Segment Chapter VI | The Reunion Massacre Part Two

The clock almost strikes noon. Azenith starts brushing her hair while walking in the bathroom. She plugs in her curling iron and curls her hair. Her phone rings. She answers the phone and puts it on speaker.

"Hello, I have you on speaker," Azenith said.

"I'm heading to your place right now. Your husband won't mind if I parked in the driveway?"

"Um..." Azenith stops curling her hair and peeks out of the bathroom door to see Jamie.

"Hey hon, you don't mind if my friend parks in the driveway?"

"I don't see the problem. Why?"

"He just wanted to see if he could park in the driveway."

"Wait, it's a guy?" Jamie asks.

"Yeah. He's only a friend." Azenith said. Jamie's smile drops.

"Okay. How long are you going to be out with 'him'?"

"After the reunion."

"Alright. But you don't have to go if you don't want to. Remember last night?"

Azenith goes back to her vision. She shakes it off.

"Yeah." Azenith said. "I think I can handle it." Jamie smiles and kisses Azenith.

"Alright." Jamie said. "Have fun."

Azenith giggles.

"Thank you, Hon." Azenith kisses him and walks back to the bathroom to curl her hair.

"Sorry about that Jason."

"It's ok. I heard what he said."

"Oh okay." Azenith said. "Do you have the address to the house?"

"Oh yeah. I saved it when you sent it to me" Jason said. "I know where it is."

"Oh really?"

"Anthem Highlands?" Jason said. "I used to live in that area before moving downtown."

"I forgot about that."

Jason laughs.

"I'm about 10 minutes away. I'll be right over."

"Ok. I'll meet you out in the garage." She hangs up the phone and continues to get ready. Jamie and Leilani are downstairs watching TV in the living room. Azenith comes downstairs. Leilani hugs her.

"Mommy! You look like a princess."

Azenith hugs her.

"A lovely princess." Jamie said. "You're leaving?"

"Yeah. I told him to meet me outside the garage."

"Oh okay." Jamie said. "How come you don't want me to meet this guy?"

"If you want to meet him, you can."

"It's ok. I don't want to hold you guys up."

"You sure?"

"It's fine. Have fun."

"Thanks, Hon." Azenith went outside and met up with Jason who just pulled into the driveway. He gets out of his car and walks up towards her.

"Azenith?!" Jason said and chuckled happily. Azenith smiles and waves. Jason hugs her, Azenith hugs him back. "Oh my god, How are you?!"

"I'm good. It's so good to see you!"

"It's so good to see you too." Jason said. He breaks the hug. "Ready?"

"I'm ready."

Azenith and Jason head to the car. He opens the passenger car door for Azenith. She gets in and closes the door. Jason gets in his car and drives off.

"What made you decide to hang out with me?" Azenith asks.

"Well, I just wanted to hang out with someone before the reunion." Jason said nervously.

"You never go with anyone unless you were inviting someone to come along, which isn't me." Azenith said. Jason chuckles.

"What was the real reason?"

Jason sighs.

"I just wanted to see you." Jason said. "It's been a while since we last saw each other so I thought that... I will show you around Vegas a bit."

"Oh, that's nice of you. But you do realize I'm married, Right."

"I know. I know. But, I wanted to hang out with you and start a friendship bond."

"I never thought you would, Though." Azenith said. " You barely even know me."

"I do." Jason said. "Everyone talks about you all the time to me. Dave, Monica, Cassandra, also Olivia and John. Even at the Poker tournament, I think I haven't given you a chance."

"I'm surprised. We don't see each other often, though." Azenith slouched on the chair. "I mean. I would usually pop in during the mornings but you would just avoid me like you were better than me."

"Shit. I never knew I acted so rude towards you. I'm sorry."

Azenith touches Jason's arm. Jason looks at her.

