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Chapter 1- Big Trouble in Little China
Detective Gabriel Saints is fast alseep on his desk, Captain Harvey Frost kicks his desk sending Gabe jumping to the floor. "Who? What? Where?!"
"You, Sleeping. In my station." Harvey snorts at Gabe almost like a bull who saw the color red. "You know how I feel about cops sleeping on the job Gabe."
"Yes sir, sorry sir. Won't happen again..." Gabe says as he rubs his eyes in a hopeless attempt to stay awake.
"Your a good cop Gabe and I hate to see ya ranned off here. Whats keeping you up so late? Is it that reporter your seeing?"
"HA! No no Cheif...Just had trouble staying alseep is all. Won't happen again."
"Good, then get back to work!" Captain Harvey yells as he walks back to his office.
The truth to the matter is that the Street Angel's been fighting an increase of illegal activities over in Chinatown. A unseen puppet-master who's been giving out hits to some of the top mobsters in Chinatown, from Jimmey Woo and half of half of the Wing Clan. In the past three weeks Gabe was only able to stop some of the shipments from coming in the city. Gabe grabs a folder reporting the killings and reads them over. The extermination might be different but their are some clues which tie all these killings together, like the word Red written in blood across the wall. Its written useing traditional chinese symbols. No fingerprints, no footprints, no nothing. Deciding theirs nothing more he can do Gabe grabs his coat and takes the cab over to Chinatown and see if he can find out some answers himself...
Gabe reaches out outskirts of Chinatown, he lights a cigarette as he strolls down the market place for shady characters. He finally spots a small group of young thugs crowding around a fire barrel, their the 10 Dragons, a deadly gang of cut-throats. Gabe reaches inside his trench coats inner pocket and puts on a small black mask, he pulls down his grey fedora to cover his eyes and he walks up to the gang. "" Gabe asks the gang's leader, Yen. Yen's a young man who's face covered in scars and dressed in a coat which has the logo of a purple dragon, with 10 tails and its holding two skulls on its hands on his back along with spots of dried-up blood.
"" Yin grabs a small blade which was hidden inside his sleeve. It gleems in the sun, its long silver blade bounces up-and-down as Yin tuants him.
Gabe pushes back his hat and says with a smirk ""The Street Angel!" Yin's gang cries as they ran away leaving Yin all by himself..."You got to learn how to pick your friends better Yin." Gabe tuants the gangster. Yin slashs his knfie at the Street Angel and manges to cut his chest. Gabe is knocked off guard, he didn't know Yin was THAT fast. Yin tries to stick the knife between the Angel's ribs but Gabe merely slaps the knife from his hand and gives Yin a kick to the chest which sents him to the wall.
"Know your going to tell me about your new Boss..."
"No what you talk about."
"This 'Red' person, his been smuggling and killing rivial gangs here. Or are to much of a golden boy to know anything?"
"What you Americans say? 'I take 5th'."
"HA! Now thats funny Yin real funny. See that might work with the law but that's not going to cut it with me..." the Street Angel snatchs Yin by the collar and holds his head near the fire barrel
"OK OK! I talk!" Yin finally yells out. Gabe throws him on the floor "I'm listening..."
"I havn't seen Red, I wok under Lee."
"And Lee has seen this Red?"
"Ya, he over in Laughing Dragon."
"Stay out of trouble Yin..." and with that the Street Angel's gone...
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Chapter 2- Death by Honor
Laughing Dragon is a lone alley which seems to go one forever, its filled with twists and turns a perfect hideout for gangs the fill Chinatown. Lee is waiting at hideout where Red told him and his gang to wait for farther instructions .
Lee waits by the phone while his crew play a game of poker. Lee dresses in only the finest suits and surrounds himself with only the finest women as well.
Lee's men are not known for the use of their heads but rather their deadly eye with any weapon from a gun to a knife bu unlike his crew Lee is a mix of a Japanese mother and a Chinese father. He carries around a katana which belonged to his grandfather and was passed down to him, he loves nothing more but to remind anyone of his superior Japanese bloodline.
"" he asks as he lights a cigarette and walks over to the table. From the 5 poker players only Rabbit Chang is winning, he now has enough money to finally start that restaurant he always thought about.
"" cries one of his comrades, One-Eye Tim
"" Lee remarkes as he slaps the back of Tim's head.
