CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 3

Pierre is seen in the company of Genesis whilst the two ride in his car."Thanks for accompanying me to this exchange,"Pierre turns to his friend."Yeah well if I'm gonna be a part time runner,better learn the ropes of negotiating from the master himself."Genesis smirks.From under his chair he pulls out a gun and hands it to Pierre."Whoa,Dude!"Genesis rolls his eyes,"This is part of the ropes.Them boys don't play nice.You gotta pack some heat."Pierre hesitates to accept the gun.Moments later they drive into a deserted location.Several cars had already arrived.Pierre looks out and turns to Genesis,"Percy?You are doing business with that asshole?"Genesis puts the gun on his side of the belt,"Percy is a middleman.The buyer Rowland is the man.Do not mix the two.He had a good offer.Unlike you I don't let my emotions cloud my judgement."Pierre scoffs,"First of all that is so not like me alright.What if Percy in the future snitches on you?"Genesis leans back and sighs,"Snitching only happens in novellas.He opens his big mouth,I put a bullet at the back of his head."Genesis tries to get out the car when he is pulled back inside,"What now?"Pierre places his hand on Genesis' shoulder and grins,"Let me handle this exchange."Genesis knew this expression of his meant nothing but trouble,"What kinda fucking demented idea do you have?"

As soon as the cars were parked,Genesis and his gang step out,walking towards Rowland and Percy.Pierre puts on a hood,covering his face and stays behind.He sits on top of the car's hood."You are late,"Rowland strokes his nose."Better late than never.So we doing this?"Genesis narrows his eyes looking at the other goons next to Rowland."The weapons?"Rowland asks Genesis.He looks back and motions a signal.Zack and Jon bring six crates,placing them on the ground.Genesis opens the crates for them to view their weapons."Just as you ordered!"Genesis takes a step back."Fuck yeah!"Percy excitedly tries to reach out for the gun.He nearly has his fingers taken off by the randomly closed case.A boot steps on the crate,looking up to a hooded figure."What is the meaning of this?"Rowland steps in.Pierre leans into Genesis and whispers to his ear,leaving everyone including their friends in suspense.Genesis steps aside as Pierre turns to Rowland and his gang,"Deals off !"he says,leaving the buyers caught unaware and shocked."What the fuck is this.Who the fuck are you?"Genesis stands close to Pierre,"Our boss.If boss don't like you then the deal is off."Pierre points his finger at Rowland,"You are a crazy son of a bitch!We know you are gearing up for a turf war.And you got a whole lot of heat on you.Not to mention your enemy has numbers.Your advantage is our weapons.We don't want you snitching on us."Rowland takes a step forward,"With all due respect,none of my men are snitches."Pierre laughs and points at Percy,"I was talking about him!"Percy looks around as all eyes were on him.He takes on a defensive posture and begins to sweat,"Shit man.I ain't no snitch."Rowland interrupts him,"We assure you that no one is going to know where we got these weapons."Pierre paces back and forth before coming to a halt,"The price has gone up."Percy nearly jumps on Pierre unaware of who he was,"Hey man what kind of ass fucking deal is this huh?"Pierre quickly draws out his gun aimed at Percy's chin.Rowland stops his men from raising their guns,"If y'all had come clean about your street record,things wouldn't have escalated."Rowland walks up to Pierre,"Name your new price."Pierre presses his gun barrel against a nervous Percy,"Plus ten thousand dollars.And if Rambo here screams we'll double it!"Pierre whacks Percy's face with his gun.Percy whimpers much to his amazement."We have a deal."Jon and Zack bring to them another cache of weapons and Rowland wires the penalty fee plus the briefcase of the transaction money.As Rowland and his men are about to go,Genesis and his men draw their guns again."Stop.You boss man can go.His ass stays,"Pierre points at Percy.Rowland and his men quickly drive off,abandoning Percy.The gang circles him as Pierre cocks his gun.Percy frantically looks around with no way out,"Wait,wait I ain't got beef with y'all!"Pierre charges at Percy who falls to the ground crying out with a gun pointed to his head.The tall man curls up in a ball on the dirt and whimpers,"Please man don't kill me.I have a kid!"The men around him laugh as Pierre continues to press the gun to his head,"I believe you owe my boy 5k."Percy is confused and looks up at him,"What?"Pierre proceeds to point the gun to his nose,"You harassed my boy last night.I am defending his honor as an elderly brother.Pay up or I shoot you in the balls!"Pierre trails the gun down Percy's back to his buttocks."Alright,alright.Here,in my pocket."Percy reaches into his pockets and empties them.Pierre grabs most of his money.He stands up and fires a shot,causing Percy to let out a cry and wet his pants."Think twice before fucking with him!"The gang walks to their cars and drive off,leaving Percy at the abandoned location.He gets up still shaken by the experience.He looks down at his soiled pants,"Those motherfuckers.I think I shit my pants too,"he uncomfortably walks away.

