AT GUN POINT AND OTHER STORRIES
By Goldenmind
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AT GUN POINT
Brief résumé; when a top secret gunman is assigned to assassinate a Multi Billionaire, he starts up by watching his target closely. Least does it occur to him that he is not the only gunman involved,
Watch out; not too familiar words used in some parts of this story, Check out the Grocery at the end of the story,
1 Strange feeling
By the shores of Lake Medina, about some 1200 meters away from the city of San Medina in woodland, near a very thick forest reserve, Stamper stood staring at the action of a few species of brightly colored fishes.
The rays of the evening sun were still penetrating almost completely into the shallow water of Lake Medina. The banks of the lake were made up of plants with the most beautiful flowers ever.
Once a swimming pool to a good number of the inhabitants of San Medina, but derelict now for close to a decade because of the mystery behind the disappearance of eight swimmers, all of whom were students, to an outlandish creature. This creature whose body is flat dorsa-ventrally feeds on other animals including man by engulfing them.
A barb wired fence was built all-around the lake premises and a large iron gate with a notice board carrying the phrase
“Keep Out - Danger Zone”
at the entrance. An old tarred road covered by grass and light vegetation, leaving a foot path that was kept alive by a single man; Stamper!
Patrick Stamper looked at his watch; 6.30 pm the time .. sun sets completely, giving room to darkness which now was overshadowing the daylight. Nature is implausible, he murmured to himself, lost in thoughts.
Even when he could no longer see beneath the lake, Stamper stood pondering still. Then came an eccentric feeling, the one he would always have when about to hit a jackpot. It felt as if the whole world were a grave yard to all his victims.
If there were possibilities for folks to meet after dead then they will collectively chop me up into the finest particles possible, Stamper told himself as he stretched out his arms widely and smiled. Then he pulled the cap on his overcoat and walked away.
As Stamper entered his small hut on the east side of the lake, he was certain about one thing, no one knew that he resided here. Truly no one would imagine that a human being could ever go near the lake premises after the incident of the eight students. This shelter of his was an abandoned building in which most of the swimmers used to change their attire.
In there, Stamper had his bed room and a living room where he planned most of his missions before carrying them out.
Right at the back of the room is Stamper’s wine cupboard, something that he never plays with for he likes non-vintage vodka and drinks it up just like water, what he calls fire water. He also likes champagne and these are the only drinks that he adores. In a drawer on the wine cupboard is his favorite cigarette; Benson. To the left of the room near a small window is his office. On the table of the office is a Pentium M laptop with a processor of two GHz. Core ii duo four GB of ram and two terabyte of hard disk drive, a printer machine, coupled with a scanner, and thirty-two GB of USB key with which he takes all the information that he needs from the internet. Stamper always gets adequate information about all his victims from the internet and stores it in his laptop, those that he murders and those whose identity he uses to move around and carry out his missions.
Found in the center of the room is Stamper’s couch, and just close to the couch is a large canteen which is partitioned into two chambers, one for weapons. A few grenades and several kinds of guns, such as rifles, Walters, revolvers and the strongest gun that humanity helped to build;”AK47” .
On the other side of the canteen, there are all sorts of identification papers like passports, ID cards, driver’s licenses, pilot’s licenses and professional cards. Materials for making false identification papers are also stored in here.
2 The Faithful Mafia
Behind a desk in his office at the Del-Amos hotel, sits the owner of the hotel; Mr. Dominick Amos, a man in his mid-forties. Tall and huge with slight grey hairs. He likes that champagne stuff and means business when he talks it. He likes going straight to the point in a conversation. This gentleman knows how flatter. He claims to be the faithful mafia. Amos goes to church every Sunday but deep inside, he is the green snake with the most poisonous venom. He also has a drug trafficking past.
Dominick Amos is a rich chap with part of his wealth inherited from his late father who was the owner of a petroleum refinery company. He is married with two kids; Danny Amos who is five years old, and a three year old little girl; Lilli Amos, “his heart”. He is often seen in place where pleasure is the deal with daddy’s little girl as he calls her.
Mrs. Amos is an indoor lady who likes checking to see if the mates do their quota correctly and spends leisure time watching a TV show or talking to a visitor if she does not go out to relax with her husband.
As the phone rang in Mr. Amos’s office, he picked it up. It was none other than the famous Auto dealer; Jason Speed who is a fair average height gentleman with dark hair and deep blue eyes. This folk sell all brands of cars in the world. A real street bastard and a former criminal collector and trainer, whose criminal mind is now fading into a well cultured gentle man but not until he receives a friend’s phone call - he is right behind Stamper’s activities again. Speedy also threw away all his past by changing his name from Randel Rolland to Jason Speed.
Mr. Speed is a man in his early thirties, married with a single kid Vanessa Speed who is just two years old. His wife is Mrs. Melinda Soya Speed.
“Oh! My old Friend, I was expecting your call. Did you talk to the undertaker of my job?” Amos went straight to the point. “I know it’s a little hard for you to put things together the way they used to be in the past but you have got to find someone quick”
“ Yeah, I know!” Jason exclaimed. “It’s kind of hard but I can get you Gustavo and Hammer, known as “the Drainers”, but if they fail, I will propose to you someone bigger, but you will have to prepare a package six times as heavy as you would pay the Drainers. Remember I was the one that trained the drainers. But the man I will connect you with is invisible.”
“What do mean by he is invisible?” Amos asked.
“Well, his identity remains unknown up till today,” Speedy said to Amos.
“Don’t tell me it’s Stamper, my friend?”
“Where the in heck do you know that ruff Ryder?”
“Around!” Speedy exclaimed. “Remember I once belonged to the very bad guys out there.”
“That’s true, but he is the big a bad Patrick Stamper. I would not work with someone I cannot even perceive. It’s a little late and I think I should go home to my family, they need me, but then I will see you tomorrow morning at 7:30am at the road leading to San Medina.” Amos said to Speedy.
