Ch. 27 - War

Drake could only think so far ahead. Right now, after taking that hit, was making sure he didn't get hit like again, since his vest took the blunt of it, but also he didn't want to see Sarah in a panic. He would turn his head a bit and gaze back at her hiding and clingy to Anna. Marlene was stood up defending them ready to fight if she had too, but even her stance told him she wasn't ready for the fight if something would happen.

Rose stood so calm, and still, but was all in this confrontation. She had her eyes naturally closed, but for this she had them open and she still wore her same smile, there was malice behind her eyes, and clearly she hid it well. She knew Drake's upbringing as much as his sister or Alex. So she and Alex didn't stand the sight of his father. And hearing his threat of what would happen to the other girls along with her only angered her. Her target was her the goon right of Drake's father.

Alex, was laser focused, calm, but looked angry through her single long bang between her eyes. She was easily able to kill as Drake, and fight just as well. She glared at the goon on the left ready to kill him.

They both had full trust in Drake to not speak up, they also held back a lot waiting for his command to strike.

And while the news of Drake's cancer now being out there.

Both Marlene and Anna were afraid for him about the stress. But also themselves, this was the first time they saw Drake's father. And they had proper reason to be alert around him. His body language, his tone, just the way he had presented himself so maliciously and straightforward of his intentions, not to mention, how Drake was acting was set off. He clearly was holding back, for their sakes and Sarah's. He clearly wanted to let loose. But even they saw his priority wasn't him, even though he was clearly on top of lists of who he wanted to kill, his priorities was the lives of the girls.

Sarah, was shaken up, she saw the same thing she had, but in the time she was away from home she forgot it all, until that moment Drake strikes him and his father hit him back. Only now, she realized Drake was fighting back. Which was a first in her eyes.

"Hand her over boy... you did good to raise her... but, it's time you hand her over..." Drake's father told him.

"No. I can't belive you have the nerve to even ask..." Drake said standing up right and looked at him. "You can fuck off and die... I'll let you go right now if you do..."

"You sure dropped your balls... standing up to me... hitting me... whyd you come here if not to hand her over?" He wondeded.

"Cause I figuered you were here... and... so I can take care of you. I came here rightfully aware this was a trap..." Drake told him.

And with such a perfect moment. Multiple cars rolled through the gates and opened fired on Anna's mother's gaurds.

Anna's mother snapped at Drake. "You brought your people? To assault my home?!"

"You want me to apologize for looking out for my people? Anna wanted me to come and talk you down... so I did as she wanted... but she also knew you'd set up and warn me... so if you want all the blackmail I have on you, I suggest you agree to stand down and listen to my demands..." Drake put her on the spot.

"Child! You dare... betray your mother?" She looked at Anna.

"Or..." Drake's father chimed. "Like I said... how about you sell her off to me..."

"What?!" The girls all said even Anna looked distraught. And Drake glared at him.

"Hmph..." Anna's mother sighed. "On one hand... I'm proud of my daughter... I'd likely do what you did... but on the other I'm so disappointed... to turn on your own blood. All for what? Love? Did you fall for this vagabond?" She asked. As she could see the way Anna was seemingly different. More willing to act, rather than do what's told of her.

A fight was taking place outside. And soon it came to a stop when both sides heard from their audio devices both Drake's and Anna's mothers voice. "Stop firing... we're on the same side now."

"Thank you mother." Anna said.

Drake would chime in. "Aid any gaurds and hunt down the men without uniforms and look a likes inside with the gaurds... my father's people are here look for thugs and other outsiders."

"You bitch..." Drake's father grew frustrated. "Fine... if I have now real choise."

"Hunt them." Drake said. As both rose and Alex finally took their shots. Killing both of his goons in sync while Drake then charged his father tackling him to the wall and began to beat on him.

As the two gaurds fell, Alex could then sense another gaurd rush her and Rose together. It was the driver from Anna's kidnapping that managed to slip away in the accident.

"Both of you will play with me..." Alex clicked her tongue and back stepped while rose charged in low with her sharp needle like knife to land a low blow onky for him to dodge, but that in turn gave Alex time to shot, but oddly he dodge again contorting his body in a way that normally broke bone yet he fixed himself.

"Your not normal are ya?" Alex said.

"In this business... are any of us really normal? Or sane for that fact?" He asked almost mocking them.

"2 to 1... you must be confident..." Rose said prepare a throwing stance.

"Don't worry, I'd say, that's hardly a concern. While I do understand the threat your boyfriend is... he isn't focused on me. Which means... I can get away with this, and display violence upon you both. And no offense, but, I think I can take on two ignorant children. Ive had my share of appointing approiate punishment to children." He was clearly full of himself. But also, clearly made it know he was twisted as bad as Drake's father.

