The Dragon Warriors

Chapter 9: The Missing Piece

A man is seen on a plane, surrounded by beautiful women and a even more beautiful flight attendant. They are all having drinks while one is sitting between his legs and two is on the side of him. Hearing his phone rings, he answers it as the flight attendant starts to speak. "Another drink, Mr. Wilkerson. Nothing but the best for you." Leaning down towards him to show him the bottle of champagne. Still with her blouse completely open and the upper part of her bra pushed up just enough to put her cleavage on display for him. The man starts to smile while answering the phone. "Yeah, Babygirl. The more the merrier. Especially when its coming from a pretty woman like you."

Still flirting while the phone is answered as hear the voice on the end. "Yo, Orion? What's up my boy? I trust that you almost done with my video." The scene flips back to Orion on the phone. "Yeah, White-Land. I got you. I'll be done by nightfall." He says back in a proud tone. Almost like a burden has been lifted off of him. White-Land speaks again. "Good, Good. I'm glad to hear that. Aye, look. I'm on my way in town. I was planning on being there by nightfall. How about we link up tonight to celebrate? At the club everybody be talking about. Club Dragon. I heard they get off the chain in there. Or lit. Like the Gen Z people be saying." Smiling while talking as the others around him are laughing including Orion.

"Alright, big dawg. Club Dragon would be perfect. Aint no telling how pretty motherfucking women in there. What time your flight land?" Orion asks back curiously. Not wasting any precious or valuable time, White-Land responded back almost immediately. "8:30. Exact answer is 8:36.42 seconds on the clock, but who's counting? Just try not to break too many hearts tonight. I know how you get." Shocked and appalled about how good this man was with math numbers couldn't help, but make Orion a little envious, but also put him in a deep sense of admiration for the man. Letting out a disgustingly chuckle in a amusement as he reply. "Alright, man. I got you. You just make sure you don't get too analytical. Everything will be fine. Ima hit you up though."

They both hangs up and the scene is shown with Hyde ringing the doorbell. Patricia has finally started to fix herself, putting on a dignified face and getting up to open the door. "Hey, do i know you?" She asked in a slightly frightened, but ultimately just puzzled tone. Hyde stands there unfazed and unbothered. "Nall, maybe not, but my name is Hyde Tye-Dye Bleu. I know your boyfriend though and he one who told me to come remove these pipes." Her eyes widened and she stood there offended with a "Really?" face as she was completely infuriated. He looked back at her squinting his eyes as if she hqs completely lost her mind. She ran upstairs to Grangers, who had just got done getting dressed. Hyde walks in and closes the door. Pulling off his bag and getting to work on the pipes as if it is not his problem at all.

"You called the plumber on me to remove the pipes? How low can you get?" She was filled with nothing, but rage at this point. Somehow, Granger found a way to still smile at her pain. "Oh, I can go alot lower. Like the electric slide." Taunting her with a light chuckle. You can clearly that she wants to beat on him bad, but she doesn't want to catch a domestic charge. He knows that, thats why his smile brightens as she just looks at him. She pulls herself together and put her hair back behind her shoulder as she smirks. "You know what? You got it. This is not even worth the stress." With that being said, she started to pack up all of her stuff in bookbags, and handheld purse like bags.

Shocked by this new attitude, it raised his eyebrow, but watched her in amusement as it was out of his hands and finishes getting ready for the party. "This is ridiculous. I can't even take a f*****g shower before the damn party and get dressed like I want to. You a dumbass grown ass little boy." Releasing the air from her mouth as she is now feeling satisfied and more dignified with the powerful sting of her words, she now heads back downstairs to look at a busy Hyde. He was still taking the pipes out of the building. "Hey, Hyde? Do you mind if I catch a ride with you uptown to my girls house? She live right on Ember street." The delivery was perfect and the pitch was very user friendly. Except for one thing she didnt realize. Hyde wasn't really the friendly type.

"All I do is install and uninstall pipes, mam. I'm not here to support the needy or shelter the homeless." Not a blinking eye in sight as he speaks. Didn't even look up from his works. "All yall men are d***s. What can't yall just be nice for a change?" You can hear her feet stomp as she heads towards the door. Leaving Hyde with one more comeback. "Because the nice guys either get taken advantage of or called predators." Laughing at the remark as she storms out with her bags and sitting on the edge of the curb. The door slams so hard that it shakes the pipe, making some water spill out onto hides shirt just before he finish uninstalling it. "Damn. Its always a women and I didn't even have to buy her dinner first." Shaking his head and chuckling to himself accepting his punishment for his bitter, yet truthful tone.

