Chapter 1

He smirked watching the chaos unfold before him, his gang had made a particularly bad decision but he really didn't mind. Cobra liked watching the chaos unfold, and his gang liked to watch how he would fix it.

"Cobra! Left shoulder!" Someone shouted.

It was too late, he already knew, he was in the middle of zooming in on the pretty little gem that hung off of the opponent's hip, a grenade. That wasn't the kind of material that most people brought with them to his turf. His smile stretched a crossed his face, he signalled for the group of his gang that he was in charge of to back up, and he pulled the trigger.

The explosion warmed his face like a warm meal after the battle filled his stomach, it was that kind of contentment that he was looking for that filled his veins all the way through his arms with that pulsating adrenaline that he just needed at this point in time. The explosion roared on signalling the rest of the street where they were, Cobra let out a whistle, they must've had some chemical in that bomb.

That wasn't just some bomb they stole off of some military base. That was high grade stuff even likely that that person had chemically engineered the stuff themselves. Some chemist they just lost, too bad, for the other guys. They would've taken some walloping to their gang if he hadn't made that impulsive action just then and there.

And that's what his gang loved to watch that's why he had almost always been immediately selected for the front lines. They wanted to see the chaos he was going to be unleashing that night.

He could see the lights in a distant, it was almost laughable having police in a city filled to the brink with gangs that the only reason cops were there was to cause them to move their battle grounds from one place to another and to bust small time drug dealers. "Alright, guys, we've done enough damage time to go." He laughed, the opposite gang was already regrouping planning a retreat so they could avenge themselves later.

Cobra played with the thought of following them to find the lab that would be full of goodies. He shook his head, he would probably wind up blowing himself up in the process of finding that lab. "What about our other two?"

"Are they still alive?"

"I don't know, we believe so though." His group had a collective muttering that reverberated through the group discussing whether or not they should wait for their last duo. Well, that, and the wonder if they were actually still alive after getting split from the group a while back. Cobra sighed, if he left them it would show to the rest of the group that he would leave them behind too, but he also had to consider the rest of the group that he already knew was still alive. If he waited too long it would get the rest of the group killed if the enemy gang found them while retreating.

"We'll wait ten minutes."

"Are you sure boss?" The group muttered exchanging glances.

"I don't know if they're alive, but we can't wait longer than that or we'll be in danger too." Cobra replied.
"Like we can't handle ourselves." The group triumphantly smirked.

"I'm saying that we're sitting ducks if we stay in the same place, especially out in the open like this." Cobra said still not turning to face his men, he was already reloading another bullet looking for another member of the enemy gang that he wouldn't want to deal with after they regroup.

"Boss! Boss! Look what we found!" The duo had found their way back. One of them let out a feminine squeak, he shook his head wondering what the heck the rest of his pack was doing to them for showing up late, collectivity at the same time making them late for dinner at the same time.

"I said let go." The voice was soft and barely defiant but still struggling to have its way.

He felt his body tense with that unusual sound, his gang didn't have many female members, in-fact their one female member was out on a different mission and wouldn't make that sound of shock for the life of her, she wouldn't let them live afterwards.

He turned towards the people that he was supposed to be in charge of. He was feeling disappointed in them that they were running amok instead of listening to him and destroying the enemy gang so they could get home in time for dinner.

There was a female stuck between two of his members looking almost as terrified as she did defiant. "Boss, look what we found." They said cheerfully, he wasn't the boss, but he didn't mind being called that. He wasn't going to correct them. "She was running from the enemy gang, we killed them all and caught her." They smiled as if they were dogs catching their first rabbit. She was frowning as she glanced up towards him visibly flinching back after acknowledging him.

That single word rolled off her lips almost caused him to lose face in front of the people he was in charge of, "Erik?" He cringed, he knew he recognized her from somewhere. Well, it was going to be a long week. It was Kinana his childhood crush.