "are you, serious man? It's velvet special we are talking of here" Derrick asked, Regal, didn't finch, he didn't have issues with money, he might not yet be the king but he was their prince and even though he could be quite troublesome, his father had never denied him money. All he had to do was call for the royal secretary and place his demands.

"You heard him, Derrick, call the waiter, we are right here in front of the one and only prince of fang city money isn't gonna be a problem" ken teased, "We could even get three bottles each if we want" he teased further, Regal shot him an eye, and ken immediately composed himself, getting the message. Regal could spend a lot, but he didn't appreciate unnecessary spending. Jerry called the waiter and ordered a bottle of velvet special for each of them.

"Regal you are such as sweetheart," Jessica said as she rubbed her hand seductively on his chest. Regal looked away from her not even sparing her a glance, he had heard her earlier comment and noticed her sulky behavior but decided to ignore her, he disliked girls like her. Besides, she was older than him. Not like he ever gives a darn about age gaps but this time he decided to overlook it.