The Crow: Retribution
By Xenomorph666
The Crow is © James O'Barr
Garou and all other W.o.D. related articles are © White Wolf Publishing
All other Characters are © me and their Real life counterparts
Chapter 5
The Mask of Sanity
The vampire finished his work, it may have taken thirty six hours but it was done. I go up and out of the chair and paid the fool. He only had a confused look on his face.
"What? Don't tell me it's not enough…"
"Oh it's enough bird boy. In fact too much…" He stares at me afraid to speak, "I only charge fifteen hundred for a face job…"
I stop to think about my small financial predicament. I might need that money, but I doubt this greased up vampire knows how to break two-thousand dollars in fifties. It takes me only a few minutes and a reminder from the crow to come up with a solution. "Tell me what you know about, werewolves?" I let my question linger in the air as I smile and wait for an answer.
"Dogs, you wanna know about dogs? I'll tell you about dogs." He says this in a now relaxed English accent. He sits down on his stool. "wolfies hang out round the edge of town mostly, sometimes in the parks. But the weird ones, well, some of'em come down 'ere and start a ruckus evry now and again…"
I cut him off. "Just give me the name of a local hang out, werewolf owned shop, or crime lords that grows fur every full moon. That's all I need."
"Local hang out would be in the center of town, called the "St. George" it's a "gentlemen's" club. If you get my drift."
"Werewolf owned shops?"
He stands up looking at me like I'm a maniac, he doesn't know how right he is right now. "Naw, mate ya don't wanna do that. Then all them wolfies will be after ya. Better to have on tribe then the whole lot of'em."
"Well, I say I don't give damn and you'd better tell me or we're right back where we started…" I twirl the needle around my fingers, he glances at it anxiously.
"Alright, alright. Herbal shop right on the edge of the Corridor. It's owned by one of them "nice, nice" dogs. You could ask her the location of every damn dog and she'd give it to you."
"Providing?"
"Providin', you got a pulse. Which I seriously doubt you 'ave!"
I get up to leave. "Oh and before I go… Local Crime leader?"
He goes paler than my mask. "Now that, you should steer clear of. The freak wolf HATES humans and so do 'is crummy friends. Christ half the dogs 'ere think he and his friends killed those kids almost a year ago."
"Kids?"
"Yeah three of'em. two guys and a girl. Woo, now that was one MESSY death, 'specialy for the guy they say had no organs left. They prolly ate'em!", He laughed like a merry sailor. I closed the door and walked back to him, his laughing stopped as I grabbed him by the collar and lifted him into the air.
"DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE?" I yell at him.
"Yeah, man, yeah!!!"
"THEN FIND THEM AND TELL THEM THIS: RETRIBUITION COMES FOR THEM NO PRAYER, NO GODDES CAN STAVE THE NEED FOR VENGEANCE!" I slam the vampire into the parlors wall and storm out. The crow perches on my shoulder.
-About time.-
"Does it matter?"
-Not really, but we like these things to be short and sweet. You know, like it never happened.-
"A bird with a sense of humor… how droll"
-Maybe but I get to… uh…uh… damn, you win…-
"We were arguing?" I look at the bird confused.
-Maybe, I don't know. You're the first soul for me to bring back… I'm not quite sure how it goes.-
"Great, I get stuck with an amateur…" I walk into the night ready to find out exactly who the hell killed us.