INSANE RAINS

CHAPTER 2 - Encounter

Two months before the accident...

"Where is Mr. Bong?" The hardy man spoke hoarsely in the dark room, who has cigarette in between his fingers. Two blokes were uprightly standing at his both sides with Heizer Defense PKO-45 in their hands, five in front of the table, and another five blokes outside the room with M16 hanged on their shoulders.

"He sent me to have business with you." A man spoke opposite to the leader of cocaine mafia, who sat leaning his back against the comfy backrest. "He has businesses left undone more important than this."

The man erected from leaning, sat uprightly. "What do you mean - I am not important to him!" He chuckled scornfully. "Tell to that bastard to be a man..." - and he took some cigar fumes and breathe out towards the men opposite to him. "Did you bring what I have told you?" He leaned back, and smoked.

The smoke suffocated the trembling man and spoke, "Yes, sir..." He put down the brief case on the table and opened it, rotated it showing to the tall, hardy-look Chinese man. And groped the Glock G42 in his waist, preparing in case the operation fails. His companions in his back were also readying their .45 caliber handguns.

The Chinese man was known to be the leader of the biggest cocaine Mafia in the Philippines. They named him as Black Dragon.

"Good. Is this complete and genuine?" Black dragon gave a sign to check the money out. And one of the goatee guy standing beside came near. He took one bundle and smelled it before he flickered it on his fingers. "Real, boss." And stepped back on his former position.

The man with a brief case was an average-heighted man topped with brown jacket. He was worried that if they'll know that not all the money was real - a duplicated bills beneath the real ones. He closed the case and pulled back, "Where is my treasure?"

Black Dragon abruptly laughed in an affront. He pointed him, "I like you!" and chuckled. He gestured a call to one of his major guard at his side to bring the package.

The man in a brown jacket signaled one of his companions to check the package. After checking the cocaine worth 3-million, he nodded as a sign of the genuineness of the cocaine, and went back to where he was.

"Everything is clean, and my packages are genuine... But! I hate being fooled... I am bad to be fooled!" Black Dragon spoke before he inhaled the fume of the rolled m*******a, then exhaled.

After inspecting and checking the genuineness of the package, they swapped brief cases. "You knew what to do." Then, the group of the man in a brown jacket stepped out the room. He made a call in the hall a minute after, "Confirmed! The evidence is at my hand... move!"

A call from alias Sawa has been received by Black Dragon a minute after, "That's a buy-bust operation... You need to move out right away!"

"Get everything, do not leave any evidence... And burn this building!" Black Dragon and his companions moved out, but they were met by the group of the man in a brown jacket. And succeeding gunfires had been heard inside the abandoned house.

The man in a brown jacket was trembling in fear, he could only hear sharp gunfires between the group of Black Dragon and the Baguio City Police. He was an asset of major Ben Domingo, named Pat. "My God! Save me from this hell..." The comical asset, Patrick Lama, covered his ears, and groped out the building. He stood outside the building, "I am alive... I am alive!" while he was patting his both hands on his chest and belly to check if he acquired any shot.

"Sir, we need Black Dragon alive..." PO1 Ricko de Jesus shouted to PO1 Boyet Martinez, who was ferociously gunfighting against the men of Black Dragon. The whole building was surrounded by police. "Move!"

One of the police comrade, PO1 de Jesus, were on the floor, gunshot to the core critically. He pressed his chest to stop from bleeding. "I don't want to die yet!" PO1 Martinez covered him, and chaperoned him going outside for medical treatment, said, "Hold on, buddy! It will gonna be alright."

Major Ben Domingo, who was at the outside waiting for the confirmation, went straight through the exit door, and killed five men with his favorite revolver. He was not wearing a bullet proof as usual.

Many of the men of Black Dragon were downed. "Let's escape..." Black Dragon went down the underground facility - in the laboratory, where cocaine was packed and examined, to escape through the tunnel.

"Burn everything... all the machines and paraphernalia!" He commanded to one of his men. Before he set everything on fire, Ben sharp-shot in between his eyes.

One of Black Dragon's men smote Ben's arm that made his handgun slipped in his hand. He gave Ben a hard blow in the abdomen that weakened his knee. Ben punched back and tackled him down until the bloke was subdued. Ben stepped forward to pick his handgun when the bloke quarterbacked to shoot him, but Ben tumbled his head over his heels, and stroke aimed his heart. The bloke fell flaccidly on the floor.

"Black Dragon, you have to give up..." Ben shouted as he was stealthy pacing. His gun was over his chest, readying to pull the trigger in case.

"You are a pest of my life, a rat that vexes my pate!" Black Dragon responded that echoed in the underground tunnel.

"Yes!" Ben chuckled, "I am the pest that paralyzing your foundation..."

"You are nothing to ruin my foundation. I have everything..." Black Dragon equivocated, "Even you crippled my foundation I have all means to build it again... You have debilitated my foundation by cutting off my branches... How dare you meddling in me!"

