The Strings Being Pulled

Ch 39

"Then...is she in danger?" I ask.
"No, not that either probably." Harry answers. "How did she join The Ophels?"
"Well, she's actually from a foreign country, she joined here out of desperation." Azula answers. "It's not a pretty story since the place she's from is in civil war, in reality, both the countries we're from are at war with one another right now."

Huh...but what's up with Anna then? Suddenly, Azula's phone vibrates. She's quiet when she looks at it before typing something. Mr Demon is quiet too, he's observing Azula I think, he normally observes people from what I can tell.

"We need to go, right now." Azula states. "Follow me." she says and tosses me a small gun, it's a little bigger than my phone and pretty light. Harry looks at it, "It's a handgun." he states, I hide it in my sleeve. We walk quickly outside and go to a black BMW, we all go in.

I barely put on the seatbelt before Azula starts driving, she's driving a bit faster than the speed limit. What happened...? I tap on Harry's shoulder, he looks over and I whisper;

"What happened...?" I ask, my heart is beating fast for some reason.
"I managed to get a glance at Azula's phone, a text from Anna with an address and a single message that said 'I quit, sorry.' and that was it." Harry whispers back.
"...This is really sudden." I mumble.

Harry gives a reassuring smile, it helps me calm my nerves down with the amount of worry I feel from the sudden change. Azula is completely quiet, it's scary. She normally explains what's up but now she look worried as hell and not saying a single word.

Harry hold my hand, I wonder how he can always be so calm. How he always knows what to do? Beats me, it feels like he's prepared for everything, no matter what I ask and no matter what kind of situation we're dealing with.

*10 minutes later*

"Alright, let's hurry." Azula states, not properly parking outside a weird warehouse. Me and Harry follow her but it's hard because she's walking so fast, I don't feel good about this at all. There's suddenly a loud gunshot, everything is happening way too fucking quickly.

One day I'm hanging out with Anna, just like 30 minutes later there's a crime scene and I find out someone is disguising themself as police, an hour later, I'm being followed and see my 'parents' again, just ten minutes later Weller is there in the hotel and I have another breakdown in our room while Harry talks with the vampire.

Now three days later, this happens. There's been lot of crazy shit happening ever since me and Mr Demon joined this mafia, I'm starting to question if it even is worth it but then again, we need money and as much information about Weller as we can.

When we try opening the door to the warehouse, it's locked but out of nowhere, Azula kicks it down easily. She just did it in one shot, I shouldn't underestimate her I guess. What we see inside the warehouse is Peter and Catorce on the ground knocked out. What happened...?

"Shit, what's happening?" I question.
"We need to hurry." Azula states as she inspects Peter and Catorce. "No serious injuries, just knocked out luckily."
"What's happening?" why is she so vague...
"I haven't told you the entire truth yet, Sushi or better known as Black Roses has been kidnapping and murdering our members, we've tried to had peace negotiations but it didn't work so we bombed one of their warehouses." Azula answers. "They mostly rely on partners so it was a massive blow to them."

She goes silent as she starts to walk up some metal stairs, me and Harry follow after and we hear another gunshot. Is this a fucking massacre? Why has Azula been keeping this a secret? It's so weird.

"We're short-handed on members, the reason for why this was kept a secret is due to the fact we don't wanna cause panic because this organization is very spread out." she continues. "Anna, Peter and Catorce have a lot of power and mostly act independent without us telling them to do anything."