The roots of Rembrandt.
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The roots of Rembrandt.
The Roots of Rembrandt
Chapter one: Trevor Grant
December 20th 1977 a young man sleeps on his mothers couch, he is tanned skinned and spots a shabby looking afro, he wheres torn jeans and a shirt that has an addidas logo on it, this young mans name is Trevor Grant. His mother walks into the living room she is a short fat woman she pulls on Trevors ear.
"Hey you lazy little sh** get up right now" his mother said to him and pulled him off the couch.
"Mom could you just fu** off for a minute" Trevor sais rubbing his ear. He walks to the kitchen and grabs the cerial he goes to pour himself a boll but all that comes out is crumbs and a cockroach. He throws the box at the ground and walks back into the living room. "you get your ass out there and find a job you lazy sack of sh**" his mother said snarling at him.
Trevor nods and walks over to the door putting on his sneakers and his coat he walks out. The sky was dark with clouds and it was wet as well. Trevor started to walk up the street, as he got closer to the end of the street he noticed something from the corner of his eye, it was a word that said Scopes painted in black and red spray paint, it was block letterd as well. Trevor looked at it with amazement he just couldent take his eyes off it for some reason. He always heard about Graffiti and how it was filth but the way this looked it looked more like art then anything.
He looked in his pocket and found that he had 20 dollers to do him for the whole weekend, he decided to walk to the nearest hardware shop as he did he came across a sign in a local art shop that said -Help wanted-. He walked in and went to the desk. "Hi I seen your sign in the window about a job offering" Trevor said to the pretty young woman. The woman looked up at him with bright blue eyes, "Yes we do handsome, would you like it?"
Trevor looked at her supprised he dident have to go threw the bullshit of resume's
"Yes that would be great actually" he said to her. She got up from her desk and put her hand on his shoulder, "Ok as long as you take me out on friday" she said smileing.
Trevor looked at her and smiled and nodded "no problem", "good you start tommorow " she said and waved as he left. He laughed as he walked down the street again, "Hah I job and a chick" he said still walking. He stopped near the hardware store doors and took the 20 dollers out of his jeans pocket. He entered the store and walked to the spray paint isle. He looked at all the different spray paints until his eyes came across a red can. He smiled took it off the shelf and shook it hearing the crackle crackle noise.
"You a wrighter?" said a voice from behind him, Trevor looked behind him, there stood a man he was african american and spotted a backwords cap, he was holding 3 spray cans.
"Ummm not yet actually thinking of doing a drawing tonight" Trevor said holding his one red can of spray. The man looked at him "Drawing?" the man said.
Trevor looked at the man and smiled slightly he cocked his head "Picture?" The man grabbed Trevor by the arm, "Its called a piece, and you cant piece without a name and you cant get a name if you dont learn and practice". Trevor looked at the ground then back at the man "How do I learn and practice?" The man grabs 2 more cans of spray and puts them in his backpack with the other cans he just had. "Come with me" the man sais to him. They both walked out of the store without being caughed.
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Chapter 2: Learn and Practice
The man brought Trevor out of the hardware store and out to the back of the building. "Whats your name anyway?" Trevor asked the man, the man looked at Trevor "the name is Jiver" he said to him. "Jiver?" Trevor said to him slightly confused. Jiver shook his head "the one thing you gotta learn is you need a name to write because if you write your real name the fuzz will be after you" Trevor nodded slightly and looked at Jiver who was takeing out spray paint out of his backpack.
"How about Nuker for a name?" Trevor said smileing. Jiver walked to him and shook his head, "that is fu**in lame! How about Rembrandt 77?" Jiver said smileing.
"Rembrandt 77?" Trevor said to himself then looked at Jiver. Jiver looked at him "Yes Rembrandt 77, Rembrandt was a painter in the late 16 hundrends and seeing as this year is 1977 I just put them togeather." Jiver said laughing and shaking a new spray can so the paint was mixing.
Rembrandt smiled and nodded, "Thats great". Jiver threw Rembrandt a spray can.
"Ok 77 you ready to do you first piece?" Jiver said smileing. Rembrandt smiled and walked toward the brick wall this his spray can, he made a Huge R first of all followed by an EMBRANDT, then at the bottom he put 77. Once that was done he grabbed a purple spray can and outlined it. "Not bad Rembrandt" Jiver said nodding, he then reached in his bag and took out a magic marker and a book. "Here start drawing piece's that you would like to piece sometime." Jiver then gave Rembrandt a map. "Once you do finally get some nice pieces come find me here and I will test your tagging skills if your good I may let you join my crew" Jiver smiled put all the spray paint in his bag and swong it over his shoulder. "Later Toy" he laughed and walked off.
Rembrandt smiled to himself and walked home still holding his can of red spray paint. It was dark now and the only light was from the street lamps and the moon, as he walked down the road he seen that there was a little ally he knew this ally would lead him home but he knew he could piece in this ally as well. He decided to go and get his name up in here. He walked toward one of the concrete walls and shook his can, popped the lid open and started to spray. It was really dark and he was wondering what his piece looked like so Rembrandt took out his lighter so he could see what he just sprayed over when he lit it he could see he just sprayed over someone else's tag, but what made his blood run cold was it said -Electric Eliminators-. Rembrandts eyes stared at the tag which now said Rembrandt 77 on it. He put away his spray and was about to walk when he felt someone push him down, he turned over to see someone in a bright yellow coat. "You gonna clean that up you sack of sh.." The guy said to Rembrandt. Rembrandt got up and took out his spray can, knowing that was the only defence he had. The Eliminator pushed Rembrandt again but this time Rembrandt grappled the guys arm and twirled him to the ground, he kicked him in the rib and sprayed the eliminator in the face with his spray paint. "Ahhhh!!!!!" the guys said. Rembrandt then took this chance and ran up the allyway. The eliminator was still on the ground but started to yell loadly. "Eliminators get that sucker!" Rembrandts blood was chilled when he heard the patter of feet running down a side street. Then Rembrandt felt something hit the back of his leg he then fell and smashed his face into the pavement. He rolled onto his back and opened his eyes he sat up and felt a warm liquid start rolling down his face. He put his hand to his forhead and felt a gash, finally he came to and relized he was surrounded by 9 Electric Eliminators.
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Chapter 3: The panzers
Rembrandt looked at the eliminators noticeing some had pipes. He got up and brushed himself off sort of limping since he had been hit by a pipe in the back of the leg.
"You fu..ed up our tag!" The one eliminator said, Rembrandt grabbed the pipe that hit him in the leg and brought it up to his chest area. "Look I dont want no trouble ok!" Rembrandt said to them all. He then felt a punch in the side of the face that brought him to his knees, "Fu** you" Rembrandt said loadly as one of the Eliminators kicked him in the stomach. Rembrandt's vision blured as he was hit in the face again, he fell to the ground the last thing Rembrandt heard before passing out from the pain was more footsteps he knew they were more Eliminators coming to wreck him even more.
Rembrandt opened his eyes slowly and got up his face was stuck to the pavement from the blood, he looked around and noticed there were bodies all over the ground. He sat up against the concrete wall and looked there were 10 guys looking down at him, they were all dressed in army jackets and one of them stood out. It was Jiver the tagger that tought him stuff. "are you allright?" Jiver said to him. Rembrandt went to speak but all that came out was blood. Jiver walked over and kneeled down and gave him a banny to wipe off the blood. Rembrandt wiped off his face, "What happend?" he asked Jiver who was now cleaning some blood off of Rembrandts arm.
