“Hey guys, get down here now. This is fucking important!” He shouted through the house hoping at least one of them would hear him this time. Eventually they all walked into the room and he switched on the TV. They all looked at him but their attention was turned back the screen when the reporter spoke. “It has been four weeks since Lily Joel and Charles Peterson escaped from prison, leaving destruction in their wake and everyone in California has been living in fear. Over one hundred sightings of her have been reported yet all of them were false alarms but today we found out why. Her body was found in a motel bedroom, the police have ruled it a suicide and in a conference said she hung herself under the influence of cocaine. The state of the body actually proved she has been dead since the day she escaped. Although it is always sad to loose a life, I am sure no one will be saddened by this loss and will in fact feel a sense of relief. Charles Peterson is still yet to be found.” “Shit!” was all Zacky said. They were all silent; no one knew what to say. You could hear the clock ticking away the seconds as each of them just stood there thinking. Matt honestly couldn’t believe she killed herself, he always thought she was always too fond of herself for that. But the drugs he could understand. Every gang in the area had been on a standstill since the news hit that she was free. To be honest knowing she was out there scared the shit out of him. It scared everyone. She killed her own father to become a leader. That was the most legendary thing she had ever done but then again it was arguably the worst. “If she has a funeral I am going to go to it.” Jimmy said matter-of-factly and everyone looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language, “Yeah I know what you’re thinking but you guys know we were best friends. So she was insane and we ended up hating each other but I can’t just ignore that we used to be so close.” “They won’t give her a funeral, the only person who would turn up is you and they won’t even think she deserves one.” Johnny said quietly. “He’s right Jimmy, Lily won’t get a funeral. I think it is best if you don’t ask about it. Don’t you think it will be kind of suspicious?” Brian said. “Fuck you guys. You don’t fucking understand. We were closer than close, I fucking loved her and you know that more than anyone Gates! You lot wont be affected but this is going to tear me up inside! I wont go to her funeral then but I sure as hell will go see her body!” he stormed out of the house slamming each door as he went and Zacky went back into his room to update the information he had on Lily. Synyster and Johnny went to get food from the kitchen and Matt decided that he needed to do something big to let everyone know that Avenged Sevenfold were back. Matt had just picked up the phone to make a phone call when Zacky shouted, “Cunting, wanker, son of a fucking bitch, I’m going to fucking kill you, you arse fucking hole, how the fuck did you even manage to… oh shit everything’s gone. Shit, shit, shit. I fucking hate you. Shit, you are more than dead!” Everyone entered Zacky’s room as he began to take his anger out on one of his laptops. He repeatedly shot at it and then eventually threw it across the room. He pulled another laptop out and began typing codes furiously onto the screen. The screen went black and he looked panicked for a moment until it opened again. He smirked but it quickly faded as he clicked on a file and the file disappeared, he clicked on the next and it happened again and then the next and so on until all the files were gone. He threw that one on the floor reloaded his gun and aimed it at the laptop. “Chill the fuck out man!” Brian spoke making Zacky put his gun down. “Everything is gone, literally. Someone actually managed to get into my computers and wipe everything from it. How the fuck is that even possible. Someone is going to die for this! Then when I get onto their computer, every time I click on a file they delete themselves. I’m going to hunt this man down and make him fucking cry.” “We’ll all go find them; I want to shake their hand before you murder their ass.” Matt spoke and left the room closely followed by Johnny and Brian. Zacky stayed behind a little longer to track down where this person was. They soon found themselves pulling up outside a coffee shop and Zacky was the first one inside who immediately began questioning the staff that was serving behind the counter. Matt strolled in after everyone else and watched his surroundings while the other two listened to Zacky. He noticed two other gang members, from a gang called The Sickness, stood in the doorway looking around the shop. He watched them as they pointed to a table and one of the waitresses answered a question they had. He looked back to the waitress who was talking to Zacky and she pointed to the same table. The table was empty. Zacky ended up ordering everyone a coffee and then they sat outside the shop as we waited for the woman to come to us with video stills of what this person looked like. When she did come outside with the pictures they realized that this person knew exactly what they were doing and hid their face from each camera. All they knew was that it was actually a woman who had managed to hack his files and that she had come to the shop in a Porsche Cayman black edition. They noticed the car parked across the street and kept an eye on it. Matt noticed