Chapter 12 Cherry Blossoms

[a flashforward happens here]

The year is 2000 You see an older version of Chris as he Speaks about something that was tragic

He says” I need to find those pills my therapist prescribed they will help me forget that tragedy”

Chris finds them as he reaches for them in his houses drug cabinet he grabs them and drops them

Thud! The two packaged pills hit the floor Chris reaches down to grab them. He goes down to get a bottle of water to take his pills and he grabs the bottle and puts it on the table. He grabs the pills.

He tries to rip the paper off the Pill package but he struggles and can’t rip the paper off. He eventually rips off the paper and now there is a little aluminum foil protecting the pills he tries to pop the pills through but breaks the pills snapping them in half he opens the pill package sending the pills flying across the room. Chris falls out his chair staring into the ceiling

“Holy crap” a voice echoes through back to the present time of the story now Chris,Tommy,Diablo, And Ren are walking through the Mexican desert to find the evil man.

In Washington Dc there is Tyler who is in his drive club headquarters. Tyler is listening to “The Pixies” with a walkman plugged into his ears as he walks down the street to a business meeting. The place was packed. The man Tyler would be meeting up was his lawyer. A man named James Richard. He was covered in money and everything he was wearing was professional but also gold colored. He had a straight gold watch and looked at Tyler, his menacing figure stared down Tyler to see if he had anything on or with him.

Another familiar Face walks in, The man known as Dj.

Walking in with his grin he had to tell his plans straight to the guys. Dj said “ So how are we gonna take down this mob boss” Tyler says” Julius?”

“No Idiot he is talking about Ryker” says James.

Tyler responds with”The money has completely changed him” “Exactly! If he continues he might start making rash decisions for business” says Dj.

“So are y'all saying he is a traitor to drive club”

Said Tyler. “I’ve watched from my eye to see him become more like him” said Tyler

Dj ask ”Who are you saying he is like? Whom are you speaking about?” James says “ Luca!”

James walks outside with Tyler. As Tyler realizes what he must do he asks James “Is there any way around this? James says “ We will ask if he will change if he doesn’t we will have to kill him” James walks away as Tyler walks to a vending machine of a Soda called Chuga-Cola He vends a cherry vanilla Chuga-Cola. Tyler opens his drink as he sits back on the wall of the strip mall. He is leaning back drinking his Chuga-Cola as he looks at the rain pouring down. The purple rain falls as the sun soon sets. Tyler drops his soda can as it rolls down to the gutters and an image of a chuga-cola Cherry vanilla rolls down the gutter in the purple rain.

Tyler has bandages on his nose as he walks down the sidewalk. Purple rain is behind him as he walks to his car knowing what he will have to do to Ryker, his very own brother if He doesn’t comply.

Memories flash in his mind of Ryker with happy moments til creepy images of his brother come up his brothers face distorts to a dark smile with a man speaking that man was Corvina. Tyler got in his convertible and started driving away as fast as he could back to his home in Washington D.c He arrived after 20 minutes. He called Kyle. Kyle answered the phone, “Did You do the thing?” Tyler asked Kyle says” Yeah he is in the hospital and vulnerable. Why are we doing this?”

“ Listen, the orders come straight from the people. He is becoming Luca. He isn't Ryker anymore. Now he is Corvina” Tyler says. “You're sure Because if these allegations are true the information will be changed. I believe what Tommy gave us was true but are you sure about this?” Kyle asked.

Tyler said “It seems so we're not planning on killing him yet we can extract the thing but only if he complies he is a dangerous foe Manny was a growth he gained only because he has almost mastered his Infinity eye if he masters it we will be doomed”

Kyle asked” Do Chris or Ren know about this?”

Tyler says” No! And they won’t ever find out”

I stared into the abyss of The hospital room. The room was dark.

I start laughing maniacally. Then I would cough after every so often that's when I started thinking.

“What is Society? Is it the simple basis of a world of peace or a world where people's opinions which should have stayed quiet be heard. Some people need to be silenced but who is it that silences them NO ONE! No one can silence the minds of idiots. No one until now. No one can silence them but me, Myself, And I. Society is nothing but rules set by the rich.

The rich get fined while the poor get jail.

Rich live long, the poor die young.

So for the poor to become the rich shall they lose all they have gained but if they have gained nothing what shall they lose? The Answer Is Simple Nothing.”

I don’t know if this was the moment I became Corvina or if it was sooner or later but I had pretty much changed like chemical bonds. I was completely different, no longer the nice guy I had become the better version of me. I felt Corvina's presence like he had tapped my shoulder saying that he’s helping me now or something like that. I heard the whispers of the man known as Corvina.

Back in the area of where Tommy and the guys were.

The guys flipped a coin a quarter in fact which the coin flipped between Ren and Chris to figure out who would go drop off The girl to Ryker while also spreading the information of Julius.

“Heads or tails” Chris asks “Tails” Says Ren

The coin flips to tails Ren would be the one going.

Ren waved goodbye to the rest of The crew as he started driving off away from the desert and away from any war he went the route that was war free.

Chris flicks a coin and It transitions back to me sitting in my hospital bed with the lights off.

I flick a lighter and stare at the fire as the lighter clicks off. He drops the lighter under the bed with and under the bed there is a lot of alcohol. The building burns down as I walk out.

