Only One Shot
Chapter 3: One More
Gohan got out of the parked the car and glared at Gerard, Gordon, and then the agent driver. Scowling, he walked into the church and got in line with the other people who went to confessions, pondering pros and cons on his situation. Pro: he was near to Cortez, Con: he was near to Cortez. Pro: he needed Cortez, Con: he hated Cortez. Now Cortez wanted him to kill a few people so that he could get more money. Ever since his three close accomplices Andrew, Eric, and Luther had been killed by "the sniper," he had started to get a bit nervous. Gohan smirked, it was about time. He finally stepped into the booth and sat down in the seat. "I forgive you Father though you have sinned." A piece of rolled paper was slid through the vent screen and Gohan took it. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Gohan unrolled the paper and read it. "Yes but you seem to be farther from God than I am Father Cortez. God sees all and for all we know Judgment Day is soon."
Cortez slid the screen and leaned over to see Gohan. "Do I bother you Gohan?" he said with a confident smirk. Gohan scowled and crossed his arms. "I don't know, do you?" Cortez laughed and had a malicious glint in his eye. "Your father was a good man Gohan. Always did as he was told." Gohan eyes formed into a glare and he turned it towards Cortez. "Well I'm not him am I? Unlike you I refuse to continue this stupid line of work. I am no dog you can yank with a chain when he won't come." His eye twitched and he straightened his robes. "Yes Gohan I know. You have to continue your work though; it's in your blood as it was in your father's. He was a great sniper and though you haven't killed for me yet I will start you off with half of this list. You know who to give the other half to." Gohan grumbled a "whatever" and got out of the booth.
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"He's hit here, here, and here." The Chief pointed at three flagged places. "Do you think it's some sort of connection Chief?" Sharpner commented as he leaned against the wall. Videl examined the map. Right now it looked like a large and strangely shaped capital L. "Alright Detectives, what does your sniper expert say?" Gerard pushed Gordon up and he cleared his throat nervously. "All I know is that he's probably using an M-24 or something close to it." Videl glared at them, noticing that Gohan seemed a little annoyed about something. "I saw you three go into a club." The three stared at her and the room got silent. "Club Sin never lets anyone go in there if they know policemen; it's their number one policy."
Gordon raised his hand and everyone stared at him. "I got them in. I knew a few retired snipers and we went to go talk to them. You know, help get suspects and stuff." Videl didn't look convinced. She crossed her arms and stood infront of Gordon, making him cower under her glare. "So who do you have as a suspect hm?" Just before anyone could say anymore Gohan's cell rang. Gordon made his hands in prayer and looked up, saying a quick thank you, while Gohan looked annoyed as hell as he answered it. He saw them staring at them and cleared his throat, moving over to the interrogation room to answer it. Gerard eyed him the whole time in suspicion.
"Who the hell is this?" [Hello to you too, I have that list you wanted.]
"I told you not to call me on this phone!" [Don't worry I have a secure line.]
"For your sake it better be secure." [When are you coming to get it?]
"After I ditch the toon squad I'll come see you." [I got your gun fixed.]
"Thanks." [Don't worry about it…just bring me some money.]
"I'm your friend it's supposed to be free!" [Hey I'm risking my life here!]
"Damn gold digger." [Damn right.]
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Gohan ditched his followers easily and went into a run down apartment. He went to the janitor's closet and closed the door securely behind him. He took out a key and opened up the deep freezer to reveal a secret staircase. He climbed in and as he went down the stairs closed the freezer top behind him. At the end of the stairs were three doors and he opened the left by pressing a blue button. It opened to an elevator and he closed the door and looked up at the camera. "I don't know why you have all this shit here anyway, takes too long to come see you." There was some chuckling from the speaker box and Gohan scowled. "You know who I am so hurry up and press the damn button." The elevator started and went down." It finally stopped and revealed another hi-tech door. He pressed the blue button on it and went inside to see a hi-tech lab with weapons everywhere.
"Ever think of cleaning up this place Trunks?" A 16 year old with long light purple hair turned in his chair from infront of the large super computer with a smirk. (A/n: I made Trunks 16, bear with me) "Are you kidding? I'd never find anything if I did!" Gohan rolled his eyes and threw a box at Trunks who caught it easily, then sat down on another swivel chair. "So, how's your mom?" Trunks snorted. "She's helping the police as usual with her damn inventions." Gohan raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "What is it this time?" Trunks averted his eyes and glared at the wall. "Anti-saiyan bullets…" His eyes widened. "Anti-saiyan bullets?! What the hell is Bulma thinking?!" Trunks opened the box and shrugged. "Probably thinks we're behind /every/ crime in the city. Ever since dad started working in the mafia for fun and going to and from New Vegeta-sai, she's been getting edgy."
He pulled out a necklace with a shovel on it with the words GOLD DIGGER engraved in the spade. "Aww Gohan I didn't know you cared!" Gohan snorted. "I don't, I just want my list and my gun. That necklace is 16kt gold. 16kt for the 16 year old." Trunks put it around his neck and started looking on his sniper rack. "I found some info on those guys you told me you met. You know, the one's with Cortez. The chinese guy, Long Chiso, he's said to have these rare amethyst stones. When you kill him get me some of those stones, they're really nice. He was one of Cortez's inner men. The others are newbie's, especially Hercule Satan. He's just using them for money." Gohan nodded silently, listening to the information with crossed arms and closed eyes while contemplating his situation. "Long Chiso has some heavy guard though, so does Cortez. I know you remember the Mafia Trece?" Gohan silently nodded again.
"The Mafia Trece was led by Hesus Cortez. His top men were Luther Van Horn, Andrew Lawson, Long Chiso, Eric Hutt, Shinichi Kosuka, Heiji Haruto and Goku Son. I was young Trunks but I wasn't stupid." Trunks came back holding his sniper rifle and took it apart, placing it in a suitcase. "Yeah well just refreshing your memory. Anyway I found out that there was one more." Gohan took the briefcase and relaxed slightly in the chair while Trunks looked through his file cabinet. "That's impossible Trunks, there aren't anymore. My father told me about every member." Trunks pulled out a manila folder with a triumphant look on his face and handed it to Gohan. "Meet Avon Triaz. Avon was his other sniper besides your father. No one knew about him except Cortez." Gohan's eyebrows furrowed and he stood up, heading to the door. He threw a wad of hundreds at Trunks who caught it in surprise. "Go buy yourself something nice TB." Trunks stared at the closing door. "Thanks G-man!"
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Well thanks for your reviews and I'm not going to shout out who but I do accept your flame on my story. I have taken in the fact that Gohan does not like to kill and it kind of disappoints me to see you already pointing fingers. I do know that not everyone will like something when they read it, so I don't take it personally and I don't expect EVERYONE to like my story but it's ok if you don't like it. I just hope that everyone keeps an open mind about the killer until the end because it may either shock you or have you jump for joy on being right. Oh yeah and I kinda meant to spell his name Hesus but thanks for telling me though. I don't even know why I spelt it that way…oh well. ; Again thanks for your comments whether you liked the story or not because it means a lot to me either way.
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