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Chapter 2 - The Beginning PART 2

Johnny didn't waste any time and quickly rushed towards his house with Alexey, meanwhile he was also running from the chaos behind him that left many people beaten up and some dead, but the only thing going through his mind was the question of what was his childhood friend doing here in Greece.

As they were getting close to the house where Johnny lives, he noticed that two masked men were following him. Johnny wasn't sure if this was just a coincidence or if some fans of Olympiacos were chasing him because of his Partizan hoodie, so he tried to take a different route to get to his house. He started running through dark and narrow streets where usually homeless people slept, and no regular citizen went through just to see if the masked men would still follow him. Sure enough they were still after him so he had to change plans, he started slowing down and turned to Alexey and whispered in his ear "We might have a problem".

As the two men were getting closer, Johnny told Alexey to stay put while he deals with them. He started looking for any weapon that could help him in a scenario like this because he was experienced in street fights, he knew that the people chasing him were probably armed, so he grabbed an empty glass beer bottle the first thing that he could find.

The two men got close to Johnny, only two meters separated them

Masked man #1: "Hey asshole, where do you think you are going."

Masked man #2: "You are going to pay because of what your idiots did to our men."

As they started getting closer, one of them pulled out a switch-blade without Johnny noticing.

"They don't have any weapons that's surprising, but I deal with idiots like this all the time, this should be a piece of cake" Johnny thought.

As the first unarmed man started charging towards Johnny, he yelled and tried throwing a jab, but Johnny dodged the attack and smashed the glass bottle onto his head.

Alexey watched as one of his closest childhood friends who he remembered as someone who was always innocent and peaceful, someone who will never hurt anyone fatally injure the masked man, leaving him bleeding on the ground with blood pouring down from his head. Alexey's eyes were locked on the body in shock and Johnny was now turning around to deal with the other guy, but before he could react he got stabbed in his right arm with the knife remaining stuck in his hand.

He felt an immense amount of pain, and he started getting scared for his life and for the life of his friend.

Masked man #2:" I..... I can't...."

The masked man started talking, but he couldn't even muster up the words to say what he wanted because of how stressed out he was. Johnny instantly realized that this was the first time he stabbed a person, so he took the opportunity and swung his left-hand right into the masked man's jaw, knocking him out.

Johnny now talking to Alexey: Take the knife out of my hand

Alexey: "You always knew I hated seeing wounds and blood, and now you are making me do this."

Johnny: "Take it out, don't be such a wuss."

Alexey grabbed the knife that was stuck in Johnny's arm and slowly pulled it out while watching blood pour out.

Alexey:" Fuck man, this kid that stabbed you really had to put the whole knife in your arm, thank god it's small."

Johnny: "Give me the knife, it might be useful."

Alexey:" Yea sure it's all yours, not like I need it anyway."

Johnny: "Lets go now, my house is close, and I don't want the cops to see us like this."

They quickly ran to Johnny's house, and Alexey was surprised that Johnny lives in a house like that now. The house was red, it had three stories and beautiful expensive decoration in the yard. It got even better inside everything looked so expensive but still not too luxurious for an ordinary citizen, but for Alexey who spent his whole life in a mountain village the house looked like something that would cost more than all the houses in his village combined.

Alexey: "Man I know your grandpa has a successful business but how did you manage to buy a house like this for yourself."

Johnny:"Don't ask a lot of questions right now I have to bandage myself, and you are making me lose concentration."

Alexey proceeded to shut up and both him and Johnny had a long session for trying to fix their wounds. So that meant that the ship that will take Alexey to Japan is now going to be here in 1h.

Alexey: "Okay, will you now tell me what the fuck is your job here and how do you get a house like this"

Johnny:" You ain't asking questions until you answer some of mine, tell me Alexey why did you come to Greece."

Alexey: "If you want the short version than I will tell you that somewhere in Japan there is a super cooool island that I need to visit because some guy you probably never heard of buried his treasure there, and I want to find it-"

Johnny: "Just give me the long version."

Alexey then proceeded to explain to him everything that he had learned about Argos and why he wants to find the treasure.

Alexey: "Now you tell me about everything you did when you moved out and came here."

Johnny: "Okay so yeah the business that my grandpa owns is still doing good we have money and all of that, but I didn't like driving trucks like most of my family, but I still did it for the money so now I bought this house with the help of my parents and the work I did and because my life is boring I try having fun at the Partizan games and that worked until I got arrested multiple times for fighting with some people so now I can still go but if I do something stupid again like I did today I'm probably going to go to jail for some time and I don't want that to happen."

Alexey: "Well, I have an amazing solution for you..."

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