"It's okay. I forgive you." Azenith said. Jason smiles. She smiles as well. They arrived at Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Drive, stopping at a red light. Azenith looks out the window and sees Chris and Kyla walking past the car. Kyla looks at Azenith in the car. Azenith gasped and her vision started to come back to her in a flash.

"Aw shit!" Azenith exclaimed and quickly closed her tightly. Jason looks at her.

"Az! Are you ok?!" Jason said. He looks at Kyla looking at them. He talks to himself.

"Shit..." Chris looks at Jason. The light turned green and Jason sped away despite traffic. He quickly turns into the Paris Hotel parking garage. He quickly finds a parking spot. He breathes in relief. He taps on Azenith's shoulder.

"Az?" Jason said.

"Jason, please don't look at me."

"I promise I'm not going to judge you." Jason said. "Is it alright if I can see what happened to you?"

Azenith looks up at him, Her make up was covered with blood. Jason's eyes widened. "Oh my god, Az! What happened!"

"It's nothing..." She looks down.

"Oh come on, it's gotta be something-'' Jason thinks about it and realizes. "Ohhh. You have future vision do you?"

Azenith nods yes.

"I've been having this vision since last weekend and it just keeps coming back. It keeps getting worse."

Jason wraps his arm around Azenith. Azenith looks at him.

"This is also the reason why I wanted to hang out with you. I wanted to talk to you."

Azenith and Jason get out of the car and head inside the casino.

"This vision thing... What happened?" Jason asked.

"Well. The vision started out as a normal party. Our friends having fun and talking to one another and then, I saw two people with the mayor of vegas shooting inside the newsroom and-"

"Everyone starts dying from left to right. Lots of blood on the floor and on the walls."

"That's right." Azenith said, "How did you know?"

"I have future vision too but it's not really bad. It is more towards dreams turning into Nightmares."

"I thought you had Wind and high jump powers?" Azenith said.

"I got it back in 2016. You constantly update your powers once every 5 years in Vegas." Jason said. "But, I had the same vision last night."

"You did?" Azenith asked.

"Yeah. I didn't want to go at first but I wanted to go just to see Monica and Rachel again." Azenith chuckles and playfully punches Jason.

"So you weren't planning on seeing me during the reunion, huh?"

Jason chuckles. "Hell no I wasn't."

"Figures," Azenith said. "You never liked me."

"Hey! I never said that!"

"You weren't going to plan on seeing me at the reunion, though?"

"Originally, yes," he said. "Then I realized if I got your number and talked for a minute, I thought I would try to build a friendship with you."

"Oh. well that's sweet of you."

Azenith and Jason headed to a cafe and sat down at a table. After their food arrived, they started eating and chatting.

"That vision you had. Did you see Chris and Kyla shooting or?"

"It looked like them. But is that their name?"

"Yeah. Those two work at FOX5 too."

"Holy shit." Azenith said. "Why would they even go against their own job?"

"Who knows. I'm surprised that they are working for the Vegas Mob as a side job." Jason coughs sarcastically. "Dumbasses."

"Ooh." Azenith laughs. Jason laughs with her. Azenith looks out the window, looking at the Bellagio Fountains swaying in the wind. The tourists crowd around the fence to look at the show. Her eyes were engaged by the water fountains dancing through the water. As the tourist walks past the fountains, Carolyn appears leaning on the fence while the fountain sprays behind her. She glares at the restaurant window looking at Azenith and Jason. Azenith's eyes widened and started bleeding.

"Shit!..." Azenith said and covered her eyes with a napkin. Jason gets up and quickly comforts Azenith. Jason looks outside the window and sees Carolyn standing outside staring at them. His eye starts to bleed. He quickly grabs a napkin and wipes his eyes. Carolyn smirks and disappears into the crowd. Jason looks up and sees the crowd full of people.

"Azenith we need to go."

Azenith doesn't respond. "Azenith?? Azenith!" Jason grabs her and runs out of the restaurant. The restaurant receptionist sees Jason running out the restaurant.

"Sir! Wait!" She runs after him.

