Hell?
What the f**k does he mean?
I was goosebumped. I could feel it. The tip of a metallic substance. The tip of a pistol or a .957 caliber or it might have been a fluke, but I have to admit I had peed a little. I was just a kid. It was okay, right? To be scared of your death. To be scared of the pain. To be scared of the irrefutable facts at my situation.
"You MOVE You DIE.
You ESCAPE You DIE.
You act SMART You DIE.", The guy said in a tone which made him seem heartless.
"Walk like we have met after many years and our best friends. DON'T JUST, DON'T FORCE ME TO KILL YOU IN FRONT OF ALL THESE PEOPLE."
"Hey, man how are you?", he said to me to start the act.
But how just could I? My life was done for and he was expecting me to just act like a…
I started crying but I had to play along so I took him by my hand and hugged him to show the act.
I PLAYED ALONG BECAUSE I KNEW I WASN'T GOING TO DIE OR I WON'T ALLOW MYSELF TO DIE SO SOON.
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"Man…Are you an actor? I mean you faked the act amazingly.", he said to me while we walked passing by many people standing and doing what they had to but I was….(sigh)
"Stop.!", he said pointing to a dark alley in the left side.
"Now we have to go from here."
The alleys were probably the most dangerous places in Washington. There you could meet real life gangsters, murderers on bail. As if they were innocent citizens. We passed through those yucky alleys where pile of garbage was on each side destroying my nose completely.
Suddenly I could see light. It meant that this was just a shortcut. When we turned. I bumped into a guy which was like a pole but much wider. I hurt myself. That guy was like a gangster. One second, I took a second to observe him and people behind him. They were gangsters. I froze.
But suddenly when the big guy saw the guy beside me, he got shocked. The people behind him were also shocked as if they had seen the god. I looked at that guy and Oh my God! He was also shocked.
And the next instance, two of the gangsters screamed and covered the way to exit. The big guy suddenly started to laugh and the guy beside me pushed me back.
"It has been two months since I got this scar from you.", The big guy said while he took off his vest. And I could see it. A scar due to a blade. Probably a katana.
"That day I was nearly at the footsteps of death, Zascoe."
While the guy who was probably Zascoe aimed his gun at the guy. He looked back at me with a deathly sneer. Then he looked back and tsk-tsked.
"Do you wanna die?", Zascoe asked to him as if he wasn't asking but telling him so.
"Do you..?", The big guy taunted him.
"I have a f***ing gun in my hand, Cross."
So the big guy's name was Cross. Their names seemed totally random. These were probably gangster names.
Besides that I was scared as hell. I was gonna witness a fight, a gangster fight..!!
The two other guys which were the only one left after those three, those two jumped up to the stairs and jumped to the other stairs and jumped from them to cover the entry from where we had come from, earlier. I was totally caught. If this Zascoe guy lost, then I would become their rat or their plaything.
"Get away from me Cross unless you wanna die today.", he said with a deep angry voice. By why was he angry BECAUSE he wouldn't let him kill me quickly. But then why did he want to kill me.?
"Do that if you which I know you won't because if you do that you will just die."
'What the hell? Why would he die if he has a gun unless he doesn't has much ammo.', I thought.
He put the gun in his pocket and then took out his shirt and his vest. He took a stance where his legs were constantly moving and his arms were down and seemed free and elastic.
The big guy suddenly charged by keeping his arms in a tackle way. He could easily dodge it because he seemed agile enough to do that. And that's what he was gonna do.
He quickly got to his left side when he felt that the big guy was close enough. But suddenly he stood up from his tackle mode and Zascoe was still in the air which he had done to dodge. Cross grabbed him and BAM!! He crushed him by sending him flying into the wall like a fly.
He picked him up and BAM!! Again he crushed him onto the ground. Blood was coming out of some of his wounds already.
"You have gotten weak Zascoe.", Cross said while he delivered countless punches onto his face while he tried to defend himself from those.
"…"
The big guy picked Zascoe up again and threw him onto the ground as if he was a thing. Cross grabbed his mouth by his single hand and crushed his mouth like an insect by pressing his mouth against a wall. Two of his tooth came out and his whole face and hands were full of blood now.
"You done?"
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"Hahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahaha." , Cross laughed for a while and then spit on Zascoe and the next sound I heard was the falling of four teeth of Cross onto the ground. The twisted head of Cross as if he had just been punched. The other gangsters who were also laughing at Zascoe became silent.
"What about this?"
A kick kicked Cross up and then down due to gravity. He was sure angry. He came up charging like a mad bull and Zascoe took his right step forward tilted to right position and punched him in his stomach.
The punch was so amazing that it was Cross who was sent flying to the wall of right just by a single punch. The two gangsters suddenly passed me to charge on him but they were nothing for him and the others were also gonna come when I looked at the entry from where we came and of course I was foolish to believe that I could escape him. I ran out of that glorious fighting scene quickly. I could hear him punching those guys while I ran away.
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It was halfway to my home but I didn't know why I didn't want to go back. My instinct feeling was acting weird. I bought a juice can and asked shopkeeper the time.
It was ten in the night. It was insane that it was already this late.
I was kind of relieved though now.
Someone patted on my back and it's shit if I say to you I wasn't scared. And no it wasn't him. No one was there.
"Why did you leave me there, you actor?"
"…"
I turned around and it was him.
"I am supposed to kill you by four in the morning. So just don't mess my DUTY.
By the way you saw it right?
Our plan?
Our plan to counter America's plan of DESTROYING EVERY OTHER COUNTRY TO CLAIM SUPREME POWER."