"The Seven Dragons of the Sea!" Mike replied.
A man from outside the lighthouse yelled, "I'm not a patient man, Mike. Please hurry and give me my money before I put a bullet in your wife's head!"
Ross was worried, "Let me help you."
Mike shook his head, "No need, stay here and rest, James. I have to handle my problem on my own."
"I've already healed." Looking at his body, there are no wounds visible.
"You still need to rest. You might have healed your body, but you still look tired, so please rest."
The man outside looked at his watch, getting annoyed that Mike was taking his sweet time.
"Mike, hurry up. I'm counting down from nine, and after you're not here when I reach zero, your wife is dead!"
Eight.
Seven.
Six.
He counted faster to make Mike rush out of the lighthouse.
Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
The man looked at Mike's wife's eyes, "Unfortunately, it seems like your husband abandoned you by being too cowardly. Your death belongs in his hands."
A Dragon Egg[1] gives its superior a gun, pointing the weapon toward Mike's wife's forehead. She wasn't scared.
"My husband a coward?" She laughed, "You stupid idiots are more cowardly than my love." Her hands were locked in handcuffs, and she couldn't fight back.
It made the man, who was very round in the stomach area, very angry. He almost pulled the trigger.
"Any last word before I kill you bitch?!!"
Before she could even talk, he pulled the trigger, but the gun didn't fire. He checked that there were no bullets inside.
"Lucky bitch!" He gives his back to a Dragon Egg. The goon reloads and then gives it back to him.
She was laughing, "What's funny?" She replied with more laughter. He yelled. "Say it before I kill you, woman!"
"Well, that's what happens if you don't allow people to say their last words!"
His face turned red, she smiled, "You're not going to kill me this easily. My husband will save me before you tired to pull that trigger, but if he somehow fails, then I will beat you assholes by myself." She stopped and countied, "Pray, Mike doesn't fail!"
"You bitch, you think you are in charge here? I will kill both of you if you guys act up. Understand?!"
He was about to pull the trigger, but before he could, Mike stopped him by yelling, "Don't kill my wife. I have the money you asked for." He puts the briefcase down slowly, "Now, free her."
The man got a little annoyed, "Until all the money is counted and is an accurate amount, then I will release her."
He pointed to the blue-haired Dragon Egg to retrieve the money, and she opened it to start counting.
"You'd better count accurately!" The Dragon Hatchling[2] said.
"Um? Dragon Hatchling, Sir?" The man looked at her, "I counted the money. It has 89 million Color Coins, but we are short about 10 million."
(89 million in CC is about 89 thousand U.S dollars.)
He got angry at Mike, yelling, "Where in the hell is the rest of my money, Mike?!"
"You'd rather let your wife get killed than give me the rest of the money you owe."
The 70-year-old man smiled, "I am sorry, they are not with me." He pointed at the ground, "The five million is under you."
The Hatchling looked down, and a fist burst out from the ground, striking his chin, tossing him upward. Ross came flying out from the floor.
***
The woman escaped her handcuffs after the punch to Hatchling's chin. The Dragon Eggs were stunned.
"Ugh, fuck! What are you, Eggs, doing? Kill them!" From his commands, the goons attacked them. A few of the enemies shot at the married couple.
Ross jumped, protecting them with his armor. He stopped the couple, "Let me handle them."
"But, James?" She said.
"Bell, let's just listen to him, no time for argument." They went toward the lighthouse, leaving James alone to fight the enemies.
A few of the eggs tried to stop Mike and Bell from going, but Ross punched them unconscious.
"No one is going past me." He ordered.
"Tsk!" The man was even angrier, "You fucking bastard, don't play the fucking hero!" He looked around, seeing that all of his goons were standing there looking at Ross.
"What hell is this?!" He yelled, "Why are guys standing there, kill him. He's alone."
They began moving again, surrounding Ross with their melee weapons. Individually, each of them attacked Ross, and sometimes together. However, none of the attacks were working. Each strike was getting blocked by nanobots forming armor.
Ross then transformed his other hand into armor and began killing Dragon Eggs with his punches. One of them, who was killed, was a blue-haired woman who counted money.
The Hatchling was having a difficult time aiming his gun at Ross when his goons were blocking his way. He saw an opening and pulled the trigger. Unfortunately for him, he killed a Dragon Egg when they moved into the bullet's way.
A goon fired a gun at Ross when he was closer to him while fighting his colleague. His body formed into armor, protecting Ross. James pulled his revolver and fired at the goon who aimed his gun at him. The egg broke after getting hit in the head.
The man who saw his friend die got faster at swinging his katana at Ross. James was dodging them effortlessly. Turning his left foot into armor, kicks the man's head off into the air.
