Waters: Part 2 - Dark May

May 3rd

Route

Silence.

Seductive is driving, and she doesn't even know where is she going. The Dazzlings are on the back, also silent. W is next to Seductive, next to the driver's seat, covering his face with his hands. His grandfather sacrificed for him minutes ago, and with his death, he is now the only man alive that has the Waters family blood on his veins, and he sadly can't digest that fact. He has now an anvil on his back, a charge on his whole body. Now he needs to shout, to cry. "Wait, stop," whispers W. "Stop! Stop the car!"

"Why?" says Seductive.

"Stop..." he says. Seductive stops the car in the right side of the highway, far away from the spotlights. There is only grass around them. W gets out of the car and throws up in the ground. Seductive decides to get down to help him but suddenly, time is stopped. A second later, Event and Discord appear in front of W.

"Hey, Event," hears W. "Why do I have to turn myself into Grogar?"

"If you want to save Ponyville, you have to do what I tell you, Discord. Now, go... I need to talk to him."

"Oh, hi, W! How you doing?" W slowly moves his head and looks at Discord. His nose is bleeding and his mouth is covered with vomit. "Oh... you are doing well... um... bye..."

Discord disappears and now Event sits in the ground. "You are going the right way."

"Yeah..." whispers W. "The right way..."

The time god raises an eyebrow. "I feel sarcasm on your words."

"Of course, you dumb! Look at me... my grandfather died minutes ago... I am the only one alive in my family... and... and..."

"Just think, W... there is light at the end of the tunnel."

W sarcastically smiles while hearing those words. "Light? LIGHT? My whole family is fucking dead! I don't know where are my friends! Trixie's dead! Everyone's dead or disappeared or whatever!"

W looks at the sky, which is being covered by big grey clouds. It's about to rain. "There will be a thunderstorm,"

W is still lost on his thoughts. "It... it doesn't make any sense... if I kill them... if I kill Plegovich... they wouldn't come back."

Event gets his sunglasses off and looks at W with his shiny, light blue eyes with no pupils. "You see, W... I know something."

"What?" he says. "Something from the future? Something I must kill to win or whatever the way you want to say it?"

"No, there is an old spell from the ancient times, before the creation of Equestria... it is a special spell that only gods with an unbelievable power can do. We can revive people."

W looks at Event with his eyes full of tears. "Really?"

"Yes. However, Discord doesn't have that power... and I have it, but I can revive only one person. I can't revive more than one because I am not powerful enough to do it..."

"What? Are you... you want to make a deal?"

"Ha, ha... gangsters always know when we are about to make a deal... yes, it is a kind of deal," says Event. "If you kill all those people Discord told you... I'll use my powers to revive Trixie Lulamoon."

W is now silent, looking at Event, who stands up and puts on his sunglasses. "What?" he says. "You... you will?"

"I never fail, Bedmaker... and now, your objective is Minerva Plegovich. Tell Seductive and the sirens they are going the right way, and the pendants are at a white mansion that's only three miles from here. Minerva Plegovich is also inside that mansion, taking care of those pendants. If you want a living girlfriend, do what I tell you to do."

The time comes back to normal and Event disappears. Seductive helps W to get up and he takes a breath. "Seductive," he says.

"What, dear?"

W struggles for a moment and then he comes back. "The pendants... the pendants are in a mansion."

"What?"

W rubs his face. "The pendants are on a white mansion that's only three miles from here. They are there with... with Minerva Plegovich."

"And how do you know that, kid?"

"...I... I investigated."

Seductive and W get in the car again.

"Investigate?" asks Seductive.

"Yeah," answers W while getting in the car. "I investigated before starting my revenge against Plegovich... I already knew those things you were looking for are in Minerva Plegovich's mansion, which is two miles away."

Meanwhile, eight black cars appear on the highway, going to the way they were going too. Luckily, they don't see them because they are far from the spotlights. "And you think those cars are going to that mansion you told me?" says Seductive.

"Maybe."

"Which mansion?" says Aria.

"The pendants are in that mansion," answers Seductive.

"Our pendants?" say the three Dazzlings. "We must go there quickly!"

"Yes, but we have to take care of ourselves," says Adagio. "Those black cars meant something. They may stop right there..."

The five of them are more focused on arriving at that mansion now instead of being lost on their thoughts. However, it is still an awkward situation where nobody talks.

"Hey... what's your name?" says Sonata Dusk.

"He is the kid we saw a couple of years ago..." answers Adagio. "The Bedmaker."

"The Bedmaker?" says Aria. "From the Ashton thing?"

"Yeah," says W.

"Um..." says Aria. "Thank you for being one of those guys who saved us from that stupid Ashton dude."

"You're welcome," answers W.

"By the way," asks Sonata Dusk. "Where are the other guys who saved us? Which were their names?" She is talking about Jack, Abe and Ron.

