Just a couple of blocks from Colin Tower, a fight comes crashing from inside the doors of 'The Fellow Hoodlum'...
Damien, returning from speaking to the lanlord of one of the employee housing blocks, hears the scuffle & the shouts & runs up the street in a dart, as a throng of people form a curious circle around two combatants.
The fighters end their scuffle as one brawler pulls a gun, takes his aim, & murders the unarmed other.
The shocked onlookers can only take a moment to stare, as blood flows downhill into the gutter, flowing from a headwound resting at the feet of (as of this very moment) a condemned killer.
A fair number of onlookers submit to an instant rage, & rush the bloody victor.
As four former spectators hold the guilty party down, two others take the liberty of breaking his nose, eye-socket, etcetera, untill Damien comes crashing into the spectator circle at full gallop, making a hole.
"STOP!!" he snarles, while violently ripping the two agrressors off the man.
Damien stands between the doomed, & the angry mob, and paces back & forth furiously panting for breath in an extremely horace rasp.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" he screams at them in rage.
"YOU ALL KNOW BETTER THAN THIS!!"
His words crash into the group of onlookers with a sound so low on the register, that it disapates a portion of the crowd as they decide to walk away & return to their own affairs.
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A couple of minutes later, after Beergarden security arrived, & a large number of statements have been made, Damien again continues to pace back & forth. Calmly this time, but still pacing nonetheless. He addresses the six men who originally leapt onto the guilty party, & is beside himself with disapointment.
Glaring at each & every one of them in turn, he turns on his heels & walks a few feet away to grab the murderer by the scruff of his coat, as he's being attended by a medic.
He forcefully leads him back to where the other six men are standing, & pushes the bloodied man to the ground.
'S**t, I hope I know what I'm doing...' Dimi thinks to himself as he orders:
"ON YOUR FEET LITTLE MAN!"
He reaches down & again grabs the scruff of the guy's coat, & roughly helps him to his feet...& Dimi stares venom at the nervous man with his blood filled eyes.
"You ever been here before?" he angrily barks. '.......' "ANSWER ME!" 'yes!!' he replies...his nevousness quickly being replaced by fear.
"Then you know the rule don'tcha?" '.....' "SAY IT!"
'Don't be a fool, follow the Golden Rule!!' the murderer patheticaly repiles, turning away from McEwan's gaze, & liberally begining to sob & wet himself.
"...Yes."
"There are multiple people, including myself, who witnessed this whole thing tonight..." Dimi continues...
"Bottom line: In the heat of the moment, you took the time to pull out your gun, took more than a second to aim, & killed an unarmed man in cold blood..."
"Around here, we consider that pre-meditated murder."
Without hesitation, or a second thought, McEwan draws his own gun & murders the murderer, as a wave of blood & gray matter spatters onto the onlooking six.
Resuming his back & forth pace, Dimi breathes through his nose & returns to glaring at the group of men, each in their turn, allowing fear & the gravity of the moment crush them with the subtlety of a tzunami.
"As fer you lot..." he addresses, "Four of you held the guy down. Normally, that would warrant a free drink...but after these other two stepped over the line & started beatin' on him...y'all CONTINUED to hold him down."
"The way I see it, all you guys need to learn a lesson or two"
Damien walks over to one of the security guards standing off to one side & shares a few words.
After a couple of moments, along with a number of agreeable nods & mumbles from both sides, the security guard turns away & approaces the group of six & places them under arrest.
With the signal given, the surrounding guards swoop in to take custody of them all.
"You all are hereby sentenced to 24-hours of payback. The six of you will recieve four beatings each, in the same manner that you are guilty of yourselves." the head security officer officially states to them unapologetically.
The men are escorted down the road towards the Downs valley, & into the gates of Arena 66.