A knock on the window focuses the attention of the men. "" Lee assures himself as he opens the window. "Hello!" The Street Angel says as he punches Lee in the face. Lee falls on his back and holds whats a possiablly broken nose ""
The 5 men rush the Street Angel, Rabbit tries to grab a hold of his neck but is flipped over and sent crashing into some crates. One-Eye Tim is sent flying towards the door from a kick to the chin. The Street Angel grabs a hold of both Slim and Chung's head and smashes them together. Miko's knocked out by a right cross and followed by a uppercut that sents him to the floor. Lee pulls out his Katana and holds it with a firm grip and looks at the Street Angel with cold-blooded eyes.
"Tell me bout your new boss, Lee." Gabe tell him calmly almost unafraid of the sword.
"I will tell nothing." Lee replies
Lee rushes at the Street Angel, who was useing his trench coat as a matador will use a red cape. He tricks Lee's eyes making him follow the coat and not himself, Gabe makes Lee duck only to hits him with a uppercut to the chin, Lee once again hits to the floor. Lee picks himself from the floor and swings his sword at the Street Angel's head, Gabe quickly ducks but his hat is sliced in half. Gabe snatchs a chair which he sinks the sword into and throws both the cair and the katana going through it, to the other end of the room.
"Ok, I'm going to ask again one more time. Where is Red?"
"Die American Pig!" Lee kicks Gabe right in the gut. Gabe tries to regain his breath only to be kicked again but this time to his kneecap. Gabe tumbles across the floor. "Ok...Got to admit...nice shot." He groans in pain as he gets up. Gabe begins to hop on his one good foot which Lee responds with a loud laugh. Lee sends a karate chop aiming for the neck but the Street Angel catchs the strike and gives it a sharp twist. Lee's bones crack as tries to break free....
"Start singing Lee or you'll wish you had..." he gives Lee's hand another sharp twist
"Ok ok American I tell!"
"I'm listening..."
"Red told me there hit today."
"Who?"
"I no know! He big brain scientist!
"And where's Red?"
"I not know! He come to us!"
Gabe lets him go "From now one Lee, your working for me. What Red tells you, you tell me..."
"For what american?"
"I'll see to it that they'll give you a short sentence in prison..."
Lee nods and Gabe climbs out from the window. Lee massages his injuried hand when a deep voice makes him jump...
"" the voice says from the shadow
"" Lee bows to the shadow
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"" Lee lowers his head in shame
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The shadow tosses Lee's katana back to it's owner. ""
Lee looks at the Katana and finally agrees...he sents the long cold steel into his stomach and with great pain he cuts a cross...and finally dies...The shadowy figure is unmoved by Lee's death but a smile forums around the coroners of his mouth...
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Chapter 3- Oooh Barracuda
Gabriel gets the call that a Professor Hiro was shoot dead in his apartment. Gabe runs up the stairs hoping that this is not the 'Hit' Lee was talking about. Gabe reaches the room, he turns the knob slowly and sees the word Red written across the room with blood. Lieutenant Dan Parker was already waiting for Gabe, "Well...What do you make of it Gabe?" he asks as he flicks his toothpick away.
"Well this is my first time being in one of Red killings but what I seen they were all mobsters."
"Huh, a new player in town..." Dan murmurs
Gabe removes a small magnifying glass and holds up againsit the wall.
"Ya think the good doctor was involved with them Saints?"
"No...I read his paper he wrote about the microscopic life. His a highly respected scientist and by the looks of his paychecks, his already getting enough dough from the University. So I highly doubt it."
"So why would the Red killer all the sudden kill a civilian?"
"I don't know Dan but this sure I do know...Our killer is roughly 6'2, has uncanny long nails and is pigeon toed."
"And you know all this...How?"
"It's elementary my dear Watson. With my magnifying glass I was able to see long carve mark which can only be made by the fingernail due to its angal. As for his height, when one rights on a board or a wall in this case he writes it above his eye level. The how the dust was kicked as the killer came through the window told me he was pigeon toed."
Dan stands their silent "...I knew that..."
"Excuse me gentlemen. But I can shine light to who the killer is..." a blond haired man dressed in a fine black suit stands near the doorway.
"Well if it ain't Agent Bobby Banks. How you doing chum?"
"Quite well untill this case came falling into my lap that is..." Agent Bank remarks as he walks toward the two cops
"Gentlemen. The killer has visited not only Chicago, theres countless killings like this from Singapore to Madrid. Unsolved..."
"Any suspects?" Dan asks
"Thousands...But we narrowed it down."
"Who?"
