Cover story 65: What does he mean
As the night was nearing an end, so did Svens last statements. "they're watching you" he says as he shit faced grabs the arm of his associates. He tugs even harder on Bob, asking him why he's so down, and as Ash shows up Bobs face goes from happy to sad as if he was caught doing weed all over again.
His eyes narrow as if asking what does this mean, how did he survive, what does he mean, who's watching me, and as the camera points at them in the office they'll eventually know
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At this point I was doing stuff because I was doing it, no passion just a routine, did my life really fall down that far. If I had to answer that question I'd rather be dead ten feet under, then again my two henchmen need food and by the looks of it are an example of what betraying me is. I know those damned fools where alive, I lived through their life with them, they must be out there or this must be my only way to reach them. My only way to reach Lauraline, why did you die on me, who did it too you Laura. I only came to ignore my fate but it was bound to catch me before that damned hunter ever will, but something says this is only just the beginning. One thing I hated about myself is that I stay somewhere even when I don't need too, and right now just as I predicted Malfonz was on his way to meet up with someone.
Log of yesterday the 13th of june.
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I'd say I feel sorry but really I feel tired of my life, I don't even care, but I must have a little care in me or I wouldn't be here would I?
He was right in front of them, everybody wanted one thing, to finish the job, desperation kept all of them close to each other. Who cared about the deal about ruining each others life when you could take care of it yourself, first theres ego then desperation when things don't go their way, was there even a way other than this?
(What are you sprouting of the top of your head, your not making sense)
How many did I kill, is this redemption, why does redemption taste the same as yesterday or the day before that as I run attacking him I only come to ask is death fitting for me, but I know I will come back one way or another what will I do then?
(Focus on the enemy)
Enemy, the one word I let you speak and let me hear, who was this all for, is my life a tragedy, I wanna change but I'm an addict ... HELP ME is all my head wants to say but I know damn well if that officer doesn't strike first and damn hard I sure wont end up striking me. Because the only reason I live to see tomorrow is because my power doesn't let me die. And that damned smirk, I'll end up missing it, hating him I will end up missing that. But never him never the person he was only the thing my ego wont let me forget.
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The officer shot the bullet from afar, shaking, but then in anger shot his hand through the middle and got back to shooting. Because if he's scared of dying he needed the pain to end first. First shot was missed, as the two who fought dealt spars, Malfonz because he knew something was coming, and Neova because if he was going down Malfonz was too. They were desperate, and so another bullet was shot, kling went the metal and clunk went the rocks, "FIIIIREEEE", said the officer and all teams who had hid both near ground and on top of houses strapped up and shot their shot.
Slowly a tactical periodic timed gun fire, went from tempo to tempo more and more til all that could be heard was the falling rubble. But even then just as the dust settled, the one bullet meant for Neova was held by his hand as his focus changed, as he sat next to the rock next to him as if he was a statue. Malfonz was no longer there anymore, but he wasn't gone, and as Neova checked the gloss on the bullet another was fired. But no scratch, "did you guys miss me on purpose", he said while laughing.
Just as his speech ended Malfonz getting ready for a punch, just in a split second, grabbed and reversed, used as a shield and thrown away like a toy, taking all the bullets to the back, just as Neova pulled his own gun shot three dead on sight. Malfonz crashing into a corner of a building tumbling it down putting him down to submission.
Just as Neova shot another bullet to the sky, shooting down another man, he asked a question "what are you here for, and why", said Neova. "Stand down", yelled the officer in fear of his men.
"I have three choices, you choose one, and I choose one consequence", said Neova. Neova needed to win after so many losses.
"What choices", said the officer.
"Buckshot roulette, gun for gun, chess, or your choice, hmm", said Neova.
"Choose buckshot what if he dies", said one person.
"Choose your own choice", said another.
"I choose chess", said the officer.
"Officer you know what's special with me", asked Neova.
"I can see what you can't see, I know what you know, I know what you will know, and that is my consequence, I still have power, wanna change picks", said Neova. He said that but he needed to be argued against because it was one thing he couldn't see.
