[IC] The Party

[Boogers14]

The setting or this is a grand party room where any character from any franchise, book, movie etc. can come to party. Have fun!
OC's allowed

[Boogers14]

A tall man in a brown hood and cloak entered the ballroom. The giant of a man had pale skin, elf-like ears, and pure black eyes. He sat down, tapping his talon-like fingernails on the table he was sitting at.

[Saint Dismas]

Eli stood in the corner. He was wondering how the hell he got invited to this party. He was worried sick. This was his first party.

[Luna Amore]

Celeste had received an invitation to come to the party. She had found the invitation inside her mailbox in the morning. The young girl had been hesitant about attending the gathering that evening. However, her co-worker Patricia had reminded her that it was time to move on with her life after her last boyfriend had broken her heart one year ago. This party seemed like the perfect opportunity to start going out again and begin meeting other people.

Wearing one of her favorite outfits and without much expectation, Celeste stepped inside the big hall.

[Flightless_Soul]

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The Chinese woman strolled into the grand ballroom with nary a sound, cold, obsidian eyes glancing to and fro, as though intently following each and every guest of the party. Her expression, it could only be described as intense, like she was here for a reason other than mingling and sipping crystal.

[Luna Amore]

It was impossible not to notice the guest that had just entered the room. She looked and acted so different from Celeste. The Chinese woman had an aura of confidence and power surrounding her that Celeste could not help but carefully observe the woman as she walked into the room.

[Flightless_Soul]

Alas, it seemed her attempt to dissuade any suspicions had been folly. She could not shake the eyes following her about the room, and so she turned slowly to meet them. The young woman must have been curious why she was here. Perhaps it was the long, black dress Mei adorned, with a slit down the side, attire that showed she was the dominant one, the fearsome one. Her almond eyes cut sharply at the girl, as if to say the woman was none of her concern and that if she knew better, she would simply ignore Mei's presence.

[Luna Amore]

As soon as Mei's eyes met Celeste's, the long-haired girl felt a strong heat growing in her cheeks. Lowering her gaze, Celeste observed the beautiful black dress that shaped the short-haired woman. Her cheeks turning redder, Celeste felt a mixture of embarrassment, shyness, jealousy, and admiration towards Mei. Being the timid girl that she was, Celeste knew she could never wear a dress like that.

She moved her eyes towards herself and observed her dress carefully. She thought the gown she was wearing that night was very elegant and it fit her body very well. Before heading out of her house, she had made sure that the dress would not show more than necessary. The dress was long so her shapely long legs were not showing, her arms were mostly covered and there was no cleavage showing at all.



The floral print on the bottom part of her dress showed the feminine and romantic side of Celeste.

[Flightless_Soul]

@Luna Amore

The girl's attentive gaze turned from her, yet Mei couldn't help but notice the slight blush upon her fair cheeks. An adorable one she was, but Mei had more pressing matters than wooing an evening delight. Suddenly, she felt the telltale rattle of her phone in the small designer purse she carried, carefully reaching in and pulling it out....to read the text he sent her.

I am at the party. Where are you?

Mei looked around hesitantly before texting back.

I'm here. Where are you sitting?

She waited a few moments, the firm resolve seeming to drain slowly from her face. Then, he answered back.

In the far corner by the window. Come alone.

A sharp gulp of air, Mei slipped her phone back in her purse and carried on.

[Luna Amore]

Lifting her gaze in the most concealing way, Celeste observed as Mei read something on her phone. "Of course...of course, a woman like that could not have come alone to a party", thought the fair girl to herself as she sighed.

Closing her eyes, Celeste continued in her head. "Must be her friend...or boyfriend...or even girlfriend!!!" Her cheeks returned to a fiery color again. "Silly Celeste, only you could have thought it was okay to have come alone to a party like this".

As she internally reprimanded herself for letting her coworker convince her to come to the party alone, Celeste observed as Mei walked towards the far corner by the window.

[Flightless_Soul]

The dapper dressed fellow sat at an elegantly adorned table by the far bay widndow, quietly and nonchalantly nursing a bottle of imported red wine by himself. He had just taken a sip from the crystal glass in his hand, an odd gold ring on his finger emblazzoned with occultic sigils, when the tall and slender Chinese woman sat before him, most unhappy to make his presence.

"God dammit, Nero, what is it? You know I hate being disturbed this late!" Mei snapped at him in a frantic yet hushed tone of voice.

Nero took another sip before answering in a graven whisper, his crystaline eyes showing a deep pang of concern, "There's been another attack.
Judah was ambushed outside Sanguine, you know, the club on Fifth and Stoker."

"Yes, I know." Said Mei. "Tell me what happened! Where's Judah?"

"He's dead." Bluntly Nero returned. Mei felt her face grow cold, colder than it had been. "They burned him alive. Holy water, we think. We don't know if it was the hunters or those fucking Malkavians. By Lucifer, Mei, you should have seen him. The flesh was melting off his bones. I finally had to put him out of his misery."

"Just spare me the gory details." Mei uttered. "Tell the coven we're under curfew. No more going out after dark, until we find out who's responsible for these attacks. Nero...I fear that war is afoot."

[Luna Amore]

Following Mei with her gaze, Celeste observed how the Chinese woman sat down at what Celeste thought must have been the VIP section of the hall.

