The day Olympia- had been waiting for had finally arrived. Today, she was to face the Godfather.. And hopefully win!

She called Sosa up to her office, and when he arrived, she said, "I think I'm ready to go. I have some bobby pins. I have my gun in my inside coat pocket.. And my other gun in my leg holster in case the first one fails.. There's another gun under the driver's seat of my car. I put a canister of gasoline in the back seat, and I have some matches in my coat pocket, in case I have to burn the Godfather's mansion down.. Can you think of anything else I might need?"

She watched a smile spread across Sosa's face as he said, "No. Honestly, I think you're overthinking this. You are ready! Let's just go, okay?"

A rush of breath came out of Olympia's mouth as she said, "Alright.. You're right.. I know, I know. I don't say that very often.. Because, you know men.."

He was used to her comments about women always being right and it didn't even phase him anymore. She was at least hoping for a laugh from him but he just smirked, opened her office door and motioned with his hand that she should exit. So, she got out of her chair, smoothed out her dress, put on her high heels and her coat and exited the office, quickly walking down the stairs behind Sosa and outside to her waiting vehicle.

She was a bundle of nerves suddenly so she got in the passenger seat after saying Sosa should drive. He got in, started the car, put it in drive and they were off, heading towards the Godfather's mansion.

A short while later, the car slowly drove down the intended street, and Olympia was examining the surroundings. In the early morning hours, everything was quiet. No one was driving around, no one was walking their dogs, nothing.. It all felt a little eerie. 

A few moments later, the car pulled down the driveway of the Godfather's mansion. The gate was hanging open as if they had been expecting her, and she looked at Sosa. She shrugged and he continued driving slowly down the path until the car was just in front of the sidewalk to the front door.

She took a deep breath in and slowly let it out before turning to Sosa and saying, "Well I suppose this is it. Wish me luck. Until I see you again!!" before reaching under the driver's seat, grabbing the extra (extra) gun then getting out of the car, smoothing the creases out of her dress again and walking up the sidewalk to the door.

The door was locked so she pulled a bobby pin out of her coat pocket, jamming it in and wiggling it around until she heard the lock click. She twisted the handle slowly, pressing her shoulder against the door to open it.

When she was in the front room, she took a moment to blink a few times so she could adjust to the darkness. There were no oil lamps going, no lights on, nothing.. It was as if the Godfather wasn't even home, but she knew he was. She was told he never left. He always had his servants do his work for him so that he didn't have to leave his office. Supposedly his bed was even in there.. So she knew exactly where to go.

She walked through the halls until she got to the door, which, surprisingly, was unlocked. She opened the door and was greeted by the scene of the Godfather at his desk and his bodyguards around him. He tried to negotiate with her, telling her he would let her pay a HUGE sum of money to have him go quietly, and instead she chose to fight.

She aimed her gun at him and hit him in the shoulder, then another more precisely-aimed shot hit him in the head and he dropped to the floor. Then she had to deal with his bodyguards. Around her it was chaos.. Glass breaking everywhere, shelves crashing down, wood splintering, but in her mind she just had to take out the bodyguards, and she made quick work of it.

The whole thing probably took a minute, but it seemed like a lifetime. When everything had settled, she looked around her to see the damage. The place was in shambles. But she wasn't really feeling up to burning it down. She got up off the floor and exited the office, making her way back outside slowly, to the vehicle where Sosa was still waiting. He got out of the car and came around, opening the door for her then getting back in and driving quickly away from the scene.

To be continued....

Jimmy_Smith gets out of his car, closely followed by his bodyguards that are carrying a very large case of champagne between them, they stop outside the door to The Sanctuary where a crowd of mobsters have been gathering.

“Set it down there boys and start unpacking, get that podium ready as well, quickly now!”

As the guards are doing as instructed, Jimmy notices a body bag, fresh at the gates waiting to be carted away, he smiles as he knows exactly who is in the bag and why he is in there, that mean Olympia- was successful and she is back getting ready to make her appearance.

He hears noise in the main foyer of The Sanctuary the new Godmother is about to appear, Just as the podium is finished and champagne unpacked and popped, she appears..