I ripped the band aid that held Manny and walked down the street.

“This world is always a coin toss no matter what even if your good at something it still is but you can always change or cheat your fate”

This was a thought that came into my mind as I walked down the darkly lit street. The only source of light or heat was the burning down hospital.

I was bruised as I walked down the street.

The drowsiness kicked in as I fell down a coin fell out of my pocket rolling down the street into the gutters. The coin flipped down to heads as it landed on a cherry vanilla Chuga-cola can. The coin spins on top of the can landing not only just heads but also tails and landing right in the middle as it falls down the can.

Ren was driving down The dirty and Bumpy road when he saw something at the glimpse of his eye. It was Mr.Iglesias the second on his knees as he got his skull crushed in by the nephew in which the Nephew smiled towards the car. As Ren drove away as quickly as he could a shadowy figure tapped the Nephew shoulder.

Tyler walks into a dojo. He sees a man named

Master Steel. Master steel is supposed to be an old man at least 84 years old yet when Tyler saw him he wondered why he looked like he was in his mid 20s not only that he had sunglasses and wavy hair he looked trendy for an oldster. “So your the guy Dj told me about let me guess your name, Jake?,

No wait Fred,No, no, no, Tyler that’s what was right” said Mr. Steel “Yeah that’s me, But I thought you would be an old man how are you young?” said Tyler. “Quite rude young padawan aren’t you”

Said Mr. Steel. “So you have come here to learn how to defeat Ryker correct? It won’t be easy simply you will need to master the ability known as Zen”

Mr Steel groans as he stares down Tyler.

“You barely have any zen to start with This is gonna be a drag I don’t know if your worth the work”

Said Mr. Steel. “I am worth the work just train me”

Said Tyler. “Ok take thi-” Mr. Steel cuts off mid word as he appears behind Tyler with his legs skin stretched beyond human limits kicking Tyler.

Tyler falls down “That is the Zen yoga kick it can stretch normal human skin out like an extended kick”

Tyler is stuck on the ground barely able to move in the pain he is suffering. He opens his eyes and stares directly at Steel. “ I still have a question: How are you still young?” Tyler says as he stands back up walking towards Mr.Steel. “Zen can be used for many things including unaging” Said Mr.Steel

Mr.Steel then strikes a fist directly at Tyler as Tyler sees the attack He predicts the range of the attack and attempts to dodge but cannot dodge his feet get swept up as he braces the Impact.

Tyler regains his Oni Form before he hits the ground and floats an fiend horn comes out the middle of his head as he then gains an oni mask the mask swirls around as fire starts to engulf around him his zen was unlocked. Tyler slapped the back of Mr.Steel

Causing his back to hurt extremely Mr.Steel started falling to the ground. Mr.Steel falls but stands back up getting ready to take some more deadly hits.

Tyler was quick and even worse his attacks were very painful. That's when Mr.Steel tested out a new move

Venom Strike! His fist moved like a snake as when it impacted and landed it struck directly Tyler’s muscles. Tyler’s body pretty much shut down; he couldn't control it anymore and fell directly to the floor. That’s when Tyler accidentally used a Yoga punch he didn’t even know really how to use the attack but learned it with instincts. The attack landed striking Mr.Steel knocking him down.

Both fell down. [The attack called Yoga punch or any Yoga martial art style of fighting is when they use zen to stretch their arm longer than a normal human's arm.]

Mr Steel says “ I will show you a move passed down generations through generations can you survive it?”

“ The offensive move called Stake, a move which humans once used in the older times to kill vampires, they called it stake since it would act like a stake” Mr. Steel said. Mr. Steel started performing The move with his arms slapped around making his yoga attacks pretty much invisible as he attacked you couldn’t see his hands he was moving his hands in a weird way just like a fan. The attacks hit Tyler and really hurt him as he was getting forced back by something he couldn’t see, this was Stake.

His hands flinged like a nunchuck as it continued to

Bounce off Tyler as he got hit plenty of times.

Mr. Steel said “Through the pain do you understand this ability?” Tyler says “ Understand It I can replicate it” Tyler stands his ground.

Tyler replicates the Stake move making his fist and everything stretch and hit Mr. Steel, Mr. Steel back steps away from the attacks as Tyler goes closer and closer til he hits. Mr. Steel gets sent flying back into a wall. “Seems worthy of my training what you lack in Zen you make up for in Heart.” Says Mr.Steel.

Mr.Steel says” Your training will start tomorrow Tyler” Tyler nods and walks out the Dojo in which he goes back to his normal appearance and starts walking towards the Lawyer’s building.

Ren eventually drives all the way towards The Apartment I was in. He looks into the room Of Rykers as he checks he lets the girl out of his sight. She was gone and Ryker was nowhere in his room except for under the bed. Kyle checks to see a horrid sight of a deranged Ryker with The lifeless body of the girl as he was doing something to the girl as she was half dressed. This was insane blood gashed on Rykers face.

In my point of view I couldn’t do anything. My instincts were doing everything while I was doing horrendous things. Ren looked in fear as he realized that I was no longer just a person.

I had Changed and there was no cure to the change.

The once good ryker My friends knew was gone and disappeared never to be seen again. Ren stared in fear as he didn’t know what exactly was happening.

The messed up instincts caused me to do a crazy thing but now I felt an all time High I wanted to keep.