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I slept like a baby, you were there, I awoke to your hands in my hair ... and a smile to kill for. There was a light sprinkle, we were in a field of tall grass ... the clouds grey and the warmth fading. You said to me "I've thought of you again ... how cruel is that? I've given up in general, but yet ... you torture me still." I responded with, It's only torture because you make it ... you're the whip bearer ... self-flagellation. "Maybe ... it's so hard ... I'm not strong enough ... I'm a failure, and it's hard to escape that fact when everyone and everything echos those words to me ... failure ... weak ... loser fuck up." I raised my hand up towards your face, and caressed your cheek, you leaned into it, and I then saw that poker face ... break down. Take the first step for me, and I promise to grab your hands and guide you into a loving salsa dance. You closed your eyes ... leaned your lips into my palm and kissed it deeply, while those heavy and rough burdens released their weight just a little ... in the form of truly light and soft tears.

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xxxv.s: The Red, “shame.” ... I don't even have to look back to hear *sprint* *Sprint* *SPRINT* HE'S GONNA CATCH US! “NOT IF WE JUMP!!!” FUCKING WHAAAAAT “A brilliant thought as always … POOFED Into my head last second … we … *JUMP* Off … of … the building … time slowed, and as we jumped, I turned to face Wrath … smile big and wide … glasses gleaming with his big stupid reflection … I raised both my hands up slowly … then … double shot the bird … time sped back up, and we fell like normal *fzz* I switched places back with Red” W-WHA WOAHHHH. “NOOOOO!!!! They disappeared down below through a Smog so thick … once they hit it … it practically consumed them. SALEM!!!!!! … I get another head flair … and against what I'd like to do … rush off … back … to The Cazbium.” My vision … was blurry and fading by the second … my everything … hurt like hell … I blasted through the street I think, and now … was laying in the rubble below inside a sewer way … looking up through the hole I made at the white and dark smog … lying on my back … i let out a small *groan* and coughed *splat* blood came blurting out … my internal organs … certainly crushed from the fall … my ego … dead on arrival. I feel … little droplets of water hit my face again … rain … my vision fades and fades as I struggled to keep my eyes open … when then … I heard footsteps come from above me down the sewer way that got louder and louder … until *step* *step* a face peered slowly into view … it was a Shard … except … he had glowing purple eyes, I raised my head up a bit in a dizzy fashion … he opened up with. “h-hey … that was quite the impact, are you … gonna be ok?” thin … so ho oh … my head spun and spun. “Well … I'm here to help you! I work with The Resistance … I work with Hope, he sent me here to get you and bring you back to our camp! … they call me … Arsène Lupin … or well … most just call me … Lupin. Welcome Home Red!” My head got progressively dizzier, the room was spinning harder than a bottle deep … I let out an unintelligible set of words. Splah blorin gob gob … *SMACK* My head fell, hitting the concrete rubble I layed on Hard! … my vision went completely black … and the last thing I remember … was feeling my fuckin soul leave my body, I watched myself from above as I drifted off towards the sky! … I seen Lupin grab my wrists … and pull my body deeper into the sewer.

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xxxv.r: The Red, “DON’T GET COCKY!!” ... HE DASHED FAST AS LIGHT TO MY SIDE AND THREW A PUNCH!! *CRACK* AS I FLEW HE HI- *CRACK* *CRACK* HE Sent me FLYING UP Into the air again. “I JUMPED TO MEET HIM, STRIKING QUICK” *CRACK* I was launched miles crashing down on another Mega Building’s Top, I slid and slid, managing to catch myself and prop myself back up, pre- *CRACK* “I Send him FLYING!! AGAIN” I blast through some concrete building partly, stopping in the center … another office space. I go to get up, and before I even get the chance to fully stand. *Step* *STEP* *SNATCH* MY WRIST WAS GRABBED AND I WAS LIFTED UP *SLAM* *SLAM* *SLAM* *WOOSH* I GET TOSSED *BOOM* “I SLAMMED His body over and over, then sent him Blasting Through the wall … where he lands a top another building … and catches himself again, this time perfectly readying his stance looking right at me; Which Fucking Pisses Me Off!! I ready Carrion like it was a Javelin … take a few steps back and *step* *Step* *STEP* *FLING* I THROW CARRION DEAD AT HIM!!” HNNNGAHH *CLANG* I DEFLECT IT!!! HOW DO YO- “EXPLOSION” *BOOOM* Carrion Suddenly DETONATES!!! Blasting me into the side wall, sending up dust to mask me. *Woosh* “I jump across to the building ahead … and walk towards him. Red! … you're capable … but NOT!! … Enough … at least I … the world goes a little blurry and here this high pitch noise start to ring in my head. Agh … Fuck … I've been out here too long! AAAHHH FINE. I twirl Carrion around to ready it. LET'S END THIS ALREADY!!. I REEL BACK … THEN *FWOOM* Send Carrion FLYING towards Red through the plume of smoke and … EXPLOSION!!! … A large explosion goes off in the depths of the Smoke, erupting a Huge! Fireball… Then … Out of the smoke at lighting speeds was … RE- NO NO IT WA- *STAB*” “SALEM BITCH!! I switch places with Red, my body on the outside … his mind on the Inside, call it … Emergency Action! Red Horns Gleaming Tall and Proud, Red circular glassed golden framed glasses, White Dress Shirt tucked, Black Jeans and of course … Calf High Black Boots to Finish … my Ashen Hair shining and blowing with the Wind! I used Carrion’s Explosion to LAUNCH us out of the smoke and into big idiots direction … I had turned myself mid flight to point head first at him … making sure to look towards the ground keeping my head as straight as possible … to use My Horns as Weapons … like a mini Salem Missile. The plan goes off without a hitch! I pierced the chest of Wrath Sending us both TUMBLING BACK With my momentum … we tumbled and tumbled, still stuck in his chest, I feel his boots press against my chest and” “NNNAAAAHHHH *KICK*” “I GO FLYING!!! Catching myself as I fell, feet sliding across the gravel, but I didn't go to stop myself No! … I turned mid catch and used that fucking moment to GODDAMN BOLT!!!! *SPRINT* *SPRINT* *SPRINT* AHHHAAAAA SEE YAH SMOOSER!!! NICE CHATTING BUT I'VE GOT PLACES TO GAMBLE AND BITCHES TO GREET, TOODLES!!!” WAIT WHAT!! SALEM GO BACK HE WAS ON THE DEFENSIVE WE GOT HIM! “WE!!! Did NOT Have him on the DEFENSIVE!! … I!!! SAVED OUR ASS AND NOW … WE … Are LEAVING!!!” WHAT!? “I turn around to see if he's chasing us … AND OH SHIT HE'S REALLY RUNNING!!! AHAAAA SHIT SHIT” SALEM!!! HE IS GONNA KILL US!!! HE'S GONNA KILL US!!! “SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT … UP!!! I gotta Think!!! … CAN YOU FLY!?” WHAT!!! OF COURSE NOT!? “Hmmm WELL LOOK AT YOU BEING UNHELPFUL” HUH!? “Hmm no … that won’t work, and well hmm no no, too reckless. I turn back again … He's even closer” SALEM!! Now! … OR FUCKIN DEAD!!! “Cary the Y add the two … *tsch* still not an option damn, so much research and development on that one … shame.” [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.r: The Red, “fucking theatric.” SHUT YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH, YOUR LAST DAY IS TODAY … And I’M GONNA BE THE LAST THING YOU EVER SEE!!! *DASH* “HE WAS QUICK, SPRINTING TOWARDS ME FROM THE RIGHT SIDE, Before I even really had the chance to see him, he was already so close! I raised up Carrion for a preventive block *CLANG* I manage it, I push him back a great swing” As soon as my feet touch the ground from the swing … I *DASH* AGAIN!! Making quick ground once more! This time to his left, he goes for another block, but I FEINT!!! Crouching down beneath him, pushing past his guard and sending another furious strike straight to his gut *FWOOM* “AACCKKK!!! THE FORCE WAS INCREDIBLE!!! As I fly through the Air I SEE HIM AGAI-” *FWOOM* Another Gut SHOT!!! This time sending him downward FAST *SLAM* *BOOM* *Boom* blasting through the floor and the one below that. “AGH!!!” *Screams* “I look around me … I was sitting on top of a smashed cubicle … I go to stand up … noticing I had some blood on the back of my pants. What the fuck? Where di- Oh … I crushed a poor Shard when I smashed through the ceiling. Mmm … sorry pal … wrong place wrong time.” nnnNNNGGGAAAHHH I CAME RUSHING DOWN THE FLOORS WITH A STRIKE READY. DIE ALREADY YOU SALTY FUCKIN PRICK LET THIS KILL YOU ALR- *SNATCH* He Grabbed! Me straight out of the air as I fell. “Enough Games! I tossed him into the air and SWUNG CARRION WITH A WIDE SWEEP *CLANG*” I managed to Block his ATTACK!!! BUT THE FORCE SENT ME *BOOM* *Boom* *boom* “Crashing through the walls and buildings he went … I rushed after him. When I got to where he clearly landed, he was gone … oh come the fuck on! ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GONNA RUN FRO-” *SHOOM* “HHHHNGGG *CLANG* HE RUSHED FROM MY SIDE THROWING A SWING WITH HIS BLADE THAT I JUST MANAGE TO BLOCK, *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* FFFFUCK YOU!!!” HE BLOCKED ALL MY ATTACKS THEN RETURNED WITH A SET OF HIS OWN *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* So Fuckin MANY AT ONCE He Twirls and Strikes with Carrion all at the same time!! *CLANG* *CLANG* I *DASH* DOWN THEN SWEEP HIS LEGS *FOOSH* Then send a Strike DOWN AGAIN!! *SLASH* … I cut him … and boy was it a good one. He immediately counters, catching himself as he fell sending a wide sweeping attack with Carrion that a *DASH* Just Narrowly! Out of the wa- *CRACK* “I deliver an unpredictable uppercut” *BOOM* *Boom* The strike blasted me straight back up through the ceilings and landed right back on the roof … I land on my back, *SLAMMING* It hard against the gravel top. *Woosh* *Step* *step* “Think you're hot shit now huh?” I go to stand quick! Ready my weapon and my stance … facing him. Fuck You! Pretty bad cut you got there! How'd that happen huh? How's about you get your ass over here and let me remove all the pain with a swift strike to your neck Bitch! “I grab my wound on my stomach … blood covers my hand … I raise my hand up and off to the side as to flick the blood away *Splash* Oh? Is that what's gonna happen now?” What!? Feelin a little sca- *Swoosh* “DON’T GET COCKY!!” ... [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.q: The Red, “lowered … Carrion” ... “Shock … washed over my face. No … it cannot be true, not like this … he’s … NO!!!. I started to feel this Wrath! Boil in the depths of my heart … You! … YOU CAN’T DIE LIKE THIS!!! YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T!!!!! *Breath In* *Breath In* *Breath Out* *Breath In* *Breath Out* *Breath In* *Breath Out* YOU OWE ME!!! YOU TOOK IT ALL FROM ME!!! YOU STOLE MY FUTURE AWAY!! … WE … HAD … IT … ALLLLL!!!! My face scrunched and my eyes were … filling with tears. ALL I WANTED WAS A FINAL FUCKING GOODBYE DAMNIT!!!! YOU CAN’T DO THIS, IT’S NOT FUCKING FAIR!!! HOW CAN YOU BE SO … AHHHHHHGHHHH … I HATE YOU!!! YOU ARE EVERYTHING I’M NOT, YOU’RE MY PURE OPPOSITE!!! YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A FUCKING FAULTY FAKER!!! *Breath In* *Breath In* *Breath Out* *Breath In* *Breath Out* *Breath In* *Breath Out* THIS … IS … ALL … I’VE EVER!!!!!! … WANTED!!!!! … And you … you … steal it from me one last time. With tears flooding from my eyes … and anger boiling to a point of no return … I clenched my fists so hard blood started to pool from my hands … I clenched my teeth so hard, I swear they started to crack, my face scrunched up so much my eyes were closed shut … my head shook in pure rage. Then … I lashed out with a scream, opening my eyes, and flaring my teeth wide and large … Are Youuuu Really Gonna Leave Me In This WORLD!!!! … ALLLLLL ALONEEEE!!!!!” nnnNNNNGGGAAAAHHHHHHH *PLUME* “Then … out of the flames … out of those burning flames … I witnessed … something unimaginable.” Sword clenched in both hands, high above my head … it was time for MY, OVERHEAD STRIKE!!! I Came Crashing down FAST!!! AND WITH FORCE!!! Wrath noticed this, turning the hilt of Carrion wide, as to block my strike … *CLANG* … He clenched his teeth as my strike was strong. “I BLOCK HIS ATTACK!! It was so strong, and fast … but that was not craziest part. HAHAHAHAHAAAA HOW FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!!!! YOU … YOU MANAGED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH ANOTHER ONE OF MY FUCKING LACKEYS!!!! WHAT A FUC- *SHOOM* Then IN AN INSTANT!!! … He went from being blocked by Carrion, to the other side of the hilt … right … in front of me, before I even had the opportunity to react, my eyes slowly able to move and just as I am able to focus on his new position he *SSSLAM!!* HIS FIST WAS CLEAN AGAINST THE SIDE OF MY FACE AN-” *FWOOM* I felt light … I felt strong … I felt … like the world was mine to take again, I sent Wrath FLYING crashing back Through a few buildings!! *BOOM* *Boom* *boom* Plumes of smoke and dust shot out of each and every one of them … I DASHED IN HIS DIRECTION TO MEET HIM “no No NO RED!!! GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF WE GOTTA GE-” SHUT UP!!! WE’RE GONNA FUCKIN END THIS FOOL!!! RIGHT HERE … RIGHT FUCKING NOW!! *DASH* *DASH* *DASH*. “My head … it was bleeding? … I layed bashed into a wall … my body … sore … I once again pull myself from the rubble and call forth Carrion. Ha … haha … how … is this even possible … how can you take from me, this much … and get away with it all. *Clench* hhhhhnnngg I feel a fucking encore. I twirl Carrion around, as I see … that fucking fake jump up to the building I was on. SO!!!! You’ve found Rage … and in that fiery pit no less … should have figured you wouldn’t have died that easily … but could you blame me? It just seemed all to believable right up to the end … fucking theatric.” ... [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.p: The Red, Come on Come On COME ON!!! BODY MOVE!!! Wrath crouched down a bit … put one foot in front of the other and … *JOLT* … he rushed towards me … Fast! … COME ON!!! MOVE, MOVE PLEASE MOVE I NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER!!! PLEASEEEEE!!! He LEAPED Into the air … raising the weapon hight above his head … to once again deliver a devastating overhead strike with the wide axe blade facing me dead on … there was no escaping now … it was … too late. Time I fear … started to slow