It Happens At Night 27: IT ENDS

"I am not a killer..."

  "You will be in an hour or I will feed you to the dogs!"

Facing absolutely no choice in the face of the WHOLE world Freddy left home armed with a gun ready to kill another human being.

  Out of all the stupid things that he had ever let happen to him in his life that particular moment where he found himself walking up the road towards the gas station fully armed was the most stupid of them all.

  TOTALLY STUPID.

  And Freddy was angry with himself.  

  And as he was walking towards the gas station Freddy was thinking this:

  "How does one man go from being an artist at bungling everything up to serving the most powerful family in town as an assassin?  Am I still drinking the G-Juice and just forgot about it?  It has to be that!  I have to be drunk and dreaming, or dreamingly drunk it is the only way explain the madness of the day!"

  Freddy was finally standing inside the defunct gas station.  

  There was Wuan and Jish standing together like they were waiting for him.

  'I told you already that we have no more business together, Freddy,' said Wuan darkly.  'Go now or I will make Jish make you go.'

  'I am sorry, Wuan.  I can't go,' said Freddy with a nervous stutter or two.  

  'You appear to be shaking Freddy?' said Wuan.  'You look very stressed.  What's wrong?'

  'I am sorry Wuan,' said Freddy weakly.  'You have been such a good friend to me, Wuan.  I enjoyed all of those parties where I watched you selling fruit juice to professional wine merchants.  It was brilliant!  I made a lot of money with your help.  I wanted to carry on doing business with you.  But you killed the mother of the Kings...  The Kings know you did it and they are not going to let nit drop.'

  Wuan asked Freddy, 'Why are you here?'

  'I have to end this Wuan!' said Freddy as bravely as he could.  'Forgive me.  You should not have run that woman over intentionally or unintentionally.  She was an innocent victim caught up in our stupid war games.  Blood can only be paid for with blood, that is the King's motto.  And so I have to spill blood for the Kings!'

  It was time to stop the talk and to do the deed.

  So Freddy made his move and reached for his weapon.

  Freddy reached down but he put his hand into an empty pocket...

  Okay.  Let's do that again!

  So he tried the other pocket with his other hand...

  EMPTY!

  Two empty pockets?

  SO where was the gun?

  'It's right here Freddy,' said Wuan holding up the gun.  'Jish removed it from your pocket the moment you entered the building.  He knew you were armed.  It is one of his many talents.'

  'I was in the special forces,' said Jish with a proud glint in his eye.

  'What are you going to do to me?' said Freddy.

  Freddy could no longer find the effort to feel fear.

  He knew the game was over.  Really truly finally over this time.  He could feel deaths cold fingers on his shoulder his cool voice whispering:  YOU ARE MINE NOW FREDDY.

  'Join me for a drink?' said Wuan to Freddy's shock.  'Drink some G-Juice!  Here I will pour.  Take this glass.  Drink it up.  Enjoy it.  No man deserves to die a sober death.'

  Freddy took the full glass gratefully.  'I hear you.  I seriously do not want to be sober anymore.  Sod that rubbish!' he said.  'Let oblivion reign O thou sweet oblivion!' and Freddy glugged the glass clean.

  'Have another one Freddy,' said Wuan and Wuan refilled the glass.  'Drink steady, Freddy, you deserve it!'

  

Freddy woke up in his bedroom back home.  

  There were empty beer bottles lying all around the room.

  Freddy moaned and his head moaned:  What the heck just happened?

  Freddy got out of bed and tripped on one of the bottles.

  Wuan was standing in the doorway.  Welcome home Freddy, he said

  Then Freddy woke up again.  He was still in his bed.

  There were now empty beer bottles all over the bed in addition to those still on the floor...

  Freddy didn't even bother to think about how he ended up in such a mess.  He shook the bottles off.  He heard them clang together as they rolled across the floor to join their mates on the other side of the room.  How much did I drink?

  Freddy was not alone in his room.  

  His uncle Lucian was standing in the doorway.  This is what he said:

  You like a drink or two don't you eh Freddy?  So do I.  At least you can lie down in a bed at the end of the day, me?  I can't even bend my legs.  I sleep propped against the wall - doesn't do my back any good.  But I guess I will have to lie down one day when they finally put me in one of those graves.  Into a grave, Freddy, like the graves we used to dig!  O Freddy how we used to dig...

  Freddy woke up again.

  His mind was a slimy mess and he was sweating like a soul that had just run a 3100 mile race.

  And his heart was beating hard, so it felt, hard enough to punch through his chest!

  Frank King was standing the doorway.

  This is what he said:

  I offer my friendship out sparingly.  I offered it to you freely!  I gave you a home and a business, food in your belly and money in your bank...  But what did you give me in return, Freddy?  You gave me a war!  And yes, lets not forge that you killed my mother as well...

  Freddy woke up again.

  There was a shadow standing in his doorway, a gash of pure darkness leading into space!

  From the darkness a voice came:

  Ever met the devil, Freddy?  I can introduce him to you anytime...

  Freddy woke up again.

  There was a handsome man with dark hair and green eyes standing in the doorway.  Freddy had never met him before.  