“Ok by me, my old friend,” Speedy replied. He dropped the phone and left his office for home.
Early in the morning, just before the day’s activities would kick start, Jason Speed droved from downtown Dream city towards San Medina near the border with Tchema. Amos was already there waiting to get more tips about the man with no identity. He knew almost nothing about this crazy bastard, if not for the fact that he is the smartest gunman in the whole of Vaitland. But Speedy will soon bring it all to him.
“So! Good morning Dom,” Jason greeted as he hopped out of his car.
“Oh! Morning Speedy, here we go!” It was a parking lot in a motorist’s hotel.
“Well let’s get into the motel and have a drink while you gist me more about the drainers and then about the gunman, Stamper.”
They headed for the lobby and Amos said a word to the receptionist who placed the access card to his already reserved suite on the counter, and went upstairs. Once in the suite, Amos moved to the small wine bar and poured out champagne into two wine glasses.
Giving a glass of champagne to Jason, he said,” So Speedy, who is this Stamper and how does he operate?”
“Well my friend, you know how secured is this Akeens bastard, he has all the petroleum money and uses it to protect himself from his enemies who are outnumbered from all his dirty business dealings, Akeens is the devil’s incarnate and u know it.
‘ The security around Stephen Akeens today is close to that of a pop.” Amos added.
“I can assure you, most other guys would get Akeens, even the drainers will get him but that will take some time - for them to study the security around Akeens - and that is the principles on which I trained them. They always have to study the target and Akeens my friend is amongst the prestigiously guarded bastards in this country so it will take my boys well over a month to break through Akeens’ system or maybe even get kill. Well as, Stamper is the guy that would go to any extent in just a few days,” Jason said to Amos. “Did I ever tell you that Stamper saved me from serving prison terms?”
“No, not until we are standing here!’ Amos replied.
‘Well he did and here is how. I was black mailed by a client who wanted his wife dead after he found out that she discovered documents which attested that he killed his elder brother to inherit all the wealth left behind by their father. This was because I refuse to shade innocent blood. So the police was after me and there was a mandate to search my house. When the police got there I had fled but they came right after me. I somehow found my self in an old building. Then this guy jumped in from no where, immediately recognized me and I told him that he has got to help me out for the police are after me. He pulled out a photo from his wallet and it was my picture on which I was standing with my elder brother who lost his life in a military operation. ‘Hey buddy! Where in the world did you take that photo?’ I asked and he was like ‘it’s no time for explanations. I need to get you out of this mess first.’ He opened his brief case and pulled out a mask, and then he gave it to me. ‘Try this out,’ he said. The moment I put it on, I looked like a young school boy, rushing to catch up with lectures.
“He also gave me other clothes to wear and a file, and then he told me to go away and check him back in that same building the next day at 10:00 am.
“The next day I came to the building, pretty curious to know how he got the photo. He told me that my senior man was his partner and very good friend and that they were together in a secret mission in china before my brother would get caught. He told Stamper to look for me if anything ever happen to him.” Speedy was not so sure that he had convinced Amos enough for him to choose Stamper but Amos decided to work with the Drainers.
“For him, it’s good to believe in what we see than anything imaginary. Well man! It’s your choice and I cannot go against.”
So, Speedy invited the Drainers to the motel via a phone call and the whole mission was explained to them.
“Hey!” Gustavo sounded as he turned to look at Speedy. “That would be a suicide mission, you know!”
“ Cool!” Hammer murmured. “That has always been my dream and it would come true at the end of this mission, I have always wanted to hit where security is most strong and just to think that we are hours away from it. We shall take the job,” he said as he sipped the last gulp of dry gin from his glass.
“So how does the package look like?” Gustavo - who in the beginning was startled as Stephen Akeens’ name was being mentioned - said to Amos.
“Ok! You boys want to know how much I am offering to see that Akeens bastard dead. Well, triple a million grants and I will give you boys half of the money right away and then once the job is done, I will make it a million five ready for you boys. But remember one thing, it’s only Akeens that I want dead, no mistakes because I will not take them,” Amos added.
“ It’s a deal,” Gustavo said.
Hammer lifted his glass. “Let’s toss to victory,” he said. Amos and Speedy joint in happily for the toss. The Drainers promised to begin the job the day after.
3 What do they know regarding me?
A day later, Stamper read from the news paper a story about the multi-billionaire who said some unknown gunmen attacked his henchmen, and it cost him the lives of two of his faithful body guards. The police were at the scene and found no clue which could lead to the perpetrators. Stamper laughed as he read on.
“Stephen Akeens is asking for police assistance to look deep into this matter, for he believes that if they shot down his guards, it means someone is after his life. This is intolerable,” Marshal Crane Anderson remarked on the newspaper. He promised to do everything within reach to track down the perpetrators and to provide more security at the entrances of the city and on the subway alleys.
As would not be so astounding, Crane and Akeens are very good friends. Marshal Crane went over to the Akeens’ residence to meet and condole with Mr. Akeens. He drove right in; Akeens was waiting in the sitting room.
“Hey Marshal Crane! Good to see you my friend. So how is health these days? I know the nature of your job does not permit you to meet and have pleasure with me. But you are most welcome to my home.”
A servant came over with two glasses of the oldest French wine on a tray; they took it and as they sipped on, conversations went forth.
“Mr. Akeens, pardon me - but I would like to know if you or any of your boys saw the criminals?” The Marshal asked.
“That would be a rather tough question because the limousine in question, I no longer sit in.”
“Well my friend, call it the luck of a rich man,” Crane said.
“Oh yeah! That’s right. You see, I want to know if Stamper is back because he is one unpredictable murderer that I know.
Stamper decided it’s time to find out what the police knew about him. He started up with a rush through the masks that he had in a bag but did not seem satisfied. Those he had used a number of times he thought might bring misfortune to his state of being.