“Congratulations Godmother Olympia-, Very well deserved and pleasure to be serving with you”

Jimmy hands Olympia- a bottle of champagne and a glass

The entire Sanctuary was gathered outside of the headquarters just off Colorado Street. Eagerly waiting for Don Olympia's arrival. Sosa had made sure that all of the family members would be in attendance for this occasion. After a few minutes of waiting outside, Olympia's black Lincoln can be seen driving down the street towards the crowd that's gathered outside. The car pulls up, and the driver gets out to open the door. A pair of black high heels set foot on the pavement as she gets out of the vehicle. That could only mean one thing. Don Olympia- was now the Godmother of Los Angeles. Olympia walks past the gathering of family members outside, wearing a long dark black coat, and a black hat. The upper structures all reach out and kiss her right hand. She waves Sosa, her right hand man, over to follow her inside the headquarters. The rest of the family members follow his lead back inside, where everybody gathers in the main foyer. Olympia walks upstairs to get changed into proper clothes for the ceremony.

A podium is setup in the foyer, and all of the family members are waiting for Olympia to come back downstairs. After 10 minutes of waiting, Olympia- walks down the stairs wearing a stunning black dress. She gets up on the stage and she addresses her family.

After she is done giving her speech, some of the upper structures get up on the stage to say a few words. Punisher is one of them. Punisher gets up and walks towards the stage. While holding a glass of Whiskey, he clears his throat and says ''What can I say? I'm not very good at these things. Olympia.. you took me in right before the war in Detroit broke out. I narrowly escaped death, and for that I'm forever grateful. You saved my life and you've made me feel right at home. Right here in Los Angeles where I grew up, and you helped me get back to my roots. I'm so proud of you, and I can't think of no else more deserving of this than you. Here in this great City of Angeles, in the heart of Pasadena. I can't think of no other place I'd rather be. I will remain by your side until the day I die. Congratulations Godmother Olympia!'' Punisher yells, as the rest of the family members raise their glass.    

After the ceremony, more high ranking figures of Los Angeles start to arrive. All to witness, and to congratulate the Godmother of Los Angeles.

Roxie makes her way to the Godfather slayer.

Don Olympia congratulations on becoming Godmother of Pasadena.

You are a confident woman that is not afraid to make mistakes, and if you do, you recover and press on. You do the right things because they are right no matter what the consequences.  Our family is a circle of strength because of your leadership. This new venture for you is so deserved and I am proud to have been a part of your journey.

Olympia smiles at everyone that had gathered to celebrate her best day ever, thanking everyone that had approached her, Jimmy_Smith, Punisher, and RoxieMalone, before slowly stepping up on the podium that had been placed in front of her headquarters. She couldn't be happier to be surrounded by everyone from her district, everyone from the city she loved, and even people from other cities! 

She looked around at everyone before saying, "I would like to thank you all for being here today! It was a bumpy road to reach these heights but.. I made it!! Thank you to everyone that was part of my crew, thank you to everyone that is part of my district, thank you to Los Angeles.. Couldn't have gotten to this point without you all! Now, BobbyMunson just needs to reach the pinnacle of his career, Godfather Chairman, and Oblivion just needs to un-slack a bit in the next 46 days so that he can challenge the Godfather of Venice Beach and claim his throne too!! So.. Here's to the future of Los Angeles!!"

She grabbed the bottle that Jimmy_Smith passed to her and popped the top, pouring some into the glass he placed in her other hand before shaking the bottle and spraying Champagne all over everyone within close proximity. She raised her glass in salute to the crowd as everyone screamed, whistled and clapped.

Roxie was standing to close to the newly appointed Godmother.

Damn Boss I just got my hair done for this special occasion.

Roxie ignores her wet hair raises her glass.  Again Congratulations Bosslady.

KTI had been sitting in his LA apartment, maybe two blocks from The Sanctuary HQ. He was sitting about listening to the morning news on the radio. As he was listening he heard sirens wailing, coming down his street.. KTI rushes to the kitchen.. A number of black and whites and federal agent cars go screaming by.. KTI looks up at his clock on the wall and a smirk slowly appears on his face. 

He flicks the radio off, grabs his cap and heads out the door. KTI hails a cab over to the location of the celebration and arrives just in time to see Olympia- spraying the whole crowd with champagne. 

