Chapter 9
Xan
"We need to go now, though. Li and Durendal have a huge head start," I said to Riley, and saw Li running away on foot to the North, and Durendal walking calmly towards a car to the South.
"Get Li!" I yelled to Riley, and we ran our separate ways. I started running towards Durendal, who was about to his car, when his guards spotted me, but were smart enough not to open fire. I was about fifty yards away.
"Why aren't you going after Li?" Shinobu asked. "I figured that you wanted revenge on him."
"No, it is not he that I'm after," I replied. "But this man is the one that you want to kill, is he not? He killed your father, and made you live on the streets! I made a promise to you, on the day we met, that if I met this man, he would find himself dead beyond a doubt! I fulfill my promises, and your doubts cannot make me not! To be fare, though, when he cannot run, I'll ask you fairly if you want him dead or not, even if he's a little worse for wear!"
When we got within, the twenty-five yards away, Durendal reached the car. By the time they started driving, I was within fifteen. They hit the gas, speeding away. But I had an idea to slow them down.
"Shinobu! Stick with me through this! It'll get tough, but the result will justify our efforts!"
With that, I threw a chain with an iron hook attacked at the car, jumped onto Shinobu's weapon form that was on the ground, and activated Oni Resonance. The lightning field kept us above the ground, while the hooked chain on the car pulled us moving. It would be a simple act to wind in the chain, while using the electricity to stop any projectiles coming at me.
Five minutes down the road
I must have looked odd, trailing a car from a chain, riding on a baseball bat-looking thing, but as the chain dwindled to ten feet between me and the car, the men inside were getting more and more restless. If it weren't for my demonstration earlier, they would have shot at me. But they wanted it the hard way. We were getting to within a few miles of the train yard, where Durendal had possibly tens, if not a hundred soldiers, along with Li's. It was time to act.
I leapt into the air, detached the chain from my arm, pulled Shinobu up, and with all of my might, smashed the roof of the fancy car Durendal was inside. I leapt off of the car's crushed roof, and hung onto a street lamp. I watched as the car sped up uncontrollably, and crashed into the railroad's Departures Office.
"Well, that sucks," Shinobu said.
"And yet it felt so good," I finished.
I dropped from the lamp and watched as the railroad workers got the living out of the car. Crap! Both Durendal and one of his guards were alive, but I wasn't close enough to see if I'd injured them and to what extent.
"Guess I'll have to outdo myself in the 'mayhem' category to kill this guy."
"Shouldn't you call Riley?" Shinobu asked.
"Sure, why not?" I replied, and went to a nearby pay-phone. I didn't know, Riley's number, but I had memorized Luc's, and I knew that Eva had his (you have no idea how much you can screw with someone who's telephone number you have).
"It's Xan. I need to talk to Riley," I said casually.
"Yeah?" Riley answered.
"They're getting on the train. Go to the station. I'll be waiting," I said, and hung up.
"So what do you want to do while we're waiting for them?" Shinobu asked.
"I have someone else to talk to." I walked up to a closed glass store front and breathed onto the window, making a fog.