Getting dressed Kyle left his little apartment and headed down the streets of Raccoon ridge. He was met with the usual sight of Raccoon ridge. With people walking down the streets, trying to do something or find something to do as they need to eat. Some were still sleeping, as the road and street was their home. Passing a lot people quietly, avoiding trouble or those trying to cause it, Kyle headed deeper into Raccoon ridge where his mum was. Thinking about his mum, she was now more frail than usual and has less strength to go out and he has to provide for her.
Going through some familiar roads, Kyle avoided some roads too, so as to not draw attention to himself. Heading through an alley, he met some group of young lads who seemed to be talking in some hushed tones. Trying to avoid them he turned back, heading out of alley.
"Hey, what is the rush" said one of the gang members
"Come on now, no to run, we don't bite" the gang member continued.
Listening to what the gang member had said Kyle stopped in his track.
"Sorry I have busy day today, I gotta run" Kyle said
"Do you know who you are talking to?"
"Yes" Kyle said before pausing and taking a breath.
"You're a newbie gang member who wants to make a name for himself and climb the ladder of raccoon ridge"
"What did you say" the gang member said as he was stunned. Looking at Klye standing and looking at him, he pulled out his short blade. Behind him his fellow gang members too pulled out their blades too.
"We don't have to do this, because I really do have busy day today and I don't want to get dirty as I am meant to meet someone very important"
"He takes us for a clown boys" said one of the gang members. The gang member now motioned to the newbie by giving him a nod to go forward and fight Kyle.
"Go teach him a lesson" the gang member said
Smiling the newbie started walking, later on turning it into a sprint heading toward Kyle. On his face, one could see his bloodlust, accompanied with a psychotic smile.
As he approached Kyle he went for a slash at Kyle's stomach, trying to spill out Kyle's guts. But his hand never reached, in fact his hand never moved but was in the same place. Trying hard but his hand didn't budge.
The newbie looking at Kyle's pale eyes could see nothing in the pale eyes. No emotion or warmth, fear now creeping into newbie's heart. With the sound of his heart beating wildly, to the extent it deafening the alley. Letting him go Klye turned and started walking away.
"What are you doing letting him go?" one of the gang members said to the newbie.
"Are you sure you're ready for this commitment?" he asked again.
"But his – his eyes" the newbie said with his voice still shaking.
"Get up and go after him or you are ready to go back to being a nobody?"
"No!" the newbie snapped out of it.
"Then get up and fight like a man, earn the name of being part of Raccoon's ridge dragon gang, come on get up and go fight like a man"
Getting up, with a new conviction, the newbie picked up his blade again. And as he did so, Kyle immediately stopped. The newbie then started running towards Kyle shouting while he doing so. As he got closer to Kyle. About the same time Kyle turned and caught his hand. At this moment the newbie knew he hand attacked the wrong person.
Trying to pull back and move away, the newbie tried to no avail. All he could do now was seek for mercy and beg for his life. His arrogance had brought him to deaths door, not having been a member of the gang for a long time. Maybe he does deserve to die, as he has committed a lot of crimes in his life, so maybe through dying he will atone for his sins. He never believed in karma but it seemed that Karma did believe in his actions and is here for him. He wouldn't be missed he knew, never did anything nice for anyone, so at most the rats might give him a decent burial by feasting on him.
Mustering up the courage he tried to beg for his life, as he had nothing left to lose apart from his life and reputation.
"Please -" the newbie tried to say but was immediately stopped, for Kyle's fist had landed straight on his jaw, with the punch drawing the newbie's blood. The blow was strong that it dislocated his Jaw. But Kyle's grip didn't loosen or allow him fall to the ground. Kyle letting go of the dizzy newbie's hands, Kyle held the newbie's head in place and with his knee, he gave him a blow to his face, breaking the newbie's nose and rendering him unconscious.
Letting his body fall to the ground, Kyle turned and looked at the other gang members, as if waiting for them to make a move but all stood in place. Taking a walk, Kyle walked towards the gang member that had been telling the newbie to fight and prove himself. As he approached, the other gang members pulled back leaving the gang member who had incited the newbie to fight.
Stopping in front the gang member, Klye drew closer and whispered in the gang members ears, just loud enough for the other members to hear.
"If the viper asks who did this tell him, it was the Cleaver that did it"
As these words left Kyle's lips, it struck fear within the hearts of the gang members there, with their eye's opening wide. The breath within the gang member standing before Kyle seizing, the grip on his blade loosening. Sweats now dripping from his forehead.
"Also, when you wake up take good care of yourself and your men" Kyle said.
"Yes sir-, wait when I -" before he could complete it. The last thing he saw was Kyle's head crashing into him before he had a black out.
Kyle started walking away leaving the gang members with two cold bodies and continuing on his journey.