Gary had heard quite a lot about the Grey Elephants gang during his time as a transporter. After all, they were the second-largest gang in Slough, though it wasn’t as if anybody had ever shown him a picture of the leader’s faces. Nevertheless, the presence of these people made it clear that they were at the very least high-ranking members of the gang.
‘These people, they are the ones that captured Amy… who made her go through all that crap.’
Despite how much Gary wanted to get out of here and deal with them, he knew now was not the time. Not with how many people they were, and not while involving others. Fortunately, the Grey Elephants had yet to make a move.
‘If they’re here now, does that mean they were the ones who had ordered the attack on the school? I still have no clue why Tiffany was with them. Seriously, this whole thing seems to be more complicated than it looks.’
Unsure about the full scope of the situation, Gary had decided to keep his mouth shut and just let things play out. The high schooler was also slightly regretting that he hadn’t put on his mask again, though it seemed a bit too late for it now. His best course of action seemed to be to let Jayden do the talking, and try to appear as unimportant as a green haired teenager in the middle of the woods could be.
“We don’t want to mess with you, Mr Tiger!” Brandon shouted out. “That was not why we came. You see, Mr D here informed me that one of my subordinates took matters into his own hands and captured the young miss over there.
“Once the matter came to my attention, we got to work. As soon as we learned about Riv having fled here, I gathered my men to rescue the young miss. It appears that you’ve managed to locate them before us, though.
“Let me assure you again that we played no part in this plan, and I apologise for not keeping my people in check. I hope you can hand over the culprits and I promise that we will give them the appropriate punishment.”
Jayden stood there for a while, not saying anything as he thought about what to do. It was clear he wasn’t afraid of the Grey Elephants. At the same time, going against them or getting on their bad side would likely prove to be a major annoyance to his father and sister, who had chosen to live in this town.
Jayden was smart enough to know that the big gangs would never act this flashy, nor would they involve the public to this degree. Besides, they wouldn’t have gone after Xin to blackmail money out of the mayor, instead they would have gone directly after their father, forcing him to submit to them.
At the end of the day, Xin was now safe. Jayden was also sure that now that they knew that he was associated with the mayor and his daughter, that they wouldn’t dare to act against them anytime soon.
Walking down the cabins’ old steps, Jayden made the first move, and now they stood fifteen metres away from each other. He looked towards Gary and nodded. Taking this as a sign, Gary quickly walked over, and placed Riv on the ground in front of the Altered.
He looked Brandon in the eye for a second and Raven who seemed to be staring at him, before quickly going back to Xin’s side. Jayden did the same, placing Tiffany on the ground as well.
“Who’s this wench?” Brandon asked, since this was the first time he had seen the teenage girl. He then kicked Riv on the ground a couple of times, which managed to jolt him awake.
“Where am I?” Riv looked around confused. Getting up fast, the red colour gang leader touched his face that was in pain. When he looked at Gary and Jayden, he was filled with anger.
“You bastards!” Riv shouted, yet before he could do anything, he felt his body getting lifted off the ground. His own shirt was starting to choke him around his neck slightly. Turning around, he saw who it was, and his head started to sweat as he recognised the Grey Elephant leader.
“Boss!” Riv let out a choked gasp.
“Oh, so suddenly you remember that I’m your boss, hm?” Brandon sounded very annoyed. He threw Riv on the ground with such force letting him go. The gang leader’s body hit the ground so hard that he bounced slightly while blood spewed from his mouth. Before Riv could do anything else, Brandon stomped on the back of his head, the sheer weight and strength crushing part of his skull.
Everything had happened so fast, and although it was clear that Brandon wasn’t stronger than Jayden in any way, his actions, that he had just done, were frightful in its own way. Riv, no longer had a heart beat, Gary could tell he was dead.
Still, it didn’t look like he was done just yet, he soon picked up Tiffany by the mouth. His hand was so big it was able to grab around her entire head. When she was lifted, she suddenly came to and was hanging onto Brandon’s forearm, kicking and screaming.
“Wait!” Xin shouted. “Please, she’s just a high school student… let her go! She’s not part of the red colour gang.”
Being under their care for a while, she could tell that Tiffany wasn’t really a part of their gang. In fact, she had complained about Riv whenever he had left the room. To Xin it appeared as if Tiffany had begun dating him at the beginning out of fun, but when getting in too deep, there was no way she could leave.
Riv… had already been a dangerous person, but it looked like the people he had associated with, had been even more dangerous and more scrupulous than him.
“This little girl could get us in a lot of trouble.” Raven eventually spoke up and stepped forward. “It looks like she was part of the ones that kidnapped you, yet you want to save her? We have a relationship with the Rising Dragons and this could have been ruined. Others might even use this situation against us, we can’t let this get out, not someone who was so close to the matter.”
It looked like Xin’s plea wasn’t going to work, and it was then that the high school girl pulled on Jayden’s arm and looked at him from below. Did Xin hate Tiffany? Of course, she did, but it wasn’t yet to a degree that she wanted her dead. For some reason, she knew that not for a second did Tiffany want to truly hurt her.
From the things she had overheard, the plan to get her family involved, the ransom and taking her away, even the attack on the school had not been something she had ever intended. The plan kept getting deeper and Tiffany didn’t know how to deal with it.
A second later and a big sigh was heard from his mouth, as he started to walk forward.
“You heard my sister, let her go.” Jayden demanded, looking up at Brandon.
‘Is a fight going to break out? Right now?’ Gary wondered, as he needed to be ready at any second.