Silence, again. W closes his eyes and looks through the car's window. "A drunk Petko told me one of them died, Sonata," says Seductive. "And I have no idea about the other two."

"Who died?" asks Aria, surprised.

"Ron," answers W.

Seductive stops the car. "What?" says Seductive.

"Plegovich killed Ron."

Seductive rubs her face. "Oh god..." she says. "First Ghetto, then his brother... Tom Delight... and now him. I knew it was him... it was so obvious... but I still can't believe it."

"He gave in, Seductive," answers W. "We had the opportunity to kill him. We had two guns. We were in front of him... but I saw his face... he gave in... I don't know why, but he did it. That bitch killed him and then he shot me but I survived. And I don't know what's the matter with Abe and Jack... I saw them for the last time in that fucking place."

"Which place?" asks Aria Blaze.

W gasps while remembering the Train. "A train."

"Oh, dear..." says Seductive, while accelerating again. "The infamous train..."

"Which train?" innocently asks Sonata Dusk.

"A special train," answers W.

"And why it is special?"

"Sonata," says Seductive, and the siren shuts up. There is still one mile and a half left. At that moment, W turns around and looks at Adagio.

"Hey, Adagio," he says.

The siren raises an eyebrow, not looking to him. "What?"

"Sorry for shouting at you... like my grandpa said... the Waters are not like that."

Adagio chuckles. "I accept your apology, Bedmaker... and..."

"And?" says W.

Now Adagio looks at him. "Sorry about your girlfriend's loss."

"Yeah..." says W, while thinking about Event's offer. Will he revive Trixie for real? "Thank you."

Minutes later, they finally arrive at the mansion. There are six black cars are outside the mansion's hectares, and the gangsters are taking care of the entrance door. At that moment, Seductive turns to the right, going further from the mansion and hiding from the gangsters and the spotlights. She also turns off the cars' lights.

"What are you doing?" says W.

"The ultimate plan," she answers, smiling. "You are gonna like it."

Seductive does some manoeuvres and leaves the car in a position that heads towards the mansion's door, specifically in front of it. "Seriously... what are you doing?" asks Aria to her adoptive mother. That's the moment when she starts accelerating.

Meanwhile, the gangsters that are taking care of the entrance door are just concentrating on his job. Suddenly, they hear a sound... sounds like a roar, maybe. They look at a car coming to them and...

CRASH.

The car enters the house, running over lots of guards and destroying the door. The only ones inside the mansion are Sergei and Minerva.

"Sergei!" shouts the old lady. The big man appears, grabs Minerva and puts her on a wheelchair. "Oh my! The pendants! The pendants! They are under my couch!"

Sergei grabs a small wooden box that is under the couch and runs away with Minerva on a wheelchair to another room inside the mansion. At the same time, the Dazzlings, Seductive and W get down from the car. Eight gangsters died because of Seductive's plan, but there are sixteen alive.

Seductive's forehead is bleeding while W's nose is redder now. The Dazzlings are unscratched.

"Mother!" shouts Adagio.

"I'm OK," says Seductive, cleaning his forehead. "Let's go for your pendants, babes."

W and the girls fastly get out of the car and find out the car's hood was, in fact, a trunk. They easily open it because it's broken and find out there are a couple of handguns there. Everyone grabs only one, except for Seductive, which grabs two. The remaining gangsters are running to the entrance door, firing their guns.

"RUN!" says Seductive, and the Dazzlings follow her. W stays there for a second but then he decides to run away. Some gangsters enter the mansion, walking over the broken car. Meanwhile, Sergei accidentally throws the pendants' box while hiding Minerva from the intruders but instead of looking for them again, he closes the door. He heard shouts and footsteps outside. On a desperate way to grab them, he slowly opens the bathroom's door but at the same time, Seductive and the Dazzlings open a door that was in the living room. They are now in the hall and find out there is an open box on the floor with three red jewels. Adagio, Sonata and Aria jump over them like if they were savage animals. The three of them grab the pendants and they put them on their necks and Seductive cries of joy while listening to her adopted daughters singing with their necklaces for the first time. W starts feeling under the weather while hearing them and then Seductive asks them to stop. "Now, do me a favour," she says. "Go outside and sing to those gangsters out there. You have a crowd that will cheer for you."

The Dazzlings run away while Seductive only walks after them. W follows Seductive, but later he stays at the door for a second, turns around and looks at the hall. It has only two doors, one at the right that says Bathroom and another one in front of him with a sign that reads Bedroom. W decides to enter the Bedroom while the Bathroom's door is opened by Sergei.

"Stay here," says Sergei, carrying a shotgun. "Don't say anything."

"HEY, ASSHOLES!" shouts Aria while looking at the gangsters. "THIS IS FOR YOU!"

