Chapter 12: Silence before the Storm
" Oh SHiT!" I hear my brother Daniel swearing from his car. He speeds up. Crow and i move aside JUST in time.
" The fuck is the matter with HiM?" i wonder.
" Hmmm..." Crow glares in front of him. " We can all sense the energy of your former master and his whelp at the Mayor's House... but WHY is Daniel in a sudden hurry..."
" The new mayor!" i hear sis behind me, to which Crow and i speed up as well.
However, not long after. We notice decorations above us. A long rope, with heads of civilians and cops alike on it. The rope goes through their skulls. Blood still drips off. We look to our left and right.
" Crow, stop here. Face me." I read from a blood-written wall.
" But i sense two assassins.." Sis looks worried at Crow.
" i do not fear death..." Crow brakes, i do as well. Daniel moves on, fearing the safety of his former chief. " One of them is the challenger calling out for me... i will kill at least one of them, Klaus, and at least maim the other enough to make sure he won't interfere with you.. even if i lose my life in the progress."
" Don't you fucking die, Crow.." I speed up and drive off. Ella's tears drip down. She fears the worse for our friend's fate. But I know... sacrifices must be made to reach our goal. And Crow... he thinks the same.
Fearless, he climbs off his motorcycle, and enters the most blood-decorated alley. His blades actually shake.
" Just who the fuck is waiting for me... who is calling me out..." Crow wonders. in the near distance, he sees the huge guy in business suit, one of the assassins. " is it him?"
Widget parks his bike in front of his house, smiling, as he visuales his two daughters running into his arms. However, after a while, the two still did not open his front door. He just shrugs it off, walking to the front door. With his key, he opens it, and enters. " Honey! Kids! i'm back!"
" Oh welcome home... dear" Widget hears the voice of another guy. He rushes over to the dining room. He sees the grinning telephatic assassin, sitting in his seat of the dining table, at the edge. Next to him, one of his daughters, stripped from her clothes, struggeling to eat the piece of meat in front of her plate. He notices the meat... it is a part of his own wife's arm. He then sees blood drip down on the table, which makes him look up. On the chandelier, on the four candleholders, his wife's three other limbs and her head as well are impaled by the candle holders. " W-where's Maya? Where's my other daughter!?" Widget goes insane by the scene, and jumps on the table, ready to strike at the man.
The telepath just grins. " After filling her and your wife up with my juicy cream, i felt like eating your precious daughter Maya. But do not worry, i shared her with little Rei over here."
" YOU FUCKiNG BASTARD!" Widged punches, but his fist goes right through the guy's face.
" Klaus may have given you power.. but you're no challenge for me... you cannot even touch me..." The guy gets up from the chair, still grinning. He raises a knife, and stabs Maya right between her eyes. " You're done for." He then kicks Widget back. " A hell of torture awaits you... commit suicide to spare yourself from even more pain."
Going mad, and under the psychic's control, Widget reaches out for the nearest sharp objest, ready to slit his own throat. He cannot TAKE the sudden madness, and just saw the three his loved the most being taken from him. He could not even TOUCH the psychic... so he just wanted to be with them.
I catch up right after my brother. He rushes inside. Sis and I jump off my motorcycle, and follow him. We enter, and see Aruma and Kirumi, standing in front of the dead body of the dead Mayor/ former chief.
" He was... deep inside, a good guy." Daniel becomes enraged, but controls it. " Bro..." He walks up to the two foes. " Let's rip this fucker apart!"
I grin, jumping next to my brother. " Talking my language!" i glare at Kirumi for a while, flashes of my parents going through my head, but I also know it would take both me and my brother's full focus to destroy our former master.
" So we meet again, weak kid." Kirumi passes Daniel and me, walking right between us, and faces our sister. We both barely control the desire to kill her, knowing she's meant for sis..
" ... let's go outside.. there's not enough room to fight for ALL of us here." Sis suggests, to which Kirumi agrees with a nod. The two leave. Daniel, Aruma and I wait to hear the front door close behind us.
" i must say, i am very proud of both of you, my dearest sons. Every expectation... turned out just like we planned it. You will become perfect soldiers, warleaders even, in the New World Order. You shall command the next generation of Super Soldiers, just like i commanded you. You shall lead them in a complete take over of the world."
" Heh... even after everything, I must admit, I kinda still respect such a sick, twisted, deceiving mastermind as you, Aruma. In time, I found out exactly how I did NOT want to be." I tell him.
" You lied to us for so many years. Pretending to love and care for us. You taught us to control our given powers, because you were ordered. We trusted you, we loved you like a new father, Aruma." Daniel takes out the sawed-off Shotgun I gave him.
Aruma sits down in the Mayor's seat. " You do not understand THEiR power and influence, dear children. You see, they slowly destroy you if you disobey them, but will reward you with anything you desire if you bow down to them. Don't live in Hell, kids. Join me in HEAVEN!"
" If Heaven is so foul and corrupted now..." I stand ready to attack.
" Then we'll take you with us to HELL if we have to" Daniel shouts, shooting a shell at Aruma, which is my que to head for Aruma with my battle axe.
" No... you're not him" Crow says, noticing his blades which shakes a little less. He swings around his pocket chain. " I'll kill you with just this."
