Waters: Part 2 - Dark May

May 3rd. Midnight.

Petko's Cabaret

W, Wilbur and Adagio Dazzle got out of the room and find themselves in a dark alley. W has the knocked out henchman's gun on his hands. No one is there except for them, and there is a small blue light illuminating it. The music is now louder. W rubs his head and looks at Adagio Dazzle for a while until she finds out.

"What?" she says, angrily.

"You..." says W. "Your face seems familiar to me."

Adagio is now as confused as W and Wilbur. "Please, tell me you don't remember me from the Battle of the Bands."

"...Dazzlings?" says W.

Adagio Dazzle sighs. "Shit... just don't mention that."

"No... I remember you from another place..."

Silence appears between them, turning this situation into a very awkward one. Suddenly, W hears a noise and immediately draws a gun and looks everywhere, but then they discover it was just a small mouse passing by. W exhales a sigh of relief and looks at Adagio again. "Again?" she says, angrily. "Are you trying to remember the day where you were born, for god's sake?"

"Ashton," says W. "I remember you... Adagio Dazzle... the Siren Sisters of Fillydelphia."

Adagio's eyes shine and then close. "What?" she says. "You..."

"I was ten years old when the Ashton Gang War happened, almost eleven. Now I am..." W stops talking. He realizes he has 25 years old now because his birthday was on February 4th. "Now I am 25."

Adagio looks at W on his eyes and raises her eyebrows... "The Kid... Bedmaker?"

"Hell yeah," says W with a small smile. "I was that kid. I grew up but you... you haven't changed a shit."

"...Can we just stop talking about this?" says Adagio, angrily. "We need to save my sisters, my adoptive mother and kill that scumbag."

W raises an eyebrow. "Adoptive mother?"

"Seductive is his adoptive mother," answers W's grandpa.

"Yes..." she says. "And if anybody touches her, I'll kill them."

W laughs. "We have a tough lady here, grandpa."

"Hell yeah."

Adagio doesn't laugh and grabs W by his trenchcoat and hits his head with hers. "Watch your mouth, you kid. You wouldn't like to see me angry."

"Hey!" shouts someone. W draws the gun and fires once. The voice answers with another gunshot. Wilbur instantly crawls while W keeps firing and Adagio keeps standing up in the same spot as before. The mysterious man falls to the floor and stops firing. However, another voice appears and starts firing, but this time Adagio grabs W's gun and fires once. The henchman falls to the floor and dies. Perfect headshot. W and Wilbur look at Adagio, surprised. They don't say anything and makes Adagio smile.

"We need to hurry up," she says and starts walking away. W and Wilbur grab the guns that were from the dead henchmen and follow her.

The three of them turn to the right and the music gets much louder. However, W finds out it is just another alley. There are no stairs.

"How big is this place?" says W. "Where are the stairs?"

"It's a freaking cabaret, Bedmaker," says Adagio. "And now we have to turn to the left again to go downstairs."

While getting to the left, there is another alley where four drunk men are laughing and jumping of joy. Adagio instantly points at them with the gun but W grabs her arm.

"No," he says. "They are harmless."

"Harmless?" says Adagio. "Those guys are harmless?"

"I agree with Adagio, W," says Wilbur.

"Just let me do the work," answers W. The four men approach them and start shouting again. They look at them and instantly W shouts out loud too. They shout again, so does W, and this continues for a couple of seconds until they leave laughing. Adagio and Wilbur only look at him, bewildered.

"It's a code between junkies," says W. "You wouldn't understand..."

W stops talking while going downstairs and looking at the cabaret. It is W's first time here and the place he is looking at right now shocks him. It's a huge cabaret, filled with tables and chairs looking at a scenario. The music is much louder now and there are also gangsters dancing with alcohol bottles on their hands, celebrating. There is also a man on the scenario dancing while drinking two bottles of beer. Adagio points at him.

"That son of a bitch," she says.

"That guy is...?" says W.

"Petko," she answers. "We can kill him right there with no problem but... all these gangsters..."

"No, no, no..." says Wilbur. "I'll go back there... I'm just worsening things."