The gangsters start firing again while the Dazzlings and Seductive take cover in the living room. That's the moment they start singing. Once they sing, the gangsters stop firing their guns and look at each other.

"I fucking hate you," says a gangster to another one. "Motherfucker."

Both men start fighting each other, and a second later every gangster starts firing their guns, killing themselves because of the sirens' voices.

Sergei decides to hide in the bathroom again while hearing those voices, and that's the moment where W opens the Bedroom's door and comes out. He looks at the bedroom one more time and says: "Shit. The wardrobe," and enters again, closing the door. Seconds later, the sirens stop singing and Sergei comes out.

"I don't hear anything," says Adagio. "And that was also delicious."

"They killed themselves..." says Seductive, while looking at the window. Sergei appears on the living room and shoots his shotgun. The pellets hit Seductive on her back and she falls to the floor. The Dazzlings are now shocked, looking at the scenario.

"Get out or I'll kill you," says Sergei while holding the shotgun.

"NO!!!" shouts Aria, and both Adagio and her start shooting against Sergei, who hides behind the living room's furniture. Sonata tries to help his adoptive mother, Seductive, but it's too late.

Meanwhile, W heard Aria's shout and gets out of the Bedroom... he is about to come out but hears something in the bathroom and opens the door. Minerva's there, sitting on the wheelchair.

"Who are you?" she says. "Son of a bitch..."

"Minerva Plegovich?" asks W.

"Yeah..." says the old woman with an evil growl. "Whoever you are, my nephew will kill you."

"He already tried and failed... and sorry, this is not personal," says W and shots her once in the head.

MINERVA PLEGOVICH

Sergei hears the gunshot and leaves the living room. He instantly opens the bathroom's door and looks at W and Minerva's body with a hole in her head. She's dead. "NO!" shouts Sergei, trying to fire, but W instantly shots him three times on the chest. The big man falls and smashes his head against the wall. The Dazzlings enter the hall and Adagio shots Sergei two more times on his chest. "MOTHER... FUCKER!"

"Hey, hey! What happened?" asks W. Sonata strongly hugs him while Aria and Adagio are kicking Sergei's body.

W takes a look at the living room and finds Seductive's body. "Oh, shit..." he whispers. He tries to do something but he already knows it's too late. The adoptive mother of the Dazzlings is lying dead on the floor, with her eyes closed.

"This is sad," says Event, while sitting on the couch, looking at W. The Bedmaker only looks at him. "However, you need to focus on your next objective. If you drive only two miles to the north, you will enter Saik City, where Gail Garry is staying right now. Remember, Bedmaker... if you kill them all... Trixie will come back."

W slowly nods his head while looking at Seductive. The Dazzlings are still crying and Sonata hugs W one more time. "Girls," says W. "I want to tell you something."

"What, Mr Bedmaker?" says Sonata, while crying on W's shoulder.

"I need your help."

Now, the Dazzlings look at W in silence. They are still crying, but not sobbing. "What do you want now?" says Adagio, angry and sad at the same time.

"I want your help to bring Plegovich down."

"Plegovich?" says Aria. "That's impossible... we will never do..."

"If you follow me, it will be possible. The only thing we have to do now... is to go to Saik City and kill its leader."

"Are you serious?" says Aria, while crying. "Never."

W looks at them and takes a breath. "Believe it or not..." he says. "Well... I've been planning revenge against Plegovich. That man we killed... his name was Sergei and was Plegovich's most loyal man. He ordered him to come here... and he was the one who took you your pendants out, the one who put you in that cabaret, the one who tried to kill your adoptive mother... we could say that he is an indirect killer of your adoptive mother... and if we get rid of him... you'll get your revenge. You decide. Come with me to Saik City to avenge your mother or... go away.
"

Sonata is still hugging W but slowly nods her head. "I'll do anything to avenge mommy," she says while looking at Aria and Adagio.

Aria looks at Adagio now. She is the main decision. The siren with orange poofy hair takes a breath and looks at W. "Fuck... OK. Let's go."

Petko's Cabaret

A rusty, old car arrives at Petko's cabaret. Four guys get out of the dirty car: Rushy, Jack, Abe and Spike.

"Look at this old piece of shit," says Rushy, smiling. "I thought Rico's car was useless but it works!"

"Yeah!" says Jack. "It leaks gasoline, the car stopped five times in the road, the engine was about to explode and yeah... it works."

"Uh, come on!" says Spike. "It was the only car in La Lima. At least it brought us here."

"Spike's right," says Abe. "And so... this is...?"

Cabbage Town is empty. They are now in front of a big dirty brown building. They identified the building as a cabaret because it has a paper stuck to a wall with scotch tape that reads: "Petko's Cabaret."

"Yeah," says Rushy. "But... it is silent."

"Is it closed?" asks Jack.

