Shadow's POV We stood with our guns out ready to fire at any moment. Small fry had a pretty good score in training and simulations, too bad the only weapons he was any good at were all pistols, a rapid fire machine pistol if he was lucky. I looked over at the others. Pro-Jo was wearing his usual war paint, jeans, black Nikes and a light blue bullet proof vest. Striker a black suit with pants and dress shoes, Psycho had on nothing but a pair of dark blue ripped jeans, bullseye wore a bloodred pair of pants and a shirt and pair of shoes of the same color, deadshot wore a pair of dark jeans, and a t-shirt with skulls on it and black nikes. I looked down at my own leather jacket pants, and shoes and launched myself into deep thought.
James' POV I sat with the other recruits with my bets on the poker table infront of me, my eyes switching from one recruit to another. "Well mister kyle, sorry, just met ya but I am not gonna go easy on you." One of them said. Each of us were barecheast and footed. I had a pile of cash next to me and a medium one infront of me. No way was I walking away from this empty-handed. I looked at my cards and set them down. "Sorry," I said as I raked in the last of their cash. Suckers. They didn't relize I was the boss. John was the only one who knew other than the original five and their girlfriends. The face of the scorpians was some idiot in his early twenties, no one would beleave that six sixteen year olds were behind one of the three major gangs of the state. Of course we could move across the entire country but we had made an agreement to remain here and each of us pick a city as our capital. Everything was fair game here. As always I was checking out the recruits before dividing em up, I decided instead of being random we would organize. We had assault, stealth, bomb, sniper and many more types of teams. I liked to be friendly and gain trust, if I was going to find any spies I had to get close to em. I sat on my bunk in the old warehouse were these new scorpians were. Some were over with our tatoo guy getting the tatoo put on them so they could ship out, some had it on their chests, others their hands, others their backs, pretty much everywhere that could be accessed in a second. Above the waist of course. You could tell where they belonged and their rank by the decorations on the scorpian. Everyone here was given a plain brown scorpian with the tail/poisen stinger, claws, and legs. I of course was unmarked just incase. Why would I die for no reason? After all, I am the mastermind.
Shadow's POV We walked through our small warehouse serving as our barracks. The cats had flown us to an airport after small fry returned from his first shootout in a chanook helicopter. We had landed and been driven to the warehouse in black sedans. As we walked through the hallway formed out of boxes I thought about her. She hadn't left my thoughts since before she was sent on her mission. Maybe I could go see her....... I stoped by my bunk long enough to pick up my motorcycle keys, put a colt-1911 in it's holster, put it on, then walk to the garage. "Where you heading shadow?" I heard a soft voice ask from behind me. I turned around to see a woman wearing a red and black dress leaning on the wall behind me. "Out." I told her in as hostile a voice as I could manage, "C'mon baby, come tell little mama where you're going" She said with a smile as she advanced with her arms out stretched. "No." I said firmly as I pushed the woman in her early twentys away from me. She laughed and droped the seduction act, "You're the only one I can't get to kid. I think you have a sweetheart unlike the rest of the teenagers, am I right?" she asked with a semi-evil grin playing across her face as she flicked her raven black hair out of her black eyes, folded her arms across her chest and cocked her head staring at me coyly. "No." I told her as I turned, walked to my motorcycle, opened the garage and sped off. I am such a liar.
Shadow's POV I sped through the streets going over 200MPH as I always did. My jet black motorcycle and I became a blur to any watching as we raced through the small pockets of traffic in the night. I pulled up to an apartment building and put the kickstand down on the bike. She was on the tenth floor, and if I passed security the scorpians would be alerted immediatly. Easy. I leaned on the wall next to the open window as I examined my knife waiting for her, and........... Here she is. I moved to the left and narrowly avoided being sliced in half by a butcher's knife that appeared out of the darkness, held by a small dainty hand. Atleast that's what it looked like. I steped back into the shadows and came back behind her then wrapped my arms around her preventing her from turning, stabbing, or hiting me. "Hello Shadow." she suddenly said to me as her head faced the open window, "Hello my angel," I replied to her as I turned her around and kissed her. She pulled away and looked up at me as I ran my hands through her golden blond hair. I listened to her as a smile played across her beutifull lips,"That's Big Mama to you." said the sixteen year old mercenary.
Striker's POV "Where's shadow?" I asked little mama as we sat in my fiery red ferrarri. "I don't know, last I saw he was at the garage then out the garage flying on his bike." she replyed with a smile on her face as she flicked her hair out of her beutifull face. "You know you can't get him, he is smart for a seventeen year old kid. Plus he is in love, you might as well give up." I told her with a sigh. "Really? With who?" she asked her face filling with curiosity, "I don't know. Unlike the rest of those teens he trusts no one that much. Maybe it's someone in one of the installments. Maybe their keeping it a secret like we do inorder to keep from being transfered away from each other." I told her as I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. "Maybe you're right..... I wonder who it is though......" I heard her mutter under her breath as we both drifted into silence.
