Two Brothers

Sal Chon

"As I felt my soul slowly die, there was something else out there trying to stop my demise."

-Fox McCloud

Staris concentrated on the data pad and he sighed, it was very late at night and the Goddamn firewall was putting up a real fight. He sighed again and he looked at the clock, it read 0300. He liked military time and it had taken a few days for his parents to get used to him telling the time in that format.

Come on Staris, you call yourself a hacker. He thought and he restarted the cracking system, the firewall went down a tad and Staris could almost not hold in his excitement. He quickly bypassed the firewall and it closed the link as he slipped in unnoticed. Ok, ok, now where to go?

Another firewall came up but this one has less security and Staris was able to hack it almost immediately. He guessed the assassin had never thought anyone could ever crack the first one. Staris rapidly tapped on the keyboard and he divulged its contents; more logs, a few files and other things Staris would need to look over. He stored all the information on a heavily encrypted data drive and isolated all the information just be careful. He might have picked up a virus but there was none on his Comm so he scanned the data drive, it was ridden with viruses, Trojans, and other malware. He ran a scan and the files vanished as he now had complete access to them. He gingerly accessed them and he began reading the log…

Date 5.23.2920

My Master has a task for me, he wants me to kill the mate of a war hero of Corneria, I'm not sure what her name or his name is yet but I feel this will determine if I am kept or killed. She has given me precious little in the way of armor but I won't need it, alls I need are my skills of an assassin I learned under Chon.

Stairs stopped reading and he frowned.

Chon? I wonder who that is. He thought and kept reading.

I have just broken the planet's atmosphere, I have failed in my mission and I have not killed the vixen. I know this will be my downfall, if not my death sentence when I return to my Master. She will not be pleased and but strangely, I feel no fear of her, or death but I know she will not be pleased. Chon, I have failed you as well.

The log entry cut out and Staris put the data pad on his desk as he lay down on his bed, he was tired and he closed his eyes as sleep overtook him.

Fox gently blinked as the long lasting effect of the drug slowly wore off; he shivered in the room and drew himself up into a defensive ball as he looked nervously around the room.

"Talia, what have you done to me?" He whispered and he shivered uncontrollably as the scene replayed in his mind. The demon was hunting him…and he could not escape. "No, no, it's not real. It's not real." He whispered and Fox felt the after effects of going through Hell.

"Is my little mercenary ok?" Talia asked as she walked over to him.

"You stupid bitch, why are you putting me through this?" Talia smiled and she squatted down.

"You have failed miserably in your mission to kill the vixen, call it the consequences of your actions." She replied and slammed him across the face with her fist. "And that is for the bitch comment. Now, do you want to be cured of that poison?"

"You poisoned me?" Fox asked and she smiled. "You stupid son of a-" She slammed him again and Fox suppressed the pain as she withdrew her paw.

"Shut up, I could kill you right now you know that?" She said and Fox looked up at her with hardened eyes.

"I am not afraid of you." He defiantly said and Talia placed her paw on his face, the claws came out and she smiled.

"Oh you will be."

Six hours before…

"You know my son?" I asked and the lupine nodded quickly.

"Yes, he was my apprentice. I raised him from a kit to an eighteen year old vulpine." He said and my breath caught.

"You…took my kit?"

"From your home? Yes, I did, I took your kit for her." He said and I felt hatred spring into me, he had taken eighteen years of my life away and I wanted to kill him.

But I couldn't.

"You took my son, you took him from me. You have no idea what you have done." I said and the lupine sighed.

"I know what I have done, as soon as I gave him to her, I regretted it. I have been suffering ever since he was taken from me." He said and I didn't believe him.

"Tell me your name so I can remember the one I killed who took my son."

"My name is Sal Chon." He said and I thought about the name. I had heard of him but his reputation wasn't exactly well known over the Lylat System. Maybe he knew where my son was.

"Do you know where my son is being held?" I asked and he nodded.

"I have an idea, if you kill me, you will you never know." He had a point. I holstered the shotgun and helped him up. "You're not going to kill me?"

"No, but one false move and consider yourself dead. Now where is my son?"

"The last time I saw him was here, he was helping me fight a human that was going to kill me and take him."

"Human?"

"Yes, Malion is his name. He was sent by Talia, my master." My jaw dropped and I knew her. "You know Talia?"

"Yes, I know her well. Sal Chon, take me to my son, I need to go to him now. I have to kill her; she is the one object in my life that I have to remove."

Yes James, I will." We walked out of the cave and to our fighters; I don't know if I could fully trust Chon but if he got me to my kit, I would.