Alexander entered into the warehouse where there was already an impressive gathering. He saw a few of his House mates there milling around eyeing the other side of the room. He looked over to see members of House Himura standing against the wall. What are they doing here? Kenneth had some nerve. Brian hadn’t told him that they weren’t the only ones invited to this gathering.
Of course there was a sizable contingent of House Dukart there as well. What was Kenneth up to? What was going on? He walked over to his side of the place and stood with his House members.
As he did so he heard, “Is Kenneth going to let just any idiot walk in here off the street?” It was loud enough to be heard even if he wasn’t a vampire.
Alexander turned toward the House Himura vampires, “You got something to say, slant eyes, say it to my face!”
One slender male stepped out of the group. He was young looking, only mid-twenties or so. He walked up to Alexander and without a word his leg shot upward and caught his jaw squarely, knocking him to the ground.
The slender man turned toward his house, and speaking in his native language said, “I guess he couldn’t handle what I had to say.” This earned him laughter from his side.
Alexander pushed himself up and clubbed the young man while his back was turned. The smaller man recovered and shot his leg out behind him catching Alexander in the torso. Alexander screamed and charged him tackling him to the ground.
This seemed to be some unspoken signal to the rest of them, because House Brandt and House Himura flowed into each other, punching, kicking and hurling themselves into each other in a massive brawl.
Alexander flung the young man he was fighting into two others who were charging him. He was able to just dodge a high kick of another and grabbed at the leg. It was slender and much thinner than he expected. He looked down and saw a not unattractive woman connected to the leg he now held.
Smiling viciously, he dragged the girl upward and slammed her into two more Himura vampires. He let the girl go and clothes lined two more. He was not as quick as the slender Japanese vampires but he was much stronger. Once he got close, he was able to throw them around like rag dolls.
House Brandt pressed against House Himura. Alexander howled in joyous fury as he lunged back into the fray. He got caught in the back with a powerful kick and he fell forward. He was just able to roll out of the way as a foot stomped down where his head had been a split second ago.
He tried to stand up but a leg slammed down on his back with crushing force. He moaned in deep pain as he tried to push himself up from the floor. He felt a heavy elbow land squarely between his shoulder blades. He slammed down onto the floor again.
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He gathered all his strength and pushed himself up throwing his legs underneath him as he did and stood up. He charged forward and grabbed the nearest guy by the waist and continued to push him. He slammed the Asian vampire against a metal girder with a satisfying crunch.
He pulled his fist back to slam it into the dazed man’s face…
“ENOUGH!”
Alexander looked up toward the front of the warehouse as did all of House Brandt and House Himura. The vampire that he held shoved him away and moved away from the pillar, recovering from the crushing blow.
There was no stage or lights, just a horseshoe gathering of House Dukart members framing Kenneth as he strode in between the other two Houses, both sides retreating to their respective sides against the newcomer and his followers.
Kenneth looked back and forth between the two Houses. “I get all three Houses together for the first time in decades and the first thing you want to do is rip each other’s throats out.” He turned back toward his own House members, “I hope this doesn’t spark another Blood Feud between them.” He looked over to House Himura, “Isn’t that what you blame for the loss of L.A. and House Dukart being able to take over?”
House Himura looked at him with anger in their eyes. They didn’t acknowledge his words or the implication of it, they didn’t need to. He knew full well that Fumiko held Wolfgang responsible for the Italians being able to supplant her power base, even with little Tokyo right in the heart of Los Angeles.
Alexander took the opportunity to look around the ware house. There was about a hundred plus vampires, all told, but he didn’t see either Fumiko, or Wolfgang, the Heads of House. He thought about Ansuya and what she had planned to do. If she planned to hit Wolfgang in his own house, at least there was a better than average chance that he was home at least.
Kenneth continued, “I brought you here for a very important reason. However, I’m afraid I can’t tell you what that is.” He looked past them all as the massive doors to the warehouse were being pulled open.
Outside in the moonlight, there were several charter buses. Kenneth motioned to these buses and said, “If you would all get inside the buses we are going for a short journey away from here to an undisclosed location where we will have better security.”
“Bull shit!” said one of the men from House Brandt, “I came here just to hear what you had to say. I’m not getting into any bus going to somewhere I don’t know just because you say so, Kenneth!” he spat out his name like snake venom. “I’m outta here!”
Before he got three steps, two House Dukart vampires closed in on either side. The man saw the two approach and tried to ready a defense. He didn’t see the one come from behind. A single gunshot sounded and the vampire fell to his knees holding his chest as a wound gaped where his heart should have been. He fell over dead.
“You can’t get out that way,” Kenneth stated loudly enough to be heard by everyone. “The only way for you to leave now is on those busses.”
“You can’t take all of us, Dukartian,” a young member of House Himura said from the crowd.
“It would definitely be fun seeing which House would come out on top in a fight like this, wouldn’t it?” Kenneth asked off handedly. He looked over the three groups of vampires. “You two might, and I stress might, be able to destroy me and the representatives from my House. However, we would take a large number of your Houses as well. That fight would only serve our mutual enemies. Besides,” he looked at both House Himura and House Brandt, “you are all much too curious to see exactly what it is I have gathered you all here for. All you have to do is get on those buses out there and you will soon have your answers.”