"He calls himself the Red Mandarin. A alias for an unkown terrorist who has a criminal empire that stretches half the globe. We were able to spot his known associate a woman, simply named Barracuda. She preyed on rich white business owners and then gaved the money to her Boss to support his life of crime..." Agent Banks hands both of them a picture of a beautiful woman. She has a light tan, black bangs, rosey red cheeks, luscious red lips and a unusal tattoo of a purple dragon which runs down her back and all the way to her left leg. "Professor Hiro invented a new poisonous gas which rivials the Mustard Gas. Seeing his horrorifc mistake he ranned away around the world making sure no one was steal his invention...Guess the Red Mandarin finally cought up with him..."
"We'll keep a look out for her Agent." Dan tells Bobby as he leaves toward the nearest phone.
"So I hear you fond yourself a girl, Gabe. She pretty?"
"Very. Why are you smiling?"
"Heh you have changed."
"Real funny Bobby...Which reminds me...I have to stop by her apartment over in Magnificent Mile..."
"Ok cya Gabe and take care yourself. God knows your not going to have an angel looking out for ya evrytime." He smirks as he waves Gabe goodbye
Gabriel puts on his pants one at a time like any average joe. The woman on the bed, covers herself with the bed's blanket and she reads an invitation she received in the mail. "You and a guest are invited to the Mayor's dinner party."
"And I'm the plus one, right?"
"Is your pride hurt sweetie?" She giggles "If it makes you feel better I was only invited so I can cover the news for the paper."
"Maybe a kiss can make it feel better." he says with a smirk
"Maybe later. Right now we need to get ready."
"Wait...Its tonight?!"
"Yes and you could use a shave."
Gabriel feels the 5 o'clock shadow which covers most of his face. he sighs "Fine..."
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Chapter 4- The Coming of Death...
The party's being hold in the lavish Drake Hotel. It's spectacular ballroom, covered in fine Italian marble flooring swathed in luxurious red carpeting and fine velvet and furnishings in a traditional English style. Gabe walks Amy around the ballroom meeting the important people of Chicago. "I'm going to get a drink. Want anything?" Gabe asks Amy but shes to busy reporting that she can't hear anyone. "Take that as no..." Gabe walks over to the bar and takes a seat on the counter, he lights a cigarette and looks to his side and lovely asian woman was sitting next to him. Gabe feels like he meet her some where put can't place her. Seeing that theres nothing wrong with talking to another woman Gabe introduces himself to the young lady. She smiles and grabs a cigarette from her purse. "Can I borrow light?" she says with a accent that Gabe can't place.
"Sure thing miss..." he strikes a match and lights her cigarette
"Thank you and the name is Naomi."
"The name's Gabriel Saints and its a pleasure." He smiles
"Are you here with someone?" she asks as she takes a drag of her cigarette
"Yes, she's over there." He points Amy out from the crowd
"She very pretty."
"How bout yourself?"
"I am with someone who as well is to busy with being social."
"Ya I don't know most people here myself."
she nods and picks her glass of white champagne which seems to dance with the light as it hits it.
"Well Naomi, theres no harm with two people who are bored out of their skulls in having a small dance. Is their?" he asks
She laughs "I guess there isn't Mr. Saints." she holds out a hand which Gabe gently picks up and guides her to the dancefloor, where they both dance to the band's beat.
Naomi is dressed in a dark green nightgown which matchs her light green eyes. She wears alot of make-up mostly around the eyes, her thin frame seems to almost glide across the dancefloor. The band take a break and Gabe walks Naomi back to the bar. "That was fun Mr. Saints." She smiles and walks to the counter for her purse...Suddenly it hits Gabe like a truck with the brake cable cut...He sees a purple dragon tattoo which ranned from her back to her left leg...It seems the crimnal has fond Gabe then the other way around...
Amy walks over to Gabriel, the master detective can tell that Amy's seeing red..."Gabe! How could you!?"
"How can I do what now?"
"Dancing with he---Oh hi!" she puts on a fake smile and greets Naomi.
"You must be Amy."
"Hello and you are?"
"Naomi. But come you must meet my husband..." she presents a very tall man, with yellow skin, has a long Fu Manchu moustache and even longer black hair which he wears in a ponytail. His wearing a traditional chinese silk red and gold robe, his claw-shaped nails seem to resamble snakes ready to strike at its prey. His face is long and sharp, his small grey eyes seem to watch your every movement. He smiles showing his small yellow shark-like teeth, he speaks perfect english but with a hint of a British accent.
