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Log; Ongoing

When; Prom Evening.
Rating; PG-13 for attempted terrorism and possible violence and language. We don't know yet.
Characters; Lady

quamserena , Captain

wolfsmercy , Autor

freakyfanboy , Radu

flammenschwert , and Kurogane

a_crimson_ninja .
Summary; Lady and Radu plan to blow up and burn down a building close to the prom party. Autor and Kurogane are suspicious of them and follow, and Captain as the Security Guard interferes.
Log;

It had all been terribly easy up to now. The punch was spiked alright with an ominous mixture of "things" Earl Cain had sold to him, and Lyra had successfully prepared her own surprise in the party area. Lady and Radu himself had attended only for long enough not to cause suspicion by their absence, and now he was eager to see their real surprise for the prom go off. The explosives had been stored in one of the many hiding places he normally used for opium and the like.

They had been careful breaking into the house, and from the outside, there was no damage visible. Handling explosives was possibly nothing he should be doing while drunk, but the surprise and the chaos ahead were easily worth it. Busy planting some of the tools Lady had prepared, Radu fought the urge to light a cigarette, and asked with hardly hidden anticipation, "Everything alright with yours? I can't wait for their faces when they're all out of it and this happens."

((OOC: For everybody I didn't catch on AIM; Lady and me won't be too active, sorry about that, but the plot belongs to Autor and his respective companion now. The latter can alert the Captain while Autor bursts in, Captain comes, and that's basically it. Have fun. ♥))

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Lady had to get used to wearing a skirt after a long period of time -- well, not really, she had gone without school five months, and then abruptly dumping it altogether to pursue Arkham. It was...oddly humoring. Dante had no doubt been apart from her, and God only knew what he was up to. It didn't matter. Lady's new found...position in life had made her weary and just like always, fire seemed like something to soothe her nerves.

This wouldn't be the first time Lady burned a building, anyway. Of course, once she had gotten used t something for footwear outside of Doc Martins or converse, she'd be able to run, in case the worst happened. And not that she really cared if her plans were thwarted. She was going to get a thrill, somehow, taking frustrations out. Too bad for the rest of the "students", to be some sort of metaphorical stress reliever.

A cruel sort of smile twisted on Lady's face, turning behind, as always, watching her shoulders. And one more look at what she brought, rummaging, Lady had to agree, "Of course, all that panic, chaos, and disorder," They say Pyromaniacs loved to see the response of fires, and this was heavily the case here. "It'll be worth it, best night I've been fortunate to have in two weeks."

Autor frowned as he carefully walked in the direction where he had seen Radu and Lady heading towards. What a night this had been! He'd have to apologize to Pique for leaving so suddenly. ...And to Rue, as well. ...And to Ishida, for suddenly putting him in charge...

I'm having to apologize to people way too much lately, the Mystery Club President thought grumpily to himself as he straightened the jacket of his tuxedo. It was just him, his intelligence, and what little amount of brawn he'd manage to scrape up...he wasn't able to figure out a way to sneak his bow into the prom.

He glanced over at a house nearby. It seemed normal enough. That probably wasn't where they went. He was about to turn to walk off in another direction when his ears caught a faint sound.
...Maybe it wouldn't hurt to take a look inside, anyway...

Kurogane had originally just stumbled outside to escape Yuuko, who had dragged him onto the dancefloor against his will. Dammit, he was a chaperone, not a student! He didn't have to dance! Stupid woman...

He growled a bit to himself as he straighted his tux out a bit, before he tilted his head, eyes catching sight of a shorter boy with glasses. What was he doing out here? Kurogane moved forward to follow, silently.

Autor strolled up as casually looking as he could to the house and peeked in the window. Hmm...he couldn't see anything, but...
Was that voices he heard? "Jinkies!" he muttered under his breath, cupping his hand to his ear and leaning closer to the window...

It was then that he saw it out of the corner of his eye. A reflection of a taller, stronger gym teacher that would probably ask far too many questions.

He jumped and whirled around. "I'm not doing anything, I swear!"

((OOC: There you go, you got your jinkies. XD Just so you know, I THINK the plan now is to have Autor and Kurogane talk for a bit before the Captain jumps in...I THINK.))

The gym teacher raised an eyebrow at the hastily yelped "I'm not doing anything!"

Well, if that wasn't suspicious, Kurogane didn't know what was. "Is that so?" he asked, putting his hands on his hips.

[ooc: ilu. forrealz xD and okies. sounds good.]

Autor gulped. Pique would NEVER forgive him if he dumped her at the prom and then went off and got into trouble like this...maybe this was a dumb idea. Maybe they weren't actually doing anything.

...No. Radu was definantely up to something. Maybe he was going to feed on Lady like the vampire he was!

"Yes," he said, this time with a bit more confidence in his voice. He pushed his glasses up his nose. "I have reasons to believe that Radu may be attacking Lady. I saw them sneaking off together."

((OOC: ♥))

Kurogane's eyes narrowed slightly. Radu...the kid in his PE class. Great.

"...alright." he stated. "The Captain would probably be the best person to take care of this."

