Chapter 7:The Winter Massacre
It was November 1944 America had just entered its cold festives,Victoria city like any other high profile city in America or the world was painted red with people ready to celebrate Christmas,except...the mafia
The long bloody war which started out in 1940 was still continuing.The families were all losing power and agencies like the FBI were beginning to move in on Mafia turf.The war between the mafia had gotten so worse that the Commissioner of police in Victoria City formed a taskforce called "The Hawk's Eye" which was only committed in taking down the Mafia,but it was useless because a month after its formation almost all of its member cops were under Don Scipione's pocket,those that refused.Well let's just say they took a little trip were never seen again.Don Maranzano had had enough of the DiCaprio family and in his eyes it was time to get rid of them once and for all.Don Louie DiCaprio had ruined many of his rackets and recently tipped off the FBI on a bank heist he was planning,the Maranzano Made-Men who were heading the heist were slaughtered.
Don DiCaprio was also having his own problems in November 1944.You see,Don Salvatore's wife was killed and gruesomely so he was framed for the hit by Don Dante of the Verratti Family.Salvatore had been too quiet in the past months after the murder.Upon realizing his wife Marina Fiorentino was killed,he took her back to her old home town of Ragusa,Sicily(As the island of Sicily by these times was already recaptured by Allied forces in the climactic battle of WW2 there) where she was to be buried.He hadn't been back since all of his businesses in Victoria City were left at the hands of his Underboss - Obilio Bullaro.So it gave Louie no reason to wage war
The time of reckoning came.In mid-November Salvatore's private plane - The S-F Waver landed on Victorian soil.This instantly made DiCaprio nervous.In the past few months he was weakened to the core by both the Maranzano Verratti family.I mean sure he gave them both a couple of hard blows but almost all of his rackets had been destroyed by Scipione Dante's foot soldiers he had lost a lot of territory in the east.They were outsmarting and outdoing him.In his eyes it was probably time to cut all ties with this war and with Victoria City.
So Don Louie had his underboss - Di'Sicilíã organize an important meeting with all DiCaprio Capós at his mansion in the South-Side Victoria District.As expected the DiCaprio mansion was a fortress with DiCaprio footsoldiers patrolling the premises.
The meeting began and Don DiCaprio was blunt.They were losing and were gaining nothing.Louie had already lost millions and had had enough,plus he feared Salvatore might wanna take revenge so it was time for them to skip town.Hell maybe move their operations to Cosmo City or even Tartaras City,anything was better than Victoria City.The Capós predictably disputed.Tartaras City was a wasteland of even more ruthless gang warfare and it would take them yet another war to even hope to establish territory to them Cosmo city didn't sound like a great investment.One of the Capós was shot in the head for disputing with the Don for too long it was clear them that the meeting was over,but...
As they were about to adjourn the meeting which obviously left a bad taste in their mouths shots were heard outside.Don Louie was instantly shaken because according to one of their henchmen it was Mafiosos attacking them and they were pushing through.These men in suits were killing everyone around the DiCaprio establishment.Don Louie instantly suspected it was Florentino's doing but it could be the others two as well,but no way do they possess the resources to punch through his fortress and rip through his men.There was no time to think about the ones responsible because the men in silver suits were killing every DiCaprio on sight,so Underboss Di'Sicilíã instantly moved the Don to the back so they could exit through the back by boat as the Mansion itself was connected to the sea.The men who were attacking the DiCaprio Mansion had it completely surrounded.So the Don was taken back into the house by Di'Sicilíã and hidden in a basement while they take care of the attackers
After countless bullets were fired in what seemed to be instant war the gunshots stopped.The Don was hidden in the basement and didn't know whether they won or lost.
Minutes later this was revealed when he came up walking slowly up the stairs of the basement and opening its door.Behind him was a man in a silver tux holding him at gunpoint with his hands behind his head.The DiCaprio's had lost.Minutes later a car came into the DiCaprio Mansion.In it exited none other than - Don Salvatore Fiorentino.His men had eaten through the DiCaprio maximal security,he walked into the house and surprisingly the cops were no where to be seen at this time.He entered the old office which now belonged to Louie Salvatore sat at Don Cosimo DiCaprio's old chair.He gave Louie a short speech about loyalty,betrayal and honour.He accused Louie of doing the most dishonourable thing a man can do.Which was murder the other's defenceless wife.He also blamed Louie for leaving Mike Çøsmå's incoming kid without a father,he murdered him and never gave him a chance to see his own child - Mike Cosma's wife was pregnant around these times.Louie obviously denied everything,he knew that Don Salvatore ever since waking up was a man to be reasoned with,Don Salvatore was not there to reason.He had one of his button men hold Louie down and he stabbed Louie in the heart with the biggest kitchen knife in the DiCaprio Mansion.He even went so far as to twist it slowly so Louie could suffer a little bit.Don Louie DiCaprio was dead.It was an end of an era,the end of the DiCaprio Crime Family
This was one of thee biggest and most gruesome hits ever seen in Victoria City.The police found around 43 bodies on the crime scene,and were continuing to discover more bodies along the way.The brutality of this hit was dubbed by the media "The Winter Massacre" as it happened after a chilling blizzard had struck the state of NewYork where Victoria City was located.Christmas was around the edge afterall
A very good Christmas indeed for Don Dante Verratti,Salvatore finally took care of business and got rid of the biggest problem he had been facing.Scipione at hearing the news was overjoyed,the DiCaprio Crime Family was as good as finished in Victoria City he could finally begin repairing his empire.A day after the massacre Don Scipione Dante went to see Salvatore.Scipione was no longer pissed at Salvatore because he finally took care of Louie.Now the three men were gonna discuss how they were gonna share the DiCaprio Family action and split the late Don Louie's territory.Salvatore at first said he was taking all of it since he was the one who got rid of Louie.Scipione Dante weren't gonna have that,an argument sparked and a solution was finally reached and for their efforts in getting rid of the DiCaprio Family they were gonna split Louie's action equally,to which Salvatore reluctantly agreed.Now the three mafia Families of Victoria City were running the whole show,but for how long would they stay at peace knowing how their heads were growing to mostly clash in philosophy?
To be continued...
Trivia
- N.B. New York is a State then New York City is its capital,and Victoria City is located around the edge of the State of NewYork in proximity to New York City New Jersey
