Mack Yenrai, leader of the White Dragon crime syndicate and Carlos of the Red Tiger crime syndicate meet at Mack's high rise to sign a truce agreement. They are both tired of the bloodshed that has affected their rival organizations. Vaison, a member of the White Dragon syndicate, who comes from a well off family, and his hench men kill Carlos in his car by causing it to explode as he leaves the meeting.
Mack Yenrai pokes his thumb with a knife and places his bloody thumb on a piece of paper that is a peace treaty and hands it to Carlos.
CARLOS: (taking the piece of paper from Mack and looks at it after putting it in his bag) Confirmed!
CARLOS: (shaking Mack's hand) The painful past is behind us and the fortunate future awaits us.
CARLOS: (still shaking Mack's hand) Perhaps this is also the start of a brand new friendship.
MACK: (shaking Carlos' hand) An excellent one for the both of us.
CARLOS: I had no idea the view from here could be so breath taking.
CARLOS: It makes me sad to leave.
MACK: The next time you'll have to stay for dinner.
MACK: Our chef cooks meals that are just as amazing as the view.
MACK: It's to die for.
MACK: Not literally.
CARLOS: That's quite an invitation.
CARLOS: (putting his hat on) I never thought i'd break bread with the leader from the white dragon clan.
MACK: Don't worry, the food won't be poison.
MACK: No more betrayal.
A few moments later, Mack watches from his office window, Carlos's car driving away from the building.
MACK: (watching Carlos leave from his office window) Thank goodness i can finally relax and be calm.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Mack watches as Carlos gets blown up while trying to leave his high rise office. Then after being in a state of shock for a few seconds after seeing what just happened, 2 men come from behind Mack and hold him so he can't run. One of the guys puts a katana dangerously close to his neck. Dead bloody bodies are all outside Mack's office.
Vaison, who is an 8 year old sadistic homicidal maniac, enters Mack's office. He is dressed more like a hit man, rather than an 8 year old boy. He is wearing black boots, long black pants, a black shirt with long sleves, and a black coat. He also has creepy long silver hair and blood red eyes. The evil eyes of an 8 year old sadistic homicidal demon.
MACK: This won't do you any good.
MACK: The times have changed.
MACK: The syndicates can't survive like this any longer.
MACK: This end less blood shed is tearing us all apart.
The man holding the katana near Mack's neck, slits his throat slowly. Vaison begins to exit Mack's office.
MACK: (saying his last dying words to Vaison) If Max were here, you would have never done this.
An evil smile appears on Vaison's face after hearing Mack saying his last dying words to him.
Else where, at camp, Max and Zet sit and talk about the call they got from office Jenny, advising them not to go after the bounty head named Mack Yenrai for an unknown crime and to let the other adult bounty hunters that are in Kalos to take care of it. Max is ready to go any way, after a lead they have, but Zet is worried about the bounty and thinks Max is hiding some thing he knows about Mack.
ZET: I don't feel up for this.
MAX: Huh!
ZET: I said i don't feel like doing this.
MAX: (getting up) Then i have no choice.
ZET: Hold on a minute Max.
MAX: Hey, i don't want to bother you.
ZET: Don't get nasty about it.
ZET: Just how much do you know about these people?
MAX: Enough to get the picture.
ZET: Well, then what?
MAX: There's a fat bounty, plenty of info on the man, and we have a lead.
MAX: So what are you so scared of?
ZET: Max you're avoiding the subject and you know it.
ZET: What are you trying to hide from me?
MAX: So how'd you lose your left arm Zet?
ZET: What does that have to do with it?
MAX: Nothing at all.
ZET: So when are you going to answer my question?
MAX: When you answer mine.
Vivi then rides her bike into camp and has one bag of clothes in each hand and a walkie talkie cell phone radio she got from Zet the other day. She feels the tension at the camp site.
VIVI: (getting off her bike) What's going on?
ZET: None of your business.
VIVI: Hey, we're suppose to be a team here ya know.
ZET: Since when?
ZET: You're just walking trouble, so stay out of it!
VIVI: (walking over to the piece of paper they have about Mack) Like i care.
VIVI: (looking at the piece of paper they have about Mack) So who's this guy?