  This is what the handsome man with dark hair and green eyes said:

  I am the devil, Freddy.  Nice to meet you.  You look surprised but not horrified?  What did you think the devil actually looked like then?  A monster with horns?  I am so sorry to disappoint you...

  Freddy woke up again.

  There was a beautiful woman with dark hair and green eyes standing in the doorway.

  This is what the beautiful woman with dark hair and green eyes said:

  It is me again Freddy, the devil.  Say Freddy do you like this look better?  Does this look please you?  I bet you like this look don't you?  Do I make you happy looking like this, Freddy?  Do I make you happy, Freddy?  Are you finally happy Freddy?

  Freddy woke up again.

  The doorway was empty.

  Freddy walked out into the streets but there was nothing out there anymore no roads no buildings... no people...

  There was only darkness!

  And then a voice that came from everywhere said:

  Welcome to hell Freddy!  

  Freddy woke up again.

  This time he was looking down into an empty grave.

  There was a stone already setup in front of it.  The stone read: RIP Freddy.

  'You are going to die today Freddy,' said a voice from behind.

  It was Jish and Wuan.  They had dragged him to the graveyard and apparently worked together to prepare a grave for him.

  'The sacred cult has had a change of mind,' said Wuan to a very trembling and very sweaty Freddy.  'The cult demands a blood sacrifice after all.  You proved your spirit to them when you tried to kill me in my shop, Freddy.  Your blood has been deemed worthy for our cause after all.'  Wuan drew out a carven dagger.  'I am going to slit your throat Freddy and drain and drink your blood.  And then Jish will throw you into that grave and once you are covered in enough mud you will be forgotten forever, as it should be.  Don't look so sad, Freddy.  You are going to die for a great cause!  Just think you could have avoided all of this if you had just stayed at home in your bedroom playing video games and never going outside.  O well.  Down to business then!  Know this before you die, Freddy - it was your courage that finally got you killed.  Sometimes it is just better to keep your head down and exist like a simple coward.  Goodnight Freddy.'

  Freddy closed his eyes as the blade came down!  It might have been Freddy's destiny to feel the punishing shiver of the cold steel slicing through his throat but that didn't mean he had to watch it as well.

  A couple of seconds passed.  Freddy waited for death...  And he waited and he waited and then nothing happened...

  When Freddy finally made the heroic decision to open his eyes again it was Wuan who was lying in the grave with a huge bloody gash in his skull!  And there standing overhead of all people was Uncle Lucien holding a shovel.  The grand old fellow had knocked Wuan down!  Finally Uncle Lucien had done something useful with his life!

  'Sod this.  Consider me no longer involved,' said Jish quickly.  'You two are better at this murdering business than me!  I am going to go back to the Gate House to live out the rest of my life in peace!  Good luck lads!'

  And like that Jish was gone.  He popped out of sight like a puff of smoke!

  'The old ghost who has been haunting me for years will be happy now.  She will leave me alone.  She has finally been avenged,' said Uncle Lucien.  'She will be at peace.'

  'I am glad to hear that,' said Freddy.  'What do we do now?'

  'We cover up this body and get on with things!' Uncle Lucien replied casually.

  Freddy was baffled by the response he was given.  What did the old stick-like man mean by get on with things?

  'There is no getting on with anything not for me not anymore,' Freddy replied sombrely.  'I am wanted all over the town by everyone the gangs the police you name it they want me gone!  You could make a poll ranking the least most desirable man to be right now on planet Earth and I would be at the top there, number one, the winner or the loser whatever way you look at it.'

  'Look at what this gravestone says.  It reads: RIP Freddy.  You are safe now Freddy because, well, your dead!' said Uncle Lucien.  'At least that is what everyone is going to think.  Now let us cover up that body down there before it starts to stink!'

  'And then what?'

  'And then we get back to doing what we do best, Freddy.  We get back to digging up graves!'

THE END

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It Happens At Night 26: There's Only ONE Debt Left...

They kept driving.

  Driving.  Driving...

  But where were they going?

  Freddy wanted to ask that question so much!  

  But he was too afraid to do it...

  And for good reason!

  He was stuck in a car jammed between two murderers!

  Wuan showed absolutely NO compassion for what he had just done running down that poor woman.

  When Freddy thought about it his thoughts talked like this:  I have underestimated this man.  I thought he was a humble businessman out to make a quick buck!  Turns out he is a complete psychopath!

  O no!

  GET ME OUT!

  Freddy would have paid a small fortune to get out of that car right then if he could.

  But no nice little miracle was on its way save him...  (But when was it ever?)

  It was starting to get lighter outside.  Morning was setting in.  Freddy could see things through the window at last.  There was a large old rickety building up ahead and it looked like Wuan was driving towards it.

  Freddy recognised the building.  Why it was the old Gate House!  The building had been abandoned and left to rot years ago during the riots.

  But by the shape of things that was definitely where they were headed.

  The car came to a halt at the front lawn.

  'Do you know this place?'  said Freddy.  'This is the Gate House.'

  'I know.  I own it,' Jish replied.

  'Really?' 

  'Well nobody else does and it is a shame to let the place go to waist...  So I claimed it for my own.  It is the least this country can afford me after all I have done during the war.'

  'Ahh!  I see!  So you are dosing in it then?'

