”This is my stop.” The fat Chinese man said before his grubby hand reached for his wallet. Josie watched through the rear view mirror. Her eyes narrowed when she saw a spider web tattoo peak from the sleeves on in his right arm. She hit the pedal to the metal and the car jolted and shot off, down the road again. The man yelped as he his head snapped back and hit the back seat. She drove off the curb and headed right back out into traffic. She was going at neckbreaking speed, dodging cars and switching lanes with violent jerking motions. Each time her passenger was flung this way or that way. She was using the interior of the car and its momentum like a weapon. The front of her dashboard looked like a small temple with all its candlewax and pantheon figures glued to it. Charms and and prayer slips hung around her head with little strings. The back on the other hand, was devoid of all such things. ”What the f-” He began but the woman cut him off sharply as she turned the car at neckbreaking speed. ”Shut up fatso.” Her voice was cold and her eyes blazed with something otherwordly. The man had not been able to get the seatbelt back on and was flung to the side from the sharp turn. His nose made a crunching noise as it hit metal. ”Ow, shit! My nose!” ”S-stop you insane b-” She hit the break and cut him off once again by making him fly forward, right into her fist. She snapped it back and as if to give him the finger, driving her knuckles right on the broken nose. As he wheezed and wailed, she got out of the car, now parked on some office parking lot. She opened the door and dragged the heavyset man out of the cab and onto the cold hard pavement kicking him in his substantial belly. ”Rank and function.” She asked coldly as she stared down at him. ”W-what?” He stuttered. ”I need to see a hospital, please.” ”The Tattoo. The Web of the Jade Spider Triads. What's your rank and function.” She said as she fished out a 9mm from her waist band. ”Oh... Who are you running with.” His demenour suddenly changed. From confused and outraged, to cold and arrogant. Thinking she was a fellow criminal like him he pressed on. ”I am with the Triads yeah. You fucking got it you sh-” She let a bullet miss him by a mere inch. He stopped talking. ”I am my own. I just don't like you guys. You hurt people I cared about. You turned the place I live into a shit stain. I will use you to send a message." His eyes grew wide as she threw the gun away. ”But I am not gonna execute you in cold blood.” She said as she put her hands up in muy thai guard, raising one knee infront of her. White and purple flames rose about her feet and fists. ”If you want to go to a hospital so bad, I will put you in one." The Chinese man rose, his eyes narrowing as he stared at her. He put his hands up in a fighting stance. The uncertainy washed away by rage and the fact that he actually knew how to fight. When he moved, it was lightning fast for a guy his size. He moved at such suprising speed the thunderous open palm strike that hit the side of her head was a blur. She didn't have time to roll with it and her head spun from the impact. ”I am Charlie Lautzu, I am a lieutenant in the Jade Spider Triad. I would like to know the name of the woman I am about to kill.” His hands glowed a faint green. Like many of the Jade Spiders, he possesed some magic of his own. She spat out a little blood, she was too careless. ”You can call me... The Cabbie.” They clashed. --------2 hours later-------- ”Geez. You look pretty bad.” Hernandez winced as he put a pack of ice onto the side of her bruised face. She didn't wince, so Hernandez winced for both of them. Her eyes was fixed on a bullet hole in the wall of his apartment. This was a bad part of town, she knew. ”Should've seen the other guy.” She scoffed and sucked up soup through a straw. Her teeth hurt a bit from the bitch slap from hell she had received two hours earlier. The soup and Hernandez icepack was heaven however, and she had come out on top. That was all that mattered for now. “I rather not. From what I hear, a man turned up at the hospital with collapsed cheekbones, nose and several teeth missing. That's only what you did to his face.” Hernandez said as he began to sew the cut above her eyebrow. She didn't even flinch. “Could you hurry up? I got to take the cab to the airport. Bunch of flights coming in today for the big boxing match. Bunch of wasted white fratboys gonna be real good tippers.“ She did flinch when he was done and checked her jaw with a gentle prodding. That slap had really got her good. “Yeah sure. You are good to go.” He said as he sat up. “Not like I could stop you anyway.”