VIVI: (looking at the piece of paper they have about Mack) Is he a new hit?
ZET: Ask before you look!
VIVI: It's laying on the ground.
VIVI: Lighten up.
Max then walks away towards his bike to collect more info about Mack Yenrai.
ZET: Wait a minute Max.
MAX: (getting on his bike) Prepared for take off.
ZET: (yelling and talking) MAX, i'm not going to back you up.
MAX: Your call.
He rides off to parts unknown.
ZET: Darn it.
ZET: Stubburn!
VIVI: (reading paper info about Mack Yenrai out loud) Mack Yenrai, a 28000 dollar bounty for murdering a crime boss.
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) He's the head of the syndicate huh?
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) Woah, that's who you guys are after?
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) What?
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) You have a fight with him?
ZET: Shut up!
ZET: You're being obnoxious.
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) Oh really?
ZET: (yelling) I SAID CAN IT!
He slams his walkie talkie cell phone radio to the ground.
ZET: (yelling, getting up, and then walking away) HE CAN DO WHAT EVER THE HECK HE WANTS.
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) Oh man.
VIVI: (holding the piece of paper in her hands) Boys are such babies.
Then, Zet gets a call and Vivi answers it.
VIVI: (answering Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) Hello!
MAN: (talking to Vivi on the other line) Are you there Zet?
MAN: (talking to Vivi on the other line) I got some thing big.
VIVI: (talking to the man on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) Some thing big you say?
The lead takes Vivi to an opera house where she can find Mack Yenrai at his box seat. She is dressed for the formal occasion. She walks in the building.
DIFFERENT MAN: Madam, excuse me.
DIFFERENT MAN: I need to see your ticket for the concert please!
VIVI: I don't have any ticket.
DIFFERENT MAN: Well than, i'm afraid i can't let you in madam.
VIVI: Alright, but he's going to be very unhappy with you.
DIFFERENT MAN: Huh!
VIVI: That's right.
VIVI: Him!
VIVI: Balcony!
VIVI: First box.
VIVI: You know who.
DIFFERENT MAN: Oh Yenrai.
VIVI: Can you park my bike!
VIVI: It's out front.
VIVI: Thanks!
Back at camp, Zet talks to poochyena about his frustrations.
ZET: What makes them all think they can do what ever they want?
Zet's walkie talkie cell phone beeps.
ZET: Huh!
ZET: I have a text message.
POOCHYENA: Pooch!
ZET: You worried?
ZET: Relax!
Zet grabs his walkie talkie cell phone.
ZET: (starting to press buttons to decrypt the text message) You haven't seen the decyrption master at work.
ZET: (pressing buttons on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) You see.
ZET: (pressing buttons on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Now we type in the text Mack Yenrai.
Zet's walkie talkie cell phone beeps again.
ZET: (looking at his walkie talkie cell phone radio) So i was right.
ZET: The bounty is real, but there's a whole lot more to it.
Back at the opera house, Vivi is invited into Mack Yenrai's opera box at gun point by Vaison's hench men. They know her name and tell her to sit through the opera performance next to Mack's body that has been propped up in a seat.
VIVI: (walking up to a man outside the opera box) Is this Mack Yenrai's box?
VIVI: I've looked all over for it.
VIVI: Actually, i.
HENCH MAN NUMBER 1: Yes, we've been waiting for you.
The doors to the opera box open up and some one puts a gun to Vivi's back.
HENCH MAN NUMBER 2: We request that you remain quiet during the performance.
Else where, Max goes to see Anna, his lead, who was a close friend to Mack back when Max was living a very different life. She is taken a back because she felt Max had died 3 years ago. There is a picture on the store counter of a younger Anna and Mack Yenrai looking like friends. Before Max arrives at Anna's comic book store, she is looking at TV while 2 boys try to walk out with men's magazines with out paying.
ANNA: (yelling) PUT THEM BACK!
The 2 boys then run out of the store. One of them trips and the other one bumps into Max. Max quickly swipes the men's magazine from the boy before he hits the ground and starts reading it.
BOY: Get out of my way!
BOY: (noticing Max looking at the men's magazine) Huh!
BOY: Hey, give it back you dumby!
BOY: Give it!
Anna then grabs the second boy, holding both boys in her arms and then sees Max.
