Waters: Part 2 - Dark May

February 3rd

On the left side of the route that goes to Saik City, there is a big white mansion where Minerva Plegovich lives. She is Plegovich's aunt, and Utopia's (Plegovich's mother) younger sister. She is 78 years old and was never related to the gangster world, but knows that her surname is an important word in that atmosphere. That's why she always helps his nephew in case he needs anything. However, the only thing she knows nowadays is her house. She never goes out.

Three men arrive in a car that day. They are Plegovich, his nephew Lucas, and Sergei, Plegovich's most loyal worker, which is carrying a small bag on his hands. Plegovich opens the mansion's door with his copy of the key and finds his aunt Minerva watching TV on a small, cosy living room. She looks at them and smiles.

"Aunt Minerva," says Plegovich, smiling. "Long time no see."

"Nephew..." says the aunt, while trying to get up from her couch.

"No, no!" says the madman. "I'll hug you there, don't get up..."

Plegovich hugs Minerva, then his grandson Lucas kisses her on her forehead, and last but not least... Sergei only waves his hand at her. "What brings you here today?" says the aunt. "After your president thing..."

"Yes..." says Plegovich, laughing. "It was hard at first. I admit Strict Proclamation was hard to bring down... there were lots of men on Equestria's House, but thanks to my pills and my super gangsters, we killed them..."

"You killed Strict Proclamation?" asks Minerva, surprised.

"No. We killed them all except for him."

"Oh! I thought you finally murdered that guy... And where is him?" she asks with a smile. Plegovich raises his shoulders, laughing.

"That's a secret, auntie," he says, smiling. "I can't tell you where he is."

"Oh, come on!" she shouts.

"It is part of the game, granny," says Lucas. "The game is that we can't say where is Strict Proclamation now."

"Oh, and..." says Minerva. "Did you find Pietro's... Pietro's killer?"

Plegovich and Lucas look at each other. "Yeah," says Lucas. "And it was the best thing we could have ever done."

"Oh... that is... wow," she says, smiling. "We finally avenged Pietro Plegovich and killed that miserable rat... although Piet he was a little bit big-headed... but we have to be honest... no one wastes Plegovich's blood."

"Yes! That's my aunt talking!" says Plegovich, smiling and hugging his aunt. "But honestly, I didn't come here to talk about Pietro or his killer... I'm here for a favour, auntie... I'm sorry but... I need you to do me a favour."

"Of course, new president!" she shouts. "What can I do for you?"

"Let me tell you a story, auntie..." says Plegovich, and Sergei gets from the bag three red, shiny pendants. "See those pendants over there?"

"Yeah," answers Minerva. "They are truly beautiful."

"Those pendants belonged to three dangerous girls... I don't know how, but... they had a special power while using them... they tried to resist that day where we broke in the Golden Horse Casino in Las Pegasus, remember? Did you read that in the newspaper? On the TV?"

"I remembered watching that on the TV, yeah... my nephew facing the worst faces of Manehattan."

"Of course... and you know, there was a lady there who decided not to work with me... he told me I was crazy, he said our family... you, Lucas, our beloved father, mother, Pietro, Montreal... me... our family was a mental hospital."

Minerva's face turns into anger. "That lady has a dirty mouth," she says. "You should wash it with soap and a bullet."

"Don't worry, auntie... I've already cleaned it. I broke in the Casino and when we found out those three girls that were with that lady had those pendants with powers... we knew we had trouble there... and do you know what we did?"

"What?" she says, with googly eyes.

"We resisted. I was with Lt. Kobolov there, do you remember him?"

"Yes."

"Kobolov trapped them with his special powers... I got the pendants out from them... and you know what? I put them on and I couldn't have those powers, and the fact that I couldn't get them made me so angry... so angry..."

"You killed them?" says Minerva, surprised.

"No," says Plegovich. "I've sent them to a cabaret in Cabbage Town. They will rot like hell inside that place... and I want those pendants to be in a safe place."

"Here?"

"Yes... I don't know any other place where I can hide those pendants... I looked in Everfree Camp... a bank... a mine but... they don't convince me, and when I think about you... about leaving those pendants here... on my aunt's house... it makes me comfortable, it makes me breathe."

"Awww, how nice, Nicholas..." says Minerva, smiling. "Of course, I'll take care of those pendants with my life..."

"I know you will do it, auntie," says Plegovich. "And well, we must go now. I've got a job to do."

