Kill Bill Tan Vol. 1
Chapter 1: Target #2
A 26-year old Bodie Kiddo whistles a memorable tune as he grips the steering wheel with one hand and rests his left arm against the window of his Red Dodge truck as it zooms into the suburban quiet neighborhood of Waxton, Georgia. There he parks the truck onto the driveway of a nice-looking house. As he gazes, he thinks to himself, so…..Taye lives by herself now huh? With a deathly glare on his face, he steps out of the truck and heads to the front door. He stops in front of the velvet red hardwood surface and checks to see no witnesses around before clicking the doorbell with his index finger.
-"Cooooomin'! You're here early I thought-(GASP!)"
And there was Taye. An African American woman with dark green eyes opened the door with a shocked expression on her face as she looks at Bodie. For the first time in four years, standing there like a grim reaper, recalling the events of the incident at the Seaside Wedding Chapel four years ago where Bodie laid there as his blood gashes out his entire limp body at the same time, looks up at Taye meekly as she stares down at him with a satisfied smirk. She thought that Bodie was supposed to be dead after a deadly massacre that stained his wonderful future. But boy was she wrong. Without a warning, Taye tried to shut the door as quickly as she can but Bodie's foot blocked the way, and threw a punch at her delicate face.
She stumbled back and gave him a left jab to the face. It was an all out hand-to-hand combat match. The two were giving their all as they threw multiples of hits, strikes and whatnot. Bodie continuously flinched backwards but counterattacked. He knew that Taye was a pro at hand-to-hand combat. Let alone knife fighting. It was an all-out riot in the living room. Bodie round-house kicked her, but Taye ducked and gave him a back-kick to the stomach, sending him straight to a nearby wall mirror, with his back shattering the reflective glass into a million pieces as he falls forward, face-first.
-"Ha…just like the good ol'days huh bitch?….." Bodie huffed as he lifted his head and struggled to get on all fours while he ignores the pain in his back.
-"I'm just getting started white boy…."she teased.
Bodie does a forward roll back up on his feet and charged at her with a drop-kick. The woman was knocked down straight into the wall, but Taye wasn't a woman to give up easily. She pulled out a large green pocket knife from her belt as she gets up. And with a click of a switch, out comes a 5" blade from its socket handle. Bodie was satisfied, for he too had a similar pocket knife, only it was red. With a click of a switch, he unsheathed the blade that was hidden in the handle as the two people become locked in knife-combat.
-"Yeah that's right boy…..come an' get me!" taunts Taye as she held the knife backhanded.
"No need for temptation…" said Bodie in a low tone of his deep voice. He then later charged at her with a slash attack. But Taye dodged, twirled around Bodie.
-"AAHGH!..."Bodie cried as he felt a slicing sensation on his left forearm. Taye had given him a huge gash that had blood spilling from his arm all the way down to the fingertips of his hands.
Even though Taye was good, Bodie was much cleverer. The two crashed their blades as quickly as they can to each other but for Bodie, being much stronger, charged, and his blade gave Taye a cut on her waist.
-"Aahhgh!..." Taye yells as blood starts dripping down. But just before she strikes the next move, she hears the squeaking wheels of a school bus just right outside here house. A young African American girl walks off the bus and heads towards Taye's front door.
Taye shifts in fear as she shakes her head and her eyes plead with Bodie's glare. He showed little remorse but lets out a deep sigh.
-"Fine….but I'm not leaving." Bodie said coldly.
Taye can only glare at him.
-"We'll settle this later" she replied with an exhausted voice.
The front door was then opened. Taye and Bodie quickly sheathed their combat knives and try to look civilized. Despite all the blood that's stained on them. The young girl then opened the front door.
-"Taye I'm home!" she says.
-"Hey sis! How was school?" Taye asked breathlessly.
Sister? Bodie thought to himself. He knew that this was a change of plan. He had to think of something else to get his revenge on his target. But the young girl was just going to slow him down. She was staring at her blood-stained older sister with wide eyes as she observed the demolished living room.
-"Taye…what in the world happened to you and the living room? Don't tell me it was one of your wild parties again!"
