BANG!
A bullet was shot.
The noise of the gun broke the peaceful morning's silence.
Both of them immediately ducked due to their instincts.
Staying down, Ryan changed the gear and pressed gas as fast as possible.
The car started running backwards towards the main road.
Gary didn't stop shooting..
Even when the car is gone out of sight, he kept shooting, until the magazine emptied.
When the bullets ran out and he watched the car finally going out of sight and taking a turn to the left, he started screaming in anger.
Gary:- You fucking cunt!
I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch!
You Hear Me!?
Fuck!
I need to call Don.
When he reached for his phone, he remembered he is still on his sleeping gown, with flip-flops on his feet.
And his phone is beside his bed.
Gary moved from the sidewalk and got in his porch.
His peers have started to peek out of the window to see what has happened.
There's one guy already standing on his front door, his next door neighbor.
What's his name again?
Gary forgot.
Who cares what that dudes name is.
But he didn't forget to communicate,
Gary:- The fuck you looking at?
That was enough to make that guy quickly go back inside, scared.
Gary's peers are already scared enough of him because of his job as police chief, but they couldn't be scared more due to his friendship with the Falcon gang.
They often see men with deadly guns and murderous faces coming in & out of his house.
So nobody in this neighborhood dares to talk to him.
Nobody!
Gary rushes in the house and grabs his phone.
Dials Don Louis' personal number.
But the number seems to be busy.
He then calls Roger, Don Louis' right hand man
Roger :- Hello?
Gary:- Roger, its me Gary. I have news!
Roger:- About what?
Gary:- Don Robert's nephew!
He just came here and tried to blackmail me.
Roger:- What?! Where are they now?
Gary:- I don't know, he left. He had my daughter with him so I couldn't shoot at him properly.
Roger:- Wait, just tell me, where are they headed?
Gary:- I don't know, they went left after reaching the main road.
Roger:- Hmm. They are headed for Lymington.
Gary:- Are you sure?
Roger:- Hundred percent. Don't worry, we will be more than prepared for them..
Gary:- Please be careful though, he has my daughter. Make sure not to hurt her alright?
Roger:- Don't worry about it. She will be fine. What were they riding on?
Gary:- A maroon van, no license plate.
Roger:- Alright.
Meanwhile,
Ryan and Gabi are about a mile away from Gary's house.
Ryan is taking a long route through the woods so they don't catch attention of anyone.
Gabi is sitting in the passenger seat and thinking what the heck just happened.
Her father shot at her!
But what if she was hit? She was close enough.
She looked at Ryan and sees his face filled with pain.
Gabi:- Are you okay?
He couldn't answer due to the pain.
Ryan was wearing black overcoat, it's hard to understand if something has happened.
Gabi knew he wasn't alright, just by the look of it.
She looked at his left arm, it was bleeding.
Gabi:- Oh my God! You're bleeding!
She looked at his left arm, and saw a bullet hole in the black overcoat.
Inside, there's a bullet wound.
Gabi:- Let me look at it.
Ryan:- I will be fine. Just a little more.
Gabi:- No! Let me see or you might bleed more to a point you can't move anymore!
Ryan looked at her face.
She was dead serious while talking about the wound.
Ryan pulled up his sleeve to see the wound.
It went past the bones but cut through a lot of flesh.
Gabi took a knife from Ryan and cut a bottom portion of her oversized t-shirt and carefully bandaged the wounded part.
She still can't believe her father just shot at her.
He aimed for Ryan, but she was just next to him.
One missed shot and she would have died.
She had not been in good terms with her father for quite some time now.
But the situation was never worse enough to make him take his gun out on her.
Ryan:- That's enough, thanks.
Gabi:- I'm sorry for what happened.
Ryan:- It wasn't your fault, why are you saying sorry?
Gabi:- Still, he's my dad.
Ryan:- Listen, in life the only person you need to be accountable for is yourself. Not for anybody else.
So stop feeling sorry for something you didn't do. More importantly, now that your dad. . . . . I mean Chief Gary had shown his true color, he probably already called the Falcons.
They will be waiting for us in Eden.
So we can't go there, we need to take the long route.
Eden!
Something suddenly peeked interest in Gabi's mind.
What happened there?
She looked at Ryan.
There's probably very few who knows what happened in Eden.
Ryan is one of them.
Since he is part of the family that rules Axe gang.
Gabi:- Hey Ryan?
Ryan:- Yeah?
Gabi:- Can I ask you something?