Pierre laughs and turns to Genesis,"Tell me you recorded Percy?"Genesis shakes his head,"We definitely shouldn't bring you along when we are handling these kinds of transactions."Pierre scoffs,"Please,if not for me we wouldn't be swimming in this money."Genesis scoffs sarcastically,"We were seconds from exchanging shots just because you had a bone to pick with you age old rival."Pierre takes out the money he took from Percy,"Broke ass piece of shit.If he has a brain he should know better to not fuck with me."Genesis shakes his head and maintains his sight on the wheel,"Well you handled it like a natural.The intimidation was top notch."

Pierre looks out the window and pulls the brake handle.The car stops nearly tossing Pierre who flies off his seat and his face hits the glass.Genesis frowns at him,"Dude what the fuck?"Pierre quickly gets out of the car,"I just realized I'm supposed to drop off an application letter."Genesis is confused by his abrupt statement,"You already have a job."Pierre shakes his head,"I need a cover."Genesis sighs,"Can I have at least my 10k back?"Pierre grins,"Fuck no you greedy bastard!"He slams the door and runs off.Genesis starts the car and sighs driving off.

Pierre sprints down the street looking both sides.He comes to the main street and rushes towards a taxi.As the car comes to a halt,another person reaches for the door.Having been in a rush his hand touches that of Rita who had halted the taxi driver the same time as he had.Both take their hands off the car door.

Pierre becomes nervous and takes a step back,"Please after you."

Rita too takes a step back,"It's ok.I am not in that much of a rush."The taxi driver looks back at them,"Are either one of you getting in or what?"Pierre turns to face the driver,"Hey man chill out."

The driver steps on the gas and drives off.

Pierre throws a hysterical fit,"Hey come back.You are her ride!"

He walks towards the shelter where Rita had gone to sit.He sits at the other end from her.He looks up at her,"Sorry about that."

Rita did not look at him as her attention was on her phone,"It's fine.Really."Pierre moves an inch closer,"You sure?"Rita nods still looking at her phone,"Yes."

An awkward silence creeps in.Pierre took note of her tight gym attire.From her tank top to her leggings which brought out her magnificent shape.He clears his throat,"Ahem.Uh so where you coming from?"he asks.

"Yoga,"she gives a flat response.

He smirks,"Wow,ok.Awesome.You got the whole work out thing going on.Yeah.No wonder you are flexibly....hot!"

Rita then turns to face him with an irritated expression,"Excuse you?"

Pierre's heart skips,feeling unease and stutters,"I mean no wonder you are like this.Flex..i mean fit.Fit is the word I was looking for!"He exhales,"I saw flexible on that car.I don't know how it got in between my lines."Pierre laughs nervously as Rita looks back at her phone.

After another moment of silence he looks in her direction again,"So you were headed to the club?"

"Why would I be going to the club?"she says in a dry tone.Pierre fiddles nervously with his hand,"But you work for Madame Jezebel."Rita sighs and faces him,"Yeah so?"Pierre moves back raising his hands,"No I meant no offense at all.Well uh don't you guys like rehearse for your routines?"Rita crosses her arms and frowns,"Routines?Like circus monkeys?"Pierre bites his lower lip,"Shit,You keep saying the dumbest shit.Control the situation,"he says to himself.He confidently continues,"Yeah.I mean the whole pole dancing.Does that you know come without practice?"Rita ignores his question and continues to mind her own business.Silencs yet again creeps in as cars drive past them with no bus in sight.Pierre exhales,"I had an errand to run.I regret not going with the guys."Rita tilts her head and looks at him,"The guys."Pierre notices this time she looked his way.A flutter of joy overcomes him and his face lights up."You know this part of town is difficult to find a ride.I bet my friends aren't that far.I can give you a ride."