"Did you not see we just killed your gaurds..." Alex said, rushing in to punch him after digging her pockets for a pair of knuckles.

He caught her fist but felt a sharp sting and soon saw blood from his palm. "What the?!" He clearly didn't like pain. Which he then tried to kick her back.

She took the kick and Rose charged in with such swiftness she threw her needle, only to the fire her gun at him after.

The man got back, dodging both but didn't pay to much attention to the needle, as it was actually hooked on a wire, she pulled cutting his ankle.

"Ah!" He was suddenly cut again. "YOU BRATS!" He was angry, and more so because of the pain he felt.

"We aren't just some normal girls you know..." Rose said. "I specialize with cutting and torture believe it or not... call it a twisted trait from my mother... Men repulse Me as much as her... so I can't help enjoy seeing them in pain. So I made sure to remember all the techniques I had to to make sure no man lays a hand on me... cutting your ankle tendons should slow you down... but I wonder... are you able to resist poison? Or paralysis?" She then raised her skirt of her dress showing her thighs. But showed off her tools. "Needles... or throwing knives, or just knives... they have many uses... and I have 5 more along with this that I cut you... so can you really avoid it all..." Rose smirked ready to see this repulsive man dead.

"I happen to fight with fist... and sorry these knuckles... are meant to dig little cuts into your body with every punch... heavy because their made of steel, but that just means... I punch your bones hard as much as I like and my knuckles will still be usable. Oh you only saw one... my other... has charged on the knuckle... so ever impact, feels like your getting shot at... so... don't let me get close... but also don't get to far... we also use guns... cause... why not right?" Alex chuckled. "Your in our world... and fights are never fair... so again... you sure you wanna take us both at once... well... even if you didnt... I don't think you have a Choice now. So let's get this going..." Alex aimed her gun again.

He soon did realize, they weren't kidding. This was no fight. But a mercy killing. "No way... your cowards!" He yelled as he then tried to fight back, grabbing a chair and throughing it at them before slipping under the table to crawl away to the opposite end and kicked the table.

To his surpise, Alex punched them away making sure they away had a line of sight on him.

Rose would then toss needle and then another. While true she was tossing them carelessly, he was aware they had wires that she can just pull them back back and cut him on the way. He felt his leg go numb from the paralysis, so he started to act much more wildly.

In the back, Anna's mother, met with Anna and Marlene along with Sarah. "Stay back behind me you three..." Anna's mother said making sure they didn't get involved.

"Mother... we should leave." Anna said wanting to clearly explain something.

"Frankly, we are cornered in this room, they are shooting guns and my men are only going to keep us safe. We can't get involved their fight... leaving is out of the question, because we won't be able to tell friend or foe thanks to my home being sieged... what do you wish to do?" Her mother asked.

"Drake has a contract, the Ace of his people's cards... they can guide us... they also sent out an order to stop hostility between our people and theirs..." Anna explained.

"We have been wire tapped?" She was surprised by that. How many resources did Drake spend for this she wondered. "Do you have a route we can follow?"

"Miss..." Sarah spoke up digging her little satchel to pull out a ear piece. "Put it on..."

Anna's mother didn't waist time, so she grabbed the ear piece. And heard Ace.

"Hello? Is this the mistress of the house?" They asked.

"Yes... can you lead us out?" She asked.

"I can... we have an armored car waiting for you. Since you agreed to his demand to let this go, and choose to help us eliminate a member of the syndicate... we'll escort you out... you'll meet with The Jack, and the driver. Have your men lead... and if you want to escape without punishment, I recommend keeping thay child safe... or he'll get ya... not apart of the deal... but, this is his plan. So hurry... leave amd start taking the path I tell you to escape. Hate to tell you, but this building has been set on fire." Ace then hurried to get blueprints and as they left the room they were meeting at, they began to leave.

Which now left, rose, Alex and Drake alone. With his father and his last gaurd.

Alex after tackling his father, began to through punches into his gut, but because of the body fat hardly did much. So instead he went for lower blows using his knee to kick his father in his balls and after he dropped Drake bashed his knee into the man's face destroying the wall as his head went into it violently. Drake stepped back, hoping his dad got up so he can continue.

"Ah... you Damm brat..." he pulled himself out and Drake's father slowly got up taking a stun baton from his back bock out.

"Good... we can keep this going old man..." Drake, would then take his knife out again. "Come on... get up..."

"All it'll take is one hit... and I promise... I'll stomp your head to the ground till your nothing but mush." His father said charging Drake.

Drake would face hum head on, rushing back in fast, and would imitately stab into his father's arm and twist, but, doing such a reckless action force Drake to then get bear hugged by one arm of his father and start getting crushed.

