Thread: Little House on the Prairie (Academy Members & Guests)

The bass pounded and the people swarmed below on the dance floor as "Venus' " music poured through the speakers. The lines at the bar were moving quickly and never empty and the line wrapping around the building went on for at least a block. It was meant to be a joyous occasion.

The month of advertisement, the phoenix rising from the flame. The return of Indigo. But the man staring down from the VIP section, the owner, had no joy welling inside of him. He shook his head ever so slightly as the reached into his pocket and produced the cell phone. He hit the accept call button of the touch screen and closed his eyes walking back toward the office. He slumped into his chair and ran a hand over his bald head.

"No Guiseppe, she hasn't contacted me."

"She took the sword? Dammit."

"Have you heard from Cugino Torin?"

"I see."

"Send the car with Vinchenzo. Then stay with the children and the bodyguards."

Constantino hung up the phone and looked around the room, his eyes scanning the lands of the dead. He dialed a new number.

"Mr. Brown? Constantino Giovanni. I'll leave a note with the guards to allow you into the club. Kirsi does not leave your sight, Do you understand? Her life is in your hands. Don't let me down Mr. Brown."

Again he hangs up the phone as the limosine pulls up out front. Again he dials a new number.

"Cugino Torin. Something has happened. We need to circle the wagons. Gather the others and make sure the children are safe."

Constantino walks to the Limo as his ghoul holds an umbrella over his head. Still speaking to his cousin on the phone.

Constantino sits in the Limo for two or three minutes and then decides against leaving. He emerges from the car and walks back inside. Still talking on his phone, and keeping a watchful eye on the woman on stage.

Kalie comes rushing out of the farm house screen door just as Logan begins to pull back up on his motorcycle. It is obvious she wasn't planning this outing as she runs to her car for she doesn't even have shoes upon her feet.

Logan cries out to her, “ Mother?” He brings the bike to a mostly halt and lets it dump, rolling off of it as it's going barely two mph. He rolls to his feet and moves towards the car as quickly as he can, without using Celerity.

“Logan come quickly, please,” Kalie calls out in desperation. She throws open the driver's door and scurries in quickly, slamming the door shut. It is obvious that she is willing to leave Logan if he is not quick enough to get in.

Logan arrives just in time to enter the passenger side. “Mother, what's going on?”

“We have to go to the academy, right now. Something is happening!” Kalie exclaims as she speeds the car away before Logan can even finish closing the door.

Had it not been for his superior strength he might have been flung out, but instead manages to stay in and close the door as he cries out, “HEY!” He looks to Kalie, “What the hell?”

Kalie is silent as the world outside the car goes zooming by as the car accelerates quickly…. Really quickly.

“Kalie, please, tell me what's going on?” her childe asks of her trying to make sense of the behavior.

Kalie’s hands grip the steering wheel so tightly that the leather crackles underneath her hands, “I don't know... I just know something is wrong.... terribly wrong at the academy.” The elder Brujah intensely focused as she maneuvers the car. Either from the intensity of her concentration of from something else, Kalie’s body trembles.

Speaking in quiet Gaelic her son tries to calm his sire, “Mykhaila, please, you're going to frenzy.”

Kalie shakes her head, knowing that will not be the case for the moment.
She speaks quietly, “No... I will not. Not while trying to get there in time." She glances to the dashboard clock.

Logan closes his eyes and leans back into his seat. He opens them after just a second, looking out the window.

Quietly, Kalie almost whispers, “She must be alright.... she has to be."

Logan asks her to clarify, “She?”

Perhaps to his fear she replies, “Chavel”

Logan quirks an eyebrow, looking to Kalie, then looking back to the front of the vehicle. “Are the swords in the back?”

Kalie nods, “I have never taken them out."

The young Brujah asks his sire, “Anything you want to go over before we get there?” When she does not immediately answer and instead fishtails the car around a turn as she pulls onto the lane that goes up to the Academy's he states in a very quiet whisper, “Guess not...”

Something seemed to change in Kalie as they neared their final destination. Centuries of battles and fights had sharpened the Brujah, and it was obvious to Logan that the training was kicking in. Her voice was remarkablely focused and cold as steel as she commanded her childe, “Grab the swords... I will pop the trunk as I bring us to a stop. I have no idea what to expect."

Remembering something his sire had apparently forgotten, Logan crawls over his seat, folding it back. Once in the back seat, he pulls the back seat out, and Grabs the swords before Kalie can come to a complete stop.

Realizing what he was doing, Kalie sighs in a bit of relief. Bringing the car to a stop she throws the car into park and turns to grab one of the swords. He hands it to her and the two step out with weapons drawn.

Kalie doesn’t bother closing her door as she looks around alertly. She sees the dead form of Penny and the other car parked outside. Her hand tighten upon the hilt of the sword and she calls out, "Chavel! Emma!" She makes her way cautiously towards the farmhouse, as quickly as she dares.

Logan follows, leaving the scabbard in the car. He follows as close to Kalie as he can, scanning around for possible ambushes as Kalie goes looking for her friend or Chavel.

Emma stands in the door, holding the sword at the ready, her look that might kill fading as she hears Kalie calling out for her. "Kalie." She says blandly, lowering her sword. "They're gone."

Logan followed Kalie up to the house, every nerve on edge. His shades are off, both good eyes scanning the horizon. Was he so tense from the state of the house. The bloody carcass slumped at a tree, the smashed open door, the unearthly quiet settling on the house, any of these should have been more than enough to set Logan's gut on high alert. But that wasn't all of it, was it?

He pushed the questions down deeper, time for that later. His gaze paused over Kalie for a moment and moved back to sweeping the area when he hear Emma's voice from the house. He turned partially to glance at her, then looked to Kalie before resuming his vigil.

Constantino, still at the club and again watching the stage from the VIP level. He hangs up the phone and immediately sends a text message to Kalie.

"Can't reach Emma. Have you heard from her? Something is not right. Can't leave Kirsi."

Benjamin arrives in the form of a black raven. He'll circle the house twice before landing on the porch. He shifts back and looks for Emma.

Logan sees the Raven circle and focuses upon it. He faces it even as Walker transforms into himself. Logan stands at a slightly ready stance.


"Mother, we've got Company."