"Do you even know how to play chess", said someone.
"Can you even win", said another.
"Am I bluffing", said Neova and the decision was set.
"Heh, I've sinned before, I would ask nothing else", said the officer.
"Kinda immature officer, right next to the dead corpses", said Neova.
"Then let me sin in front of a sinner", said the officer.
"Everything I do is a sin in front of you isn't it", said Neova, just as he went back and brought a chess board.
"What is a sin to you sunny boy, you got a face a mother could love why do this", asked the officer.
"The bets are set you win you kill, I win you die", said Neova ignoring the statement. Turns out some of the debree fell on Malfonz's knee hence he couldn't see this fight happen.
And so the battle began. The pieces were set and the men in the crowd afraid for what was about to happen. Neova was given the head start, and the officer would quickly catch up.
"You know we are both alike, you and I, your morals I understand them, and even now you are doing the thing I would have done, because we can't be mature without sacrifice", said Neova moving his pawns. The officer quiet, but a bit annoyed.
"But am I wrong in wanting to be mature, because I sacrificed against my will, am I mature or still a kid because I never sacrificed but instead lost something without wanting too, even if I ask that you can't answer me", said Neova angered at his own question.
Pawn - E2 white (from E4)Pawn - F3 white (from F2) 3. Pawn - E5 black (from E7)
"To me good is black and white, which is how gray comes to mind, justice is black and white, but it is black and white enough to align with my morals, and yours too", said Neova a bit annoyed at the silence of the officer.
"People say to be true to yourself and others brings happiness, but too much of anything is bad, people hate too much truth too hence a lie heals some wounds and opens others", said Neova.
"You hold morale and hold a gun for that morale, people die left and right but you don't hold a flower instead again a gun to mark me dead, we have justice but the world made justice a word to let both bad and good live until they cross a line. Just like I will never know how you see colors (lie), and if I did I would never know how you felt seeing color, how can you bear that gun and call it justice while also sprouting on about how you sinned. The world only offered me my word, that was my only prized possession, and as an officer you have your word the things you obide by, your here because I was gonna kill that girl but I was only keeping a word to an enemy made to myself, we sinned yet why do you stand there acting like life never made you sin", Neova said in desperation.
Knight - C3 white (from B1) 4. Knight - C6 black (from B8)Pawn - D3 white (from D2) 5. Bishop C5 black (from F8)
"I was born, so of course I had a mom and a dad, they passed before I was born, then I came across a new family, they taught morals, I didn't have a hating bone to give to society, but to win you must reduce opposition to zero, and when opposition is low I win that is it", said Neova with a nervous angered grin over the silence.
"If to be born is right, why do evils of the world be born to commit to evil, I born will only commit evil, if I were a puppet maybe no evil would be commited but then neither you or I would have the thought of freedom", said Neova.
"Freedom isn't wrong, but in a world of bad I would rather want to be a puppet and be bored than be a monster who had the choice to map out faliure why does religion here want freedom, if being the sky's puppet is better because there will always be people like me and sinners there already are", said Neova.
"SAY SOMETHING", says Neova while pulling out a gun and pointing it at the officers forehead who didn't move an inch in expression.
"Hey Bub, leave it or your heads next to pop", said the son of the officer who blended in the crowd. If he said out loud who he was he would be blackmail and a nuisance.
"Hey I was joking here, but your dads a real mood killer", said Neova.
King - E2 white check (from E1) 6. Queen - H4 black (from D8)King - E3 white (from E2) 7. Knight - D4 black (from C6)King - D3 white check (from E3) 8. Knight - F5 black (from D4)Knight - E3 white attack knight (from D5) 9. Knight - E3 black (from F5)
"What do you see me as crazy, oo I see ghosts or something (sarcasm), I remember the quote a crazy mans words are right two times a day but it turns out he was mirroring himself blah blah, never could understand what he was saying, heh you understand anything bub", said Neova counting to ten in order to cool himself down.