ANNA: Really!
ANNA: Kids these days.
ANNA: I'll hand both of you over to the police.
ANNA: (both eyes widen open) Oh my deer goodness.
MAX: Hey!
Anna then drops both boys she was carrying in each arm and they run off. Max and Anna both go inside the store to chat.
MAX: Isn't it bad for your health if you drink it all in one gulp Anna?
Anna swallows a big gulp of beer.
ANNA: What's bad for my health is seeing you come back to life.
ANNA: It's a shock to the system.
MAX: Hey, thanks a lot for the warm welcome.
ANNA: Why welcome the dead?
ANNA: It's all futile.
MAX: But i'm alive.
ANNA: No you're not.
ANNA: You died 3 years ago.
ANNA: That's how things work here.
Max then looks at the picture of Anna and Mack.
ANNA: I know why you're here Max.
MAX: Huh!
ANNA: You wouldn't have come unless you needed some info.
ANNA: It's about some thing important right?
ANNA: Well, i'll help if i can, but don't ask me too much.
MAX: Ava!
ANNA: (yelling) NO!
ANNA: Don't call me that!
ANNA: Only 2 people can call me that.
ANNA: So what do you wanna know?
MAX: (talking with a serious expression on his face) Mack Yenrai.
MAX: (talking with a serious expression on his face) What happened to him?
Back at the opera house, Vivi makes a disturbing discovery in the opera box and meets Vaison for the first time.
VIVI: (getting out of her seat) What's the reason for this?
VAISON'S HENCH MAN: No need to speak Vivi Winstrate.
VAISON'S HENCH MAN: We've done a very thorough back ground check on you.
VAISON'S HENCH MAN: Rest assured.
VAISON'S HENCH MAN: You'll be held at a very secured location.
VAISON'S HENCH MAN: Please take your seat!
Vivi sits back down and looks over to her right side to see Mack Yenrai's dead body covered in blood. She begins to shake with fear.
VAISON: (standing at Vivi's left side) You're shaking.
VIVI: (looking at Vaison) Who are you?
VIVI: (looking at him) Tell me!
VAISON: (watching the opera singer) Vaison!
Vivi's eyes begin to widen with fear and the crowd cheers as the opera singer finishes his singing.
Back at the comic book store, Anna gives Max a gun, bullets, and a few grenades, but asks him to not get tangled up with Vaison again, even though Vaison is only 8 years old like Max is. She hates that Max is a show off and almost never listens to any one.
ANNA: You know i don't tell you what to do, but don't get tangled up with Vaison any more, alright!
ANNA: Why am i talking to you?
ANNA: It's use less.
MAX: (opening up a box full of bullets) Sorry!
ANNA: You've almost never listened to any one your whole life.
She drinks another big gulp of beer.
ANNA: You're a stubburn show off.
ANNA: You think it kill ya to listen to your elders for once?
ANNA: No!
ANNA: That's too much to ask.
ANNA: About Mack.
ANNA: He had a lot of guys out looking for you after he skipped town.
ANNA: He was convinced that you were still alive after you disappeared from your first school.
ANNA: He said he could feel it.
ANNA: No one could talk him out of it.
ANNA: So now, here you are, finally back.
ANNA: And Mack is.
MAX: (talking in a concerned voice) Anna, i think you've had enough.
ANNA: (pouring another drink) Not yet.
ANNA: (pouring another drink) This one's for Mack.
She stops pouring.
MAX: (taking the glass of alcohol away from Anna) If it's for Mack, i'll drink it myself.
MAX: Please don't be mad at me for drinking this stuff, even though i'm too young!
ANNA: I won't, considering all the pain and suffering you've been through and the fact that you act like a man, even though you're a kid.
MAX: Thank you.
Max starts drinking the whole glass of beer and swallows it all.
A little later, back at camp, Max gets his 2 guns and locks and loads them. Zet tells Max that he's walking into a trap - that Mack is already dead. Max says he knows this and that he has a debt to pay off. Max loads his last gun with bullets and points it at a tree, pretending to shoot it.
ZET: Alright and what are you planning to do with all the weapons?
MAX: (holding a gun in his hand) Where's Vivi?
ZET: When she saw the bounty figure, she had a lapse of sanity.