"No, grandpa, please," says W. "Things are still OK."

Suddenly, a purple-skinned woman smoking a cigar appears in a table near them. She looks at Adagio Dazzle and opens her mouth. That woman is Seductive.

"Seductive," says W. He slowly waves his hand and she does the same. Seconds later, Adagio winks an eye. Seductive nods her head.

"What are you trying to do?" says W to Adagio Dazzle.

"What we planned every single day, stay back," she says, and shouts: "OK! LISTEN TO ME NOW!"

Nobody listens to Adagio's words, and both W and Wilbur get behind Adagio, looking at her, confused. That's the moment when the grandson asks his grandfather: "Hey... why are you trying to give up?"

"I just wanna go back there and chain myself," says Wilbur.

"Why? You are Schizoid, grandpa... This is the first time I've heard this from you. If this happened a year before, you may have told me not to give up, never..."

Wilbur rubs his head and touches his grandson's shoulders. "Look at me."

"I'm looking at you."

"I feel... I can't do anything against Plegovich, because everything I had... he took it away from me... he shaved my beard... he cut my hair... he kicked my ass... he fed me with shitty food while locking me with other fifteen guys... I feel... I feel tired and weak, W."

"But now I am here with you, grandpa. We can kick his ass. We are the Waters."

Wilbur chuckles and denies with his head. "I haven't been a Waters since they told me to shut up and I did. I'm not a gangster anymore... you are the gangster... and I am the weak."

"Oh, come on!" shouts W. "Stop victimizing yourself, grandpa! You are not weak!"

"You haven't understood yet," says Wilbur. "I could beat Plegovich if I was a gangster and a Waters, and now I'm neither a Waters nor a gangster... and you... you are both."

No one listens to Adagio, and suddenly she fires her gun and destroys a radio that was next to Petko. There is no music now. W and Wilbur stop their conversation and look at her, trying to figure out what is she doing while they are drawing their handguns. Seductive smiles and Petko drops his bottles of beer while the gangsters are looking at her. "Uh?" says one of the gangsters, confused.

"I'm done with this..." says Adagio Dazzle. "If only me and my sisters had my pendants everything would have been easier but... now I have to take another measure... Petko, I declare you war."

Nobody answers to that, and Adagio starts sweating. Petko slowly draws a handgun at the same time Seductive does it. W and Wilbur who are hiding on the stairs, look at each other. "What?" whispers W.

"I agree with you on this, W. I don't understand this plan."

Petko and the gangsters look at each other, in silence.

Petko laughs while holding his gun, and seconds later the gangsters do the same and start going for Adagio and Seductive. Adagio and Seductive point their guns but they are fastly trapped by the gangsters while Petko runs and enters the scenario's backstage.

"Kill them! Kill them!" shouts one of the gangsters, but suddenly, a gunshot interrupts everything. W goes downstairs, enters the cabaret and Wilbur is hiding behind him. The Bedmaker is holding his gun, pointing to the roof in silence. Gangsters are looking at him, shocked.

"It... it... IT CAN'T BE! YOU ARE DEAD!" shouts one of the gangsters while pointing the gun to W. "PLEGOVICH KILLED YOU!"

"I'm a ghost, fuckers... I'm your illusion," says W and looks at Adagio. "Boo." All of the gangsters run away because they think W is a ghost for real, and even some of them leave their guns there. Wilbur stops hiding behind his grandson and helps Adagio and Seductive to get up.

"Seductive... Adagio" says Wilbur. "What the hell was that? That was the worst plan I've ever seen in my entire life!" shouts Wilbur.

"Yeah!" says W. "Those gangsters didn't kill you because they were drunk as fuck. I expected this awful plan from Adagio but... you?"

Seductive sighs. "Sorry... I was worried, bad... um..." Her words are interrupted because she instantly crawls and almost passes out. Adagio helps her to get up again and she slowly starts breathing. "I didn't have time to make... even a small part of a plan, they vanished... so fast..."

"Who?" says W.

"Sonata. Aria," she says.

