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CHAPTER NINETEEN:

BATTLE WITH THE CHIEF

"Look Leon, a merchant. Better go and see if he has anything new even if you just saw another one two minutes ago." Sly mocked Leon. Leon glared at Sly, but then let the matter drop. It was pretty funny and Sly was right. Leon going to see a merchant every two minutes was uncalled for.

"Got some rare things on sale, strangers." The merchant offered, but Leon shook his head and ignored the merchant, even though he was very tempted to buy a rocket launcher from him. He had a very bad feeling, and something was warning him to buy a powerful weapon from the merchant. But he ignored the feeling and collected the ammo that was laying on a table beside the merchant and led Ashley and Sly to a large wooden door and opened it.

Leon held his gun tightly, expecting at any moment a dozen or more enemies to come out of nowhere and attack. But all was quiet and still in the small area, and Leon quickly led them down a long, downhill path. He stopped them in front of a large moldy blue shed. Leon cautiously once more looked around. Nothing. The area was dead silent and there was really no place for an enemy to hide and jump out and attack.

He turned to Ashley. "Ashley you better stay outside." Ashley nodded and ran over to a bush and hid behind it. Leon then looked to Sly. "Sly, do you wanna stay out here, or come in here with me?" Leon wasn't sure if Sly was the type that liked to hide away when danger was near, or look fear in the face unafraid. Sly thought a few minutes, then slowly shook his head. "Sorry Leon, but this village has me more shaken up then I would have ever expected." Leon nodded his head, understanding completely. If he wasn't supposed to be the one sent from the president to rescue his daughter, then Leon would be like Sly, avoiding life threatening fights by just not coming to this damned place.

"Then stay outside and keep Ashley company." Leon turned his eyes away from Sly and slowly opened the door, shutting it behind him.

All was quiet in the shed also, too quiet. Leon looked around, and saw a shadow dart from somewhere nearby, and suddenly felt that someone was behind him... Leon whirled around, gun ready, to see...

"Sly!"

The raccoon stood behind him, rocket launcher swung over his shoulder and cane ready to strike. "I couldn't leave an amateur like you alone for a minute to face evil, could I?" Sly smiled at him, and Leon knew that he had made a friend for life. Leon smiled back, but then his smile froze when he heard stomping, heavy and loud, behind him. Sly's eyes had widened and Leon turned, all too slowly, and saw none other then Bitores Mendez standing two feet away from them, the ugliest and meanest glare ever looking at them.

"You ready for this?" Leon whispered the question to Sly out of the corner of his mouth. "All too ready." Sly whispered back. Leon completely turned his body around just as Mendez reached out a hand and grabbed Leon by the throat, pulling him up off the ground. "Leon!" Sly shouted, getting into action. He tightened his grip around his father's cane and lunged forward, swinging the cane back and hitting the village chief as hard as he could. The chief grunted angrily, a sign showing that Sly had damaged the chief, considering his small size.

But Mendez merely shook the blow and backhanded Sly, sending the raccoon flying across the shed and hitting the the other side with a loud and painful smack.

"Sly!" Leon choked out. Mendez turned his gaze back to the suffocating man and threw Leon down on the ground two feet away from him. Mendez turned to the door and twisted the metal handles to the point where noone could undo them except for himself. He then turned slowly around to face Leon, who was all the way on the other side of the shed, kneeling down next to his raccoon friend. Leon looked up at Mendez, hatred and anger in his eyes. "You wanna fight, bastard? Then I'll give you one hell of a fight!" Leon shouted jumping up and running full speed into Mendez.

The sudden anger and surprise at being struck by such a puny man compared to himself knocked Mendez off guard and he fell heavily to the ground. Leon then jumped three feet backwards and overturned a gasoline tank. "Austa Luego, you heartless bastard." Leon said as he shot the at the spreading puddle of gasoline, instantly igniting it. The chief was lost in the flames, and Leon sat back, relaxing a little. Suddenly he heard a human growl angrily and the chief stepped out of the smoke, now nine feet tall. Mendez had turned into a mutant.

Sly was struck unconscious for about five minutes. The sound of inhuman growling had awoken him, and he dwozily looked around and saw Leon backing up away from a nine foot tall Mendez. The sight instantly woke him up. Leon whirled around and ran past Sly and quickly climbed up the ladder, running over to the right side of the small platform and getting out his TMP. Mendez took a swing at Leon, then spent the rest of his time trying to get to where he was. Leon all the while was blasting away with his TMP.

"Leon! Let me help!" Sly yelled, jumping up. But his voice was lost in the loud sound of TMP bullets smacking into Mendez's parasite spine. Before Sly could scurry up the ladder, Mendez suddenly split in half, his bottom half still walking towards him. "Ew ew, ick!" Sly said as the bottom half fell down near him. Leon jumped down from the loft, landing beside Sly. Sly looked at him. "So is the chief..." He never got to finish. Mendez's remaining top half suddenly came back to life and he started swinging around on the bars in the shed.

"What is he doing now? Playin monkey?" Sly asked as he whipped out the rocket launcher. He sighted Mendez and fired. Mendez instantly fell to the ground, hissing once more, then dropped heavily to the ground, dead. Sly threw the empty launcher to the ground, as Leon looked at him. "Where did you get another launcher?" He asked totally confused. "Oh, I bought it from the merchant when you weren't lookin." Sly said, smirking. Leon smiled in return. "I thought you told me not to buy anything new from the merchant."

Sly grinned mischeviously. "I like rocket launchers."

NOTE: Read and review please. Like you just read Sly does enjoy killing things or watch things being killed by rocket launchers. The same here.