These types of masks that he uses make one look like somebody else, without the slightest suspicion that one is not the person behind the mask. Stamper browsed through a series of names that he had regrouped recently in his laptop to find an identity that he had not yet used and one to suit the adventure he was about to carry out, so to then produce a mask corresponding to the face.
He came across the photo of one Mark Edmonds, a forty year- old man who works with a private bureau of investigation known as “INVERSTIKINGS” which collaborates with the police - to track down criminals, most of the times. Stamper chuckled at the photo and said to himself, splendid! This criminal tracker was on leave and Stamper knew it when he turned on his cell phone and call the Investikings bureau, in downtown Dream City, asking for Detective Mark Edmonds. They told him that Edmonds was on leave.
It was just what Stamper wanted, a face that could penetrate the Maindream police department (MPD). Someone well known to the police of Maindream. He browsed on to the designing software with which he designs all his masks. Once through with the designing, he connected his molding machine which was programmed in his laptop, and clicked the command button. In not more than ten minutes, he had his mask done. Perfect, he sounded as he obtained the face of Mark Edmonds on a mask. He placed a fan near to quicken dryness.
After he had finished with the identification papers, driver’s and piloting license of Mr. Edmonds, he put on the mask, together with a suit and a professional badge in his wallet. As he looked through a mirror, Mark Edmonds; a private detective from Investikings immerged. He smiled.
Stamper woke up rather late the following morning. The time was; 10:30 am. He took a sounding bath and dressed up, looked once more at Mark Edmonds in the mirror and said; good luck to Mark.
He now took two brief cases, one with his loaded Walter, silencer and another small pistol. Then a bigger one in which he packed his clothes, identification papers, two masks and a few guns; revolvers, AK47, rifles, pistols and a wild range of bullets. He also had five million vaitz (5,000, 000vtz) in the case- this in case an emergency comes up and the need to change his identity. Patrick Stamper took his overcoat and left the building. He loaded his entire luggage on his bike.
He rode fast to the small City of San Medina where he rented a sport car for the sum of two thousand Vaitz, a Lamborghini precisely. This car selling and renting enterprise owned by Jason Speed is found near the Paradise Hotel, owned by Amos.
As Stamper reached the outskirts of Dream City he halted by the side of the expressway for one last proper screening of his new look, just to be sure he left no stone unturned. Then he spotted two other cars; A Cadillac and a Ferrari. He looked through his telescope, and in a moment was a little amazed as he saw Dazzy Stockman; a first class mafia of average height, a dark haired gentleman in his late thirties, with deep and green eyes –a very churl personality whose left palm has only four fingers left, as a result of a drug trafficking fight with an Italian Mafioso.
Stockman hopped out of his Cadillac and so did his henchmen, and then his drug trafficking partner stepped out of the Ferrari. Before they could start talking business, Stamper drove nearer, pulled the mask from his face and jumped from his car.
Leaning with his back right on the driving door, he took out his walter and stood watching. While Stockman talked business, he didn’t notice Stamper on the other side of the express way- who knew already that he was going to have a very busy day.
Stamper lit a cigarette. The time was exactly 11:30am as he spoke out loud, “The World is a small place Stockmen! I told you that I hate being spied around. A matter of honor, remember?” Stockman’s astonishment was almost catching up with his nerves as he turned and looked ferociously at Stamper.
“Hey Patrick, or should I say Monroe Larry! Where in the heck, did you immerge?” He asked with an almost choking voice.
“That is none of your business Stockman,” Stamper responded. “Tell your men to retreat and throw their weapons over here,” went on Stamper who became a little enraged “or you go with a bullet on your forehead.”
Seeing a Walter pointing at him, he told his boys to execute Stamper’s demand. As they threw their guns forward to Stamper, he smiled and said; “I like traitors because they don’t always think about what will be the repercussions should they fail. You have my photos pasted every where in Vaitnia by the police of Maindream,” Stamper said to Stockman.
“Yes I did and they will soon lay hands on you and destroy you. Measures are underway to erase you from the surface of our beautiful planet. They said you have caused too much damage for single criminal,” Stockman chokingly said. “If you waste my life it would be of no use to you because it would most probably be your last operation,” he added.
“I like your story, you know! But that guarantees nothing. I hate being spied around in my operations and that is what I told you when I made that fine deal for you and you rewarded me by revealing my precious ID to the Maindream police. I also watched you on TV, while you were arrested and the whole confession thing you know. You did just the right thing at the wrong time, for the Maindream police will never get me; I guess I am too big for them. You would never guess where I went right after you sold me out to the police? I was right here in dream city like any other citizen of the city but your filthy friends (the police) could not lay hands on me. So Stockman, where in the world did you get my photo, huh? I guess the Maindream police paid you a fortune or was it just your freedom and an aught never to touch cocaine?” Stamper said to Stockman.
“Goodness! Stockman, you are nothing but a spoiled little traitor. Look what you are into again after the aught to refrain from drugs. It is funny to see you running behind small time drug traffickers when you were the king in drug trafficking a few years back, ha! ha! What happened? Did the police take away all your wealth?Too bad it had to be that way and you survived it but let’s see if you will survive this one. You got smart for once in your life but you will remain a coward for the few minutes that you will live again.”
Behind Stockman, one of his men decided to play the hero game. He pulled out his nine millimeter automatic pistol from his suit. Stamper shot on his forehead without hesitating. Then Stockman’s driver pulled out a rifle from the Cadillac and Stockman himself shot the driver. “Great job!” Stamper sounded as Stockman turn to shoot him. He wriggled in the air, in a complete angle ninety, kicking Stockman’s weapon. Then a serious fight broke. In a few minutes, exchange of blows took precedence. Stockman felt defeat coming his way. He he tried to retreat as one of the other men went down to get his gun and Stamper dug a deep hold on his forehead. Stockman moved fuddling towards the body of his henchman who lay lifeless and slided on the ground to pick up his gun. Just at the time he lifted the gun to point at Stamper, Stamper acted, shooting right on his forehead.
