Chapter 6 – Uzi Rider

Fido, Port Shirago, Shirago, 2002

I parked the car just before the hotel and creeped up to the hotel and stopped behind a fence. Outside the hotel were two Yardies. They were speaking to each other.

"Yo man, is the place empty now" one of the Yardies said

"Yeah man, we capped all the Mafia scum man, we sent them straight to Satan's grasp"

Another Yardie came out of the hotel.

"Yo have you seen Tony Capelli, we can't find him man" the Yardie said

I took a Uzi out of my pocket, I hated Yardies, and ever since King Courtney had betrayed me a year ago I just wanted to blast a hole in every Yardie I ever saw. I jumped out from behind the fence and blasted them with the Uzi until theYardies were lying on the floor in a pool of blood. I walked through the door of the hotel, in front of me there were five Yardies standing about talking.

"Yo keep you eyes out for any more Mafia scum man" one of the Yardies said

"Oh look who wants to join the dead" a Yardie said seeing me

I saw the Yardies and blasted my Uzi before they could even reach for there's, down the hall I went looking for any more Yardies checking each room as I went. By the time I had searched all three floors of the hotel I had seen no Yardies.

I called out "Tony Capelli, it's Fido"

I heard a reply "Fido, I'm underneath the floorboards in Room 69, it's on the first floor"

Back down the stairs I walked until I found a door with 69 in gold numbering, the 6 was hanging off because how abandoned it was. I walked in and called out "Tony", the floorboards lifted up in the centre of the room just beside the bed and Tony Capelli stepped out, but he wasn't on his own. Surprising a face I knew so well also stepped out, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was….. Toni Cipriani.

"Fido…. I can't believe it's you"

"Hello Toni"

"When did you learn to speak man" Toni asked

"Just yesterday, I got the bullet taken out my throat"

"Listen, I don't want to spoil your little conversation, but there might be some more Yardies in here" Tony Capelli asked

"Your right Tony, I used to know this guy, in my bleak history working with the Leone family Mafia"

Toni Cipriani and Tony Capelli both pulled a pistol out of their coats, I pulled my Uzi out. We started heading out of Room 69 and along the hall, we headed down the stairs.

Suddenly a man came out of the shadows with a Desert Eagle.

"All of scum, lay you weapons down"

The man was a Jamaican Yardie; strangely he was wearing a golden crown, like he was some sort of king.

"I know this guy, that's the leader of the Shirago Yardies, King Ice" Toni Cipriani said

"You better believe I'm the leader…" the Yardie leader said walking around me, Tony and Toni

"And in a few seconds I'm going to smoke both of you"

"Yeah, you f-king Jamaicans would smoke anything, wouldn't you" Toni Cipriani said

"Yo man, don't even try and make me out to be a fool, when your the one holding the gun, you can make me out to be a fool, but until that day, you scum to me"

Suddenly there was a shot. Ice was lying on the floor and his brains were splattered over the walls of the hotel.

Toni, Tony and I all looked at the body and then slowly looked up towards the shooter. It was Toni's mum.

"Is that you getting in trouble again?"

"Yeah ma, but…" Toni said

"No buts Toni, I've told you, I thought we weren't gonna get in any trouble while we were in Shirago"

"We're not ma this is a one off; I was having a meeting with my friend Tony Capelli"

Toni's ma looked at Tony Capelli.

"He's always like this you know, always needing help from his dear old ma, can't do anything himself"

"Will you shut up ma" Toni said

"Oh, now he's insulting his own mother, will you look at that"

"Look" Tony Capelli said interrupting "I know this is a very illuminating and probably truthful conversation, but it's also a good way to get into jail for free, because some really good low life listener has probably been listening to every bullet, so if you don't mind let's get the f-k out of here"

"Yeah" I said "let's go"

We all walked out of the hotel; there was no Yardies, so we walked to the red Banshee and got in, I got in the drivers seat as usual.

"Drive to my house will ya" Toni said

There was a silence.

"Does that mean I have to drive you to Mommas Restaurant in Liberty City then?" I said sarcastically

"What the f-k are you on about Fido?"

"How am I supposed to know where you live now?"

"Oh sorry Fido"

"Stop calling me Fido"

"Well what's your name then?"

"I wasn't given a name, but my school friends called me Claude because they thought it was strange I didn't have a name"

"Okay Claude"

"Don't call me Claude" I said

"Just drive to this address…" he gave me a card "it's in Port Shirago"

It was only a few blocks away and I drove there in a few minutes, past the suburban scene on the sidewalk. When I got to the place on the card, it looked a bit like the restaurant in Liberty City. Toni and momma got out the car and started towards the restaurant

"Welcome to Momma's Restaurant, Shirago" Toni said "pop around later kid, I might have some work for you"

I jumped back in the car and drove back to the Capelli mansion with Tony Capelli.