Chapter 11 – Dark morning

Fido, Somewhere, 2002

When I woke up I found myself in a dark basement like room, my first instinct was to search for my Colt 45 in my pocket but someone had took it, suddenly the light went on and I was approached by a man in a white vest with bleached blonde hair with a baseball bat.

"What are you doing here?" the man asked

"I would like to ask the same thing" I said

"This is my house asshole" he said

"Well you put me here" I said

"Listen, you're in the Warner Streets hood, and we're under orders from Darkel that if any suspicious characters are caught in our hood we have to stop them, and when we find you holding 100 000 in cash and carrying a Colt 45 we don't like it" the man said

"This is none of your damn business" I said

"Well I'm making it my business" the man said

"What business is it to you?" I asked

"I'm the leader of the Warner Streets, Emaru" he said

"Well it had nothing to do with either you or any of the Streets" I said

"So" Emaru said "we don't like people coming in our territory with a gun"

"I wanna see this Darkel" I said

"Fine" Emaru said "he is over at this house anyway"

I stood up and followed Emaru up the stairs of the basement to a front room, there was loads of gangstas standing about, some black some white, but one man stood out, there was one man who was dressed in clothes similar to the man he had sold cocaine to, but this man had a beard.

"Hello" this man said "welcome to my city, I'm Darkel"

"Cut the crap, why did you have orders to knock me out and take me down to the basement?" I asked

"Because, you were found to have a gun in Warner Street territory, we don't like that; we would like to know who you are, what you want and who you work for" Darkel said

"I don't have a name, I don't want anything and I work for Al Capelli" I said

"You work for Al Capelli, we will have to kill you" Darkel said

"You call yourself the leader of this city, you sound like a delusional vagrant to me" I said

Darkel pulled a silver Colt 45 out of his pocket and put it to my head.

"Don't you insult me" Darkel said angrily "I have more followers than your so-called Mafia Don Al Capelli could ever have, if you insult me again and leave this city, you will have the leaders and followers of three of the biggest Darkel street gangs on your ass and gangs I run from the cities of Liberty, Los Santos, Vice and Carcer will be on to you. You won't be able to step out the door without a bullet coming your way"

I stood there still in anger at being held against my will.

"Emaru, take him to the Torture room" Darkel said

Emaru grabbed me from behind and that is when I thought I may be able to escape. I knew I could do it in the next five minutes. He took me down some stairs of another attic in his house, he turned on the light and standing there was an electric chair, this is when I saw my chance, I elbowed him in the ribs and threw him down the stairs. He went thudding down about ten steps, no-one was in the room, Emaru was now unconscious, I checked his pocket and I found my Colt 45 that they had stole. I put the weapon to his head and pulled the trigger, there was a sound of thunder and blood went everywhere. Suddenly a Warner goon with an AK47 came down the stairs and shouted out "What the f-". I stopped him in mid sentence with a bullet to the temple. I walked up to him and grabbed the AK off him.

I walked out the room; there was around ten Warner goons standing about in the room where Darkel had just spoken to me, but Darkel was nowhere to be seen. They all saw me and began shooting at me; I tried to run into the kitchen and I felt a bullet to my ankle as I ran, hiding behind a box of groceries lying at the kitchen door I could see the bullets splicing through the box, I loaded up my AK, quickly stood up and shot off a few rounds. Quickly, I closed the door and locked it; I could see the door being blasted with masses of bullets. I decided to search around the kitchen for some better weapons, which is when I saw my briefcase lying in one of the cupboards, I put 6-6-6 into the case and all the money was still there, so I closed it. I found a can of petrol lying in one of the cupboards, I had a clever plan. As the door was trying to be opened, I splashed petrol all over the kitchen. I grabbed a piece of rope and a matchbox from inside one of the drawers and took one of the matches out, I stuck the match on the rope and hung it to the ceiling a few centimetres from the wall, I then glued another match to the wall where it would just touch the rope, then I lit both matches. Smashing the window, I grabbed my case and I climbed out and watched as the Streets tried to get in the door, one of them must have found a key, running away from the window I shot the rope as the gang got in the room.

As I jumped over the fence I heard a massive explosion and the house was on fire. As I started running down the road, hand on my AK carrying my case some Streets started chasing me, bullets whizzing past me I jumped on the bonnet of a green Kuruma driving up to me. I blasted a couple of rounds to the window hitting the man in the car and I jumped in throwing the case in the back, I pushed the lifeless corpse and I noticed the keys were in the ignition so I drove off as the Streets kept on running blasting at me. I decided that I wouldn't take the train back to Shirago.

Around half an hour later I found myself near the mansion of Al Capelli's house that I knew so well, I ditched the car away from the house and began to walk in the house. When I got in the lounge Al, Tony, Toni and Tommy were sitting down, when I got in the house they were all suddenly surprised.

"My god" Al said "what took you so long, you were only supposed to take a few hours to deliver one package"

"I was sidetracked by the Warner Streets; they knocked me out as I was walking down the street and took me to the basement, I then met Darkel"

"F-k, don't tell me you told them you worked for me" Al said worried

"I'm sorry, I did, and I was then told I was going to be tortured, but I managed to escape"

"Don't tell me you killed anyone; please don't tell me you killed anyone" Al said

"I killed Emaru and some other Streets goons"

"We have to get out of here, can we move the robbery forward to tomorrow morning Tommy" Al asked

"Sure" Tommy said "what is going on?"

"Darkel never forgets anything; he knows where we live, if we don't get out of here now, we'll be burnt to death" Al said

"You can move to my place, he doesn't know me" Toni said

Quickly they all rushed to their cars, Fido went into Toni's car and they left the mansion screeching their tyres.

Darkel, Warner high-rise, Warner, Darkel, 2002

Darkel was sitting on his ripped to shreds brown couch when one of his goons ran into the room.

"What is it?" Darkel asked

"Emaru's dead, his house is on fire" the goon said

"It's that man who trespassed on Streets territory who worked for the Capelli's; I take this as a personal insult from the Capelli's"

"What do you want me to do?" the goon said

"I want you to arrange to burn the Capelli's mansion to ashes, I want Al Capelli dead, I want his followers dead, I want all his territory to belong to me, and I want that f-ker who burned Emaru's house to be capped, I want you to notify the Streets and the two other Darkel gangs of my actions, I want you to notify the gangs of Liberty, Los Santos, Vice and Carcer about this man who has disrespected me and if they know any associates of this Al Capelli they are to be shot dead"

"It is all noted Darkel, I'll pull some strings" the goon said before walking away

Darkel watched out the window as Emaru's house burned and dreamed of his power that lingered over the streets of Darkel.