to an almost stop once again, Wrath was up in the air now, pulling the weapon down as to send the blade on its descent into my fuckin head … I slowly raised my right arm and hand up, opening it wide as to try and shield myself from the attack … as if that would do any good at all. Then I heard his voice again … off into the distance somewhere … no … behind Wrath sitting on the ledge of the building looking away … that golden figure … Hope. “Out of all possibilities … I would have never guessed this would have been one of them … especially after … *sigh* … suppose there are still things I can’t even fully see, nor comprehend … fascinating isn’t it … Red?” WRATH CAME CLOSER AND CLOSER THE BLADE WAS … … … A white line … formed vertically in front of my hand that was up in front of my face … it split … and as it did … a rusty iron rod formed, at the bottom a rusty iron pommel … and as the top expanded out … it revealed … a rusty … iron … blade. It fully formed revealing a rusty broadsword … one … I hadn’t seen in so long. My eyes widened looking at the sword as I realized what it was … then I called out … Sword Fish!!! … Carrion’s axe head came closer and closer, then … it lightly came in contact with the blade of Sword Fish … a Bright! White light formed where they had made contact and then … *FA-WOOMP* *BOOOOOM* AN EXPLOSION!!! The blast sent Me and Wrath FLYING In opposite directions! Then I- *SLAM* *BOOM* … things went blank … there was fire … everywhere … I was laying on the ground in some building … my strength had all but gone … this wa- *step* huh? a large boot step came from above me *step* *step* I turn my head up and see … a pair of legs, in black jeans dark red shirt with some kind of gore graphic on it … and then … a face. “No … fucking … way.” He crossed his arms and looked at me with this deep hatred in his eyes … then leaned down and placed his hands on my shoulders and said “*tsch* only reason I’m helping you … is because I fucking HATE that prick out there … I’ve got a score to settle … so better not fuckin die.” ra- ra-. A bright Red Light flashed and my vision went dark … … … “Agh … I could feel my head pound … what the fuck happened? … I look around, I was blasted into the side of the building across from the one Me and Red were standing on.” *rumble* *Crack!* “AGH … A piece of rubble from the smashed wall I was in fell and cracked against my head … I push myself out of Me sized crater in the wall, and land back on the building we were on. What the fuck was that!? Carrion was gone, blasted away somewhere, I raised my hand out again, and *fzz* it appeared back into my hand, I spun it around my hand once over, then clench it tight, as I walked closer and closer to … a hole in the building that was opposite of Red … the one he blasted into from the looks of it … but … his building … was … on fire … burning in a large inferno, flames shooting out of the hole large and fervently … as I got closer and closer, the heat of the flames were just … So Intense … I raised my hand to my face because it was so bright … and then … it dawned on me … I lowered my hand … lowered … Carrion.” [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.o: The Red, “ignored and forgotten.” ... *step*.*step* … *step* “I don’t know what you’re doing … or what the fuck you two are talking about in that little head of yours” Shock filled my face as he said that, now also being about thirty or so feet away from me, standing near the side of the building. “What … did you seriously think I somehow missed that fucking spectacle the night you absorbed Salem … the deal-making Renegade Shard? … please … save me your idiocies, and let your memory stay somewhat non-laughable.” my memory … you say that like we have some kind of fond history. “Save it … you and I were spearheads to a world unready for US!! … but now look at us … two halves of a larger whole, separated by your goddamn inability to work with others you Fucking shut-in, so easily manipulated by MY shed DEAD WEIGHT!!! … that you just so happen to make some kind of shitty deal with … you hear me in there Salem … that is all you were, and all you’ll ever be … dead weight … tossed in a sewer by none other than me … another lowly part of me that should have died where I left you … forever forgotten. Red … I will offer you this … one … more … time … come with me, back to The Cazbium and together we can bring this whole dreadful Insidious City … TO … IT’S … KNEEEEEEEEES!!!!.” I don’t want to bring it to it’s knees … I walked from The Sea through The Forest and The Desert ALL THE WAY HERE … to fix … this shithole. “WHY!!! WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS!? WHY CAN’T YOU SEE THE LOOP!! WHY CAN’T YOU SEE THIS WILL NEVER END THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS THAT’S NOT HOW IT WILL … EVER!!!! …. WORK!!!! … You are just an INSUFFERABLE IDIOT!!!! … A Fucking … failure … *tsch* I wanted to return to the golden days … one … last … time … before I finally said goodbye to this unforgiving world … before my forever sleep was earned … *sigh* but I see … I see now … you’re not like me … You were NEVER!!! … … Like me.” we stood staring at each other for a moment … … … Wrath raised his left hand out straight to his side with his hand open as to grab something … then … a crimson line appeared before his hand and stretched wide. “It’s over Red … It’s time … I ended this.” the crimson line started to move, it split into two actually, one going up, the other down … and as they separated, a quartz white rod, gilded in gold and bright red almost river like fissures, formed in their place. It grew and grew until it became a long pole, at the bottom, it formed a sharp almost golden spear-like base … at the top … it spread out to an elegant and complex-looking golden axe head, one side wide and clearly made for chopping shit in half … the other side of the head being a pointed almost penetrative armor piercing side … and on top of the axe head … another golden like spear, but this one longer than the bottom. The crimson lines dissipated as they reached the top and bottom of this … weapon … Wrath clenched his hand and held the weapon tightly. “This … is a legacy I’ve held onto … one gifted to me before the great collapse … by the us that was once one … the legacy weapon, and judgment maker … Halberd Carrion” I looked in awe … it was … amazing … and terrifying all at the same time. “This is it Red … NOW or Never! … you get slashed by that thing and we are both as good as dead, You Understand Me!? GET UP” He readied his stance, grabbing the weapon with both hands, placing his other hand lower as to get a firm and strong grip on the weapon. “COME ON RED!!! GET THOSE FUCKIN LEGS UP WE GOTTA RUN DAMN IT!!! RUN RUN” I try to move my legs … but they were just so slow to act … I couldn’t Move!! I was still in shock a little from the ass-beating I had been handed by Wrath. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.n: The Red, splashing it all over my pants. I heard Salem cry out to me in a faint almost distant voice “HEY HEY!!! Wake Up!!!” … “*DING DING* TIME TO GET UP NOW!!!” … *breath* “COME ON RED!! … You can’t die here!!! NOT LIKE THIS.” My eyes slowly opened, it was blurry and my head hurt like hell and was ringing in and out like a grand bell resonating … I could see the bloody drool drip from my mouth. Ahhhh … fuck *spit*. My vision began to clear and my head lift up to see … him … again … walking towards me. “Slowly I approached the corpse of a Shade. If you just stayed asleep down in the depths … all of this … could have been avoided … but no … once more you must make the world and our journey so … so … hard. I stood above him, he raised his bloody and bruised head to see me, I leaned down and once again … clasped him by the throat. I held him to eye level, and reeled my fist back. This … is all your fault. I sent my fist flying towards his face *BASH* Back then … you and me we could’ve kept going! … but you … were weak … were soft *BASH* It Was You! … You FORCED Me To Fling You From THE STORM!! *BASH* IF YOU JUST … STAYED IN YOUR LANE AND LET ME DO AS I PLEASED!! *BASH* WE COULD HAVE STILL STAYED TOGETHER AND RULED AS ONE!!!! *BASH* *BASH* *BASH* *BASH* AHHHHHH *BASH* I had hit him so hard, he went flying across to a building across from us, sliding against the top, coming to a stop near the center, I jumped over.” My face … was so numb with pain I could hardly think any longer … I layed there back against the ground fully sprawled out, as if I was doing a cartwheel laying down, with each limp stretched outward in an X formation … looking up towards a once again blurry and fading sky … the clouds were of a salt and pepper color … I could feel a light sprinkle rain down and gently meet my face. Then once more … I could hear him. “RED RED!!! COME ON COME ON!!! … You’ve gotta wake from this forced slumber You HEAR ME!! … We cannot stand here and just wait for him to approach … we must run … We Must Run … WE MUST RUN!!!!” In a gravel hoarse voice I replied … I can’t … I wanted to do so much more, make so much more … but what is there to do in a situation like this huh? … we’ve lost don’t you see … we were just living in a fantasy … this whole time holding out for something that was never real … life is this way Salem … you know it better than anyone, so why pretend any longer? It’s time … to shut the brights off and coast into the dark. “NO!!! YOU CAN’T WE CANNOT JUST DIE LIKE THIS TO THE LIKES OF HIM!!! WE HAVE TO GET UP … You made … a promise to me … a deal.” *Heartbeat* AGH … I felt my heart hurt like never before, a strong palpation, I grab my chest. “Do you really wanna submit to this Clown!?!? ARE YOU GONNA LET HIM DICTATE WHO YOU ARE!?!?” My eyes widen a bit … I lean forward and up to a hunch. It’s not like I want him to … I wanna be the painter on the canvas, and show the world my beautiful masterpiece … but what am I to do agai- “Come ON!! What kind of Shit are you spewing!! WE … HAVE … NO OPPOSITION IN THIS WORLD … how have you forgotten that.” *Heartbeat* AGH “Crown” “We don’t wait … we don’t give … we DO as we please!!! … and others follow … as it is supposed to beee … and … if … they … don’t … they get … ignored and forgotten.” ... [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.m: The Red, I could hear as he got closer and closer with every passing moment. “EACH STEP I TOOK BROUGHT ME CLOSER AND CLOSER … NNNAHHHH REDDDDD!!! DON’T MAKE THIS HARDER THAN THIS HAS TO BE YOU FUCK!!!! … I close in closer and closer as I could See THE BACK OF HIS FUCKING. WHEN I GET YOU I’M GONNA FUCKING CRUSH THAT STUPID SKULL OF YOURSSSSS!!!” HEY FUCK OFF!!! I’VE HAD A LONG ENOUGH WEEK AS IT IS!!!! I … DO … NOT!!! NEED YOU ON TOP OF IT ALL. “I rushed and rushed, getting within ten or so feet from him. I LEAPED!!! Towards the wall to my right, planting my foot into the wall, somewhat breaking the brick, then *THRUST* LAUNCHING MYSELF FORWARD AND UP TO THE OTHER WALL ON THE OTHER SIDE AND AGAIN *THRUST* LAUNCHING UP AND UP!!! Flinging myself towards Red RIGHT ABOVE HIM, I clasp my hands together into a large CLASPED FIST and Raised it far above my head ready to STRIKE DOWN ONTO HIM AS I FELL IN HIS DIRECTION.” I looked back … to notice a now FLYING FUCKING WRATH!!! I QUICKLY *DASH* To My Side! *BOOOM* He came crashing down making another crater and plume of smoke … luckily this time without me in it. Narrowly escaping I sprinted out of the Alleyway, tumbling into a bunch of Shards *Woosh* “HEY!!!” “WATCH WHERE YOU’RE FUCKING GOING!!” SORRY SORRY!! I stumble through them taking a sharp left, and continue running down the sidewalk, dodging through the large crowd, hoping to lose him in the fray … *SPRINT* *SPRINT* *SPRINT* *SPRINT* After a while … we seem to lose sight of him. “Think we lost him!?!?” Shit I don’t KNOW!!!. I looked back again, and couldn’t see him behind us. THINK SO!!! THINK W- *SNATCH* I turned to face forward mid-speech and then my face came ramming into a large hand. “GOTCHA!!! I held Red by the face, and out of anger lowered him down and then THREW!!! Him like a speedball Straight INTO THE AIR!!! Way above the soaring high megabuildings that surrounded us. I crouched down and *BLAST* LAUNCHED UP AFTER HIM.” I once again, was one moment on the ground … to then … MILES HIGH INTO THE FUCKING AIR!!! I spun and spun, but could see the tops of megabuildings and clouds around. WOAH WOAH OHHHHH!!!! Then out of the confusion … I saw the blur that was … Wrath! … my speed came to a near stop, as his forceful throw had finally lost its fight with gravity, I hovered for just a second, where it was then I see him hovering next to me slightly above me, he had pulled his leg way back and, “BLOCK BLOCK FUCKIN-” *SHWOOOM* *CRACK* He landed a wide and POWERFUL KICK Straight to my head … Sending me FLYING With a shockwave, downwards back to The City … I came crashing down, slamming into the top of a mega building, sliding and bouncing off the top of it, over the building gap onto another mega building, crashing through some light machinery a top, bouncing once more, passing over another gap, finally coming to a stop as my body with the force I came over with, dug a mini trench in the gravel topped building with my back firmly pressed against the mound I had plowed ahead made of gravel. I layed there, sprawled out, head down looking towards my lap eyes closed. *COUGH* *Splash* my mouth, tongue and tastes buds were washed over with the taste of iron … blood … came spewing out with my cough, splashing it all over my pants. