To say it was a war was an understatement. It was a plain and simple firefight. The type of firefight you play in a fps game that gets your blood pumping and prepared to take on other gamers. But this is nothing like that. In a game, when you die, you respawn. But in the real world, you die, you stay dead. On my left was what was left of the assassin group known as Orchestra. The guy with the shades, blonde hair and shark like teeth firing the AK-47 was Shisho. The girl with him holding the riot shield and wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat was my target, Chinatsu. How those two met I know and it sickens me of how they came to be. Explaining it now would just be a waste, so I'll give a quick rundown. Shisho shoots up opera house which includes Chinatsu's parents. Rampage over, girl shoots him(not killing him), physco takes her in. That sums it up all in one note.
On the right was a young (and dare I say beautiful, white haired, blue eyed) weapons dealer, Koko Hekmatyar with three of her nine bodyguards. First one was Jonah, the new silver haired recruit of the group and her child soldier. Knowing how he became one is beyond me. Second was Valmet, a former soldier with long black hair and one eye. She was currently crawling towards Koko due to getting a bullet in the leg. Finally there was Lehm, the veteran of the group. He's what you expect. White hair, gruff face, and smoking a cigarette. He hadn't come out yet, guess he was waiting for the kid to charge in and try to take the psycho out. Probably to pull his ass out of the fire.

So here I am, on a rooftop overlooking the mess, hood over my head, guns in their holsters, and clips of ammo strapped onto my belt. My outfit consisted of a black hoodie, blue jeans, and a holster belt that holds four magazines. Of course, I also remember to put on my holster straps that held my two custom Twin Tools of Death. "Cold" and "Darkness" are a pair of Cavalier Deputy heavy semi-auto revolvers customized by myself, to suit my quick-drawing style better and fitted with light recoil compensation.

"Cold" is chromed with a walnut grips, and has a stiff, short trigger. I use it primarily for rapid firing and scaring lesser opponents away.

"Darkness" is black with a rosewood grips. It's fitted with a highly sensitive match trigger and a mounting rail, intended for use with small scopes or special sights for precision shooting.

Pulling the revolvers out, I placed two of my fingers in my mouth and whistled. The gunfire stopped as both groups turned their heads to see me standing right across from them.

"Is this a private party or can anyone join?" I shouted, the sound gunfire still fresh in my ears. But thanks to my years of warfare experience, gunfire hadn't had any affect on my ears.

Before anyone had the chance to reply, I raised my weapons and fired rapidly. Shisho immediately starts spraying bullets at me. Quickly, I jumped down from the roof, using parcor to reach the ground and to avoid the gunfire. I then quickly lunged towards Koko's group whose reaction was to point their guns at me. Before they had a chance to pull their triggers I quickly, but fluently, said, "Notwiththemwanttohelp."

Valmet was sketchy at first but she nodded towards her boss. From the corner I could see Lehm lower his weapon and just stare at me. Jonah was very hesitant and was close to blowing me to pieces, until Koko said, "Stand down Jonah."

The child soldier turned to his boss. "But what if he's-"

"As he said, he's not with them. We'll trust him for now." She interrupted. Her attention was then brought back on me. "May I ask who you are?"

A grin of mischief made it's way on my face as I got out of cover and shot the last few rounds at the two hitmen. They dodged it and got into a better position of fire. I ducked back down and emptied the spent rounds from the chamber.

"My name's Dante Price. Thought you might needed some help."

"And how do I know you aren't an assassin like those two?" She asked curiously.

"Because we wouldn't be having this conversation. Besides, I'm out of a job and need some work." I loaded another mag into each chamber. "Could this count as my initiation?"

Having a thoughtful look in her face, she smiled and said, "Let's see what you got."

"Gladly."

I took off running over the cover and got into a new one. Taking a breath, I popped up and shot off Cold. Surprisingly, I managed to hit Shisho in the leg, though it was only a flesh wound.

"Agh! Damn punk!" The shark toothed assassin yelled as he started spraying more bullets. "I'll make you pay for that!"

"Keep dreaming snaggletooth! I'm ending this concert!" I replied in a haughty.

Like the times before, I got up from my cover as my whole world came to a crawl. I quickly looked over my surroundings to see where I couldlay down heavy cover fire. My attention was then brought to loose bit of rubble near Chinatsu, just right under her feet. As time caught back up, I picked my target and shot directly at it. The shot hit as it bit of rubble as it ricocheted towards the girls leg, scrapping it. Shisho gave one last nasty look towards me and Koko's group as he spent the last of the AK ammo to keep us in cover. After chucking the gun, he took the girls hand and took off running. Quickly, I expelled the empty round from the chambers and replaced them with fresh ones. Raising Darkness, I took aim towards the fleeing assaulters direction and fired.

"GAH! SON OF A BITCH!"

The round went straight through Shisho's arm, leaving a bleeding wound as he and his assailant ran away.

Nodding with satisfaction, I holstered the revolvers and walked back over towards Koko's group who were tending to Valmet's wound. Lehm came from his position and spoke something into the headset the was wearing. As I got closer, Jonah raised his weapon at me as I raised my heads in defense.

"Easy kid, I'm on your side."

The silver haired soldiers eyes narrowed. "But you said you were an assassin."

"For hire," I corrected, "besides I have nothing against your boss. Just the people trying to kill her."

Jonah looked at me more intensely before putting his weapon at his side. "Fine. But if you do anything to her, I'll kill you."

"Fair enough."

Being able to approach, I went towards Valmet who looked at me cautiously.

"Easy. As I've stated before, if I wanted to kill you guys I would've done it already."

I knelt down and reached out towards her wound.

"May I?"

She nodded, and I immediately started working on the wound. First, I ripped the part of her pants that had the hole so I could have more work space. I then took a pair of pincers and placed them in the wound and started digging for the bullet. It took a second, but I found it and slowly pulled it out. I then grabbed a little disc from one of the pouches, and pressed the back of it. The front instantly grew hot as I looked up at Valmet and said, "This'll cauterize the wound. But it's going to hurt."

"Just shut up and do it." She replied in pained voice.

I placed the pad onto the wound as she grunted in pain. After a few seconds, I removed it and placed a disinfectant soaked pad over the wound and wrapped it with gauze.

After recollecting her thoughts, Valmet said, "Thanks."

"No problem."

A beeping noise emanating from my pocket the got my attention. Digging into it, I pulled out my phone and unlocked the screen. On it showed a map of the surrounding area and a red dot heading towards their location.

I swore under my breath as I then said, "Ms. Hekmatyar, you need to get out of here. Those two are coming back, and if you don't then consider yourself swiss cheese."
"Why is that?" The arms dealer asked.

"Because I placed a tracer on their vehicle and saw that they had a .50 caliber M2 Browning inside and I don't think it's for decoration."

It took a few seconds for the three bodyguards to digest, but Koko looked absolutely pissed off.

"WHAT?!"

"If we act now we can get somewhere were we can hold out until back up shows."

Koko then put a finger under chin. "And why should we trust you?"

"You don't have a reason not to, seeing as I saved your hides from being tanned."

The young arms dealer started pacing back and forth until Lehm asked, "Well Koko, what's your call?"

Stopping, Koko turned around with a smirk on her face and pointed at me. "You. How good are you?"

"I'm good enough to buy you enough time to get what you need into place."

Her smirk turned into a full blown smile as she clapped her hands together and said, "Right. Lehm. Take Valmet and rendezvous with the others. Jonah and Dante, you're with me."

Nodding, Lehm put the one eyed bodygaurd's arm around his shoulder and started walking towards the main road. Koko turned to me and Jonah and said, "Alright. Let's do it."