"Is there any news?" says Adagio, while hugging Seductive. She shakes her head.

"They are still there."

"Where?" asks W. Seductive points to a small door next to the scenario.

"Backstage."

"Let's go, then."

"No," says Seductive, while gasping. "That place is full of... misery. You can't just go like that."

"What... you think I'm not armed?" says W, and then he grabs a handgun from the floor. "This is enough."

"No," she says again. "When I say that place is full of misery... I'm saying the truth, Bedmaker. Petko and other greedy assholes get in the backstage to snort cocaine and make handjobs between each other... but this night... Sonata and Aria went there... and never came back..."

"So... why are we wasting time here?" says W. "We must go inside. They must be there."

"Dead or alive," says Wilbur, looking at his grandson. Adagio closes her eyes, trying not to cry, and Seductive rubs her head, cleaning her face.

"We must go there..." says the adoptive mother. "But... I just..."

"Calm down," says Adagio. "We are four. We can fight against those guys inside."

Seductive takes a long breath and looks at her vomit, and looks at W and his grandfather, nodding her head: "You know... a week ago Petko made a party celebrating your death... but I knew you were alive, I don't know how but... I knew... and when I saw you there," she says, pointing to the stairs... "Behind Adagio... I knew we had a chance..."

"And what are we waiting for, Seductive?" says W. "Let's go."

Seductive takes a long breath, grabs a gun from the floor and eventually accepts while the four walk to the scenario and stay in front of the backstage's door. They don't hear anything or anyone inside. Then, Adagio slowly opens the door and looks that the whole backstage is dark. There are no lights on.

"What?" says Adagio. W decides to enter first and touches a wall to see if there is a switch near his hands.

Nobody talks until they hear something falling from inside. Adagio points with her gun at the darkness. Seductive decides to move further and get inside the backstage.

"No!" shouts Adagio. "Come here!"

Somebody switches on the lights. Backstage is a grey narrow alley with three doors, two on the right and one in front of them. However, the man who switched on the lights comes out of another door, along with the other four men. Seductive starts firing but the gun only had two bullets, and both of them finished in the gangster's tactical vest.

Seductive takes cover, leaving the backstage and staying in the door while W, Wilbur and Adagio look at each other. They also leave backstage and listen to the gangsters coming nearer.

"You pussies!" says one of them. Adagio takes a long breath and exhales.

"Nobody calls me a pussy," she replies and gets in backstage with W. Both of them unstoppably fire their guns, and two gangsters die because of Adagio's headshots. The other two guys open the third door and hide there. That's the right moment when Wilbur and Seductive return to backstage and the Bedmaker looks at the Siren.

"Where did you learn to fire like that?" he says while looking at his gun's magazine. Few bullets left.

"Natural talent," she says while trying to find the gun's magazine. Seductive gives Adagio another gun she found on the cabaret. "No..."

"Yes, Adagio," says Seductive. "This is the only one that has at least five bullets."

Wilbur grabs the dead gangsters' weapons and gives one to Seductive. The four are armed.

Adagio is the first one to stay in front of the door where the two gangsters are hiding. Sonata, Aria and Petko haven't been found yet.

"Natural talent?" says W. "That's impossible."

"Well," says Adagio. "I've got to admit Ms Seductive taught me how to handle a gun, just in case."

"You should thank me," says Seductive. Adagio smiles while looking at her adoptive mother. Suddenly, the door is opened by one of the gangsters and W kills one of them, shooting him in the head. The other gangster raises his hands and Adagio strangles him.

"Tell me! WHERE ARE MY SISTERS?"

"Front... door..." says the gangster. "It is... locked..."

"Where are the keys, then?" says Seductive, while touching his head with the gun she's holding.

"Petko has them... please, let me go... let me go..."

"Let you go?" says Adagio. "I'll let you go now..." The siren strangles him stronger, but Seductive stops her.

"Wait!" she shouts. "Stop, Adagio, stop!"

The gangster breathes again, while W grabs the dead man's gun that was on the floor.

"Kill him, Bedmaker!" shouts Adagio, while Seductive is calming her down. W looks at his grandpa.