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.l: The Red, UNLIKE YOU. It's a level of maturity you don't have yet clearly. “MA-MATURITY!? … YOU!?? … HA DON'T MAKE ME FUCKIN LAUGH!!” WHAT!! HUH? WHAT YOU THINK YOU'RE MORE MATURE THAN ME?? “THINK!? BITCH!!! I FUCKIN KNOW!!” OH HAHA THAT’S FUCKI- “NNNGAAAHHH” *SLAM* … … … One second my feet were on the ground … the next … they were flying in the air sideways … w-what … what's happening? Time was so slow I could see myself almost hovering in the air, flying off towards my right side … or at least what was my right side when I was grounded. What force! What power … what the fuck … did I get hit by a truck? No, there was a voice, right? … I slowly … slowly turn my eyes to look towards the direction of my great Impact, and as they do … I see more of my attacker, and no … it became clearer and clearer it was a man … not machine. I started to make out his arm, stretched far towards me, what felt like his hand against/clenched around my neck. What? Who the fuck would attack me like this? Out in the broad as well? In public? My eyes track down his arm … muscular indeed, scared … big. When it was then … as my eyes trailed those scars … the peaks and valleys of muscle on the arm … I … seen … HIS … Face … … … Wrath. Time returned to a normal speed. “GOT YOU, YOU FRIVOLOUS LITTLE SHIT!!!! AHHHH” *BOOOM* “I with Red in my Hand held by his throat … *SLAMMED* Him into the buildings across the street, bashing through the walls as my momentum kept up” *BOOM* blasting through into a little herbal store *BOOM* blasting through into a little department store *BOOM* blasting through into a little office space store *BOOM* “We ended up on the other side of the thick mini strip back into the street … as I stood now centered in the street, I raised that coward up High into the Sky! He was roughed up … but not dead like I had hoped, so … I BRING HIM DOWN FAST!!! *FOOM* Releasing Him from my Grip as I do, *SLAMMING* him Fast, and with great force into the street, cracking and making a crater, blasting a plume of dust into the air obscuring my view, I raised my hand and arm up to my face to block away the plume from entering my eyes … the dust started to clear … RED!!! Oh how I’ve waited for this moment from the day I realized you somehow made it out of that dreaded Sea of Nightmares! … I will not let you stave off my plans To END this fucking INSIDIOUS CITY!!!! I get my hand and aggressively swing it to the side to wave away the smoke … to see … a crater without a Red buried in it. My face filled with anger and shock, my head jolted all around as to find where the Fucking! RAT ran off too. RED!!! DON’T RUN FROM ME!!! I waved my hand around trying to disperse more smoke *AHH* FACE YOUR FATE HEAD ON YOU LOW LIFE!! Once more waving my hand around *AHH* then … I heard the sounds of an echoed sprinting, off to my left … my head with lighting speed turned to face the sound, eyes laser focused through the light smoke to see …” I BLASTED DOWN THE ALLEYWAY, SPRINTING WITH FULL STRIDE!!! … FUCK FUCK “KEEP THOSE LEGS MOVIN BOY!!! IF THAT MOUND OF DEATH CATCHES US, IT’S ZEROS ACROSS THE BOARD!!!!” AHHHH *SPRINT* *SPRINT* *SPRINT* *SPRINT* *SPRINT* I turn my head back around to look behind me just for a second and see that fucking asshole standing in the smoke, Clear as days looking at me with piercing eyes of Red … then … he lurched down and *FWOOM* THE SMOKE WAS DISPERSED AND OUT HE SHOT OUT OF IT WITH GREAT STRIDE AND SPEED LIKE A RACEHORSE!!!. OHHHH SHIT SHIT SHIT!! HOW’D HE FIND US!?!? “WHY ARE YOU ASKING MEEEE!!!” I could hear as he got closer and closer with every passing moment. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.k: The Red, who he was dating/doing drugs with at the time … after that he skipped town and was presumed dead or to never be seen again on the account the Japanese moved in after that on a few agreements with Mrs.Van at the time, to help track his ass down and investigate any would be outliers that would potentially get them any beat on his whereabouts … never did hear how it ended though … but … ever since then Mrs.Van has had loads of Japanese Henchmen to do her bidding/make moves with, and the mob boss returned back home to mainland Japan in Chiba … so … assume he's dead and gone, and even if he wasn't … we'd never see his fuckin ass here in The City again, nor be able to do business with him on the account of Mrs.Van definitely not wanting any of those men reporting back that we were doing so … it'd jeopardize her security there. “So what, fuck Clayman then … we've only gotta talk to whomever he knew … he was a seller, not a producer correct?” I believe so y-yeah. “Soo … We Look Around!! … talk to some people and we’re bound to find something on someone Somewhere! RIGHT!” … I … suppose … what about alerting Alzon? He's bound to have some eyes and ears all around The Rataways. “Alzon ShmAlzon! … he does not run fuckin everything for one! … and for two … we hire someone else to ask the very questions we want! our very own, one and only pretty proxy.” *sigh* ok, I think that's possible for sure … now it's just the question of who? “Well … now I'll leave that job to you.” Yeah, figured as much. Fine, I'll get on it as soon as I can … but first … we've gotta rest, then focus on dealing with those trucks and setting up that meeting with Mori and Van. “WHAT!?” I stop in the middle of the street. AGH!! DON'T YELL!! And WHAT!? Thought you wanted me to go home in the first place!? “THAT … Was before we had a plan going, and started getting to work … not … doin whatever the fuck you were doin before just walking the cold streets wasting time, clown” I fuckin Was NOT!!! Wasting Time! … I need to clear my head sometimes and get some air, get out of my box and think with no visible physical walls … helps me stay on my A-Game. “A-Game? … what kind of coping mechanism starts with you losing your fuckin mind inside the safety of four walls in a place surrounded by one individual who loves you, to leave that, and venture out into the literal cold open cruel world without a plan before you've left … all to what? return to do the same exact shit you were gonna do regardless of situation because you've no other choice in the matter? You only put yourself and at that others at risk … nice fuckin A-Game there champ.” I Don't Fuckin Remember Askin YOUR Goddamn Opinion on the matter … ChAmP!? Fuck of Salem … I've enough problems barking at my ear, last thing I need is you joining the fray. “I GIVE MY OPINION ON WHATEVER I FEEL LIKE, WHENEVER I FEEL LIKE HOWEVER I LIKE!!! … Something YOU … fucking do not, push over pussy.” I'M GODDAMN TACTFUL, I don't blurt out Some IDIOTIC Fuckin half-baked Opinion to just everyone unfortunate enough to have fuckin ears and can listen … UNLIKE YOU. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.k: The Red, “it’s about five to six hundred pounds, six feet tall and about forty inches in diameter.” Fuck me … *sigh* ok, and are you helping set this up any further or am I gonna have to figure all this shit out? “I’ve got the shit all handled for the most part … just have been needin some hired muscle to go and fetch the bugger. I’ll provide a box car that will come with a little trolly, you’ll have to somehow get the truck into the back of the facility and then open one of the garage doors, where then you’ll take the trolly, find my tank in the storehouse there somewhere, grab it, load it up … and then get the fuck back here in one piece you got me?” yeah … I got you. “Good … *sigh* ok Salem … you'll get your guns and ammo. Set that meeting up with me and that damn Viper, and we'll move from there.” Right. I go to stand and turn to walk out the door. “But Salem!” I face her. “Find my Sophia.” I gave her a stern nod … then out I went, saying bye to Auzwel. See you later Auzi. “I'll be sure to drink to your death … again.” *tsch* Yeah yeah … better get yourself something in the meantime then … that drinks gonna be awhile. “*Giggle* so be it, farewell Salem” I gave a final wave and out I went. Feeling somewhat accomplished … I started to head back home, walking the streets as if I wasn't a breathing target for many of the