Fresh Meat

Jericho Thoughts:
7-10-21
 
Half the damn town wanted to talk to me for one reason or another. I’ll try to be brief and get to the meat of the culmination of the last couple weeks.
 
The Haunted House: after talking things over with Ramona a little while ago I had to investigate what was going on over at her old place to see what was what. I met up with this broken entity who used to reside over their house. I didn’t get a name even when using my gift, but I figure it was their old totem, lost and adrift now that the old pack is gone. I invite them to join us at the party but I never caught a glimpse of them when it was going on. Maybe they were lurking around out of sight, maybe not.
 
Leilani: Leilani is proving to be quite resourceful. She dug deep and discovered some things in the police records that didn’t add up:
First and foremost the document about what happened with Ramona’s old house, seems like it got chalked up to some “Gang Violence”. Case closed. Looks like Elias had his hands in it a couple years ago, but it was long cold by then. I think he was just following up on Shadow’s behalf.
Speaking of Shadow… She broke into some random (probably not random) apartment or house or something a year back. Not exactly why that showed up on Leilani’s searches but it musta pinged something. She must have been apprehended or something, cause her real name was one it, Gabriela Morales.
And the last bit was our little meeting with Ramona, how there was reports of a stabbing as well as a gun shot. But no witnesses, and no victims so it was written up as a miss call or something. Faulty stabbing and wolf blooded seem to go hand and hand apparently.
Clover: Even after all of that. The last visitor was the strangest. Clover showed up with a cherry pie peace offering. She let me know that they caught up to ol’ Jude Green and had a little sit down. We also went tit for tat with getting to know each other a little bit more. I shared a power with her and she was a little surprised that I could do the same thing that they could. Maybe we’re not so different after all.
 
The pack got together at Oasis and we started catching up, we were kinda busy with our own things for a little bit it was time to take a load off. Rufus suddenly remembered that we forgot to get some snow globes so Barnaby and I jetted off to go pick them up and drop them off.
 
When we got to the Junkyard to pop over and make amends we got a worrisome message from some of the fire spirits that were hanging out near the bones of our shop. They said that another one of us was about to go through their first change. So we tried to get a sense of the direction
and hopped back to the mortal side and booked it south east after meeting up with Rufus we all padded off..
 
Well I wasn’t expecting to find ourselves at the Correctional Facility of Verona… Shit. Something bloody was about to go down behind locked doors with security guards, cameras and inmates. That place is going to be painted red if we don't get there fast.
 
We skittered under the fence and turned to wolves to be less conspicuous. Made our way to the nearest door, broke the security camera by the door and smashed our way in. Simple right? After we made a bit of noise… we kinda got into some trouble. Couple of guards followed us as we rampaged through the facility busting cameras and smashing doors.
 
The caught up at the second and we were able to scare them away, not before I took a fucking bullet to the shoulder. It’s probably a good thing they shot me and not one of the others. They seem to snap quicker than I do, I know I saw Rufus start to get mighty testy during our raid. After they beat feet we were met with another group, this time three of them, and they were ready for us. They unloaded, most if not all of them going after Rufus because he burst through the door, but ol’ Lightning Barnaby was out of the gate, and before ya knew it, the thunder of pins at the alley way was all you could hear as he bowled these men over.
 
We pad forward after disarming and tossing their guns aside, giving them something to think about. At the next door… we start to hear frantic yelling, followed by screaming; Go time. We get through and bound down the hallway. I see a body go flying through the air painted red before I see this behemoth. As soon as I lay eyes on this monster I turn darkness to light and it goes limp and shifts back to it’s mortal form.
 
Remember when I said Rufus was having none of it? He changed into an enormous horse-wolf and starts taking off with the body. We break through the next defense line, these ones looking more like riot police than mall cops, but they fall just as easily and we tear off down the hall dragging the fresh meat.
 
The man we come to find out is Will and he comes to when we get out of the fence. In a confused state he blearily asks what the hell is going on. I shift to human in front of his face to know we aren’t fuckin’ around and that he needs to follow us, and we will explain when we’re outta’ here. It works better than I thought, and he runs along with us.
 
We get to the junkyard and give him a quick run down which he takes in stride and agrees to come with us back to my place to have a further discussion. I won’t bore you with the details. We tell Will enough to set him at ease for the time being and get him some company while we hatch a plan to make this whole prison break swept under the rug…
 
With a couple calls and a few favors owed (booo) we have enlisted the help of the MAGES AND THE FUCKING VAMPIRES! What the hell have we gotten ourselves into?
 
We moto over to the prison with a little disguise to get us in the door. All gate keepers fall prostrate to my sweet talking and we waltz right in. Barnaby splits off to start taking measurements of doors and fences for ordering replacements to install. Rufus and myself go to the control room and start wiping data all smooth like. It took me a bit cause I’m a little rusty but I got it done with some help from Rufus’ partner in crime? We couldn’t do it all and get Will removed from the roster or fake transferred; Enter Jude fuckin’ Green…. Uggghhh.