  'You do remember that I once was with the military?' said Jish disapprovingly.  He didn't appreciate Freddy's candour.

  Humbled, Freddy apologised for calling Jish a lazy tramp.

  'Now let us get out of the car,' said Jish.  'It is time for us to kill a man...'

There is no need to describe the Gate House.  From the outside and from the inside it looked just like something out of your typical gothic horror movie; old, warped, cracked, pointed, cobwebbed, dusty and terrifying.  Once they were inside Jish told them he was going to leave them explaining that he had important business to attend.

  So for a while Wuan and Freddy were left alone together.

  'So what are we going to do now?' said Freddy.

  'When I know our enemies have been defeated, and it is safe for me to leave this building, I am going to go home back to Singapore.  That is what I am going to do, Freddy,' Wuan replied.  'What you do Freddy is up to you.  You are no longer my concern.  You are on your own now.  If you need help with anything, like paying off your debts you are going to have to seek help in other directions because our business together is finished.  Maybe you should approach the King's again for another loan...'

  'Please Wuan!  We were friends!  Things don't have to end like this!'

  'Yes they do Freddy,' said Wuan.  'Thanks to you I have lost everything.  My shop is in ruins.  My whole forgery business has been exposed not only to the eyes of the police but to the public as well.  I am what they call finished.  And that is why I have to finish with you.  Even if I actually liked you, I would still have no other choice but to walk away.  Thanks to your meddling I am now an enemy of the Gangs of Fenwick and the police forces.  I need to escape the country.  I am not going to prison because of your stupidity Freddy.'

  'I didn't mean for this to happen!'

  'Yes you did.  You made the fatal decision to go on a date with a very dangerous woman who had blood ties with the Irish Gang.  That was your choice to do that.  Didn't you learn from your parents that we all have choices in life?  And choices have consequences.  Now you are living with the consequences of your choices.  It is just sad for everyone else that your choices had the kind of consequences to implode a whole business empire and other people too.  Congratulations Freddy.  You are a practical ticking time bomb that has just exploded and everyone around you has been caught up in the blast.'

  'Don't abandon me like this, Wuan.  You can run to Singapore away from it all, but I am stuck here in a rats nest!  I will be eaten alive!  Please, stay.  Help me.  I will get you more G-Juice.  We can find somewhere else to bottle it up and sell it like before.  We can do this!  Please Wuan.  I am begging you.  I will get on my knees and beg if that is what you want!'

  And Freddy in that moment was like, damn it I will do it, and he literally dropped down and started begged like a dog.

  Wuan raised an eyebrow.  It was visually obvious by the cold expression on his face that he was bemused by the ugly and highly unmanly sight of Freddy begging.  

  Finally Wuan replied:

  'Do you have any idea who I am?' he said.

  'Of course!  You are my mate!' said Freddy stupidly.

  Wuan continued:

  'I am beyond you as I am beyond everyone else in this town,' said Wuan dramantically.  'Judging by your debts and the general way you conduct yourself in your dealings with other human beings I can predict that someone will kill you one day not far away.  So it will not hurt my organisation if I reveal my greatest and only secret:  I am part of a global cult loyal to the astral god Strasmagoth...'

  WHAT??!!

  'The members of our cult make a blood sacrifice once every three years...' said Wuan speaking in a casual way like he was talking to an old friend about what he and his family had done over the weekend, as you do.

  'Damn Wuan!  Don't do this to me!' said Freddy.  'I thought you were one of the more normal ones...'

  'I am in contact with the members of the cult every single day.  We operate in many areas of the world but we have a huge stake in Fenwick because we have a temple built right under the ground beneath the very heart of the city!  You were going to be our next sacrifice, Freddy.  But after our recent business together we found your blood to be...unworthy...  So that is one hook you have been let off!  The cultists don't want you!  You are too annoying for them.  Fine.  So that means all you have to deal with now are the gangs...and the cartels.  Enjoy your life, Freddy.'

  There was a grandfather clock in the hallway nearby that was still working.  Freddy watched the hour hand move five times.  That was how long he and Wuan had to wait before Jish returned.

  Jish walked through the door carrying two things with him:

  One:   A large suitcase that was almost as big as he was.

  Two:  A very crazy tale even for the standards of tales born on the lips of the maddest of the most mad of story tellers.

  'I have finished my business,' said the dwarf.  'I am happy to say that the war is almost over.  ALMOST!  There is one last piece of the puzzle to solve and then we are done.'

  'Okay.  What's been happening then?' said Freddy.  

  'I made that cheeky call to the RSPCA like I said I would.  I managed to get Joanne locked up in the local zoo,' said Jish.  'I told them on the phone that there was a walrus on the lose in a public area.  The RSPCA responded quite quickly.  I was surprised by their efficiency it was like they had dealt with similar situations before like this and had some experience dealing with walruses.  I don't know if the walrus is native to Fenwick but the guys that turned up in the van to seize the creature definitely knew what they were dealing with.  "My gosh how did that thing get loose?" I heard one of them say.  "We need to bag that creature fast before it hurts somebody!"  They tried netting her to begin with but that didn't work.  She managed to escape!  She is a tough beast our Joanne!  So one of the RSPCA boys loaded up a tranquiliser and shot her down clean.  Then they loaded her dosed up body onto the van.  It took fifteen men to carry her.  That was when disaster struck!  Bill and Bo discovered what was happening to their mother and started a fight with the RSPCA boys!  As I was watching the scene unravel I thought to myself: "Damn!  The game is up!"  But then the armed police span into view, someone must have tipped them off that there was a scene going on in the High Street.  After a huge fight the police managed to arrested Bill and Bo and then they took them away cuffed up and defeated.  So that is that lot nicely dealt with!