Rita leans back with her arms and legs crossed,"What if I am not headed your way?"she scoffs.

Pierre raises a brow,"I thought you were headed my way."Rita sits up and sighs,"Listen,thank you.But no."

Pierre is shocked,"No?"

She nods,"Yeah,I said no."

Pierre scoffs,"I mean you will sit here all day and you won't get a ride."Rita interrupts and laughs at him in a mocking manner,"Oh my god,is this your best pick up lines?Jesus look you are a nice guy,"she faces him much to his excitement and was attentive."I don't do this,I don't need this.So if you don't mind fuck off."

Pierre couldn't help hide his disappointment.For years he had waited for this moment but the outcome was not what he had anticipated.He comes to the heart breaking realization Rita did not feel anything towards him.Pierre sighs and moves into his corner,"Sorry.I was so not hitting on you.I was only trying to make conversation since you are the only other person here.Didn't have to be mean."Rita takes out her earphones and puts one in her ear,"If you don't mind I would rather be by myself than with you.So please just go!"These words were the final nail to his heart.Pierre gets up and takes one final look at Rita who didn't bother to look at him.Taking a step to walk away,a truck rams at the end of the shelter they sat in,causing it to spin caving in Rita and Pierre.Before it could sweep Rita,she quickly drops her bag and runs towards Pierre.Without warning she jumps onto him.Another vehicle flies above them and crashes.Pierre stands there cold and exhales.

Rita shivers and opens her eyes looking around,"What was that?"Pierre takes her arms off of him,"Accident?"The two curiously step out to see what had happened.

Rita takes out her phone,"Let me call an ambulance.Somebody could be hurt."Whilst Rita dials the emergency line,Pierre walks towards the turned over cars.Pierre comes to a shocking discovery when he sees one of the car's plate number.His eyes glare,"Genesis?Genesis!"Pierre jumps over the car trying to get the doors open

Rita cuts the line and walks up to him,"Dude what are you doing?Get down from there?"Pierre strains trying to get the door opened,"Oh now you are concerned about my well being.This is my home boy's ride."Rita too realized this car,"I know this car.It belongs to Genesis."

Pierre continues trying to get the door opened,"Yes.The ride you rejected,remember."

Pierre after much difficulty flings the door open.No one was inside.He turns around after he hears grunting echo down the alley way.He jumps to the other side and runs towards the sound.

"Wait up!Ugh!Asshole!"Rita drags along her gym bag and tries to get to the other side of the turned over car.Pierre arrives at the scene where Genesis was.He halts in his tracks and stands there.Rita manages to catch up to him and pants.

"You are a real gentleman.Leaving me all by myself back there,"she stands in front of him,"What are you standing there for?"Pierre points ahead without saying a word.Rita looks in his direction.Genesis strains as he tries to overpower a demon with his sword.Most of the gang members where engaged in a sword fight with a couple of demons.

Rita glares in shock,"What the fuck?"

The manner in which they jumped and fought these creatures made Pierre wonder what his friends had been up to.Genesis drives his sword into his opponent and riddles it with bullets.He looks up and is shocked to see Pierre.

"What are you doing here?"Genesis shouts to Pierre as the rest of the gang notices him.Pierre points to Genesis,"Behind you!"A demon tackles Genesis to the ground and wrestle.Pierre and Rita gasp.Genesis struggles to pin down the demon and looks up at Pierre,"Get out of here!"

Pierre grabs Rita by her wrist,"Let's get the hell outta here!"

As the pair turns around,a demon appears and swings it's huge blade.The two let go of each other as it misses and hits the ground.Pierre hits the demon on it's shoulder but is unfazed.The monster hits him with the back of it's hand.He flies and hits a wall.Before he could fall,the demon chokes and pins him against the wall.

"Ow!Fuck!"Pierre gags as he is grinded into the wall by the demon.Zack stabs the demon,diverting it's attention from the unarmed Pierre.He coughs and falls to the ground.Rita rushes to him and helps him.