A tray bullet from Stockman’s Gun hit a moving limousine, causing an explosion. Stamper lit a cigarette and chuckled at Stockman’s body as he lit another one and put it in Stockman’s mouth saying; “Go to hell while smoking, bastard.” He turned to the business partner of Stockman and said; “What is your name sir?”
“Eddy, Edward Bowman,” the man replied.
“Well, Mr. Bowman, you have never seen me and if the police come after me then I will track you down before you know it. You are one lucky man. Go home to your wife and children. Fine something else to do and stop drug trafficking. Did you get me?”
“Yes Sir,” Mr. Bowman answered as he got into his car and drove away.
Stamper moved back and leaned on his car once again, then lit another cigarette while watching the limousine burning to ashes. “Forgive me oh God,” he murmured within himself, “I did not mean to do this people harm.”
In the burning limousine were Dr Jillion Demure and family; a wealthy French businessman on tour in Maindream. Demure was a fat grey haired chap, enjoying his tour to Vaitnia when a stray bullet hit his car reservoir and the entire limousine went aflame after he lit a cigarette.
Demure and family were still burning in the explosion when inspectors Damien Cole and Mallory White got to the scene. The fire fighters arrived a few minutes later but it was too late for Demure and family. Stamper was still leaning on his car with a cigarette on his lips. As Damien went down to examine the body of Stockman with Mallory acting like a cover cop, the S.I.F (special intervention force) arrived, followed by a second police cab. Damian looked at Mallory and said “Stamper is at work again. This chap is Dazzy Stockman, the man that revealed the true ID of Stamper. It’s been two years that Stockman has being under police surveillance with the thought that Stamper will want to get back at him. Then just at the moment we relent, this mindless beast surfaces again and here we are with a bullet on Stockman’s forehead.”
“How did you know it was Stamper? It could be some other chap with whom Stockman does his dirty businesses,” Mallory said.
“Now go down and examine all the bodies and tell me - on which part of their body did they receive bullets?”
“ On their foreheads.” she said.
“Now that’s what I am talking about, he never shoots elsewhere but the forehead, when he means to kill, or he does not shoot at all. It’s true that this folk only eliminates criminals but that’s our job not his. All his victims have so far been criminals,” Damien said.
“He is acting like some kind of supper man - or spider man, whatever - but he is still a criminal in the face of the law,” Mallory replied.
The journal wizards’ television just arrived at the scene to make coverage of the whole shoot out, as the S.I.F, led by Detective Mallon Davis came out of the S.I.F car. Detective Mallon Spotted Stamper and shouted, “Hey there!”
As he pulled out his pistol to point at Stamper, the smart fellow hopped into his Lamborghini and drove away in a speed that almost covered his entire Speedometer.
It was a little chaotic as Damien and Mallory entered their cars, and Mallon was already in motion. Stamper shot Damien on his right shoulder and then he shot Mallon’s front wheels. “I did not mean to kill you inspector Cole,” Stamper said to himself.
Mallory was right behind the steering wheel and Damien - who could barely defend himself – was on the passenger seat. Mallon left his car and joined Damien and Mallory.
“That bastard got me,” Damien said to Mallon, who took the first-aid box and did something on the bullet wound to stop the bleeding. As Mallory followed Stamper, two ambulances stopped on the scene to collect the remains of Stockman and his crew, while the other police officers began an investigation.
Check and mate, Stamper sounded as he discovered he was a good distance away from Damien’s car.
As the bodies were loaded into the ambulances for the mortuary, the fire fighters had quenched the fire on the burning limousine. Lieutenant Henry Scott, Sergeant Thomas Evans and Sergeant Ali Marshal had made a police assessment on the scene.
Ahead of Stamper a truck full of paratroopers had blocked the express way that lead to Jovah square. The St. Loona military base found it necessary to track and capture Stamper in the hope of restoring order in his brain but no one said it was going to be an easy task, as Stamper was even smarter than ever. Now Damian Mallory and Mallon were in high speed but still a reasonable distance away from him.
Stamper moved from the driver’s seat to the front passenger seat. He then threw himself to the ground with his two brief cases and the empty car moved up to the truck at high speed and collided. The troopers all jumped out of the truck as both cars exploded. There were no casualties.
Stamper went into the bush with his two brief cases in hand, and sat down to examine his body for any serious injury. But there were no wounds on him. He smiled and then lit a cigarette and walked away through the bushes, after putting on his mask to become Mark Edmonds again.
A second trooper’s truck arrived and the troopers put out the fire and cleared the express way, driving away before Damien Mallory and Mallon passed, at a high speed that caused them not to notice anything. As Stamper moved through the bush, he knew so well that as Damian was unable to get him, he will call a colleague and ask him to block Jovah square which is a turning point to all the quarters in dream city.
Damian did just what Stamper had thought. Mallon picked up another S.I.F. cab as Mallory drove Damian down to the dispensary at the police department for his bullet to be removed.
Marshal Crane Anderson and four new recruits stood at Jovah square to track down Stamper. While Mallon moved into the city with one other S.I.F agent behind the wheel of the car. Mallory and Damian were in the infirmary and as the bullet was being removed Damian was saying, .”All the time that we spend examining Stockman’s body, we did not notice that Stamper was nearby. It’s funny that neither you nor I saw him.”
He called to find out whether Stamper had been caught, but Marshal Crane told him that there was no trace of Stamper anywhere.
It was exactly 5:30pm as Stamper reached communal Avenue in Dream City. He had been walking through the woods for close to four hours, avoiding shortcutsthat lead to Jovah square. He crossed the road and walked into Diamond café on the left side of Communal Avenue near the forth branch of Biz-master bank. He walked on the silkily embroidered carpet with silver edges up to the lobby, then he leaned on it, facing the doorway. In a moment he turned around to buy a bottle of vodka and his eye fell on his photo right behind the bar.