He stopped after the kick. "Anyone else?" The remaining Dragon Eggs were sacred and ran away.
"Why do I need you useless morans anyway when I can do it myself?"
He creates a minigun by combining his weapon with a dropped gun. The bullets of the guns turned into minigun ones.
"Can your party tricks block automatic fire?" He pulled the trigger.
Immediately, at a quick pace, many bullets were fired. The nanobots protected Ross's body. However, the nanobots were draining his flow, which was being wasted by each armor formation to safeguard from the bullets.
The man's mini gun was about overhead.
Ross was still running while the bullets were flying at him. They were not hurting him, yet it was still painful.
"Shit!" The Hatchling said after his minigun overheated, allowing Ross to punch him with his golden brass knuckles. James didn't want to drain his Flow to turn his right fist into steel.
***
However, Ross's punch was absorbed by the man's fat, surprising Ross.
"What? How is this possible?"
The Hatchling laughed, "Are you surprised?" Turning his minigun into two battle axes, swung them at Ross.
"Which is more supersing, changing the gun into the battle axes, or my fat absorbing your attack?" James dodged, focusing on the pattern of the attacks that he didn't answer.
"Don't undermasted, us Hatchlings!" A big swing came down, and Ross blocks it and attacks him. The same thing happened.
'How can I defeat him?'
Ross sensed the Hatchling was doing something, so he distanced himself. He was correct; the man spun so fast that he eventually became a tornado. Bullets were flying everywhere, hitting Ross, draining his Flow drastically.
The enemy eventually stopped when James' Flow completely dried up.
'Thank God he stopped.' When he was dizzy, the investigator noticed a weakness. He rushed at the Hatchling, punching him in the face with the brass knuckles. He fell to the ground.
Ross discovered the enemy's weakness is the head instead of the body.
"You're finished, never come back." Ross looked down and went to the lighthouse. Before he could go inside, the fat man stood up. "You will never defeat me, never!"
He fired many bullets from Uzis, and Ross had no Flow for his nanobots to protect him.
Slash.
A swing of a katana slashed the bullets, stopping them from hitting James, and a shotgun was pointed at the head of the Hatchling.
"Never think of firing at him ever again!" Mike roared an order.
The man chuckled, "Never!" Bell instantly knocked him out cold.
***
The Hatchling opened his eyes and saw a face that he hadn't recognized. He tried to get up, but he was tied up to a chair. He was naked; his clothes were on the bed.
The man pointed at his belly, "Are you part of the Seven Dragons of the Sea?"
He didn't answer, so Mike responded instead, "Yes, he's part of the organization." The man looked at Mike. His eyes didn't reveal that he was staring at Mike because he wore sunglasses.
"I don't want to hear from you, Mike... I want to hear from him." Hatchling giggled and said,
"What would you do if I-?!"
The man who had a blue suit interrupted him, "Boring, I'd rather know where the Immoral King Dragon is." He yawned.
"I will never betray my great leader."
"Tsk." The blue gentleman was disappointed. "Fine, how about the location of a Dragon you hate?" He stopped to gauge the man's reaction, then continued speaking. "If you tell us. We will release you, but you should never return to a life of crime."
There was still no answer. "We will not give you food for a month if you don't answer."
They left when they heard not a single word came out of his mouth.
"Are we going to leave that guy there?" Mike said.
"Yes. What place should we put him in?" Mike had no answer.
An hour passed, and the Hatchling yelled that he would tell them if they brought him lots of food, because he was starving.
Mike and Bell instantly went to their kitchen, preparing food for the enemy. They were making so much food that a family of six would barely finish it. The married couple was so quick at creating their meals that it took just an hour to make everything.
While eating, "There is one Dragon I hate and want to see him killed or in prison for the rest of his life. He's at a large skyscraper called Blood Tower, and he's at the bar in Fourth Corner City."
He shakes his head, four things fell from his hair. "You need these pieces of Broken Heart to let you enter the skyscraper.
"Fourth Corner City is not too far from us." Mike said.
The blue gentleman asked, "Do you know where the other Dragon Dens are?
The man replied, "I only know this one because of my hatred."
They knew he was not lying because they used an advanced lie detector connected to his head.
"You heard the man. Let's go dragon hunting!!" The sunglasses man said.
They went to the skyscraper to catch the Dragon who made Blood Tower his den.
To be continued
[1] They are the lowest ranking of the Seven Dragons of the Sea. They are the goons of the mafia.
[2] They are the second-lowest ranking of the Seven Dragons of the Sea. However, they are superior to the Dragon Egg. They can order them around.