A Tale from The Land under The Wind

by Mr B





"Fakkkkk samurai bodo!!!, lari!!”



Three guys are running out of a restaurant while being chased by a fat bald man with a three feet long katana sword in his hand. Earlier the three guys were sitting in the restaurant ordering drinks from the waiter when Benny decided to “pau” the restaurant, so he got up from the sitting position and walk to the counter and says “hello” to the owner, Mathir and Poji sat quietly enjoying their drinks, they know Benny would do this since the restaurant’s waiter was rude to them earlier. Benny puts his hand on the counter’s deck cabinet and he speaks to the fat bald man behind the payment counter who happens to be the owner of the restaurant.

“Bro how are you, I’m afraid I need to charge you la bro for the inconvenience, your waiter got no respect la, now empty the register!”

The fat bald man starred at Benny and smile, but Benny does not notice the man’s hand was reaching for something below the counter’s cabinet and suddenly a shiny metal object appears. The bald man tried to slash Benny with it. Luckily Benny’s reaction was faster that he manage to avoid the katana attack and shouts.The voice of Benny yelling alerts Mathir and Poji and they stood immediately, Poji is holding a chair from where he stands and Mathir was ready in his so called “Silat Kekuda” position. He is in his fighting stand ready for a fight.

“Lari, lari bodoh! Hari ni kita salah pau orang la, hahaha”

Benny shouts to Mathir and Poji, and they laugh. He is still trying to escape from the wrath of the fat bald man. The fat bald man keeps attacking Benny with that sword, but Benny was smarter. He loves to fight and the best thing about it, He is good at it. He waited for the fat bald man to lose all of his energy, and he kicked that fat man in the stomach as hard as he can while Mathir and Poji are still standing from their last position waiting anything to come to their way and fight it off like WWE royal rumble match. They will hold off anything so that Benny can escape from the fat bald man, Suddenly a guy starts running towards Mathir and Poji, it was the rude waiter that took their order earlier. Poji throw the chair and it precisely hit the waiter’s face and then Mathir sprints towards the waiter and gives a flying kick right on the waiter’s nose. The waiter fell hard but Mathir has not stopped from attacking him. Mathir gives more kicks to the waiter, he was like a pro soccer player trying to score a goal kicking the waiter constantly and ends it with a stomp on the waiter’s face.

“Thirrr, lek ah bukan melawan pun kimak tu hahaha" said Poji.

People are running away from the restaurant. Everyone is panicking as they rush to the main door where the exit lies, Benny and the fat bald guy are still fighting, but it seems the fat bald guy loses a lot of energy and he fell once when Benny kicked him.

“Bangsat punya budak! Kau kenal tak aku sapa pukimak!”

The fat bald man screams at Benny and he swings the katana once more, but this time it was weaker than any swings before that. Benny realize that the fat bald man had used up all the energy out of himself. Now is the time for Benny to attack. He jumped and give a side kick to the man’s head and he fell hard.

“Haha doremon buntal tumbang!” screams Benny.

But the fat bald man was muc tougher than they had thought, that he did not fainted after that kick. Instead he rise up again with unlimited anger and he swings the sword again and again. Benny runs away as he just remembered that they have a gang meeting afterwards. Benny then runs towards Mathir and Poji as both of them are fighting off a bunch of waiters. Mathir and Poji's fists was red with blood stain due to the punches they have thrown constantly.

“Blah, blah wey, Mansor nak jumpa kan lepas ni, babi la lupa” said Benny to the two adrenaline-high monkeys.

Both Mathir and Poji realize that they have forgotten their gang meeting. Both of them lead by Benny then fight their way out of the restaurant. After several minutes, they reached the main door of the restaurant. The fat bald man was still chasing them, but luckily he was slow like a fat sweaty pink pig.

“Gemok babi!” shout them.

And they run as fast as they can to Poji’s car, the fat bald man was exhausted and after a while he stopped chasing. And he shouts

“Aku cari kamu semua sampai kiamat bangsat!”

