Starlight Saint

The following day after the Saints raided the police station, Starlight was in her mansion getting ready to head to the church for her next move against the Carnales. Before she left she decided to watch the news because she wanted to see how the media and the city government reacted to the events that occurred.

She was not disappointed when a number of police officers were interviewed by a reporter named Jane Valderamma. Jane made a comment about the police being made to look like incompetent fools when she learned that at least seventy percent of the police force responded to a fake tip about an attack on City Hall only for the real attack to be made against the station. She reported that around five hundred pounds of illegal substances, the substances that were confiscated a few days ago from a Colombian Drug Cartel, were stolen by the Saints. Needless to say, Chief Monroe was made into a laughingstock.

Starlight laughed as she saw the embarrassed look on Monroe’s face on the television. Once the report concluded, Starlight turned off the television and prepared to leave for the church.

However, she was stopped at the doorway by her father who had that look that told her that a bloody massacre was going to happen today and he was going to be in the center of it. “Hey pumpkin, ready for some father-daughter bonding time?”

Starlight raised an eyebrow, “I thought you still had things to do to complete the move.”

Johnny shrugged, “Eesh said that I need some time out of the house. We got most of our stuff moved over so we can afford to take some time to unwind.”

That got a smirk from Starlight, “That’s nice of mom, but I’m guessing that she found some of your hidden things and she needed some time to cool off with you out of the house?”

“Well, mostly just a few angry letters from your teachers and principals.”

“I thought you burned those,” Starlight questioned.

Johnny chuckled, “What, and destroy something that makes me feel so much joy knowing my daughter is a chip off the old block? Not a chance.”

A knock on the door prompted the two to halt their conversation and answer. The door opened to reveal Paul on the other side. “What’s up?” Paul greeted.

“We’ve just been talking about how daddy has been keeping angry letters from my teachers and principals as keepsakes instead of burning them so mom wouldn’t find out about them,” Starlight responded, glaring at Johnny.

Paul gave a deadpan look at Johnny, “You’re insane.”

“Keep flattering me and we’ll be best friends,” Johnny snarked.

“Anyways…” Starlight interjected with an eye roll. “Let’s get to the church and deal with the Carnales. I have a feeling that Mr. Wong isn’t going to have any extra work for us today so I’d like for us to take out Angelo today.”

With that, the two headed over to the church where they saw Julius and Troy having a conversation until they approached. “Glad to see you two ready for action,” Julius greeted. He saw Johnny with them and guessed that he wanted in on the action which he was fine with since the hard part of dealing with the Carnales was over. All that remained was finishing them off. “I take it you plan on finishing the Carnales off today?”

“That’s the plan,” Starlight responded.

“Then we better make sure they have nowhere else to run. First things first, I need you to head over to the warehouses in Charlestown and take the place over. I'll have some of our boys lockdown the area soon.”

“Shouldn’t be too hard,” Troy commented. “I would have been worried that Angelo might have hired some muscle from out of town by now but it seems the Carnales are still so strapped for cash that they can barely afford ammo for their weapons right now. There's no way he'd be able to afford outside help.”

“Let’s hope whoever is over there puts up a decent fight, I’d hate to be disappointed,” Johnny commented.

The three decided to take Johnny’s car to the Charlestown warehouses where they encountered minimal resistance from the Carnales at first. Once they had cleared the area they found that they needed to hold out until Saints reinforcements arrived to drive the point home to the dwindling gang that they had lost that territory.

In the meantime, Johnny and Paul decided to have a competition to decide who would get the most kills since the Carnales continued to drive into the area to stop the three from stealing more territory from them. The two were doing their best to keep count of how many thugs they dropped though with so many driving in, that proved difficult.

“Running on fumes, Paul? I’m already up to twenty-five,” Johnny taunted.

“That’s bullshit, I’m pretty sure five of those are mine and that I have twenty-seven,” Paul shot back.