Ryan:- Go ahead.
Gabi:- What happened in Eden between you guys?
Ryan suddenly looked at Gabi.
Ryan:- Nothing much.
Gabi:- Did you guys really defeat the Falcons army?
Ryan:- We had a fight.
Gabi:- And? What happened?
Ryan:- Some of us and some of them died.
Gabi:- Who won?
Ryan:- That's enough. No more questions.
It's clear he doesn't want to talk about it.
Gabi sighed.
What's with this secrecy?
A few moments ago he just told her everything about his family dying and his urge for vengeance.
Then why can't he talk about Eden?
Gabi rumbled and faced the window.
6:07 in the morning
South-east Jagren, near Jagren forest
Ryan stopped his car near a telephone booth.
Gabi is wide awake this time.
He watched as Ryan took a few pennies out of the dashboard and got out of the car.
He picked up the phone and called someone.
20 seconds later someone picked up on the other side.
Ryan:- Johnny boy it's me.
Johnson:- Ryan? Holy fucking shit dude you still alive?
Ryan:- Yeah, listen. We're not in a good situation though. I'm coming to Lymington, tell Berkley to get a car and drive into Jagren forest.
Johnson:- Wait wait, "we"? You have someone with you?
Ryan looked at his car, saw Gabi sleeping.
Ryan:- Just wait and see. Tell Berkley first he needs to reach the western side of the forest and the look for a pawn shop named Aldi Parkson. After that tell him to go 30 degree south-west. After going for about a few miles he will find an abandoned post-office.
Johnson:- In the middle of a Jungle?
Ryan:- Yes. Tell him he'll find us there.
Johnson:- Alright.
Ryan dropped the call.
He came back inside the car. Looked at Gabi, still asleep.
He started the car and drove off.
Eden Bridge, Lymington side
Chester looked at his watch for the 15th time in last 5 minutes.
Then yawned so hard that can make any Alligator shy.
What the fuck is wrong with Don Louis?
Everyone gets it he's the boss.
But Chester works for Big Sam, his eldest son of Don Louis.
Not for the Don.
So why the fuck does Louis have to order poor Chester here to wake up at 5:30 at and wait at the other side of Eden bridge cause there "might" be a chance that Axe Gang leaders nephew and the daughter of the dumbass chief of cops coming here from Jagren?
He is just waiting for Don Louis to retire, so that his son Big Sam can be the new Don.
And who will be benefitted by this the most?
Chester.
He will be appointed Don's right hand man.
Because his loyalty is for big Sam.
Not for the current Don.
And Sam knows that very well.
This is ridiculous, Chester thought.
He couldn't sleep well last night.
Came home at 1 am, drunk, woke his sleeping girlfriend up, asked for sex and got refused.
That made him go so mad that he slapped the shit out of her, then tried forcing her into having sex.
At one point of she probably kicked him on his dick, which is why he cried the whole night, barely getting any sleep.
Hoes these days, Chester thought.
And now, he's here at 6 in the morning waiting to kill someone who will surely never come.
Because no matter how bad things went in Eden, Axegang doesn't have any power in Lymington.
Unless the "Axegang Lord Robert's nephew" or whoever the fuck he's ordered to kill is a fucking retard, he will never step foot in Lymington.
Or maybe his body will, his "dead" body.
Ring Ring
His phone rings.
Chester looks it up with yawn.
It's Roger, Don Louis' right hand man.
Chesters yawn immediately fades away.
Chester:- Yes boss!
Roger:- The fuck do you think you're doing?
Chester:- W-what do you mean boss?
Roger:- I told you to kill someone. And the fuck are you doing waiting for him?
Chesters anger starts kicking back again.
Chester:- Boss I'm waiting for him to step foot in Eden bridge so we can kill them on sight.
Roger:- Your mother should've just aborted your skunk ass!
You expect them to come through Eden?
You seriously think I would send you to kill him if it's in Eden?
We have tons of people there you dumb motherfucker...
Chester clenched his first as tight as he could to control his anger.
Roger:- They ain't gonna come at you, they gonna go straight to the Don.
Go to Jagren forest, we have a source that told us he saw Ryan's car going in there.
NOW!!
Chester:- Yes boss.
Chester sighed, and rushed to his car.
That cunt named Ryan is the reason behind all this ruckus.
He needs to die!
Meanwhile,
Jagren Forest,
Ryan softly poked Gabi's forehead to wake her up.
Gabi woke up and looked around.