"Hello Mr. Saint, So nice to meet you. I am Fang Shun hui." he smiles as the Devil would
"A pleasure I'm sure..." Gabriel is shocked at Fang's grip which almost crushes his hand.
"So what do you do Mr. Saints?" Fang asks
"Its Detective Saints to y---" Gabriel is cut off by Fang before he can finish.
"A detective? Your following the Red killings?" he asks
"Uh...Yes, how did you kno---"
"I know many things Detective Saints, it seprates us from the dead...Do you have any leds?"
"I shouldn't be telling tales out of school---"
"Tsk tsk whats a few serects between friends detective?"
"Look if you let me fin---"
"Is that a southern accent I detect?"
"I was rised on a farm if that is what you me---"
"You hide the accent so well Detective, you shouldn't be ashamed of who you are..."
"If you just let me fini---"
"Are you married Detective? If not I do have some daughters which can keep you company...Whats the matter dectetive? Cat got your tongue?" he smirks and waves his hand in the air "Come Come dectetive want to show you something..." as he waves his hand, Gabe was able to spot a small tattoo of a purple dragon.
"Mr. Fang, what is it that you do?"
"I am a mandarin to my people, dectetive." Fang shows him to a door "Come dectetive. I will show you some rare treasure I brought from my homeland..." his long nails wrap around the door's knob and gentley pushes it open. "Come Come dectetive..."
"Look Mr. Fang, Amy would kill me if---"
"Don't worry about that dectetive...their are other ways to die..."
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Chapter 5- Race against Time
Gabriel is pushed into the dark room. he picks himself up and fixs his bowtie, Fang glides across the room and over to where Koami was waiting. "I know alot about you dectetive...about a certain angel..." he laughs "It wasn't hard to put in the puzzles, The same day you came back from New York the Street Angel started to show his face around here, not to mention you two wear exactly the same cloths, unless you two shop at the same store there can only be one real reason...Its been quite some time since I had a real adversary to match my wit againist. I remember a certain dectetive from Baker Street who really put up a fight, you remind me alot of him dectetive..."
"And what do you want from me? Red Mandarin..."
"You really do remind me of him, not many can figure that I and the Red Mandarin are one in the same...As for wanting something from you, I desire nothing but a good match of wits as it were...Barracuda!" he snaps his finger and Naomi brings a jar filled with some kind of red cloud Naomi drops a small rat inside the jar, in a matter of seconds the rat lays stiff . "This was Professor Hiro's gift to the world decetive. A deadly nerve gas. Imagine what it would do to a city? I planted the bomb somewhere around the city you have 3 hours before it explodes killing everyone in Chicago!" he laughs like a wild hyena.
"Your mad..."
"Mad?" his face becomes serious as he walks over to Gabe. "I'm doing this for you! I can just as easly give the word and the bombs will go off right now...I'm giving you a chance. Your in no place to yell out insults..." he looks over at a grandfather clock and bows slightly "I must be off dectetive but before I live, let me help you get rid of a minor incovence..." He nods at Barracuda and then presses a small button near the wall and a trap door opens from underneath him and disappears.
Barracuda jumps on Gabe with a speed of a cat, they both smash through the door. She holds a double-edged dagger againsit his throat. She grabs Gabriel's head and kisses him...
"I knew it!" a voice cried out. Gabe turns around and sees Amy who ranned off crying...
"Wait Amy! It doesn't look like what you think!...Get off me!" He pushes Barracuda off him and runs after Amy...
"Amy! She forced herself on me...You got to belive me!"
"Oh please Gabe I saw you all over her...Just...Go away please." she sobs
"Amy...I love you..."
Amy doesn't responed and looks away...Gabe, for the first time is speechless and walks away...down the lone street. Amy only cries harder...
Gabriel runs down the street and reaches over to his car and removes a trench coat and a black mask from the trunk. As he slides on the coat he feels something inside his pocket...a chinese fortune cookie...he opens it and reads 'I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?'
"A Quarter...Washington Park!" Gabe turns the key and pushes the gas pedal. He gets out from his car and walks to the entrance, Boby was waiting for him. "Whats the big probelm that you had to wake me up in the middle of the *yawn* night for?" he asks Gabe
"The Red Mandarin has a bomb which can cover half the city with a deadly gas..."
Gabe spots a purple dragon made of smashed-up purple pedals "What is it?" Bobby asks. Gabe kneels on one knee and examines it. He looks at it for a while "Its a flower alright but what kind?And why is it wet? Hasn't rained here for a while..." Gabe spots some water drops following down the path. "Its almost as if they grabbed it...FROM THE POND!" Gabe races down the park with Agent Banks following behind him. They reach the pond "Look Bobby a note..." Gabe plucks the note which was hanging on by a nearby tree branch.
