CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

One Month Ago

"Remember all that I have taught you, DarkFlood..."

The damp Triad holding room only had one light and it shined on Jack, Dr. Randolph, Sensei, and his grandson. The room was stale and hot. Everyone was sweating over their bounds and gags. Sensei was preoccupied with making sure his grandson was okay. He had no time for instructions. Jack looked over at Dr. Randolph. He twisted out of his muffle and yelled, "What are you waiting for!?" Jack knew what he had to do. But when he checked with his Sensei, he realized.

This was not the time to reveal his power.

Randolph kept flipping out. Jack was trying to figure out what the Triads wanted, what they had planned. The last he had left it they were thriving in a hood now vacant of any other gang. They should be thanking Jack, if anything, not punishing him. Maybe they thought because Jack killed every other crime family in Chinatown, they better strike first or risk being next on Jack's list. A valid concern.

He could not risk the lives of his friends. He must do something before they come back in. He knew the next time a Triad walked through that door, someone would die. It was up to Jack whether or not it would be one of his friends of one of the guards. Jack still couldn’t believe this was happening.

Jack was under the impression that the gangs of the kingpins that he assassinated would come for him before long. Never in his wildest dreams, did he imagine the Triads being responsible. Jack could not sit idly by and let this happen. And yet something was keeping him from releasing his super human abilities.

"They will take us away."

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"Away where?" Jack asked the old Chinese man.

"They will take us before the Dragon Leaders for our execution."

Jack put it together, "Unleash the fury then?"

Sensei nodded his head, closed his eyes, and exhaled. He was tired. All of the long exciting years of the Sensei's life had finally caught up with him. As if he was already defeated, or accepted something Jack did not know. He continued talking to his student, "Today we put an end to all of this."

"Once and for all,” and his student finished.

They bowed to each other with Dr. Randolph and the kid watching on. Jack took inventory of all his abilities. First there was his ability to heal rapidly. Or as Dr. Randolph deemed it, "Catalization." Next there was the Flood Martial Arts technique that Sensei taught him. Next was his camouflage. After that was the tumors in his body responsible for his super strength and reactive stone armor. And last was his pulse blasts from his palms. Combined, he almost had a full outfit of useful abilities. If used together, both the defensive powers of armor and healing, and the offensive powers of super strength and pulse blasts would make Jack quite formidable.

Right now he could not use them. He must save up all his power for the showdown Sensei had foretold. Jack sat in his seat and began to gather the energy and fury from within. This would be his biggest triumph yet. Once he laid the Triads to waste, Chinatown would be free of crime. Jack remembered his fight at the Slaughterhouse, it would be nothing compared to this. Sensei watched on and Randolph and Sensei's grandson began to comprehend what was happening.

The door unlocked. The echo of the key pivoting within the door echoed in the small dark room. The door swung open and in walked five men dressed in black suits and red ties. They were armed with sub-machine guns, except for one. One walked a silver pistol with a golden dragon on its handle over to Sensei and fired it through his head.

The blast knocked the old man's chair to the floor.

His brains slid across the blood to the side of Jack's boot. Sensei wa dead. His grandson cried, strapped to his chair. Randolph screamed for Jack to do something. But Jack just sat there, in awe. His mentor was dead. First his grandfather, now Sensei. All he could do now, was follow through with Sensei's last requests.

To put an end to all of this once and for all.