Alana's World Tour: Roanapur
Chapter 6: Greenback Jane and the Cartel Part 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Black Lagoon
It's stated in the Black Lagoon manga that Greenback Jane is a nymphomaniac, I'm just putting it out there and expanding on the idea.
Jane sat on one of the couches in the Lagoon offices with Alana to one side and Baldomero to the other with Benny behind her, his hands on her shoulders giving reassuring squeezes and Jane had to wonder how she even got into this mess as she looked her two sitting companions over.
Alana was dressed identically to Shenhua, who now sat on the armrest to Alana's right, and had the kind of beauty that made Jane wonder why she herself wasn't bisexual. She was already a nymphomaniac by her own admission, so why not take it farther and go after women too? Baldomero, he looked like he was built out of marble with a well built upper body that he had no qualms about showing off and if she had to guess he was built that way below his belt too. Eda sat on the armrest beside Baldomero on his left, her Nun's habit looking as out of place as her tinted glasses in the room filled with pirates and a pair of blood suckers.
The pistols the two carried scared the daylights out of her as she subconsciously rubbed a spot on her neck that had two small bite marks that were slowly healing and she thought about how she got them:
Flashback Start
"Now then, I believe an explanation is in order, Ms. Bhai." Alana said calmly as she turned around, startling the woman as Alana's eyes flashed red for a second and Jane hid behind Revy and Eda. Revy didn't look too thrilled to be standing between a Dhamphir and her target while Eda was still too dumbfounded to say or do anything besides blink her eyes.
Jane stayed behind Revy and looked in fear at the creature in a woman's skin in front of her and she instantly noticed the woman's expression change to calm and serene.
Alana realized immediately when Greenback Jane refused to come out from behind the nervous Revy that she had messed up by flashing her eyes the way she did so she decided to use an age old technique for getting someone to do what you wanted; mind control. Her eyes turned red as she looked Jane in the eyes and locked the control in, Jane's eyes losing all focus as Alana said in a hypnotic tone "Everything is just fine, I mean you no harm." and true to form, Jane slowly came out as she repeated what she was told like a mindless drone until she stood just a few feet from Alana who broke the control and changed her eyes back to normal before Jane could recover and see the red.
Jane shook her head to clear it and looked up to see Alana with a kind and caring expression and for some reason, Jane lost herself in those blue orbs as she walked forward and to everyone's shock, pulled Alana's head to her and kissed her on the lips!
Revy, Eda, Shenhua, and Baldomero stared in shock as they heard moans of pleasure come from Jane, the two breaking the kiss and Alana moving her mouth to Jane's neck, gently biting her and drinking her blood and healing the bite just as a scared and worried Benny ran up to the church doors and called out "Hey! Have any of you seen…" and when he noticed Jane in Alana's arms he ran in and hugged Jane with everything he had as Alana released her and moved so quickly she was beside Shenhua again in the blink of an eye.
After Benny suitably calmed down and Jane was back to her old self, Alana looked at Shenhua and said "Shenhua, might I ask that you go to Mr. Chang and ask him to meet with me at the Lagoon offices?" Shenhua nodding as she noticed a dangerous sheen in Alana's eyes as she also turned to Revy and said "Revy, can I ask you to go to Balalaika and ask her to meet with me at the Lagoon offices as the same time as Mr. Chang?"
"What the fuck is going on here?" Eda yelled out and instantly regretted it at the look of deadly intent that Alana leveled at her as she said "We shall see, will we naught? If you would like you can come to this meeting as well, Eda." then she turned to Benny and asked him if it was okay to host her meeting at the Lagoon offices, Benny replying "That's not my area, you'd have to talk to Dutch for that, but since your meeting isn't liable to destroy his office, he might agree to it."
"Can you call him for me please?" Alana asked and Benny nodded and accepted a phone from Sister Yolanda, who looked to be pretty damn miffed about someone shooting into her church.