What if the mask I am wearing suddenly becomes transparent? They will all pull out their cell phone to call the cops, Stamper said to himself as he stared intensely into the eyes of the Barman who also had his eyes fixed on the stranger. “What can I offer you sir?”
“A bottle of Vodka” he replied but kept an eye on the photo for a while.
“Ah! He is Patrick Stamper, the secret gunman on the run,” said the Barman.
”I know him,” Stamper replid, with a vicious face. “He is only a smooth criminal.”
He took the vodka, popped it open and poured some into a glass up to the brim, and started drinking it non vintage. Jesus of Nazareth!
The Barman murmured to himself as Stamper scoffed a single swig that cleared the glass. No, he is not normal, he must not be, the Barman kept repeating to himself, who could be the Stranger?
Because most of the guys he knew that used to drink crazily have never swigged a glass in a single gulp and in its non vintage nature. As Stamper poured another glass of non vintage vodka, he lit a cigarette and his eyes now watching at the doorway - some thing more useful because he knew that there was his search out there and that Damien will tear Dream city apart if it took that to track him down. Then he remembered the whole shootout. Rot in hell you deserved it bastard, he murmured to himself, referring to Stockman
He had just finished the last gulp from his second glass and the bottle was more than half gone. He poured another one as he kept thinking and watching at the door. Could it have been that Damian or someone else who was present at the scene saw my face? No, he couldn’t. The action was so fleet that even a telescope will not pick up an image. Stamper was buried in a quiverfor a while, as the Barman, who had been busy serving his clients in their numbers, turned to him and said,
“Sir, are you alright?”
“I am,” said Stamper.
Before long, Detective Mallon packed his service car by the road side near Biz-master Bank and walked into the café. Stamper saw him and immediately recognized the tall and huge detective. He should be Mallon, the one that shot at my car bonnet, Stamper said to himself. Detective Mallon walked through the carpet and looking everywhere in the snack. He came right up to the lobby and spoke to Stamper. “Good evening sir! “
“ Good evening Detective,”Stamper replied.
“May I see your identification papers sir?”
“Sure, why not?”
Stamper ;brought out a wallet. He pulled out his ID and professional card. Mallon examined them carefully, and then he gave them back to Stamper.
“I am sorry Detective mark Edmonds, it is the routine. Believe me I am only doing my job. There is a psychopath out there taking lives. You are in the private sector and I will like you to joint in the search of Stamper.”
“Thanks for the offer but I got a job at hand.”
“Well then, I will see you around,” Mallon said.
“Watch your back detective. I will collaborate if I lay hand on clues that may lead to him.”
“Do not hesitate,” Mallon replied. He looked around for a moment and then walked away.
It was 5:00pm when Speedy said; Dom I have a business deal with a friend in the Maindream racing company who needs eighty Friaries cars for the grand final of Maindream car race coming up next week, so I will have to attend to him at Diamond café. Amos and Speedy left the motel for the Diamond café.
As they stepped in Stamper recognized Speedy. Oh! God, how is this possible, Speedy would recognize my voice at the slightest word I speak. But one thing remains certain; he is a friend and not a foe, Stamper said to himself.
Speedy and Amos took seats on the other end of the lobby as they were served their usual drink; nicely vintage vodka. It was news time on J.W.S.TV
Breaking news; the serial killer and secret Gunman, Patrick Stamper who has been hiding for close to three years, today has emerged from nowhere, killing the man who supposedly revealed his veritable ID and several other men in his company. Dazzy Stockman who exchanged the true identity of Stamper, for his freedom, when he paid Stamper to get rid of a wine merchant who stole Stockman’s cocaine. Stamper also left a police Inspector with a bullet on his right arm.
Inspector Damian Cole who suffers a dislodged arm is here to enlighten us about what happened on the express way to Dream city. “
“We have not been able to lay hands on the killer but every indication proves that Stamper is back for revenge. He may have left me with a dislodged arm but the search continues, and believe it or not, he is very conscious of the fact that he will no longer be hiding for long.”
“That was Inspector Damian Cole of the M.D.P. That brings us to the end of this news cast; for J.W.S.TV, I am Roderick Spenser.”
“Hey Dom! The news was about him. He is in town,” a too thrilled Speedy said to Amos.
“Hey Speedy are you sane at all? This bastard is being followed by the police and the S.I.F. It would be hell, if we work with him in this state of manhunt.”
Amos was in a quake. “No Dom, you are just blowing things out of proportions. They will never put a hand on him. We are talking about the smartest Gunman in the whole of Vaitnia. He knows his job and does just it. You are seeing it from the wrong angle,” Speedy replied. “It will only go wrong if one of his rules does not apply. Then he becomes what is known as the enemy at prime time.”
Interesting! Stamper who had been listening to their conversation came out plainly. “Hey! Excuse me sir; you are Jason Speed the car dealer right?”
“Yes, but I hardly know you sir.”
“I am an old friend from the past.”
“No you are not, because I don’t know you from anywhere.”
“Hey Speedy you are talking to a private detective from Investikings,”
Amos said to Speedy.
“So, who send you behind me, of course you cannot tell.”
“I am not what you are thinking,” Stamper said.
“Then what are you? A S.I.F agent! No, too good to be true,” Speedy exclaimed.
“Remember the building in construction in palm street Veroline city? Well, that is the part of your past in which I am found,” Stamper said.
“Hell no! You don’t say? Sean Reeves!”
Speedy wondered in disbelief and then gave a sound hug to the tall fellow. But he was very conscious of the fact that it was Stamper. Speedy introduced Stamper to Amos who at the moment was so flabbergasted at the way Stamper took them by surprise.
“Oh! My friend, I thought we will never meet again but here are we, frenzied to destiny for making our paths cross again, Speedy said to Stamper. Are you still in to drug trafficking with those churl folks of West Verolina?” Stamper asked.
