Snippet #2559287

The city of Argenta never sleeps. No matter the time, no matter the place, there is always action to be found in the City of Silver. Even now, hours after the sun has set, there is still a buzz of energy in the air, and the dull sounds of city life with it. Huey thought this was the reason why so many people moved here.

Looking down from his perch, he say his targets still doing nothing but waiting. From his intel, the group down there was part of the Giradano family, and each of the three men had a bounty in the area of $100,000. Great money, to be sure, but there was a reason they were worth so much. Their kill counts were probably in the area of 50 to 100 each, and they weren’t exactly known for quick and painless kills. No, they were known for their brutality and cruelty. They reminded him a lot of the men he had been forced to deal with back when he was 12, the monsters that kidnapped his girls to sell for profit. Just the thought of it started to get his blood boiling.

Taking a deep breath, he forced himself to calm. What was done was done. The past was in the past. The wind whirled around him on the top of the building on which he sat. “Eva,” he called out into seemingly nothing, “how long until the last guy gets here?”

“Supposedly, he is on the way right now, so it should only be a minute or two more.” The response was quick. Adjusting something in his ear, he shot back, “Well, that is good. Is he bringing any more goons, or is it just him?”

“Just him, Huey. Be careful though, I would hate to break in another partner.”

“Heh, just who do you think I am? These mooks are gonna be a piece of cake.”

After a minute or two more of silence, another man slipped into the alley. It was Liano Giradano, nephew of the current Don of the Giradano. He had a bounty of a cool $500,000, and was known as “The Butcher.” If that wasn’t a clue to his personality, his body count of 127 different people and the fact that most of his victims had to be stitched back together to be buried was. Huey stood up from the spot where he was sitting on the edge of the building and stretched himself out. Time to get to work.

He jumped off the building as the four below grouped together. It was a 12 story drop, lethal to any normal man. But… he was anything but normal.

He landed as gentle as a feather right in the middle of the group. Taking advantage of their obvious shock, he threw three of them away hard, straight into walls, or a dumpster in the last one’s unfortunate case. He looked around at the last one standing, Liano, and moved. Liano had already started to move for his gun, but Huey already had his pistol in hand. The criminal cried out in pain the next moment, after Huey put a bullet in the hand reaching for his gun. Before Liano could even think about doing anything, he was pistolwhipped by the bounty hunter and out like a light. Huey holstered his gun as he said, “Alright Eva, call down the processors so I can get my money. I need to get to my sister’s game soon.”

Unfortunately, things were not going to be that simple. As if his gunshot had sparked a storm, the distinctive sounds of gunfire erupted from the streets. Huey ran to the end of the alley and peaked out to see two groups of people in the streets firing all sorts of weapons at each other. People were screaming in terror, fires were engulfing cars, the street were pure chaos. “Eva… what the hell is going on?”

“It looks like some company troops are fighting is something, I don’t know, there isn’t anything on the net yet. Oh, crap! Huey, you have to get going! The fighting is moving toward the condo!”

Huey pulled his gun right back out, made sure it was fully loaded, and nodded. “Alright, I am on the way. Give me updates as the info comes in.”