Part One: THE UNDERTAKERS Volume Two: "SOLDIERS OF DEATH"
The Undertakers, is a series of fictional short stories (roughly based on true events) written by Samuel and Magida.
Part One (of two):
Volume Two: Soldiers of Death
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Flash Back:
As I lie here on this wet pavement, letting my body grow cold, blood runs from my mouth. I feel the coldness seeping into my bones. I hear shallow breathing and gurgling next to me and look over to see the light and life leaking out of my brother's eyes. I reach for him, but he doesn't reach back.
That’s when I realize my life and the vengeance of hate begins. In my mind, all I can think about is where we went wrong, how we went wrong. We set everything up so right, and now he's gone.
As I drag myself to look at the other dead bodies of my friends, I wonder how I can start all over again. This is the time for new beginnings.
Present:
The boys sit in the booth at El Arco Iris as Vicious recounts the story that only his friends partly knew about their brothers who had just passed away. As the story unfolds, they all feel the cold vengeance in their hearts rising.
“It took almost a whole day before they removed the bodies? So you’re saying my brother was just laying there on the cold pavement like that for hours?” Lil Jax asked, visibly upset.
“Fuck.” Knuckles says under his breath, his head in his hands. Knuckle's brother was one of the three that didn’t survive that day.
“Yeah,” Vicious said, “I know these guys are laying low, but how about we try and go hunting tonight?” A spark lit up in his eyes as he met the gaze of the other three.
After finishing their drinks, and planning what route they would take, they slowly make their way back to their ride and load up their weapons, getting ready to hunt their enemies. The evening was quiet, and after creeping around all the usual spots for what felt like hours, it started to feel as if this night might be coming to an end.
“We should head to York Billiards for one last attempt.” Savage suggests. York Pool Hall is known to be an active spot for their rivals, “Ghost Gang", so there has to be at least a few of them roaming around the area.
As they pull up to the pool hall, two of the guys make their way in while Vicious and Savage standby. “Hey Savage, let’s smoke this,” Vicious says, raising his hand and beginning to light a joint. As Vicious takes his first hit, he looks across the street to see four women using a payphone. They look at one another and with the same thought in mind Savage says, “Let’s go see what they’re up to,”
They cross the intersection and the girls spot them making their way over,
“Yeah?” the girl with the pay phone asks.
“What's up?” Vicious asks, “What you girls up to?”
“Nothing,” she says.
One girl quickly interjects, “We’re trying to get more of the homies and homegirls to come hang out tonight.” she replies enthusiastically. “You from Ghost Gang” she points to Savage's hat, recognizing the logo. Savage was wearing their rival's emblem to grab someone’s attention, and it worked. Viscous came up with that idea the other night to try and catfish their enemies.
“Yea,”
“What do they call you?”
“Grumpy,” Savage replies.
“Your homies are at my house right now, we’re at the corner of Baltimore and 51, we’re the third house on the left. Come through,”
“Ok. That’s what's up, we’ll be over there in a few minutes, we're just gonna grab a couple more of the homies.”
…. To be continued.
…Next week Part Two of “Soldiers of Death”