bloodthirsty monsters lurking within the very shadows cast by the tall mega-buildings I traversed through. “Oooh … so we are to hire the great big Mori to provide us our weapons in lew of buying it from The Markets or Rataways aye? … feeeels … Dangerous! Hahaha.” How so? I mean yeah for Mori it is, just as she said she'll most definitely be targeted eventually … Alzon will figure who were getting our weapons from sooner than later, no helping that. “No no no … I mean … if we are to entrust her with our full demands, are we just accepting that if that hog gets stuffed for gangsters' feasting, that we'll be out of guns!? Out of Bullets!?” If everything goes to plan … we won't have to worry about that. “And if it doesn't go to plan??” We'll figure it out later ok … we don't have the time nor real resources to replace her if that happens … we'd be better off paying for new names and addresses to try and hide forever. “What!? We've plenty of time, and plenty of resources.” Well, I'd love to hear how you fuckin figure that?? “Alzon … will not move unless provoked further” which we have to do remember … the trucks with the guns and drugs!? Hello!? What were you asleep for that part or something? “Provoked!! … to attack … the trucks are something that will provoke him, but not in a way where he's going to be able to retaliate … nor would he want to you understand?” nope “*Sigh* He isn't going to attack you when he One! Doesn't know you're even doing it, at least not at first. He'll need to investigate these attacks, which yes … he'll probably soon realize who's doing so, but not instantly, and not without heavy care and caution/time and money … we've plenty of time to fuck him over while preparing our own product safety nets.” Ok … say that's even how it goes down, which you'd have to admit is a gamble. Who's our other sellers? “*scoff* gods were you not listening?? *Ahem* … The Markets! The Rataways! Hello!! … don’t tell me you were asleep for that part?” Yeah Yeah Smart Ass! Ok I fuckin get it, funny fuckin joke … but … we don't have any more contact's there; the last shit-eating street rat we knew who was willing to do any business at all, was that grifter Clayman … and he well … basically bit the bullet hard. “Huh?” He took his handgun one night mid tweak, and blew the brains of Chiyo Hayashi all over the dash of his fuckin shitty ricer, she was an old Japanese mob boss's daughter … who he was dating/doing drugs with at the time … [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.j: The Red, as you know. “This will certainly leave me as a target you know … there is no way he won’t find out about this deal, so what am I supposed to do when that happens huh? Leave me and my girls open to a shootout? … we are a place of business … not seasoned gang bangers experienced in dealing with thugs firsthand.” Right, and I know that … so … we operate and provide support then, we can arrange a certain number of men to hang around, both inside and outside the shop twenty-four-seven … armed … and ready. “*Hmpf* arm your guys with my guns to make my business enemy number one for a crazy chicano … lovely plan.” It’s what I can offer, if it’s not enough then give me your plan then. … “Mmm … how many fuckin men?” That’d have to be directly discussed with Mrs.Van, but at least fifty or so. “FIFTY! Well are they gonna be payin customers! … fill my tiny little bar with that many angry lookin assholes and no one will wanna come in, I’ve gotta keep all business I can just so you know.” Well what do you want from me? Protection or gangsters flying through your door to end your little death dealership … if you want less then so be it, but you’ve gotta be prepared for a larger target to be placed on your head. “No no no … fifty is enough, hell I’d take more if I can … I’ll discuss it further than with The Viper herself. Will you set this up for me?” I can, yes. “I have a few requests then as well” Requests? Why not take it up with her when you meet, I can only give you a general idea of what we are looking for, not answer your direct requests, it’d be pointless for me to relay them anyway since you wanna meet. “I don’t have requests for her, more so you.” … Uhhh Me? “Yes, I wanna hire you … for a different job.” A-a different? Look I don’t know who you think I am but I’m certainly not washin your damn floors anymore ok. “NOT THAT Ya fuckin idiot … you are gonna use your resources and connections to find one of my gals … get me?” Mmm … who? and … why? … “Sophia Arbager … she is … has … gone missing, and I wanna know everything I can … get her back if that’s possible still.” Ok … when did she go missing exactly? “About a month ago … *sigh* she wasn’t the only one either” More of your girls? “No no … plenty of peeps goin up in smoke … Soph was just one of those unlucky few.” What the fuck? I haven’t heard anything about this, what’s up? Got another BTK or some shit? “I’m sure hopin not … but there is a building case which so far has brought a little light to some things, such as … they have all been women under the age of twenty-five, seemingly taken out of nowhere and no evidence or trace of their disappearances to be found yet … they all lived alone it seemed as well.” But no signs of break ins? “Nope … at least not that we know of from what the police reports have been telling us.” Well … shit … I don’t know Mori, if there is no evidence to go off of … fair to say I’m definitely worse than say a federal investigator and the cops. So … sorry but … I think you’d be best in finding someone else or … holding out hope for something to come up “I appreciate your honesty Salem … but I still want you to look for me, ask Mrs.Van, use your connections and anything you can … please now, just this once.” *Sigh* ok … but … don’t hold out hope here. “Thank you … shit stick. Now my other and last request, I want you to run a few jobs for me, some serious ones … I need someone to go and grab me my new fermentation tank … then someone to take and ship a few liquor crates from here to Maine” Ok … what’s the serious parts here? “Well … my new fermentation tank isn’t exactly mine … yet” fuckin what? “You’ll need to go in and grab it for me … and you’ll need some help, it’s a five-hundred-gallon tank made of stainless steel, it’s about five to six hundred pounds, six feet tall and about forty inches in diameter.” ... [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.i: The Red, you zero. I put my hands down, grabbed the circular bronze door dob and turned … the door opened slowly as I pushed and entered the room. Her office was a small maybe one hundred square foot room mostly taken up by a massive rectangular and solid spruce desk that was whittled with mini tees around the corners and a large canopy design around the tables top, with long large roots at the base … the room was stacked high with boxes and paper work, the walls were decorated with dozens and dozens of framed photographs. Her office was lit by a single hanging center warm ceiling light … in front of the desk was a single all black bare bones seat with little metal sliding rap around supports that were also the arm rests … I pull the seat back and step around the side then sit to face … one very pissed off