Not that Kurogane couldn't take care of it himself, but the Captain probably would be a better option.

"Are you sure?" Autor said, glancing back towards the house. "What if you have difficulties finding him? What if we get back too late?"

He frowned then started to unbutton his tuxedo jacket. There must be a place around somewhere to keep it safe..."At the very least, I can go in!"

"I'll be able to find him." Kurogane promised. "Wait here."

And with that he turned, moving back towards the prom quickly to find said individual.

Said individual was at the punch table, filling a cup and wondering if Victorian Evening Ware (http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/vict_mens_10.php) was the best choice. Although it did feel the most familiar.

"Oi." The gym teacher stepped up next to the other, eyes narrowed. "There's something with the students and, I think, a prank outside. One of the other kids spotted it. It's that kid Radu and Lady."

The Captain looked up and set the punch down, tilting his head to the side, as if to say "tell me more".

The ninja took the nonverbal language easily, and began to elaborate. "Not sure exactly what it is their doing, but from what I heard, it didn't look pretty. And considering Lady has a reputation as a pyro, I'm not thinkin' it'll be good for the other students either. The Mystery Club president was there also, but I think he stumbled there on accident. I told him to wait there."

The Captain nodded, then walked out towards the door, not looking to see if the ninja was following him. Once free of the building, he leaped up, ricocheted off the prom building wall, and flew off towards where he smelled them.

Kurogane easily followed behind the other, leaping after him and following silently, pushing off the same wall and moving through the air.

"Wait here."

...Right. Like he was going to do THAT.

Autor crossed his arms and leaned against the building, waiting until Kurogane was out of sight. A slight smirk appeared on his face as he pulled off his jacket and neatly folded it. After a moment's hesitation, he decided to hide it behind a bush nearby the house. Hopefully it wouldn't get too messy there. His mother would NOT be happy about him ruining such an expensive piece of clothing...

He leaned forward against the window pane for another moment. Hmm. He couldn't hear the voices now. Maybe he was just hearing things?

...Or maybe...the attack was already...!!

Without another thought, Autor grabbed the door handle and threw open the door to the house, dashing into the entryway.

You know what was entirely freaky about this? Lady could hear footsteps, someone approaching a distance away, much thanks to her new found abilities. She turned, glancing over her shoulder like she so oft did in this situation. The girl had dropped her things, over-stepping someone, "Did you hear that?" She asked the other vampire, because Lady was sure someone was coming, taking in a stance about ready to bolt, but waiting for her partner in crime to say something. "Footsteps."

No, Radu could not say he had heard anything. Being not quite a vampire but only something alike in some aspects, he had amazing reflexes and endurance, but nothing close to really superhuman perception - even less now, that he was halfway drunk and had had a little too much opium. Freshly lit cigarette clamped between his teeth - his perception was not the only thing influenced by the alcohol - he threw a short glance at Lady, then shook his head. "I don't hear anything. You must be making that up, and even if-"

He didn't quite have a chance to explain that it may just have been other students from the prom somewhere outside, as the sound of a door slammed open cut him off. He spun around, almost dropping the highly explosive material he was holding, eyes widened in surprise. "What the- Oh shit."

Autor dashed through the building, searching frantically for Radu and the girl he believed was his 'victim'. He was running so recklessly through the building that when he finally found them he nearly crashed straight into them

"LEAVE HER--!" he began, then stopped, stared. This...wasn't a vampire attack in progress. That much was for sure. But...
"...What ARE you doing?"

Gladly, the noise of Autor's entrance had prepared him for somebody bursting in - and he was rather relieved to find it to be Autor of all people - or he might have really dropped something he would have regretted dropping.

"Shi-" His voice was cut off when he managed to compose himself again. In exchange, a glare meant to kill fell upon Autor, fired up by the shock of being discovered. Remembering he was still holding explosives, he put them down, just in case he would have to use more persuasiveness than just words. Which was rather likely. If somebody had found them out, no matter if he could stop them or not, they were in serious trouble. And right now, he couldn't think of any words anyway, but his glances and the change in his pose betrayed his back-up plan far too much, when he finally snapped, "What are you doing here!?"

And she was right. The girl turned sharply around, wondering what sort of thought trailed in HIS head to even begin asking what they were doing. Lady was about to place a hand on Radu's shoulder, "Well, shit," The girl's blue and red eyes settled on the boy. That wasn't a threat, for sure.

"Wouldn't you like to know," Lady was still the smart ass, like it or not. Had it been, say, security, Lady would've fled the scene.

Autor froze for a moment as his brain tried to sort this new information. He had been holding...something. Whatever it was, it must've been important to...whatever they were doing, because he had quickly set it down.

Autor squared his shoulders and glared at the pair. "Yes, actually, I would like to know." He march forward to the offending 'something', trying to get a better look.

"That's none of your business," Radu snapped back, arms crossed in a gesture far too immaturely stubborn for the situation. Autor's approaching unnerved him, and he did not pay attention to what it was that Autor was really trying to get a look at. "Would you mind pissing off? There's this thing called privacy. I know you have no respect for that, but can't you even leave me alone when I'm on a date!? Did I do anything to prove your stupid vampire theory!?" Voice rising in anger, he realised it may not be such a good idea to keep stomping on the ground, and instead, he put himself in Autor's way, unwilling to let him enter the room anymore so that he could see what they had really been doing.