  'All that is left now of the Irish Gang is Elfie Rooney and he is the most dangerous of them all.  But I have a plan to deal with him once and for all and that plan sits right here at my side,' and then Jish dropped his massive dwarf-sized suitcase to the ground opened it up and cracked out a very lethal looking sniper rifle.  Jish looked at the weapon with the kind of look a lover might have.  The dwarf kissed the barrel of the weapon with a passion Freddy had never seen witnessed before by other people not even in his high school days.  'This is Jill!  She is the love of my life!'  Jish was talking about the sniper rifle.  'I carry her wherever I go.  She has served me in many wars.  And she is going to serve me now.  I have setup a trap for Mr Rooney.  We are going to play a game with him.  I told him where we were.  I told him to meet us at the Gate House for talks.  I don't doubt he will come armed.  But what he won't know is that I am armed far better than he is armed, and I can shoot him from very far away so if you excuse me, gentlemen, me and Jill must make our way up to the bedroom window above and make love once again.'  As he said that he snapped the scope into place on that beast of a rifle of his.  The weapon was almost larger than the dwarf!  'I only have one bullet left, saved from the old wars,' and Jish took the bullet out of his left pocket.  'It is the only bullet I need.  So once again excuse me, my fine fellows.  It is time to make magic happen...'

  Jish went up stairs.  

  Another went by and then there was the sound of a car engine outside.  The sound was accompanied by the piercing screech of rubber eating gravel as the power of the vehicle was brought to a halt.

  A second later there came the sound of a bullet.

  Three seconds later Jish returned.  He came down slowly.  There was a clear tear in the dwarves eyes.

  'It was magical,' said the dwarf.  'Mr Rooney will bother us no more!'

  Wuan heard this and responded in a cold and dark voice:

  'Marvellous.  Now Jish you and I will return to what is left of the gas station.  I still have some equipment to gather there before we go.  We must make plans to get out of Fenwick.  Let's get back to the car now...'

  'What about me?' said Freddy.  'What do I do?  Do you want me to go with you?'

  'We have already talked about this, Freddy,' said Wuan darkly.  'You are on your own now.'

  And with that Wuan and Jish drove away, leaving Freddy no choice but to attend the long walk home all by himself.

On his long walk back Freddy was thinking about what he was going to do next.

  He felt pretty doomed so he thought he might as well have a drink of whiskey and then just go to bed.  "What else can I do?  I will drink until I am drunk like most drinkers do.  I will drink until I forget everything that I will indeed do!"

  As Freddy opened the door, hoping to enjoy a chilled evening after two intense days of being on the run, he got the shock of his life!

  There was a tough looking guy sitting on the chair in his living room.

  O no!  It was Frank King and he was holding a gun!

  'How has your day been Freddy?' said Frank.

  'O!  Wonderful, in a horrible sort of way.  Thanks for asking Frank,' Freddy replied nervously.  'It is good to see you Frank!  But why are you here?  Would you like to help me toast the end of the war?'

  'No.  Not me, thank you.  The war has only just started for me Freddy boy,' said Frank.  

  Freddy asked him what he meant, and Frank said, 'I woke up this morning ready for another day of business only to learn from the police who came knocking on my door this morning that my brother is in hospital, fatally wounded, and my mother has been killed in a car accident.'  

  'Good gosh!  That sounds terrible!' Freddy replied.  'Sounds very much like your having a worse day than me, sort of.'

  Frank got up from the chair and turned around to face Freddy directly.

  'My mother is dead Freddy,' said Frank.  'I thought about it for a long time.  She was knocked over by a speeding car the police told me.  I asked them if there was any CCTV footage of the event.  They said there was.  I asked to see it.  They said no.  I offered the officers five thousand each and they showed me the CCTV footage.  The footage that captured the whole scene is quite good.  Very clear.  And when you pause the footage at a certain moment about three seconds in, you see the faces of the people inside the car that killed my mother.  There was one guy I didn't recognise.  But I knew the face of the man sitting next to him.  I saw your face Freddy...'

  'Frank please!  Let me explain.'

  'Save it.'

  'I wasn't driving the car!'

  'But you were in it.  And you didn't think to stop to see if my mother was okay?'

  'It's not how you think it is!  I wanted to stop but I had guns pointing at me in all directions!  Are you going to kill me Frank?'

  'Yes.  I am going to kill you,' Frank raised the gun right up to Freddy's head.  One pull of the trigger and Freddy's day was done.  

  But Frank stopped there and continued talking saying this:  

  'You have got one debt left, Freddy.  Pay it off and I will let you live.'

  'What do you want me to do?' said Freddy, who was trying desperately not to pass out with terror.

