She reached under her bed, past the sleeping Koln and found the cool glass of a bottle of vintage red wine.
Koln grumbles as Clover's hand touches his shoulder. He weakly fumbles about, grabbing the bottle of wine and handing to Clover, mumbling an uncharacteristically menacing and deep tone, "Here you go..."
Koln's happy dream time because I'm in class early and am bored!
[sblock] The forest of Montaillou was particularly dark tonight as Koln hurried back home. He was carrying an armful of freshly cut wood, you can tell the wood was particularly fresh in how purple its scales were and how lemony fresh it smelled to him. He did not have time to stop and admire his lot, he needed to hurry back to the hovel on the moon where his beloved Ruby and suicidal little sister Clover would be waiting. Hurry, no time to waste, the train by the old factory is leaving soon, the old man will not wait!
"Oomph!" Koln mutters as he trips over a branch. At the end of the branch is a large glowing sign flashing "WELCOME TO DENVER! POPULATION: A LOT OF PEOPLE BEFORE ALL THE
IN' VAMPIRES MOVED IN!"
Rubbing his sore knee for a moment he stands and hastens to collect his wood before- great, it is already too late, as the black feathery fingers belonging to the owls under the soil creep up to the surface and violently pull the wood through the mud.
"Dear God, they'll drown!" Koln exclaims, only to be interrupted by a deep loud laughter nearby. Forgetting about the wood, Koln walks to the nearest tree and peers inside, finding the source of the sound. Inside the tree is an expansive laboratory, sickly hues of red and green dominate the room, contorting off of the red vials and making grotesque images on the wall that twist, contort, play bridge, raise armies, make nuclear war, mass genocide,
and frolic, eat nails, and wave "hi" to Koln.
Before Koln could respond a hunched figure creeps out from under a table of red vials, blood dribbling down his white robe, mask, and "Dr. Thodt" nametag. The corners of his mouth are visible as he laughs and speaks,
"You... are my number one... Guy!" He explains, taking Koln uncomfortably by his shoulders. "Although... you are completely bat-
!" The mad doctor throws his own head back, as if to laugh heartily, with such force that Koln worries it will fall off! Instead, starting from two small holes in his neck, the mad scientist's body has rows of flames engulf him. Painfully shrieking, the scientist dances about on the floor as Koln coldly looks on, somehow not feeling the slightest bit of an impulse to help. Once the flames subside, in the ashes is the clear message: "Koln + Lacy Forever!" with a heart around it.
As Koln turns to leave the tree's womb, as doors normally do, the doors swing shut and scream in familiar childrens' voices. Once the elevator has stopped on the bottom floor, Koln walks out onto the highschool basketball court.
"HEADS UP!" A voice exclaims as Koln flinches and in time catches a basketball that was aimed at his head. Peering behind the ball Koln sees a strange man in an old-school basketball uniform spinning three balls on his shoulders and knee. "MY NAME'S LEROY SMITH! AND IM HERE TO MOTIVATE YOU! TO BE THE BEST MALKAVIAN YOU CAN BE! IN TIME WITH MY PROGRAM YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
MOTIVIZE (BLUE LIGHTNING FLASH!)
VISUALIZE (RED LIGHTNING FLASH)
AND REALIZE! (WHITE LIGHTNING FLASH)
what goes on in people's heads, from then you, like my protoge, can
ERIZE (RED WHITE AND BLUE LIGHTNING FLASH)
with peoples' heads!" He then tosses all three balls into the air, leaps, and while in midair dunks one by one of the balls through the nearest hoop. "HEADKETBALL ANYONE?!"
Koln looks down at his hands, now finding the basketball replaced with the head of Count Chocula, the chocolatey blood streaming down his fingers... Koln looks up at Leroy, whom is still hanging on the hoop, and smiles sinisterly "I'm in.... er, motivize me."
Leroy then pulls himself up through the hoop and climbs ontop of it, balancing on the rim as he walks around it, "Now now now, You know what to do! Find Lacy! FIND HER!"
"But where is sh-"
"FIND HER!"
"Ok great but where is sh-"
"DO IT!"
"Yeah bu-"
"DID YA FIND HER YET?! SHE'S GOT PIGTAILS!! USE YOUR HEAD!"
"My he-?"
"SH! DONT SAY IT! WE ALREADY SAID IT ENOUGH TIMES FOR THE WORLD TO BE CREATED! AH HA!! MAKE YOU PANCAKES!!"
"I do like pancakes...."
Koln and Leroy sit down to a hearty pancake breakfast in the middle of the basketball court.
"MAGIC MISSLE CASTING MOTHER
ERZ NEVER GIMMIE ENOUGH STRAWBERRY SYRUP!"[/sblock]
Koln's eyelids shoot wide open. He is not sure who said it... but he now knows what must be done. He pokes his head out from under the bed and looks around, disappointed that Clover's not there. He whispers audibly upwards, "Pst, Ruby, you awake?.... Hm guess not..." He feels his pocket, noticing it's empty. In the corner sits Socrates who, for some reason, is transfixed on the door. "Aw... someone miss Clover?" Socrates shoots Koln back a look as if to suggest, "You idiot... she will make tools of you all."