"The worlds right and wrongs are perceptions of aligned words, but every persons right and wrong are different enough to not be the same for everyone in the rule books, heh heh and then how am I wrong", said Neova a bit more cool headed.
"Ok ok change of topic, what about how people believe that the person who finds the truth of the world will disappear because he knows how the world works, most people wanna see what happened to that person but I wanna know what the words were huuh", said Neova.
"Because if the world works on words, there would never be a higher being above me ... I would never be a sinner and so you would have no reason to kill me", said Neova as he stands up towering the officer.
"SAY SOMETHING", said Neova pointing the gun at the officer again, but the officers son points the gun at Neova's head and copies the sound of the shot enough to startle Neova into submission.
"My mother didn't create a monster, but I am damn sure she was one for me to be here, the world let me see people die left and right and when I do it it is wrong, I enjoy killing so much I couldn't even save people instead stuck to the idea of me being attached behind string like a puppet down to my core", said Neova spiraling.
Pawn - E3 white attack bishop (from D2) 10. Bishop - E3 black attack knight (from C5)Knight - H3 white (from G1) 11. Knight - F6 black (from G8)Pawn - G4 white attack knight (from F3) 12. Knight - G4 black (from F6)
The pawns were in position to attack and so the center had been lit. Neova asking how can you fight a man who can see how he will win, "I am changing trajectories every move of every second I know how I will win because I know your before and your upcoming attacks".
"Why do you think I won't pull the trigger right here right now", said the officer jumping up and placing his shot down hand to restrain Neovas face as he puts the gun at Neova's head ready to shoot.
"You won't shoot because a man who kills a murderer is a murderer too", said Neova laughing.
"The funny thing is if everybody is a clean slate, then why didn't you hold flowers instead a gun because you know people suffer at their own hands, so others put string around them to put them in line, your doing the same killing a man for his word because your word was worth more, we are the same", said Neova.
"Freedom offers me to be evil, if I were a puppet I would be good", said Neova.
"And what makes you think I won't regret that", said the officer.
"Because you haven't tore down my beliefs yet, what makes my right wrong from yours, if all of us do what we want to do within the laws of confinement", said Neova.
"You don't understand half the words you say you dumb brat", said the officer, but he gave in and said "let's finish the game and then see what happens".
"Because you wanna be fair, and me too why do you think you're not six feet under, bRaT (sarcasm)", said Neova.
Pawn - C4 white (from C2) 13. Queen - F6 black (from H4)Queen - A4 white (from D1) 14. Pawn - B6 black (from B7)Pawn - G5 white (from G4) 15. Bishop - B7 black (from C8)King - C3 white (from D3) 16. Queen - D6 black (from F6)
Neck on neck the sky was almost starting to fade away the clouds, but the pollution made the sky a blood red instead of a clean blue. As the neon colors flashed of blue and red shine on the buildings, some bricks moving could be heard, someone was waking up again.
Knight - F2 white (from H3) 17. Bishop - E4 black attack pawn (from B7)Knight - E4 white (from F2) 18. Bishop - G6 black (from E4)Pawn - G3 white (from G2) 19. Queen - F8 black (from D6)Bishop - H3 white (from F1) 20. Bishop - E4 black attack knight (from F5)Queen - D7 white checkmate (from A4) 21. Bishop - H1 black (from E4)
"If I really was wrong why couldn't you prove it", said Neova his face tucked in his hat in a somber note as if he was gonna cry, and as if he was disappointed. But just in time as the piano started ringing the sound of bells, Malfonz woke up and started walking towards the blindsided Neova, he grabs his head and the officer shoots five bullets through his head and so the body falls on the chair limp. A death of a rumor.
Malfonz in a rage screams for the men to head out, and he went back to where he was before, leaving another corpse down, continuing his plan again with no brakes this time. Fin.
(He spoke of madmans words, but to a man who never truly won, he won with words what he never did with his life)
"If I were not free, I would not be evil — but I am free, so I must choose, and my choices damn me."
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