Johan and Xi-an
Johan woke to the sound of the shower going in the bathroom across the hall. He started to whistle the music from "Trance & Acid", one of his most favourite song's of all times. He sat up suddenly, getting a head spin. "Maybe I had too much of both!" he thought to himself & made his way to the bedroom door. He couldn't remember the rest of the night. Last thing he remember's is dancing with a guy named Tai. Everything a blank after that.
He walked out into the hall to find Xi'an knocking on the bathroom door impatiently.
"Johan!" she yelled above the sound of running water, "Let me in! I need to go!"
Johan walked up behind her confused & tapped her on the shoulder.
"I'm right here Shan" he said.
She spun around, looking at him confused. The water now stopped.
"Well it's not Cara. She went home after dropping me off. You must have brought someone home with you." Xi'an said, a little less confused now but more worried about the stranger in her bathroom.
"No. There's no clothe's in the room beside's mine." Johan said, and then heard the bathroom door unlock then open.
Out walked a guy who looked about 17. Tall, tanned, buff, wearing black leather pants & studded collar's around his neck & wrist's. He had no shirt, so the two teen mutant's could see his smooth tanned chest & stomach.
"Oh Hi!" he said, smiling, showing of his teeth. Both Johan & Xi'an smiled back, in love with what they were looking at. "I'm Tai. Thanks for letting me stay...sorry I don't know you name." the male said politely. It seemed appearence's were decieving.
"Shan" she said, offering her hand, ready to go into flirt mode. Johan noticed & butted in.
"Hey! Tai, did you leave anything in the room? Like your shirt or something?" Johan asked, pulling Tai by the arm toward's the spare bedroom, as Xi'an followed eagerly.
"No. This is what I wore last night." Tai said, looking at Johan confused.
"That's it?!" Xi'an asked surprised.
"Yeah. I have a jacket somewhere, but I think I left it at the club." Tai replied.
"But it was cold last night!" Xi'an said, her motherly instincts kciking in.
"Don't worry. I was quite warm" Tai replied, smiling slyly towards Johan. Johan smiled back uneasily, not having a clue what he was talking about.
"Sorry" Tai started again, "But I really have to go. I have work this morning. Thank's for a good night & letting me stay. I'll see ya's around!" Tai said, & then started to walk out the room. Xi'an threw one of Johan's jumper's at him. He looked back confused & then smiled at Johan.
He said "Thanks Jo!" & then walked down the hall & out the front door.
Xi'an turned & looked at Johan with a huge smile on her face. Johan looked back annoyed.
"So much for you being a lesbian!" he said, half joking half serious.
"I'm Bi. Anyway's, for a man like that, I'd be whatever he wanted me to be!" Xi'an replied, smiling cheekily.
Xi'an ran to the window to watch Tai walk down the street. "That is one fine piece of candy right there!" she said with a laugh. "Let's dip him in chocolate and..."
"Shan! We gotta go!" Johan said, interrupting her. Xi'an looked at her watch & realised they should be meeting Tranh in forty minute's.
"Shit!" Xi'an yelled & then ran to her room, hoping to get ready in time.
Johan & Xi'an made it to the City just in the nick of time. Xi'an caught sight of who she thought was Tranh, walking away from the meeting point they had organized last night.
"Tran!" she yelled at the top of her voice. Everyone turned around, embarrassing Johan. Tranh turned around & his face lit up.
"Shan?" he yelled back.
Xi'an nodded & started to run to him. Johan followed. Xi'an ran into her brother's arms & started crying.
"It is so good to see you little one," he whispered to her.
Xi'an sniffed & whispered back "Ditto."
Later, after introductions, catching up, lunch & coffee, the Tranh, Xi'an & Johan were walking through Hyde Park. Tranh & Xi'an had told each other about their lives, ambitions, similarities while Johan just watched on. Xi'an had never felt so close to someone in such a short amount of time. Xi'an felt she had never met someone so honest, trustworthy, nice & good before. Johan could tell this just from the way she looked at her brother, the way she acted, the way she moved. Johan wasn't very trusting of him. By the time they had walked through the park, it was now time for Tranh to go.
"Why?" Xi'an asked, not wanting her day to end.
"I have to work. My...Our uncle's store need's to be run." Tranh said back.
"Where is it? Can we go there with you? I would like to meet my uncle." Xi'an said, stopping & looking at Tranh eagerly.
He stopped & scratched his head, considering what to do.
"Okay. You too may come."
With that, Tranh started leading the way to the restaurant owned by Nguyen Ngoc Coy.
Soon, the trio had arrived in a southern suburb by the name of Hurstville. Tranh led them down an alleyway, to the back entrance to the restaurant. They entered the door, finding themselves in a hot & steaming kitchen, full of different smells & busy cooks & waiters. An old Vietnamese man caught sight of Tranh & walked at a fast pace towards him.
"Where have you been?!" he asked once he had reached Tranh.
"Meeting my sister, Shan. Your niece." Tranh said with a smile on his face.
The older man looked at Xi'an & studied her face. "You have your mother's beautiful eye's & lip's." he said, wiping a tear from her cheek with the back of his hand.
Xi'an suddenly grabbed the older man, giving him a hug.