  Frank lowered the gun and stepped right up close to Freddy.  Then Frank slipped the gun into Freddy's quivering fingers...

  'Kill Wuan for me,' said Frank.  'Kill Wuan,' he repeated.  'And when the man is dead consider your debt paid.'

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Then And Now...

 I drew these guys back in the day...

Vegetable Aliens!

This is what they looked like years ago:

Right then - this is what they look like now:

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It Happens At Night 25: Trash It Up!

As they were driving away from the King's place Wuan stopped the car suddenly.

  'There appears to be a tramp standing in the middle of the road...' he said quietly, trying his darndest to keep his anger under lock and key...

  Wuan didn't like the Kings, didn't want a war with the Irish Gang and was pretty hacked off and hacked up that things were seemingly seeming to go wrong for his business EVERY SINGLE DAY...

  He blamed Freddy for his problems.  Probably because Freddy was actually responsible for his problems.  Now Wuan was blaming this tramp because the tramp was standing in the middle of the road and keeping him from attending that said urgent business...

  'I know who that person is!' said Freddy with a dark chuckle in his throat.  'It is my Uncle Lucien.  I haven't seen him ages!  What is he doing?  He is such an idiot!  He's probably drunk.  The wretched old wretch.  He is always drinking himself nuts, the loser.'

  'I suggest you kindly ask him to step off of the road,' said Wuan between clenched teeth.  'We are taking care of serious business here and we can't have your relative slowing us down.'

  'Bear with me.  I will have a chat with him,' said Freddy and Freddy got out of the car and made his way over to the old shambling mad man.  'What are you doing standing here in the middle of the road uncle?' said Freddy in a confused and tired voice.

  'I am watching the world go by,' said Uncle Lucian wistfully like he was in a dream.

  'That's very nice but do it somewhere else please and not in the middle of a busy road.  You are going to get knocked downs standing there like that.  And as much as I do not like you I do not want you dying not yet, and not like this.'

  'It's alright Freddy.  I am not the one who is going to die soon.  But you are!  You and all of your friends are going to go out of the world real bad and real soon.  You may have forgotten that I exist but I have been watching you for days now...'

  'I always knew you were a weirdo.  Why won't you just back off and leave me be?'

  'Because whether you like it or not you are of my blood, Freddy, that's why I can't back off.  Blood might not mean anything to you but it means a lot to me.  My sister and I used to get on well enough and as much as I dislike you it doesn't matter because you are still her son and legacy as disdainful as you are.  And I can see that you have gotten yourself caught up in a really bad business.  In every direction you are caught up in something really horrible.  It's almost quite clever in a sad sort of way.'

  'I can handle myself.'

  'You obviously can't.'

  'Alright I can't.  I am up to my neck in debt and everyone wants a piece of me,' said Freddy honestly.  'I want to run away but like you said, Uncle, I am in trouble in every direction I turn.  So I have to stick with my new friends.  They are tough guys they can help me out.'

  'But they are not helping you Freddy.  They are dragging you down into the darkness.  I say true darkness!  I can see it even if you can't.  There is a real evil terrible power at work behind all of this madness.  Fenwick is not ruled by people.  It is controlled by unseen forces...'

  'Right!  That is it!'  Freddy had listened to quite enough of that nonsense from the old man.  'You must be drunk!' he said harshly and then he went on with these few tasty words:  'I have no time to listen to you, uncle!  You have always talked garbage even when your sober.  It's just worse when your drunk!  Now get off of the damn road!  Still won't move?  Then I will move you myself...  Here have some of this you silly sod!' and then Freddy pushed the old man down over to the side.  Freddy just didn't have time for the mad old man not anymore.

  Freddy walked back to the car leaving Lucien in a ditch.

  

***

Meanwhile in the High Street a car had driven into the window of a local shop!

  Wuan stopped the car.  There were people rushing all about the place.  The police were already in action taping up the crazy scene...

  'Stay in the car.  I am going to check this out!' said Jish and the dwarf set out like a dwarf on a mission!

  Jish was gone for about twelve minutes.  When he got back into the car again you could tell by the dark look on his face that something very bad was going on right under their noses.

  'We have got a problem,' he said quietly.  'The war has begun!  Our good friend Mr Vincent King has somehow managed to ride up and overtake us.  And now he has crashed his car into a shop.  That is why you can see a car hanging out of the shop window right over there.'

  'Has the man gone mad?' said Wuan angrily.

  'That is what it looks like.  I am sure Mr Vincent is mad from my limited interactions with him for the last few hours, but in this rare instance no it wasn't madness that took him.  While hiding inside of a bin I overheard a conversation.  It was the police who were talking...'

  'Impossible!  They haven't been making music for years?' said Freddy in complete confusion.

  'No.  Not the rock band, Freddy.  I mean the ACTUAL police as in the forces of the law.  I was listening to them from inside of the bin and they were talking about possible sabotage at work suggesting even that the breaks on the car had been cut but further investigations are required before anything can be substantiated.  I am very suspicious the lads Bill and Bo are behind this chaos!  