She moved her head a little bit to the right trying to take a look at the man sitting in front of the short-haired woman. Once she was able to take a good look at the man, Celeste could not help but be mesmerized by Nero. He was so tall, so elegant, so good-looking, so mysterious. Maybe it was the fact that the pale-looking man aspect was so different from her last boyfriend's. Jonas was a tanned blonde man. Celeste would never call his way of dressing elegant, he was more a carefree guy. His usual hairstyle was to tie his long blonde hair in a bun or ponytail. Although Celeste always thought he looked his best with his hair down. He would wear a t-shirt or a hoodie and a pair of blue jeans. Yes, that was Jonas....so so very different from the man she was looking at right now.

[Flightless_Soul]

@Luna Amore

War was afoot...

That is definitely what Mei thought the moment Nero told her another of their kin had been murdered in cold blood, the fourth one this month. Something was in the air, and it smelled awful grim to her. The Malkavians, were they responsible? Their feud had hit a momentary ceasefire not too long ago, a cold war of sorts between the covens, but now perhaps something (or someone) had sparked the flames once more, and blood was pouring in the city streets.

Despite all this plaguing her thoughts, Mei remained content and composed, eventhough she was chomping at the bit inside to kill the bastard who torched Judah.

Nero was about to pour himself another glass. By his slight shivering, Mei could tell he wasn't sauced enough to erase the horrid image of Judah's smoldering corpse. Suddenly, he paused so abrupt and set the bottle down on the table with an audible thud. "Shit!"

Mei crinkled her brow at him. "What? What is it?"

"There's a spy! See her?" Frantic he whispered. Mei glanced over her shoulder.

Dammit...it was her!

"Those fucking Malkavians sent her I bet!" Slowly, Nero reached into his coat. Mei heard a click. "What the fuck are you doing?!" She hissed kicking him under the table. "You want to cause a scene, you paranoid idiot! Put that away! I'll get rid of her."

Reluctant, he relinquished his grip on the 9mm in his coat with a solemn nod. Mei then stood...and approached the eavesdropper.

[Luna Amore]

Astonished, Celeste observed as Mei walked towards her. Yes, they must have noticed her watching them from afar. She immediately turned away her gaze from Mei and the man. She hadn't meant to introduce in their romantic date. It is just, she hadn't gone out in a while and...as the Chinese woman came closer and closer towards her she began forming a heartfelt apology in her head.

[Flightless_Soul]

@Luna Amore

How much did she hear of their conversation? Why was she following her? Was she just merely a party guest...or something else? Was Nero right to be so paranoid? These were questions buzzing about Mei's head like an angry swarm of locusts as she approached the young woman, putting on more of a debonair smile than her previous cold gaze. Surely she hadn't been tailed by anyone to the party, and she made certain of that given Nero's ever growing apprehension, but still, that niggling thought in the back of her mind, What if...?

"Oh, why hello there." She said to the woman with a charming air. "Seems wherever I go, I always bump into you. Are you having a good time?" Mei smiled, but just enough that she didn't...well...blow her cover. "What's your name, hmm?"

[Luna Amore]

Without paying much attention to Mei's words, she immediately bowed before the Chinese woman as soon as Mei stopped speaking.

"I am so sorry. I did not mean to intrude in your date with your boyfriend." Her words filled with deep sincerity. "I know you must have been enjoying a romantic dinner and here I went and spoiled it for you. I truly apologize for it." Not daring to look at Mei, she remained in a bowing position in hopes of hearing Mei accepting her apology.

[Flightless_Soul]

@Luna Amore

"Boyfriend?" Mei rose an eyebrow, a brief silence before she let out a soft giggle. "Oh you mean Nero? He's an old college friend of mine. We're just catching up on old times, you know. He's sweet, but...well..." She leaned in a little closer to the woman. "Between you and me, I'm not much interested in him...or any men for that matter, if you catch my drift sweetie." Her lips curled into a smirk, her voice a tad soft, perhaps sensual even. "Which reminds me, we haven't properly introduced ourselves. I'm Mei. What's your name?"

[Sewer Rat]

Victor was sleeping at the party, he was sleeping ever sense he got here, he woke up with a start, where was his coat? Why was he wearing these clothes? He looked around seeing that he at a party, "How the hell did I wind up here?" He sat up to see many people, then thats where it hit him, their from different realms! He walked around to see different faces, trying to find someone he knew from his past.

[Luna Amore]

As soon as Mei started to speak, Celeste began to slowly straighten up her body. "Ahh...so he is not her boyfriend...", the long-haired girl thought to herself. She had not realized it but there was a feeling of relief accompanying that thought. Maybe, just maybe, Nero was single. But then again, men like him were never single.

Feeling Mei's body leaning closer towards her, Celeste's cheeks blushed in an instant. "Maybe she is married...and that is why she is not interested in men...yes, that must be it!", concluded the green-eyed girl to herself. A bit insecure and shy, Celeste said "I am Celeste."

[Sewer Rat]

Victor wanted answers, he deiced to talk to the nearest person there, see a young women he walked up to them with his thick German/French accent," Do you know how the hell I got here? I have no memory of getting an invitation here." As he was talking he was checking his pockets looking for his gloves, he found them and immediately put them on, they were midnight blue leather. His eyes was looking around seeing that many people were acting lik eit was a regular thing.