Gabi:- Where are we?
Ryan:- In the middle of a jungle.
Gabi:- I can see that. But why are we here?
Ryan:- Change of transport.
Gabi:- Here? Why?
Ryan:- Your dad might have told everyone about this van.
So we have to abandon it.
Gabi:- And then walk all the way to Lymington?
Ryan:- Nope, we got someone to pick us up. Now let's go.
They got out of the car.
Up front, Gabi notices there's an abandoned building of some sort, about a hundred metres away from where they parked.
Kind of looks like a Sheriff's office from an old movie set.
Gabi looked behind, their car seems to be well hidden behind a bunch of trees and massive fallen branches.
They get inside the building.
It's actually a post office, Gabi notices.
She looks at Ryan.
He was busy running around the building tying to look for something.
Finally he came to a halt.
Threw all the stuff he found on the floor.
A bunch of old rusty metallic rods, an old first aid kit.
And some brand new set of knives.
Gabi looked at the knives and said,
Gabi:- How many things did you steal from my store?
Ryan:- I didn't steal, I took them for my safety.
Gabi:- That's called stealing.
Ryan:- Whatever. You take that AR-57 close and keep the safety pin on.
Don't turn it off unless I tell you to.
Gabi:- What about you?
Ryan:- I have the shotgun and my handgun.
He opened up his wound and poured some alcohol.
Fresh wound and alcohol, it's supposed to sting.
Gabi looked at his eyes, he didn't even flinch a bit.
Gabi:- Damn, that was close to the artery.
Ryan started bandaging his wound.
Gabi:- What are those for?
She pointed at the metal rods.
Ryan:- Protection. We don't have much ammunition, might need these later.
This place doesn't seem safe, we need to move fast.
When he mentioned "this place", Gabi remembered something.
Gabi:- If this place was so unsafe, why didn't we just go through Eden?
Tried to pick that topic up again.
Ryan:- If we were in Eden by now our body would have more holes than any block of cheese.
Now shush..
Gabi sighed.
He's ignoring the topic again.
After some time a black sedan parked near the building.
Ryan poked his head out of a window and saw Berkley.
Ryan:- Let's go.
Ryan took the knives and the metallic rod and they walked out.
Ryan:- Why'd it take so long, B?
Berkley:- Couldn't find the place boss.
Nobody could give proper directions.
Ryan:- Anyway, let's leave this place.
Berkley:- Sure boss.
Berkley starts the car and heads back to where he came from.
Ryan:- Got any spare guns? B?
Berkley:- No boss, the only one I have is on my belt.
Got spare magazines though in the dashboa....
BLAM!
A high-speed van hits the side of their car so hard that it felt like some meteor just hit them.
Their black sedan was sent of flying.
It landed upside down after flipping a couple of times.
All the windows were shattered, parts of engine torn apart at all places.
Ryan felt severe pain on his neck, hand and forehead.
His wound started bleeding again.
He immediately looked at the back seat at Gabi.
Ryan:- Gabrielle! Can you hear me? You okay?
Gabi:- I don't t-think so...
Her voice felt she is almost passing out.
Ryan:- Hang in there Gabi. You okay B? Yo B, hey?
Berkley just stayed there, unresponsive.
The full impact of the van landed on his side.
It hit his skull and he's bleeding.
Ryan put his finger right below his side-jaw.
No pulse.
Ryan froze for a second.
Ryan:- RIP mate.
He unbuckled his seatbelt and crawled out of the broken window.
He just stayed there lying for a brief moment, trying to catch his breath.
The immense pain on his neck is barely letting him move.
Anyway, he looked up, where they came from and saw the van that collided with them.
The front is destroyed.
The engine is producing clouds of smoke and inside that cloud stood a man.
Ryan saw that man before.
With big Sam, Don Louis'eldest son.
He is big Sam's right hand man.
Their eyes meet.
Ryan thinks how the hell did big Sam's men get here so fast?
Where did they go wrong?
Or did he just follow Berkley all the way?
Either way, shit just got worse for them.
He needs to get Gabi out of here.
Gabi!
He almost forgot.
She's passed out, probably hurt.
She needs to be taken out of the car now!
He dived towards the backdoor and opened it up.
The first thing that he saw near him was the gun he gave Gabi.
He took it out.
Gabi is still passed out upside down.
The seatbelt prevented some big injury.
He starts opening her seatbelts
Meanwhile,
Chester's face filled with a massive grin.