Johan suddenly realised something & asked "Your their biological uncle right?"
"Yes" Nguyen said.
"Then why did you only adopt Tran?" Johan asked.
"Because, he was the only one I could find. I did not know of their adoption until months after they had been adopted out. Tran's parent's were killed in a car crash so the government let me have him." Nguyen replied, smiling at his nephew. "Only two more to go! Now, are you three hungry? I'm going to have the best meal's your have ever tasted made just for us!"
With that, Tranh took the other two teens out into the restaurant to find them a table for four.
The night went by without a fuss. Xi'an caught up with her uncle & brother even more, loving every minute of it. Johan felt like an intruder but stayed for Xi'an's sake.
By closing time, the four of them were quite full & ready to go home.
"Thank you so much Uncle for the food." Xi'an reached for her purse.
"No No No. It is on me." Nguyen said with a wide smile. "Now you two go now. We will catch up tomorrow"
"Okay" Xi'an replied happily. Her & Johan walked out the way they had come in. Through the backdoor. Through the front door entered ten Vietnamese men dressed in suits, followed by bodyguards.
Once out the restaurant, Xi'an wanted to get a look of what the front of the restaurant looked like. They walked back through the alley & out the front to find a string of car's pulling up outside the restaurant.
Johan & Xi'an looked at them confused. "It's closed." Xi'an said to Johan & decided to go investigate. Xi'an led the way back to the back entrance of the place. They snuck in through the back & listened through the door at the meeting going on in the main room.
"Nguyen!" a man said angrily, "Make your men back out of my area."
"Never!" Nguyen replied, "We have a right to also occupy some of that area."
"Foolish old man. You anger us. Remove your people or you will be facing a war. Japanese versus Vietnamese. Our gang's will slaughter your's. Remove them at once!"
"Never!"
Xi'an gasped, & caught the attention of one the the japanese bodyguard's. He yelled something in Japanese & ran into the room & point his gun at her & Johan.
"Out" he said & pointed with his gun towards the main room. The two did as they were told & walked slowly into the next room.
A man looked up at the two eagerly. Every Vietnamese person in the room was being held in a headlock & had a gun pointed at their heads.
"Nice." The Japanese man who was sitting down said, "Our first casualities!"
"No!" Tranh yelled, crawling out from under a table. All the armed men turned toward's him & then suddenly turned back towards their seated leader, their eye's glazed over. Johan realised what was going on. Either Xi'an was using her powers or that Tranh had similar power's to her.
Suddenly, all the gun's started blasting toward's the roof. Xi'an & Johan screamed while everyone else remained quiet or calm. Then, the main door was blasted in & a Japanese man dressed in black leather armour surrounded in flames walked in calmly & slowly. He looked around the room to see what was going on.
"Stop!" he said & blasted Tranh across the room. Tranh jumped back up attempting to gain control of everyone's mind's again and also the mind of the new stranger. Suddenly, henchmen started throwing themselves at the walls, hitting themselve's over the head with tables & chairs.
"Stop it" Xi'an said to herself, trying to gain control of the men. It didn't work. Tranh had better control than she did. "Stop It!" she screamed & then men all fainted, leaving only her, Johan, Nguyen, Tranh & the fiery stranger awake.
"What is this all about?" she yelled at Nguyen.
"Territory" the stranger said. "This man is offending the Japanese Crime Syndicate."
"And you are?" Xi'an asked bitterly.
"Sunfire. I am an assassin here to kill him" he replied, pointing at the Japanese leader.
Suddenly, the leader sprung up out of his seat & ran out the door, with the awake people in tow. He ran out into the traffic & got hit by a bus. Xi'an turned to see Tranh smiling.
"You did this!" she yelled "How can you...?"
With that Sunfire blasted Tranh, burning his clothes & skin. Next was Nyugen. He ran off in fire, escaping through the back entrance. Sunfire then turned to Xi'an & Johan.
"Tell me why I should not kill you" he said, his fist flaming.
"Because...coz...we know Wolverine!" Johan yelled at him. Sunfire stopped & took a step back.
"Logan San?" he said to himself.
"Yeah, and if he finds even one hair out of place, he'll come & kill you & then get you ressurected somehow, and then kill you again!"
Sunfire looked at the young man & nodded.
"Yes he would. I will leave you two. But warn Logan that the Yashida Clan don't forget so easily!"
With that, he flew out of the building at a great speed, leaving Johan & Xi'an with a whole bunch of unconscious bodies. Xi'an looked around & could not see her brother or uncle. She frowned & made her way out the front door.
The whole trip back to Xi'an's home, neither Johan or her said a word. But once at the house, Xi'an finally uttered something.
"How...how could they do that. They seemed so good. But what they do is so...so evil!" she said, bursting into tears.
"Appearance's are decieving Shan. Your first impression of them may have seemed warm & loving, but now you know otherwise." Johan said, wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
"Maybe they are both." he continued.
"I 'spose I'll never know." Xi'an replied dismally.
"What?" Johan asked confused, not knowing what she meant.
"I want nothing to do with them if that is what they do. Nothing!"
With that, Xi'an slammed the front door behind her, hoping the leave all the bad thought's of tonight outside, & keep the good thought's & first impressions with her forever.