Hard times

By JustBeCool

Chapter 1

My Fail

Arielle Lizar

Yup, my last name is Lizard. I don't know why, but I always find it funny as hell. And my name is like from that tale about mermaid… My momma used to tell me it when I was little girl… Now I'm 28, but I still like tales, funny things, jokes… People would call me immature, and I guess they would be right…

I've never been the smart lady when I was at school. Science, Biology, Math, Physic, Geography… All these things were difficult for me. I wasn't good at arts, music, languages… But I was good at listening. When I was younger, I thought that I will be Psychologist when I grow up, but now I use my talent to help my friends… I love to help people. I love to listen to their problems, give advice to them and help to solve their problems. My live always was good. I had two loving parents and little brother, whose famous professor now. In all family meetings I feel like black sheep. My mother is doctor, father teaches physic at school, and I'm… I'm GENtern...

This 'profession' sucks… I just hate to be there with all those stupid bitches who think how to impress 'The Pavi' or escape his older brother, Luigi… I personally don't understand it… Pavi sometimes acts childish and silly, but he's funny… I like his jokes about his sister Amber, his Italian accent… And Luigi… No matter how hard he usually tries to look like the toughest, how he says that he will stab everyone around there... I still can see human being inside him… I'm not saying that I'm his fan; I know how he acts sometimes… I'm the one who has to clean up after his fit of anger and taking out all those bodies isn't the easiest job in this world… It might sound insane, but I like it a bit… I know, I'm crazy, but then I could spend more time with him then… No, I'm not in love… It's just that he always was a mystery for me… He was a puzzle that I would like to solve one day… I love psychology, I helped most of my friends when they asked for my help, and I would like to help him too… I'm not the kind of girl who would like to save the world, help every single soul in this cruel world… No way. I want to help the ones that I can help, as my parents tough me to do…

You know, I guess I should tell you one more thing- I'm secret agent, but I think I'm not so secret now-I told you about my another profession. I work for DGTI organization and now my mission is to find agents from Columbia who has a mission to destroy Largo business, o at last my boss told me that. My boss is very strange man- I've never seen him for real… People from office say that he works in our main place somewhere in Washington. Have you watched those funny and even weird shows about spies? I haven't. I never tough that one day I could do something like this. My cousin Jay brought me here… He was just like me- same age, same personalities, same life goals… The only difference between us is that ha failed one of his missions, and now he's dead.

Something is wrong this morning… Everyone from Largo family was so sulk… All bitches from GENtern rooms were talking that it's because of Pavi. Something happened to him, but those bitches hate me, so when I asked what happened to him, they said that it's not their business, so if I want to know anything about it, I have to ask Largos about it. No, thank you… As I said before, you shouldn't annoy any brother, if you want to avoid troubles… It's not ok, because troubles found me.

Luigi Largo

What the hell happened to Pavi? It seems that someone put honey in his tea this morning… I was sure that everyone knows that my little brother is allergic to honey, but no… Someone was stupid enough to put fucking honey in his fucking tea. I think I could kill someone now… Yeah, I need to stab a GENtern- it always makes me feel better… But before that I must to see my brother, I have to make sure that he's fine.

When I entered his bedroom, my brother was lying in his bed, so hopeless, so sad. I looked at him just like for a minute, when some stupid GENtern entered the room. All GENterns looked like those old Barbie dolls, but something about this one was different… She wasn't very tall, had blonde hair and hazel eyes. Her hair were short, or at last shorter than most of GENterns. She looked at Pavi and then I think she noticed me, said something like 'sorry' and tried to run away from me… I wanted to catch her… She was my future victim. I felt like tiger, like predator who's hunting his prey. She ran to my bedroom… cha! I know every single place where she could hide, so I decided to play cat/mouse with her… I knew where she's hiding, but I looked here somewhere else, just for fun… I watched her all the time… Strange, she never looked scared; I think she was thinking what to do next, how to act. She wasn't one of those bitches GENterns who would start begging me to let them go, I don't know why, but she seemed different. I wanted to check her, so I opened the wardrobe that she was hiding in. She looked at me.

"I'm sorry, mister Largo… I never mean to disturb you…" she looked… confident.

"That's too late, bitch. Now you will have to pay…" I was still playing. I wanted to see what she will do next.

"Sorry, I left my purse in my bedroom." She smiled and tried to run away again, but I grabbed her wrist.

"Going somewhere?" I took out my knife. "Your joke wasn't funny at all." I saw that her smile cheered me up a little bit. Yes, she really wasn't real GENtern. Their smile makes you feel cold, and hers…

"Let me go… I already said that I'm sorry… What else do you want me to do?" I think she lost her patience.

"I want you to die!" I let her wrist and tried to stab her, but she ran away and I think I hit her shoulder with knife, because I saw some blood on the floor.

"You know, I still get you! You can't run away from your destiny…" I said and heard quiet boom somewhere in the hall. "What the fuck was there?"

"Oh shit… Where could I hide? Please, hide me…" now she seemed scared for the first time today.

"Oh you fuckin' wish! Who the hell was that? Who are you?" I wanted to know.

"Ok, listen… Help me now, hide me. If I'll survive, I'll tell you what's going on… Deal?" she asked.