Flashback End
Balalaika and Mr. Chang had both arrived, Balalaika with Boris at her side as Jane explained how the Cartel had asked her to create counterfeit bills for them and took offense when she refused, attempting to gun her and Benny down in the streets while they were enjoying a meal, separating them and setting Jane on the path that led to the Rip-off Church, making her pretty miffed at how fate sent her to that place a second time like that, although she was happy that most of the crooks in Roanapur weren't after her this time.
That was when Alana stepped in as she said "Might I inquire as to the name and location of who operates the cartel here?" and Baldomero was the one who responded saying "Jefe, the bastardo who runs it is named Abrego, his office was no more than a couple of blocks from where you turned me."
"Well, that answers those questions, but I highly doubt you asked to meet with us just to find out about Abrego." Mr. Chang stated and Alana nodded.
"How would you feel about Baldomero and I wiping Abrego and his little troublemakers off the face of the island?" Alana asked them and they choked on their smokes as Balalaika sputtered "Wha … what kind of … question is that?"
"I am asking if you would disagree with Abrego being wiped out, he made the mistake of attacking someone I feel is a friend, and no one, human or monster, attacks my friends. Naught without some form of punishment being forthcoming." Alana explained and this calmed the two down as Boris leaned forward and whispered to Balalaika saying "Capitan, are you sure we can trust her not to come after us as well?" not realizing that Alana could hear him quite easily as she turned to him and said "Sergeant, I am well aware that you have no reason to trust me. However, my attacks will be focused on Abrego and the Cartel, after that, well, that is up to you. As long as your forces do not attempt to harm me or those I consider my friends or allies, which I would like to consider Hotel Moscow and the Triads as my allies in this little endeavor, then you have naught a need to fear my reprisal."
Mr. Chang looked to be considering all of his options as he said "You would not attack us unless we attacked first, that is an admirable trait, but how would you be sure that one of our attacks can't kill you? in the event of course."
Jane stepped back in as she said "Mr. Chang, I personally saw her take six bullets in the back during the shoot out. A couple of minutes after she was shot her injuries had healed like they had never happened, even her clothes were repaired. I mean no disrespect but how can you say that you can kill someone like that? She is obviously not a human, besides, she has Revy scared of her."
"Oh man, I really put my foot in my mouth with that one, huh? Well, I can agree that as long as my men are not antagonized that they will not attack you. Besides, the heads of the family have never really liked Abrego's bullshit" Mr. Chang responded after looking at a rather nervous Revy and then it went to Balalaika who looked to Boris, who nodded and prompted Balalaika to say "I agree to this proposal as well, as long as you do not antagonize Hotel Moscow then we will not antagonize you either."
Alana smiled, flashing her fangs in the process, revealing a slight red tint from her recent meal, and reached over, shaking hands with the two crime lords before she and Baldomero stood up almost at once and moved towards the door, only to find Shenhua and Revy following them. Looking at them Shenhua said "You new here, but a friend already." and Revy just shrugged as she said "Whatever Chinglish just said" prompting the Taiwanese knife-fighter to bring up a blade that was stopped with a shimmer revealing Alana's wires wrapped around her wrist as well as the blade.
Alana fixed Revy with a ruby-eyed glare, scaring the woman so badly that Mr. Chang and Balalaika had no choice but to see the blood drain from Revy's face, surprising them as well as Boris, who had a dumbfounded expression on his face, as they watched Revy do what they thought impossible, she actually said the words "Sorry Shenhua." and the group watched Alana's eyes return to blue as her face softened, the group of four leaving the room after Alana extended an invitation to Balalaika, Mr. Chang, and Lagoon Company to meet her at the Yellow Flag for drinks. As the door closed, Alana could hear Mr. Chang saying to Balalaika "Well, it looks like we have some things that need discussing."
Traveling the Streets towards the plaza, the group of four drew fearful glances as even the common thug knew that if something had Shenhua and Revy working together, it was big, real big, and it was best not to get involved.
Abrego sat in his office fuming as men ran this way and that trying to establish order after the men sent to teach that Indian bitch to turn down the Cartel hadn't come back. Reports had stated that they were wiped out by two people, one of them that damned backstabbing Baldomero!