"No, it can't be... it's a freaking cabaret," answers Abe.

The four men enter the cabaret and the first thing they see is the scenario. It is empty and the lights are still on. The tables and chairs are empty, and there are some guns on the floor. Apart from that, the place is completely bleak.

"Shit, what happened here?" says Rushy. "This is impossible. It looks like the cabaret turned into the Desert of Magnus."

Suddenly, Spike smells something. "I smell..." says Spike. "Something familiar. Perfume..."

"Perfume?" says Abe. Spike smells the perfume and jumps onto the scenario, looking at the backstage door. "Wait, Spike!"

The three men follow Spike and enter the backstage. They look at him trying to open the door which leads to the wardrobe room. Rushy opens it and Spike sees the show. "Oh!" he says and jumps because of his shock. "Oh my..."

"No way," says Rushy, while looking at Petko's body, who is lying on the same position as before. "No fucking way."

"This guy..." says Abe, while entering the room. "Wait! There's another one!"

Jack and Spike enter while Rushy is looking at Petko's body. Jack looks at the second dead man. "I... I recognize him... but from where?"

"Yeah," says Abe. "I think I saw him once too."

"Oh god," says Spike while gasping. "So much blood... and... and corpses in a day,"

"Calm down, Spikey," says Jack, while looking at the dead man's face. "Dark grey wrinkled skin, yellowish eyes... grey hair..."

"Wilbur," says Abe.

"Wilbur? It can't be!"

"Do you know any other man with dark grey wrinkled skin, yellowish eyes and grey hair?"

Jack thinks and ends up to a conclusion: Abe's right. "Shit," he whispers.

"Wilbur?" says Spike. "Who is Wilbur?"

Jack gets up and takes a breath. A tear is falling from one of his eyes. "There are no Waters anymore."

Abe nods his head and both men hug. "That son of a bitch..." whispers Abe. "He's going to pay."

"Hey," says Rushy. "I found this."

The two men and the dog approach Rushy, who found a tiny paper under Petko's body. It says SAIK.

"Saik City..." says Abe. "You think?"

"They may have been here..." says Rushy.

"And they may have killed Wilbur," says Jack. "We are going to give him what they need."

"A kick in the ass?" asks Spike.

"A bullet in the head," says Abe. Rushy chuckles.

"That's an idea I'd love to do," says the ushanka man.

"And what if... we do it right now... this night?" asks Jack.

Now, the three men laugh. Spike doesn't understand so much what is going on, but he also laughs. "You are gonna pay, Plegovich," says Rushy. "We'll start by burning the whole city of Saik."

W and the Dazzlings get into one of the cars that were parked outside the mansion's hectares and drive to Saik City. Meanwhile, Sergei opens his eyes. He was not dead. He has been alive all this time. He gets up and enters the bathroom, only to look at Minerva Plegovich's body, lying on the wheelchair while his pink dress is now red because of the blood, and now he looks at the mirror and gets off the two tactical vests that saved his life. One under the other one.

"Saik City..." whispers Sergei while throwing the tactical vests to the bathroom's bath. He thinks while getting out of the bathroom and grabs a cellphone from a dead gangster. Luckily, he has Plegovich's phone number. He calls him.

Plegovich answers the call faster than anyone ever could. "Hello?"

"It's me, Mr Plegovich."

"Sergei... So?"

"I'm afraid to tell you that Ms Minerva has passed away."

"No... NO!"

"I'm sorry, sir."

Silence, and seconds later: "Who killed her?"

Sergei recognizes the murderer's face again. Every time he closes his eyes he looks at him. It can't be! It can't be... he's alive... "If I told you you wouldn't believe it."

"Why?"

"...Walter Waters killed Minerva."

Silence. Both Sergei and Plegovich don't talk. "What?"

"I also can't believe this, sir. I thought you killed him, but I saw his face."

"This is impossible... this... I shot him in the stomach! I left him in the Magnus Desert, Sergei! I left him there to die!"

"I'm afraid he did survive..."

"Shit... shit... that's... that's not possible, Sergei, but if you say..."

"I will never lie to you, Mr Plegovich. Besides, the Sirens and Waters said something about going to Saik..."

"No," says Plegovich. "Come here, to Manehattan. I need you near me, specially right now that my beloved aunt was murdered.

"Yes, sir. And what about Garry?"

"He will handle that. Hey, you said... the Sirens and Waters... what about Seductive?"

Sergei looks at Seductive's body on the floor. "Dead."

"Ok... Now, come here, to the House. I'll be waiting for you. Bye."

"Bye," says Sergei, and then he keeps the cellphone on a pocket, enters Minerva's bedroom, opens the wardrobe and gets a key from it, gets out of the mansion, opens a small door outside Minerva's and enters the garage. There is a white Chevrolet Bel Air there, where Sergei enters thanks to the wardrobe's key.