Jiver looked at him, "well me and my crew were just hitting up an old warehouse not far from hear and we heard screaming, so we decided to come and see what was going on. When we got here you were on the ground getting pummbled by some eliminators" He said nodding at him and helping him up. "come on lets get you home" Jiver said.
By the time they got to Rembrandts place the sky was just turning a tint of dark blue, it would be morning soon and Rembrandt still had work the next day. "I am ok here, thanks by the way" he said to Jiver and his crew who then started to walk up the road back toward the old warehouse.
Jiver then turned back toward Rembrandt who was just about to enter his house, "Come to the warehouse sometime, I think we all agree you would be perfect in out crew" Jiver nodded and waved goodbye.
When Rembrandt entered he went into the bathroom and took a shower he got out and went to the couch and went to sleep.
When he awoke next moaring he found his mom standing over him, "Where were you all night Trevor?" his mom asked him. Rembrandt got up still sore from the night before. "And what happend to your face!" she said putting her hand over his gash. Rembrandt shook his head, "I tripped and fell into some garbage cans, I think one of them had a broken glass bottle in it" he lied. He then got up and walked to the kitchen take out some bread and made himself a sandwich. After he was finished he put on some clean clothing and walked out of the house. "bye mom I got work" he said as he left the house and walked down the street toward the art supply store. He entered and seen the woman, "Hey! welcome to your first day" the woman said to him smileing. Rembrandt smiled back at her, "I dident catch your name?" he said to her, she got up and held out her hand. "Name is Amy" she said to him as she shook his hand. "Remember tonight were going out" she said smileing, and hitting him playfully in the shoulder. Rembrandt nodded and went to the store room, he opened one of the boxes and took out some markers, and some paint sets. He walked out to the store front and started stocking the shelfs, he then slipped a few markers into his pocket.
The day went on and finally it was time to quit for the day, he walked to were Amy was. "So what time do you wanna go out?" he asked her. Amy looked at him threw glazed eyes "Meet me at the steak house at 8 oclock okay" she said as the both left the store, Rembrandt locked it and started to walk home when Jiver jumped out of an allyway. "Hey cat" Jiver said as he was flipping a can of spray in the air. "Hey man whats happining" he said back.
"Man come with me, I am gonna do a huge piece on the mall and I need a second tagger to help me" Jiver said digging in his backpack. Rembrandt nodded "ok but I gotta be gone before 8, I got a date". Jiver smiled at him and threw him a vest that had the name Rembrandt 77 on the back. "here man we made this for you,"
Rembrandt looked at the vest and put it on. "Thanks brother this is pretty tight" he sais smileing. Both them walked toward the mall looking around making sure they were not being followed by the Electric Eliminators.
"So how old are you man?" Jiver said looking at Rembrandt, "18 as of last weekend" he said nodding, They finally got up to the mall, Jiver put his backback on the ground and took out 2 spray cans one yellow one purple.
He shook one up and started to piece, Rembrandt watched him his can skills were really good he thought. They Pieced togeather for 20 minutes when they were done it said, -Electric Eliminators suck- Rembrandt's eyes widend and he laughed, "there gonna be after us for shure for that one" he said still laughing. Jiver looked at him still packing up the spray paint, "not if they know whats good for them" he said putting on his backpack as they both walked up the street. Rembrandt looked at his watch it was 7:30pm. "Well I gotta go man I may drop by the warehouse tonight" He said and started walking up the street toward the steak house.
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Chapter 4: Amy
When Rembrandt got to the steak house he could see Amy leaning on the wall by the door smoking a cigarette, she kinda looked like one of the 7th street hookers. He laughed and walked up to her, "Hey you" he said playfully prodding her in the arm.
She smiled at him "well hey to you to" she said as the both walked into the steak house, they sat down by the window and orderd there food and ate when they were dont they sat there for a while talking about ware they grew up and there past. Finally Rembrandt looked at his watch it said 11 oclock. They both got up and walked outside, once outside they stood against the wall waiting for a cab. While they were standing there someone came to Rembrandts side and poked him, "Hey you faggot!" Rembrandt turned to see another Eliminator. "Why dont you fu.. off before I pound your...." but before he could finish his sentance he was thrown to the ground by the eliminator, Rembrantd spun on the ground and swept the guy off his feet once on the ground Rembrandt got on the guys chest and punched him three times in the face. "Come on lets go quick" he said to Amy and they ran down the road. They finally got to her house and enterd. Rembrandt was breething real heavy and he sat down on her couch, "you shure showed him" she said laughing. He smiled at her and got up from the couch. "Ya well good thing we left cause there would have been more of them coming" he said nodding.
Amy sat down beside him on the couch and reached out and grabbed his hand. "well at least your safe now" she said. Rembrandt nodded, "I should get going" he said getting up and walking toward the door. He waved goodbye to her and walked out, he stopped a cab and got drivin to the allyway were he went to the warehouse.
The panzers were having a great time partying about something. "Hey Jiver!" Rembrandt yelled trying to get his attention. He was sitting and making out with two girls at the same time, Jiver looked up and smiled. "Ha Rembrandt!!" Jiver said pushing the one girl off him who landed on the floor. He ran to Rembrandt. "how is it going my brotha heard you took out an Eliminator" he said laughing. Rembrandt was confused "how do you know about this? this only happend 15 minutes ago" Jiver looked at him "word gets around bud" he said as him and rembrandt walked toward the couch, were 2 girls were sitting.
"Ladies this is our new man Rembrandt 77" he said introducing him to the 2 young ladies sitting there. Rembrandt laughed. "Look man I just came to see what was up but I gotta get home sorry brother" He said to Jiver, Jiver looked at him "allright man Ile see you around."
Rembrandt finally got home a little after 12 oclock he went to sleep.
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Chapter 5: A year later.
Time went on and It was now August 28th 1978. Everything was going great for Rembrandt he was tagging at night and had at least 7 full pieces up all around Eliminators turf. His mom and him were getting along now, he was part of the tagging crew the panzers and to boot he had an awesome girlfriend. He walked down the street wareing his vest and holding the hand of Amy. "So do you think those Eliminators are gonna try anything?" amy said refuring to all of there tags that have been sprayed over. Rembrandt shook his head, "maby I donno" he said digging in his pocket for a piece of gum, he stuck it in his mouth and chewed on it. They finally got to the park and sat down on one of the bench's watching everyone playing around in the sun it was the perfect day he thought to himself. There were kids playing ball on the far side and it was quite were they sat. Rembrandt brought out his book of graffiti and showed Amy a piece that he drew for her. She smiled at him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He smiled at her and gleamed at her, "I really care for you" he said to her, she nodded back bringing a hand to his cheek, "I care for you evenmore". She kissed him on the lips she then got up and grabbed his hand bringing him up with him. "Tonight I wanna do something special" she said still holding his hand. Rembrandt smiled at her knowing what she wanted to do, he nodded and kissed her pulling away he said "I will be at you house tonight at 9 is that okay?". She looked at him threw her big dark eyes, "its a date" she gave him one last kiss as she left for her house. He smiled and walked toward the panzers warehouse again.