"You know what your father said once, right?" says Wilbur while having eye contact with his grandson. "Let the cowards go for a while." The Bedmaker nods and shots the gangster on his shoulder.

"Aaargh!" shouts the gangster while uncontrollably moving because of the pain. Adagio calms down and leaves the room with Seductive.

"Good luck, d-bag," says W while leaving the room... however, the gangster does something unexpected: he slowly draws a small revolver from one of his pockets and points at W. His grandfather finds out and decides to sacrifice himself.

"NO!" shouts the grandfather and the gangster fires his gun. W instantly turns around and riddles the injured gangster.

"Grandpa!" shouts W and helps his grandpa to wake up. Luckily, the bullet ends up on his right arm and didn't kill him, but he is still injured.

"I'm OK... I'm OK... it's just..."

Seductive looks that a dead gangster has bandage coming out of his pocket. She grabs it and gives it to W, which wraps around his grandfather's arm. "Don't touch your arm..." says W. "Please, Seductive, take care of him... I'll go for Petko."

"No," says Adagio. "I will go for Petko."

"Of course not!" shouts W. "I must kill Petko!"

"Why?"

W doesn't want to say the truth of Event, because he knows Adagio won't believe it. "I... um... I want to get revenge by killing Petko."

"Revenge of what?"

"They thought they killed me... and I'll let them know I am alive."

"Oh, excuse me, Mr Revenge... Were you trapped inside this shitty place for months as a freaking dancer that tries not to be raped by fat hoary gangsters? Of course not!"

"But... did they almost kill you? Or shot you in the stomach? Shit no! I must be the one who kills Petko!"

"No, you won't! I will kill Petko and look for my sisters!"

"NO!" shouts W while smashing his fist against a wall. Both Wilbur and Seductive are shocked, looking to W and Adagio Dazzle's argument. "I won't let you kill him, I must!"

"Gosh, how could your girlfriend put up with you if you had one?"

"MY GIRLFRIEND IS DEAD!" says W while grabbing Adagio's dress. The Dazzling stops talking and W rubs his head while gasping.

"W, calm down..." whispers Wilbur. "It is the first time I saw a Waters shouting to a woman."

W reflects of what he did and lets Adagio go. The siren is now shocked while looking at the Bedmaker, and then she turns around and tries to bring the door down. "PETKO!" she shouts. "OPEN, YOU BITCH! LET MY SISTERS GO!"

"Petko won't let you enter after what you did," says someone that is neither Petko nor the sirens. His voice is lower.

"Open, whoever you are!" shouts Adagio. W, who is behind her, shots his gun once to the door and the mysterious man stops talking. Now there is a hole in the door, where both of them can see what's happening inside. The room is empty... there are only a wardrobe and a bed where Aria Blaze is staying. "ARIA!"

"ADAGIO!" shouts Aria. "HELP ME! SONATA IS IN DANGER!"

"WHAT HAPPENED?" says Adagio. "Please, open!"

Aria, who is wearing an orange dress, fastly gets up from the bed, while stepping on the dead man's body. She grabs a key that was on the floor and opens the door. The four guys enter the room, and Seductive hugs her adopted daughter. "Where's Sonata?" asks the mother.

"There is a bunker under this room which leads to an emergency exit," answers Aria, pointing to the wardrobe. "There is a hidden door behind that wardrobe which lead to the bunker... Sonata and that scumbag are there...!"

Aria is interrupted because of Adagio's hug. Both of them start crying... it is the first time they hug for months. Wilbur tries to move the wardrobe with his injured arm but both W and Seductive don't let him do it.

"No, grandpa," says W. "You are injured. Let me do it."

"I'll help you, W," says Seductive, while grabbing the wardrobe from the left side. It is empty, and that means it is easier to carry.

"Grandson..." whispers Wilbur. "Why?"

"Why what?" asks W while moving the wardrobe with Seductive.

"Why are you trying to save me?"