"That fucking Slut! Somebody tell me what the hell is going on!" Abrego fired off in English just as a very dark chill came over him and he started sweating as he heard loud gunfire erupt from his foyer and running out the door he was terrified enough to piss his pants to see Shenhua and Revy slaughtering his men, a newcomer wearing some of Shenhua's clothes very accurately blasting away with a giant pistola while that fucking Baldomero blasted away with two giant pistolas of his own,. Strangely Baldomero's accuracy just as good as that stranger's.
While he pulled out his pistol and got it ready he heard Baldomero call out "Jefe, do you think I should use one pistol, just to make it easier for them?" and to Abrego's shock he heard an alluring and feminine yet noble and aristocratic voice answer back "These men are naught deserving of mercy. Our objective is search and destroy."
"comprendió" came Baldomero's reply as the gunfire escalated with the arrival of more of Abrego's men, Abrego enraged further by the revelation that Baldomero betrayed him for a woman. "A fucking bitch slut!" Abrego softly cursed, but unfortunately he gave himself away as a bullet fired by the woman slammed into the marble railing next to his head, causing the railing to buckle with a bang and scaring him back into his office.
When Alana, Baldomero, and Shenhua and Revy had entered the building, they quickly and methodically expended over 40 rounds of ammunition into the unsuspecting subordinates of the cartel. In no more than the time it took the trio of gunslingers to accurately fire off the 40 rounds, they had reduced the membership of the cartel to by thirty-five, and Shenhua's knives took out a further six people, leaving the foyer a blood soaked mess as Alana heard a curse coming from upstairs and instantly zeroed in on the source, Abrego, and decided to make his end a slow one, putting a bullet from the Velsignet Vind into the marble next to his face and scaring him back into his office.
As they stood there, Alana and Baldomero's wasted no time in absorbing the blood on the floor before moving upstairs. Arriving upstairs, Alana sent Shenhua down one hallway and Revy down the other, to cover the rest of the building while she and Baldomero took care of the 'scum'.
Reaching the doors, Baldomero and Alana kicked the them in, causing them to explode as if a satchel charge filled with 20 lbs of C-4 had been set off on them, leaving a terrified Abrego hiding behind his desk as Alana used her sense of smell to pick him out and her ability to sense life energy to determine where his limbs were, placing a bullet through his left ankle even through the wood of his desk and knocking him sprawling as his ankle exploded. Abrego screamed in pain as he clutched the stump where his ankle once was and looking up, he felt that same dark chill run up and down his spine as the woman looked at him, and all he saw in her eyes was the look of a predator swooping in on it's prey as Baldomero pistol whipped him into unconsciousness.
Dragging Abrego out of the building and into the street before tying him up, Baldomero watched as Alana shoved her hand into a wall and ripped out over ten feet of reinforcing bar and jabbed one end into the street after sharping the other like a spear. After she was finished she had Shenhua wake Abrego up. After Abrego came to, he was faced with an angry Dhamphir as Alana fixed him with a red eyed glare that chilled him down to his bones before he looked at Baldomero and spat in his face, causing the powerfully muscled man to back hand slap him in response, the single hit enough to crack Abrego's jaw even though Baldomero didn't even use a tenth of his full vampiric strength.
"It would seem that you know naught to whom you are dealing with." Alana said and Abrego looked at her and said what he thought about her in a mixture of Spanish and English, the insults causing her eyes to reveal the rage she felt while her face remained impassive and she used her Katana to slice off his other foot before cutting open his pants and leaving his manhood out in the open.
"I remember my father telling me once. That when a stallion, a bull, or a male dog becomes too vicious or mean, there's but only one cure, do you know what that cure is?" Alana asked the Columbian as she laid the cutting edge of her wakizashi against the underside of his manhood, the man sweating in fear before she made one upward slice. Abrego's cries of pain reverberated off the plaza as Alana swiftly cut his arms free by taking his hands off.
