Chapter Nine:

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ROLAND'S POV

"Come on boss, you never take me anywhere" Pierce whines as I ride the elevator up. I agree to let him come just to shut him up. He leads me to his truck. Its pretty big and painted purple and white. I climb into the back and pierce starts the truck.

"Thanks for letting me come along this time." Pierce says. I look into the sky and see the helicopters start to pass overhead.

"Helicopters!" I tell him but he doesn't get it. He turns to look at me and says "I know boss were after the Samedi Helicopters." He says like I'm stating the obvious. I watch as they get further away. This is why I don't take him.

"Pierce! Helicopters!" I scream at him. He looks up and curses. He finally speeds up, trying to catch the helicopters. I open the tinted window and climb up to sit on the door and aim my new RPG into the sky. I look into the sights and follow the first helicopter until the lock on targets it. I pull the handle back and watch as the rocket connects with the helicopter and it explodes.

"Damn, boss!" Pierce says letting out a low whistle. I quickly lock onto the next helicopter and blow it out of the sky. I get lucky on the third and fourth. I fire as soon as the target has it locked and the third helicopter explodes and brings the fourth one down with it. I watch as the last two make a sharp turn and head out over the water. I hear pierce curse.

"Sorry, they got away boss" I narrow my eyes at him. Like hell they did. Again this is why I don't bring him. I climb out of the car and shoulder my RPG, and motion for him to follow. He takes the hint and follows me down to the docks. I quickly hot wire a boat and shove him into the drivers seat. He stares at me dumbfounded.

"GO!" I scream at him and stumble but stay upright as he slams the gas in a hurry to follow my orders. I wait until we get closer to the helicopters and fire my RPG once it's locked on. I quickly aim and take down the second helicopter.

"Where to now boss?" he asks almost timidly. "Back to the hide out." I say frowning down at him.

ASHLYNN'S POV

I get into the car with Shaundi and Carlos. Shaundi was asked to take inventory of our Loa Dust, so were headed to the warehouse to help her out. We pull up and she opens the door. We go in and begin the long boring job of counting the bags of dust. Soon the comfortable silence is broken by the squealing of tires. Carlos goes to the door to see what was happening, but before he gets there several people come running through the door.

I stare in shock. These people are dirty, and their clothes are ripped. I can see all their bones under their thin skin. Their eyes are bloodshot and they have a crazed look in their eyes. They are carrying homemade weapons and what looks like random objects that they picked up along the way. They don't attack us though, they head straight for the packages. I almost feel bad for them as we start to shoot them.

We quickly get rid of the crazed drug addicts in the warehouse. As we make our way outside we find a lot more. Carlos curses and he opens the back of a large truck. He begins to throw the drugs into the back of the truck. Shaundi and I follow suit while trying to keep the addicts at bay. When we have almost all the dust into the truck Shaundi jumps in and starts it up. Carlos finishes off the rest of the addicts except for two of them. They each take off running with a box. One of them makes a mad dash and is flattened by on coming cars. Carlos grabs that box and throws it into the truck and shuts the door. He pounds on the side of the truck to signal that were good to go and shaundi drives off.

I quickly get into the drivers seat and peel out after the truck. Carlos pulls out a gun and begins to fire at green cars. I notice that their Sons of Samedi. They are trying to ram into the sides of the truck. Carlos leans out the window and takes out the car behind us. I speed up and swerve to the right and slam into the back of a green car that was trying to run the truck off the road. The green car spins out and hits a tree. I slow down and pull back behind the truck.

We finally get back to the hide out. Carlos gets some saints to help unload the truck. He kisses me and says "That was some date, baby girl." I smile and kiss him back. "Stay away from the dust" He calls over my shoulder to shaundi who flips him the bird. I laugh and he kisses me once more as we head inside.