The Hazard War （Old）

Chapter 6

Damian dropped everything he was doing and sprinted to Elizabeth and Danté who were also staring at the military chopper.

"I am Lieutenant Aisling, commander of tactical force 327. You are hearby arrested for the terrorist attack on The Casino of Gods. Do not move or we will shoot to kill." Aisling's voice bellowed.

"A bit late for that announcement don't you think!?" Damian protested.

All of a sudden, a hailstorm of bullets came down upon them. Damian ducked under a table as Elizabeth and Danté rolled behind the bar counter that was on the roof. Then, a boom shook the roof as bits of rubble flew in various directions from an explosion that rocked the entire mansion. A fiery explosion incinerated Damian's cover and one of his arms as a missile exploded beside him.

After the missile had taken out half of the roof and Damian's entire left torso, the fire began to spread. Once again, the fire swirled together to form a fire demon with grotesque horns and a giant steel sword, the same demon Ajax had defeated but this time, it was larger and had a weapon. Damian was about to jump out and face it when Elizabeth teleported next to him.

"If Ajax couldn't kill it, we definitely can't!" Elizabeth shouted through the crackling of the fire.

She grabbed onto Danté and Damian's hands and teleported them to a dark room. Damian couldn't see anything but moments later, she appeared with Coco in her arms. Danté summoned a tiny flame in his palm and lit up the room as the metal bunker walls that surrounded them glowed with the same white light as Dante's flames.

. . .

"Elizabeth, what's going on? I heard explosions and why is Damian covered in blood?!" Coco paused. "Did Danté do something? " She questioned.

"Hey!" Danté interjected.

Damian could hear Elizabeth sighing as her footsteps echoed throughout the room. She flipped on a switch and lights on each side of the room lit up.

Damian scanned the room. It looked like an empty storage closet, he saw cabinets hanging from the walls. Three boxes that were stacked onto each other stood in the corner. The room had the faint smell of cabbage. Elizabeth opened the door and led them into a room with a large sofa and a TV. There was a kitchen to the left of them and a bathroom on their right side. Compared to the lavish mansion that they had inhabited a few seconds ago, this paled in comparison.

Damian stumbled over to the couch as he glanced at his now half ripped shirt. Then, he subsequently blacked out from the exhaustion of losing half of his torso combined with the stress of Ajax's death.

A few hours later Damian sat up from his rest as he heard banging on the metal door from outside.

Damian put on a new shirt and walked to Danté and Elizabeth who were observing the cameras in a small security office. Damian saw a group of swat officers with rifles standing outside the main entrance. In the front, Damian recognized the girl commanding them, it was Lieutenant Aisling, the same person who had killed Ajax and used an apache against them.

For a few moments, the officers did nothing but stand still, watching the doors. Aisling said something to one of them and they handed her what Damian recognized as a block of C4. Aisling walked to the door and fixed the device onto the door. Aisling commanded the swat team to retreat. And they all disappeared.

"They're going to blow the door in," Damian whispered as it dawned on him.

"The doors and walls are reinforced with solid steel. I'd like to see them get through that" Danté said, knocking on the wall next to him with a slightly metallic clang.

"I'm gonna go see if I can get it off. Anyone else?" Coco asked.

"It's dark outside, I could come." Damian offered.

"I'll meet you guys tomorrow morning," Danté said as he exited the room.

"Aisling and her forces might still be outside, so I should grab a gun." Damian thought out loud.

Coco smirked, "Lucky for you, Audrey stocked these safehouses with enough weapons to level a city."

"And she stores these weapons where?" Damain asked.

Coco gestured for Damian to follow her deeper into the security room. Four monitors were aligned on tables each corresponding to a camera that monitored an angle around the safehouse. The room stopped at a wall with a straight crack in the middle of it, almost like elevator doors. There was a keypad placed to the left of the doors where Coco typed in a few numbers.

The wall began to open up, white light peeked out from the crack as the double doors opened to reveal a fully stocked armory with lockers full of rifles, pistols and so many guns that the founding uncles would weep with joy at the sight of it. Damain saw an m60 machine gun in the corner right below crates and crates of ammo.

Damian continued to roam around the vast armory until his eyes laid upon a gleaming white and black hand cannon with white lines and a white ace of spades marking on both sides of the gun. On the grip there was an inverted outline of an ace of spades. He picked it up and it was weighted perfectly, not super heavy, but still stable enough to handle a decent amount of recoil. Damian looked around and found 30 small lightweight canisters with 8 bullets in them each.

The chamber of the hand cannon was perfectly fitted for one of the canisters to be inserted inside and it also allowed for quick ejection. There was no need for taking individual bullets and stuffing them into each hole which impressed Damian. This is a lot better than the standard beretta, he thought.

Coco tossed Damian a black kevlar vest and a grenade as she slipped on a vest of her own. She holstered two pistols onto her belt as Coco slipped black gloves onto her hands. She faced Damian. "You ready?" Coco asked as Damian finished stuffing the canister into his vest pockets.

Damian reloaded his new weapon of destruction and grabbed a white cowboy hat that he found nearby. "Hell yeah," he said as Damian slipped the hat onto his head and kicked down the door from the inside.