"Survive? You mean he can kill someone too? My brother is possibly dying now, I have to help him." I wanted to help Pavi, but when I looked in her eyes… I had to help her too.

"No, he shouldn't touch Pavi; I'm the only thing that he wants so he might kill the ones who help me, not the ones who tries to stay away… I'm Arielle." She smiled again.

"Hell no! So you're trying to say that I may die if I help you? No, I prefer to stay alive for couple more years. You will have to fight for yourself." I was sure about it.

"I prefer hiding to fighting." She said and we hearted one more explosion.

"Please, Luigi! I need your help…" now she sounded hopeless.

What just happened? Five minutes ago I wanted to kill her… And now I want to save her. For some reason I wanted to save that girl, even if the only thing that I know about her is her name.

"Ok… Come here. How's shoulder?" I asked, because she was still bleeding. "I'll hide you here, in 'panic room', but later you will have to tell me everything." I said.

"Thank you… I'm fine…" I think she lost too much blood, so it was difficult for her to talk. I led her to the room and gave her a towel to cover the slash. "Thank you again… Luigi… Join me…. Hide with me… He's too strong… Save yourself too…" she grabbed my arm gently and whispered.

"Are you kidding? You say that I, Luigi Largo should be afraid of someone? Dad is away and I have to protect my family. You can hide here if you want, but I have to fight, I' m not a fuckin' pussy, like you!" I shouted and shut the door. I saw that she wanted to say something, but couldn't listen to her… I wanted to hide like she said, but I couldn't.

The third explosion destroyed big part of the room. If we were still standing there where we were couple minutes ago, now we were dead… Does it mean that Arielle saved our lives? Maybe…

I saw a man, and I wanted to laugh… He was old, about sixty years old or older, bald, his face was wounded. He wore black suite, dark green shirt and had silver chain on his neck.

"Hello, Mr. Largo. I'm looking for Lizard… I'm sure that you don't know what I'm talking about, so just let me search the room, and if she's not here I'll leave, ok?" his voice was so careless, so calm….

"No way! You destroyed part of my bedroom, I could die there. Who are you, old man? What do you need?" I was sure that the man is insane… He got into our house like it's his place, or something…

"Haven't your momma said that you shouldn't talk with elders like this? You don't know me and it's better to keep it that way, but you can call me Mr. Roho. I'm looking for one bitch, Arielle Lizard. One of your workers told me that he saw her running to your bedroom. She's dangerous lady who wants to destroy whole Largo family and take over their business. I'm here to safe you and your family from her…" Mr. Roho said.

"You tried to kill me… You're lying!" I was sure about what I said and threw my knife into him, but last second Mr. Roho moved away.

"Smart move, Mr. Largo… But not too smart." He took out gun and shot me. The bullet got me in the leg. The pain was unbearable… I lost consciousness and the only thing I heard was that man, Mr. Roho laughing. I wish I could die that second.

Arielle Lizard

I heard a shot. My arm was burning and I lost too much blood, so the only thing I could do now is hide. I heard one more shot. I had to go out and see what's happening. I opened the door and saw Luigi on ground while Mr. Roho was looking for me. I had to make it fast. I took empty champagne bottle from coffee table and hit Mr. Roho on his head. I thought it will be more difficult, but it wasn't. I guess it's good that your enemy is old man… Now I looked at Luigi… He was unconscious, but his heart was still beating. I don't know why, but I wanted to hug him so much that moment... I picked up his body, he was so heavy but you couldn't say that when you look at him… We had to go somewhere; I brought him to his personal bathroom and locket the door. I sat on toilet bowl to rest a bit, but I had to call for help now… I dialed the number on my cell phone and screamed 'I don't know who you are, it's Lizard… Code Brown, I need a helicopter, I'm hurt and Luigi Largo is unconscious. Help us please!'… That's it, now all I have to do is wait. About ten minutes later I heard angry voice in the hall… Mr. Roho woke up and he was looking for me again.

"Wow, Lizard! I always knew that you can be sneaky, but I never could imagine that you can be smart too… So you are in the bathroom?" he found me.

I prayed God to send me my friends who could save me… Mr. Roho broke the door and entered. My game was over, I failed my mission and there's no way to fix the things now.

Suddenly I heard most pleasant buzzing on earth. My friends came to save us; it was our helicopter, our 'blue bee' in the sky. I had to do something to make my friends notice us, but it was hard because Mr. Roho. I had to think fast… so I took my cellphone and threw it through window… I hoped that I will broke the glass and my friends would notice this sigh… And they noticed… Two bid masked man reached bathroom window, shot Mr. Roho who was still talking about how stupid I am… One of the men took Luigi, and another one helped me to climb to the helicopter. I was surprised, because Roll aviated our 'blue bee". Roll is our programmer, he always uses computers whole day pretending to work, but everyone knows that he's surfs the internet and plays computer games… He's nice guy, but he's nerd…

"Wow… What happened there?" he was worried… I noticed that he likes me, and he was Jay's best friend.

"It's a… long story… I'm too tired… Sorry" I smiled, because it was the only thing I could do.

"Ok then. I'll ask our boys to bring you some ice and plasters… Gosh, I'm terrible at giving first aid" he was so shy when I was near. I think I'm in love….