  'Doctor Flaccid was on the scene as well looking after the victim.  Flaccid was there wearing a pink dress looking cheery, appeared to be quite talkative and so I got out of the bin and we had a few words with one another.  The good Doctor told me that Vincent is still breathing, thank goodness, but the accident might have paralysed the man from the waist done if he wasn't already dead in that direction to begin with.'

  'So in other words Vincent King is still in pretty good shape?'

  'Yes,' Jish replied with confidence in his voice.  'We don't need to worry about Vincent's health.  But the Kings are going to want payback for this attack.'

  'O you can be sure they will want that!' said Freddy with a quiver or two in his voice.  'Maybe this is a good thing?  Maybe this attack will secure our new alliance with the Kings...?'

  Suddenly there was the sound of guns firing in the distance.  A bullet even scratched the car!  The gunmen were close!  

  The police quickly took hiding behind walls or inside bins - some just got in their cars and drove away.

  'You had better drive boss!' Jish said to Wuan.  'Our enemies have got gunmen in position somewhere but I can't tell where they are right now!  We have driven right into a neat little trap!'

  'Drive!  Drive!' Freddy cried.  

  Wuan drove off real quick.  The sound of the guns went quiet and soon turned to silence.

  Wuan asked his companions if they were being followed.

  It didn't look to be that way but neither Freddy or Jish sounded very sure.

  Wuan took his eye off the road for three seconds just to check for himself that they weren't being followed - and those three little precious seconds were all that were needed for Wuan to knock an older lady off of her feet as she was crossing the road!

  'Good Lord!' cried Freddy.  'We have hit someone!'

  'Has anyone ever told you Freddy that you are a special kind of genius?' said Jish.

  Freddy said they had better see if the victim was okay.

  Jish checked.

  She was not!

  It turned out that she was indeed quite dead...

  'I recognise her!' Freddy cried with horror.  'It's Frank Kings mother!  Weeks ago I helped her cross the road I totally recognise her!  The Kings are going to kill us all when they find out what you just did, Wuan!'

  'The Kings are not going to find out about what I just did!' said Wuan.  Then Wuan turned on the power and drove away from the dead body...  If he had driven any faster the car they were in might have actually started flying and took its passenger back in time to some other era in human history like the Dark Ages.

  ...Other than that it was actually quite a nice day with splendid weather for all to enjoy!

  

  

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It Happens At Night 24: Clash of the CRASHERS!

Outside was the car.  Inside it were sitting two men, Jish and Wuan, and they were waiting for something...

  Across the road was a tower block of three flats owned by one family.  

  THE KINGS.

  Inside that tower Mr Frank King was sitting in front of a glass table holding a glass of scotch.  On a seat in front of him was his business partner Freddy.

  Freddy wanted a meeting with Frank and Frank gave it to him.

  This is how it started...

  Frank threw out the first words:

  'What is this all about Freddy boy?' he said.  

  It was a cold start.

  Freddy was trying to stop himself from shaking.  

  He was NOT doing a good job.

  'Why are you shaking Freddy?' said Frank calmly.  'Nervous about something, eh?' Frank continued.  'It's me your mate Frank!  You don't need to be afraid to say anything in front of me. We are business partners.  We are building an empire together.  I need you and you need me.  We are practically brothers - if it was not for blood separating us we could have been born from the same mother.  So speak up Freddy boy,' and Frank took a slow sip of his scotch.  'Speak up and tell me what you wanted to say.  My ears are yours.'

  'I need your help,' said Freddy with a stammer or two.

  'I figured that right away.  Now it's time for specifics.  What do you need help with, Freddy?' said Frank.  

  'Frank, I don't know how to say this but I am in trouble.'

  'Of course you are.  Nobody asks to speak to Frank unless they are in trouble.  So speak.  Let your troubles find trouble with me, and your troubles will trouble you no more...'

  'I have got a friend, a business partner a good man you know him you have seen him before in the parties he is the wine dealer Wuan.'

  'I know Wuan.  What about him?'

  'Me and Wuan are working together on a project and somehow we wound up making some pretty nasty enemies.  It is a long story...'

  'Give me the short story.'

  'Frank.  The Irish are back.  I mean it.  The whole gang is reforming.  They have got two soldiers so far Bill and Bo, nasty sods.  Tough lads.  Killers.  We need to be careful of them.  And they have teamed up with this real nasty lad...'

  'Let me guess is his name Elfie Rooney?'

  'You know him?'

  'O I know him.'

  'You sure?

  'I am sure.'

  Freddy shook his head wearily.  

  'Speak up Freddy,' said Frank commandingly.  'I told you that you have got my ears.  What do you know about Rooney?'

  'He is out and about building things up,' said Freddy.  'I think he is a danger not only to me, but to you!'

  'Why is he a danger to you?'

  'Because of business...'

  'Want to talk more about this business?'

  'No.  Not really Frank.  It's private.'

  'Private?  Fine.  If it is private business then it is your business.  But I need a plain answer from you about something, Freddy.  Why do you think this Rooney is problem for my business?'

  'He is trying to rebuild the Irish Gang.  You and the Italians were mortal enemies with the Irish, right?'

  'We were.  But that war is old and dead.'

  'Yeah...I know.  But this new war is very much awake.  And when this war fully wakes up there will be fires.  The fire will start small and eventually grow to span this whole town and then you.   I think, Mr King, you will be trying to find ways to put out fires very soon.'