As he screamed, she picked him up by the back of his collar and sank her fangs into his jugular, drinking him almost to death before throwing him into the air. Baldomero, Shenhua and Revy could only stare in surprise and shock as Abrego came down, impaling himself through the gut on the reinforcing bar, hanging over six feet off the ground as what little blood he had left dripped to the ground as he bled to death and breathed his last.
After Abrego's life signs stopped to Alana's sensitive hearing, she jumped into the air and with a single swing of her sword, cut Abrego's head off, the dismembered head rolling all the way to Revy's feet as she looked down and suddenly wished she hadn't had breakfast this morning as she ran to the nearest trashcan and heaved, even Shenhua was a little green in the gills about what they had just witnessed as Alana absorbed the remains of Abrego's blood and then promptly destroyed her makeshift impalement spear.
Just as her ears picked up the sound of sirens, Alana and Baldomero grabbed their two comrades and promptly vanished, seemingly into thin air as they took off running away from the cartel offices.
Arriving at the docks, the four went onboard Alana's yacht and went below decks. Arriving at what appeared to be a living room of all things, Shenhua and Revy were left stunned at the expensive oak paneling and ceiling, the room looked like it belonged in a building instead of on a seagoing vessel as the lamps and other light fixtures had crystal shades instead of glass, cloth, or cheap plastic and the floor was covered in a thick, expensive carpet while the chairs and other furniture appeared to be made of carved oak.
Going to and sitting on a throne like chair, Alana looked at the three and said warmly "Please, make yourselves at home. My temporary home is yours' as well." as she rested her left cheek on her knuckles with her legs crossed and her eyes closed, though with a warm, welcoming smile on her lips. She appeared totally at peace with her surroundings as Baldomero, Shenhua and Revy complied with her request, sitting on the chairs and couch and finding themselves shocked at the exquisite feeling of the upholstery and the opulence of the room, making them wonder if the rest of the yacht was this grand.
As if reading their minds Alana said gently "if you would like, please, explore to your hearts' content." and they got up to do just that, Alana remaining behind as she sat in her chair.
The trio left the room and explored the rest of the yacht, although they felt it was more appropriate to call the vessel a ship instead of a yacht it was so big, the living room, if that's what it was, had been the size of the Lagoon company's office and the rest of the ship appeared to be just as extravagant as they found a fully functional kitchen complete with cooking appliances, a bathroom, guest rooms, the master bedroom with a walk-in closet and a king-sized four poster bed made of carved oak with silk sheets and a bathroom all it's own off to one side.
Further exploration revealed an armoury with a single large caliber rifle stored within but empty racks for a pair of swords and pistols. Looking at the rifle the trio found the words 'Hunters ARMS 13.7mm Anti-monster combat rifle "Dracul"' engraved on the side and Baldomero hefted the rifle for a second before setting it back with a look of astonishment on his face as he said "That thing is heavy, what the fuck is it made of?" only for Alana's voice to appear in his head saying "Baldomero-kun, my fledgeling. You have found the rifle I inherited from my mother; the Dracul. The Dracul weighs 120 lbs and is capable of single, burst, and fully automatic fire. You will find the multi-barrel cannons known as the "Dracula" shortly."
"Alright, jefe." Baldomero said aloud and received strange looks and he said "jefe used telepathy to explain the Dracul to me." Revy and Shenhua took on looks of understanding then as they continued exploring the giant yacht and sure enough, came across the multi-barrel cannons known as the Dracula, complete with belts leading to giant ammunition boxes and carrying straps.
After finishing their explorations and getting cleaned up, they joined Alana in the living room and she asked "How do you like my home away from home?" receiving looks of approval from the group as they left the yacht as the sun was going down and they had an appointment at the Yellow Flag.
Their arrival at the Yellow Flag proved to be quite confusing as Mr. Chang waved Alana over and she sat beside him with Balalaika on the other side and Chang got right to the point. "Ms. Helsing, Balalaika and I held a meeting to determine how to replace Abrego and the best idea we could come up with was to ask you to take his place as leader of the Cartel. You don't have to, but, without the Cartel there are holes in our routes that need closing up, and with new leadership in the Cartel it could enable things to stay relatively peaceful here. Will you accept?"