He entered the warehouse noticeing few people today he seen Jiver who was drinking a beer. "Hey Rembrandt whats happining" he said pointing at Rembrandt. He walked over and sat down near Jiver. Rembrandt looked at him "so how have things been?" Jiver took another swig of beer and shook his head. "Really lame man, the Electic Eliminators have been taking our guys out every night this week" Jiver said throwing the beer bottle against the wall. "Jeasus" Rembrandt said picking up an old spray can and tossing it between his hands.
"But it dosent matter anyway" Jiver said with a gleam in his eyes and a smile on his face. "Were gonna get them back tommorow night". Rembrandt looked at him with a serious look on his face, "why whats gonna happen?" Jiver took a knife out of his pocket and stabbed it in the table. "There is a huge rumble tommorow night on the street, the Electric Eliminators agaist us" Jiver said smiling knowing they would win. Rembrandt looked at the wall in thought for a moment. "Man people will die!" he said. Jiver turned to him "Your gonna help right!" He looked at Jiver for a moment thinking then nodded slightly. "ya Ile help man, is it fists only or can we be packed?" Jiver shrugged, "no one said anything yet so more then likely can be packed".
Rembrandt then got up from the couch and walked to the door "alright man see you tommorow night" with that rembrandt opened the door and walked out. He walked down the street toward Amy's house noticing that everyware that had the Panzers logo on it someone had written -dead- on it, he shrugged and walked to Amys house. He knocked on the door and entered. "hey baby" she said seeing him walk in. She smiled and walked over to him giving him a kiss. Rembrandt sat down on the couch, "whats wrong?" she asked him. He looked at her with sincier eyes, "there is a rumble tommorow night, our guys up against the eliminators" he said still shocked that this was going to happen. Amy put her hands on his "you cant help, you could get wasted if you do!" she said. "Dont you think I know that" he snapped back at her. She took her hands off his and walked to her room slamming the door. He looked at the floor knowing what was gonna happen. He got up and walked to her bedroom door inside he could hear her sobbing he opened the door walked in and sat on the bed. "Look hun I am sorry its just I am part of the panzers and I have to help" Rembrandt said to her rubbing her back. She nodded and knew he had to. She then pressed her face against his and kissed him, making it long and passionate. The both fell back onto the bed and had a night of passionate love.
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Chapter 6: Preperations.
When Rembrandt awoke it was 12 in the afternoon, he knew he needed to get to the hangout and start getting ready for the night of battle that was about to unfold. Beside him lay Amy, she was naked and under the covers of the bed, he smiled remembering the long night of love making but he shook it off and got up and put on his clothing. "where are you going" Amy said sleepily. He looked at her and sat back down on the bed beside her "I gotta go to the hang out, I gotta get ready for tonight" He told her grabbing her soft hand and kissing it, she stared at him for a moment but she knew he had to go she nodded lightly. Rembrandt got up and grabbed his backpack and vest and walked out the front door toward the hang out. While walking he seen Eliminators at almost every corner but the rule is no fighting before a big rumble so he dident feel threatend. As he got closer to the hangout he could see the Panzers in the windows of the place, he could see they were all worked up about this rumble, he shook his head and entered. Inside there were at least 30 panzers getting ready, Rembrandt walked to the back room where Jiver sat he was flipping a knife in the air. "Whats up brotha" Rembrandt said to Jiver, he turned toward him. "We are gonna get these guys tonight 77" he said smileing at Rembrandt. Jiver then pulled out a pipe out of his backpack and handed it to Rembrandt, "here man this will come in handy dude" he nodded. Rembrandt took it and looked at it he then nodded and put it in his backpack.
"Man people are gonna die tonight!" He snapped at Jiver. Jiver nodded and grabbed his knife holding it. "I know man, but we gotta show these basterds whos streets these are". Rembrandt looked at him and got up and walked out of the back room, he walked outside and looked around at the graffiti and the gang logo's around. Gangs were becomeing really big In New York. He had heard of a few from certain people. There were the Orphans who were a small time clique from Tremont, The punks from the east side and a certain group who looked like kiss mixed with the baseball playoffs. He shrugged and walked up the allyway looking at everything that caughed his attention he looked at his watch it was a little after 4, he decided to go see him mother.
Once he got to his house the sun was just starting to set, he opened the door and entered. His mom was sitting in the chair knitting. "hey mom" Rembrandt said as he entered. His mother smiled at him got up and gave him a hug. "Hey baby, would you like something to eat?" she asked walking to the kitchen. Rembrandt shook his head "its ok, not really hungry" he said walking behind her. She opened one of the cupboards and took out a can of soup, "so how is Amy?" she asked him, "Pretty good actually, were going on a year now so its great" he said smiling remembering the night before. Just then there was a knock on the door, Rembrandt walked over to the door and opened it, it was Amy. She smiled at him and walked in giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Amy, what are you doing here" he asked her. She looked at him and smiled, "I am gonna stay here with your mom while your out, with the panzers tonight" she said and put her hand on his shoulder. He then looked at his watch again it was 6 only another hour before the rumble started at the park. "I gotta go mom sorry" he walked to his mom gave her a kiss on the cheek then kissed Amy on the lips and walked out the door and toward the warehouse again. He walked down the ally but as he did he seen Panzers all over the allyway, some were on the roofs, car roofs and sitting on brick walls. He entered the warehouse again and walked to the back room, "Ok man I am ready" he said taking out his pipe. Jiver smiled and got up pushing his chair to the ground, "Lets go get these fu**ers!" with that Rembrandt, Jiver and the rest of the panzers ran to the park where 30 Eliminators were waiting for the rumble to start.
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Chapter 7: The rumble
Once Rembrandt got to the park, there were people everyware, Panzers on one side and Elminators on one side. There were cars parked all over and you could hear the rattleing of chains, the swictch of blades and talking and coughing of the 2 gangs. Rembrandt clutched his pipe strongly watching the Eliminators stare down all the panzers. Just then Jiver stepped forward as well as the Electric Eliminators leader stepped forward as well, they were in the middle of the 2 gangs. "This is for fu**ing with our tags and everything else Panzie!" the Eliminator said snarling at Jiver. Jiver laughed and smiled at the guy "ya well this is for killing some of our panzers!!!" he said and then swong at the eliminator connecting with the guys face and sending him to the ground. Then the two gangs collided like an old fashion warrior battle from the 16th centery. Person after person was getting thrown to the ground and puched out. Just then Rembrandt felt a kick in the leg, he reered around with his pipe and connected with someones skull, a splurt of blood hit Rembrandts face, he wiped if off as another Eliminator jumped him sending him to the ground, 2 more jumped on top of Rembrandt pummeling him with shots to the stomach and face then one of the eliminators head busted as he fell limp to the ground Jiver was standing over him and smashed him with a board. He helped Rembrandt up as another guy went to punch Jiver from behind Rembrandt took out his spray and sprayed him in the eyes, the eliminator fell to the ground in pain as Rembrandt jumped and stomped on the eliminators head. A panzer ran toward Rembrandt but got hit with a knife to the throte, the panzer fell to the ground twiching as the blood poured out of the wound. The eliminator grabbed the knife and ran towards Rembrandt. Just then Jiver jumped over top a body that had fallen and grabbed the eliminator but the arms the guys squirmed to get away but it dident last long, Rembrandt hit the guy over the head with a pipe sending blood and skull matter flying in the air. "Come on man!" he heard an Eliminator say, Rembrandt looked at the Eliminators they were running away!. Just then he felt a sharp pain in the lower part of his back and he fell to the ground, he reached around and pulled out a knife, he just got stabbed by an Eliminator at least it dident hit any vital organs he thought to himself.
