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Date Posted: 19:53:50 02/02/08 Sat
Author: taurus2124
Author Host/IP: CPE-124-188-1-221.nsw.bigpond.net.au / 124.188.1.221
Subject: Chapter 149
In reply to: taurus2124 's message, "The Rising Dragons ... continued ..." on 23:47:08 01/19/08 Sat

Chapter 149

Operations had become aware that Michael had returned to Section One alone. He�d seen his Level 5 operative talking to Birkoff and had noticed that the two were deep in conversation over something. He wanted to know what it was and why Michael was back in Section.

Pressing his intercom, Operations� voice echoed his stern order loudly through the comm. area. �Michael! ... My office ... now!�

Knowing that his presence at Section would not have gone unnoticed for long by his leader, Michael had half expected Operations to summon him sooner or later. Pirouetting around and without a further glance at Birkoff, he headed to the perch as ordered. Although Birkoff had failed to find any location on Nikita, Michael�s mind already working out possible scenarios to locate her, but first things first he would face his superior and debrief on her kidnapping.

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Jason Smythe kept guard on the woman as she sat in her room while Simon went to check in with Wang Yu. He felt terrible that he had wounded her with his gun. It was a knee jerk reaction to protect his friend Simon but he had meant the woman no harm. Unfortunately it hadn�t turned out like that and he felt remorseful. His friend Simon Leung was a bit of a hot head. He was an okay guy usually, although he was a little rough around the edges and prone to bursts of temper and aggression from time to time.

However, Jason didn�t like the way he had treated the woman ... especially smacking her around like that. He�d certainly seen another side of Simon since this kidnapping caper. Something must have snapped in his brain or did he actually like hitting women? he thought.

This was the first time they had done anything like this but the thrill of joining the Rising Dragons plus other inducements were too good to refuse. As he watched her though, Jason couldn�t help thinking that they were just the gofers ... insignificant university students who had been given a contract by Wang Yu to kidnap the western woman. He�d offered them several attractive enticements plus a monetary figure that was very tempting. Like all young people that had debts and university fees to pay, the money offered was more than they had ever imagined or could earn in a regular job so the gig had been very enticing. Their orders had been explicit and once they had singled out who this woman was ... it was easy ... dead easy to find her.

Who was she anyway? The woman seemed to be nice ... she was certainly gorgeous looking ... what had she done? And why was it necessary to kidnap her? Perhaps she was a wealthy Australian and they would be asking for a huge ransom for her return? For just a moment, Jason smiled at the thought that perhaps he and Simon would be able to get a cut of the money seeing that it was them who had kidnapped her in the first place ... but he didn�t like his chances of that happening. Double crossing the triad was a certain death warrant and besides Simon and he didn�t want to jeopardise their prospects of joining the Rising Dragons, so that thought was quickly dismissed.

They�d been touted for a while now by several of their fellow university students connected with the triad, who lived near them to join the Rising Dragons. Being brash and full of bravado, they had finally agreed and this kidnapping of the woman was obviously some sort of test for them. If they passed, they would become part of the brotherhood, but failure was not an option ... for if they did, they would not have seen another tomorrow. They had fulfilled their part of the bargain and when they got their promised payment they�d be out of here quick smart to lie low and wait for Sun Yee Lok�s decision as to their membership prospects. Jason was happy that both he and Simon had been successful and he wondered if there were more initiation tasks they might have to perform before they became a fully fledged member of the Rising Dragons� triad.

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He looked up, but the woman had her eyes closed. Jason was just about to apologise when he head Simon return and call out. �Open the door Jase.�

�Sure thing.�

Simon entered with a syringe in his hand. �Was she any trouble?�

�No she was the model prisoner.�

�Good ... I have something to give her and then we�re out of here. Wang wants to see us too when we�re finished here.�

�Great ... perhaps he has another job for us to do to see if we have the potential to be triad members?�

�I don�t know, but that sounds possible,� Simon replied as he approached where Nikita sat.

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Hearing the voice of the other man return Nikita�s eyes opened as Simon Leung entered the room.

�Why am I here?� she asked again realising that this man was the more dominant of the two. The Chinese man had a ruthlessness about him that was missing in the young Western man who had approached her in the street asking for directions. He seemed out of place working for the triad. Perhaps he�d been roped into it by his friend? Either way she may be able to appeal to him rather than the other. Turning her head Nikita spoke to him. �Do you know why I�m here?�

Jason looked at her bruised face now beginning to blacken where she had been hit. He saw a sallow, broken woman defenceless and trapped. He was about to open his mouth when he noticed Simon glaring at him not to answer. He turned away rather than respond to her question.

Her eyes darted back to his accomplice�s steely face and Nikita knew that she would not get any answers from her kidnappers. She was trapped.

Approaching the bed Simon reached out to touch her. Nikita tried to fight him off but he was too strong. The loss of blood to her shoulder had weakened her; nevertheless she still put up a fight and rolled away from his grasp. Grabbing her arm, though, he dug his fingers into Nikita�s flesh and she felt something tightening around her arm. Opening her weary eyes she realised that a tourniquet had been set in place. Simon then drew out a syringe, taped its side and expelled any air within the cylinder. Quickly finding her vein he injected the needle into her arm and slowly eased the syringe's contents into her blood stream.

�What are you ... ggg...iv...ing mmeee?� Nikita asked realising that her voice had begun to slur.

�This will make you feel better then when you wake up you�ll feel as good as new.�

Nikita began to feel the effects of the drug almost immediately. A light headedness overcame her and she began to feel drowsy. Her eyelashes fluttered and her eyes rolled back into her head. Suddenly, she fell back on the bed in unconsciousness.

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Simon placed his fingers to the pulse in her neck and checked that Nikita was really in an unconscious sleep. He turned to Jason �Let�s go ... Wang Yu is waiting for us.�

�Okay ... Will she be all right Simon?�

�That�s not our worry ... but I would say it will be a while before she comes out of her induced coma.�

A worried looked crossed over Jason�s face but he quickly hid his reaction from Simon knowing that he would not be happy at his reticence. Even though he had shot her ... it had been a knee jerk reaction to protect his friend. Simon seemed to be revelling in the cruelty he�d shown towards the woman and it worried him. He didn�t know if he could go through with their initiation to join the Rising Dragons. He didn�t feel he had it in him to do what may be required of him. Kidnapping the woman had been the easy part. Hurting her was another matter entirely. When he�d been approached to join the triad he thought it would be a lot of fun ... but how wrong he�d been. This was not some university prank ... this was the real world ... and he wasn�t sure he wanted any part of it. Simon on the other hand had embraced it with both hands. He seemed to be revelling in the cruelty and the power trip he had over the woman. There was something about Simon that worried him when he behaved like he had just done.

Was there more to his personality than he was now beginning to see? They had been friends ever since teaming up at university and they�d been through a lot together. Being initiated into the triad was one other thing they�d done together ... but where would it lead them.

Their future was uncertain and totally unpredictable now that they had become involved with the Rising Dragons. Jason was worried.

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