“Heh, keep tellin’ yourself that.” Johnny then took out thug number twenty-eight.

Starlight scoffed and rolled her eyes, “Boys…” she mumbled as she cut down her thirtieth thug with her sword.

Eventually the purple cars of the Saints arrived, each loaded with thugs carrying SMGs and shotguns. Seeing that they were outnumbered and the fact that there were so few of them left, the Carnales signalled a retreat and fled back to where Starlight was certain was their headquarters.

Seeing the Carnales in retreat, Starlight pulled out her phone. “Alright, I’m gonna call Julius and let him know that the operation was a success and to have him send out additional crews for what’s about to happen.”

“What is about to happen?” Paul asked.

“Obviously the Carnales have retreated back to their villa in Ezpata. That’s as good of an invitation to a party at Angelo’s place as anything else at this point. You two in a partying mood?”

Johnny chuckled, “You know me, baby girl, I always love a good party.” He then pumped his shotgun.

Paul held his Pimp Cane over his shoulder. “Let’s go have ourselves a fiesta!”

No matter how many times Starlight looked at the weird weapon in Paul’s hand, she cringed from the thought of pimps carrying such an object. “I know that thing is a weapon, but it still looks weird.”

Starlight then called Julius to inform him about the success of the mission and that she planned on raiding Angelo’s villa since the Carnales were vulnerable now. Julius thanked Starlight for the information so that he could send a few more crews her way to secure Ezpata and the airport. Once she ended the call, the three jumped into Johnny’s car and drove over to where the villa was located.

Once they arrived, the villa quickly turned into a shootout where Starlight sprayed a few Carnales near the pool with her SMG which caused them to fall in and turn the water red. Using a corner of the house to her advantage, she forced the thugs to come to her before she decapitated them with her sword. Seeing the first few fall like that, the remaining thugs on the patio were hesitant to move closer to her as she taunted, “What’s the matter boys, scared of little old me?”

Their hesitation cost them as Johnny took out the thugs from behind with an assault rifle. “Starin’ at my daughter’s gonna cost ya,” he snarked.

Meanwhile, Paul looked around the patio while looking for Angelo. However, the man in question was on the second floor balcony walkway that connected two separate rooms in the house. He tried shooting at Johnny and Paul since they were the only ones in his line of sight at the time. Paul quickly spotted him and pulled out his RPG to fire at him, forcing him to leap away to avoid the blast. “¡Mierda! (Shit!)” he shouted. He then fled into the room on the other side of the balcony while avoiding Johnny’s gunfire.

With the villa mostly cleared out, the three headed into the building to chase after Angelo, dealing with any thugs within and heading up the stairs to the second floor and across the balcony.

Upon entering the room, Starlight quickly noticed that Angelo looked ready to shoot at anyone who entered his view so she had a shield spell ready to protect them. However, as they entered, this precaution proved unneeded as Angelo’s gun jammed. With the element of surprise lost, Angelo decided to jump out of the second story window. Paul pulled out his pistol and shot at Angelo where he landed. He missed a few times but one bullet hit Angelo in the shoulder. Clutching at his wound, Angelo dove through the window into his garage. Paul jumped off the balcony in pursuit while Johnny and Starlight took the stairs. However, by the time they got there, Angelo had already driven off in his car.

“Fuck! That slippery bastard got away!” Johnny cursed.

“Ten bucks,” Starlight said, holding her hand out toward him.

“Are you kidding me? You’re loaded enough as it is!” Johnny complained with a groan. He couldn’t believe that his own daughter was blackmailing him because he cursed in front of her. Yet, at the same time he couldn’t be more proud. “Fine…” He gave her the money.

“Daddy’s language aside, we have their headquarters now and the few Carnales he has left could fit in a phone booth. He’s probably going to try to skip town and try to rebuild. For that, there’s only one place he can go.”

“The airport…” Paul concluded.

“Let’s go, I know a shortcut we can use to get to the airport quickly.”