  'Call me Frank.'

  'This war is going to consume you Frank and your whole family. The best and the only way to deal with this war is to nip it in the bud.  Kill it in the root.  Don't let this catch you up, Frank.  That is why I am here now as your mate.  I could have kept quiet and the Irish could have easily sneaked up on you.  But if we act now that won't happen.  They have two soldiers three including Rooney.  But they are recruiting more lads for sure.  I know this because Rooney threatened me in the forest last night.  He is serious, Frank.  He wants blood.  He wants the High Street and the market back.  But we can stop him I know we can if we act now.'

  'What do you need?'

  'Soldiers.  I need armed men to help me fight the Irish.'

  'You only need one man,' said Frank boldly and he waved his hand and that was when his brother Vincent King wheeled onto the scene on his wheelchair.

  As if prepped for the conversation Vincent was already armed for a fight, pistol in hand and beer in the other he looked ready to go wherever destiny wanted him to go.

  'So let us show these scum,' said Vincent drunkenly.  'I am armed.  I am ready.  I am ready to get steady.  I am ready to get messy.  Lead me to this Rooney and I promise I will get groovy with him.'

  'You have got your army now,' said Frank to Freddy.

  Frank took a sip of his whiskey, cold and steady and he starred at Freddy. 'Time to make a move boy,' he said.

  'I am ready to make a move,' said Freddy with a shake or two in his weak voice.

  'We will burn them down baby!' said Vincent gleefully.

  And off they went to war...

  

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It Happens At Night 23: Get Ready Freddy!

The gas station had been trashed!  It had been broken into and all smashed up inside and out!  It was terrible.  What had happened?

  Just as Freddy and Jish were checking the building out a car swerved into view.  

  Wuan was in the driving seat.

  Wuan opened the back door and told his friends to get in.  

  Wuan looked at Freddy as he entered the car and he said, 'You and I, Freddy, we need to talk...'

  Wuan looked Very very unhappy!

  'I am not responsible for any of this madness,' Freddy replied defensively.

  Wuan heard this but didn't respond.  

  So Wuan put the car into action and the Wuan gang took a long quiet drive to the woods...

  Wuan finally stopped the car.  

  It was time to talk!

  'My business has just been destroyed by two thugs,' Wuan started.  'The gas station was just a cover I don't care for it, but those thugs found their way into the basement and trashed my G-Juice operation.  They destroyed all of my spare empty bottles and scattered my fake labels.  They have ruined everything.  I am going to have to abandon the whole operation.'

  'Why?  You can rebuild it surely?' said Freddy.

  'No I can't Freddy,' said Wuan plainly.  'Because when the police look into why the shop was attacked they are going to find all of my forged bottles of alcohol and then they will try to arrest me.  I am going to have to leave Fenwick and return home to Singapore.'

  'That seems so dramatic!'

  'It is the truth Freddy,' said Wuan bitterly.  'We could have made a fortune you and I.  With my help you could have paid off all of your debts, Freddy.  All you had to do was keep your head down and work.  But you couldn't help yourself, could you?  You had to go on that damnable dating website.  What were you thinking?'

  'I was just looking for love...'

  'There is no such thing as love in this business, Freddy,' Wuan replied angrily.  'Now stop acting like a stupid fifteen year old and tell me what your relationship is with the two thugs Bill and Bo who attacked my business?'

  'I don't have a relationship with them.  I barely know them.  They attacked me out of the blue,' said Freddy.

  'That is not a good enough explanation,' said Wuan.  'Who are they and why do you know them?'

  'Why I went on this dating website.  I met this lady called Joanne.  It didn't work out and I ran away,' said Freddy.  'Bill and Bo are her boys.  That's it.  That is the whole story.  I never did anything wrong I swear!  I just didn't like the woman!  Dates don't always work out, right?'

  'I don't know, Freddy.  I never go on dates,' Wuan replied coldly.  'You should never have become involved with this woman, Freddy.  Your enemy has now become my enemy and six years of hard work has been literally poured down the drain.  You do realise that right now we have a war on our hands?'

  Freddy couldn't believe it.  'This is crazy,' he replied.  'I never wanted any of this!'

  'Neither did I,' Wuan returned coldly.  'But here we are.  Up to our necks in a fresh new gang war.  Jish will fill you in on the details.  Jish!  Explain to Freddy the pickle he has created for us all.'

  'Okay.  So this is the situation.  Joanne has a brother.  Elfie Rooney, the new leader of the freshly reformed Irish Gang,' said Jish.  'The Irish are looking to retake territory and they are putting soldiers on the streets.  Bill and Bo they are just for starters.  Others like them will rise up, and then we will have a full scale war on our hands.'

  Freddy was horrified.  'How can this happen?' he said aghast.  'I was looking for love and went on a date, that's all.  And now I have started a new gang war?  I am baffled.  I don't know what to say!'

  'We must make ready to fight this new threat,' said Wuan.  'My business in Fenwick is over, but the Irish have made this engagement personal the moment they decided to trash my gas station.  Before I return home to Singapore I will take my revenge on the Irish and drive them out of Fenwick forever.'

