Mina's head was in a permenant whirl over the court order she had just received. She killed D. Vito's son, Johnny Vito? Who the heck was Johnny Vito?!
And then suddenly it hit her. Hot Dog Johnny. The scoundrel who had murdered her first boyfriend Chad and gotten away with it.
He was working with the Aura and had fought with her and her friends in the sewer during their rescue mission for Raven.
They hadn't actually tried to kill him, but during their fight, he was knocked off the edge of a pipe into the sewer below...and he had...
Expired.
Mina's face turned pale over two realizations.
One: her friends and her were guilty of manslaughter in the least.
Two: If Johnny Vito was the son of the leader of the Aura, that meant D. Vito, her dear friend and mentor taxi driver was...
The leader of the Aura.
Mina tried to vocalize words but all that came out was squeaking sounds. It was almost too much to bear.
"What...what do I do..." Mina exclaimed.
Luckily her mentor had a solution. "Dr. Raven is on the case!" Raven squawked and removed a small bottle of white pills. "First, kiddo, I'm prescribing you a bottle of chill pills!"
Mina took them from his hand. "These are Click-Clack candy!"
Raven nodded. "Yep! And they make your breath extra chilly-willy! Second kid, we do what all lawyers do when they're in trouble!"
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"And that is..." Mina muttered, still too dumbfounded to speak.
Raven flashed Mina a two-fingered peace sign and his usual irreverent grin. "We get a lawyer, duh! And luckily, you and I are looking at the best lawyers on this street!"
Mina rolled her eyes heavily. "We're the only lawyers on this street!"
Raven chuckled. "Glass half empty. I say, no other lawyers have settled on this street because they are afraid of us birdbrains. Anyways...it's not that bad, after all we..."
Ding-dong!
The pager rang and Mina jumped so high she nearly hit the ceiling.
"Relax kid," Raven said, looking at the door camera. "It's just your stupid friends."
Mina wrinkled her nose. She was glad Raven was back but she forgot how caustic he could be.
Regardless, she headed downstairs to let them in. Misery loved company and in this case, they were all complicit.
She opened the door and nearly screamed. Both Trudy and Winona were holding bloody objects!
Upon closer inspection, Trudy was clutching a hoagie that was leaking tomato sauce. It looked like it had come from a cheap deli on the wrong side of town.
Winona on the other hand, was clutching a decapitated horses head. While Trudy looked horrified by both the messy sandwich and the disembodied horse head, Winona was simply memorized by the unwarranted gore that had happened.
"Muh muh muh Mina!" Trudy exclaimed. "I woke up today and there was a marinara smeared hoagie in my bed. I think someone is very angry at me!"
"Somebody sent me a horses head," Winona said with a grin. "I think I have a suitor who is also into brutal dismemberment!"
Mina began to hyperventilate. She spoke through gritted teeth to avoid sucking in too much air. "No guys. We have angered a very important man from the Bronx. Remember that greaser we fought in the sewers. That was the son of the Aurafather!!!"
Both Trudy and Winona suddenly froze. The gravity of the situation finally hit them.
"Who is he?" they screamed.
"It was this greasy cab driver!" Mina shouted. "The guy who I've been spilling my guts to this whole time."
Trudy shuddered. "And now he really wants to spill our guts."
Even Winona didn't seem happy by this morbid implication. "This is the only time I don't want that to happen!"
Trudy gulped hard. "What do we do? I don't want to be dog food!"
Mina took a deep breath. She had to think super duper hard. This was the most tense situation she had ever been in. Perhaps they could talk it out with D. Vito? Maybe not.
He was both law suit happy and blood thirsty. No there must be someone else who could explain things.
"I have an idea!" Mina shouted. "It's bonkers and cuckoo bananas but I feel I've already lost it! We will speak to his fifth ex wife!"