Chapter One:
A New Beginning
It was Summer Paradise, Ash was living in a small island called Malta at the time going to parties and the beach. While living there he decided to pursue his career as a mechanic by studying as an engineer where later on he graduated and found a local mechanic shop working part-time which made him some money here and there.
After summer, a good friend of Ash by the name of Andre was going to join the military and asked if he's willing to take the program with him. Ash was intrigued by the offer and decided to quit his job for the time being and accepted Andre's offer by serving 2 years in the military. Before his service, Ash was lost, his part time job was dead end and he had no idea where his life was going, however, during his service Ash learned how to discipline himself, he learned physical skills such as CQC Combat and how to use weaponry he's only seen in movies, but most importantly he found himself. After 2 years of service in the military, Ash was involved in an accident with a landmine that left him hospitalized and discharged from the military. After a few weeks he was let out of the hospital and advised to stay home and to rest. This left Ash broken and lost once again, sitting on sofa that is never shared, staring up at a TV that repeats the same shit every fucking day, it breaks you. The days all merged into each other, time started to become meaningless. One of those days seemed to be a little different, Ash woke up earlier than usual, he felt healthy and excited to get out of bed again. During this day Ash receives a phone call from his big brother Einaras that needed Ash to get on a plane quickly as possible to Los Santos due to heavy conflicts going on with the council there. He booked a flight for next morning that night to Los Santos and packed all his bags. He made a quick phone call afterwards to an old connection of his in Los Santos to import his favourite vehicle there which would be the Hakuchou Drag. The next morning, took a cup of coffee and immediately headed out to catch the flight.
After a 12 hour flight, Ash landed in Los Santos and headed to Einaras's property located near Weazel Plaza. Einaras was always the big man of the family where he controls the wealth and ensures safety. Once Einaras and Ash met up, obviously for old time sake popped a small glass of Shotka Vodka and cheered up together. Einaras explained some complications and disagreements going on with the council in the city, Ash always had Einaras back no matter what. Einaras always took care of the family and it was time for Ash to do the same, that's when the entire of BLATANS family was called to a meeting to form plans and attacks on the council. During these attacks COUNCIL suffered some assets and people, while BLATANS suffered as well. Ash and Einaras could see the bloodshed going on in the family and couldn't afford losing more people, that's when Einaras decided to hit up a close friend of his to setup a meeting with the council and after a long-time came to an agreement and neutrality would come in place.
Throughout the neutrality days, Ash heard a good old friend, Dante, came back to town from a long vacation. The next day he decided to hit him up and see if they could meet and catch up with one and another, Dante accepted and later on in the afternoon met at an old coffee shop in the city. Ash explained what happened while he was away and what he missed, Dante interrupts Ash for a second offering a business proposal to make huge cash-load involving drug distribution and money laundering. Ash liked the sound of that and instantly accepted the offer without any hesitation even with the risk that came along. At the dawn time Dante, Ash and Charlie (good friend of Dante) geared up and headed to meet up with Dante's supplier with utmost discreet to gather the supplies and ingredients. Happy to say the mission was successful and the three of us headed back to Dante's secret property.
We had one last ingredient which needed time to grow and that was Marijuana, the next morning Ash headed to [REDACTED] and started seeding a huge harvest for the operation with the appropriate light and equipment. Contrary to Ash's worries, the spot wasn't interrupted by anyone and over the next few days the marijuana plants grew to a healthy size. Ash, with the knife he used in his military days, cut the plants carefully and placed each plant in a spacious plastic bag. Once that was done, it was time to head back to the property and start the big cook!
The cookout was set for days, applying the correct ingredients and processing everything altogether with the correct formula. At some point, paranoia kicked in "What could go wrong", "What if we get caught?" but Ash remained strong and focused on the task. The drugs came out prosperous and later on that night Charlie and Ash met with the connection of the distribution that Dante enrolled them with near an old abandoned factory, where the drugs and money were exchanged, there were no complications whatsoever resulting in a rewarding payout. One last thing remaining was to launder the money which Dante could easily do through his legal gas station business. The cash was shared equally between the three of us approximately $193,333 each from the total of $580,320.
Ash had never seen this amount of money before, in so little time as well. Greed started to kick in and got Ash overly excited wanted to continue manufacturing loads of drugs. Greed isn't a healthy feeling, and Ash learned that the hard way alongside with Dante and Charlie...
"LSSD OPEN UP"
After the bust by LSSD, Ash was confined to 6 charges; Manufacturing illegal substances and contraband, Drug-Trafficking, Money-Laundering, Illegal Heavy Weaponry and Unlicensed Firearm and was sentenced to DOC prison for 8 years. Life was tough in prison, many thoughts went through his mind and he knew sooner or later this would happen. Ash stood strong and learned from the mistakes he committed and swore to himself that the future will be better. Meanwhile kept himself in shape and working out daily...
Ash served his jail sentence for 8 years with despair and sorrow. He decided yet again to get in touch with Dante to exactly know what went wrong and what could they have done better 8 years ago... Both of them realized they needed more man power and need to plan ahead for the worst. That's when Dante and Ash's partnership was built stronger than ever, forming a new group in town with the connections they both shared.
#FUCKTWELVE
Chapter 2; to be continued....
Credits of the pictures edits goes to: @A N G E L