Drake would have his arms separated, as he was soon pinned to the wall, making slipping away, far to difficult. Only to then get an openly, when rose went and tossed a blade into Drake's shoulder, forcing him to let go.

Drake's father grabbed the needle and didn't feel his hand get cut with poison as he dug it out. "You little bitch!" He then focused her.

But, Drake grabbed his father's arm, and bent it to his back and shoved his father to the ground. "You dont call her that! And your fights with me... if you want to get to them... you better kill me." Drake broke his father's arm and twist his knife even more and pulled on the knife down his entire arm exposing bone amd destroying his arm. Drake pull back his knife and tried to slam it down on his father skull.

Only he rolled on his body to knock Drake off hitting Drake's head to another table that was in the room causing Drake to take a sudden concussion.

This moment gave his father time to slowly stand up. He had an entire destoyed arm, and broken nose. "Alright... I'll make this execution quick." His father slammed the stun baton onto Drake's head at full charge and then kicked his son in his stomach as hard as he could forcing Drake to launch off the ground. He would walk up to Drake on the floor. Would start feeling the poison as he was put on one knee. "What...?!"

"Ha... finally feel it?" Drake got up. "Poison... was on the needle... and you just got cut and stabbed by it..." Drake then took out a gun. And shot at his father's stomach.

"Ah!" Drake's father would hold his stomach. "No...." he whimpered and soon looked up at his son.

"I don't want to hear your last words..." Drake told him. Only before he shot him again to kill him, he would soon get shot at himself by his father's gaurd.

"Run sir!" He said slipping away his fight with Alex and rose from across the room, to help him.

Drake would take cover.

While Alex chased "no!" She was then cut off gaurd by an ambush as he only pretend to fall only to once get under one of her punches, he shoved a knife into her lower stomach. "When did you?!" She would kick him hard but in that same push movement to back him away, he twisted and dragged the blade as it left her body. And after he flung, he twirled and caught himself landing beside his body. "We must leave!"

After he had stopped getting shot at and looking up from cover he saw what happened. And the rage inside grew to an extreme. "What did you just do..." he said soon cuddly standing him.

The man felt death on his back and in front of his father eyes. Drake mercilessly executed the man, shooting him in the head.

Drake's father was in fear that moment. He now saw, he felt all of Drake's true hate, anger and wrath. Drake shot every bullet in his gun into the man who just stabbed Alex, and Alex would soon be with rose being held by her as she saw where she had been stabbed.

Drake's father got up and ran as the walls that were on fire on the other side caved and ge took the chance of some burns to live.

Drake while he wanted to chase, after he had no ammo tossed his gun and went to Alex. He took off his coat to then rip his shirt and soon looked at the wound. And filled the wound with the shirt to stop anymore blood from spilling and would pick her up in his arms. "Rose... we need to leave... can you lead." He said to her.

"Yeah.... drake... where she was stabbed... he avoided the armored vest... likely from under... and... her..." Rose felt Alex touched her hand.

"He's dead... let's go, not critical either." Alex said watching as she soon rested against Drake.

"Right..." Rose soon walked ahead with them behind her as they ran and hurried a way out.

Outside, Anna was with her mother and the other girls inside the armored vehicle. All of them with the special doctor they had treating any burns they had from the falling apart building.

And only later everything would settle down. Both Anna's mother peoples and people of the Empire's would now be gaurds and resting. And only later did they see Alex, Drake and rose. Which they made a clear path for them as the doctor of the empire was quickly rushed to help treat Alex. She was taken to the same armored vehicle and Drake wouldn't be so calm now after as he was outside the car pacing. Sarah was scared as there was a lot of blood around Alex's stomach, but the doctor soon tool them. "She's not gonna die... but..." he saw where the wound was. And while luckly it was not critical, he did let Alex know. She would have lots of trouble. If she chose to be a mother.

One of her eggs were completely destoyed, and there was no repair and there was damage close to her womb, but that with time can be healed. In a way, she was half a woman, at least. That's she felt after hearing that. She was actually very scared after hearing that news.

The house would soon be burned down completely, firefighters and state police under her dollar came, and it was chopped up to a party fire that got out of hand thanks to Anna's mother manipulation. And so, Drake would sit up front alone. He could only see the stab into Alex in his head. He felt awful. He was angry at himself. He began to tear up because what if that happened in a vital spot. She would be dead. What if it was one of the other girls. They would be dead. He didn't want any of them in harms way.

A knock was heard, and it was Sarah opening the passenger side door with help from Anna. "Big bro..." she could see he was in distress. "Alex... wants to talk to you..."