Chapter 12: Conflicts

Aisha's POV:

I walked back, feeling frustrated and confused at the same time. Just as I opened the door, people were shouting and gathering at the Gathering Place. They crowded around Speka. I frowned slightly before approached them. I fought my way through the crowd, trying to find out what was happening. Noticing my presence, Speka looked up. Her eyes were weary and full of distraught. Her face showed an expression somewhat worry and aggravated. She held a piece of paper in her hand. I eyed it carefully before snatched it away.

Hell Fire

Our members had been attack. We found your marks. To prevent this from happen again, we had came up with a decision.

We had decided to declare War.

Faceless Assassins

I stared at the paper in disbelief as I reread it.

"This is an outrage!" Jason shouted out before other started to join in. "We didn't even attack them."

"Aisha, come with me to the office," Speka said before turned around and walked away. With one last look around the crowd, I ran after her. "Aisha, you know anything about this?" She asked once I had sat down on the couch.

"No."

"Aisha, you know this is serious right?"

I frowned, "yes, I know. Why are you asking me this?"

But she ignored my question and continued with her next one. "Where were you after the mission?"

I stared at her blankly. "Are you accusing me for this!?"

"No, I'm not. I'm just asking you a question."

"Really? Cause this sounds more like an interrogation to me."

"Aisha-"

"Are you seriously accusing your own daughter?"

"I'm not, Aisha. I was just asking to-"

"Just asking?" I snorted. "Don't you know your daughter long enough to know that I would never do that?" I don't know why but I lost it. I just... Lost it. All of my regrets and anger spilled out. I'd been holding it in for the last 10 years and now it just escaped from me. Even though she tried to find some time to spend with me, that still weren't enough. The only reason I joined this gang was because of her. I wanted to make her happy. But I can't believe that she would actually suspect me. That wasn't how a mom suppose to acted.

"Aisha-"

"Oh wait, you don't. CAUSE ALL YOU EVER CARE ABOUT IS YOUR PRIDE AND YOUR GANG!" Tears started streaming down my face unconsciously as my voice raised. "THIS IS WHY DAD LEFT YOU." Immediately I wished I hadn't said that because her mouth dropped lightly, as if wanting to say something but it wouldn't come out. Her pale face were now replaced by agony and grief as her eyes started to water. She was heartbroken.

Hating myself for saying that, I dashed toward the door. I yanked it open only to find the members were outside, looking worry and shock. I ignored them and sprang outside as they stepped aside to made a path, only to be welcomed by the cold air. I ran until my legs hurt. I wasn't even sure where I was going but I ran nonstop. I don't care about any of this. I just don't want to get involve in this.

After I was out of energy, I leaned against the wall and slid down on the cold, hard floor. Tears of regret, loneliness, and anger I had kept it in for the last 10 years finally poured out. My sob soon turned into a cry as I buried my face on my knees with my arms wrapped around my legs, wanting to made myself as small and invisible as possible.

This isn't a life how I wanted.

Narrator's POV:

"4 injures and... 1 dead," the voice of a guy dressed in armors trailed off as him and his companion fell silence. In front of them were 4 beds, each for each target, except for the dead one, who was brought outside for later funeral.

"Who's the 5th?" Elsword asked quietly as his sad, crimson gaze scanned through the white beds.

"..Steve," Chung managed to choked out the words as he gripped on his shooters tightly, turning his knuckles white. Elsword stole a glance at his best friend. Steve was Chung's neighborhood friend since little, but they were distance since they joined this gang. But it doesn't mean that Steve had stop became Chung's best bud.

Elsword cleared his throat awkwardly, "can you show me where the place got target?"

Chung nodded. With one last glance, he turned around and led the way. It was the gym that got attacked. Pretty obvious actually, consider that was the place where most people gather, plus, it was located near the entrance. The door had been smashed down, the wall crumpled and had collapsed, revealing the dirt that the wall had prevent to enter. Consider this was an underground lair, the dirt hadn't collapsed on them. The place was a mess.

"Someone had locked the door to prevent the other to go out and hacked into the security systems. They shut down all of the cameras and energy in this place. We thought it was just the power outage until an explosion was heard. Since the door was locked, I had to smashed it down in order to get in," Chung said as he picked up a piece of brick before threw it across the area.

"Are you sure it's the Hell Fire?" Elsword asked, uncertain.

He shrugged. "We have proof."

"But isn't a war is a bit too... much?"

"It's Eden's way of thinking."

"Still..." Elsword sighed, but didn't say anything afterward.

"As you may know, 5 of our people had been attacked. One dead, four injured. And you know what that mean, right?" Eden asked as his eyes scanned through the crowd as they erupted in a rumble of cheering and growling. Satisfied, he waited for the crowd to calm down before spoke up again. "We need to get revenge for our members who had been attack! Show them who's in charge! And show them that they had mess, with the wrong gang. We're not gonna stand around and let them attack us. If they attack us, we attack them back. That's what we are name for, the Faceless Assassins. We assassinate people, we show absolute no mercy toward our enemies. WE'RE GONNA ILLUMINATE THE HELL FIRE!" Edan looked at his gangs in satisfaction as the crowd raised their weapons in the air with cheering and roaring echoed through the huge area.

"Every. Single. One. Of them." He murmured as a smirk came on his wicked face.

The next chapter is coming soon~

Sorry that last chapter was sort, well... at least the moment was. not sure how to describe those moment though..

elsword's in love XD and yes he is a playboy LOL.

just one more week left... *groan* i hate school T.T