Another leisurely morning at Kat’s place was interrupted with the ringing of the doorbell. Stark finished off the three or four gnomes he’d been harassing, cast a portal, and set his laptop down to answer the door. Opening the door resulted in an unexpected group hug from Kikyo and Kagome, exclaiming that they were back. “Oh…”, was all Stark said before heading back to his laptop.
Stark filled the girls in on what had been happening, Kovak glanced over from the rug he’d claimed as his and returned to slumber. During the conversation Kagome decided to lay near him. After Stark finished his recent history lesson, as if by divine providence, the news station ran a story regarding the bear attacks. Dirk, better known the the group as Bearhugger, was mentioned but declined to comment.
Kikyo asked for food and relayed what happened during the girls’ time with Bearhugger. Tiring of the background chatter, Kovak proceeded to the yard to find the infamous squirrel. Stark shortly follows to the yard to watch Kovak’s progress, and finds Rez’Ale is already spectating. Kat remains inside and browses the internet, half listening to the tale from Kikyo, while Rigel researches valume.
Stark looks down at Rez’Ale and asks, “Should I help?”, to which Rez’Ale replied, “I want to see if he can trick it.” With a smirk, Stark asks, “Want to see me trick him?” After what Stark assumes was a smirk in reply, he hopped over the fence near a loose board and convinced the squirrel that the board would be moved out of the way when it got there. A few moments later, the squirrel was frolicking in the neighbor’s yard, Kovak was half stuck in the fence with the board broken free, and Stark was hopping over the fence laughing with Rez’Ale on his way inside. Kovak was not amused.
Kovak eventually returned to the house to change into his work clothes. Kat drove him to work and the girls waited a while before heading to the shop to meet Kat and pick up their Hummer. Upon being dropped off, Kovak was delighted to discover he would be riding along with officers later that day.
Back at the house, Stark recieved a call from Detective Walken. Walken explained that he was under investigation because SI wasn’t happy with his answers about Squint’s death. He also warned that SI was going to start investingating the pack’s area, because of the large animal incidents and the two dead FBI. “Be careful, the disappearances have gone up,” Walken warned, in regards to the missing mages and werewolves. He mentioned that none of them were vampires and they were mostly mages, also that the Adamantine Arrows were looking into it, “That’s all I got, if you find something else let me know.”
Rigel was pleased to discover that he was getting a lot more hits on his website, though he was curious as to why the extra traffic was not using the forums, just viewing the blog. The extra traffic was high enough to get him shutdown for a few days for exceeding his bandwidth quota.
Tiring of his online studies Stark decides to scry on Freddie. Stark finds that Freddie’s strung out on something, and still a ghoul. Other than that, he appeared to be doing his work and nothing shady…
At the shop, the girls checked in on their car and waited a bit for Kat. They talked to mark about the car and the bill. Upon inspecting the car, they found it was like new, newer than when they bought it, shiny… They eventually tired of waiting, paid their bill, and headed back to the house.
On her way back from dropping off Kovak, Kat smelled a couple werewolves, a mile from the house. She decided to investigate and found they were centralized north of the house, near/in a park. She caught sight of them from the road at the park and they did not seem pleased to see her. Kat returned as the girls were investigating new buttons on the console of the Hummer, Kat told them to check the manual. The girls opened the glove compartment to find 12 new manuals…
Upon opening the door, Stark informed Kat that Freddie’s strung out, but seemed to be doing his work well. Kat relays the news about the wolves to the north. Outside, Kikyo discovered that the buttons were for a nitrous oxide system Kat had added. Kat began looking up deer appearances and animal killings around the park. She found there have been more missing in the last week than normal.
Kikyo and Kagome talk to Rez’Ale a little before returning to the Hummer to finish looking through the manuals. Kovak returns home to prepare for the evening’s ride-along. After changing he opens the front door to leave and there’s a werewolf standing in the doorway. “Can I help you?”, he asked, to which it replied, “You can die!”
A werewolf suddenly crashed through the front window towards Rigel, another is spotted by Kat in the kitchen, and the girls fail to notice the Hummer shaking due to their loud music. Kat got the jump on the one she spotted and got it pinned. Kovak fended off the one at the front door, and Rigel faired better once Stark closed his laptop and gave him some magical protection.
Kovak received the same before Stark walked into the kitchen, two pistols with silencers drawn, to see how Kat was fairing. He popped in just in time to see Kat thrown across the room into a wall before shifting and returning to the fight. He gave her the same protection and walked out the front window to see Kikyo and Kagome fending off their assailant with the ever so subtle choice of weapon, a shotgun.
Upon seeing stark exit the building, brandishing two handguns, the wolf on the front lawn breaks from attacking the girls and charges Stark, to no avail. Stark, as if he is unaware he even has the guns, walks backwards away from the werewolf as it begins to shake violently before being torn asunder by one final swipe from Kagome. At that, the other wolves break off and flee, taking a couple parting blows from the defenders.
Moments later, while Stark is gathering blood samples, Kovak receives a phone call, “Can you show up early, actually where are you… ok, we can meet you there, but be careful, don’t get involved.” The Officer he was to ride along with is on his way to the house, responding to the call. Stark departs on his motorcycle, taking some shortcuts between houses and down alleys. Kovak quickly changes clothes and runs down the street to where he claimed he was walking. Everyone else changed clothes as well, the girls take their leave as Kat and Rigel work out their story.
Kovak gets picked up less than after arriving at his position and asks, “What’s the story?” “Dunno, gunshots fired, big animals seen,” Kovak gets tasked with keeping people away from the scene. Upon arriving Kat pretends to be hysteric, yammering about wild dogs. On the lawn is a tall black man with his back opened up in the lawn. The police check the house…
Kat is told to stay in a hotel for a while and the house is taped off with an outline placed around the deceased fellow.
Stark decides to stops in at Ruth’s instead of going all the way to his apartment and scries the scene. Kat and Rigel head out to the diner shortly afterward. Kovak helps with the scene work. The police find the body has gunshot in him, but the wounds do not appear to be as fresh as the rake on the back.
When Kat and Kovak arrive, Stark begins scrying on the wolf that was at the door and finds they’re at the river, speaking in the grunts and growls he always hears the others communicating in. Stark tells the others where they are, recognizing that the river is not far from where they had chased the rogue wolf earlier in the year, and decides to try out a new spell he learned online called Universal Language… Suddenly the grunts and growls make sense. Stark relates that the dead wolf’s name was little tale, and continues scrying until he had picked up all their names.
Throughout the fight comments were made by the assailants that lead Kat and the other werewolves to believe that they were “Pure Bloods”. Kat makes the call to Bearhugger…
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