This...

"No! Plea-" BANG!

This was it.

"All of you! Get away! No-" BANG!

This was the end of the line for all of them. They never knew this to happen. They never wanted this would happen.

But it did.

Two of them wanted to get away from the madness, wanting to be safe. Every single wall and ceiling of their base had already been destroyed. Their instincts said the only way was to escape. And they tried.

The word, 'tried', being the keyword here.

They crawled through piles and piles of dead bodies that had been murdered in cold blood. Despite wanting to stop and get their fellow mates' bodies proper burials, they won't. They couldn't.

They stopped dead as they heard steps coming towards them. In a matter of seconds, a shadow loomed over them.

"Baba-" BANG!

He didn't get to finish his sentence before he went down as well as a bullet went into his head.

The other one looked at his partner and then into the eyes of the monster himself. He stared long into the monster's eyes before a gunbarrel was raised towards his skull.

"Baba Yaga."

BANG!

He then too, dropped onto the ruined grounds.

He was the last of them.

All of them had been assassinated. Under the order of a certain influential person, the assassin had killed them all.

The assassin looked around the destroyed environment to make sure that none of them were still alive. He really didn't feel like missing anyone, seeing as this was his last job.

When he didn't see any movement from any of the corners of his eyes or even in his sight, he pulled out his phone and dialed a number.

"Ring, ring!"

John looked at his watch.

"Ring, ring!"

John dropped his unused hand to his side and started walking towards the exit.

"Ri-...Hello, John?"

"Viggo, it's done."

"You killed them all, yeah?"

"You asked me to."

"I sure did. It is your last one, too."

John heard a chuckle from other end.

"Can I see them?"

"You want pictures of them?"

"...On second thought, I'll ask someone else to do that."

"Of course."

Silence passed through the both of them before John broke it.

"Am I done here?"

"Wha-Oh, yes! Yes! John Wick, you are now relieved of your duty."

"Thank you."

Now outside, John ended the call and put his phone away. He looked at the screen and pulled out a piece of paper that had someone's number scribbled on it.

He typed the number into his phone and waited for a moment before calling the number.

"Ring, ring!"

John proceeded to walk to his car.

"Ring, ri-Hello?"

"...Is...Is this Helen?"

"Yes, this is Helen. Who is..."

Despite being at the other end, John could tell Helen started realizing it was him.

"John?"

"Yes. It's me."

"John! I didn't think you would call me at this time of day."

"Yeah, I didn't think about it like that, either."

"So, what's up?"

"I've been thinking about that offer. You wanna go out together and get something to eat?"

"Like a date?"

"Yeah, a...date."

"Are you done with your job, tho?"

"I wouldn't be calling you if I'm not."

"Good point."

"Pick you at 8?"

"Sure!"

Reaching his car, John hung up and put his phone back into his pocket. Getting in, he seated himself and started the engine. He took one last look at the what was left of the base for a few seconds before driving away.

John's mind was focused on one thing only at that point; Helen.

However, as he drove away, two figures emerged from the wrecks of the base, silently watching him. A boy and a girl.

"That...monster..." The girl said, reaching out a hand towards the way where John drove off to.

"We don't have time for this! Let's go!" The boy shouted, grabbing the girl's arm and pulled her to get to the opposite direction.

"B-but he-"

"I don't care what he did. Just remind yourself in the future if you want to find him, when we're both capable enough. For now, let's just go."

The two figures looked at each other and then back at the tire track the John left behind.

"Fine."

They then turned around and walked away, leaving the bodies and the ruined base behind.

Meanwhile, at Viggo's empire...

"Thank you."

Viggo put his phone away as John ended the call from the other side. He turned around and faced his henchmen.

"Everyone, I am happy to announce that John Wick has officially retired."

Viggo, along with his henchmen, raised their glasses to celebrate the retirement of the most dangerous man they ever hired. They never thought they would ever see this day coming.

As they emptied their glasses, Viggo eyed the phone once again. Thinking for a moment, he reached for the phone to call a familiar someone.

"Calling someone?"

Viggo stopped and looked at the sudden, yet familiar voice. He chuckled for a moment before walking to the counter.

"Winston, my friend. I was about to call you."

"I presume to inform me of John's last day working for you."

"Last day working for us."

"Do you really think he's finished with all of this?"

"Winston, you gave me the rights to decide his fate. His destiny. I think I'm more than privileged to say that..."

Viggo then handed Winston a glass of wine.

"...he's absolutely finished with us."

Winston took the glass of wine from Viggo's hand and chuckled. Viggo chuckled as well.

"I'm going to assume you didn't tell your son about him as of now?"

Viggo's face started falling.

"He's still a young boy. No need to scare him that much, yet."

Winston put the untouched glass of wine on the counter, staring intensely into Viggo's eyes.

"There will come a time when you will have to tell him the story of the feared Boogeyman."

Winston then turned around and left Viggo and his henchmen alone. Viggo's face didn't stop showing signs of distraught, knowing what Winston told him was the truth.

Just a few seconds later, a young teenager entered the room.

"Papa! Look! I stole this from a couple!"

Viggo looked and just watched as his son showed off a bunch of jewellery on his body. Viggo threw his feeling of distraught behind and decided to be happy looking at his son.

"Iosef! Keep this up and you'll move up in this brave new world of ours in no time!"

Iosef smiled at his dad. Viggo smiled back and patted Iosef's back.

Being father and son, they felt joy being together. But of course, as they would later learn, everything has a price.

In the form of revenge.

You're expecting updates to other stories? Don't worry. I've already started writing the other ones as well.

What you're looking at right now is me trying hard to overcome my stupid laziness and writer's block. (Mostly laziness)

I actually am still thinking how to continue my abandoned ones.

That's it for now.

See ya!