Meanwhile, Angelo was nearing the airport. Since his entire organization was destroyed, he would need to get out of town fast so he could find somewhere to rebuild. He would deal with Manuel another day. He quickly called Luz to tell her that she needed to get to the airport as soon as possible and that she only had a few minutes to get there before he left her behind. However, much to Angelo’s dismay, Luz still insisted that she pick some shoes for the trip which very nearly made Angelo curse Luz out in spanish.

Since they couldn’t afford a plane with their lack of funds, Angelo had no choice but to hijack one. The last of his gang were with him in his car. They broke into the airport and quickly located an unoccupied personal jet he could use for his escape. The thugs got the plane open and they began to board while hoping that Luz wasn’t far behind.

However, as much as he hoped that the Saints would be spending more time looking around the city for him, that hope was dashed as he spotted a purple Venom sports car heading straight for them with the attackers from the villa inside. There was no time to wait for Luz anymore. “Get this plane into the air, now!” Angelo demanded.

“What about Luz?” one thug asked.

“Fuck her!”

The plane’s door closed and Angelo took the pilot seat before turning the plane on. As the plane’s engines roared and the plane began to taxi, Starlight knew that they were about to make their getaway. However, she also had an idea to spare the plane while getting to Angelo.

Using her magic, Starlight amplified her voice loud enough to make Paul and Johnny’s ears ring so the two had to plug their ears. “Hey Angelo, are you sure you want to leave without avenging your brother? His killer is with me right now.” The fact that the plane stopped taxiing gave Starlight the hope that Angelo heard her so she continued, “That’s right, it wasn’t the Colombians who killed your brother, it was Paul here!” She then pointed at Paul who decided to endure the ear-ringing pain long enough to put both of his middle fingers on full display toward the plane.

That taunt seemed to do the trick as the engines cut off. Seeing this, Johnny quickly got out of the car and ran underneath the plane before any Carnales noticed. A few moments later, the cabin door opened to reveal a frothingly enraged Angelo with his pistol pointed at Paul. “¡Maldito asesino! ¡Te haré sufrir por lo que le hiciste a mi hermano! (You murderous bastard! I will make you suffer for what you did to my brother!)” he shouted.

As Angelo walked down the ladder and headed toward the two, Starlight and Paul continued to give their victorious smirks. If Angelo was in his right mind at the time he would have noticed that something was off. He ended up tackled from behind by Johnny who pinned him face down to the ground. The remaining Carnales thugs who were watching tried to leave the plane to help their boss only for Paul to aim his Pimp Cane at them and wipe them out with a single blast.

“I’m gonna enjoy this more than I should,” Johnny said as he cracked his knuckles. Johnny wanted Angelo to be watching his fists so he turned him over. Angelo tried to retaliate with the gun in his hand but Johnny had already anticipated that he would try that as Angelo found the wrist of his hand that was holding the gun impaled by Johnny’s butterfly knife. Angelo howled in agony which didn’t last long as Johnny started repeatedly punching his face hard enough to knock teeth out. A few punches left his face deformed.

After delivering enough punches to make Angelo’s face unrecognizable, Johnny decided that he had his fun and got off the man. Thankfully, Angelo’s suffering would soon come to an end as Starlight walked up to him with her sword poking at his chest.

“You are about to learn what happens to those who make an enemy of Mr. Wong,” Starlight grimly stated as she began pressing the tip of her blade into his chest.

Though his vision was blurry from the punches, Angelo still recognized the girl’s sword poised to end his life like an angel of death ready to send him to his brother. “Buenas noches, Señor López. (Goodnight, Mister Lopez),” Starlight declared before the sword plunged into his chest and through his heart. Angelo gagged and choked for a brief moment before the light in his eyes faded and his body stopped moving.

Johnny, amused by her daughter’s theatrics, looked at Paul. “Glad those Spanish lessons paid off. It was her mom’s idea.”

