Chapter 207 - 207 Last Man Standing (12)

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Endings can be beautiful too, like the sunset, but some things do not necessarily have a happy ending. ---- From the movie Through Night and Day​​

"Can you do it, Louie Chen?" Francois asks him, their eyes are all gaze upon him as he went to daze upon hearing the instructions of the next event. "Louie... Louie... Earth calling Louie! Louie Chen!" Luna yelled and Harry taps his shoulder. Louie was brought back from his senses when he heard a familiar voice that he misses so much. "I'm sorry," says Louie. "I'll do it" he added as he took his seat at the assigned table and chair for him, wherein Artemis was on his right and Soteira on his left. 

Louie sigh deeply as he stared at the food in front of him, he can endure drinking the tequilas without the salt and lime but eating spicy chicken feet will be his first. He was not used to eating foods like this although he has a recollection that Luna likes it very much. 

Eros and the other three right-hand guys were busy preparing everything on each table when Kim and Ethan barge inside the torture room. They are now awake and the first thing they've search was Louie to the person who is staying by their side. Ethan and Kim were shocked to see the food in front of Louie, they both knew that he was not used in eating some street and exotic foods because Sofia also doesn't like it but Luna and Wu's triplets like it very much as the four of them consider it as their comfort food during their University days. 

"Luna will choose on what brand on Tequila that you are going to drinks first. You can only drink it by pouring it on an eight-ounce drinking glass and you have to drink it in one gulp" Ryder informs them for he already got a text message from Dimitri regarding the change of plans about their tradition. Rosela went back to her sear while Pearl ushered Ethan and Kim in a separate table facing Louie who is seated at the center. Pearl sat beside Kim for she will serve as security if ever they tried to do something to save Louie. 

Louie already saw his friends when they suddenly barged in, it's just that he didn't take a glance at them for he was listening to Dimitri and Ryder's instructions and he also doesn't want them to see the bruises and cuts on his face.

"Pearl what is happening right now" Kim ask the lady beside him, Ethan suddenly look at the side where Pearl is sitting and his looks seem demanding enlightenment for what is happening to their friend. "Change of plans. Lady Luna decided to have the last part of the event to be done earlier than usual. And it seemed that your friend can't fight anymore because of the bruises on his whole body, his endurance and stamina seemed defeated already for the first two fights" Pearl told them. "This event is called 'drink till you can't handle it' and the three will have to drink all those Tequilas without the help of the salt and a slice of lime, the spicy chicken feet will be the only help they can have if they can't take the bitter taste of the drink. They will have to drink everything and bottoms up, the Tequilas brands are Tapatio Blanco, El Tesoro Reposado Tequila, Milagro Select Barrel Reserve Reposado, Pasote Extra Añejo Tequila, and Tres Agaves Anejo. They will have two bottles each and the bosses can randomly select what will be the first up to the last bottle, Artemis and Soteira were used to this kind of thing and I hope your friend can last till morning" Pearl explained to them. 

Ethan: "So they still have to eat the spicy chicken feet?"

Pearl nodded, "It looks like Lady Luna knows that you three don't like to eat foods like that, just what happened a while ago with you Mr. Ethan Li. You passed out a while ago before you can eat the gizzards and the fried frogs, in HADES FAMILY you must learn how to eat exotic foods for it is one of the comfort foods of everyone and even the twins like to eat the chicken feet."

Kim and Ethan look at each other, as they are communicating through their minds. "If you want to become Princess Rosela's boyfriend you have to accept everything about the HADES. No one must be left behind, that's one of our mission and vision for it was Lady Luna's rule. If you can't do everything that the HADES are doing you better back out now Mr. Ethan Li" Pearl speaks up to them. 

Then suddenly Kim looks at her....he cupped her face with his two-hand as his left arm was bandage to protect it from infections due to the stick and poke tattoo. Kim looks at Pearl straight to her eyes and said "I am willing to accept everything, everything about the HADES FAMILY and even every torture you will give to me. If that will be the way of showing to you and to your family that my feelings and intentions for you are true and pure." Pearl just smiled at him, "Take off your hands off my face if you don't want my brothers to chop it off" she said to him as she looks at him and told him to look where the other right-hand men are sitting. Eros and Ares are already giving him a murderous look, Hermes was already cracking his knuckles and the two who are seated at the center are staring daggers on him. Kim immediately retrieves his hand on Pearl's face, "I'm sorry" he apologizes to her immediately. 

"I'm quite bored, Luna Darling can we play some music for the boys will have the courage to drink" Rosela's voice suddenly speaks up as she gave Luna a look of puffy eyes. Luna laughs, "Xavi please play the music from the I Pod that the twins' prepared a while ago. Xavi stands up and went to where the I Pod is located and he operates it and played the music. The song "Another One Bites the Dust" by the Queen was heard, "The twins' like the music sung by the Queen" Jamil said as he moves his head back and forth as the sound of the rhythm of the song was heard. 

"Listen to the next song, they also like it as they always played it during the HADES training" Dimitri informed Jamil as the song Believer was heard. "You may start now, as you can see you have ten bottles on the table. Five different brands of Tequila but it was times two" Dimitri added. 

Luna: "Tres Agaves Anejo. You will drink Tres Agaves Anejo, Milagro Select Barrel Reserve Reposado, Pasote Extra Añejo Tequila, Tapatio Blanco, and El Tesoro Reposado Tequila. In between each bottle, you will eat spicy chicken feet with dark soy sauce which I cooked and prepared."

Artemis and Soteira smiled as they love the spicy chicken feet with dark soy sauce that their Lady Boss always cooked every time they have a hard training and missions. On the other table, Louie just sighs as this will be his first time eating such food, but for Luna, he was willing to do it. Then Ares went to their table and he opened the first two bottles of Tequila and gave a plate of spicy chicken feet. Then Ares poured equal amounts of Tequila on their eight-ounce glass. "Goodluck Louie Chen, those two are the monster when it comes to this kind of matter," Ares told him.

Then the song by Marshmello & Anne-Marie - FRIENDS was heard and with that signal, they have begun to drink the first two bottles of Tequila. At first, Louie can't take the bitter taste of the drink for they don't have salt and lime or lemon, but when he saw the other two that they treat the Tequilas like they are just drinking water he shook his head. After on his six glass, he has begun to feel drowsiness and he began to eat the food on the plate, as he ate and licks his hand as he didn't know how to eat it. Artemis saw it and puts down the glass and began to eat the food as he wants to show to Louie how to eat the spicy chicken feet, Louie saw it and observes him on how to eat it and he began to follow as what Artemis was doing. Louie enjoyed eating the chicken feet as he tastes the sweetness and the spicy sauce of the chicken that compliments on the drinks that they are having, he even licks his fingers. 

Ethan: "I don't know if he is enjoying drinking or eating?"

Kim: "Pearl my Love...Can we also taste those spicy chicken feet? It looks like what he eats is very delicious and tasty."

Pearl raise her right eyebrows, she was very amused for what they have just said to her. "Later I'll ask Big Brother Eros to give you some of that food so that you will know the taste of it. Aren't you guys don't eat foods like that? All of you have, the Wu triplets and Lady Luna studied in the same University but the four of them are well-versed on street foods."

Ethan: "Sofia is not fond of eating street foods, that's why Louie, Kim and I together with Sofia's friend we usually eat on fancy restaurants and we all find it weird for Luna and the Wu triplets to be engrossed on eating such foods like that. But the way Louie licks his fingers right now.....I can see that the food is very delicious.