Yang Di's lair
Everything was dark.
Gabriel couldn't move his arms and legs: they were tied.
He couldn't see: he was blindfolded.
He couldn't talk: he was gagged.
He could only hear the noise of a car engine.
What was going on? Gabriel could explain. His mind was confusing and dizzy.
When it stopped someone cut the rope blocking his legs.
He walked a lot, he could hear a lot of footsteps.
When someone removed the bandage he could finally see everything.
He was in a luxurious palace. The floor was decorated with a red carpet. There were a lot of vases everywhere and walls were decorated with sheets with Chinese ideograms written on.
He started to have a bad feeling.
Was he kidnapped?
He tried to remember what happened. Thankfully he had the privilege to have a strong memory. He always trained his memory to memorize school lectures, poems and shopping lists.
Shopping, now he remembered.
He was doing shopping with his brother and his uncle in the mall.
He was carrying a lot of bags then he lost his uncle. He remembered he heard Giovanni's voice saying "Come here!". He followed the voice but ended up in a dead end. Then something hit his head.
He noticed a row of boys before and behind him. Turning his head he noticed his brother behind him. Danny seemed confusing just like him.
He was kidnapped, there was no doubt.
The kept walking for a while a Chinese guy was guiding the kids. They arrived in a room on the third floor. Three kids entered and never came out. Other three kids entered. When was Gabriel's turn he entered with Danny and a kid he never seen before.
He sawed the back of a guy wearing a green kimono. He was laughing for some reason. He turned his head. It was Yang Di, unmistakable due his long black hair and beard.
"Well, what we have here..." he said.
"Alberto Paguro, son of Sebastiano Paguro, owner of the Italian restaurant "Il Cantuccio"!" a man said.
"Thanks Zi Yu!"
Yang Di turned on a big screen with a big webcam.
After a while a man and a woman appeared on the screen.
"Mr. and Mrs. Paguro? I have your son!" he said showing the little brown haired kid with glasses.
"Please… free him, we can pay you with a big amount of money!"
Yang Di laughed.
"I don't want your money. Leave Canada, turn back to Italy and I'll send your son back to the airport!"
"No, I won't leave Canada!"
"You have to!"
"Or else?" the Italian guy said defiantly.
"You'll never see your son again!" Yang Di answered.
Sebastiano was quiet.
"All right, all right! We'll leave Canada, let's go Carla!"
"Wise choice!"
The screen turned off. The kid was carried away by a secondary exit.
"Another one done. Good. My father's plan is slowly getting real. Soon Little Italy and Corso Italy will be destroyed and Chinatown west will rise from its ashes! Ha ha ha ha!"
He turned his head.
"Who's next?"
"Danny and Gabriel Pastorelli!" the man answered.
"Where you found them?"
"At Sergio's the barber!"
The man's face seemed familiar to Gabriel.
"Hmmm… Pastorelli… you mean..."
"Yes sir, they are Giovanni Pastorelli's nephews! It was a fluke, if I didn't hid at Sergio's to escape police I wouldn't find them. Therefore Sergio presented them to the customers while I was reading the newspaper! So I could spy them and catch them when Giovanni wasn't watching at the mall!"
So now it's clear how they catched him and his brother. It was Sergio's fault but could Gabriel blame him?
"Excellent work Xiao Ping!"
"Now you can finally take your revenge. If we contact Giovanni right now we can force him to..."
Yang Di stopped his henchman.
"I have an amusing idea! Since they are the nephews if the guy who made my father go to jail I think we'll give them a special treatment! Take them to the arena. It's finally time to unleash Doomsday!"
Xiao Ping laughed.
"Yes sir!"
It was like a waiting room where the two kids were took.
In the room were some kidnapped kids. Gabriel recognized Alberto.
Gabriel could notice a window showing an arena with two guys fighting each other with martial arts.
"Don't worry it will be over soon!" a kid talked to him.
"Who are you?" Gabriel asked.
"My name's Matteo! They kidnapped me while I was assisting the world cup soccer match some days ago! I already heard everything! You're going to face Doomsday. You should consider yourself lucky, for some reason!"
"Why?" Danny asked.
"Because nobody knows who or what Doomsday is except Yang Di and some of his spies. It can be everything. A monster, a cyborg or else… all we know is Yang Di stole it from a secret laboratory few days ago! You'll be the first to find out!"
"Is it going to kill us?" Gabriel asked terrified.
"I don't think so, perhaps you will be just massacred by it so your uncle will be more persuaded to leave Canada!"
"That's terrible!"
"You bet!"
"But there's must be a way to escape!" Gabriel said.
"There's no escape here! They took your cellular phones and the place is full of guards. The only way to escape it's from above the arena. The arena has a glass ceiling but it's very hard to reach it!"
"Why the battle arena has a glass ceiling?" Gabriel asked intrigued.
"I heard the arena was supposed to be a chamber of torture during Ying Di's era. The unfortunate people were brought here in broad daylight and roasted by the sunlight. The glass in the ceiling enhanced the sun's rays and hit the unfortunate ones. That's why fights in the arena only happen during nighttime!"
The battle in the arena was over. A couple of men came to take the two kids to the arena.
"Good luck!" Matteo wished.
Before entering to the arena Gabriel and Danny received an armor, a closed helmet and a weapon. Danny received a cypress stick while Gabriel a pot lid.
The arena was full of people. They seemed eager to find out what Doomsday was.
Yang Di appeared sitting in the grandstand.
Gabriel could hear his voice;
"What a fine chance to test our latest weapon on a human beign!"
The big battle arena door slowly opened.
It was time to face Doomsday.
Huge footsteps noises could be heard.
Doomsday would have to be big.
Finally it appeared. But it wasn't a monster or a cyborg...