The Mafia: Red Dragons vs Phoenix [ONGOING]

Prologue

[18 years ago]

A man came rushing towards the delivery room as the nurses and the midwife is trying to help the woman who is about to give birth. The man holds his wife's hand as soon as he enters the room. His wife looks at him sweating and in pain. "T-The baby..." she mumbles while breathing heavily. "It is slowly opening," the midwife said as she checks it and the man looks at her sweating and all nervous. He then wipes his wife's sweat from her forehead while holding her hand. "Mark..." his wife mumbles his name. "I'm here. Don't be scared," Mark assures. "Anna, we can see the head now. You have to push," the midwife said while checking Anna's opening. She grips on Mark's hand really tight while she pushes the baby out slowly, screaming in pain. "C'mon Anna, you can do this, push!" Mark said while encouraging his wife. Anna stops for awhile as a tear falls and breathes heavily as Mark wipes her sweat. "Anna, push!" the midwife said as she holds the baby's head. Again, her scream fills the delivery room while Mark is holding her hand tightly. Anna feels like her bones are slowly breaking along with her body. "Anna, you can do this, keep pushing," the midwife said while supporting the baby as it slowly slides out. After a while, Anna stops while breathing slowly, followed by the baby's first cry. Anna slowly closes her eyes as Mark kisses her forehead. "You did it," he whispered as he smiles warmly at her. The nurses help the midwife in cutting the baby's umbilical cord and washes the blood off of the baby. They wrap it in warm, white clothing as the midwife carries and approaches Anna's side. "It's a boy," she said as she smiles warmly at her and places it near Anna's side. The couple looks at the baby and Anna gently hugs her firstborn baby and kisses its forehead as the baby moves a little. It's tiny little fingers touches Anna's warm hand. Mark couldn't explain the happiness he's witnessing in front of him and again, he leans over and kisses Anna's forehead before picking up the baby and carrying it in his arms as he stares at it. Anna looks at them and whispers "Xen" before losing consciousness. The midwife tells Mark that she's okay after she saw his panicked face. Mark stares at the baby again and kisses its forehead before the nurse takes the baby to put it in the nursery room.

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[Present time]

A knock from the door wakes the girl up. "Come in," she said pulling her pillow and covers herself with a blanket. An old man in a butler suit enters her room and places a tray on the table with her food. "It's almost noon, my lady," the old butler said as he looks at her curling up under the sheet. "But Ji, it's weekend. I don't have an appointment today so why wake me up? Help Chris with his work instead and let me sleep," the girl groans as she's about to doze off again. Ji, the old butler chuckles. "Chris is out for today as usual my lady," he says. "Ugh...ditching his work again, typical Chris," the girl said as she yawns. "And today is the day he'll start working at your bar," Ji added. The girl gets up immediately and rushes to the bathroom yelling, "Ugh! How did I forget that?!" Ji just smiles as he hears her and mumbles something while the shower is on. He then leaves her room and prepares for the tasks he's assigned to do.