He took the knife and got up slowly, he ran to one of the cars and stood up on it watching the chaos that was unfolding, he could see some of the panzers were down as well some were dead. He seen Jiver still taking on the leader of the Elminators, then Jiver got hit from the back as he fell to the ground the leader of the eliminators took a sledge hammer extended it over his head and smashed it on Jivers head. Brain matter, pieces of skull and blood covered the ground. "JIVER!!!!" Rembrandt screamed as he ran to Jivers side, then he seen the leader going to hit him to, Rembrandt took out the knife and before the leader could hit him, he stuck him with the knife in the stomach, the leader dropped the sledge hammer to the ground and fell to his knees. Rembrandt got up and took the sledge in his hands with one swift motion in connected with the leaders skull smashing it. The leader fell to the ground. Just then sirens were heard, and both gangs scatterd, Rembrandt went to run but he looked down at Jiver, "I am sorry brother" he said as he started to run back to his house.
When he got near his house he was shocked that he almost passed out, the window was broken as well as the door, "Mom! Amy!" he said as he ran toward the door, when he entered he seen it was a blood bath. His mom was on the ground two bullet holes were in her head, Rembrandt almost fainted. "Oh my god no!" he said and fell to the ground crying, when he looked up he seen Amy, she was sitting on the chair her throte had been slashed. "No!" he said still half on the ground, just then an Elminator came out of the kitchen. "Why Hello Rembrandt 77" he said smiling at Rembrandt who was on the floor still. "This is just payback you little shithead for hurting my brother!." He said and walked toward the door he stopped and looked back. "By the way little man, I called the cops they are on there way" the elminator smiled and ran away. Rembrandt got up still crying he ran to his room and grabbed some clothing and his spray paint he had to get out of here before the cops came he thought to himself he put it all in his backpack, he walked back into the living room and looked at him mom and Amy, "I am sorry" he said and started to cry again. He ran out the door and down the allyways toward the subway. He had to get far away as possible. He walked into the subway station and looked at the train scedual the only train was leaving in 2 minutes to Cony Island. He wiped his eyes and entered the train. He dident know what he was gonna do when he got to Cony but at least he would be safe from the fuzz. When the train stopped day was just breaking, he walked out of the train and out of the subway and was immidatly welcomed the view of the sea. He walked to the edge and contimplated about jumping he then collapsed on the dock from all the blood loss and the stress. The only think he rememberd was a guy helping him up who had a turban like hat on.
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Chapter 8: The Warriors
When Rembrandt came to he was in a warehouse on a couch, he got up quickly. His vision was blurry but he could make out a shape of a person standing over him, "Hey young blood take it easy, your safe man" he could here, he fell back to the couch and passed out again. When he awoke his vision was better and he could see someone playing a pinball machine, it was a guy wareing a leather vest that said The warriors on it with a skull with 2 wings. The guy looked at Rembrandt "Hey man your awake" the guy said walking over to the couch, Rembrandt sat up. "Whats your name man" the guy said holding out a glass of water for him. "Name is Trevor Grant. People just call me Rembrandt" he said taking a sip, the guy nodded "Nice to meet you, my name is Swan" he said and sat down on the chair beside him. "How long have I been out" Rembrandt asked. Swan looked at the floor then sank back into the chair. "you been out for about a week, man what happend?" swan asked him. Rembrandt then rememberd his mom and Amy he wanted to cry but held back the tears as he looked at the ground, "Those Fu**in Eliminators killed the people I cared about" as he said it the tears flowed down his face. Swan frowned and put his hand on his shoulder, "Look man some of the Warriors are coming here tonight. They wanna meet you and maby we could plan some revenge on them". Rembrandt looked up with half a smile. Swan nodded to him and got up leaveing the warehouse, Rembrandt fell back onto the couch and looked around. With the saddness and everything else he drifted off to sleep.
When Rembrandt woke up he was surrounded by 8 guys in leather vests, Swan was sitting in front of him. "hey little man I want to introduce you to the warriros. Swan pointed at one warrior who had a turban like hat on his head, "This is Cleon he is the group leader.", Swan then pointed to a guy who was kinda sitting away from the group, "This is Ajax he is hardcore muscle in this group, he can act like a di** at times to" Swan and the group laughed. "Eat sh** pus**" Ajax said holding up the middle fingure. Swan proceeded to point out the rest of the warriors. Rembrandt looked at all of them "nice to meet you all" he said. Cleon got up and sat beside Rembrandt, "yo little man can you tell us what went on?" Rembrandt nodded. "Well I am from Brooklin, and I got into graffiti about a year ago. I was accepted into the panzers, well the panzers were never liked by the Electric Eliminators and one day they decided to have a huge rumble at the park. Making a long story short my mentor mom and Girlfriend were all killed" Rembrandt looked down. Swan looked up at Cleon making eye contact and nodding. "dont worry little man they will pay" Cleon said snapping his fingures and with that the fox nodded and ran out of the warehouse. Swan put his hand on Rembrandts back, "You need a place to stay?" Swan asked, Rembrandt shook his head "nah I can just crash here". Swan smiled "Man this is just the hangout we warriors have our own appartments some of us still live at home actually". "and some of us live with hookers" added Snowball pointing at Ajax. Ajax stood up, "what you want some of this!" Ajax said holding out his arms. "Both of you two shut up!" Cleon yelled, "You can stay in my appartment I got an extra bed little man" Cleon said, Rembrandt nodded, "thanks guys". The fox came back into the warehouse, "All right the guys said the would be up for it" he said talking to Cleon. Rembrandt looked up knowing what they were planning and smiled a bit. Swan then yahned a bit and got up, "Well I am outta here". Cleon nodded and got up to and pointed to Rembrandt "Come on little man lets go". Rembrandt got up and followed Cleon out the warehouse door, Rembrandt looked at all the lights and old buildings but what caughed his eye was -The Wonder Wheel-. Cleon seen Rembrandt look at everything, "This is our turf man, Cony Island our home. We took it from the Destroyers a while ago" Rembrandt nodded still walking and watched some bum's fighting in the allyway, he laughed and followed cleon to an old appartment building. They entered and Rembrandt sat down on Cleons couch. "Well little man I am gonna go to bed its been a long day and dont worry about anything were gonna hit those Eliminators hard" Cleon smiled walked into one of the rooms and shut the door. Rembrandt looked around noticeing the empty beer bottles all over, the half eatin boxes of pizza and the sounds of sirens outside. He shrugged and layed down trying to think about things but slowly he fell asleap.
Chapter one: Trevor Grant
December 20th 1977 a young man sleeps on his mothers couch, he is tanned skinned and spots a shabby looking afro, he wheres torn jeans and a shirt that has an addidas logo on it, this young mans name is Trevor Grant. His mother walks into the living room she is a short fat woman she pulls on Trevors ear.
"Hey you lazy little sh** get up right now" his mother said to him and pulled him off the couch.
"Mom could you just fu** off for a minute" Trevor sais rubbing his ear. He walks to the kitchen and grabs the cerial he goes to pour himself a boll but all that comes out is crumbs and a cockroach. He throws the box at the ground and walks back into the living room. "you get your ass out there and find a job you lazy sack of sh**" his mother said snarling at him.
