Mike waited a bit, he thought, maybe they are just waiting for them to walk there and open fire, but nothing happened. He could only hear the shots from the back, but in front of him not a single bullet had been shot.
"They're out of bullets!" He shouted to the others, and picked up his smg from the ground, finally clearing it and reloading. "Let's push them!" He said, pulling the charging handle back, and stepped out of the cover with Benji and the others.
He slowly walked, aiming his gun toward the car ready to shoot. "Spread out more." He shouted as they were surrounding them.
As he slowly walked past the car and turned to see what was behind it. Half of them were dead and the other half were shot leaning against the car bleeding out.
He crouched down to one that was shot in the chest, grabbing his hair and pulling him. "Who the fuck are you!" He shouted as he banged his head into the car side. "Huh, answer me!" He said again, banging it even harder.
"N...erozzi…" He said while coughing up blood.
"Nerozzi? Aren't they got wiped out?" Benji asked as he kicked one of them on the ground to his other side… "Fuck, they're really the Nerozzi, look, the tattoo." He said, pointing his weapon at it.
It was a two headed dragon on the guy's neck.
"A fucking street gang attacked us? What a fucking joke…" Benji said as he shot the guy in the head.
"Yeah." Mike stood up and shot the guy he asked, then turned and emptied the magazine into the others. "That one's still moving." He pointed at one who was crawling away.
The guard with the full auto shotgun stood over him, kicked him to turn him to face him, and put the barrel to his head. As he pulled the trigger the guy's head exploded, splattering his brain and blood everywhere on the ground, even on Mike's legs.
Nothing remained of his head, just the place where it belonged.
But it wasn't over on the other side of the street, the gunfire was still going.
"Stay here. If somebody comes here that's not the police or our guys, kill them." Mike said as he sprinted back to Arine, who was still in the car, peeking out of the hatch.
Fanni and Oli on the other side were still in shock, barely registering what was happening with them, while the remaining Nerozzi members who were still alive tried to fight back, not knowing their gang got massacred at the other side of the street.
"Arine, get out of there!" Mike shouted at him as he leaned out and shot.
"You're finally back, I waited for you to do this." Arine said. "Grenade! Grenade!"
"Don't—" It was late, he already pulled the pin out and threw the grenade toward the cars.
"Get down!" Mike shouted as he pulled down one of the guards to the ground.
He threw it a little short but it rolled under the car, exactly between Fanni and Gabi. She didn't even react or see it, she was just staring ahead, but Gabi saw it and instantly knew they were going to die. Or that he was going to die, because he picked it up and held it close to his chest, jumping with it as far as he could.
Fanni's eyes narrowed to him, not understanding what he was doing, but as he landed on the ground, the grenade exploded.
She could see it as Gabi's whole body left the ground as the grenade exploded and pushed him up. Not even one shrapnel hit Fanni or the others as Gabi's body engulfed the whole explosion, and every single fragment of it.
That was Fanni's first reaction, but as the smoke went away, she saw what was going to haunt her forever in her life. Gabi's whole body was torn apart, she could see his organs, she could see his half face missing.
"Gabi…" She held out her hand toward him.
"I can't die!" Oli's words came from the side."I don't want to die like a dog." He said into her eyes and he suddenly stood up and started sprinting toward the nearest building.
Fanni saw the whole thing as his body fell to the ground and bullets tore apart his back, the blood splattering everywhere.
That was it, her two friends died and she couldn't even comprehend what was happening. She couldn't even act to do something, but to be true she could do nothing, not a single thing that would save her.
And Arine made sure of it.
He ducked out from the roof as the grenade stunned everybody, even Mike and the guards and with the machine gun in his hands, he took away their last bit of hope for surviving.
"Die!!" He shouted as he pulled the trigger and shot at everything he could see.
The cars were now in pieces as the high caliber rounds literally ate through the metal and everything behind it. There was no running from it, but some of them actually tried. Two of them started running, but Arine quickly turned to them and fucking tore them apart.
The bullet casings fell on the ground like they were in a battlefield, like Arine was a turret gunner and that was exactly how he wanted to do this. The gun was heavy. Its kickback brutal. But he enjoyed every bit of it. The raw power of something that kills. Something you couldn't outrun.
Something you couldn't survive.
When Arine started shooting up the car from the left side, she pulled a dead body over herself. Even though the bullets tore through the car, the body shielded her
Then she heard it, the sirens. She could hear them coming closer. When she looked up, she saw it, the police turning onto the street.
She was safe, at least, that's what she thought. So she started crawling toward the police cars as they stopped. Every bit of strength and hope she had left was in them. Even if it meant prison, at least she would survive. At least she'd still be alive.
She barely crawled a meter before Arine caught up to her and stomped on her head, pressing it down into the asphalt.
"P-Please..." She whispered, trying to move, but Arine pushed her hand harder into the asphalt.
"I believe gender equality..." Arine said and pressed the gun barrel against her head, pulling the trigger.
"How lucky... but shit, that's why I carry a pistol." He pulled it from his holster.
"Don't do it, Arine the police is already here." Mike stepped to him. "Hector's already going to fuck us up because of that grenade." He slapped Arine's shoulder.
"Then should I just lock her in the car?" Arine asked.
He grabbed her by her hair and yanked her to her feet, making her scream in pain. "Now walk, darling." He said, pushing the pistol into her back just enough so the police wouldn't notice but it wasn't working.
"Put down the weapons!" One of the officers shouted, stepping out of the car.
"We're security for the bank!" Mike called back, flashing his ID card.
"Drop it!" The officer shouted again.
Mike shook his head, stepping closer. "Look, it's my ID—"
A shot rang out and as Arine turned back, he saw Mike dropping to the ground.