Chapter 11
I'm pulling an all-nighter for you lot, so you better read this!
"Alright, here's the plan. We got enough C4 in the back to blow up Ganymede" Charles started, "You two get in, do your thing, and we'll hook this bitch up. When you're done, clear it with the radio, and when you do, we'll blow this bitch up so high in the sky God himself can look at the Red Dragons himself and spit on 'em." Charles laughed. It was good to laugh like that when you were facing death, Samantha thought. Shawn passed out the radios, and they pulled up at the Syndicate building. Samantha grabbed Shin's arm
"This is where we first met" she smiled at him. He looked into her eyes
"Remember your promise" he told her. She nodded.
"C'mon you two, let's go" Charles shouted as the Syndicate members met them at the door. Samantha gave Shin one last look, and dodged around the Syndicate members. Gunshots followed her into the marble entrance hall. She skidded behind a stone pillar, and heard bullets bouncing off of it. They stopped momentarily, and Samantha saw her chance. She ducked out from behind the pillar, and shot at her assailant. He fell with a sickening thud onto the concrete. She ran up the stairs, shooting at anyone who got in her way. She was so angry, nothing was going to get in her way. She ran up the stairs to the top of the building. A large cathedral, with the echoes of her footsteps still bouncing off the wall was engulfed in darkness. A high, cold laugh.
"I was wondering when you'd be here. How I've waited so long to see the spawn of the man who killed my father. It's true what they say, you are just like him. Overly confident, stupid even"
"Yusuke…I've been waiting for this moment since I found out who you were, I've been dreaming about watching you fall by my hands" she said. "Stop hiding!" she shouted to the shadows. Footsteps came from all around. She grasped her gun, and looked around. A tall man, dressed in all black, with short spiked hair and cold blue eyes. Her mother's eyes. She didn't know why, but this made her angrier than anything, seeing him standing there.
"You're going to die because of your father, how does that make you feel Samantha?" he asked.
"I should ask you the same thing" she shot back, narrowing her eyes.
"Do I hear fear in your voice?" A smirk crossed his face.
"I didn't come her to exchange words, Yusuke, I came here to bring you and your syndicate down, as my father did"
"As you wish. But tell me one thing Samantha. This is the room where the blood of our fathers stained the floor. They had the same blood in them, as we do. But the question is, who has the blood of a Dragon?"
"We'll never have the same blood in us" she replied in a low voice.
"That's too bad, because you have that blood in you!" he came at her from the dark, a silver katana held in his hands. She fired her gun at it, and it flew from his hand and clattered onto the floor. She held the gun level with his heart.
"You're not a bad gunman, we could use someone like you in the Syndicate" he smirked.
"Keep dreaming" she shot back. He lunged for his katana, and Samantha fired several shots at him, all of them missing except one. It hit him in his left sholder, and blood ran down his arm. He held it with his other arm.
"Did you imagine it being that easy? A few bullets won't kill me"
"Just waiting for your next move" she ran at him, but he swung the blade down hard, gashing her leg open. She felt no pain, just more anger.
"I came here to kill you, and I will" she hissed, and fired again, this time hitting his chest, and he crumpled to the ground.
"I never thought I would be killed by a woman, good thing I shall still refuse to die" he said in a low hiss. Samantha walked over to him, the sound of her heels the only sound that echoed through the room. He was dead, she thought. She stood over his crumpled body. In one quick movement, he raised the katana, and slashed at her stomach. He hit his target, and blood sprayed from the long cut. She fell to the floor, next to her brother, who had used his last bit of life to kill her. She blacked out.
Am I going to die? she asked herself outloud
"No honey, you're just in a deep sleep" a heavenly voice answered her. She felt safe.
"Then where am I, who are you? Why am I here?" she asked. She couldn't feel her body.
"One at a time, Samantha" a man's voice answered. "You're here because you did something brave, and we brought you here. We are your parents, and we brought you here so we could finally meet" he said.
"Is Yusuke dead?" Samantha asked.
"Yes, but his spirit will forever live on in the Syndicate, as Vicious' does. You've killed the remaining bloodline Vicious has, but you must destroy the syndicate building. They can only revive the bloodline with Yusuke's body" her mother answered. Samantha felt the tears in her eyes.
"I love you both so much. You gave me the strength to fight, even though I was scared." Samantha said
"You had the strength all along, your father's hatred for Vicious runs through your veins" her mother said.
"You followed in my footsteps, you destroyed an evil so vile it took a special person to destroy" her father said.
"Wait! Charles and Shin are going to blow up the building, if I don't get out I'll go with it!" Samantha realized in a panic.
"We know, we are going to send you back now. We love you so much, and we'll always be here for you" her father's voice drifted away, and everything came back, even the pain.
"Samantha, please wake up! Please, you aren't dead!" Shin's voice was full of panic.
"I'm okay…" she tried to stand, but the pain in her leg overwhelmed her, and she fell to the ground. Shin grabbed her underneath her arm and helped her stand. Warm blood ran down her leg. Shin pulled her along, and they got to the front door.
"I got Samantha, give us a minute, and we'll be out" Shin said into his radio.
"Hurry, this thing's gonna detonate, the switch got messed up during the fight. Ten seconds tops!" Charles yelled. Shin swung Samantha over his shoulder and ran. They cleared the entrance, and an explosion followed them. Shin held Samantha in his arms.
"It's over. The syndicate will never burden anyone again" he whispered into her ear.
"I saw my parents…they said the syndicate can never reunite. I killed Yusuke, he was the last of Vicious' bloodline. I love you, Shin" she whispered. Ray, Charles and Shawn were whooping and yelling with laughter as they ran over to them.
"It's gone! It's already burned to the ground!" Charles shouted over the explosions.
"We should celebrate" Samantha said finally
"Yeah, to freedom to the syndicate" Shin walked to the burning remains and threw his Red Dragons bandana into it.
"May my loyality to the Syndicate burn with the Syndicate itself" he said.