"Congratulations Olympia!" KTI shouts through the noise of the crowd "You deserve this!"

KTI then hears the sound of ambulances running through Los Angeles.... Making it official.... 

Olympia looks through the crowd towards where she heard a familiar voice and finally spotted Kill_The_Irishman, fashionably late. She waved at him and raised her glass before and figured she would have a chance soon to get caught up with him.

People were starting to disperse from the party in front of her headquarters, which was fine because someone had given her a second bottle of Champagne, which she had already almost drank all of. She figured it was getting to be about time to head inside but she wanted to make sure everyone was gone safe before she did so.

After finishing up all of his paperwork for the day Bobby finally took his glasses that made him look like the damn genius he was and sat back in his chair and started to ponder how all this came to be. He chuckled as he started to reminisce about how he started in King of Slackers Kurgan's crew with only the intentions of following in his slacky steps and slack away in silence when he got a telegram from the late Bozeman about helping him start a crew in Los Angeles. After getting Kurgan sufficiently drunk, Bobby snuck out the back door leaving a love not for him on his pillow to read when he woke up. 

Suddenly Bobby stood up, he looked down at his calendar and took off out the door.

"Fuck I'm late, at least it's nothing new."

Running threw the garage Bobby motioned to one of the associates lingering around looking like they were working but Bobby knew they were full of it.

"Hey... you, we all know you're not doing fuckall right now. Grab the car take me to Pasadena."

Pulling up to a small crowd gathering Bobby got out, checked his surroundings then walked over to see some familiar faces. Olympia- was standing off to the side with a bottle of champagne so Bobby made his way over to congratulate her. 

"I knew you would get here, you have had your trials and tribulations to get here and finally you have managed to attain Godfather of Pasadena like I knew you would. I know it wasn't easy, and I'm proud that you kept the faith and didn't let all of the bullshit rumors get in your way. Now lets have ourselves a great time!"

Bobby grabs a bottle of champagne, gives it a good shake points it at the back of Chabal's head and pops it sending the cork flying into his head and then points it to the air showering everyone around them. 

Olympia was about to the point of being fall-over drunk when she spotted BobbyMunson making his way over to her. She could almost hug him, except she wasn't sure if he was the hug type.. So she abstained. 

She smiled as he spoke, concentrating hard on his moving lips so she could understand all that he was saying. When she heard him say proud, she did hug him.. She took another drink before lowering the bottle and saying, "Sorry about the hug.. I got.. A little carried away.. But to hear you say that.. It means a lot. And I knew I put my faith in the right person by believing you all those times, and I thank you for everything. Seriously. You have no idea. You gave me a backbone lately and I really appreciate that. Just think, in just a couple short days it will be your turn! And I can't wait to attend that party!"

She watched as he turned, grabbed a bottle of Champagne and shook it, pointing it at Chabal and popping the cap on his head. She gasped because she knew that had to have hurt, and she hoped he wouldn't be too severely injured. 

She said, "There is plenty of room inside for anyone that wants to stay and keep the party going. But for those of you that are party poopers... No room for you!"

There are so many dead puppies now it's not funny. 

While the party was still going on, Punisher looked around and was excited to see so many people show up. Familiar faces from all over Los Angeles.

While sipping on a glass of Scotch, he suddenly hears some commotion outside. Some drunk guy stumbled into crowd gathered outside yelling ''There are so many dead puppies now it's not funny.'' Several people in attendance looked agitated and annoyed by this drunk individual ruining the party. Punisher looks at Olympia and Olympia- signals Punisher to do something about it. Without hesitation Punisher walks towards the individual and grabs him by his jacket. ''Hey asshole, get the hell out of here. Disrespecting the Godmother on a day like this, you are lucky you don't get your ass shot.'' Punisher says, while pushing him away. Quickly a small crowd of family members is gathered around the commotion. Most of them wanting to beat this guy's ass. But Punisher quickly signals to the guys and says ''It's alright, let him go." Punisher didn't want anything to ruin this great night.