"Shit... Shit... Shit..." Jason looks back and sees the receptionist chasing him. He looks at Azenith, still unconscious. He looks at the entrance and finds another route to escape the receptionist. "Hold on, Az. I got this."

He holds Azenith tightly and jumps on the slot machines. The tourist looks at Jason hopping on the slot machines to the next. The security guards see Jason jumping on the slot machines.

"Sir! Please get off the slot machines!" One of the guards said.

"I will!" Jason said, hopping onto another slot machine. "But my friend is in a vision coma, I can't stop!"

The guards stop. "Oh shit. Are they ok?!"

"I don't know!" Jason hops off the slot machines and heads out the entrance of the Paris Casino. He drops Azenith on the ground gently.

"Azenith?" he said. "Are you alright? Tap my hand once for yes and tap my hand twice for no." Azenith raises her arms and taps his hand once. She opens her eyes. Jason sighs in relief and hugs her.

"Is she gone?" Azenith asks. Jason breaks the hug and looks at her.

"She's gone."

The security guard stands behind Jason and grabs his arms. He grabs his handcuffs and reprimands him.

"You are under arrest for destroying hotel property!"

"Hold up, I didn't destroy anything!" Jason exclaimed. The guards throw him onto the ground. The other security guard grabs Azenith and reprimands her as well.

"Wait, What did I do?!" Azenith asks.

"Well you look like a hooker on drugs." the guard said. The Las Vegas Metro Police arrive and take over the arrest.

"We'll take it from here." the police officer said. He walks up to Azenith and Jason. "Wow Jason. I never thought you would pick up a prostitute on the strip? You paying her for sex?"

"Now wait a minute. This is a friend of mine. She just came back from California for a reunion."

"Then why does she look like she had an overdose on narcotics?"

"Uh maybe that 'narcotics' is her vision coma that she had before you guys came around."

"Using the old 'vision coma' huh?" the police said. "Look Jason, about 12% of Vegas locals have future vision and most of them take drugs to relieve the pain from their eyes."

"What makes you think she is on drugs?"

"Sir don't argue with me."

"I wasn't arguing with you, I'm just asking you a question." The police grab his gun. The incoming tourist stops to look at the police grabbing his gun. A man screaming can be heard from tourists away from them. Footsteps start to increase speed. The wind blows right in front of the tourist.

"Stop! They didn't do anything to harm the locals!" the man said.

"Sir. get out of the way, your friends cause property damage and disruption at the Paris hotel."

"They didn't hurt anyone. I'll take care of it from here. Release them."

"In that case, can I get your name?"

"Release them and you can get my name."

The police officer releases Jason and Azenith from their handcuffs. "What's your name?"

"My name is Dylan. I'm a vegas native and I know these two." Dylan said. Jason and Azenith get up from the sidewalk and stand behind him. The police wrote down Dylan's name on a notepad.

"I'll drop the charges for now. Consider this a warning." the police officer said and walked away to their car. Dylan sighs and looks at Jason and Azenith.

"You guys ok?" Dylan asked.

"Yeah. What's up with that guy?" Jason said.

"He must be a new police officer for the Metro police department. They don't treat locals politely when it comes to our powers. Outsiders call us 'Vegas freaks'."

"Wow, I never saw this much hatred for Las Vegas locals that have powers when I lived here years ago." Azenith said.

"Not really the hatred. It's 'taboo' for most Vegas locals to show off their powers because of the Vegas mob that outsiders hear about. Not much about the community that Vegas locals show."

"That sucks."

"Yeah. Just be careful next time." Dylan said. He walks away. Jason stops him.

"Hey Dylan. I would like to meet Azenith. She's a friend of mine."

Azenith waves hello, Dylan waves and shakes her hand.

"Hey Azenith. I'm Dylan. Are you from here by any chance?"

"No, I'm not. I'm from Northern California."

"Yooo... Seriously?! That's awesome!" Dylan said. "Are you coming to the reunion party later on?"

