The music rang loud in Amy’s ears, making her heart pound with every beat. Even sitting in a small booth in the farthest corner of the club did nothing to fade out the music. She didn’t like having her voice competing with the music. She could barely make out what anything her friends were saying either. Jessica held up her glass into the air, her face red.
“Happy Birthday, Cordelia!” She shouted. Her speech was slurred and slow, and she needed to stop for a moment to gather her thoughts. “And you’re totally 21 today! Haha!” She added, as one of the club’s waiters walked by, eyeing the group of girls suspiciously.
“Dumbass,” Jackie muttered under her breath as the waiter walked away. “Stop being so obvious, you’re going to get us thrown out.
“Lighten up, babe, there are other kids from beacon here tonight.” Jess mumbled, sitting back down after downing the rest of her drink. Amy had never seen Jess polish off so many drinks in one sitting.
“Yes, but they’re not drinking. If you wanted to drink, we should have just done it at home.” Jackie retorted with.
“No one wants to spend their birthday at home! What’s wrong with you?” Amy watched the two bicker, taking small sips from her own drink. She tried her best not to cringe at the strong aftertaste of the beverage. She had never tried anything alcoholic before tonight, and she couldn’t see herself wanting to ever again. Cordelia sat quietly in the corner of the booth, eyeing a guy from Beacon in one of their classes. It was painfully obvious that she wanted to excuse herself to go talk to him.

“Guys, let’s all go dance. I’ve been sitting here for the last hour doing nothing, I gotta move around or I’ll explode.” Amy whined, standing up to stretch. As soon as she stopped talking, Cordelia immediately stood up.
“Yes, doesn’t that sound like fun guys? Let’s all go dance!” Amy smiled at her eagerness, but she knew that it wasn’t them that Cordelia wanted to dance with.
“The orders of the birthday girl are absolute!” Jess yelled, raising her empty glass into the air.
“Sounds like fun, maybe we can make a request for a song at the DJ.” The girls left their booth and headed over to the dance floor. The music excited Amy to her very core, and she could feel her blood pumping in tune with the beat. Based on the expression that Jess and Jackie had on their faces while they danced, they felt the same way. When the song ended, the three huddled together in a large hug.
“That was great! Do you think they’ll play the song you asked for next, Jack?” Amy panted, using Jess as a support so she didn’t tip over.
“I hope so. Hang on where’s Cordelia?” They looked around, only to find Cordelia sitting down in a booth with the boy from her class. They were laughing together.
“Man she works fast. Check this out Jess.” Amy tried to turn her around to face Cordelia, but Jess was fixated on a young girl being hassled by a man.
“Some people are so disgusting. Think we should help her out?” Before Amy could comment, the girl stood up and decked the creep that was coming onto her; revealing that they were actually a boy this whole time.
“Holy shit!” Jackie exclaimed, her jaw practically hitting the ground. “That boy’s prettier than I am!”
“That’s not a very high bar to reach, Jack” Jess teased, which Jackie responded to by flipping her the bird.

Amy laughed, but when the boy started raising his voice to the man who had been trying to hit on him, the mood in the club went dull. Smuggling creatures of Grimm? Why would anyone want to do that? The employees of the club pounced on the boy, but he fought them off with such little effort that Amy was too awestruck to pull out her weapon. That was when the Beowolves came charging out at the boy. He seemed confident in handling them, but Amy knew better than to underestimate a creature of Grimm. She quickly swooped forward, pulling out a small metal pole with a chain wrapped around it. She quickly unwrapped the chain, extending the pole to a decent size. The blades of Bloodthirster extended out from the spearhead of the weapon, attached to the long metallic chain. She came to a sudden halt, skidding along the sleek dance floor while swinging her axe backwards like a baseball hat. Pushing forward with all her might, she swung her weapon forward in a long arc towards the Beowolf. As the weapon sliced through the air, she hit a little switch on the bottom of the axe’s shaft, sending the blades flying forward at the creature. The beowolf raised his arm to take a swipe at the boy attacking the other wolf, but their head quickly turned towards Amy as it felt her attack coming. It wasn’t quick enough to react, and the blade of Bloodthirster crashed into its raised arm with a sickening crunch. The wolf let out a whimper, its arm going limp at its side. Standing on three paws, it growled at Amy before charging at her with a limp. As it ran at her, Amy flipped the switch on her weapon again and swung the pole directly across her chest diagonally, bringing the blade of the axe flying back towards the beast running at her. The axe collided with one if it’s hind legs, tripping it over. While it was falling, Amy poised herself, stepping forward with a quick twirl to deliver a straight kick to the large jaw of the beast. It keeled backwards onto its back, dazed from the blow. She retracted her axe, holding it in front of her before leaping up over the beast. She held her axe high, swinging it down onto the beast’s chest to deal the final blow. The wolf was quicker than she thought, and managed to roll out from her attack and avoid death. She barely had enough time to hold up her axe in front of her to block the massive paw crashing down onto her. Stumbling back, she found herself closer to the boy fighting the other wolf.
“Isn’t this a riot?” She yelled over to him, a cheeky grin plastered across her face as the wolf prepared its next attack.