the other gang members go back to their car and begin loading up guns. Matt looked around and noticed there weren’t just two of them, altogether there was about fifteen shady looking men surrounding the street. “Zacky.” “Um, yeah boss?” “Is it only me who can see them?” Shadows asked knowing that from the nervousness in his voice he knew what was going down. He saw Brian slide his hand across the top of his jeans then down to his pockets and he smiled slightly, Shadows knew he was checking to see if he had a gun and his knife with him as he had seen him do it many times before. Johnny subtly passed Zacky a pistol and the other man checked his pocket to see if he had his knife. A woman walked out of a shop carrying a bag of groceries and walked to the car they were watching. Each gang member watched her as she put the shopping on the passenger seat and then walked round to the driver’s side. She didn‘t have a clue what was coming to her. She was wearing a black dress with matching heels; she carried a brown leather satchel and wore dark Ray Ban aviators. She didn’t know they were watching her, you could tell. It seemed like a pointless hit but Matt guessed it was one way to show people you were back. It looked like The Sickness were pulling out all the stops this time and a couple of men climbed into a car. The woman looked like nothing more than a rich girl wanting to spend some time in the sun. The Sickness obviously didn’t know Avenged were there and if they did they didn’t care. The woman started the car and began to drive down the road; the whole street could hear loud metal music playing as she wound one of the windows down. The car followed her and she seemed to notice something was up. Her car picked up speed but the men in the car shot through her back window. The rest of The Sickness, who were on foot, didn’t move an inch. Her car carried on but it was difficult to tell if she was injured or not. At the end of the street two cars blocked off the turnings and she tried to stop the car but it was too late. The car crashed into the wall, it didn’t look too bad but you could see the airbag had inflated and the bonnet was pretty crumpled. Each man was now running down to the where the crash was. Some one opened her car door for her and held out their hand to escort her out but she just pushed him away and turned to face him. The rest of the gang had her at gunpoint. Avenged eventually walked down to the end of the street and she was shouting at everyone there, “Is this seriously how you treat people down here. Is this your fucking way of saying hello? I only just moved here I guess I should just fucking leave now. Who the fuck are you ass holes?” “Don’t play fucking dumb you know who we are.” David Draiman, the leader of The Sickness, spoke. “Yeah you guys are the fucking lunatics who just shot through my back window and made me crash my brand new car. You missed me by the way, thank god! How the hell am I supposed to fix it when you have probably just made me miss my interview for a job at that fucking car dealership down there?” by now she was fuming. “You honestly don’t know who we are?” he said with a little bit of doubt creeping into his voice. “No! Why should I? I have only been here a day and it’s a complete nightmare. It has actually been one of the shitest days of my life. I think you have the wrong person, so instead of wasting your time talking to me why don’t you go look for the fucker that obviously screwed you over? Oh and next time you shoot at me, I will have you killed. Now leave!” she shouted at him and he tried to say something but she turned around and walked back to her smashed up car. In the end The Sickness left without another word but Avenged decided to go over and talk to her. Johnny got a call from Jimmy and Matt walked over to see what Brian was saying to her, “What is your name sweetheart?” “Spencer Moore, what do you want from me? Are you now going to kill me with the knife you have in your pocket, because your friends didn’t get the job done?” she wasn’t shouting anymore but she still looked really angry. “I am Syn Gates. They aren’t my friends, far from it actually. I was going to ask you if you wanted a lift.” he spoke easily with a smile but was quickly interrupted by Zacky. “Do you have a laptop in your car?” he said it quickly and Syn glared at him. “I don’t. Why?” he just stared blankly at her, “why don’t you search my car?” Zacky wasted no time and was soon looking round every part of it, “can you grab me my sandwich and Pepsi while you are round at the passenger’s side?” Zacky laughed lightly and then brought it round to her she gave a small nod in thanks and Johnny walked over to join us. Zacky walked off, obviously he didn’t find a laptop and Matt shook her hand and introduced himself. “Spencer, we will pay for the damages if you want?” she looked at Matt and she shook her head, “It is the least we can do, you look like your having a rough day.” “it's nothing I can't deal with. I'll just call a truck to come pick my car up. And The Sickness don't bother me, they obviously know now that I aren't involved with them or any other gang.” she sighed and ate her sandwich and took a swig of her drink, “I best leave before they come back and want to shout at me more." Matt made a quick decision, “Hey why don’t you come back to our house, we’ll get someone to fetch your car for you and take it down to the garage. It's the least I can do."