ZET: I'm sure she's out some where screwing up and getting into trouble.
MAX: (holding a gun in his hand) I see.
ZET: (using a strict voice) Let me tell you something.
ZET: You're not going to get any reward money for Mack.
ZET: He's already dead.
ZET: Internal politics between rival crime syndicates.
ZET: Don't you get it?
ZET: It's a trap.
MAX: (looking at the gun in his hand) Yeah, i know.
MAX: (holding the gun in his hand) I know the whole sad story.
ZET: And you're still going?
MAX: (holding the gun in his hand) Yeah!
ZET: Wait!
ZET: Does this have to do with Mack?
MAX: (holding the gun in his hand) I have a debt to pay off.
ZET: You wanted to know what happened to my left arm.
MAX: (pointing his gun at a tree) Huh!
ZET: (holding his left artifical arm) This is what i paid for getting involved too much in the IKP, at a way to young age and for getting involved in adult business.
ZET: (holding his left artifical arm) In other words, this is what happened to me for running a head of the game.
ZET: (holding his left artifical arm) You get the point?
Max puts the gun down.
MAX: (getting up) I don't want to go Zet.
ZET: Then why are you?
MAX: Lets just say that my past is catching up to me.
Zet's walkie talkie cell phone rings and he picks it up.
ZET: (answering it) Hello!
VIVI: (talking on the other line) I kinda got myself caught.
ZET: (talking to Vivi on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) What?
VIVI: (talking on the other line) Yeah, they want you to come and pick me up.
VIVI: (talking on the other line) Either you show up at the place they say or my life is over.
VIVI: (talking on the other line) The arrival time is as soon as possible.
ZET: (talking to Vivi on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Who asked you to go off on your own?
VIVI: (talking on the other line) Come on now.
VIVI: (talking on the other line) We're comrades, right?
ZET: (talking to Vivi on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) You brought this on yourself, so deal with it yourself.
ZET: (talking to Vivi on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) We're busy.
VIVI: (talking on the other line) No!
VIVI: (talking on the other line) Wait Zet.
MAX: Don't hang up on her Zet and give it to me!
MAX: (taking Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio after having it handed to him) Where are you?
VIVI: (talking on the other line) You mean you're really going to come for me?
MAX: (talking to Vivi on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) Well it's possible.
MAX: (talking to Vivi on Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio) I've got my reasons, so don't take it personally.
ZET: (slightly annoyed) Max!
Before going, Max changes his clothes. He puts on his black boots, long black pants, a black shirt with long sleves, and a long black coat. He is seen walking towards the big abandoned ware house where Vivi is being held and walks inside. As he continues walking inside, he thinks back to where a few people thought he had died. He stops and sees some one slowly walking towards him from the dark. It's Vaison he sees.
VAISON: (slowly walking closer towards Max) When saints embrace their dark sides, they become fiends.
He stops walking.
VAISON: You agree, don't you Max?
MAX: I'm just watching a bad life of mine, i can't get away from.
VAISON: I'll get you away from it right now.
MAX: What's your rush Vaison?
MAX: After all, it's been a long time since we've seen each other.
VAISON: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
VAISON: Are you pleading for your life?
MAX: Barely and hardly!
MAX: Begging doesn't work on you, remember?
MAX: Even if it's coming from the boy who took you in and made you what you are.
VAISON: Perhaps, but he was an antibully and a killer that lost his fangs.
VAISON: That's why he has to die Max and that's why you have to die too.
VIVI: (struggling) Guh!
Max quickly draws his gun and turns to his left side to see Vivi a few feet away being held at gun point by one of Vaison's hench men. The hench man is only 10 years old.
HENCH MAN NUMBER 1: (pointing a gun at Vivi's head) Now we'd like for you to drop your gun slowly.
HENCH MAN NUMBER 1: (pointing a gun at Vivi's head) What's wrong?
HENCH MAN NUMBER 1: (pointing a gun at Vivi's head) If you don't comply, it won't end well.
BANG!
Max kills hench man number 1, who dies from a shot to the head. A mob of hench men, some boys and some men, appear from hiding places and start to shoot.
VIVI: (yelling and taking cover) BE CAREFUL!