“No I dropped everything and moved on with my car business which is fetching close to seventy five times what I use to get from the street. I also settled down with a beautiful lady and now became a littles’ dad two years ago,” Speedy told Stamper.
“You have done the right thing man, for there is an adage that goes; times wait for no man but true love lasts forever.” Stamper went on.
“You guess right,” Speedy smiled saying.
At the moment inspector Damien Cole got through with the bullet operation on his arm, he came up to Marshal Crane’s office and told him what happened at the express way. “Sir I can’t deny the fact that I failed once again. Stamper is even smarter than I thought. He now knows our weaknesses and works inversely proportional to them without restraint.”
“Damien, why don’t you take a break and relax yourself, spend some quality time with your family until this matter is over? I know you are the best man I possess but there are other good gays like your partner, Miss Malory White, and Lieutenant Henry Scott, Sergeant Thomas Evans and Alee Marshal. They can handle this. You are tired and need to repose yourself.”
“No sir, I don’t think it will be the best approach to take. No one knows this folk the way I do and if I leave this case he will find his way in less than no time and you will get the outcome of his presence in the City, I don’t think it was just to get rid of Stockman. He is up to something else, I can feel it,” Damien said to Crane.
“Damien, don’t you think, this folk wouldn’t do without the underworld? He must have some links around or in the outskate of the city,” Marshal Crane said to Damian.
“No! No! You don’t know Stamper yet. This folk was train to work alone. This best explains why he knows how to operate any kind of machine and he creates a weapon any moment that he is in difficulties or during his operations. Remember when we first did an investigation on his biography and nothing was found in his file at the St. Loona Military archives that could lead us to his family or to his capture. He was trained without an ID; we even got testimony from a few military officers and Colonel Sam Craven who told us Stamper was a property of the state of Vaitnia. How he is a malfunctioning eighty hundred million Vtz weapon on the run and how the military base had put in place measures to recuperate Stamper.” Damien told Crane.
4 The Immense Indenture
“I know this chap,” Stamper said to Speedy.
“He is Dominick Amos, the owner of the Dl-Amos chain of hotels and his Family formally owned the petroleum refinery in Tchema until Stephen Akeens came in from nowhere and snatched the gigantic oil Empire. Do you need to move about with someone like him?”
“Good God how did you know so much about me and I don’t have the slightest clue who might be Sir?”
“The papers Mr. Amos, they don’t always fail us most of the times,” Stamper told Amos, who became a little chaotic at Stamper’s response.
“Dom, this is our man but it would be dangerous to pronounce his name anywhere, remembered?”
“God of Israel! So all this while we’ve been talking about him, he was right here listening to all that we said.” Amos cried.
“Yes I heard all what you folks talked about me, but call it the stress of today’s business and pretend that we never met. My old son Speedy here will enlighten you more on the issue but then I have got to take my leave now. The police know I am in town and are leaving no stone unturned until they lay hands on my ass. So watch your tongues boys.”
As Stamper turned to leave, a man came up to Amos and said; “My friend you should be ashamed of yourself for having a lot of money and still coming to places like this. This is no place for rich bastards. Find yourself the way out before I get hysterical.”
Stamper turned and bought the fight; ”Hey Smoky; you are the one to leave this café in a hurry.”
“What did you just say?” He pulled up a hand to hit Stamper who blocked it while his knee cap carefully hit that of the fellow and hewent down with a dislodged arm and knee. Two other men came up but saw the state of their friend and then retreated, taking him with them.
”My God! How did he do that?” Too-thrilled Amos asked Speedy.
“Stamper is a weapons all by himself and can go to any extent with his body,” Speedy replied.
“He is the right Guy at the right time,” Amos said.
Stamper turned to leave but Speedy stopped him.
”We’ve got a little job for you and time is of the essence as far as this job is concerned.”
“So what makes you believe that I am still into that kind of stuff? For now I have got more than I can pull behind my back, I suggest you folks seek help elsewhere and leave me alone with my struggles.” He turned to leave, saying “ I will see you around, Speedy.”
“Well, thanks for your attention Stamper, it’s more than nothing.”
As he stepped into the drizzling rain, he pulled on the cap of his over coat, and, lighting a cigarette, said to Speedy,
“If I did not know you, I would never have listen to your story you know, West Pac Avenue, on the shores of City pond at 4:00 pm.”
“He is accepting our proffer,” Speedy said to Amos.
“How do you know that?” Amos asked.
”He is fixing an appointment with us.”
“Do not forget my bottle of vodka; it’s usually my first deal with a client. No phones, no guns and no cars. Come in a single piece. Sit and wait for me. Failure to comply with all this, you will not see me.”
“That’s okay but can I give you a ride now,” said Amos.
”No, no rides for me from any one. I do my own rides. Right your friend home Mr. Amos, I think he would love that and 4:00 pm Speedy, Remember!” Stamper said as he stopped a taxi cab. ”Salvor Vegas street, he said to the man behind the driving wheel.
As Malory entered her apartment at the Salvor Dreams building in downtown Dream city, nothing had ever been so astonishing in her entire life -it was about 10:30pm and Stamper was sitting near the fire of her chimney that he had lit with his cigarette.
She lifted her head to look forward and lock eyes with the charming blue eyes of the smart-shooter. She moved a single step from the door and stopped but did not scream because she already knew what screaming will signify.
“What took you so long?” Stamper grimed as he lit a cigarette but she stood still, wrapped up in astoundment and chaos. As she regained herself she sneaked a hand to unarmor her pistol saying;
“How do you know me and where I live? So you are going after women now?”
“The papers miss Malory; they talk a lot about you,” he responded.
“So what do you want from me and how did you get in here?”
“Your alarm system is the cheapest I have ever come across,” he replied.
“You aren’t going to shoot an unarmed soldier, do you?”