Trevor nods and walks over to the door putting on his sneakers and his coat he walks out. The sky was dark with clouds and it was wet as well. Trevor started to walk up the street, as he got closer to the end of the street he noticed something from the corner of his eye, it was a word that said Scopes painted in black and red spray paint, it was block letterd as well. Trevor looked at it with amazement he just couldent take his eyes off it for some reason. He always heard about Graffiti and how it was filth but the way this looked it looked more like art then anything.
He looked in his pocket and found that he had 20 dollers to do him for the whole weekend, he decided to walk to the nearest hardware shop as he did he came across a sign in a local art shop that said -Help wanted-. He walked in and went to the desk. "Hi I seen your sign in the window about a job offering" Trevor said to the pretty young woman. The woman looked up at him with bright blue eyes, "Yes we do handsome, would you like it?"
Trevor looked at her supprised he dident have to go threw the bullshit of resume's
"Yes that would be great actually" he said to her. She got up from her desk and put her hand on his shoulder, "Ok as long as you take me out on friday" she said smileing.
Trevor looked at her and smiled and nodded "no problem", "good you start tommorow " she said and waved as he left. He laughed as he walked down the street again, "Hah I job and a chick" he said still walking. He stopped near the hardware store doors and took the 20 dollers out of his jeans pocket. He entered the store and walked to the spray paint isle. He looked at all the different spray paints until his eyes came across a red can. He smiled took it off the shelf and shook it hearing the crackle crackle noise.
"You a wrighter?" said a voice from behind him, Trevor looked behind him, there stood a man he was african american and spotted a backwords cap, he was holding 3 spray cans.
"Ummm not yet actually thinking of doing a drawing tonight" Trevor said holding his one red can of spray. The man looked at him "Drawing?" the man said.
Trevor looked at the man and smiled slightly he cocked his head "Picture?" The man grabbed Trevor by the arm, "Its called a piece, and you cant piece without a name and you cant get a name if you dont learn and practice". Trevor looked at the ground then back at the man "How do I learn and practice?" The man grabs 2 more cans of spray and puts them in his backpack with the other cans he just had. "Come with me" the man sais to him. They both walked out of the store without being caughed.
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Chapter 2: Learn and Practice
The man brought Trevor out of the hardware store and out to the back of the building. "Whats your name anyway?" Trevor asked the man, the man looked at Trevor "the name is Jiver" he said to him. "Jiver?" Trevor said to him slightly confused. Jiver shook his head "the one thing you gotta learn is you need a name to write because if you write your real name the fuzz will be after you" Trevor nodded slightly and looked at Jiver who was takeing out spray paint out of his backpack.
"How about Nuker for a name?" Trevor said smileing. Jiver walked to him and shook his head, "that is fu**in lame! How about Rembrandt 77?" Jiver said smileing.
"Rembrandt 77?" Trevor said to himself then looked at Jiver. Jiver looked at him "Yes Rembrandt 77, Rembrandt was a painter in the late 16 hundrends and seeing as this year is 1977 I just put them togeather." Jiver said laughing and shaking a new spray can so the paint was mixing.
Rembrandt smiled and nodded, "Thats great". Jiver threw Rembrandt a spray can.
"Ok 77 you ready to do you first piece?" Jiver said smileing. Rembrandt smiled and walked toward the brick wall this his spray can, he made a Huge R first of all followed by an EMBRANDT, then at the bottom he put 77. Once that was done he grabbed a purple spray can and outlined it. "Not bad Rembrandt" Jiver said nodding, he then reached in his bag and took out a magic marker and a book. "Here start drawing piece's that you would like to piece sometime." Jiver then gave Rembrandt a map. "Once you do finally get some nice pieces come find me here and I will test your tagging skills if your good I may let you join my crew" Jiver smiled put all the spray paint in his bag and swong it over his shoulder. "Later Toy" he laughed and walked off.
Rembrandt smiled to himself and walked home still holding his can of red spray paint. It was dark now and the only light was from the street lamps and the moon, as he walked down the road he seen that there was a little ally he knew this ally would lead him home but he knew he could piece in this ally as well. He decided to go and get his name up in here. He walked toward one of the concrete walls and shook his can, popped the lid open and started to spray. It was really dark and he was wondering what his piece looked like so Rembrandt took out his lighter so he could see what he just sprayed over when he lit it he could see he just sprayed over someone else's tag, but what made his blood run cold was it said -Electric Eliminators-. Rembrandts eyes stared at the tag which now said Rembrandt 77 on it. He put away his spray and was about to walk when he felt someone push him down, he turned over to see someone in a bright yellow coat. "You gonna clean that up you sack of sh.." The guy said to Rembrandt. Rembrandt got up and took out his spray can, knowing that was the only defence he had. The Eliminator pushed Rembrandt again but this time Rembrandt grappled the guys arm and twirled him to the ground, he kicked him in the rib and sprayed the eliminator in the face with his spray paint. "Ahhhh!!!!!" the guys said. Rembrandt then took this chance and ran up the allyway. The eliminator was still on the ground but started to yell loadly. "Eliminators get that sucker!" Rembrandts blood was chilled when he heard the patter of feet running down a side street. Then Rembrandt felt something hit the back of his leg he then fell and smashed his face into the pavement. He rolled onto his back and opened his eyes he sat up and felt a warm liquid start rolling down his face. He put his hand to his forhead and felt a gash, finally he came to and relized he was surrounded by 9 Electric Eliminators.
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Chapter 3: The panzers
Rembrandt looked at the eliminators noticeing some had pipes. He got up and brushed himself off sort of limping since he had been hit by a pipe in the back of the leg.
"You fu..ed up our tag!" The one eliminator said, Rembrandt grabbed the pipe that hit him in the leg and brought it up to his chest area. "Look I dont want no trouble ok!" Rembrandt said to them all. He then felt a punch in the side of the face that brought him to his knees, "Fu** you" Rembrandt said loadly as one of the Eliminators kicked him in the stomach. Rembrandt's vision blured as he was hit in the face again, he fell to the ground the last thing Rembrandt heard before passing out from the pain was more footsteps he knew they were more Eliminators coming to wreck him even more.
Rembrandt opened his eyes slowly and got up his face was stuck to the pavement from the blood, he looked around and noticed there were bodies all over the ground. He sat up against the concrete wall and looked there were 10 guys looking down at him, they were all dressed in army jackets and one of them stood out. It was Jiver the tagger that tought him stuff. "are you allright?" Jiver said to him. Rembrandt went to speak but all that came out was blood. Jiver walked over and kneeled down and gave him a banny to wipe off the blood. Rembrandt wiped off his face, "What happend?" he asked Jiver who was now cleaning some blood off of Rembrandts arm.
Jiver looked at him, "well me and my crew were just hitting up an old warehouse not far from hear and we heard screaming, so we decided to come and see what was going on. When we got here you were on the ground getting pummbled by some eliminators" He said nodding at him and helping him up. "come on lets get you home" Jiver said.
By the time they got to Rembrandts place the sky was just turning a tint of dark blue, it would be morning soon and Rembrandt still had work the next day. "I am ok here, thanks by the way" he said to Jiver and his crew who then started to walk up the road back toward the old warehouse.
Jiver then turned back toward Rembrandt who was just about to enter his house, "Come to the warehouse sometime, I think we all agree you would be perfect in out crew" Jiver nodded and waved goodbye.
