{ Underground Fight }
” If only she knows. If only she knows.” He kept repeating to himself.
♣ A CONFINEMENT ROOM ♣
Venom was strapped to a chair in the middle of the room. She was unconscious and bleeding and looking even more terrible, mostly because of her snake condition.
Foster and Midnight came into the room. Immediately she smelt their human blood, she awoke and started screeching loudly, trying to be free from the chair to bite their heads off.
” She looks even more terrible.” Foster said pitifully, shaking her head.
” Well, we can’t just leave her to die. She might be toxic, but she’s still a member of this clan. I can’t bare to watch us lose another member, we’ve lost so many in just a few months.” Midnight said.
” Really? But why? How do you all die so frequently?” Foster asked curiously.
” This empire is a tough empire. Sometimes we get killed by the bosses for little or heavy mistakes, sometimes we fight each other to death, sometimes we die while on missions. It seems like death is a regular thing for us now.” Midnight explained.
Foster went so sad, looking at the ground worriedly.
” I’ll kill you! I wanna bite your eyes off! Aaaaaarrrrgghh!!!” Venom shouted, struggling so crazily to get out of the chair.
” Should I send her to hell? Or what do you plan on doing with her?” Midnight asked Foster, but before she could reply, Sandy came in.
She looked down and rubbed her arm guiltily, biting her lower lip.
” I’m sorry… For accidentally killing your sister. I heard you just came into the empire some days ago.” Sandy muttered.
Foster smirked, which looked suspiscious. She then walked to Sandy and held her shoulders, and Sandy looked into her eyes.
” I’m so sorry, but that’s the main reason I came into this empire. To end you for killing my sister.” She said, chuckling sinisterly.
” But… I didn’t do it intentionally. I was controlled, so I had no idea that I even did it. I’m innocent!” Sandy tried defending herself.
” Never say that again. No one is innocent in this world, so accept it or leave it. You used your own hands to kill my sister, so I’m gonna end you, right now.” Foster spoke, looking like she really mant it.
She went to take a sword hanging on the wall of the room. She started going back to Sandy, but Midnight held her back.
” Don’t.” Midnight said.
” Just mind your own business. We’ve only known each other for days, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re friends.” Foster retorted, throwing off Midnight’s hand from her body before going to Sandy.
She reached Sandy and placed the sword on her neck. Sandy didn’t even bother to defend herself, she just stared at her with remorse. She really thinks she deserves the punishment.
She closed her eyes, then Foster mercilessly raised the sword to behead her. But before the sword could strike her, Treynor came out of nowhere and pushed her out of the way.
He hugged her from behind as they fell to the ground. They rolled over each other and stopped by the wall. Foster looked angry as she stared daggers at Treynor.
” How dare you hinder me from killing her? I was this close to chopping off her stupid hair!” She raged in anger, throwing the sword off.
Treynor stood and faced Foster with a deadly look, panting as well. Sandy was staring at him from the ground.
” If you wanna kill someone, at least do I if the person is guilty. She didn’t intentionally kill your sister, she was forced to do so.”
” And I don’t bloody care! She was the only one left as family for me, she fed and clothed me! And now she’s gone, all because of the stupid robot she created! I wanna end her!” Foster screamed, already at the verge of tears.
She broke down completely and started to cry, then collapsed on her knees sorrowfully.
Midnight went to comfort her, then Treynor helped Sandy to her feet. All of a sudden, they heard a terrifying hide and turned to see Venom breaking out of the chair. All the chains that held her down broke off, and she stood, hissing loudly.
They immediately stepped back from her to protect themselves. She went down on all fours like an animal, looking for who to attack first.
” I’m… Hungry… So hungry…” She muttered, rolling her eyes around crazily.
” Füçk, I can’t do this anymore. Foster, we need to kill her, we can’t save her anymore. If we don’t end her, she’ll eat us all alive.” Midnight said.
Foster bravely took the sword from the ground and volunteered herself to fight Venom. She walked to kill her, but Venom was faster and tore a part of her face with her nails.
Foster went down easily, and the sword rolled out of her hand. She wriggled on the ground in agony as Venom opened her mouth wide, ready to devour her.
” Foster, no!” Sandy shouted, running to save her.
Before Venom’s mouth could touch her, Sandy already got there and placed her arm to protect Foster. Instead of Easter, she bit the arm instead, but Sandy felt no pain.
Treynor grabbed the sword and chopped Venom’s head off. Her head dropped from Sandy’s arm, but her venom had started to attack her system. The green saliva was spreading in her arm.
Midnight quickly came to carry Foster to get some treatment as well. Treynor stayed behind when he noticed Sandy’s arm.
