Shanghai, China.
It's the Chinese New year and fireworks exploded in the night sky with its vibrant colours. Kids ran around Scarlet, wearing tiger ears. The streets were decorated with tiger paper Mache statues."It's the year of the tiger." Scarlet said looking up at the fireworks. "Huh? Where you saying something?" Christopher said moving his eyes away from the street parade to look at his sister."My Chinese zodiac is a pig." Hearing that Christopher snorted, "Pig? So accurate." Scarlet rolled her eyes, "Yours is a rat." Chris turned to her sharply, "You must be kidding. You're joking right?""Nope. Look it up. It's your birth year." She laughed. "I'm not going to." He grumbled. A lady tapped Scarlet's shoulder and when Scarlet faced her, she gave Scarlet a big smile before pointing to her cell phone."What is it?" Scarlet asked in Mandarin and the Chinese lady gasped, "You can speak Chinese?!" She said in shock before turning to her friends that were nervously watching the whole encounter, "She speaks Chinese!"With that they all rushed to Scarlet and begged her to take a selfie with them, "Why?" Scarlet asked confused, "Well because you're very pretty like a model and you might be someone famous so we just decided to take a pic with you." Christopher rolled his eyes and scoffed getting the girls attention."Is he your boyfriend?" One of them asked Scarlet. "Oh my God, no," She said in horror, "He is my brother." The girls nodded in understanding. They all took turns before they took a group picture with her."What's your Instagram name? I want to tag you." One of the girls asked her with a smile. "I don't have any socials." Scarlet answered. The girls looked at her in shock, "Why?" "Just give me your socials, when I open an account I'll follow you guys." She shrugged."Annah, we need to go." Christopher said tapping his watch. Scarlet nodded before focusing back on the girls and taking their socials, wishing them a Happy New year, she went with Christopher to his car."Are you going to follow them when you finally create an account?" Christopher asked as they drove back to the hotel, "Of course not." She scoffed. Chris shook his head at his sister's anti-social behavior. He was even shocked that she agreed to take a picture with them.At the hotel they got ready to go to the opera, she wore a green off-shouldered dress with a slit reaching her right mid-thigh. She strapped a dagger to her left lap since the dress didn't have a slit there. She kept her hair in a high bun afro before going out to meet Christopher who was waiting patiently at the day."All set?" He asked. "Yeah, you brought your gun right?" Scarlet asked as they both left the hotel to the opera. "Yeah, but I don't think I would need it." Scarlet scoffed.They got seated as soon as they arrived. They both unknowingly sat down behind Scarlet's target. A few minutes into the performance, Christopher started dozing off. Scarlet noticed his behavior and rolled her eyes, "Can't you just be serious right now? Even if it's just for today." She whispered.Chris shushed her and pointed to the performance, "Be quiet. I'm trying to enjoy this boring performance." That's when Scarlet's target turned around glaring at them to keep quiet before focusing back on the performance.Scarlet and Chris mouths were opened in shock before they both grinned at each other, "Wow, who could have thought?" Chris said in astonishment and the man turned back to face them again, glaring daggers at them."Dumb foreigners." He said in Chinese before focusing back on the performance. Christopher leaned into Scarlet, "Make him suffer." He whispered into her ear. She nodded, "Hand me your gun."Chris gave her his gun, "Are you going to kill him here?" He whispered. Scarlet gave him an, 'Are you that dumb' look and Christopher read her reaction and nodded. Scarlet got up and walked out of the auditorium. She went upstairs to get a better shot where she won't be seen.She was about to aim when she noticed a red dot on her target's head. Following the angle, she saw someone dressed in all black aiming for his head. "Don't intervene." She moved her gun, now aiming at the mysterious person. Pulling the trigger, she shot the person's arm and that's when they shot her target, killing him instantly .Unluckily, a silencer wasn't used by the mysterious fellow and the gunshot caught the attention of everyone in the auditorium . Everyone rushed out of the auditorium, screaming but Scarlet had one current motive right now, and that was to find out who was ruining her mission.Tying a scarf that a lady left on her seat around her face, leaving only her eyes visible, she chased them, not stopping until she finally reached them. "HEY!! Who the fuck are you!?" She yelled. The person fired his gun at her, hitting her arm, "An eye for an eye." It was a masculine voice with an accent behind it. She boiled with rage bringing out her gun, then shot three bullets into his chest. He dropped to the floor and was immobile."Makes the world blind." She finished. Chris rushed to where she was, "Come on Scarlet what are you doing here?" pulling her away. "I wanted to take care of something-" She trailed off when she saw that he wasn't on the floor again.-"Where is he ?""Where is who?" Christopher asked before he followed her line of sight, "Scarlet what are you looking for? Let's go before some one will see us here?" He pulled her by her bleeding arm out of the building. Chris raised his right hand to see blood on his palm before he looked at her arm and found out that she was bleeding."How did you get this?" He asked in confusion. An ambulance was outside and he dragged her to it, "My sister got injured, can you help her out?" He spoke in Chinese to the paramedics and they nodded before they made Scarlet sit while they treat her wounds. "How did you get that?" He asked again."I was shot." She replied. Christopher decided to drop the conversation until they get to the hotel. A guy walked out the building and Scarlet stood up from her seat, not caring about her wounds and walked up to the guy.Stopping in his tracks, he stared at Scarlet who was now standing in front of him. Scarlet scrutinized his appearance, "Can I help you with anything?" He asked with a raised brow. Christopher walked up to them, "You have to go treat your wounds Annah!" He scolded before moving his attention to the man that Scarlet was glaring at, "I'm sorry but do you know her?"He shook his head now being intimidated by Scarlet's glare. "An eye for an eye?" She asked still glaring at the Asian guy. "Is she drunk?" He asked Christopher who was giving his sister a weird look, "Maybe. I apologize for my sister's behavior." He said before dragging Scarlet back to the ambulance."Are you feeling alright?" He asked. "An eye for an eye?" Scarlet said, remembering her early encounter. Just as she was thinking, she caught a figure walking away from the building with her peripheral but this figure was walking stealthily. She was about to get up again but Chris sat her down again which earned him a glare from her.