I do not own Big Trouble in Little China. I only own Belle.
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"Belle, I'll be back as soon as I can. I'm going to the airport," Gracie, my boss, shouted before leaving the office.
"Be careful," I shouted back as I moved my shoulder-length black hair out of my face.
My boss was once again going to the airport to help another Chinese girl before the Lords of Death gang kidnapped her to sell her as a sex slave. I had asked Gracie to let me go with her to help, but she wouldn't because I was only eighteen and she was afraid I would be kidnapped instead. I was also Chinese and she just didn't want to risk anything.
"I take different martial arts," I muttered as I leaned back at my desk. I was Gracie's secretary. "I have since I could walk pretty much," I thought as I remembered my older brother teaching me as much as he could when we were younger.
Glancing at the clock I decided to head down to The Dragon of the Black Pool restaurant. I loved getting lunch there because it was close to the office and the food was great. I grabbed my coat and my bag before leaving the office and heading out onto the streets of China Town.
I made sure that none of the gangs were out and about as I rushed down the street to get to the restaurant. Lately two or three of the different gangs had been having a lot of issues with each other and unfortunately they solved their issues in the streets. Thankfully, I was able to just stay on the main street to get to the restaurant.
I ordered my usual and took a seat at one of the smaller tables in the front. I smiled at some of the employees, who saw me at least three or four times a week. I had almost finished my lunch when Wang and some trucker guy rushed into the restaurant stressed out. They disappeared into the back of the restaurant in the kitchen area. I had met Wang multiple times at the restaurant since he owned this place. I smiled at Eddie, who was the new worker, as he waved at me before disappearing into the kitchen area too.
I jumped when I heard Gracie's voice. I rushed out of my chair and peeked my head into the kitchen. "Hey Gracie, is everything ok?" I asked since she only came to the restaurant on business.
"Belle, what are you doing here?" Gracie asked.
"Lunch, what's going on?" I asked as I fully entered the kitchen and saw Wang give an annoyed sigh.
"The Lords of Death kidnapped my fiancé at the airport," Wang finally said.
Gracie started talking about how the girl was probably taken to a brothel that sells girls. I took a seat by Eddie as Gracie tried to come up with a plan to help save Wang's fiancé, Miao Yin. Eddie spoke about the woman's green eyes and how she would be extra expensive to buy.
"Why not just use him to break her out? They don't really expect his type to have a brain, no offense," I said as I pointed at the guy, whose name I heard was Jack.
"Who are you?" Jack snapped.
"Belle, her assistant, and resident of China Town my whole life," I answered with a small wave before taking a bite of Eddie's food, which made him glare at me. My eyes widened when Wang and his uncle started talking about Lo Pan and The Three Storms. "They're real?" I shouted in surprise. I had heard about Lo Pan and the Three Storms for years, but I only thought they were superstition.
"Of course they're real," Wang's uncle told me while Wang was trying to calm down Jack and make him think it wasn't real.
"I have a plan," Wang said and told everyone how Jack would enter the brothel and everyone else would wait in the car.
"I'm going too," I said and frowned when Gracie tried to tell me no. "Come on, I've wanted to help you with this kind of stuff forever. I know martial arts and I can at least be a back-up if something were to happen," I said and she sighed.
"Fine, but you have to stay in the car," she said and we set the plan in motion.
We made sure that Jack was dressed and ready to enter the brothel. I sat in the backseat with Gracie and Jack. I couldn't help but laugh when they said he looked stupid. Eddie drove the car a little bit away from the entrance after Jack went inside the brothel. Gracie jumped out of the car next and I noticed that the car was her journalist friend's car.
"I wonder how he's doing in there," I muttered before gasping when a large green orb appeared above the brothel. "Guys," I shouted and we exited the car. My mouth dropped open when the orb disappeared and three men appeared. One was controlling lightning so I could only guess the other two were Rain and Thunder. "They're real, it's all real," I whispered.
Everyone else rushed into the brothel to go help Jack since he didn't run outside with the rest of the panicked crowd. However, I stayed outside with the car because Wang told me to be ready to drive everyone away if it got ugly. My eyes widened when I saw Lightning appear back out of the brothel and he was holding a woman, who I guessed was Miao Yin.
"Let her go, you assholes," I shouted but I doubted they even heard me over the sound of the thunder. I felt my insides freeze a little when Lightning looked back at me before he and the others flew away.
"Belle, we have to go," Gracie shouted as everyone reappeared out of the brothel. Eddie and Wang were helping Jack outside. I jumped into the backseat so I could help Jack get in the car. He was cursing and raving the entire drive to Gracie's apartment.