He knew it was the right decision to follow Berkley from a distance.
And when he hit his van into their car, it flipped so many fucking times that it was amazing.
Not many day do you get to see a good collision like that.
That son of a bitch Ryan got out and immediately looked him on the eye and hid behind his car.
Chester chuckled, yeah, go hide boy.
Who's gonna save you now?
That punk ass got some balls to mess with Falcons.
Chester took his gun out and shot twice at the upside down car.
Ryan just removed Gabi's seatbelt when he shot.
He was pulling her out of the car, still unconscious.
Chester shot twice, again.
It was enough for Ryan.
To save Gabi now he needs to fight back.
He took the AR-57 and slowly crouched out of the other side of the car where Chester can't spot him.
Chester shot again, twice.
This time Ryan sent a bunch of bullets in return.
Some of them hit the van behind Chester.
Goddamnit Axe gang punk, Chester quickly took cover behind his car door.
He sent some bullets back again.
Ryan pulled Gabi out, using the car as protection.
After a brief crossfire, he realized his bullets are almost empty.
So were his opponent's.
Chester started reloading his gun, and Ryan pulled Bekley's gun out while his body was left hanging with his seatbelts.
He slowly shook Gabi to wake her up.
Ryan:- Wake up, please wake up!
Nope, no sign of her waking up anytime soon.
Chester shot back a few times, he's done reloading.
Ryan:- Fuck!
He made a quick plan.
He got one bullet in the shotgun, some bullets left in the AR
and now there's the handgun.
He looked around the forest, it's morning but the sunlight can't pierce through all the woods.
If Ryan could just get some spare seconds, he can hide behind into deeper woods where Chester can't see them anymore.
He needs to create a scene to make an opening.
He picked Gabi up on his back, grabbed the 57 with his teeth, took the handgun on his belt, and the shotgun with his both hands.
And then he waited..
Chester's shots follow a certain pattern, he makes 2 shot after every 8 to 10 seconds.
BANG! BANG!
He just shot.
Ryan started counting....
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Ryan already positioned his shotgun towards Chester.
So just as Chester popped his face to make his routine shot, he got shot back by a shotgun.
BANG!
Chester got his arm scrapped just now by that.
Damn they even have a shotgun now?
He made two blind shots back and waited for the otherside to make some noise.
But it was all quiet.
He waited a little more, gradually he had the courage to take a look.
He then carefully took a peek and saw the shotgun facing towards him.
He almost shit himself.
But right then he noticed, the shotgun is there, but Ryan's not holding it.
It was positioned in such a way on the top of the crashed car so that it would hit him back perfectly, just for once.
He immediately jumped up and looked around.
But he could hardly see anything because of the woods.
He sprinted towards the other car and looked inside.
Berkley was still hanging upside down on his seat.
Chester looked around again in all directions and finally found Ryan running at his top speed with Gabi on his back.
Shit, Chester thought.
They have already moved hundred metres away from the crashed car into deeper woods.
Clever boy, he went into the woods to take shortcut back to the post office.
Chester smirked.
No matter how clever you are, you can't escape.
He went back to his car and started driving to the abandoned office.
Meanwhile, Ryan was running with his top speed with Gabi on his back.
He really wished he didn't have the pain on his neck.
It's gradually slowing him down.
After running for a while, he stopped trying to catch his breath.
He knew Chester was coming to get him, but not on foot.
He stopped at a place not near the post office though, but it was near his abandoned maroon van.
Need to use that old van again.
After moving towards the car a bit more, Ryan suddenly realized something and froze.
The door lock of his van was up.
Someone's inside the car.
It would've been hard to see that if it wasn't in a perfectly calm and quiet middle of the forest.
He slowly started heading back to the post office.
Just then he heard a car coming from a distance.
With no time in his hand, Ryan ran to back of the abandoned post office as low as he could get, hoping Chester won't catch that.
He's in a spot now where he can see both his car and Chester.
Chester just now came out of his car and stood there looking around.
Chester:- Yo Ryan. Get out of the building before I make ya.
You know you can't win.
I have people with me.
Come out and I'll let the girl live.
All this time Ryan was looking at his maroon van.
He can't be spotted because of his precise hiding spot, but he can slightly see his van.
Something moved, again.
Not a squirrel or a fox or anything from the wild, a human hand.
Chester wasn't lying when he said he got men with him.
When he followed Berkley here, he told his two underlings,
Chester:- Get down and look for maroon van.
I'll crash my van into that black car and make them come back here for their van.
