Water/Air: It's been awhile. I can't say much but apologize for my apathy. I do plan to release the ending for this so expect to see it soon.
Notes: I don't own CB.
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Chapter 6: Buddhism
Spike loaded his two Jerichos and then turned to Julia who was loaded her two Glocks. Smoke grenades, regular grenades, a shotgun, and plenty of ammo to spare; they were going to war.
"Do you think…" Julia began her sentence. Only to be interrupted by Spike.
"I'm trying not to," Spike said.
"We'll get them back," Julia said.
Spike looked up at her and she saw that his eyes showed a kind of hurt that Julia hadn't seen a long time. She set the shotgun down, walked over to him and looked into his eyes.
So much suffering…
Like a cat in the rain for his entire life…
Julia couldn't take looking into them. Instead she closed her eyes and embraced him in a hug, burying her face into his shoulder. Only after did she feel his ragged breathing calm down.
"I waited so long to get here but…" Spike managed to say.
"We'll come back, Spike," Julia said in hopes of comforting him.
"I won't go back until you are with me." Spike said, his voice carrying a tone of truth. "I know you understand what I mean."
Then Julia realized: He absolutely meant it.
"Even if we both live, they will eventually get us. If you don't take over than they are going to rebuild and come after you again."
"No they won't, I won't let them, it'll just be us," Spike soothed into her ear.
Julia smiled. "I'd like that; you and me on an island somewhere. We should go to Ganymede or Venus or Gilbore. Anywhere that is hot and tropical,"
Spike smiled and cocked his Jericho.
"Yeah, that would be nice," he said.
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Vicious opened his eyes as the jail doors creaked open. The Van had finally come to finish him off.
Instead of the Van, though, he saw one syndicate member and Vicious recognized him instantly. The ghost of the dead servant, or rather his twin.
He walked in slowly with a pistol in his hand.
"Just one man to execute us all?" Jet asked aloud. He had always thought that the syndicate executions held more honor.
"What! That lunkhead didn't show up? Damn, you think he could show some concern for his comrades!" Faye screamed. "Damn it," she said in defeat. "So much I wanted to do before I die…" Faye continued to talk until the man raised the gun; then she let out a few fearful gasps and quieted down.
"Hold still," he said.
Faye closed her eyes and waited. Two gunshots echoed throughout the room and she flinched. After the second shot's echo had faded, she started to wonder if she was dead. She opened her eyes to see the gun pointed at her still.
But where did the shots go? She wondered for a moment before the handcuffs fell into pieces on the floor. With her hands free, she rubbed the red marks left on her wrists from the tight cuffs. The gun let out a few more shots, making Faye jumpy. Ed and Jet's cuffs fell to the floor a few seconds later.
Jet immediately untied Ein while Faye could only look bewildered at the man who had freed them. He raised his gun again to Vicious but instead of being aimed at the handcuffs, it was pointed straight at his chest.
"One good reason," the man said to Vicious, his teeth gritting in anger. Vicious said nothing, just closed his eyes in indifference.
"Shin…" Vicious began.
"Lin's dead because of you," Shin said, venomously.
"Lin died for nothing." Vicious growled.
"Bullshit!" Shin screamed at Vicious.
"Did Spike tell you that?" Vicious asked putting emphasis on his arch-enemy's name.
"I won't hesitate to shoot," Shin said in a shaky voice.
"Do it," Vicious said.
Silence overcame the room.
Shin's finger was pressured on the trigger and he had the urge to end Vicious' existence. All he had to do was pull the trigger and his brother's murderer would have been slain. However, he felt something wrong. He couldn't just shoot a helpless opponent, could he?
In the middle of this dilemma he heard the door creak open and he turned to see the Van and ten guards with automatics.
"Shin… we are disappointed," the left Van said.
With the pistol in hand, he froze.
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Julia stopped the car outside of the large building known as the Red Dragon Headquarters and looked down. Spike could only guess that she was praying, he didn't know for sure. He would have done the same in this situation except that he believed in karma. All he could do was hope that he had done enough of the good stuff to get some luck.
"If this is the last time then I wanted to say that I love you…" Julia said, lifting her head.
"The stray is coming home," Spike said quietly, getting out of the car. Tossing up and catching the smoke grenade in his hand, he and Julia walked up to the front door.
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"We expected you to be responsible, Shin," the right Van said. "But you betrayed us,"
Shin could barely move. His whole body was paralyzed by fear. He was afraid of the power that these three old men wielded. From the side, Jet realized that these men must have been in charge, as a huge execution squad was gathered behind them.
"We didn't expect you to act so foolishly like your brother did," the left Van said.
"You… you don't know him," Shin stuttered.
"We sent him to be a bodyguard for Vicious on Callisto. Originally, we wanted him to keep an eye on Vicious, yet your brother could not deny his own ambition and took a bullet for Vicious. In a sense, Vicious is right. He died for nothing," the middle Van said.
Shin was about to respond but they heard a loud explosion from below and the building shook. All of the fire alarms went off and the lights flickered.
"The building is under attack!"
"What! Where!" the middle Van shouted.
"Lobby!"
Vicious smiled. His two favorite people were here and he was itching to welcome them.
"The poison spreads slowly," Vicious said as four different syndicate guards appeared behind the Van and their group. Jet realized that they were Vicious' men as they opened fire on the syndicate members. One threw a smoke grenade and the whole scene dissipated before Jet's eyes. There was nothing but gunshots and the screams of the syndicate guards as Vicious sliced through them.
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Author's Note: Next Chapter Will Be Up Soon.