"For fucksakes get up.We need to get help,"she says to the disoriented Pierre.Another demon grabs Rita by the hair hoisting her up.She cries out and struggles to free herself from its grasp.Pierre snaps out of his dizziness.He grabs a trash can and swings it.The demon growls in pain as it is unexpectedly hit in the face.Rita falls to the ground and sweeps the demon.Before it could fall to the ground,Pierre swiftly wraps his arms around the demon's waist.He performs a German suplex,slamming it onto the ground.He reaches for another trash can and hits the demon with it whilst Rita continuously stomps away.The demon however extends it's arms,grabbing both Rita and Pierre by their necks.Genesis cuts it's arms off and stabs it in the chest,finally dying.

Genesis pants and turns to Pierre,"You shouldn't be here!You are not yet ready!"

Pierre is momentarily confused and stops Genesis,"What do you mean?The fuck is going on here man.Why y'all fighting fucking demons?"

Genesis grabs Pierre's shirt angrily and pulls him closer,"Get your girl and leave.I will explain this later!"

Rita kicks the dead demon's body and stops due to Genesis assumption."I am not his girl!"Genesis grabs both of them,"Duck!"A car hood flies above them.Rita is quick to get up and gets flown by another flying hood.Pierre rolls out of Genesis' arm,"Rita!"Pierre rushes to Rita.She is encased in the hood which was dug into the wall trapping her as well.

Rita struggles to free herself and panics,"Get me out of here!"

Pierre nervously looks around,"Hang on!I got this!"Pierre looks around looking for something he could use to free Rita.

"Watch out!"Rita screams to Pierre.He narrowly dodges a hit from a giant blade.A bulky demon quickly grabs him and tosses him with force towards the hood that trapped Rita.The hood falls off freeing Rita.She crawls to him and helps him up,"Hey get up!"Pierre moans in pain,"I think my ribs are broken."

Rita shakily tries to balance with his weight,"You better get your ass up before this creature breaks all your bones!"He lets go of her and charges at the demon.He attempts to tackle the demon again but he receives a vicious knee to his chest.The demon grabs Pierre and slams him onto the ground.Rita gasps and glares in horror.The demon begins to walk towards Rita.She tries to run but finds herself against the wall.Pierre picks up a gun and begins to shoot at the demon.The bullets bounce off it's back infuriating the creature.It charges at Pierre and cuts his weapon.

He pouts and looks up at the demon towering him,"Really."

He looks around as his friends are all slowly overpowered by the demons they were fighting.Choking on his blood and vision blurry,he looks up at the demon raising it's arm ready to strike him down.

The sky shines brightest.All cover their eyes unable to withstand the blinding rays.The demons go into a frenzy and stand ready.Several silver arrows fall from the sky impaling the demons.A winged woman wielding a silver spear with a golden tip begins to swing her weapon around.With each swing,the heads of the demons fly around the place.Genesis and his friends join in on the fray and kill demons of their own.

Jon slides to Pierre's side,"Cmon get up!Let's get you some help!"Rita grabs his other arm as well.Pierre groans in pain.Jon and Rita struggle to navigate safely through the intense fights.A dark cloud of mist opens from one wall.From it emerges armored demons.The winged woman,Genesis and his friends slowly take steps backwards.

"We can't take them on.These reinforcements are going to kill us.We must retreat,"says Genesis looking at his companions and the winged woman.

"We cannot.But he can!"she looks at Pierre who was barely awake.She spins her spear,swiftly turning around and stabs Pierre.She hoists him up in the air much to the horror of his friends.She flaps her wings,causing them to be flung away to prevent an attack on her.Pierre grabs onto the spear grunting.

"Time to wake up!"she says to him as his vision fades.

Pierre gasps and sits up panting.He touches himself and discovers he had no single injury nor was he in any pain.It was like they had been erased.

"What happened?"He finds himself in an unknown home."How did I get here?"He asks himself.He looks around and suddenly jumps to his feet.Besides him were two bodies of dead women in an embrace.

He pants horrified and covers his nose since the bodies had began to rot,"What the fuck?"He proceeds to walk out of the house.Standing at the door he looks up ahead.He could see a vast valley from below since the house was on an upper plane.