Meanwhile, Patricia is sitting on the curb, trying to come up with a plan. She wants to walk, but with all of them bags? Even she was pretty sure that she couldn't make it around the block. No matter how determined she told herself that she were. So, she did what any desperate women would do in her situation. She went to Hydes car to check and see if it was unlocked first. Ironically it was, so she popped the trunk and put her bags in there. Rearranging them perfectly to be sure that she couldn't be seen. After the rearrangement, she hopped inside as she hid herself perfectly while pulling the trunk down just enough so it wouldn't close all the way. She left it open just a little bit and rested her hands until she was sure Hyde was finished.

"Aite, man. I'll see you. I told you were wrong for that." Hyde chuckle. "I understand though. A mans gotta do what a man's gotta do. You going to Club Dragon? 9 o clock. I'm not really much of a party animal, but I'll see what i can do." Heading back to the car while he is still talking, Hyde tosses his bag of tools on the passenger side and started his car up. Patricia thought that she had the perfect plan. Since they're both going to the same club, she'll just sneak in, take her shower and be back in the car hidden before he even notices she was there. Sounds like the perfect plan in her mind.

They get to the house and and Hyde goes around back to put his tools in the shed. Patricia quickly grabs her bags and jumps out, Hiding around the house in between the bushes. As he's about to enter the house, right after unlocking the door, he gets another call. He grabs his tool belt back after the shed and drives off. He figured it'll only take him fifteen minutes. Which is what he always figured. Once it was safe for Patricia, she rushes into the house quickly and shuts the door. Leaning up against the door frame in relief. As she sit there in triumph, she starts to hear the click clacking of the small keys.A loud "f**k" came from under her breath. Orion looked over at her with a condescending smile. They always found the real life situations more amusing than anything else.

"No, I'm not really into that right now. At least buy me dinner and a movie first." He says as he goes back to editing. "What you doing in here anyway? Are you robbing the place on your knees? If you are, then you're obviously really bad at this." She couldn't help, but laugh. All she could think was, at least he got a sense of humor. It felt like at least somewhat of a burden has been lifted. Though her eyes were still shameful. "Boy, shut the f**k up. My boyfriend, well now ex, is crazy Alright?" Admitting to him the obvious, hoping that would be a good conversation starter since it was all she had to go on right now. "Crazy, huh? What he do to you? Or are you just one of them women that call men crazy because you dont like to take accountability for your actions?" That was always the question that set the tome of the mood for him and she was along for the ride. She liked the back and forth.

"What do him getting the pipes taking out of our apartment had to do with accountability?" Her smirk was vicious, because she knew at the moment he f****d up. He knew it too and his face slowly collapsed to the floor. He picked up quickly. "Well, I'll be dammed. The motherfucker really is crazy. You can stay here then. I'm assuming that's what the bags are for." Now, her smirk turned into prideful eyes. "No, they are not what the bags are for. The bags are for me to take a shower. I can stay with my friend. She's right up the street. Can you take me up there." Pleading her eyes with him innocently. Hoping that it'll work. You can tell by his reaction that he really wanted to. "I can't right now. I have this deadline to finish and I got to finish it by 9. How about I take you after I done? That way you can already be done with your shower."

She was internally grateful. Appreciative could've been a good word for it too i supposed. "OK, Thank you so much. Whats your name by the way? I'm Patricia." Her hand reached out to his for a shake as he grabbed it and shook it, then turned it over and lifted it up to kiss the back of it. "My name is Orion. Nice to meet you, Patricia." She pulled her back away instantly, turning her smile into a frown and semi disgusting look, but she didn't want to jump to conclusions. She asks him. "Orion? Are you by chance the same Orion that turned down my bestfriend Dan-Yella earlier today?" Looking at him as she narrowed her eyes. Studying him completely as he loos back at her with the same narrow eyes, but lifts them back up so she can see the pureness in him.