Shadow's POV As Big mama and I talked I felt..... Happy...... I felt as though nothing could ruin this. I felt...... Complete. She made some tea and we sat at her table and talked about nothing, yet everything. We were both laughing when there was a knock at the door, we immediatly stoped and listened to the voice on the other side, "Angel! Open up! It's John!" there was loud banging as we both looked at each other with wide eyes. I did what had to be done, I pecked her on the cheek and headed towards the window, "The car is waiting for us outside! Hurry up and put on your best dress so we can go!" I heard John yell and I ducked into her bedroom nodding for her to open the door so he didn't get suspicious. "Nice T-Shirt angel. Now get dressed." said the man standing with two thick men in grey suits. His suit was a dark shade of black with a bulge where his gun obviously was. "But it's sooooo late babe, it's midnight!" angel replied to him while rubbing her eyes, "Well then why were you on the phone talking to someone? And why did you make two cups of tea?" he said gruffly as he stepped past her staring at the mugs. I had forgoten to take mine. "I was talking with a friend of mine, and I thought I would need two to fall asleep tonight. Anyway I'll go get ready babe, just have a seat." She said as she kissed his cheek, smiled at him, then walked to the room. I watched her as she shrugged and took off the large T-Shirt she was wearing and sliped into a long red dress that complimented everything about her perfectly. "May I ask where we are going?" She asked him as she walked out the room, grabed her purse and did a small twirl and smile for him. "To meet the boss." He said as he took her arm in his and walked out the penthouse. I waited a few minutes before I climbed out the window and into the cold night.
James' POV I sat with the five (including bob) other original members of the scorpians as I siped on a glass of water. I looked up intime to see John in a black suit and a blond girl in a slim-long red dress with a black purse in her hand walk up to the table, "Boss, this is angel, angel, meet boss." he said as he pulled out a chair for her and sat. "it's a pleasure to meet you," she said looking around most likely attempting to figure out which of us was the boss. I felt her eyes linger over me as I remained silent.
Angel's POV "it's a pleasure to meet you," I said with as seductive a smile as I could produce. There was pure silence as they all stared at me, including John. I looked from face to face, even if they wouldn't tell me who was the boss I could still turn them all in. Then agian they could be decoys, plus my mission was to get close to the boss and find out everything about him. Not kill him. As I ran my eyes over the seated men I found my attention drawn by one of them, he was handsome and reminded me of shadow......... No time for those thoughts, I have to hurry up and figure it out. I smiled agian and listened as they all began speaking at once.
James' POV We each started talking at once as we always did, each of us talking to one maybe two people at a time. We discussed many things including who caught their eye, who theydidn't trust, who was disrespectful etc. Soon it was time for the customary toast. I stood as we each held up our glasses of champane. At this moment I saw triumph in angel's eyes as she relized who was the boss around here. It was going to happen anyway so i didn't really care that much. "To another succesfull month." I said as I raised my glass to my lips. I noticed that angel's eyes never left me. Angel and I were the last ones there. She ate incredoubly slowly and I always stayed late to think to myself. John trusted me enough to let her stay here aslong as I took her home. Suddenly my thoughts were inturrupted by a fit of giggling. I looked up and saw angel on her fifth glass of wine giggling and staring at me, "Have the rest of her food delivered to her house and get the car ready. We're leaving." I told one of the gaurds as I wiped my mouth and stood, reaching for her hand. "We are leaving angel. You have had too much to drink." I said as I pulled her out of her seat and towards the door. "You're cute," She said as she burst into another fit of giggling. I let out an annoyed sigh as I half pushed half helped her into the car then got in. This was going to be a long drive. I got out and helped angel upstairs to her apartment/penthouse, she leaned on me heavily and I could smell the alchahol on her breath as I opened the door, carried her to her couch, sat her down and turned to leave. I felt a hand on my shoulder and immediatly turned to see her smiling face, "Want to stay a bit longer?" She asked me as she moved closer. "No." I replied sternly as I stepped back, "Why not?" she asked steping foreward. "John would not approve." "Heres a secret, I like you more than John." She said as she leaned foreward and kissed me. I pushed her away, scowled at her in disgust and left her staring after me.
Oops, anyway: I want to know what stories you guys want me to focus on, continue, or stop. Tell me on this thread your votes on: Mastermind The Last Samurai Book Two:The Kids The Thirst For Blood . If there is one of my stories not on here(collabs not included) then I'm not continuing that story. If I can't find the story I will not update it. (collabs included). Soon I will be bringing out a few new stories that are different from what I normally do, they are not includedin the vote. The listed stories will not be updated until atleast one person has voted on all these storys. That's all.
Shadow's POV A year ago angel told me everything that happened at the meeting. It then took her seven months to get James to "steal" her from John. The mission was on target, of course every night I came and talked to her. I looked foreward to it in my day, I thought about her all the time. She was the girl for me. Tonight seemed....... Different...... Instead of the usual glasses of water she had waiting there was a cup of tea. One cup. "What is it angel?" I asked as soon as I saw her. "Shadow, I... I don't think we should see each other anymore." she said as she wrung her hands. "Thats fine. I can wait until after the mission, I mean, it won't take long right?" I asked her as I kept trying to wrap my mind around what I hoped she wasn't saying.... "No. I meant at all, I, I think I love someone else." "Wha-" "Please go." "But Angel-" "Just go!" she nearly screamed at me. I had thought this day would come, I had prepared myself for it, after all, she is way too good for me. But the horrible thing is I think I know who she was talking about. "You are getting in too deep, Big Momma. Kill him soon." those were the last words I spoke to her before I crashed. My motorcycle was going the usual speed. I felt the wind in my hair as I raced through the city streets. I was just sarting through a red light as I always do when i suddenly saw a bright light. I felt the breath leave my body as I was sent flying by a big object. Then, nothing. I almost let this die. Yes this isn't as good as usual. I found a reality check that no one really liked my stories. The bumps are a lie. If I didn't live my stories so much they wouldn't he updated. I don't feel what little motivation I had for writing awsomely so y updates will probobly be worse than usual.