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- May 8, 2011
Huang Quo Xi was integral to the murders.
The young man was part of the invading shadows engulfing the Tiang headquarters. There had been insults thrown at the Xi name from the Tiang family, harsher than their usual rivalry afforded them. Even though all the Triad under the collective Xuy worked together to stay strong against the Yakuza and other crime lineages in Yareli City, also known as New City, the Chinese organized groups did not all feel amicably toward each other.
His father, Lou Wan Quo Xi, was a king with blood rights to the Quo Xi empire and all its enforcers. They weren't big like the great Kageyama Yakuza under Yuji Honu's leadership, but they were still fierce. And Lou Wan was hungry for more. But the real symbol of the Quo Xi triad was its queen, Nayao. Formidably, she had planned this. Her skills in hidden politics and gaining power over men, even under the thin veil of doing it for her husband and son, had brought them here. A quiet slaughter of the Tiang. And although it had happened suddenly, it had not been an assassination. The streets needed to know Xi had taken Tiang by force, not betrayal.
It cost Xi some men, but in turn they'd wiped out the Tiang. Their affiliated rivers of drugs and imported girls and weapon's import now belonged to Xi.
It was this that Lou Wan, in his bloodied suit and gray hair held his speech about, in the grand Tiang dining room, where the dΓ©cor was gold incrusted but the walls were smeared with blood of the previous owners. He went on to congratulate the men who'd gathered here, in their suits and still holding their bladed weapons. There was one less Triad family in the New City night, but one had grown exponentially stronger, too. He held up a stolen bottle of cognac and waved it at the men, and the men cheered, already drunk on the adrenaline of killing fellow humans. There were bodies, friend and foe, on the floor around them.
And, toward the end of Lou Wan's declaration of victory, after having taught the men that power is taken by those who won't let it go, he held his arms out, knife in one hand and the bottle in the other, to invite heaven itself to duel him. "Who dares challenge me? I am king. I am emperor. Anyone is welcome to try and take my power!" The men around the long table howled with elation at the tail end of their bloodlust. There was blood even on the chandelier high over Lou Wan's head.
And somehow, the ruckus of celebrating murderers was quieted by the sound of leather soles on steady wood.
On the other side of the dining stage, a young man, a head taller than his father, climbed on. Huang was hunched, ready to leap, as he walked toward his father on the other end. He was holding a hatchet and a dagger. The long youth had his hair in his eyes, undone form the well-oiled back-do he usually sported when he did his father's bidding around the city. His suit was expensive, but ripped from the hard work of cutting down Tiang family members and their protectors. The look of insult grew from angry to crazed on the older Xi's face.
"I challenge you for your new power, then, father." said the boy who meant to spill their blood where the late Tiang had taken their most important meals. Without much sense through his rage, Lou Wan knocked the bottle with his knife, the collision spraying the expensive liquid but leaving him with two weapons, one of good steel, tested many times tonight, and one of jagged glass and a handy bottleneck to hold on to. He ran at his son, more aggravated to have been interrupted than threatened by the youngster. The men were silent in their chock.
Huang ducked and slid back from the skillful swings of his father's attacks. One slash cut the stomach of his jacket and shirt up, and there was red light bouncing off the rip when he turned away from the next, knife-led jab. But then the chandelier made singular crystal sounds and stilled. And the son had entered his dagger into his father sternum. Lou Wan was frozen. And then his legs gave. He tried to speak, to cuss his son out, but he could only gargle when the hatchet came down rhythmically on his throat and chin, over and over, until Huang was chopping wood.
When Huang stood the men were choking, their bloodlust fed but their confusion stifling. The rules were clear. There was a shift of leader in the Xi triad. From the side, another, more delicate set of steps were heard. Nayao. The director of this plot?
The young man was part of the invading shadows engulfing the Tiang headquarters. There had been insults thrown at the Xi name from the Tiang family, harsher than their usual rivalry afforded them. Even though all the Triad under the collective Xuy worked together to stay strong against the Yakuza and other crime lineages in Yareli City, also known as New City, the Chinese organized groups did not all feel amicably toward each other.
His father, Lou Wan Quo Xi, was a king with blood rights to the Quo Xi empire and all its enforcers. They weren't big like the great Kageyama Yakuza under Yuji Honu's leadership, but they were still fierce. And Lou Wan was hungry for more. But the real symbol of the Quo Xi triad was its queen, Nayao. Formidably, she had planned this. Her skills in hidden politics and gaining power over men, even under the thin veil of doing it for her husband and son, had brought them here. A quiet slaughter of the Tiang. And although it had happened suddenly, it had not been an assassination. The streets needed to know Xi had taken Tiang by force, not betrayal.
It cost Xi some men, but in turn they'd wiped out the Tiang. Their affiliated rivers of drugs and imported girls and weapon's import now belonged to Xi.
It was this that Lou Wan, in his bloodied suit and gray hair held his speech about, in the grand Tiang dining room, where the dΓ©cor was gold incrusted but the walls were smeared with blood of the previous owners. He went on to congratulate the men who'd gathered here, in their suits and still holding their bladed weapons. There was one less Triad family in the New City night, but one had grown exponentially stronger, too. He held up a stolen bottle of cognac and waved it at the men, and the men cheered, already drunk on the adrenaline of killing fellow humans. There were bodies, friend and foe, on the floor around them.
And, toward the end of Lou Wan's declaration of victory, after having taught the men that power is taken by those who won't let it go, he held his arms out, knife in one hand and the bottle in the other, to invite heaven itself to duel him. "Who dares challenge me? I am king. I am emperor. Anyone is welcome to try and take my power!" The men around the long table howled with elation at the tail end of their bloodlust. There was blood even on the chandelier high over Lou Wan's head.
And somehow, the ruckus of celebrating murderers was quieted by the sound of leather soles on steady wood.
On the other side of the dining stage, a young man, a head taller than his father, climbed on. Huang was hunched, ready to leap, as he walked toward his father on the other end. He was holding a hatchet and a dagger. The long youth had his hair in his eyes, undone form the well-oiled back-do he usually sported when he did his father's bidding around the city. His suit was expensive, but ripped from the hard work of cutting down Tiang family members and their protectors. The look of insult grew from angry to crazed on the older Xi's face.
"I challenge you for your new power, then, father." said the boy who meant to spill their blood where the late Tiang had taken their most important meals. Without much sense through his rage, Lou Wan knocked the bottle with his knife, the collision spraying the expensive liquid but leaving him with two weapons, one of good steel, tested many times tonight, and one of jagged glass and a handy bottleneck to hold on to. He ran at his son, more aggravated to have been interrupted than threatened by the youngster. The men were silent in their chock.
Huang ducked and slid back from the skillful swings of his father's attacks. One slash cut the stomach of his jacket and shirt up, and there was red light bouncing off the rip when he turned away from the next, knife-led jab. But then the chandelier made singular crystal sounds and stilled. And the son had entered his dagger into his father sternum. Lou Wan was frozen. And then his legs gave. He tried to speak, to cuss his son out, but he could only gargle when the hatchet came down rhythmically on his throat and chin, over and over, until Huang was chopping wood.
When Huang stood the men were choking, their bloodlust fed but their confusion stifling. The rules were clear. There was a shift of leader in the Xi triad. From the side, another, more delicate set of steps were heard. Nayao. The director of this plot?