When Rembrandt entered he went into the bathroom and took a shower he got out and went to the couch and went to sleep.
When he awoke next moaring he found his mom standing over him, "Where were you all night Trevor?" his mom asked him. Rembrandt got up still sore from the night before. "And what happend to your face!" she said putting her hand over his gash. Rembrandt shook his head, "I tripped and fell into some garbage cans, I think one of them had a broken glass bottle in it" he lied. He then got up and walked to the kitchen take out some bread and made himself a sandwich. After he was finished he put on some clean clothing and walked out of the house. "bye mom I got work" he said as he left the house and walked down the street toward the art supply store. He entered and seen the woman, "Hey! welcome to your first day" the woman said to him smileing. Rembrandt smiled back at her, "I dident catch your name?" he said to her, she got up and held out her hand. "Name is Amy" she said to him as she shook his hand. "Remember tonight were going out" she said smileing, and hitting him playfully in the shoulder. Rembrandt nodded and went to the store room, he opened one of the boxes and took out some markers, and some paint sets. He walked out to the store front and started stocking the shelfs, he then slipped a few markers into his pocket.
The day went on and finally it was time to quit for the day, he walked to were Amy was. "So what time do you wanna go out?" he asked her. Amy looked at him threw glazed eyes "Meet me at the steak house at 8 oclock okay" she said as the both left the store, Rembrandt locked it and started to walk home when Jiver jumped out of an allyway. "Hey cat" Jiver said as he was flipping a can of spray in the air. "Hey man whats happining" he said back.
"Man come with me, I am gonna do a huge piece on the mall and I need a second tagger to help me" Jiver said digging in his backpack. Rembrandt nodded "ok but I gotta be gone before 8, I got a date". Jiver smiled at him and threw him a vest that had the name Rembrandt 77 on the back. "here man we made this for you,"
Rembrandt looked at the vest and put it on. "Thanks brother this is pretty tight" he sais smileing. Both them walked toward the mall looking around making sure they were not being followed by the Electric Eliminators.
"So how old are you man?" Jiver said looking at Rembrandt, "18 as of last weekend" he said nodding, They finally got up to the mall, Jiver put his backback on the ground and took out 2 spray cans one yellow one purple.
He shook one up and started to piece, Rembrandt watched him his can skills were really good he thought. They Pieced togeather for 20 minutes when they were done it said, -Electric Eliminators suck- Rembrandt's eyes widend and he laughed, "there gonna be after us for shure for that one" he said still laughing. Jiver looked at him still packing up the spray paint, "not if they know whats good for them" he said putting on his backpack as they both walked up the street. Rembrandt looked at his watch it was 7:30pm. "Well I gotta go man I may drop by the warehouse tonight" He said and started walking up the street toward the steak house.
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Chapter 4: Amy
When Rembrandt got to the steak house he could see Amy leaning on the wall by the door smoking a cigarette, she kinda looked like one of the 7th street hookers. He laughed and walked up to her, "Hey you" he said playfully prodding her in the arm.
She smiled at him "well hey to you to" she said as the both walked into the steak house, they sat down by the window and orderd there food and ate when they were dont they sat there for a while talking about ware they grew up and there past. Finally Rembrandt looked at his watch it said 11 oclock. They both got up and walked outside, once outside they stood against the wall waiting for a cab. While they were standing there someone came to Rembrandts side and poked him, "Hey you faggot!" Rembrandt turned to see another Eliminator. "Why dont you fu.. off before I pound your...." but before he could finish his sentance he was thrown to the ground by the eliminator, Rembrantd spun on the ground and swept the guy off his feet once on the ground Rembrandt got on the guys chest and punched him three times in the face. "Come on lets go quick" he said to Amy and they ran down the road. They finally got to her house and enterd. Rembrandt was breething real heavy and he sat down on her couch, "you shure showed him" she said laughing. He smiled at her and got up from the couch. "Ya well good thing we left cause there would have been more of them coming" he said nodding.
Amy sat down beside him on the couch and reached out and grabbed his hand. "well at least your safe now" she said. Rembrandt nodded, "I should get going" he said getting up and walking toward the door. He waved goodbye to her and walked out, he stopped a cab and got drivin to the allyway were he went to the warehouse.
The panzers were having a great time partying about something. "Hey Jiver!" Rembrandt yelled trying to get his attention. He was sitting and making out with two girls at the same time, Jiver looked up and smiled. "Ha Rembrandt!!" Jiver said pushing the one girl off him who landed on the floor. He ran to Rembrandt. "how is it going my brotha heard you took out an Eliminator" he said laughing. Rembrandt was confused "how do you know about this? this only happend 15 minutes ago" Jiver looked at him "word gets around bud" he said as him and rembrandt walked toward the couch, were 2 girls were sitting.
"Ladies this is our new man Rembrandt 77" he said introducing him to the 2 young ladies sitting there. Rembrandt laughed. "Look man I just came to see what was up but I gotta get home sorry brother" He said to Jiver, Jiver looked at him "allright man Ile see you around."
Rembrandt finally got home a little after 12 oclock he went to sleep.
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Chapter 5: A year later.
Time went on and It was now August 28th 1978. Everything was going great for Rembrandt he was tagging at night and had at least 7 full pieces up all around Eliminators turf. His mom and him were getting along now, he was part of the tagging crew the panzers and to boot he had an awesome girlfriend. He walked down the street wareing his vest and holding the hand of Amy. "So do you think those Eliminators are gonna try anything?" amy said refuring to all of there tags that have been sprayed over. Rembrandt shook his head, "maby I donno" he said digging in his pocket for a piece of gum, he stuck it in his mouth and chewed on it. They finally got to the park and sat down on one of the bench's watching everyone playing around in the sun it was the perfect day he thought to himself. There were kids playing ball on the far side and it was quite were they sat. Rembrandt brought out his book of graffiti and showed Amy a piece that he drew for her. She smiled at him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He smiled at her and gleamed at her, "I really care for you" he said to her, she nodded back bringing a hand to his cheek, "I care for you evenmore". She kissed him on the lips she then got up and grabbed his hand bringing him up with him. "Tonight I wanna do something special" she said still holding his hand. Rembrandt smiled at her knowing what she wanted to do, he nodded and kissed her pulling away he said "I will be at you house tonight at 9 is that okay?". She looked at him threw her big dark eyes, "its a date" she gave him one last kiss as she left for her house. He smiled and walked toward the panzers warehouse again.
He entered the warehouse noticeing few people today he seen Jiver who was drinking a beer. "Hey Rembrandt whats happining" he said pointing at Rembrandt. He walked over and sat down near Jiver. Rembrandt looked at him "so how have things been?" Jiver took another swig of beer and shook his head. "Really lame man, the Electic Eliminators have been taking our guys out every night this week" Jiver said throwing the beer bottle against the wall. "Jeasus" Rembrandt said picking up an old spray can and tossing it between his hands.
"But it dosent matter anyway" Jiver said with a gleam in his eyes and a smile on his face. "Were gonna get them back tommorow night". Rembrandt looked at him with a serious look on his face, "why whats gonna happen?" Jiver took a knife out of his pocket and stabbed it in the table. "There is a huge rumble tommorow night on the street, the Electric Eliminators agaist us" Jiver said smiling knowing they would win. Rembrandt looked at the wall in thought for a moment. "Man people will die!" he said. Jiver turned to him "Your gonna help right!" He looked at Jiver for a moment thinking then nodded slightly. "ya Ile help man, is it fists only or can we be packed?" Jiver shrugged, "no one said anything yet so more then likely can be packed".