” Sandy… You got bit. Your arm looks strange.” He said in concern and tried touching the arm, but she pulled it away from his reach.
” I promise that I’m fine. I have to go check is Foster is okay too.” She said, running out of the room.
Treynor bit his lip, looking down. He saved her from getting killed by Foster, but she doesn’t seem to care about him much. He feels like an intruder in her life.
Intruder or not, he loves her with his whole heart. He’s gonna protect her at all costs, to the extent of dying for her. He’ll do anything just to get her attention.
He left the room.
♣ HALLWAY ♣
The hallway was normally busy. There was no noise as the floor mafiosos passed by every second, which was unlike before. The hallway was usually noisy and lively before.
Storm was busy smoking in a part of the hallway by himself when Eagle came to meet him.
” So this is when you come to chill out everytime when I’m looking for you? I’m beginning to get tired of searching for you all the time.” Eagle said.
Storm ignored him and kept smoking like he didn’t even exist.
” Am I talking to a ghost or something? Why aren’t you replying me? Haven’t you heard all what’s going on in the empire? Bossbaby and Bomb were caught sleeping together, so Bosslady sent them away. Why aren’t you caring to listen!” Eagle spoke all at once and started shaking Storm.
Storm lost his cool, then he suddenly grabbed Eagle and threw him far across the hallway. He landed with a great thud on his back while Storm panted and glared deadly at him.
” If you still wanna live… Don’t Füçkin’ touch me, or I’ll kill you.” He warned temperamentally, then he left.
Eagle stood up, holding the lower part of his back with pain as he was barely able to walk.
” Füçkin’ son of a Bîtch. Does he think he’s suddenly better than everyone? Or why is he being a d_1ck?” Eagle asked himself.
He suddenly gave up standing and collapsed, sitting by the wall. A leg got placed on his chest from nowhere, and he cried out painfully.
” Agony… Stop stepping on my chest! I can’t breathe!” Eagle weased breathlessly.
” What were you doing with Foster in Lucas cemetery?” Agony asked with a cold voice.
” I only came to visit Easter’s grave so that she wouldn’t feel lonely! I didn’t even know that Foster was right behind me!” Eagle explained, coughing.
” Then why did you grab her hand? Why did you touch her?” Agony asked like a psycho.
Eagle got tired of the interrogation and grabbed Agony’s leg, flipping him upside down. Agony landed on his feet, then Eagle stood up.
” Why would you care if I was holding her? Are you her boyfriend or something?” Eagle replied adamantly.
” If you were visiting Easter’s grave, you should’ve at last not touched her twin. She’s the only thing left as a reminder of Easter, so don’t dare touch her next time, or I’ll literally fry you alive.” Agony vowed seriously, then he stormed off.
Eagle stared dumbfoundedly at him as he left. He suddenly started laughing, an insane type of laughter that’ll creep anyone out.
” Did he just threaten me? Did he just say all that to me?” Eagle spoke amidst his insane laughter.
♣ BARBIE’S ROOM ♣
Barbie had already packed all her things to leave the empire for good. She stepped out of the room with two travelling bags behind her, and they continued to roll after her as she walked away.
Her arm got grabbed from behind, which made her drop the bags to turn back, and she saw Bomb.
He caged her soft hand in both of his palms, looking at her affectionately and scaredly.
” Barbie, I don’t want to be apart from you. Wherever you’re going, please the me with you and let’s stay together. I can’t imagine not being with you. I get that I deserve to even get killed for what I did to you, but please forgive me. Find a place in your heart to forgive my misdeeds. I’m sorry.” He apologized whole-heartedly.
Despite his heart-moving please, Barbie didn’t accept it and threw off his hand coldly. She grabbed the travelling bags and started to leave again, but he hugged her from behind.
” Please… Don’t leave me. I’m sorry for everything! I’ll do anything for you to forgive me!” He shouted passionately, his voice sounding like he was actually crying. Barbie couldn’t help but stay still with a blank look.
Bomb sniffed and tightened hid arms around her, not daring to let go.
” I can’t forgive you… Bomb. You literally destroyed me and my reputation. You’ve destroyed my life.” Barbie voiced out her first words, and tears fell from her eyes.
The burden was too heavy for her heart to carry alone. She has been holding in her feelings for so long, but she couldn’t hold them in any longer. She let her tears flow freely and sobbed heavily.
” I’m sorry. Please… Don’t go away from me. We can leave the empire together. Please, take me with you.” Bomb begged like a baby as their crying mixed together.
Barbie brought her hands to his arms. He smiled on feeling her touch, thinking that she has accepted his pleas, but he was very wrong. She slowly started to pull his arms away instead.
His eyes widened, then he quickly hugged her more tightly than before. It became impossible to free herself from him.
