The Dark Horse Page #2

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- Yeah.

How are you doing at

the moment, my male?

Good. Really good.

- I'm better.

- You're better?

You're banging on my bedroom window

at 4:
30 in the morning

'cause you want to join

a kids' chess club

and that's better?

These kids are f***ed

up enough as it is.

I can't rock their boat.

Sorry, Gen.

Glad you're feeling better.

Hey, look, I could help. I can help.

It's not even a real chess club, Gen.

It's just someplace for them to go.

Stability. Look at me. Stability.

Now, I'm going back to bed

'cause I got to be at work

in two f***in' hours, bro.

All right, I'll blend in.

You won't even know I'm there.

Stability. I got n.

Gen, no! No!

I'll help organise, do

the dishes, make teas.

We don't have tea.

I don't care. I'm...

No boat-rocking. I will

not rock the boat.

If I agree to this,

will you get off my bloody doorstep?

6:
00 p.m. tomorrow.

All right, my bro.

Good night, Gen.

Eastern Knights!

Gen! Shut up!

ATM'?

ATM'?

What are you doing?

I got to O-

You were once a chess champ, eh?

The Dark Horse?

You know you shouldn't really

go through other people's things.

Yeah, you shouldn't leave them

in other people's rooms.

How come you stopped playing?

Dad's home.

Where you been?

Drive to f***in' Hamilton or something?

Sorry. I've left your

keys right there, okay?

No, no, you wait around.

I want to talk to you.

Mana, come out back. Blood's here.

You coming?

Hey, Boss.

Thanks for coming, my brother.

You know my boy.

Birthdays coming up.

Fifteen.

Been thinking.

He's ready.

I want him in.

Some ain't right for it, eh?

He is.

This what you want, boy?

Yeah.

Old time's sake, my brother?

Old time's sake.

You want him done on his birthday?

Right.

- Mutt.

- Yeah?

Boy's all yours now. Harden him up.

We ain't patching no child.

Sweet as, bro.

Moment of truth now, boy?

Sweet.

Be seeing you soon, eh, boy?

ATM'?

You wanted to talk to me?

Murray!

Rusty! Rusty! Murray?

- Hey, bro, can I have a turn?

- No.

- No! No! You can't!

- I said please.

Don't break the table, all right?

You do it every week.

Don't you break it.

I'll break your face!

Thank you for doing

what I said not to do.

Calm down.

Calm down! Rusty.

Come on, you fellas, calm down.

Shut up!

Thank you, Nathan!

All right, everyone, sit down, please.

- I'll take you to...

- Murray, Murray!

Boys, I told you, sit down.

Okay, so, you fellas who haven't had a

meal, there's some milk up there for you.

And we've got a new member today.

Genesis Potini.

Or, as he was once

called, The Dark Horse.

- Dark Pony!

- Nice hair, bro!

Thank you very much, Rip.

Thank you very much.

We're gonna do some

quick introductions,

and when I say quick, I mean quick.

So, Jedi, you want to kick us off, bro?

Kia or a, bro.

I'm Jedi.

- The Stallion.

- The gelding.

I'm the club DJ here,

so if you got any requests,

send them this way.

Even if I was 40 years old,

I wouldn't listen to your sh*t.

Now, stop it.

And my special power would be...

- No.

- ...ladies' man.

- No special power.

- I want a special power.

All right, you can have one.

Everyone can have one special power.

Kia or a, bro!

I'm Rusty,

and my special power will be

to jump to the moon and colonize it.

- Kia or a.

- Kia or a, Rusty.

I'm Piripi.

I don't really have a special power.

- Come on.

- I'm Rangimarie.

I'm from Awapuni,

and if I had a superpower,

it would be to fly to America,

meet Usher, bring him back to Gizzy,

and make him have my babies.

HEY-

- You'd have his babies.

- Cut it out.

My name is Murray. If I had a superpower,

it would be invisible and super strength.

- Can only have one.

- No, only one.

Fine, I pick super strength.

I'm Nathan. My special power

would be playing music.

Kia or a, bro.

- My name's Rip.

- Rip!

And if I had a superpower,

I'd have to go with being

like Tumatauenga, the god of war,

so I can, like, beat all you fellas up,

smash you all.

Yeah. Kia or a. Thank you.

Thank you, now.

- I'm talking, bro.

- You can't smash me, I'll smash you.

- Sit down. Sit down.

- Kia or a, Gen.

Kia or a.

I'm Sandy,

and I'm gonna get the invisibility

that Murray gave away

so that I can hide from all of you

when you talk too much.

Especially you!

- Whatever! You love us!

- I got a special power.

My special power is, I'm the milky man.

All right! All right.

And lastly...

Hi, everyone.

I am of the Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti clan.

My name is Genesis Potini.

And...

My special powers, yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

I'm gonna lead you all

to the National Chess Championships

up in Auckland

in six weeks' time!

Outside.

Nobes...

Gen, what are you doing?

Positivity. Wait, wait!

I'm trying to give

them some positivity.

- They've already got something positive.

- No, that's not...

They don't even have

decent chess sets, cuz.

Gen, listen to me.

I have thought about this,

and I know it will work.

- You thought about it?

- Yes.

- Thought about them?

- Yes, yes.

Who you just met tonight?

Who you don't even know

whether they can even play!

Yeah.

Gen!

I can help them.

They'll have a purpose.

They need a purpose, a focus.

Who knows what'll happen?

I know what will happen.

You'll rev them up

with some new and exciting idea,

then you're gonna go off the rails,

and we're not gonna see you again.

They don't need some big,

delusional tournament.

They don't even have parents.

Just f***in' gangs and jails.

They're not even around.

They need people

who are gonna show up, Gen.

Stability!

- Cuz...

- Go!

Shut up, everyone!

No rocking the boat.

Not supposed to... Don't rock the boat!

Nana'?

Where's he been tonight?

You think you're his

f***in' mummy now, eh?

F***in' retard.

You f***in' pisshead, eh?

Too much!

You want a sash, man'!?

You want a drink, you soft cock?

Come on, sis.

ATM'?

Beer, bro?

No. No, no.

I know things have been hard on you,

my bro.

Been hard on me, too.

You understand?

Mutt...

He said you took Mana out last night.

No, he followed me, bro.

I don't want it happening again.

He's got to be a man

now, got to be strong.

I can't have you messing with his head.

No, I would never do that, bro.

That's the last thing I want.

That's 1,000 bucks, bro.

Go and get a place of your own.

No. What about the ward, bro?

I'll tell the ward what

you want 'em to know.

As long as you respect

what I'm asking, bro.

Get on the dole.

Start your own life.

I can't do anything more for you now,

my brother.

When I was really sick...

I'd see you.

Back when we were little kids.

You'd put your hand on my shoulder,

and you'd say,

We'll be all right, bro.

Everything will be alright."

You're gonna be all right, eh?

You're gonna just buy me out

just like that, eh?

That's how it's gonna be, man.

You think that's good?

That's how you want to do it?

That's how you want to leave it?

I just have to find a purpose.

A traitor? A Judas? Why?

What was it about?

Michael!

You want to go inside, bro?

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