W stops and looks at his grandpa. "Are you kidding? You are my grandpa, Wilbur... and you are not weak, for Star Swirl's sake! How many times I have to tell you? I won't leave you here, dying! Once we get out of here I'll take you to a hospital near here..."

"There are no hospitals..." says Wilbur. "And I'm injured. I'm feeling cold. I..."

"There is a hospital on Cabbage Town..." says Seductive.

"See?" says W. "We'll take you to that hospital and we will leave... The doctors will treat you well... I'll put you there with a fake name... even if we have to take a risk to do it."

"No..." says Wilbur. "I am not Schizoid anymore, W... I'm just an old man... and I need to finish this."

Seductive and W move the wardrobe and find a secret corridor with a door inside. "Finish what?" says W.

"All."

"No," says W. "We'll take you to a hospital and that's it. You will stay there safe." Then, he draws his handgun and is prepared to take Petko down... but the two Dazzlings push him away and try to bring the door down.

"OPEN! WE WANT SONATA!" they shout. Seductive tries to calm them down but she can't. Petko doesn't answer.

"CALM DOWN!" shouts W while pushing them away from the door. Aria wants to strangle him but then everyone gets silent when they hear someone walking to the door. W slowly puts his finger inside the trigger.

Petko fastly opens the door and aims at something with a handgun, but both W and Adagio shot him on the chest with their guns. He falls to the floor, agonizing, while the Dazzlings look at Sonata Dusk sleeping on a sofa. It is a white room with a big black door that says Emergency Exit a table with a bottle of wine, two glasses and a bed. Adagio, Seductive and Aria go for Sonata. They touch her face and she slowly opens her eyes. Once she looks at her sisters, Adagio and Aria hug her. They thought she was dead, but Sonata innocently answers she was just sleeping. W and his grandfather look at Petko agonizing on the floor.

"Uh... uh..." whispers Petko. "I thought... you were... a... a ghost."

"Well, turns out you are the ghost now," answers W, chuckling and firing once to his head. The guy is dead.

PETKO

The Dazzlings stop hugging to each other and Adagio looks at W... "I... I was going to..."

"No," says W. "I had to do it."

"Why?" says Adagio. "Because of that revenge shit? Don't tread on me! I've already told you we are the toughest around there!"

"Until I arrived," says W, creating an awkward moment. "Now we have to open this door that looks like a monster."

"I have the key..." says Sonata, with a smile. She starts looking for the key through the black dress she's wearing. "Wait," she realizes, "I don't have it."

Meanwhile, in the scenario, the gangsters that ran away from W, thinking that he was a ghost, come back with more gangsters on their back. Besides, there is a leader, an important man with them: Gail Garry.

"If you brought me because you had a fucking illusion, I'll execute you."

"We are not joking!" says one of the gangsters. "We saw that guy you killed standing in front of us!"

Garry punches the gangster in the face. "How many bottles you drank, asshole? Did you bring me and my guys from Saik City because of a fake fucking ghost?"

"Yes!"

"You SON OF A BITCH! You told me there was a raid here, and I believed you because the word Raid means something true, you stupid fucker! Aaargh!"

"He's saying the truth!" says another gangster. "He was with the dancers and that strange dude who was in the attic!"

Garry takes a breath and looks at the other gangster. "Wait... where is Petko? And Chalk? Where are the dancers... Seductive... Wilbur Waters?"

"Yeah, you are right..." says another gangster. Garry shouts and smashes his fist against a table. "I don't find them."

"YOU DON'T FIND THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT HERE, YOU STUPID! LOOK FOR THEM NOW! GO TO THE BACKSTAGE!"

A group of gangsters go backstage to look for the men.

Sonata finally found the key and Seductive opens the door. It's a huge door made of metal... but it has only one key lock. She unlocks it and opens the door, letting fresh air enter the room. The big black door directly leads to the route. Besides, it is a really cold night, and the moon is so shiny that illuminates nearly every one of them inside the room. Seductive looks at a white car with the keys on the car's hood. It is Petko's car, and he used to put the car keys on the hood. He knew that nobody would steal it, because he was one of Plegovich's main henchmen.