A boy that's been shot and killed almost falls down on Vivi. She then runs out of the ware house. Max throws a grenade at a few men running towards him as he's hiding behind a pillar and ends up blowing them up. Vivi watches in shock, outside of the ware house, as the explosion goes off. Max kills several people and runs upstairs towards Vaison.
Back at camp, Zet is cooking and accidentally burns lunch.
ZET: (holding a frying pan with garlic, onions, and mushrooms in it) Darn it.
ZET: (holding a frying pan with garlic, onions, and mushrooms in it) Now i'm turning it into coal.
Zet's walkie talkie cell phone radio rings and he picks it up.
ZET: (answering it) Hello!
VIVI: (talking on the other line) Oh goodness.
VIVI: (talking on the other line) Zet it's Max.
VIVI: (talking on the other line) He's!
ZET: (yelling on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) TOUGH!
He hangs up and puts his walkie talkie cell phone radio down.
ZET: (looking a few seconds at his burnt lunch, putting it away, and getting up to leave the camp site to go help Max) Darn it.
On a balcony next to a large blood stained glass window, Max and Vaison duel with a gun in Max's hand and a katana sword in Vaison's hands. They both manage to trap each other with a gun pressed against Vaison's chest and the pointy end of the katana sword, an inch away from the left part of Max's chest.
VAISON: (talking with an evil smile and pointing his sword an inch away from the left part of Max's chest) You should see yourself.
VAISON: (talking with an evil smile and pointing his sword an inch away from the left part of Max's chest) Do you have any idea what you look like right at this moment Max?
MAX: (talking with an evil smile and pressing his gun against Vaison's chest) What?
VAISON: (talking with an evil smile and pointing his sword an inch away from the left part of Max's chest) A blood thirsty antibully and killer.
VAISON: (talking with an evil smile and pointing his sword an inch away from the left part of Max's chest) The same blood runs through both of us.
VAISON: (talking with an evil smile and pointing his sword an inch away from the left part of Max's chest) The blood of a killer that hunts for the blood of others.
MAX: (pressing his gun against Vaison's chest) I've bled all that kind of blood out.
VAISON: (talking, yelling, and pointing his sword an inch away from the left part of Max's chest) Then why are you STILL ALIVE?
BANG!
Max shoots Vaison in the right part of his chest and Vasion's sword goes into Max's chest by an inch. Vaison manages to grab Max by the face and throws him through the window with his monstorious strength. Max falls 30 feet to the ground and a montage of his former life flashes before his eyes. The images show Max fighting along side Vaison. He also sees a girl and himself walking in the park and smiling happily. The image of a blue rose laying in the spot where her bed once was is seen in his flash back.
Max then has a dream where he is recovering from injuries at the girl's place and she is humming. In his dream, he wakes up to the girl sitting a few feet away from him and asks her to do one thing.
MAX: (talking in his dream, lying in a bed injured, and speaking to the girl) Just like that.
MAX: (talking in his dream, lying in a bed injured, and speaking to the girl) Please hum for me!
She gives him a small smile and continues humming for him. The dream ends and Max is awoken from the dream by Vivi humming, which he says is off key.
VIVI: (sitting a few feet from Max who is bandaged from head to toe like a mummy, while playing cards) Oh, you're finally up.
VIVI: You've slept too much.
VIVI: You've been asleep for 3 days.
VIVI: Yeah, i was starting to worry about you.
VIVI: Hey, you should be greatful to me for staying here.
Max then takes off the bandage on his mouth to say something to Vivi. She walks up close to him to hear him.
MAX: (laying on his sleeping bag at camp, in bandages) You hum off key.
Vivi then punches Max in the chest.
MAX: (yelling in pain) OUCH!
Vivi then walks pass Zet growling, who walked up to see what was going on. He then gives Max some helpful advice.
ZET: Max, you should never make a girl mad when you're injured.
Max then looks at the bandage that was on his mouth with a tired glare.
This was an interesting chapter to say the least. I'm sorry if all the violence and killing offended any of you. This chapter had people from Max's past and a mystery girl. Well this answers some of the questions about Max's past, but not all of them. As the story continues, you'll learn more and more about Max. Please type up your reviews for what you thought of this chapter! Thank you! Stay curious my friends!