Ephemeral

Chapter 8

--------At the game room-----

"Wow.'' I mumbled.

The gaming room was huge.

There was a ping pong table, a pool table, some dart board, an arcade machine, gaming screen and chairs and a huge sofa.

"Y'all are seriously rich." I mumbled.

"LET'S PLAY PING PONG," Luca yelled.

And that was what we did for the night.

"Lucia, I need your skills." Antonio mumbled and my brothers agreed.

"One day," I smiled.

We walked back to our rooms.

It was around 12am.

I wasn't tired so I watched Cobra Kai on netflix.

10 minutes into the movie my phone rang.

Unknown caller.

I'm bored so I picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hello. You must be Shadow. I'm your boss in NYC. You have a fight 20 minutes from now."

"Aight, I'll be there." I replied and hung up.

What? I have nothing else to do.

Not like I'm gonna sleep anytime soon.

I changed into my outfit and put on my mask.

Her mask's at the top of the page

Making sure my brothers were nowhere near my room, I hacked into the security cameras around our house. Stopping it for 5 minutes.

Enough time for me to get out of this huge ass house.

I climbed out the window, Antonio's room was right next to mine and thank lord he wasn't in his room.

I quickly but carefully ran to the garage, got my bike out and rode off.

I went to get a donut before going to the underground location my new boss gave me, parking my bike outside.

What's his name anyway?

My phone rang again. Geez who calls at midnight?

"Hello?"

"Hey boss. You're right. Your brothers are the Italian mafia."

"Aight thanks Adam. Your money will be transferred to your account." and hung up.

Adam was one of the trusted hackers who I paid to confirm my suspicions about my brothers.

I walked into the illegal arena.

It was huge but smaller than the one in California.

"Ahh Shadow right?" a voice said behind me.

I turned and did a gun with my hand-index and middle pointed out while the top thumb bent, making a 7- my signal to show that I'm Shadow.

The man smiled at me. "Your fight's in 12 minutes. Get ready."

He has a bald cut hair, around 5'4, probably in his thirties.

I nodded and headed to the stretching mat.

"What's a girl like you doing at a place like this?" I heard a boy ask.

I looked up at the pair of green eyes staring at me.

He was around my age and was wearing a mask so I couldn't tell who it was.

But wow. He looks familiar.

"The usual. Thinking about you."

He smirked at me. "Well-"

"NEXT WE HAVE CALIFORNIA'S CHAMPION SHADOW." a man announced.

I smirked back at the boy as I walked up to the rink.

"AND NEW YORK'S CHAMPION GHOST"

The room burst into cheers, betting on who's gonna win.

The same boy who was off-stage a second ago was now standing in front of me.

"So Shadow huh? What you're gonna be my shadow?" He smirked.

"Over my soul ghostly."

He threw the first punch missing me by an inch.

We threw punches and kicks at each other.

"Oh come on now, don't go easy on me." He whined.

Oh this is so on.

I threw a kick at him, he blocked it and with the other leg I swung over his head flipping him over.

Mierda! I didn't know I was that strong but HAHA LOSER.

He got up quickly and we continued fighting.

This boy doesn't give up does he?

We fought for more than 5 minutes, none of us giving up.

The crowd was going crazy.

I kicked his knee but he quickly recovered, sweeping his leg under mine making me fall to the ground with him hovering above me.

Before he could throw a punch, I buckled my hips and flipped him over.

He froze for a moment, his eyes catching mine.

I saw something familiar as I looked at him.

Get hold of yourself.

I recovered and started throwing punches at him. He has his arms in front of him blocking them.

Beeeeeeeeep.

Someone blew the whistle.

"TIME'S OUT." the referee yelled, gesturing for us to stand.

I got off the boy and stood next to the referee.

"THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE." His voice boomed. "IN FACT THE FIRST TIME EVER AFTER 20 YEARS. SHADOW AND GHOST HAS BEAT THE LONGEST RECORD. YOUR GAME'S UP. RE-REGISTER IF YOU WANT TO RE-FIGHT."

We got off the stage. I realised we've been on the rink for more than 20 minutes.

"Not bad for a girl," the boy - Ghost - said.

"Phu-lease. I've coming a long way from my mu-"

A ringtone from my phone interrupted me.

Oh no. Please don't be my brothers.

Caller ID : Unknown

Oh thank whoever is up there.

"Aight see you around loser." I said to him and walked off.

"Shadow, your money will be sent to your account." my boss said

"KK."