Well, shit. Amber rarely get’s upset, but when she does, she fucking goes off.

“Hey, Alric, ya think anyone will survive this time?” I asked. Last time Rose nearly died, Amber went on a rampage and killed everyone within a ten mile radius, which was a lot of god damn people since we were in beijing at the time.

Not a single one of us has been to China since that day 3 years ago. Granted, they weren’t dating at the time, but those two have always been real close.

“Uhm, only me and you since we’re the only ones that have dealt with this before. Oh, and Mattie.” He said, biting his lip out of anxiety. “Hey, Mattie, get over here!”

I shook my head, and sighed. This was really not the time. Our members were already dwindling, we don’t need more dead. Dammit Amber, the second time you stop thinking and this is what happens. “No, fuck you. You get over here!” Mattie shouted back at Alric who started jogging towards him, I followed close behind.

Mattie was standing against a girl that I’ve never seen before. I immediately got suspicious of them, however Mattie can handle himself so I wasn’t worried about him. However, this could be bad if that girl was a spy. I know there were some new recruit’s that came in this morning, but I wasn’t around during that time, I was off on the other side of town doing some shopping. I was probably too busy to notice them.

She was short and skinny, with short jet black hair and sharp green eyes. She had a long coat on, similar to a trench coat but not quite, and it looked like there were guns stored inside. She had a knife strapped to her left thigh. She was propping Mattie up with one arm and had her arm stretch towards Alric and I with a Beretta in hand. That wasn’t really worrying though, If I was in this situation and two people came up to me, especially people that I’ve never seen before I would probably do the same.

“I might only have a shitty Bereta in my palm, but that doesn’t mean I won’t kill you.” She said to me and Alric in a gruff voice. “Step back, or I will shoot you.” I looked at Mattie, who looked exhausted.

He said “Don’t shoot Sophie, you’d be killing two of our commanders. Well, technically one and one’s replacement. Alric’s already been given the position but he won’t accept that his predecessor is dead. They were very close. So, just don’t shoot them. It’s not in anyone’s best interest.” He was being kind in his own way. I think.

“Damn, you're not cussing us out. You must be totally exhausted.” I remarked to Mattie, walking closer to him after this Sophie person lowered her gun and put it into her pocket.

“Yea, yea. Well, this is Sophie, she’s a new recruit. Well, sort of. She just got transferred here from New York. She caused a shit storm for the police there, and since our New York division is on the verge of collapsing as it is, we needed to keep her out.”Mattie said.

“Well, why didn’t they kick her out then?” I asked.

“Because, despite not having an ability, her ability with gun’s is unrivaled. Put any gun in her hand and she can take down a small army herself. She’s just too valuable.” Interesting, I thought. No ability, that’s definitely a rare occurrence for our organization.

“What do you mean, technically a new recruit?” Alric asked.

“Well, she was in charge of the New York Special Operations division. But her rank was stripped of her when she moved, as per usual.” Mattie said, and Sophie blew a raspberry and looked the other way matter of factly. She clearly didn’t want to be reminded.

“Well, anyway,” I started, “Rose is injured, somehow. And now Amber is pissed, I can still hear her screaming if I listen closely. Any idea how Rose could end up being hurt?”

“Well, it’s likely that they overworked themselves. They have been doing a lot of shit recently.” Mattie said.

“They’ve slept for two whole days. what do you mean doing a lot of shit?” I exclaimed.

“Alright, maybe doing stuff is incorrect. Rose was likely under a lot of stress recently. “

“That’s more likely. Maybe They just don’t wanna wake up.”

“I doubt it, they still have to protect Mattie and Rose and have a funeral for Emir.” Alric put in.

“Or maybe this rumored Rose just got beaten.” Sophie said.

Everyone that heard her just looked and laughed. She looked so confused. “Rose doesn’t get beaten Sophie,” I said. “That’s absolutely fucking hilarious. So you were in charge of an important division, granted in another city, and still have no damn clue who Rose is. That’s honestly a feat.”

“Rose, like, as in The White Rose?”

“Technically yes. Rose is the one that founded this organization.”

“The Founder? Really, I thought that they were a myth. Nobody can be that powerful.”

“So that’s what they call them in other cities. Interesting. All the rumors about them are true.” I said.

“They are probably more powerful than the rumors,” Alric said, and Mattie nodded his agreement.

“Then I suspect foul play, and that’s how they were beaten,” Sophie said, and I actually had to agree.

I said “Well, the notion of Rose being unbeatable has been beaten into our minds time and time again so it’s likely that since we have always been here and have seen them win against all odds so many times that since you have not been here all those times. So it’s a possibility that’s what happened. However slim.”

“I agree,” Mattie said, which surprised me because of his undying loyalty to Rose.

“Alright, let’s go check it o-” I stopped in the middle of my sentence after I turned around. I heard someone screaming, and realized the scream was coming from me.