Rembrandt then got up from the couch and walked to the door "alright man see you tommorow night" with that rembrandt opened the door and walked out. He walked down the street toward Amy's house noticing that everyware that had the Panzers logo on it someone had written -dead- on it, he shrugged and walked to Amys house. He knocked on the door and entered. "hey baby" she said seeing him walk in. She smiled and walked over to him giving him a kiss. Rembrandt sat down on the couch, "whats wrong?" she asked him. He looked at her with sincier eyes, "there is a rumble tommorow night, our guys up against the eliminators" he said still shocked that this was going to happen. Amy put her hands on his "you cant help, you could get wasted if you do!" she said. "Dont you think I know that" he snapped back at her. She took her hands off his and walked to her room slamming the door. He looked at the floor knowing what was gonna happen. He got up and walked to her bedroom door inside he could hear her sobbing he opened the door walked in and sat on the bed. "Look hun I am sorry its just I am part of the panzers and I have to help" Rembrandt said to her rubbing her back. She nodded and knew he had to. She then pressed her face against his and kissed him, making it long and passionate. The both fell back onto the bed and had a night of passionate love.
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Chapter 6: Preperations.
When Rembrandt awoke it was 12 in the afternoon, he knew he needed to get to the hangout and start getting ready for the night of battle that was about to unfold. Beside him lay Amy, she was naked and under the covers of the bed, he smiled remembering the long night of love making but he shook it off and got up and put on his clothing. "where are you going" Amy said sleepily. He looked at her and sat back down on the bed beside her "I gotta go to the hang out, I gotta get ready for tonight" He told her grabbing her soft hand and kissing it, she stared at him for a moment but she knew he had to go she nodded lightly. Rembrandt got up and grabbed his backpack and vest and walked out the front door toward the hang out. While walking he seen Eliminators at almost every corner but the rule is no fighting before a big rumble so he dident feel threatend. As he got closer to the hangout he could see the Panzers in the windows of the place, he could see they were all worked up about this rumble, he shook his head and entered. Inside there were at least 30 panzers getting ready, Rembrandt walked to the back room where Jiver sat he was flipping a knife in the air. "Whats up brotha" Rembrandt said to Jiver, he turned toward him. "We are gonna get these guys tonight 77" he said smileing at Rembrandt. Jiver then pulled out a pipe out of his backpack and handed it to Rembrandt, "here man this will come in handy dude" he nodded. Rembrandt took it and looked at it he then nodded and put it in his backpack.
"Man people are gonna die tonight!" He snapped at Jiver. Jiver nodded and grabbed his knife holding it. "I know man, but we gotta show these basterds whos streets these are". Rembrandt looked at him and got up and walked out of the back room, he walked outside and looked around at the graffiti and the gang logo's around. Gangs were becomeing really big In New York. He had heard of a few from certain people. There were the Orphans who were a small time clique from Tremont, The punks from the east side and a certain group who looked like kiss mixed with the baseball playoffs. He shrugged and walked up the allyway looking at everything that caughed his attention he looked at his watch it was a little after 4, he decided to go see him mother.
Once he got to his house the sun was just starting to set, he opened the door and entered. His mom was sitting in the chair knitting. "hey mom" Rembrandt said as he entered. His mother smiled at him got up and gave him a hug. "Hey baby, would you like something to eat?" she asked walking to the kitchen. Rembrandt shook his head "its ok, not really hungry" he said walking behind her. She opened one of the cupboards and took out a can of soup, "so how is Amy?" she asked him, "Pretty good actually, were going on a year now so its great" he said smiling remembering the night before. Just then there was a knock on the door, Rembrandt walked over to the door and opened it, it was Amy. She smiled at him and walked in giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Amy, what are you doing here" he asked her. She looked at him and smiled, "I am gonna stay here with your mom while your out, with the panzers tonight" she said and put her hand on his shoulder. He then looked at his watch again it was 6 only another hour before the rumble started at the park. "I gotta go mom sorry" he walked to his mom gave her a kiss on the cheek then kissed Amy on the lips and walked out the door and toward the warehouse again. He walked down the ally but as he did he seen Panzers all over the allyway, some were on the roofs, car roofs and sitting on brick walls. He entered the warehouse again and walked to the back room, "Ok man I am ready" he said taking out his pipe. Jiver smiled and got up pushing his chair to the ground, "Lets go get these fu**ers!" with that Rembrandt, Jiver and the rest of the panzers ran to the park where 30 Eliminators were waiting for the rumble to start.
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Chapter 7: The rumble
Once Rembrandt got to the park, there were people everyware, Panzers on one side and Elminators on one side. There were cars parked all over and you could hear the rattleing of chains, the swictch of blades and talking and coughing of the 2 gangs. Rembrandt clutched his pipe strongly watching the Eliminators stare down all the panzers. Just then Jiver stepped forward as well as the Electric Eliminators leader stepped forward as well, they were in the middle of the 2 gangs. "This is for fu**ing with our tags and everything else Panzie!" the Eliminator said snarling at Jiver. Jiver laughed and smiled at the guy "ya well this is for killing some of our panzers!!!" he said and then swong at the eliminator connecting with the guys face and sending him to the ground. Then the two gangs collided like an old fashion warrior battle from the 16th centery. Person after person was getting thrown to the ground and puched out. Just then Rembrandt felt a kick in the leg, he reered around with his pipe and connected with someones skull, a splurt of blood hit Rembrandts face, he wiped if off as another Eliminator jumped him sending him to the ground, 2 more jumped on top of Rembrandt pummeling him with shots to the stomach and face then one of the eliminators head busted as he fell limp to the ground Jiver was standing over him and smashed him with a board. He helped Rembrandt up as another guy went to punch Jiver from behind Rembrandt took out his spray and sprayed him in the eyes, the eliminator fell to the ground in pain as Rembrandt jumped and stomped on the eliminators head. A panzer ran toward Rembrandt but got hit with a knife to the throte, the panzer fell to the ground twiching as the blood poured out of the wound. The eliminator grabbed the knife and ran towards Rembrandt. Just then Jiver jumped over top a body that had fallen and grabbed the eliminator but the arms the guys squirmed to get away but it dident last long, Rembrandt hit the guy over the head with a pipe sending blood and skull matter flying in the air. "Come on man!" he heard an Eliminator say, Rembrandt looked at the Eliminators they were running away!. Just then he felt a sharp pain in the lower part of his back and he fell to the ground, he reached around and pulled out a knife, he just got stabbed by an Eliminator at least it dident hit any vital organs he thought to himself.
He took the knife and got up slowly, he ran to one of the cars and stood up on it watching the chaos that was unfolding, he could see some of the panzers were down as well some were dead. He seen Jiver still taking on the leader of the Elminators, then Jiver got hit from the back as he fell to the ground the leader of the eliminators took a sledge hammer extended it over his head and smashed it on Jivers head. Brain matter, pieces of skull and blood covered the ground. "JIVER!!!!" Rembrandt screamed as he ran to Jivers side, then he seen the leader going to hit him to, Rembrandt took out the knife and before the leader could hit him, he stuck him with the knife in the stomach, the leader dropped the sledge hammer to the ground and fell to his knees. Rembrandt got up and took the sledge in his hands with one swift motion in connected with the leaders skull smashing it. The leader fell to the ground. Just then sirens were heard, and both gangs scatterd, Rembrandt went to run but he looked down at Jiver, "I am sorry brother" he said as he started to run back to his house.