Benny, Mathir and Poji were laughing hard while running, Benny said “Fakkkk, kita salah org sial, hahaha, babi punya orang tua boleh ada samurai plak”

“Tu la pasal serious shit kita salah kacau orang jo harini haha” Mathir reply.

“Dah dah naik kereta dulu nti kita cerita” Poji was already starting the engine.

Poji is driving very fast. He has always been the driver for Mathir and Benny. Mathir will always sit at the back of the car since he is the youngest among them, he is only 15. Benny will always call shotgun because for them, that seat is only for those who have earned it. Benny pulled out a box of cigarette from his pocket and took 3 sticks of cigarettes. He lights it all in his lips and passes them to Mathir and Poji. Benny was the leader of the pack. Lighting up cigarettes for his brothers has been his habit for so long. Mathir and Poji take it as sign of kindness from an older brother.

They have always looked up to Benny, to them Benny was their savoir or maybe a brother they wish they had. Benny was born poor in a messed up family. His father was a drunk drug lord, well he used to be, now he is in jail in God-knows where. His mother was an ex hooker who smoke crack, dope, meth and jerry every single day. He was raised badly, where he had no father to fight with, and no mother to whine to. All that he has ever knew was hardship and loneliness, but only until he was 11. His parents were messed up. Benny have to find money and means to survive by his own, so at the age of 11 Benny decided to quit school and work to earn money. He wants to build up his own life and leave his parents. His first job was washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant nearby his house. That job taught him a lot, including the work ethics of the Chinese, which is for him is a very strict discipline. Besides, because of that job he met Mansor, a boss of a local gang that goes by the name Amuk, which he started himself.  Benny first met Mansor when he was 11 at the dark back alley of the restaurant he was on a smoke break. He was sitting on the bench at the back of the restaurant while smoking and suddenly a half Malay-half Pilipino looking guy approached him and asked him for a lighter.

“Dik lighter ada ta?”

Benny gave Mansor a lighter and start wondering what is up with this guy as he is entering the restaurant from the back door. Suddenly he tuns to Benny.

“Uncle Law ada?”

Now Benny understands. This guy might be a gangster who works for Uncle Law. For Benny, Uncle Law is an example of a kind gangster boss. He loves to helps the unfortunate people, for example the restaurant that he runs, half of the profits goes to the orphanages.

Benny's mind was flashing back and forth in his collection of memories. He was brought back to the present by the annoying voice of the self-proclaimed Paul Walker.

“Weyhh apahal senyap semua?”

Poji raid the silence and he start asking Benny while driving like a mad man

“Ni meeting nanti ni pasal apa eh Benny?”

Benny explain to them that Mansor has summoned all of his “budak” for meeting in order to tell them that he will replace Uncle Law soon as leader of 99

“Damn Abang Mansor jadi taiko besar la nti?” Mathir shouts excitedly

“Lepasni Amuk take over!"

Poji was in favor with Mathir but somehow Benny was silent and his face shows that he is thinking of something. He explain to Mathir and Poji, that it is a good news for them that Mansor will take over the whole entire leadership of the gangster organization, but he also explain the threats that comes with it,

“Korang imagine eh dalam 99 ada Amuk, NGG, Logpond, Zheng-Zi and Bulls, kongsi ni semua join under 99 before Amuk wujud lagi, kau rasa apa kongsi lain fikir Amuk take over?”

Benny’s statement made them think and suddenly all of them shout at the same time in the rusty Charade 88.

“War is coming!”

And the conversation ends just like that without any closure. Poji keeps on driving, Benny is messaging Mansor about their location and he also tells him that they will be there in 20 minutes, but everyone knows croods and punks are never punctual. Mathir is asking for another cigarette as he feels a sudden rush of anxiety, He wishes for all the smokes that he blows will take away all his worries. All of them were thinking about what will be ordered by Mansor for them to carry out later on.

End of part 1


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