"Oh yeah, we are. Want to hitch a ride with us?" Jason asked.

"Sure, at least it saves me time from flying over there."

Azenith and Jason looked at each other and looked at Dylan.

"I'll explain later. Let's go before someone catches us again."

Dylan walks away.

"Alright. Let me grab my keys-" Dylan cuts him off.

"Make sure to pay the lady at the Restaurant. She is waiting for you to pay for the food."

The receptionist stands behind Jason. He turns around.

"Oh! Sorry about that, hon." Jason gives Azenith his car keys. "Meet me in the car."

"Alright." Azenith walks off with Dylan back inside the casino to the parking garage. They got to the elevators to the parking garage floor. The elevator opens for them and tourists walk out of it with suitcases and bags. Azenith and Dylan go in the elevator and go up to the second floor. They walked out and headed towards Jason's car.

"How long have you been living in Vegas? Dylan asks.

"For about 2 and a half years. My husband and I moved back for the reunion party a few days back."

"That's cool, did you like working at FOX5 back in the day?"

"I loved it, I loved working there back then. Everyone is so supportive and loving. I can't wait to see them again."

Azenith unlocks the door to Jason's car and gets in the driver seat while Dylan gets in the backseat.

"I know right..." Dylan said. "It's not the same anymore after Cherney and Tom died."

"Oh yeah, I feel so bad. They didn't have to go that way."

"Unfortunately, they did. I'm sick of it. Why can't the Vegas mob leave us alone?"

"Well Dylan. It's more criminal related to get money. Now, it could be by prohibition, gambling, prositution, or anything illegal of a sort. I don't want to get into this but when the murder happened at Tonopah and it spread by the Review Journal. Havoc broke loose when Carolyn found out by FOX5."

"But why, though? Even when I heard it at home, Cherney dry snit- oh... But still, she didn't have to kill her and Tom. Why did she kill Tom?!"

"She didn't kill them herself, the killers are unknown for now. Tom probably told Cherney to dry snitch."

"Probably so..." Dylan said. He slouches. "Man...There goes my friend."

"I'm sorry Dylan..."

"It's alright. People have to go someday. My friend happened to go out in a painful way. It hurts."

Jason walks up to the car and sees Azenith in the driver seat.

"What are you doing in the driver seat?" Jason chuckles. Azenith laughs.

"Want me to drive to the reunion?"

"Are you comfortable driving a convertible?"

"I can try. I can drive your Miota."

"Alright." Jason gets in the passenger seat. "Let me see you drive."

"Okay." Azenith starts up the car and drives out to the main entrance to the parking garage and drives to the news station. Minutes later, they arrive at the station, Azenith smiles and parks.

"My old stomping place." Azenith said. Jason looks at her.

"Are you going to cry?"

"I might but I will be fine."

"You'll cry. I'll bet on it." Dylan teased.

"Oh be quiet, Dylan." Azenith laughs. Jason and Dylan laugh with her. Azenith looks at the side view mirrors and sees a white Mercedes pull up the parking lot along with her personal marshal behind her. Jason looks at Azenith and looks at the car that arrived. Dylan looks at the car too.

"That must be her." Jason whispers.

"Aw shit." Dylan said. He jumps out of the car. Jason and Azenith get out of the car as well. Carolyn gets out of her car. The marshal gets out of his car and escorts her inside the station. Azenith, Jason, and Dylan walk in the station. Carolyn walks in the newsroom, everyone chatting and laughing. She stops and looks at the memorial picture of Cherney and Tom.

"Shameful... They could've lived longer if Cherney shut her mouth."

The marshal opened his mouth, Carolyn looked at him with a death glare. He closes his mouth. Chris and Kyla walk up to Carolyn.

"What's the plan?" Chris said. Carolyn taps the marshal's arm to tell him to leave. The marshal leaves her side.

"Once I gave out the proclamation from Mayor March to the other general manager. I'll wink at you guys to give the signal to do your thing."