((OOC: Captain can burst in if he wants? Or anybody against it? Btw, Captain, you're hot in that outfit. ♥))

FA-BOOM.

When you're that large and you come down that hard, you make some noise. It's a bit inevitable.

The Captain pushed through the doorway, frock coat trailing behind him, following the scent of explosives. It lead him to the room, where he quietly, silently, stood behind Autor, looming like only he could.

The new presence wasn't caught by Lady, sadly enough, but once it came through, she knew she had to run. Like. Now. Turning to Radu, she gave him a rough shove, "RUN, DAMN IT!"

The girl wasn't going to wait, either, already taking off.

The shove and Lady's shout was the best thing that could happen right now. Until this very moment, he had been standing in horrified paralysis, staring at the presence behind the other boy. Lady's escape brought him back to senses - and completely forgetting the explosives around him, he turned and ran, crossing the room and out of the window - and it was good that they had been at the ground floor.

Autor smirked. Hah! He KNEW his presence would be intimidating if he just looked at them the right way! That's why he hadn't've switched to contacts, after all. It was the GLEAM. That was the secret. That deadly gleam of his glasses in the moonlight. It would terrify anyone from Earth, although aliens seems to be immune to it, unfortunantely.

"Yeah, you better run!" he said, putting his hands on his hips.

The Captain pushed his way to the side of Autor and gave him a look that probably said "Get back to the prom", before diving through the window and after the two.

Lucky for her, wearing something that made it easier to run away in something shorter and not only that, she was quicker than she normally was. But lord only knows how far you can out run a werewolf, that was for certain. Lady had to kick out any irony, about who was chasing her, offering a quick glance over to her companion trailing behind. In normal circumstances, Lady would have been cursing like a sailor, but found herself swallowing down laughs. Sorry, but it was funny, they took it so seriously, and this sort of rush did compensate for a fire. She'd get her fire. Someday.

It wasn't really a matter of where to run, but rather of how fast. And Radu didn't think about stopping or thinking about a direction, because a werewolf was a werewolf and hard to outrun at all. Not that it really made a difference now that their plan was blown and they had been seen, but that was all less important right now than just keeping running.

Not quite outrun.

More outleap.

The Captain pushed off the wall and shot over their heads, crashing down in front of them.

Autor stared blankly after the guard as he chased the two out of the window. ...Oh. That...probably wasn't the glasses, was it? He blinked, then adjusted his glasses.
...That was...just a little bit embarrassing. Just a tad.

Autor turned and walked back over to the object Radu had set down when he walked into the room. What was it, he wondered? Sunscreen, some sort of weapon, maybe--

EXPLOSIVES?! Were they planning on blowing this place up?! Oh man...if he had run into Radu, what would've happened??

He should clean them up, shouldn't he? What if they went off? Autor reached his hand out to pick up the explosive. He had come in here to be a hero, after all. It hadn't worked out the way he was thinking, but...

...Wait.
...What if they went off while he was IN here?

Autor jerked back his hand, his expression suddenly having fear appear on his face.
It was a good thing he had gotten fear back. It was a bothersome emotion, but an important one. Fear was going to keep him from doing something really, really reckless.

Feeling embarrassed, sheepish, but ultimately safe, Autor turned and walked out of the building, stopping to grab his jacket out of its hiding place once he was outside. It wasn't too dirty, actually. He brushed it off a little bit and slipped it on.

...Well...at least he LOOKED a little bit like James Bond, even if ultimately he didn't ACT much like him.
...Hopefully that would be enough to keep Pique happy.

Well, shit. If that didn't make her skid to a stop, nothing did. Eventually, that was going to happen. Lady had caught herself from falling, knowing all too well her natural balance was good. And she oddly didn't want to get further under his skin. She had to catch her sides, taking a hand to her mouth while her head was bowed, Lady forced down a snicker.

It was STILL funny. And hoping Radu didn't crash in front of her, Lady decided not to out run him FURTHER. Like anyone wanted someone like him after them. The girl regained composure and straightened herself up.

Slithering, Radu came to a halt as well. The change of the situation was so abrupt that he had a hard time stopping without falling over, and for a moment there was really the question if the Security Guard was more likely to just shoot them down if they turned and ran, or if they had a chance to escape after all. Sadly, his courage for this evening had run out for the most part, and he decided not to try it out.

The ninja had been following the Captain through the grounds, and landed on the other side of Radu and Lady, behind them, blocking off their escape that way, too.

Kurogane's sudden appearance really made any further thought of escape ridiculous, and so Radu decided that it was finally time to give up. There wasn't really much they could do anyway, for a prank that had neither gone off, nor injured anybody. He straightened himself, too, and put on an irritated, stubborn look, waiting for the sermon.

There were no sermons coming.

Not from the Captain, at least. He didn't do sermons.

He stood up and popped his neck.

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