-"Now you hush up! Uhh…..it Boo-Boo! That little Chihuahua of yours was acting up and…I tried to calm his little teeny-tiny ass down. Keeps taking a shit everywhere. It was fucking nasty…." Taye lied. As for Bodie, he puts on a strained smile in front of the young pre-teen.
-"….Boo-Boo did this?" she said as she begins to stare at Bodie with wide eyes.
-"Now don't you come any closer, there's glass everywhere and you can cut yourself!"
Her sister didn't respond. She just kept staring at the blood-stained blonde. Taye later intervened.
-"This is an old friend from college. I haven't seen him in a long time." Taye said as she looks at Bodie and he gives her a small smile and later turns to her sister.
-"Hi there! I'm Bodie! And your name is…." Bodie asked politely as he waited for an answer. But the girl didn't answer. She just stared at him expressionless.
-"Her name's Tania. But you can call her Lil'T." Taye intervened again.
-"Lil'T huh? Well it's nice to meet you! How old are ya?" Bodie asked with an uneasy voice.
-"…..I'm 10….." she responded with a light voice.
-"10 huh? Y'know that's how long I knew a really special girl of mine….until she…" Bodie shifted his gaze towards Taye, recalling the events of the massacre, and his time with his girl before she was taken away.
-"….moved away…" he said coldly. Taye knew what he was talking about.
-"Hey T, how about you go upstairs for a moment…..and don't come down until I say so alright?" Taye said sternly.
-"…..okay….." Said Lil'T as she walks around the broken glass and upstairs towards her room. Taye shifted her expression to Bodie by the time her sister left the scene.
-"You want some coffee?" Taye inquires.
-"…..hmm…..sure." Bodie said as he let out an uncanny smirk as he follows Taye into the kitchen.
This pretty young lady here that lives in Waxton while looking after her younger sister is Tayenna Green, or as we like to call her 'Taye'. Four years ago, when she and I were acquaintances of an organization, she took on the code name: Copper Eagle. And mine was Blackhawk.
-"Hey do you have a towel?" Bodie asks as he inspects his deep wound on his wrist.
-"Yeah….." Taye answered. She walked up to the sink and handed him a green hand-towel.
-"…Thanks…." Bodie answered as he took it.
Taye's eyes watch Bodie's every movement. Waiting for a chance to strike him and finish the job. She heads to the coffee-maker with a red mug in her hand as Bodie cleans up the cut.
-"Still take cream and sugar right?"
-"Yeah…."
As Taye was preparing Bodie's coffee, she sensed the awkward silence in the air, so why not strike up a conversation.
- "I suppose it's too late for an apology."
-"You suppose correctly." Bodie said as he dabs his bloody face with the towel.
-"Smart-ass. If you're here to do any fuckin' more shit in front my little sister …"
-"Bitch relax. I'm not gonna murder you in front your sister. Alright?" Bodie replied sternly.
-"Must be more rational than Tan led me to believe you're capable of..." Taye mutters as she puts the coffee mug on the countertop.
-"It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack... Not rationality." Bodie sneers as he wraps the towel into a strong sailor's knot in his arm to stop bleeding and takes the coffee with suspicious eyes.
-"Look Bodie, I know I've fucked you bad, and it wasn't just me. And I wish I could've prevented it from happening. But let me tell you that I'm really a changed person. I'm just tryin' to be a role model towards my sister and you have every right to get even with me."
-"Even? Hehe…I don't think so. I would kill you. Go up to your sister's room, kill her…..and that about would be even." Bodie said as he gives a satisfied smirk and takes a sip of his coffee. Taye tries her best to hold back her anger.
-"Look, if I could go back in a time machine, I would. But, I can tell you know that I'm a completely different person now with normal responsibilities that involve my sister."
-"Aww sweet~…" Bodie complimented with smile but then it turns to a dark expression. "I don't care…" he angrily said.
"Go ahead and be that way jackass. I know I don't deserve your mercy or your forgiveness, but I am no longer that deadly assassin that a crazed psychotic old doctor that hired me when you have what's little left of providing and raising your only family." Taye angrily explains as she holds up a picture of her and Lil' T on happier times.