And when they do, wait for them inside the car.
His underlings nodded and got out in search of the van.
They found it soon enough near the pile of branches, unlocked it, and waited inside.
And sure enough, Ryan came back running.
The men inside his car loaded their guns, waiting for him to get closer but suddenly he changed his directions and disappeared behind the abandoned building.
"Goddamn that son of a bitch!", one of them exclaimed.
Suddenly they saw Chester coming back.
Without knowing their location, he kept shouting at the old office.
Gunman 1:- Yo bro, should we go tell boss not to get close to the building? Ryan's hiding behind it.
Gunman 2:- No we wait here.
Gunmen 1:- What if he gets killed?
Gunmen 2:- If he dies, he dies. We do our job and wait here...
Ryan took Berkley's handgun out and pointed towards Chester.
Clean shot, the target isn't even moving.
But the gunshot wound from before, car crash and carrying Gabi for such a huge distance is slowly putting an effect.
His aim is a bit shaky now.
Ryan sighed, what a bad timing to leaving all the injuries to the hand.
He slowly put Gabi down from his back and shook her hard.
Gabi opened her eyes, just to see Ryan signaling him to make no sound.
He then put the AR 57 on her lap, there's still a few bullets left.
Signaling her to stay there, he took Berkley's handgun and slowly went to the other side of the building.
Chester was still facing the entrance of the building and saying bullshit.
Ryan took his gun out again and aimed.
Aim is still shaky.
So he made a gamble with his life.
He opened his shoes so it doesn't make anymore sound when he moves, then started running towards the unaware Chester.
By the time Chester noticed him, it was too late for him.
BANG!
Ryan's shot pierced through his body.
He fell down, struggling to get up.
Ryan shot again, twice, both hitting Chester at different places.
Gunman 1:- Bro he just shot boss!!
Are you still gonna sit here?
Gunman 2:- Don't move! We finish our job as we were told.
Gunman 1:- Fuck you! I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch!
Gunman 2:- No wait!
The first gunman jumped out of the van with gun in his hand.
He aimed at Ryan and shot multiple times.
The distance being more than 50 metres, he missed every shot.
Ryan on the other hand quickly took cover behind Chester's van.
The second gunman jumped out of the car as well.
There's no going back now, Ryan knows they're here.
Both of them kept shooting towards the van while they move closer towards Chester's body.
Ryan meanwhile bent his body for full cover from the bullets.
They kept shooting and shooting.
As if they have unlimited supply of ammunition.
They stopped for a brief while when they reached Chester's body on one side of the van.
Ryan is just in the other side of the car.
RATT-TAT-TATT-TATA
A wave of bullets were fired from behind the gunmen, leaving both of them wounded.
Ryan looked up to find the new shooter.
It was Gabi!
She changed her position a bit to get behind the gun men.
They were firing bullets so couldn't hear Gabi getting at their back.
Ryan came out of his cover and saw all 3 of his enemies lying on the ground.
He looked at Gabi with the AR 57.
Ryan:- When did you get there?
Gabi:- A while ago.
Ryan:- That was. . . very very risky of you.
Gabi:- Hey, I just saved your ass. Be thankful.
Ryan smiled.
Indeed she did save his ass.
BANG!
A bullet was shot behind Ryan who was facing and standing near Gabi.
One of the gunmen didn't die yet.
Took this opportunity to finish them both.
It cut through a line bit below his butt.
Ryan, with his incredible reflex, then turned and emptied his magazine on all three Falcons right there.
He then gasped due to immense pain caused by this new wound.
Gabi looked at the new wound and said,
Gabi:- In the end, your "ass" couldn't be saved.
Ryan smiled even through this immense pain.
He sat down slowly, beside Gabi.
Looked at Chester's car and thought, this car is done for.
All these bullets the gunmen shot made hundreds of holes in the engine, body and tyres.
Ryan:- Can you please go check my van if there's any gas left?
Gabi:- I'm sure we left some, right?
Ryan:- We did.
He points at the gunmen and said,
Ryan:- They probably took them out to stop us from moving.
Gabi took the keys to Ryan's maroon van.
The whole surrounding of the car now smells of spilled gasoline.
She pressed gas, but the van won't start.
After a while it did start, but then stopped right away due to no fuel.
She came back to Ryan.
Gabi:- You were right, there's no fuel in the car. They spilled it all.
Ryan:- Looks like we have to walk all the way now.
Gabi:- Just as I thought.