" You won't even scratch me with that key chain" The muscle giant says. He takes off his hat, revealing a bald head and his eyes. pupils were blue, but slowly turn red. And the whiteness of his eye itself, is gray-ish, even a bit black. " i am Gravedriver. All my assassinations littely ended up with people biting the dust." He raises a fist. " i stomp them into the ground... and either by all of their bones broken by impact, or suffication under ground, they all die!"
" it seems you house a lot of physical strength.." Crow says, noticing the muscles, and what Gravedriver just said.
" Feel free to use your swords... it won't matter at all..."
" Hmph." Crow moves at Gravedriver in extreme speed. The keys on his key chain hit a few points on Gravedriver's body. Crow stands next to Gravedriver, who suddenly collapses and screams in agony.
" How did you.." Gravedriver peeps out.
" Your body's pumped with strengthening drugs... I have seen friends and foes as well, who died because of an overdose... organs die out faster, and become weaker. " Crow says, walking on. " Your liver, your stomach and your kidneys are badly damaged... any attack, even from a normal person, connecting where these organs are, hits ten times harder then it normally would. I've no time to play around with you, foolish addict... my blades hunger." He walks on, and behind him, Gravedriver spits out half a gallon of blood, and once again screams in pain. Crow stops once more. " i've seen too many people die by the drugs you use to strengthen their bodies, ignoring the risks of organ failure. Rest assured... if i did not possess knowledge like this... it would take me two minutes more to finish you off." Crow says, then widens his eyes a while, fully feeling Rover's aura fully. "He is getting near...
Somebody takes the knife out of Widget's hands. Widget cannot see the person. it is Bomb, who jumped through the window.
" You're caught in an illusion, my friend!" Bomb says, shaking Widget to 'wake him up'
" Bomb?" Widget's wife Carol walks from the kitchen. " Why did you jump through the window?"
Bomb looks at Carol. " No time to explain. Zelma, the Master illusionist Assassins... i've done some research on him.. he drives his victims mad, and makes them commit suicide." Bomb releases Widget, who has seemed to come to his senses. " My friend.. bring your wife and daughters to the basement. Zelma will soon arrive.. and you're no match for him. But I assure you, we'll make him PAY!"
" i'm just... glad my family's save. And thank you for saving me!" Widget hugs his friend. in a hurry, Bomb quickly hugs him as well, and then releases him and insists him to hurry and hide, because he hears Io barking, meaning Zelma's near.
" Good luck!" The husband and wife wish their teenage friend, running off upstairs for their daughters. Bomb nods and goes back outside. Arms crossed, he stands next to Io.
" Seems like there are two of them, io. We've been ordered to deal with them" Bomb tells Io, who barks in agreement.
Crow looks at Rover, who grins him welcommingly, sitting on a self-made throne of corpses.
" Heeeeey!" Rover waves. " The strongest fucking guy i'm ALLOWED to kill!" He jumps off the throne, landing two meters in front of Crow, which makes his two sword go even wilder. " Let's have some FUN, shall we?"
The battle Crow vs Rover will continue a later chapter.
Bomb smiles, petting Io. " You ready, buddy?" He asks. A van parks in front of him. Zelma steered it, and gets out of the vehicle first. The other assassin, the one with the giant steel suit case, steps out from the passenger's seat.
" They're strong Zelma. The big guy with the mohawk interrupted your illusion" The suit guy case says.
" Matter nuttin. From this distance, we'll end both of them."
The battle Bomb and io vs Zelma and Raynem will continue in a later chapter.
Two girls, in front of the City Hall. My dear sister, and the monster who murdered our parents...
" Tell me this... did you... do it because you were ordered? Did you feel any pleasure? Or did you feel sadness? Why my parents?" Ella asks.
" A true assassin holds no emotions for the targets. i felt nothing. No sadness OR joy. To me.." She looks at Ella. " it was just business. Your parents may have been 'good' people... but i have killed 'evil' people as well. i do as i am ordered." Kirumi says as the two walk on to the park.
" Still... even if you did it without feeling any pleasure doing so... i cannot forgive you."
" Can't remember asking you for forgiveness. Not like it matters. You're my next target anyway. And this time.." Kirumi jumps about 10 meters away, draws a kunai and faces Ella. " i will NOT fail"
" i'll defeat you... i'll make things right!" Ella takes a fighting pose.
The battle Ella vs Kirumi will continue in a later chapter.
" Do you know the irony?" Aruma asks, easily blocking my battle axe. And Daniel's shell did nothing at all. " usually... the good guys kinda wish to spare the villain because they're heroes... and the villain wants to murder the heroes because the villian's evil... however, in our case. You two want to completely DESTROY me and i just want to beat you into total fear and submission."
" Becomming a soldier slave to your beloved order... i'd rather DiE!" I pull back my battle axe, strike again right after. But Aruma evades by jumping back.
" No matter what the outcome of this fight will be..." He kicks me in the face, sending me through a desk, then through a wall. ' i'll either beat you down and control you both fully, or die and may find true peace.' Daniel stands next to Aruma, the shotgun pointed point-blank and he shoots. " No matter what it will be... i will win."
The battle Klaus and Daniel vs Aruma will continue in a later chapter.