These words brought her into an instant nervous disconnection and a blind affection for the man she had considered her target for as long as she had been in the police force. Her hand left the armor of her weapon as she moved forward, dropping the newspapers and some documents she was holding, onto the floor.
Great, Stamper sounded.
Malory had almost recovered her nerves, then she felt that all the anguish she felt against Stamper was nothing other than love in a strange form. She drew closer and into the arms he famous killer.
“ Malory was virgin and had fallen in love just once in her life. This true love she seeks, she had always kept it for one man and this man was Patrick Stamper, her target. Oh! God, why! She cried in her heart as she felt warmth in the arms of a smooth criminal. ”What will Damien say about this?” She looked up at Stamper’s face saying.
“Nothing because he will not discover us now, maybe some day when there will be understanding between me and the police, I will personally announce it to him.”
“You will do that for me?”
“Yeah while not? I will go to any extent to please you but then let me get through with what I have at hand now,”
“Not Damien, he will never have anything to do with you, not even if you are to be the president of this beautiful country.
“I have always loved you, you know! Way back in the days when my father use to talk of your father and how he trained his only begotten son to be a gunman in the secret service. And he told me how handsome you are and wished that he had a male child in my place, he would have send him directly the St. Loona military base to become just like you, but unfortunately for him my mother died a month after giving birth to me.”
“But now I guess he must have the ugliest image of me,” Stamper said.
”No, no! On the contrary, he blamed the government for your failure in the secret service.”
“Stop lying to me inspector White I know, if I get a little inattention, you will call your colleague, that Damien bastard and tell him I am in your apartment, so that he sends a truck full of police officers after me but they will never get me, I guess I am too smart for you and your colleagues.”
“No sweetheart, you know I will never do a thing like that. Not to someone I truly care about.” She rooted the phone off the wall and threw it away through a glass window and gave her cell phone to him. Stamper began to see to what extent Malory would go for love.
“Impressive,” he said. Then “You talked about your father in the past, is he…?”
“Dead, yeah, he died ten months ago,” she replied.
“I use to know him when I was much younger and he seemed to have been the only true friend my father had. Your father was a good man though I can also remember my father talking so much about Mr. Jonathan White.”
In a moment there was calm as the doorbell went and she headed for the door and Stamper lit a cigarette, and as the cigarette burnt without even touching his lips, he placed a hand on his Walter inside his overcoat. It could be that Damien bastard, he thought.
When she opened the door, it was no other than her next door neighbor, Mr. Michael Williams, a former po
lice officer as well as a friend of hers.
“I came to check whether you are alright, because I heard noise from your apartment. You know, ever since I knew you, there is no man that has come to spend time with you except for that police officer..”
“Damien,” Malory completed.
“But that did not sound like his voice to me, so I said it’s better to check.”
He walked right in and stood staring at Stamper. “This gentleman’s face looks familiar to me but I can’t make out where I saw him.”
The photos, Stamper thought, he saw my photo in a public place. Then he came right up to Stamper and they shook hands. He went back to his apartment.
Straight to the bed room, Stamper carried Malory in his strong soldier arms. “I have a surprise for you sweetheart, “ she said.
“Hell, no! No surprises baby, I hate them. But yours is an exception.”
“I am going to let you find out for yourself, “
“No baby! You are telling me right away,” he said while kissing her.
“I am virgin, and I have waited all my life for the moment I will see your face and also offer you the most durable treasure that I possess.”
“Baby, just a few hours that I know you and you are already making me the happiest man in the world. And this is going to make the happiest moment in my life.” He made love to her and afterwards, they took a bath together while making love still.
After the bath and laying on the bed, Stamper read anecdotes of the new paper to her. Then he came across his photo and read what was written bellow it “I have the impression that I am becoming even as popular as a Pop.”
“Yeah you are baby,” she said. And they laughed it out.
He quickly went through the documents which were all about getting rid of him by the Maindream police. “Baby, you and your friends will never lay hands on me.”
“You are lying for I have you all to myself and they have nothing. Look baby, there is something I want to do for you. I will inform you the activities of the police at each step of the way.”
“You will do that for me?”
“No, for us, if you go down, then I will lose you and the love we have for each other.”
Stamper now told Malory the story of his life. They kept talking fun and romance all night until it was exactly 4:30 am in the morning. “Baby I got to go,” he said to her.
“No stay some more, I am taking a day off with the pretest of cold and headache, so stay.”
“You know I can’t, I got to go check out some business then I will make up time for you later in the day okay?”
“Okay baby. But I would have loved having you around all day so that I don’t get to go out of the apartment today.”
Stamper got dressed, taking with him his two brief cases; he got into the elevator with Malory who wouldn’t let him go. Then he took a taxi and as he got inside he told the taxi man to take him to the Del-Amos hotel.
Before he would enter the hotel, Stamper stopped at a Corner for screening to check if he was still Mark Edmonds. Then he moved right up to the lobby of the hotel and gave a credit card of the new account that he’d created -in Cyberg Bank - to the receptionist, who verified whether the card was still valid. She turned and gave him his access card to the forty - second suite, where he would lodge before meeting with Speedy and Amos later in the day.
Stamper rode the elevator to the seventh floor where his suite was found. Once inside, he went up to the little bar and took a bottle of vodka, lit a cigarette and moved to the window’s balcony to take a look downtown. He looked at the city pond and smiled, and then he pulled the blinds through and sad on the bed.
He made a call to the receptionist for her to send Flash newspapers and Economia magazine to him. It was done. Once he began reading the news. After glancing through the newspaper and magazine, he fell asleep on the bed for half a moment
Mallon further made Bowman to understand one thing; “denial of crimes you committed and refusal to cooperate with S.I.F. could cause you up to five or ten years incarceration, and - as far as I am concerned - you don’t want to put your family through all that stress, do you?”
