For My Next Trick (Bloo; Open)

Malek was casing his environment, or maybe surveying the hordes of food. Either way he was out on the town and his outing had brought him to Jump City shores. At the dock there was a mini amusement park; newly restored apparently. There he was stood among the crowd of pedestrians watching three shysters put on an act for the masses.

The sun was bright today, very hot indeed. Most of the children in the audience were combating the heat with a double scoop of ice cream. This was the kind of heat that could cook an egg on the sidewalk, much less an undead creature with skin so sensitive it caught ablaze with the plight of a forest fire just from laying in a tanning booth. Thank God for daylight rings, or better yet thank the witch that had created it for Malek. But no benevolent entity could quell the Original Vampire's annoyance at the farce he was currently witnessing.

The three gentlemen in the center of the audience were demanding that random members of the attending audience brandish their credit cards while they guessed the numbers with their eyes closed. What the people didn't know is that there was a fourth guy on the ferris wheel up above with binoculars looking down upon the audience and feeding the numbers to his cohorts via a walkie-talkie. The three men guessing in the center of crowd were all wearing ear pieces with the same tone as their skin.

Malek was astounded, centuries of evolution and humans were still dumb enough to fall for such theatrics, and heinous enough to scam their own kind. Well...maybe Malek should show them a trick of his own.

Once the act ended and the men took their bows Malek entered the ring of people and clapped his hands as he approached them. "Well well well," Malek said. "I am quite impressed with your skill at deduction. May I give it go myself?" The men seemed hesitant but then agreed knowing he couldn't pull it off because he didn't have the fourth person as a look out.

"Oh no gentlemen," Malek said as they challenged him to guess their credit card numbers. "I will be guessing something much much harder," Malek said as he approached one of them and whispered what he would be guessing into his ear. "....Your..blood type..." In the next instance Malek sunk his piranha like fangs into the gentleman's neck and infected him with black venom. The man screamed as the crowd went quiet.

The violence ended just as quick as it happened, and as Malek released his victim the vampire pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his lips. "Mmm, type 0-negative. And now, for my next trick..." Malek grabbed the screaming man by the shoulder and gripped him by the throat, "I will bring this man back from the beyond!" Malek crushed his throat without another word and dropped the shyster to the floor.

Minutes passed.

No one dared approach Malek but no one tried to run either. The feel of the audience was pure shock and maybe even a bit of curiosity.

It took a few minutes but the man rose back up -  he was alive - for a few seconds at least. The sun rays were like gasoline to the newly turned baby vampire's skin. The shyster instantly caught on fire and burned to ashes before everyones' eyes. The other two men dropped to their knees and cried out for their fallen friend, meanwhile Malek took a bow and smirked. "Thank you, thank you ladies and gentleman! I call that...The Burning Man."