Gabe reads out loud " 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'
'I don’t know where. . .'
'Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,'... Huh thats bizarre..."
"What does it mean?"
"Its a line from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A bit unsual..." Gabe begins to scan the latter for a clue. "Notice some of the latters are slightly leaning, not to much to draw suspicion..." Gabe reaches in his pocket and takes out a pencil which he uses to write the letters in order, he pinders in which way they should be orderen..."Sewer! The bomb's down the sewer, Bobby."
"I'll call for back-up."
"No time for that Bobby, the city needs us right now!" Gabe runs over to a manhole which was nearby the pond, Both of them working together remove the manhole's lid and begin to descend down into the dark unkown...
"He had anywhere in the damn city to put the bomb but Noooo it has to be in the sewer...I hate the sewers!" Bobby remarks as he rolls up his pant legs and takes of his shoes.
"Quit your winning." Gabe replies back
"I'm just saying..."
"And I'm just saying for you to shut your mouth."
"Sounds like theirs trouble in Paradise..."
"Your damn right! That Barracuda lady forces herself on me and Amy saw the whole thing! I can't tell her she did on purpose because of some bugsy terrorist wanted her out of my way so the Street Angel can play his little game..."
"If you ask me you should tell her everything. Its a matter of time before she fond out..."
"I wanted to protect her, from the worries of my second life but...its to late now. She won't belive it even if I told her."
"I belive in ya Gabe. You'll find a way out of this mess." Bobby smiles as he pats his friend on the back. Bobby then falls on his back, stiff as a board..."BOBBY!" Gabe kneels over and spots a dart sticking of his neck and removes it. He checks for a pulse...
"Do not worry dectetive..." Fang's voice comes from a radio broadcast that surrounds the whole sewer with his deep and booming voice "I did not go to great lengths to plan this masterpiece for you to ruin it by bringing a friend."
"If his dead I swear to God that'll I---"
"Do not worry dectetive your friend is merely sleeping...He'll awaken with no knowledge of what has happened to him. As for you dectetive...the sand is slowly in the hourglass is slowly slipping."
and with that Fang's voice is gone. Gabe carries Bobby's body out of the sewer water and lays him on the floor. "I'll be back for you Bobby...".
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Chapter 6- Love will set you Free
Gabe finally reaches the end of the sewer and sees a huge iron outter shell which resmebles a nut, the shell has vials filled with red gas on the sides of the iron shell along with flashing bright lights and a timer...Gabe spots a note attached to a red box with a huge switch, it reads Off. Fang's voice cuts in once more
"Uh Uh dectetive. I wouldn't do that if I were you...You see their two twin off switchs, one turns off the bomb while the other launchs the deadly gas. Figure out the clue and you'll save the city...or destroy it."
Gabe reads the note 'You walk up to a mountain that has two paths. One leads to the other side of the mountain, and the other will get you lost forever. Two twins know the path that leads to the other side. One lies and one tells the truth, and you don't know which is which. One of them says he says the truth and the right way is left the other says his a liar and the right way is right. Which one is right?'
"The one that said he was a liar. Since the liar would not admit that he's a liar and say his telling the truth. While the one who said he was a liar is truthful to say that he lies...So its right." Gabe reaches over to the right Off switch...Gabriel hesates...he takes a few breaths and finally pushes the lever down...The bomb shuts down and Gabe lets out a sigh of relief but is cut short as the wall behind him slides open, Barracuda and the Red Mandarin walk in the room. "Good work dectetive. You manage to save your precious city and as for a reward for your hard works...I offer you a place in my empire...You have proven yourself worthy and Barracuda is quite fond of you as well."
"I know better then to make a deal with the Devil."
"Be that as it may, Dectetive. We won't be so generous the next time..." And with that Barracuda and the Red Mandarin walk back to the trap door and the wall closes but before it can be comptely closed the Red Mandarin laughs "Till next time, Dectetive..."
A loud knock is heard outside and Amy gets up and removes the lock and chain, only to be met with Gabriel who was holding a rose. "Before you slam the door to my face...I know you won't forgive me and you have every right but...I just wanted to tell you I was sorry." He hands her the rose and begins to walk down the hall. "Gabe!" Amy cries out and Gabriel turns around "Yes?"
"Do you want to come in? I got coffee if you like..."
"Sure...I'll like that."
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