"That guy always used to leave the car keys on the hood," answers Aria, while looking at Petko's body. "What an idiot."

The Dazzlings are the first that come out of the room. Wilbur and W are about to come out until they hear something.

"They are dead! Garry, the guys are dead!"

"They are here again," says Seductive, while opening the car's front door. "Hurry up!"

W is about to come out with Wilbur, but suddenly, his grandpa takes a long breath and pushes W away. W falls to the ground outside the room and Wilbur closes the big black door, staying inside the room. W instantly gets up and tries to open the door, but it has no handle on his side. "GRANDPA! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? OPEN THE DOOR!"

"Go! Go! You don't need me anymore!"

"I NEED YOU! YOU ARE MY GRANDFATHER!"

"Go! Go! There is no time! You don't need an injured old man to go with you!

"NO! NO! YOU... YOU CAN'T!"

Seductive tries to calm W down but he pushes her. He tries to open the door while crying but another voice behind him says something:

"Time to go... you can't stay here anymore..."

Event, the god that is helping W, appears behind him. He is the only one that can see him. "I can't leave him alone," says the Bedmaker while trying to save his grandfather.

"He sacrificed himself to give you time to escape... you need to go. If you die, you lose."

"Bedmaker, we don't have time, let him go!" shouts Adagio Dazzle. "PLEASE!"

W takes a long breath and tries to open the door one more time, but he can't because he hasn't got a handle.

"HEY, YOU!" shouts someone from inside. "SON OF A BITCH!"

"Love you, grandpa," says W, and he slowly walks away. He stops in the middle and returns to the door again but he gives up and eventually enters the car. They go away.

"HEY, YOU!" shouts one of the gangsters, while aiming his gun at Wilbur. "SON OF A BITCH!"

Wilbur Waters raises his hands. Gail Garry enters the bunker and looks at Petko's corpse. He slowly nods his head and chuckles. "What happened here, grandpa?"

"The good things happened, Garry," says Wilbur, while sitting on the floor and lying against the black door.

"What do you mean with the good things?" says the henchman, while drawing a revolver from his pocket. "You killed Petko?"

Wilbur denies with his head. "No... guess who..."

"I told you!" says a gangster behind Garry. "It was the ghost!"

"Shut the fuck up!" answers Garry. Then, the bounty hunter approaches Wilbur and touches his head with the revolver. "Where are the dancers, Wilbur?"

"I have no idea," he says. "They killed Petko and they left."

"Where did they go?"

"I have no idea, I told you."

"The dancers... the dancers..." whispers Garry. "Shit.... the pendants."

"What?" says Wilbur. "You mean..."

"None of your fucking business, Wilbur," answers Garry and then he looks at the other gangsters. "Give me a phone..."

The bounty hunter wakes up and somebody gives him his phone. He dials a number and while he is calling, he shoots three times at Wilbur's chest, killing him.

"What?"

"Sergei?"

"Garry, what?"

"We have a problem, where are you?"

"Mr Plegovich told me days ago I had to take care of Ms Minerva until next week."

"Please, Sergei... take care of Minerva with your life... the dancers may be going there."

"Why?"

"I don't know, but they killed Petko and escaped..."

"Did you find them with your speed?"

"No, I've already taken my pill this morning, and I have them all on Saik... That's why I'll send you half of my men to Minerva's."

"Why not all, Garry? Minerva's very important to Mr Plegovich."

"Half of my men will stay at Saik City... I need workers and I also want the harbour to be secure."

"Saik City, or Saik Harbour, as you say, is only a piece of dirt, Garry. Minerva is more important. Send me all of your men."

Garry rubs his head, thinking. Sergei's robotic voice feels like a drill inside his head. "I... I... look, Sergei... I don't care if you think my city is a piece of dirt... I want it to be safe... I'll send you half my men. Bye."

Garry ends the call and looks at Wilbur, who is now dead and rests in the floor while bleeding. "Are you alright, sir?" asks a gangster. Garry gives him the phone.

"I want all of you to go Minerva's, except for... ten of you. Is there any bathroom here? I want to wash my face. I need to relax..."