"Alright." Chris said. Him and Kyla walk off. Carolyn walks off to sit down. Azenith, Jason, and Dylan walk in the newsroom. Cassandra waves at them.

"Hey! You made it!" Cassandra said excitedly.

"Hey!" Azenith said, hugging Cassandra. "How's your family?"

"They are doing alright. My daughter. She's growing up so fast."

"Aww, I'm glad to hear that."

"How's your family, Az?" Cassandra asks.

"They're okay. Jamie insisted on moving back to Vegas after he looked through my emails. I swear he likes going through my stuff." Azenith chuckles. Cassandra chuckles.

"Damn. At least he's being protective of you."

"That's true."

A spoon clanks with a glass cup, everyone looks up to the general manager. Priya lays the spoon down on the table.

"Hey y'all! How ya doin'?!" Priya exclaims. Everyone cheers. "Thank you for coming to our first FOX5 reunion party. Tom wanted this to happen but unfortunately, we lost him to a vicious attack. Along with Cherney. We will remember them both, as a granted condolence wish from Mayor March. She couldn't be here with us today, Instead Mayor Goodman will be substituting for her Tonight."

Carolyn stands up from her chair, Everyone claps for her. She shakes Priya's hand and grabs Mayor March's witch wand out of her shirt. Azenith squints her eyes to prevent her from having a vision attack again. Dylan looks at Azenith and puts his hand on her shoulder. Jason does the same.

"Let me make this short and quick because I'm not supposed to be on this side of town being Mayor of Vegas. Tom and Cherney are good souls that were lost in this beautiful city. May them rest in peace."

"Lying ass..." Dylan whispers. Azenith and Jason start laughing. Dylan laughs along with them.

"Unfortunately, March couldn't be here tonight. She wishes you all good blessings and good vibes. As a gift, she gave you a custom made wand and a proclamation on behalf of the city of Henderson."

Carolyn gives Priya the wand and Proclamation folder. She looks at Chris and Kyla, winking at them. Both nod their heads at her. Kyla runs up to the front door and locks it. Chris does the same with the back door. Dylan looks at Chris locking the door.

"Aw hell no." Dylan whispered. Jason and Azenith look at him.

"What's going on?" Jason asks.

Chris throws a Mazel Tov cocktail on the floor and it explodes. Everyone in the newsroom screamed and tried to find a way to get out of the building. A sound of a gun pops off in the room.

POW.....POW... POW!

Repeatedly in one end of the room. Azenith, Jason, and Dylan find somewhere to hide. Blood splattered on the floor, on the walls of people being shot in the head or in the chest. A stray bullet hits Azenith's arm. She screams in agony. Dylan grabs her. A stray bullet hits him in the stomach and his head. Killing him.

"Dylan!" Jason and Azenith yelled. Kyla and Chris switch guns and continue to shoot the whole room. Azenith and Jason run towards the back. Gunshot spewed and hit Jason in the back. He falls onto the floor, bleeding.

"Jason!" Azenith yelled. Jason coughs and blood comes out of his mouth. Azenith kneels on the floor and looks into his eyes. "Look at me please!"

Jason struggles to look at her continuing to cough up blood. He stopped coughing and laid there on the floor. Azenith starts to cry. Kyla and Chris walk up to her with their guns pointing at her. Azenith looks at them at one glance and shoots her in the head. Azenith falls over next to Jason. Carolyn walks up behind Chris and Kyla. She smirks.

"Fantastic." She said, "Let's head out before the police arrive." Carolyn teleports inside her car and drives off. Chris and Kyla disappear. The newsroom continues to burn in flames with dead bodies on the floor. The fire department arrives at the station along with the police and the ambulance. The firefighters run into the station and break the doors to the newsroom and start to put out the fire. The medics ran inside and grabbed the bodies of the ambulance truck. The police tape up the area and investigate the station. This is where the story begins...