As Starlight pulled out the blade and started cleaning off the blood, the three noticed a car driving up to them. The driver was a Latino woman who Starlight recognized as Luz. The woman gasped in horror as she spotted the scene. “Oh my God! Angelo!” The three noticed that she was carrying a small shopping bag. As she tried to run up to him, Luz halted as Starlight pointed her sword at her.

“What are you doing here?” Starlight demanded, a deep frown of disappointment on her face. From what she knew about the woman, she was a pitiful woman who chose to marry into money instead of learning any actual skills to obtain money.

“I…I was supposed to leave with Angelo. Please don’t kill me!” Luz pleaded.

Starlight clicked her tongue, “I wasn’t planning to. You’re not worth the effort.”

“Whaddya have in the bag?” Johnny demanded.

“Let’s find out,” Starlight said as she slashed the bag in Luz’s hand, causing it to drop to the ground. Several pairs of designer shoes fell out. Starlight rolled her eyes as she saw them. “Shoes? Really?”

“They...they're from this season's new–” Luz struggled to explain but Paul interrupted her.

“Bullshit, that's from last year's fall collection!”

Starlight snorted and gave an amused look at Paul, “Spoken like a fashionisto.” Paul stuck his tongue out at her.

“So what am I supposed to do now?” Luz asked.

Starlight’s frown returned as she looked at Luz, “You can leave and figure it out for yourself.”

“I have no place to go.”

“I'm sure there's a homeless shelter or two in town somewhere. It's not my fault you didn't try to make something of yourself instead of clinging on to rich people so you wouldn't have to do any work.”

“Can you at least tell me where Manuel is?”

At this point, Starlight was fed up with the pathetic woman and wanted her to go away. She gave a fake smile that failed to hide her devious intentions, “How about you learn how to think for yourself, maybe you will find him if you use your brain. Either way, you have ten seconds to get in that car and drive away as fast as you can before I consider changing the color of your clothes and make you wander around town looking like a Fashion Frankenstein.”

Luz’s eyes widened in horror but she took the hint and ran back to her car and drove off as fast as she could and without caring about speeding violations, not that the police would actually stop her for that anyway.”

Seeing the way she left made Johnny laugh loudly in amusement at the scene. “That’s my girl.”

“Well, I guess this means that the gang war is finally over. Now what?” Paul wondered.

“We head home and see what tomorrow brings,” Starlight said.

“Yeah, I guess that’s enough damage for a while,” Johnny added.

As the three prepared to head home, Starlight informed Julius that the Carnales were no more. The leader thanked Starlight and Paul for their efforts in ridding Stilwater off its gang problem. He then told them to get some rest as he would have an announcement for them and the rest of the gang tomorrow.

After the call ended, Julius took a deep breath, knowing that the time had come for what he needed to do. The Rollerz were disbanded, the Vice Kings were a memory and Ben King had left town to begin the next chapter of his life and the Carnales were permanently put down this time.

With the gang problem ended, all that remained was to bring an end to the final gang plaguing Stilwater: Themselves. To do that, the leadership needed to be removed, the rest would follow soon after. Thankfully, Lin had dropped her flags to be with that Donnie guy and Dex dropped his flags shortly after the meeting with Manuel. Troy shouldn’t be difficult to convince to drop as well.

The only issue would be getting Johnny, Paul and Starlight to leave the Saints peacefully. The three of them were psychopaths in his eyes; it was unfortunate that Starlight ended up raised by someone like Johnny Gat. Still, Julius hoped that he could somehow get Starlight to drop and convince her father to follow suit. The girl still had a bright future ahead of her and enough cash to get into any college in the United States and graduate.

Paul, on the other hand, would be the toughest obstacle to deal with. He may be close friends with Starlight but there was no guarantee that he would drop his flags if she did. No, he needed to make sure Paul left the Saints one way or another and he wasn’t taking any chances.

That night, Starlight was restless, haunted by a foreboding feeling that something terrible was about to happen.