THREE MONTHS LATER: May 3rd.

Sergei is on the phone while being on the mansion. Minerva fell asleep while watching TV. "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," he says, but Garry does not do his order and ends his call. He looks at the phone angrily and smashes it against a wall, breaking it in pieces. Minerva hasn't woken up yet.

Sergei starts messing around the living room next to Minerva. That's the moment when he finds the house phone and calls Plegovich. However, the phone that appears on Minerva's phone is only Plegovich's old home number, the one at Butter Valley's, neither the Equestria House's number nor his cellphone's. He is not sure if he is going to answer the call. He decides to call him instead and he does not answer. He calls again. Nothing. He decides to call Plegovich's phone number but remembers that he has just broken his cellphone in pieces.

What can he do now?

Plegovich is busy now, talking to Doom Kid through his cellphone. He is in the President's Room, inside Equestria's House. A big, white room holding a big brown desk and pictures of mythical creatures of Equestria on the walls. At the same time, he remembered he didn't give his aunt his new phone number at Equestria's House, but he thinks he can call Sergei later for that. After all, he is in her mansion. Lucas is outside, smoking. He also has a bandage on his nose.

"So..." says Plegovich.

"Yes, that may be a problem... I've got no news.

"From no one?" he says, raising his eyebrows.

"No, sir. Neither Leritzko nor Blaley."

"And what about Watchon?"

"Last time Leritzko called me he told me he found him dead on the route... he had a shot on his head, but it looked like he had an accident."

Plegovich chuckles. "Well, I think that Watchon dude was stupid enough to die due to an accident but... a shot on his head?"

"Yes, Leritzko told me that..."

"See, Doom Kid... I didn't like La Lima before this, and now... I hate that place full of shit. I hate it. I freaking hate it. I think I'm gonna vomit with only mentioning its name, ugh..."

"And what should I do, sir?"

Plegovich lies on the president's chair and looks at one of the mythical creatures... a chimaera. He looks at the scary faces of the lion, the goat and the snake. In that specific moment, he takes a breath and chuckles. "Um... where are you, Doom Kid?" he says.

"I'm in Los Mantos, sir. With my men."

"Your men? You mean... my men."

"Well, yeah."

"How many men?" Doom Kid doesn't answer. "Hey."

"Um... I don't know... Sixty... Seventy... Most of them are outside, on Mantos' streets."

"That's perfect," says Plegovich, chuckling. He has now a wide smile.

"What do you want to do?"

"Well... I want you to go to La Lima with your men... look for Leritzko and Blaley..."

"And take them back home? OK."

Plegovich's smile suddenly disappears. "Let me talk, Doom Kid. I don't like people who interrupt me."

"Sorry..."

"I want you to look for Leritzko and Blaley, dead or alive... and once you finish with that... I want you to reunite every citizen of La Lima... and execute them."

Doom Kid doesn't talk now. "What?"

"That's what I want you to do. Bye."

Plegovich ends the call and takes a breath, chuckling. Suddenly, his phone rings again. It is Garry.

"Garry?" he says with an emotionless voice.

"Sir, I want to tell you something."

"What?"

"I've sent half of my men to Minerva. The Sirens and Seductive escaped."

"Shit," says Plegovich, shocked. "Why didn't you send all your men?"

"My city needs to be safe too! I need my workers!"

"Yeah... and I need to kick you in the ass! Does your shitty harbour need to be safe? From what?"

"I know, I know the new harbour is already safe but... they are only four girls! Why would I take all my men there for four women?"

"Who knows if there would be four women? They escaped! They may be looking for allies! I don't know! Thank me they don't know where she is, but I know they will find her soon and I want her to be saved... if you have to make a sacrifice, you will have to make a sacrifice. If you have to take all your men there, you will take all your men there."

"Um... look..."

"Look shit, Garry... That's what you have to do."

Plegovich ends the call, looks at the chimaera picture again and tries to imitate the lion's face. However, he gives up seconds later and comes out of the house, coming across with Lucas, with the bandage on his nose.

"Hey," says Plegovich, with a serious gesture. "I want you to do me a favour."

"Sure."

"Call your friends, those Blue Mares... tell them you will have to look for Seductive."

"Seductive?"

"She escaped. With her adopted daughters."

"Shit," answers Lucas Plegovich. "Ok... we'll be Manehattan's eyes tonight. I'll call them and if we find them..."

"Come here with them, and I want them alive."