7-Take-Over

*…….* =thought

“…….” =dialogue

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I put on a black hoodie and black sweatpants. I left the house after telling my dad and Gwen that I had business to attend to.

Today, I was going to take over other gangs by launching attacks. This would help me gain more power and strengthen my gang.

I decided to start with smaller gangs and, after walking for ten minutes, I arrived at a place with an old basketball court.

Inside and around the basketball court, there were mostly people around my age. The common factor among these people was the flame tattoo around their necks.

I only had two days, so I needed to be fast. I walked through the crowd and entered the basketball court.

The gang members playing basketball inside looked at me with curiosity.

"Hey, don't you know whose territory this is?" one of them asked.

"I do, and I want to talk to your boss. Call your boss if you don't want to get hurt," I replied.

The gang members who heard my words burst into laughter. I don't know why, but every time I asked about their bosses, I got the same reaction.

There were about twenty-five people around me, and I noticed a few of them had knives at their waists. Normal cutting tools couldn't harm me, so I didn't pay them any mind.

When a man entered the basketball court, the laughter stopped. The man who entered the basketball court was two meters tall and had a muscular body.

I could see several knife scars on his arms. The only thing I could say by looking at him was that he was experienced in fighting.

The man walked slowly towards me and stopped half a meter in front of me.

"Are you the one looking for me?" he asked.

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I nodded my head and began to speak.

"I'm the new leader of the Skull Gang. I don't like saying these words, but you're going to hand over this territory to the Skull Gang."

When the man heard my words, he immediately looked around the basketball court. When he didn't see any members of the Skull Gang, he turned back to me and asked, "Where are your men?"

"I don't need my men for this," I said calmly.

The man didn't believe what I said and observed his surroundings a bit more. Two minutes later, he chuckled and said, "You've got guts."

"Break his legs!" he added.

At the man's command, the gang members around me charged at me. I took down each approaching gang member with a single punch.

After defeating five of them, the gang members attacked me with sticks and knives.

Unlike before, they didn't approach me one by one. They all attacked me together.

I simply stood my ground and punched those coming towards me. They were hitting me from behind with sticks and knives, but none of their attacks could penetrate my skin.

Ten minutes passed, and I knocked out another ten people. Just as I was about to punch another gang member in front of me, I was struck from the side and dragged about half a meter.

The blow was powerful, but it barely scratched me. When I looked to my right, I saw the gang leader holding a club in both of his hands, looking at me with surprise.

He had a bewildered expression on his face. After all, the attack he had just made should have been enough to take down a normal person.

I rushed toward him, tackled him, and brought him to the ground by wrapping my arms around his waist. The gang leader couldn't react to my speed, so even when he hit the ground, he didn't understand what had caused it.

When I punched him in the face, he snapped out of his shock and immediately covered his face with his arms to protect himself from another punch. I chuckled at his reaction and delivered a punch to his exposed ribs. I didn't put my full strength into the punch, so it just made the guy groan in pain.

As the gang leader clutched his ribs, I got up from him and grabbed him by the leg, tossing him toward the gang members who were watching us in amazement. When the gang leader collided with them, five of them fell to the ground, pinned beneath him. As I looked around, I could see that no one dared to attack me. This was quite normal, as around me were fifteen unconscious individuals and the gang leader lying on top of them.

"This territory belongs to the Skull Gang from now on. If you want, you can join us; it's entirely up to you," I said.

Only ten people heard my words. None of them moved from their spots, and I understood that they had decided to join me.

"Alright, drag the unconscious ones to the side; none of them are severely injured," I said.

I hadn't used my full strength when hitting them, so they were just unconscious; at most, they had broken noses or jaws. Ten people obeyed my command and dragged the unconscious ones to the corner of the basketball court. They began to wake up after about twenty minutes. The first to wake up was the gang leader.

I walked up to him and looked at him. He was physically very strong, and it would be a good addition to my gang.

"Can I join your gang?" he asked.

"What's your name?" I inquired.

"My name is Arthur," he replied.

"Alright, Arthur, you can join my gang. Visit the Skull Gang's headquarters in two days, and don't worry, you'll continue to run this territory, just under my command," I said.

Upon hearing these words, Arthur nodded and expressed his gratitude. He stared at my face intently, trying to memorize every detail. I actually felt sorry for him because when I put on my mask in two days, he would forget what I looked like.

I left this area and headed to the territories of other gangs. I had two days, and I needed to be fast. When I took over all of Brooklyn, I would stop growing the gang and instead find a way to empower the people within my gang. I was choosing qualitative growth over quantitative, and I had a feeling these two days would make me significantly stronger.