DOG FIGHT

It was a very unpleasant night, a guy in a black hoodie enters a building through the fire exit. A half constructed building. As he keeps walking, the distinct noise of gun firing increases. It felt like a warzone but inside a 20 floor half constructed building.

He kept moving until the sound became clearer than ever. He had a dagger in his hand and was acting pretty calm. He pushed open the door and as he enters……

5 Months ago…

The scene of a very largely spread ground. Large trees can be spotted in the background. A van with the logo ”Butcher and co.” on it’s door. Two men sat on the door smoking a cigar while a man in army colored vest stood behind a rock with a sniper gun in his hand.

They were out hunting. The man made sounds from his mask which after a little wait attracted a young brown bear. As the bear approached -”Bamm”, sounded the gun and the bear laid motionless. The echo was like a thunder.

The hunter sent one of his assistants to bring the bear over. As he went there, he holded the still young bear in his hands but the binoculars saw something else– A huge 10 ft brown bear marching towards the man. It took him one hit to slam the assistant paralysed and covered in blood on the ground. But, the sniper again made the sound from his mask inviting the bear towards him.

The bear marched towards him in pure agony. He prepared his gun and aimed right at it’s head. As the bear came closer…he fired the shot but, the gun got stuck and so bullet never got released but the bear instead hit the man with it’s muscular arm so hard it felt like he flew. He fell exactly 6-7 steps from the bear and now covered in dust with a broken mask he unveils himself.

He’s the President of the Bison Butchers and Co. Micheal Bison. One of the assistant talks about shooting the bear to help him but his personal assistant Henry calmly asks them to let Micheal have some fun. He fearlessly takes out the dagger from his shoe pocket and charges at the bear. He lunges at it and stabs it’s eye with the dagger letting the blood shower. The bear growls and he takes out the dagger to put it again in it’s nose. The bear, aggressive than ever before, throws him in the river near the van. He gets up and makes a final move, which is to cut off its fingers and get the knife through its throat.

The bear finally gives up and lies unconscious there showing no movement. Micheal(covered in blood) asks Henry to get a machete to get the bear’s head which he would keep in his office. He then lights a cigarette and moves towards the main vehicle. As the vision zooms out we see the whole park. ”It’s his private park which he got from the government for wildlife conservation in the island of Vedna”,said Henry to the newly joined assistant.

Michael sits in the second Range rover out of the 5 which move together. They cross the tunnel and the visuals transition to young Michael who is going to visit his grandfather who is on his deathbed.”You shall serve the throne of this empire, until he comes back from his exile.”

“Everything happens for a purpose and he is serving his own for the good of the company.Even if he returns, he shall serve you until you are breathing.”

“But one thing, the drugs business shall remain a secret at all cost.”

Michael stood there on one knee listening to all the commands after which he comes out of the room, but this time with power and control.

He looked at the vast spread port, the slaughter house and the factory at least which was visible to the world. He glanced at it and said”Henry, we shall dive deeper into the animal-bone drugs business”. As it was their golden-egg laying hen.

From that day, as the secret business expanded it presented Bisons more like an illegal company but with all the legal authorities which a powerful company would have.The government, the manpower, the respect, the global presence all was with them. Nobody could suspect what was going on behind those closed factory doors.

A few moments later…

We are seeing a vet doctor who’s at the beach with his pet bulldog. He likes calling him….well nothing that’s because he’s mute. He walks back to his house with a smile on his face. “Namaste Shekhar saab”, said the shop owner as he passed by. He gets home and gets ready for work. He gets his dog with him and goes to his vet clinic. He’s a veterinary doctor and a respected one in the town.

In the afternoon, he goes to rescue one of the dogs in the town which is said to have caught rabies. The aggressive dog barks at him but yet he covers its face andtakes it to his shelter. “He handles many such cases everyday and has a good handle over such cases”, said his assistant or his close friend Samdhish. He is a vegetarian as he promotes his ideology among the people which is why he is a lazy target for the police commissioner who along with his men are funded by the Bisons and are unofficial employees.

He lives a simple life. No one knows about his past as he never could speak about it. In his life, he had no one except his dog who’s been with him for the last 8 years.Every weekends his dog and him go to the city mall to get essentials. But he never knew one such visit would change his life FOREVER.

It was a usual Sunday morning when the company left for the mall. They went past the grocery shop to the “Pet Zone”. But this time the shop said ”closed permanently” which was unusual as he hadn’t heard anything from the shop owner about this. He was just standing still until he noticed the same banner across 3 different shops in a row and also saw his dog running into one of them. He didn’t see him get into one which is why he was unsure about where he went which is why he went into one of the shops.

Accompanied with darkness, he kept going through until he heard something. Some weird assembling-cutting sounds from the inside. He kept going, which he shouldn’t have done. He heard is dog’s breathing sound from near the corner after which he went and grabbed him.But after that, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

All he saw was meat and flesh getting transported to a room. It seemedodd and as he was a member of AACS(anti animal cruelty society) he had to get photos to show to the committee and get this illegal shit banned. He started clicking and went deeper for it, and deeper, and now so deep he could see people scattering the bones out in a tray. This was even more suspicious.

He even saw Michael the Butcher Bison sitting along with his team discussing security. He talked about how low secured their secret bases were and how this could grow suspicion in the minds of the opposition. As he went on speaking, he felt something odd. He looked towards one of the carton boxes behind which Shekhar was hiding with his dog. But his bulldog won’t stop breathing. Michael analysed something and said” I’ll be back in a while”.

Shekhar stopped clicking. He just realised he’s come too deep into the trap and there is no way out. As he was wondering, he saw his dog go silent and he turned back to see what he’s missing and that’s when…..Michael was sitting there with a cigar in his mouth looking at them with a creepy smile.

The next scene is when Shekhar is kneeling on the ground with blood dripping from his mouth and his dog tied to a corner. Michael started, “huhh, security.” he looked towards Henry. “The people, we can’t stop them. They’ll keep appearing and we will have to do this again like last time”.”Unlike, he has a dog with him which is cute”.

“Kyu vet saab, couldn’t stay quite to your organisation?”. He then looks at his dog who had just come from his office. He goes to it and offers a treat. He says”I’ve only got one but I also gotta share it to yours too”. He gets a big machete to divide the bone treat which he keeps near Shekhar’s dog and as his dog gets close to have the treat. He swings the machete to divide the treat and so he does but, there was blood flowing from the treat. Shekhar was shocked by what he just saw. He gives the first half of the treat to his dog and drops the second one near the sliced head of Shekhar’s dog.

“He was all you had right?”, as he looks at the dead body of the dog without the head and nonstop blood flowing from it. Shekhar was speechless, watching his only reason to live getting slaughtered by a psycho rich man.

He is puzzled, tears running down his eyes and without uttering a single word it feels like his throat is going to explode. Seeing him cry, Michael says ”aah, throw him out alive and take whatever he’s left with”.

Shekhar is still into splits and barely gets a glance of his dead family member when guards carry him towards the exit gate. Things seem to blur for him while Michael gives hand signs to the employees which indicate “Slice it more”.