"Where am I?"At that moment he comes to another horrifying realization and falls to the ground with his hands on his head."Holy shit!I'm dead!Oh my god I'm so fucking dead."Pierre begins descending down the slope which was filled with corpses,not to mention it was slippery thanks to the blood."If i knew i was going to end up in Hell i would have done a lot of sinful shit.I guess all the good guys go to Hell.So much for a straight arrow path,"he says to himself.Below were houses on fire,smoke in the skies.

He looked around and slowly noticed some similarities."Wait a minute.This is not Hell,I know this place."Pierre carefully walks down the road avoiding stepping on the corpses.He makes it down and walks onto the streets.From where he had come from,the bodies laying on the ground were human.However as soon as he got onto the streets,the dead bodies did not look human.He hears a deep grunt ahead of him."Hello?"he shouts and begins running towards the sound.After a few turns,he sees what seemed like the main street.He instinctely stops as an array of stray arrows fly.When the coast was clear he walks onto the street.Flooded with a dull puddle of violet blood and dead demon corpses,no one was in sight.The squelching of flesh could be heard.A demon falls to the ground revealing a single man present.He was on his knees riddled with swords and arrows.The man could barely move and pant faintly almost near death.Pierre slowly walks up to him to have a closer look.He in fact knew this man.

"I have seen you.I see you in my dreams,"Pierre whispers as he maintains his distance.The man could barely look at him.He was entirely covered in the blood of the demons.He moans in pain and coughs out blood before his head faces down lifeless.

Pierre carefully gets closer and puts his hand on the man's neck to check his pulse.Pierre sighs in relief knowing he was still alive.Suddenly a few demons crawl out of corners.Pierre stands up as the creatures prey on both of them.Pierre kneels and pats the man's shoulder continuous,"Hey man,you seem like a tough guy.I need you to wake up and kill these motherfuckers before they kill us."The man was unresponsive but it did not stop the demons from closing in.Pierre grabs the man's cloak and shakes him,"Dude wake the fuck up!"the man instead falls lifeless into the puddle of blood.Pierre sighs,"Fuck!"The demons were almost inches closer."Sword,You gotta have a sword?"He kneels back down and searches the man.Suddenly the man grabs his wrist in a death grip.Pierre looks down at the injured man who somehow had mustered strength out of nowhere.He pulls Pierre closer,"You must awaken!"Without warning,Pierre is spun around to a flurry of oncoming arrows.

Pierre gasps as a surge of power emits out of him knocking down everyone who was in the alley way.Genesis,his companions and Rita all fall flat.Genesis looks up and notices the angel had been knocked down.Pierre staggers trying to get up.His vision was blinded by a thick cloud of black and red smoke.

Jon slowly gets up,"Why is he on fire?"Genesis takes a step closer unable to describe what was happening to Pierre,"He is not burning,he is smoking?"

The demons growl and start to charge towards Pierre.In a blink,a demon has its side of the face dug out when he attempts to grab it.His reflexes had become somewhat heightened.Another demon swings it's large blade,dodging it before swiftly taking it from the creature and cutting it in half.His friends glare in awe,"Damn,what has gotten over him?"says Arman.Rita watches as Pierre dispose off the demons with much ease.His actions begin to raise questions in her mind.Pierre jumps to his feet,dodging another blade strike and kicks the head of a demon mid air.As he touches the ground,he grabs onto his head and screams in pain.A flash of random images begin to fill his head at once.Six demons surround him and attempt to take advantage of the situation.Pierre emits a black smoke which covers the entire ground on which they stood.His companions become anxious and concerned."Since when does he do that?"Zack looks at Genesis.Pierre goes into a trance and opens his eyes.The demons are instantly immobilized in the black and red fog.Their attempts to break free prove to be futile.Pierre extends his hands in the face of a demon.From his hand,a red and black energy bursts and blasts the entire body of the demon.Bits of its flesh splatters all over the place.The force is so intense it explodes the remaining demons.His companions cover themselves from the blood of the demons.However the force causes Pierre to lose balance.He ricochets between the walls like a bouncing ball.His friends lay on the ground to find safety.Another dark portal opens and four demons jump out.Pierre flies in and out of the demons,killing them all.He then slams onto the ground and bounces off onto the street.Midway,an oncoming bus meets him in motion and is hit,taking another hard bounce onto the street before laying lifeless on the ground.