"You knew eversince that I am the termite of your foundation... I'll weaken you."

Black Dragon scorned, "Yes! I will crush you and bring you to hell like your father!"

"Now, you're talking! Stop your trash talks and come out of the skirt of your mother..." Ben pointed his gun to the corner, and a goatee man appeared with a machine gun. A three gunfires were released from Ben's pistol, and the man was downed. "Talk to my gun!"

A succeeding gunfires from the side of Black Dragon, as they were escaping. Ben somersaulted to ward off gunshots, and hid from the barricades. He was random firing, and brought down another man. "You have nowhere to go Black Dragon! Give up, now!"

"Kill me before I'll give-up!" Black Dragon retorted with random fires. "Eat my bullet!" He stepped back as he was continuously firing with his M16, and he was off-bullet. He ran three yards away.

Ben took the opportunity and pointed his gun on him, "Throw your hands up! Do not move..." - as he was pacing slowly towards him, "Get down... Get down!" He ordered him to prone out.

Black Dragon groped his handgun on his waist, and pulled the hammer - ready to discharge. He swiftly faced about, and about to fire his gun but Ben discharged a bullet that blasted in his skull. Black Dragon fell down with his eyes opened in shock.

"Your wickedness has ended, Mr. Chi!" Ben Domingo gnashed as he pulled again the trigger, and targeted his heart. "This is not enough for what you've done to my father... I'll hunt all of you even in the hell..."

The time when his father, Captain Bert Domingo, died after the encounter with the men of Black Dragon in 2003 came back to his mind, "Ben, you have to uproot the seed of this iniquity... It is our duty to clean the mess of the dragon... Ben..." He handed off the drive to Ben, "...do not trust any..one." His gripped hand to Ben's sleeve was loosened and fell flaccidly. "Captai... Pa!!!" Ben screamed as he enfolded his father in his arms.

He picked the gallon of gasoline and outpoured all over the four corner of the laboratory, and went upstairs. He sparked the lighter, and threw down that started a great fire that consumed the laboratory. He galloped out of the building, and the whole building was consumed.

He rode his motorcycle back to Baguio City Police Department. It was 6:00 in the morning when press gathered together in front of the BCPD.

"I have my informant..." Ben meanly answered the question: how did you know that Mr. Chi, a known businessman in the Philippines, was a leader of the biggest cocaine Mafia?

"Many rumors in the town were spreading that if not because of you small syndicates were not been crippled... How did you know that all these syndicates pointing out to Mr. Chi?" Ben responded not, and went directly inside.

"One of the biggest leader of cocaine mafia in the Philippines was killed during the encounter with the comrade of major Ben Domingo, who allegedly planned for this successful operation. The biggest drug laboratory and their paraphernalia were set on fire and were consumed..." The news reporter of ABS-CBN were reporting in the BCPD's facade. "...approximately a billion pesos was consumated by fire."

"Ma. Brail." Billy called Ally and Brail. "Papa is on the news right now!"

Ally and Brail hastily went in front of the T. V. "My father is a tough police! My hero!" Brail sang out as he raised his hands in joy.

Billy was just smiling.

It was December 15, 2013, the unforgettable day where major Ben was the content of newspaper banner "The Hunter slays Black Dragon."

"A tooth for a tooth, a blood for a blood!" A man with a snake tattoo on his hand spoke angrily, and thumped the table, as he was watching news report. "Major Ben Domingo!" and blew out the television.

After responding the random questions of the press, Ben stepped in the BCPD and headed to his table to report the incident. Before he would sat, Chief Police Theodore Lusanas commanded Ben to follow him to the office. "Sir..." Ben saluted.

Ben paced to the Chief's office, and he was commanded to have a seat. "What's the matter sir?"

Chief Police Theodore Lusanas responded nothing but ranted about the incident, "You moved without my knowledge... You executed the operation without my command." He paused and breath out, "Even though you carried out the operation, you have to hold to account of violating the protocol..." And he added, "You didn't add in your report that you have an informant, and asset. Do not forget who's the boss here..."

Ben just held his tongue, and tune him out. And I am a major was the thought that played in his mind. He tapped the table with his fingers.

"For this week, have some relaxation and refreshment major." Chief Police Theodore Lusanas leaned back, "You don't know whom you're messing with."

Ben was just silent and clenched his jaws, Your name really fits your conscience, Sawa... blurted out in his mind, Wait until your time will come...I'll crush your head.

"May I go now, Chief?" Ben stood and saluted. Chief Police Theodore Lusanas gestured him to go. So, he went out from the room, "BCPD is a department where snakes and crocs can wander around." Ben uttered in an undertone, indistinct voice as he traversed his comrade busying themselves from making written reports. Before the internal combustion engine started, he spoke in the air. "I'll uncover the conspiracy that's ruining the image of the government."

"I have my ways..."