When he got near his house he was shocked that he almost passed out, the window was broken as well as the door, "Mom! Amy!" he said as he ran toward the door, when he entered he seen it was a blood bath. His mom was on the ground two bullet holes were in her head, Rembrandt almost fainted. "Oh my god no!" he said and fell to the ground crying, when he looked up he seen Amy, she was sitting on the chair her throte had been slashed. "No!" he said still half on the ground, just then an Elminator came out of the kitchen. "Why Hello Rembrandt 77" he said smiling at Rembrandt who was on the floor still. "This is just payback you little shithead for hurting my brother!." He said and walked toward the door he stopped and looked back. "By the way little man, I called the cops they are on there way" the elminator smiled and ran away. Rembrandt got up still crying he ran to his room and grabbed some clothing and his spray paint he had to get out of here before the cops came he thought to himself he put it all in his backpack, he walked back into the living room and looked at him mom and Amy, "I am sorry" he said and started to cry again. He ran out the door and down the allyways toward the subway. He had to get far away as possible. He walked into the subway station and looked at the train scedual the only train was leaving in 2 minutes to Cony Island. He wiped his eyes and entered the train. He dident know what he was gonna do when he got to Cony but at least he would be safe from the fuzz. When the train stopped day was just breaking, he walked out of the train and out of the subway and was immidatly welcomed the view of the sea. He walked to the edge and contimplated about jumping he then collapsed on the dock from all the blood loss and the stress. The only think he rememberd was a guy helping him up who had a turban like hat on.
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Chapter 8: The Warriors
When Rembrandt came to he was in a warehouse on a couch, he got up quickly. His vision was blurry but he could make out a shape of a person standing over him, "Hey young blood take it easy, your safe man" he could here, he fell back to the couch and passed out again. When he awoke his vision was better and he could see someone playing a pinball machine, it was a guy wareing a leather vest that said The warriors on it with a skull with 2 wings. The guy looked at Rembrandt "Hey man your awake" the guy said walking over to the couch, Rembrandt sat up. "Whats your name man" the guy said holding out a glass of water for him. "Name is Trevor Grant. People just call me Rembrandt" he said taking a sip, the guy nodded "Nice to meet you, my name is Swan" he said and sat down on the chair beside him. "How long have I been out" Rembrandt asked. Swan looked at the floor then sank back into the chair. "you been out for about a week, man what happend?" swan asked him. Rembrandt then rememberd his mom and Amy he wanted to cry but held back the tears as he looked at the ground, "Those Fu**in Eliminators killed the people I cared about" as he said it the tears flowed down his face. Swan frowned and put his hand on his shoulder, "Look man some of the Warriors are coming here tonight. They wanna meet you and maby we could plan some revenge on them". Rembrandt looked up with half a smile. Swan nodded to him and got up leaveing the warehouse, Rembrandt fell back onto the couch and looked around. With the saddness and everything else he drifted off to sleep.
When Rembrandt woke up he was surrounded by 8 guys in leather vests, Swan was sitting in front of him. "hey little man I want to introduce you to the warriros. Swan pointed at one warrior who had a turban like hat on his head, "This is Cleon he is the group leader.", Swan then pointed to a guy who was kinda sitting away from the group, "This is Ajax he is hardcore muscle in this group, he can act like a di** at times to" Swan and the group laughed. "Eat sh** pus**" Ajax said holding up the middle fingure. Swan proceeded to point out the rest of the warriors. Rembrandt looked at all of them "nice to meet you all" he said. Cleon got up and sat beside Rembrandt, "yo little man can you tell us what went on?" Rembrandt nodded. "Well I am from Brooklin, and I got into graffiti about a year ago. I was accepted into the panzers, well the panzers were never liked by the Electric Eliminators and one day they decided to have a huge rumble at the park. Making a long story short my mentor mom and Girlfriend were all killed" Rembrandt looked down. Swan looked up at Cleon making eye contact and nodding. "dont worry little man they will pay" Cleon said snapping his fingures and with that the fox nodded and ran out of the warehouse. Swan put his hand on Rembrandts back, "You need a place to stay?" Swan asked, Rembrandt shook his head "nah I can just crash here". Swan smiled "Man this is just the hangout we warriors have our own appartments some of us still live at home actually". "and some of us live with hookers" added Snowball pointing at Ajax. Ajax stood up, "what you want some of this!" Ajax said holding out his arms. "Both of you two shut up!" Cleon yelled, "You can stay in my appartment I got an extra bed little man" Cleon said, Rembrandt nodded, "thanks guys". The fox came back into the warehouse, "All right the guys said the would be up for it" he said talking to Cleon. Rembrandt looked up knowing what they were planning and smiled a bit. Swan then yahned a bit and got up, "Well I am outta here". Cleon nodded and got up to and pointed to Rembrandt "Come on little man lets go". Rembrandt got up and followed Cleon out the warehouse door, Rembrandt looked at all the lights and old buildings but what caughed his eye was -The Wonder Wheel-. Cleon seen Rembrandt look at everything, "This is our turf man, Cony Island our home. We took it from the Destroyers a while ago" Rembrandt nodded still walking and watched some bum's fighting in the allyway, he laughed and followed cleon to an old appartment building. They entered and Rembrandt sat down on Cleons couch. "Well little man I am gonna go to bed its been a long day and dont worry about anything were gonna hit those Eliminators hard" Cleon smiled walked into one of the rooms and shut the door. Rembrandt looked around noticeing the empty beer bottles all over, the half eatin boxes of pizza and the sounds of sirens outside. He shrugged and layed down trying to think about things but slowly he fell asleap.
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Excelent! Very well written and theres just something very personal about it
Exciting too towards the end.

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Thanks I am still working on it I am up to chapter 4 now.
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Cool Story wish I could type a story about Cowboy but I'm not that talented but anyway Awesome Story please write more!
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Chapters 3, 4 and 5 have been added enjoy 

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That is pretty cool....keep it up! 8)
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more chapters posted, I am almost finished the story. 

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Dude that was really good and a awsome story well well done!!!!!!!!! :D :D
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I totally love the ending.
Overall, great story.
Well done.
Overall, great story.
Well done.
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Great story Please write more as soon as possible.
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Haha thanks I would love to write a book someday. By the way Chapter 8 has been posted stay tuned for Chapter 9: Eliminators Eliminated and Chapter 10: New blood 

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It was nice and long and everything But what I didn't like is that you got soooo into amy it was more like A love story you got way to into it which made it bad for me, with the kissing on the cheek I mean i'm not like against all the romance and stuff but it doesn't belong in A story of The Warriors you get me nuff of the kiss cheek, lips, passionate love or whatever it just doesn't belong in this type of story you abused it. no offense other then that it was a great story.
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Since when are you a fuckin' diplomat?
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Ya but I needed something to show dramatic it is when she gets killed off thats why I put it in.
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dude i luv wat u did here its awesome true warrior classic i really got into it!!!! when are u gonna write sum more i would luv 2 read some more???!!!!!????