Chapter 13

"So, like, I'll still be able to have sex and stuff?"

"Don't worry Mr Bear-"

"Its pronounced 'Beer'"

"… Right, sorry Mr Beer. Anyway, all your suffering from is a bruise on your left testicle, you should be back in action in a week."

"Cool."

Camus sat in the room the four of them had rented out in order for them to stay the night and have some privacy to formulate a proper plan.

It was greasy and in a really bad neighbourhood that Camus had been forced to patrol. Thankfully everyone who broke the law in the city knew Camus. And none of them were going to try anything with him so the four of them were pretty safe.

He had just woken up from a nap, he looked around and saw Riou and Jowy enter, he heard the familiar sound of something rattling against a plastic container and all those years on the job had managed to make Camus paranoid. He stood up and walked over, snatching a container out of Jowy's hands, he looked inside and saw five white tablets.

"What the fuck are these?" He asked, knowing full well what the answer would be

"Ecstasy man." Said Jowy, attempting to snatch the container back, Camus pushed him lightly away "And they're not for you!" He said angrily, going for them again. Camus opened the container and popped them all in his mouth to Riou and Jowy's obvious amazement. They stood there waiting for him to have an overdose attack but instead Camus began to laugh and threw the container off Jowy's head.

"You just scored yourself some flu pills." He grinned and sat back down "How much were they?"

"Fifty dollars" Riou said miserably, Camus chuckled

"Jesus your dumbasses." He grinned "Did you see Mikki on your way over?"

"Nope" Said Jowy, still pissed off at being swindled.

Suddenly the door flew open and Miklotov ran in looking excited

"OK, the terrorists are planning an attack on the Northwind Hotel tonight. Apparently Luca Blight is going to be there in person to seal a deal with one of his executive partners."

"So how did you find this out?" Asked Camus, surprised at how much his information his friend had brought back.

"Remember that guy Richmond who you asked to keep an eye on the steel mill?"

"Yeah." Said Camus simply

"Well he's a private detective now, I had him find out a couple of things."

"Well done." Said Camus, grinning "So now we have a place and a time…" He trailed off, Miklotov saw this as a signal

"Ten o'clock."

"Right." Continued Camus "Ten o'clock."

"But what about these terrorists?" Riou asked, puzzled

"They're our diversion." Camus answered with a sly grin.

"I can smell a rat." Said Seed to Culgan

"You say that every day." Said Culgan calmly, not even looking at his younger red headed friend. "I don't think anything has ever gone wrong, in fact you saying you can smell a rat is sort of like a good luck charm for our business transactions." He finished.

Seed looked puzzled

"Well done." Said Culgan, patting him on the head, taking great pleasure in the expression of apoplectic annoyance that spread across his thin face.

"You fucker…" He said, as if those words carried the weight of hell on them. Culgan just grinned

"Here's the boss now." He said, nodding towards the entrance.

The funny thing about Luca Blight was that he didn't like to be followed by an entourage as many other Mafia bosses before him had done. He preferred to stroll in alone. And for some reason it made him seem all the more dangerous.

He walked in, his face wearing its familiar sardonic grin, the grin he wore before he smashed a baseball bat off your skull. Even Seed gulped.

He sat down in the leisure room, it was deserted as it had been rented out, Luca was opposite a fat man wearing a brown suit, he looked like a sex offender. But Luca wasn't bothered about that, he wanted his money. Then he was going to kill everyone in the room. He had instructed Seed and Culgan to stay outside when this happened and guard the doors.

It was going to get messy.

Luca put on his most winning smile, which ended up looking like a highly threatening leer and said

"Well gentlemen, lets get down to business."

"So the plan is…" Said Camus, pacing, "…the terrorists will attack the hotel, possibly killing Luca, while Luca is gone we can sneak into the HQ and get your friends back. Me and Mikki will then stay behind and wait for Luca, if he appears, we arrest him. If he doesn't we take the HQ by force."

"Whoa there." Said Riou "You think the two of you can take it by force?"

"The whole building is operated by computer surveillance technology. I found that out when I got taken there." Said Miklotov "Richmond managed to burn a file into this disk which can shut it down, locking everyone in whatever room they're in, we want to be on the roof when this happens so we can hand the building over to whatever police force remains loyal to us."

"And that might not be any one so we're taking a real chance." Interjected Camus "However all you have to worry about is getting your friends out in under half an hour." He said to Riou and Jowy."

They all nodded

"Well no time like the present" Said Camus bracingly. "Lets get going."

They sat behind the Mercedes Benz in the parking lot of the hotel and watched five terrorists move quickly into the building. Camus knew they would probably be dead in a few minutes. He didn't care, if they were going to disrupt the peace in his city then they deserved whatever came to them.

He turned to Miklotov who had a look of steely determination on his slightly gaunt face, he then looked to Riou and Jowy who were pale with tension and worry.

"You ready?" He asked them, they all nodded. "Then lets go."

Luca heard the gunshots and immediately drew his two Uzi's, not caring whether they had finished the business deal yet he let fly with a blade of gunfire which sliced the fat man in the brown suit in half.

He then moved onto his three body guards who were killed almost instantly by another arc of gunfire, two of them were beheaded, the other just slumped to the floor, the amount of bullets that had been shot into his torso and smashed his ribcage to bits.

The running outside he saw Culgan and Seed in a firefight with five men wearing black, the leader was a man wearing a blue bandana and looked almost as mad as he was.

He heard a cry and Culgan fell back, clutching his arm, Luca almost bursted with fury and without even taking cover leaped forwards and shot two of them men dead before anyone had a chance to react.

Seed moved forwards too and took one out before grabbing the almost insane Luca and pulling him behind a nearby wall.

"What the fuck are you doing!" He screamed at Seed

"Protecting you sir." Said the young red headed man, who then span round the corner and let fly with another volley of shots. He then turned to Luca "This may just be a diversion, we need to take them out as quickly as possible and get back to HQ."

"Fine." Said Luca, grinning sadistically "I'll just have a little fun taking these fuckers apart."