-"Ha bitch! You can stop right there. Just because I have no wish to murder you before the innocent eyes of your sister does not mean parading her around in front of me is gonna inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business, and not a god-damn fucking thing you've done in the last four years, including getting into one of your little family matters is gonna do you any good." Bodie says coldly with a grim look on his face.
Taye let out a huge breathe of air of frustration. She knew what the lifeguard had in mind. So she was left with no other option. She must fight him professionally, and fairly.
-"So when do we do this?" she asked.
-"It depends on when you want to die. It can be tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or-"
-"How 'bout tonight?" she interrupted him. Bodie was satisfied.
-"…..Okay it could be tonight. Where?"
-"There's a baseball field where my friend coaches little league softball. You an' I are goin' to have ourselves a knife fight. Arrive at exactly at 1 o'clock in the morning, dressed in black and all that jazz."
Bodie likes the sound of this.
-"Will we be bothered?" he asked.
-"Just you an' me pretty boy" Taye later changed the subject. "Now if you excuse me….."Said Taye.
Bodie listens on what she has to say. "…..I have to prepare me and T's dinner."
Taye later went to the pantry and got out a box of Uncle Ben's Rice from the cupboard.
-"Y'know Tan always said that you're the most proficient expert he's ever seen with dealing with an edge weapon." The lifeguard complimented.
-"Fuck you dick! I knew he didn't qualify that shit. So you can just kiss my muthafuckin' ass 'Blackhawk'…." Taye remarked and Bodie just smiled. Seeing that he hasn't heard his code name in a while.
-"'Blackhawk'…I should've been motherfuckin' "Blackhawk'….." Taye muttered in dissatisfaction.
-"Y'know you kill people a lot easier and quicker with just a tiny butcher knife. That can give ya an advantage" Bodie joked. And Taye just laughed.
-"Ha-ha...Very funny man! Hahaha….." Taye laughed as she put her hand in the box. "Very FUNNY! (BANG!)"
Taye had a gun concealed in the box. Bodie quickly dodge the bullet blast and kicked his coffee mug to counter-attack. Taye dodge it quickly but at the same Bodie unsheathed his knife at threw it…at Taye's chest. The nearly lifeless former assassin hits her back cupboards and slides down to the floor. Bodie, who was stunned by his own action, approached Taye's trembling body with sad eyes.
Taye shifted her dying gaze in front of Bodie and later fell limp.
Tayenna Green was dead.
Bodie knelt down and pulled his knife out of her chest slowly and carries her body to the demolished living room couch. He sets her down gently and folded her hands on her stomach and closes her eyelids. Bodie grabbed a curtain drape that was lying near the couch and used it to cover up Taye's body. He was kneeling at her side for a little while.
Rest easy Taye.
Bodie thought to himself. As he got back up on his feet, he noticed something he should not have seen. Lil' T was standing on the carpet. Staring at Bodie completely expressionless, but for sure traumatized. Bodie was shocked. He knew that Lil'T had witnessed what she saw. He grabbed a red hanker-chief from his jean pockets and starts to wipe of Taye's blood of his hands. His back was facing the young girl as he tries to talk to her calmly.
-"…..This was….never my intention to do this in front of you." Says Bodie with a very shaky voice.
-"….And for that I'm sorry." he turns his head to face the bewildered girl. "…..Your sister had it coming…"
Bodie didn't even notice that his eyes were slightly watering up but turned around to face Taye's sister with one last thing to say.
-"Tania…..when you grow up…if you still feel raw about it…..I'll be waiting." Bodie said softly but loud enough for Lil'T to hear.
And with that, the Lifeguard heads to the front door walks away. Leaving Lil'T staring at the covered corpse of her dead sister.
Bodie heads over to his red truck, into the driver's seat and pulls out a black notebook and opens up the first page. It was known as the Crow's Nest Death list:
Oblio Ishii
Tayenna Green
MacCoy Driver
Dr. Bill Tan
As Bodie was done crossing out Taye's name on the list, he stared at her house one last time, and then drives away.