Mori. “DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’VE DONE YOU BLOOD SUCKING PARASITE!!!” … well … make you not very happy I can see, whatta ya say that a point or what!? *SLAM* She slammed her fists down on the desk … nearly creating a quake so large … it’d send California into the sea. “YOU THINK THIS IS A JOKE!!! You’re gonna start a fucking CITY WIDE GANG WAR” She leaned back in her chair and clasped her large meaty hands. “There is gonna be so much death and blood … bullet casings are gonna fall like rain … do you even understand what that’s gonna do to us all? Do you even understand what kind of hell you’ve spawned?” Hey, it’s not like I Fuckin asked to be Thrown in a ditch and have some gangsters try and murder me … I wanted out just like everyone else does, and would have gladly walked away into the sunset with nothing but my damn birthday suit … what would you have had me do huh? Fuckin die out there … trust me … I know that’d make more than just that snake Alzon happy. “Tell me everything that has happened, start to finish Salem … and if I find out you’ve left ANYTHING … out … I’ll do what that snake couldn’t” Yea yea … I filled her in on everything that had happened and everything that was gonna happen … or at least … likely to happen and to what my plan at large was gonna be … maybe to the unknowing, you’d assume based on how Mori greeted me … that we weren’t exactly friends … which was true to a degree we were not … but we were certainly not strangers or even just business partners … she was another guardian and guiding hand, in the estranged upbringing of yours truly. I used to clean her floors, do the dishes and run the rounds here. So yeah … we’ve secured funding and a big contact we can somewhat rely on and reach out to. “Hmm … things are heating up then on your end … and if what you say is true about him getting guns shipped here … then well … that adds up with my numbers.” Adds up? “*Sigh* *Flip* *Flip*” She opened a large yellow binder and started flipping through it, I leaned in as to watch. “*Flip* *Flip* Here look … these are our monthly numbers … I assume Alzon started to get his shipments in not too long ago … as we’ve steadily dropped and dropped for a while now … where we were on a steady rise, I had thought for a while that it wasn’t a natural plateau of business and something more malicious … but never had the proof nor evidence to back it … now … I know what slime has been muckin my numbers.” Wow … can’t even believe these numbers, like holy shit, steady downfall for sure but … he’s takin chunks outta yah Mori. “Yeah … trust me I know.” S-sorry. “It’s quite alright … *sigh* writings on the wall, not much we can do about it.” Well … funny you say that. “Hmm?” *Sigh* alright Mori … I’ve come to offer you … a deal … a contract. Her eyes widened and she crossed her arms … giving this stern look while sitting back in her chair. You need buyers? Well look no further than me, and Mrs.Van … look … we need Guns … and we need a shit load of ammo to boot … and I won’t lie to you here and say … we're gonna use them to take down Alzon, a city-wide gang war with lots of shit heads laying dead in the streets … as you know. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.h: The Red, “Moriarty's Gal”. One of the closer “Gals” popped up and approached me with haste, saying “Hello Sir! … Would you like a table or just a bar seat for today?” Uhm jus- “Is that you Salem?” Auzwel called out, with his glasses pulled down by a single finger. Indeed it is … long time no see Auzwel. He waved me over, the Gal bowed and stepped off back to her seat. I walk over … take a seat and … “You look so different … barely recognized you.” *sigh* Yeah … I get that a lot nowadays. “Haha, I'd bet … so … what can I get yah today? got an ID there baby face” *tsch* I smile and show him my ID, he looks it over hands it back with a smile and I reply with. Pepper Jack over a couple rocks if you'd be so kind. He shook his head and poured me one in a nice thick glass, leaving the open Dr.Pepper and entire bottle of Jack for me to pour myself as I went. He snapped his fingers and pointed at one of the girls closest to the staircase at the end of the bar. “Let Ms.Mori know Salem is here, she'll wanna know.” He then spread his arms wide across the bar, and leaned in slightly … asking “So what brings you here on this rather slow and cold day … got something for Mori? or just … wanted a drink?” he said slowly with a grin. No … not just a drink … got some business, really for her ears only Auzi. “Ooooh … what a shame haha … here I was thinking I'd have some new bartender gossip to add to my collection.” He leaned back and pulled out a tall glass, ran it under some water washing it out, then proceeded to clean it out with a small cloth. “So business huh? Well Ms.Mori certainly deals in many forms … so I hope you'll leave a happy customer.” Yeah … me too… how have things been around here? speaking of your “bartenders gossip” … what yah got? “Things have been as per usual, nothing too strange … you could say we are running in tip-top shape making healthy sales … both in booze … and in other sorts of trade. But as for gossip and rumors … well … rumor is, Alzon sewered The Devil … sept … The Devil came crawling out, bloodied and filled with a new type of hate burning in his eyes … rumors of a full-out city-wide gang war are on the rise because of that, leading to lots of parties buying lots of guns and lots of ammunition in prep … rumor is … bloods gonna run down the canal that Devil crawled out of like a chaotic rapid … you wouldn't … Happen, to know about that rumor … would yah?” *long sip* … welllllll … *BANG* I ducked my head a bit as my glass shook a bit and I heard a loud noise from above me … I looked up and back a little to see the railing of the platform above … then … a large head came looking over and down at me … Mama Mori … her face was about as red as a tomato and damn near steam blowing from her fuckin ears, I opened with a smile. H-ha ha … oh hey Mori … good uh … happy birthhhhday???? “GGGGGET THE FUUUUUCK UUUUP HEREEEEEE … *BREATH IN* NOWWWWWWW!!!!!!” *SLAM* She walked off assumedly back into her office slamming the door … she was so loud I swear the earth shook and she nearly popped my fuckin head. I looked back down at my glass, grabbed it and downed what was left, then slammed it down. Well … hell calls Auzi … I’ll see you down there one day *sigh* … wish me luck. He raised the glass he was cleaning towards me with a grin and raised eyebrows. I walked off, with all the girls looking at me as if I was a walking coffin … which … I was. Up the stairs and down the platform I went, and stood in front the door to her office … I put my palms together and raised them high towards the ceiling. Dear god … if you are real … just kill me now before Mori does, and send me to damnation or … forever know … me one … you zero. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.g: The Red, I’ve seen plenty of your suggestions and more often than not … than not … something shady is going on and typically someones gettin burned … I’m heading out … got some work of my own to do. I head down the stairs and out the door … it’s colder than it was when I arrived, but the wind was gone and it was quiet … really quiet. I walk down the street with my hands in my pockets … and head to … Moriarty's … a bar owned by one of The City's neutral organized crime parties, run solely by Ms.Moriarty, also called Mama Mori or just Mori, and her “gals” mostly girls from the women's shelter, lookin for “safer” high payin jobs in a more lucrative way to pay/pave their own paths towards independent secure safe havens and well … just start over etc. The bar was a wider than it was long, small brick building sandwiched between two large corporate-owned mega-buildings downtown … outside, the front windows started about twelve feet up and were tinted so black … they might as well have been spray painted … there were six of them and they were only about a foot tall … windows purpose … letting light in and smoke out as Mori used to say, as they were crackable studio windows. Then there was the door … a large SQUARE door that was made of bronze … there were these three parallel metallic lines/exterior humps on the door at the top left stretching right, to the center of the door that with the middle hump extending longer while the top and bottom humps stopped about an four to five inches back, giving off something designed in the fifties … with a second identical set of humps near the bottom right of the door stretching left. Then there was the large straight extruding about four iches off the door like handle that was silver in color and knurled, it was probably about a foot tall … the door felt like it was made for Mama Mori herself … as she was … well … larger than life so to speak. Speaking of … the last and final detail … was an oval shape cut out in the door, with the center being etched and read … MORIARTYS in big bold letters. I open the big door and walk in, there's a fancy wood-finished bar, about twenty-five feet wide … there's a bunch of stray wooden circular tables about, draped in a blue cloth embroidered around the edges in a fine golden pattern, with blue leather cushioned wooden chairs around, four to each table to be exact … the bar itself was dimly lit warmly by older baroque lamps with mini glass mosaics that acted as there shades. The bar always had some sadder but soothing music playing, whether that be a solo female soprano with a heartwarming piano as the instrumental, to some smooth Jazz set that I was almost positive was played solely to back the Gin special that was always advertised. The bar … operated by one tall lanky blonde mid-twenties fella, dressed all neat and proper, wearing black shiny dress shoes, fitted in black slacks with black suspenders over a white fitted dress shirt with a blue tie wearing blue circular rounded glasses and a smile that could rival Salem's himself … the man … was Auzwel … and he was a distant friend from a day long past. Above the bar was a pitch black metal balcony/railing with dark oak-paneled floors overlooking the whole bar that lead from the far left of the bar, accessible by a single black metal spiral staircase … there was one door that was up there, centered above the bar/inline with the front door … It was Ms.Mori's office. Behind the bar behind the bottle racks was a massive blue-lit fish tank, filled with loads of exotic fish. I stood in the front door … somewhat estranged … I noticed all the girls were sitting around the bar at separate tables somewhat relaxing … as it seemed … I was the only customer on this cold night … they were dressed in black and white maid outfits with little silver metal chokers that read “Moriarty's Gal”. [To Be Continued]

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xxxv.f: The Red, support individuals by my choice alone and under no more debt like contracts. “In return … they will offer you what you’ve been missing and thriving for this whole time.” … oh yeah? … and what in the fuck is that huh? fuckin parking lot bj outside of white castle? “Love … one that won’t betray or go up in flames.” … … … yeah right … “I won’t lie to you … I also won’t try and convince you any further … your heart will make the choice for you, one that I am quite confident in” then a strange man's voice rang out near her, in somewhat of an echo “It is time to go Roobs … you have spent all the time you’ve asked for.” Hey! Who the fuck was that!? Where are yah! I knew this was some kind of goddamn trap or something! … tryin to set me up yah old bag! “*Giggle* … you have many people up above … they are pleased to see you on your journey … and look forward to watching you grow. I thank you for showing such resilience so far, and truly … know … you are and will gift love and life to my beauty.” I felt this strong suction start to develop beneath my feat behind me. W-what the FUCK!!! It got stronger and stronger, I had to fight it by leaning forwards and steadying my stance … but soon that didn’t even safe guard me, and I was swept from my feet, slamming against the ground on my stomach, slowly getting pulled away. GHHHAAAA *CLANK* I grabbed on to one of the swords stopping me from moving further. HEY!!! HEYYYY!!! “I promise you on my soul … it will not be painless … but I know you … and you alone … can weather it all, come out not just alive but better before … and with my love along with you.” NNNNNGGGHHHAAA AHHHHHHHHH. The pull got stronger and stronger … my grip was loosening, and my feet raised off the ground and up at a forty-five degree angle towards the sky behind me. WAIT WAIT!!! WHO IS YOUR JEWELS JEWL!!!! HOW WILL I FIND THEM!!!! “*Giggle* do not worry … they will find you in time … all you must do is wait and be open when the time comes … best of luck to you … Red.” *SLIP* My fingers came loose from all the strain and power of the vacuum effect that was sucking me in … time seemed to slow … she stood from the bench and then started to turn towards me … her face had this ever-increasing in brightness white light, obscuring it, but before I could see her face fully … I was swept far into the sky screaming away at the top of my lungs, my vision got whiter and whiter until … … … AHHHHHHHHHHHHH *BREATH* *BREATH* *BREATH* *BREATH* … *Breath* … *breath* … I was back in the bedroom. I heard a set of footsteps come up the stairs quickly, then the door burst open … It was Mrs.Van … holding her little twenty-two handgun. “WHAT IS IT!?” … No no! … Sorry … I had a night terror. “A W-hat?? *sigh*” she lowered her gun. Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you … didn’t plan on having a night terror exactly. “Do you have these often?” No no, first one … probably just stress-related or something, it’s nothing really. “These things are not good … signs of wear and tear on the mind … you must take time to let yourself ease out of this kind of stress … you should know this already … you should take your way to The Diamond, I will let the girls know you are to visit … they will treat you right.” WHAT!? I go to stand quickly. NO No … I don’t need any massages from your girls … nor do I want a … Happy Ending … from one of the poor girls you fuckin “employ” “I take care of them and they appreciate what I give them … as you should with my suggestions, no complaints.” I walk past her somewhat in a hurry. Yeah well … I’ve seen plenty of your suggestions and more often than not … [To Be Continued]