  'There is an old saying which rings true for our current situation:  cut off the snakes head and the body will die.  We need to tackle Joanne.  She is the head of the snake.  Remove her from the scene and we remove the Irish,' said Jish.

  'Wow!  Slow down,' said Freddy trying to catch his breath.  'This is all going too fast.  Jish?  That's your name, right?  Who the heck are you?'

  'Jish is ex special forces and he works for me,' said Wuan.  'He helps me in all things.  He helped me build my business from the ground up.'

  'Okay.  That is fine.  But how come I have known you all this time Wuan and never met the guy?  He literally popped out of nowhere,' said Freddy.

  'My job is to remain hidden,' Jish spoke up confidently.  'I have been watching you for many days now Freddy.'

  'Well that is unsettling...'

  'I wasn't planning on offering you comfort,' Jish replied darkly.

  'Okay.  Fine.  So what are we going to do next?' said Freddy.

  'We need to stop this war right now while it is in its infancy.  And the best way to do that is to cut off the snakes head,' said Jish.  'Now presently we are outnumbered and outgunned.  A direct attack would be foolish.  We need to be sly, careful.  Stealth will be the key to winning this war.  Now as far as I can see the only advantage we have is Joanne, I am referring to her singular appearance of course.  She could be mistaken for a sea lion, or I was thinking maybe a Walrus?  We could make a cheeky call to the RSPCA and get her sent to a zoo?'

  'That could work,' said Wuan.  'Do you have the number for the RSPCA?'

  'I have it on my phone ready to go,' Jish returned.  'Just give me the word, boss, and I will make that cheeky call.'

  'Fine.  I predict that Joanne will lead her boys in a fresh assault soon.  If the Irish really do plan to take back territory they will strike in the High Street first.  They will want to take back the market,' said Wuan.  'When Joanne emerges, and I believe she is bold enough to lead her troops herself, you Jish will make a cheeky call to the RSPCA.'

  'I hear you, boss.  As soon as I see Joanne in the streets I will make that cheeky call,' said Jish.  'We can do this.  We can win this war.'

  'And when the war is over I shall return safely to Singapore,' said Wuan.

  'But what about the business and my debts?' said Freddy in a nervous voice.  'I still need your help!  Please don't abandon me!'

  Wuan turned around in his seat and gave Freddy a cold and very dark look with his piercing eyes, and after a deep breath he said this:

  'After this war is over WE are NEVER doing business ever again, Freddy.'

  Freddy's spirits sank.  He had to salvage his friendship with Wuan and fast.  He needed Wuan to save him from the Brazilians!  He had to get Wuan back on board.  

  And so he came up with a plan.

  'Look!  I can help you win this war.  I am friends with the Kings, remember?  The toughest family in town?  Friends with the Italians?  I bet I can get them to field soldiers for our cause,' said Freddy.  'Please Wuan!  Don't let it end like this!  We had a real good thing going.  We were making money.  REAL money.  We can still do this.  Okay so the gas station is trashed, but we can still carry on the forgery business somewhere else?  What about my place?  There is plenty of room in my home.  We can do this.  We can make money.  The King's trust me.  Frank loves me!  I can get my hands on as much G-Juice as you need.  Don't leave me Wuan.  We can do this!'

  And Wuan returned, ominously, 'We shall see...'

  Just then Jish sprang into action:

  'Heads up lads!  Irish on the road!' he said.  'That car riding up behind us?  I recognise the reg.  It is Bill and Bo.  They are onto us!'

  'I think we should drive away,' said Freddy in a frightened shaky voice.

  But for some reason Wuan wouldn't allow it.

  'I want to see what they do next.  Maybe they have a message for us,' said Wuan.  'We will wait and see what happens.  Jish?  You have your gun primed and at hand?'

  Jish nodded.

  'Good,' said Wuan.  'We might need it...'

  The car parked up beside them.

  A tall fierce looking man with a swastika tattooed on his bold head stepped out and stepped up and called Wuan out of his vehicle for a conversation.

  Wuan stepped out.  He showed no sign of fear.  He walked right up to the mad shaven man.

  'Who are you?' said Wuan as he approached the stranger.

  'I am Elfie Rooney and you should get to know me,' said the Irish warlord.  'You're the fecker called Wuan, right?  We can end this now you and I.  The boy sat in the car with you, you know who I mean, the wee feck called Freddy.  He upset my sister the other day.  Hand him over and we can call this war a day.'

  'I can't do that,' said Wuan.  'I look it as my duty to protect my employees.'

  'You are a fecking idiot then,' said Elfie aggressively.  'I want that we feck over there dead.  And I will kill him.  No one upsets my sister and lives.  I will gut him.  I don't care what it takes either to do it.  If you want a war then you will have one.  See you on the battlefield, Wuan.  And let me tell you another thing before I go - you ain't so fecking clever as you think.  That wee dwarf of yours?  I have seen him fecking about town acting all sly.  I have been following you Wuan.  And no matter where you hide I will fecking find you.  This is personal.  Now good day to you feckers, until we meet in the battlefield!  This is me being polite by the way the next time we meet things won't go so nicely...'

  Elfie got back into his car and drove away.

  The board was set...

  It was time for war.

  

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