"Yes, I did. Guilty as charge. That woman was crazy. She came all the way downstairs to flirt with me by talking s**t. Thinking I was supposed to just like that approach and accept it. So I told her the truth." His shoulders shrugged once he was finished speaking. "Take it how you want it and feel how you feel. I'm not retracting my statement." Once everything was all on the table, he turned back around and started back editor the video. She just stood there completely in shambles as if she almost felt sympathetic for the man. She didnt know what to say and didnt want to upset him anymore than he already were. She just took her bags and went upstairs to take her shower. As she walked away, he kind of looked to the side, with a more remorseful heart.

As Patricia gets out of the shower and walks back downstairs, Orion couldn't help to get a whiff of her alluring strawberry scented smell. He tried to hide it, but did a very poor job of that. "His noise went up while his eyes closed. Almost like he was in heaven. "You like my smell Orion? You don't have to hide it. I know i smell good." A soft smile came from his lips as he looked back at her lustfully, filled with a hint of attraction. "I mean to be honest its not just the smell. The smell is the attention grabber though, but to look at you? That is truly the blessing in disguise. I'm almost finished I promise. Then I'll take you where you want to go looking like that. Now, youre somebody our be happy to have on my arm." Hyde walks in as he finish speaking while making passionate eye contact with eachother. They were dead locked, but Patricia looked up quickly, trying to wake herself back up from the hypnotism. Hyde was the perfect one to do that.

Confusion fell upon his face first. Then, he put his head down and smacked the back of his arm against his leg in a stressful position. As he give his head a slow shake from side to side, lifting his head and starting to talk with his hands again. This time out of frustration. "What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you that I dont support the strays? You're not making it no better by turning yourself into a stowaway. I'm calling the police for trespassing." His eyes dead serious as he pulls out his phone to call. "The police?" Her eyes widened. She couldn't believe the words that came out of his mouth. "You can't be serious? What did I ever do to you? Come on now." Hyde didn't care. His mind was already made up, Orion looked at a angry Hyde and then back at Patricia. She was in a shocking disbelief, but her eyes was locked in Orion for help. He could tell that she needed a lifeline.

"Come on, Orion. Chill out. Its not that deep. The girl just needed to take a shower and I told her it was cool. I'm about to drive her to her friends house. Everything will be fine. You'll never guess who her friend is. It'll make you laugh." They were obviously fighting for her life here. So she chimed in for moral support. "Yeah, funny. Haha." Desparation coming from her lips. He looks over both of them carefully as he clearly tell that his homeboy was infatuated by her. Still mad, but a little more forgiving. He closed his eyes and leaned his head back as he give up and end the call. "Fine. Who is her friend?" His usual smile appeared over his face.

"Motherfucking Dan-Yella." He couldn't believe it. Covering his hand over his mouth in complete shock. "LiteBrite is your homegirl? Woo. I bet she called you all to pieces when my boy Orion dissed her today." They both frowned at him. "I'm just saying. She did get dissed. What? Whats the problem?" Patricia starts to go on a heated rampage to rant to him about women and being denied, but Orion stops her." Chill out." He puts his finger up to calm her down. "I got it." Now, turning back to his partner in crime. "Its not really a big big problem." He puts his hand up again without even looking back since he knew that she was going to chime in.

"Its more about the fact that somebody feelings got hurt and that wasn't even my attention at all. I was just being honest. Thats her friend. You have to understand that.The same thing when people talk about you to me or vice versa. They talk about me to you. They just being a good friend. You can't take that away from them. I know you can understand that. I seen how you get defending the people that you love. She's doing the same thing as you, Big dawg. Thats the problem and any reasonable minded person, which i know you is, bruh, can see that she gotta protect her friends heart and feelings. Thats all. So try not to be the stone cold Hyde with her. Not this time, bruh. I know you wanr to." He chuckles through the seriousness. "But nall let this one slide. For me. For your boy. Just trust me this time. You can get the next one bruh. I promise you." All Hyde could do was laugh and shake his head. He knew Orion was right and the joking in between to break the tension was just what he needed for him to receive the message. So, he backed off. Meanwhile, on the sidelines, Patricia was already falling for Orion and wasn't even sure if she still wanted to go to Dan-Yella. She was too intrigued by his mindset and his firmness. Almost as if he had turned her on. Some would say.