apostates including Gordral, one much disguised demon who had transformed himself to avoid scaring any spectators, and a group of Alpha werewolves, one of them female, the journey took almost a day and was a rather cramped endeavor.
Of course Rico knew better than to land at the airport or at Lupo’s private air field so he had to decide on another spot to put the plane down. This was much more complicated since they were flying in from off the coast, meaning they were expected to be boarded in search of persons not in possession of proper paperwork, of which they had a few.
In the end, he landed about a state too far north and they had to hijack a bus to get everyone where they wanted to be, but he didn’t seem to mind. It had been a while since he’d done anything naughty, and he seemed to enjoy the thrill.
When Rico stopped the car and told everyone to get out and head inside, Gabriel did not pause to question him on the matter. But once all of them were safely in, he rounded on the man with all his questions eagerly waiting to be asked.
“Why have we stopped here, and where is ‘here’ anyway?”
“Calm down, Gabriel,” he said with a smile. “We were in no danger, I just thought that since we’ll be entering the caves soon we may as well get some rest and gather a few supplies before we do.”
“Where are we supposed to get supplies?” asked Gabriel, confused now.
“In the basement, of course,” he chuckled. “This is one of my safe houses. I have them all over the city.”
“You own this place?” Gabriel clarified.
“Yes, but not under my own name, which would be quite foolish if you wanted a place where you could hide, wouldn’t it?”
“Yes, of course it would,” Gabriel replied with a smirk. “Rico, you never fail to surprise me.”
“Thanks, boss,” he said with a grin. “Shall we go downstairs now?”
Gabriel nodded, and the two of them headed for the stairs. When they reached the bottom Rico gasped with indignation as he looked at the mess all over the floor.
“Somebody looted my stash!” he growled as he stalked across the room and began to straighten things along the way. He opened a safe in the wall that was hidden behind a shelf and saw that the contents were still inside. “Not somebody who knew what was really here, it would seem. Now to find out who our visitors really were.”
“You have surveillance?” Gabriel smirked.
“Of course I do,” Rico grumbled. “Doesn’t everybody?”
“Nobody that I know of,” Gabriel smirked. He followed Rico into another room where a video and audio feed were connected into some surveillance equipment, and a yellow light indicated all occurrences of activity in the room. This first one obviously being their own entry, he flicked a button and they waited for the machine to play the second.
Two young men had come down there about eight months earlier and dug through the stuff on the shelves, eating foods out of cans and smoking some of the weed they found there. Then they took the rest of the weed with them and left again, laughing all the way.
“Just a harmless prank, I think,” said Gabriel with a shrug.
“Harmless?” Rico grumbled. “They made off with three hundred dollars’ worth of product. I wouldn’t precisely call that harmless. If I wasn’t rolling in money already that could have really broke my bank. Those two are lucky I don’t know who they are or I’d really give them a piece of my mind.”
The yellow light was still on once the clip had been shown, so Rico pressed the back button one more time. He expected to see the kids again, or maybe others of a similar nature, but that wasn’t what greeted his eyes.
“Lucretia?” Gabriel mouthed, unable even to say the name. “How would she know about this place?”
Rico was blushing slightly. “I believe I may have brought her here once, boss. I’d forgotten all about it. But I’m not sure if she was there on Lupo’s orders or if she had an entirely
Of course Rico knew better than to land at the airport or at Lupo’s private air field so he had to decide on another spot to put the plane down. This was much more complicated since they were flying in from off the coast, meaning they were expected to be boarded in search of persons not in possession of proper paperwork, of which they had a few.
In the end, he landed about a state too far north and they had to hijack a bus to get everyone where they wanted to be, but he didn’t seem to mind. It had been a while since he’d done anything naughty, and he seemed to enjoy the thrill.
When Rico stopped the car and told everyone to get out and head inside, Gabriel did not pause to question him on the matter. But once all of them were safely in, he rounded on the man with all his questions eagerly waiting to be asked.
“Why have we stopped here, and where is ‘here’ anyway?”
“Calm down, Gabriel,” he said with a smile. “We were in no danger, I just thought that since we’ll be entering the caves soon we may as well get some rest and gather a few supplies before we do.”
“Where are we supposed to get supplies?” asked Gabriel, confused now.
“In the basement, of course,” he chuckled. “This is one of my safe houses. I have them all over the city.”
“You own this place?” Gabriel clarified.
“Yes, but not under my own name, which would be quite foolish if you wanted a place where you could hide, wouldn’t it?”
“Yes, of course it would,” Gabriel replied with a smirk. “Rico, you never fail to surprise me.”
“Thanks, boss,” he said with a grin. “Shall we go downstairs now?”
Gabriel nodded, and the two of them headed for the stairs. When they reached the bottom Rico gasped with indignation as he looked at the mess all over the floor.
“Somebody looted my stash!” he growled as he stalked across the room and began to straighten things along the way. He opened a safe in the wall that was hidden behind a shelf and saw that the contents were still inside. “Not somebody who knew what was really here, it would seem. Now to find out who our visitors really were.”
“You have surveillance?” Gabriel smirked.
“Of course I do,” Rico grumbled. “Doesn’t everybody?”
“Nobody that I know of,” Gabriel smirked. He followed Rico into another room where a video and audio feed were connected into some surveillance equipment, and a yellow light indicated all occurrences of activity in the room. This first one obviously being their own entry, he flicked a button and they waited for the machine to play the second.
Two young men had come down there about eight months earlier and dug through the stuff on the shelves, eating foods out of cans and smoking some of the weed they found there. Then they took the rest of the weed with them and left again, laughing all the way.
“Just a harmless prank, I think,” said Gabriel with a shrug.
“Harmless?” Rico grumbled. “They made off with three hundred dollars’ worth of product. I wouldn’t precisely call that harmless. If I wasn’t rolling in money already that could have really broke my bank. Those two are lucky I don’t know who they are or I’d really give them a piece of my mind.”
The yellow light was still on once the clip had been shown, so Rico pressed the back button one more time. He expected to see the kids again, or maybe others of a similar nature, but that wasn’t what greeted his eyes.
“Lucretia?” Gabriel mouthed, unable even to say the name. “How would she know about this place?”
Rico was blushing slightly. “I believe I may have brought her here once, boss. I’d forgotten all about it. But I’m not sure if she was there on Lupo’s orders or if she had an entirely
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