Code Lyoko: Revolutions and Evolutions

Chapter 87

AN: This chapter came after a prayer and a reminder. I hope you all enjoy this chapter. The season finale is up next. I hope you all have a wonderful week.

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Nicolette was walking quietly towards Sylvia's office. She knocked, and after a moment, the automatic door unlocked, and the door swung open. Sylvia wasn't present, and so Nicolette entered and sat down.

Sylvia's office was a beautiful location. The woods were very warm, the floor elegant and perfectly polished, so much so Nicolette could see her reflection in the veneer of the wood. Nicolette stood and circled to Sylvia's desk. A breathtaking masterwork from the carpenters of the State's labor office. It was a gift presented to her for her victory over the milk distributors that Natasha had established as part of the resource regulators. Nicolette ran her fingers over the handles of burnished bronze. So elegant was the metalwork that she was astounded, and this was to say nothing of the beautiful engravings on the wood itself.

Gently tugging at one of the right-hand drawers, she was surprised it opened, and she saw a beautiful and meticulous inside. Several notebooks were stacked on top of another in differing sizes, largest to smallest—a pencil case on the right side, all the pencils sharpened and nearly the same length. An inkwell was in the drawer's upper right hand with three geese feathers to the inkwell's immediate left, perfectly and precisely sharped to allow for an inch and three-quarter long writing quill. She saw a strange cloth wrapping an object in the far left, and she took it out. To her amazement, it was a handgun, and she unwrapped it.

She examined it a genuine Colt Model 1911 pistol with a full magazine and one in the chamber. It was in pristine condition with the initials J.B. engraved into the pearl handle. She looked deeper and saw a framed picture that was underneath the notebooks and everything else. She removed the notebooks quickly and found the picture. It was a black and white photo in an engraved gold frame with Sylvia and a group of young men and women dressed in all white pin-stripe shirts with jet black pants with black bands on either left or right arms by their placement. The men and women were a bunch of smiling and a festive bunch. In the back was a beautiful bar of brick and mortar, and it was a large grand affair. Sylvia sat among the group, back when she looked her actual age, long ago.

Nicolette chuckled, thinking, "Back when you were a beautiful woman, loved by all."

She opened the frame and took out the photo, and she flipped it over. It read as follows in Sylvia's handwriting, "Grand Opening of the Golden Finch after the Relief of McCallister. Too-ra-loo-ra-loo, too-ra-loo-ra-lay. Too-ra-loo-ra-loo, too-ra-loo-ra-lay."

Nicolette put the photo back and into the frame but before putting the drawer back in order, she was stunned at what she saw inside the drawer. She found that the drawer was given an inlay in the marquetry style of a newspaper. She read the following,

MCCALLISTER MASSACRE: RIVALRY ENDED AS THE RACKETEER LAID LOW BY PENROSE GANG!

Unrest happened last night as the McCallister clan was ambushed in a sudden attack at the Golden Finch; a fine-dining and drinking establishment in the north quadrant of Philmanberg at eight in the evening.

According to bystanders and patrons alike, the establishment was ambushed by twelve members of the Penrose family led by up-and-coming family leader Lisavetta Penrose. The massacre started outside the establishment when the Penrose clan approach from both the east and west sides of the establishment opened fire on the protective element outside the restaurant. After "casting the net," as the gang is so well known for, the six-man detail outside was dead before the carnage continued inside.