Everything was back to normal again, and the party was able to continue. Punisher walked back to the party. Looking at all these familiar faces he thought to himself ''I'm really going to miss these guys. It's going to be different, not having them around as much anymore.'' But he knew that everybody was still close by. And all that he needed to do, was drive a few blocks to get to Sosa's Devil's Disciples headquarters.   

Admiral pulls up at the gathering crowd and dismounts his bike, dressed in complete biker leathers. He spots Olympia in the crowd and walks over to her with his arm out to shake her hand.

"Some of my little birdies told me that you finally did it and whacked the tyrant that used to rule Pasadena, Congratulations on becoming the new Godmother Olympia. Pasadena couldn't have a better person to lead her"

Admiral hands her a ship in the bottle

"My pa always told me to hand a ship in a bottle to those who reached great achievements in life" Admiral tipped his cap at her in respect

Axel was attending to other business. His drunken escapades were getting a little much. He kept forgetting things and starting fights when he maybe shouldn't have. He was currently seeking advice from a local psychic in Vegas, yet before he left his office he sent two men over to LA to carry a personal message to the new Godmother. Axel saw her as a dear friend, one that helped him take control of the consistently robbed bank in her home city.

As the two men approached the gathering they began getting into an argument. Rudy was a barmen from Arizona Club in Vegas, and the other your usual all business type goon. Rudy though, he was happy as a clam. Always in his spirits. He'd rather give you a note that had a compliment on it than a warning or stern look, even if you were about to knock over his place of business. And that mix of chalk and oil made for the current argument, although Rudy saw it as nothing more than Shannon being friendly.

After a little disgruntled 'fuck you, do it yourself then' Shannon left Rudy to take the gift to Olympia himself, as he stomped off to the car. Rudy made sure his tie was straight before approaching the newly appointed Pasadena head of all business. But, before he could, he was gang tackled by a group of men looking after Olympia's safety. Rudy apologized, gave the gift to the men whom he hoped would then pass it on.

The two Axel employed associates finally left the scene as Shannon put pedal right to the metal and sped off, the tires of the black four door sedan screeching as he did.

Those poor puppies, Punisher. The poor damn puppies! They killed themselves, Punisher! They did! Some took their chew toys and tried to swallow them. Twitching on the floor, with the toys squeaking in their throats until finally... silence. Dozens of puppies with engorged eyes and gullets just spread out over the sidewalks. I heard some of them even tried to go into the tar pits to go out the way of the dinosaurs. Some jumped out in front of traffic. Others hung themselves off of patios by their leashes. Some puppies even helped out the less able bodied puppies by biting their necks so that they'd bleed out, as a help. A few even stole dark chocolate and died of heart failure. To top it off, from what I hear, someone is going around slicing out their puppy hearts and eating them like strawberries. It's a real tragedy. 

Olympia listens intently to Admiral, then gladly accepts the ship in a bottle from him. She smiles as she examines it, noting the tiny sails on it, and that it even had little figurines at the wheel, controlling the sails, etc. It was the sweetest gift she had ever received.

She said, "Thank you so much for this. It means a lot! I'm glad you could make it here and hopefully you can join into the celebrations!"

Then she turned as she heard a scuffle near her, and saw her men and her bodyguards attacking some man that looked to have been carrying a package. She wondered if it was her and thought maybe the guy didn't deserve to be tackled like that. And then she turned AGAIN at the sound of another guy being tackled after saying something strange about puppies.

She thought, There are sure some lunatics in this world..

Eventually the package was brought over to her after people checked to make sure it wouldn't explode. She opened it to see a gift inside from Axel, one of her dear friends. She wished he could have been there but according to the note left inside he was busy but still wanted to give him his congratulations and let him know he was thinking about her on this awesome day of hers.

She folded up the letter and put it inside her coat pocket, then continued mingling with the crowd. She hoped the rest of the night would go without any crazy shenanigans. 

 if it was for her**

but still wanted to give her his congratulations and let her know**

Bit shaky there. Must be from the puppy blood lust still wanting for more, hungry and insatiable. The puppies are diving off of bridges as their ears flap in the air, snapping their backs by jumping off beds for want of being put down (the poor dachshunds), and drowning themselves in the sewers to avoid being taken alive for their hearts and blood! Ruff!