She stated to pant insanely with tears on her face. She screamed and grabbed a knife from her hair, sinking it into his arm.
He let go of her forcefully and fell beside her bags, then she grabbed them and walked off swiftly before he could catch up.
” Barbie! Barbie, I’m sorry!” Bomb screamed at the top of his lungs, but she never even looked back. She left his sight for good.
Bomb turned on the ground, sobbing regretfully as the knife remained stuck in his arm.
♣ AFTERNOON ∞ FISH MARKET ♣
Sylvia and Shadow already left the empire and we’re now roaming in the crowdy market. Sylvia had her mask on and left her hair exposed.
They were actually searching for two of Thorn’s mafiosos. She planted a spy in his clan to keep an eye on Thorn’s ever move, then he told her that two of his floor members are going to be selling hard drugs to one of his rich customers, and the meeting will take place in the fish market.
They’ve searched high and low, but there was still no sign of the mafiosos. Shadow was beginning to give up, but Sylvia was extremely determined.
” Are you sure your spy didn’t trick us? This is literally the only fish market in this town, and it’s not wider than a mansion. We’ve searched everywhere already.” Shadow informed tiredly.
” Then there’s a spot that we have definitely not reached.” Sylvia replied.
She started looking around on a spot with her eyes, until she found a strangely narrow space between two houses.
” How come I didn’t spot that place on time?” She asked herself, but Shadow heard her.
” What place are you talking about?” He asked, but she grabbed him instead and pulled him to the space.
She forced him to squeeze himself through, then she entered the space as well. They could barely move in there as the space was choked.
Shadow looked at her with a questioning and confused look.
” What is this? Did you suddenly get brainwashed? This looks stupid!” He retorted.
Sylvia ignored him and looked around sharply for any suspicious things. She found a brick that was slightly pushed out of the wall beside her and pushed it back in.
Immediately she did that, the ground below them rumbled. It opened up, and the two fell in screaming, then the ground closed back up like nothing happened.
They both landed roughly in an underground room, where the meeting was taking place. They found the two mafiosos, the rich client and his numerous bodyguards.
The bodyguards instantly surrounded them, ready to attack if they did anything silly. Sylvia and Shadow stood back to back, ready to fight back.
” Who the hell are you people? And how did you find this secret room? I thought I and Thorn were the only ones who knew about this place!” The rich Chief (Chief Soleh) fired at them, worried about his safety.
” You’ll soon get to know more about that, after we end you.” Sylvia growled.
” Guards, take care of them.” Chief Soleh ordered, and immediately escaped with the two mafiosos through another exit.
Sylvia impossibly and speedily shot down many of the guards at once. That gave her a little space to run, and she quickly followed the exit out to prevent them from escaping.
Shadow as left to face three strong and giant bodyguards all by himself. They looked impossible to beat up, but instead of escaping like Sylvia, he smiled.
” The bigger they are, the louder they cry.” He spoke mockingly.
One of the guards grabbed Shadow by the neck. He tried twisting it, but Shadow freed himself skillfully and grabbed his hand.
Shadow squeezed hell out of that hand, crushing all the bones in it. The bones could be heard cracking as Shadow also began bending each of his fingers to the wrong directions.
” Help! Füçk!” The guard shouted as his fingers broke and started to spill out blood.
Shadow left him in pain, then the second bodyguard came and tried to cut off his head with a sword. Shadow jumped really high, and the sword missed him, passing under his legs.
He landed back, then grabbed the guard’s nose and punched it. His nose broke, and it started to bleed immediately.
Shadow snatched his sword. Before the guard could react, he sliced his head off. His body fell heavily, and his head rolled off with the eyes still open.
It stopped at the feet of the third guard. Shadow smiled devilishly, spinning the sword in his arm. The guard surprised Shadow by bringing out two swords.
Shadow gave him a deadly gaze, then the guard instantly rushed to him and tried stabbing him.
Shadow dodged and did a backflip, landing in another part of the room. The guard panted, turning to him with a scary look.
Shadow smirked, just to annoy him. He then made a hand signal for the guard to come, causing the guard to shout energetically and rush at him again.
He tried using a sword to cut him, but Shadow blocked it with his sword. He then tried using the second to attack him, but Shadow bent down. He missed, so the sword came directly for his hand.
It got cut off and fell to the ground together with the sword it held. The guard screamed in agony, falling to his knees.
Shadow smirked victoriously, walking to him proudly. He then put his sword under his chin and raised it up like that, staring directly into his eyes. The guard breathed uneasily as he waited patiently for his death.
” I won’t kill you. Get up and fight me like a champ, let’s dance.” Shadow said, and the guard stared at him unbelievably.
TBC. To Be Continued.