“Okay, I will tell the whole truth. I had drug trafficking business with Stockman on the express way leading to San Medina and when this man showed up and Stockman called him Stamper, the whole thing turnout into a fatal shootout which took the lives of everyone except me and the swift shooter, Patrick Stamper.”
“How was he dressed?” Mallon asked.
“In a black suit.”
“Did you see his face?”
“Hey detective, I am not in court room already,”
“Give those answers and get ready for your trial in court, find your self an attorney and if you can’t afford one then the state will get one for you.”
“ Yes I saw his real face, it was Stamper in person.”
“So how did you know it was him because he is invisible?”
“I have a photo of him in my wallet.”
“Can you show me this photo?”
Bowman took out the photo and it was Stamper’s.
“He said he was going after me if I dare to say a word of what I saw to anyone.”
“Do not worry about that because you are occupying a jail cell until your trial comes up or someone bail you up.”
“What are you talking about man; this assassin just said he would fine me, it not like I am safe for my family too runs a fatal risk.”
“You are right, I will get you family relocated so that he would not be able to find them. As for you, you are free and you will go with your family but I will have someone keep an eye on you in case you are getting dirty again,” Mallon said.
“So I kind of like will not even have my own privacy again and the whole relocation thing, how is my wife and kids going to take it like?” Bowman protested.
“ ‘Thanks for saving my ass detective,’ would be perfect and Mr. Bowman, I think you should learn how to speak to your family in cases like this because you looked for it the day you started pulling drugs.”
Damien was called to the Marshal Crane and he informed Damien.
“Stamper is dead. My sources told me that he was apprehended by the St. Loona hunt troupes while he left town today in the morning at about 6:00am.”
“No it can’t be Stamper, it should be a close remembrance, we are talking about the greatest gun man in the whole of Vaitnia. Stamper is a weapon by himself, you and I know that he can’t just be tracked down just like that.”
“Well but my source would never fail me. I put miss Malory on another case but you will have to choose whether to take it go home and rest, I think you need it more than any one. I will get someone else to replace you.”
“He can’t be dead, I know he isn’t, I want to track him down and look him in his eyes and tell him he is not as smart as he believes to be.”
“Hey Malory, I just got a piece of information you would not believe at all. Stamper is dead he died this morning in a St. Loona military operation. But I don’t believe it.” He was talking to Malory over the phone.
As Malory dropped the phone she felt as if a million tiny little needles were piecing all her body. She fell and passed out, for close to 30 minutes.
“Inspector Damien, I got informed from a reliable source that Stamper died this morning in a St. Loona military operation, how true is that?”
“Well, I also got informed but lets keep a low key and see what happens next because is one smart hoodlum I know.” Damien replied to Mallon’s phone call.
“Do you mean you are backing up from the case?” Mallon asked.
“No, not yet,until I see his mortal remains in the mortuary with DNA correspondence to he’s, then will I give up.” He said and dropped the phone.
Damien made another phone call to Malory
“Hey Miss White, you wouldn’t believe the latest new. Stamper was reported dead this morning and have been apprehended bye the St. Loona search troupes, he suffered from serious chess damage amongst others. His body is in the custody of the military and we haven gotten the authorization to go examine it.”
“That is the finest piece of information I have got, since I embraced my career as a police officer. Look, I got to go, because, I have got another call.” She dropped
“That was strange,” Damien remarked.
Malory cried as she thought about the love she had cultivated for Stamper in the space of several hours. No it can’t be she told her self, he is the only man I have ever fallen in love with in my entire life after my father told me about his father. It is not his fault if he became murderer. The government should be held responsible for injustice against him - and besides he does not murder decent people but the bad guys. Know he is not dead, and he is certainly not a criminal.
“Who is not a criminal?” Mr. Michael Williams asked as he walked into Malory’s apartment.
“Patrick Stamper. He has never killed an innocent person; he is only cleaning our society and preventing people like Dazzy Stockman from destroying it. He actually decided to eliminate the bad people of our society when he lost his father in a mission to save the lives eight members of the senate by a Liapenian terrorist who lost his candidature to the F.A.V (federal associates Vaitnia) senate. The murderer of Colonel Walsh is still in freedom till today. Sources say Stamper as disappointed as he was over the years for not being able to lay hands on the assassin of his father and give him the punishment that the Government refused to administer, he became the River that change its course. Killing any one, that commits the cold blooded murder of innocent souls. He later on saw that he needed to earn a living and equip himself, so started executing his new job in the form of contracts.” She told all this to the Old man crying.
At exactly 22:00 pm, Mr. Michael had gone to bed when suddenly the doorbell of Malory ranged and she felt very reluctant to open the door, thinking it was Damien coming to give her details of Stamper’s death and also to see how she was doing. But she managed to get the door open. It was Stamper.
“Wait! Wait!”
“This is some joke kind of thing.”
“I don’t think, you shouldn’t be here now,” she said.
“Why, what are you talking about?” Stamper asked.
“As far as I believe in love, I don’t catnap with ghost,” she continued.
“Ghost? Where did you get that one from now?”
“You were reported dead this morning in the express way to San Medina. A ghastly car mishap and your body is said to be in the custody of the St. Loona military base where I and Damien will be tomorrow to assist in carrying out an autopsy.”
She told Stamper everything.
“That is preposterous, I can see to what extend they will go to get me back but I am not making any U-turn. I left the military and they just have to deal with it.”
“ Come into my arms baby, I almost died myself the moment I heard you were dead.” He got into her arm and they went in to the house. “God I was completely pathetic, thinking how could God give me something and take it even before I get to touch it.” She was still troubled.
“Why will the military want you back after all these years?”
“I am a property of the state, like I told you last night. And I have only one way to declare my freedom, a document at the vice presidential office which states that in case of any serious injury or illness, I will have to make available the necessary paper work proving that I am handicap or sick. They cannot kill me though; I guess I am too expensive for them to lose me out of the blue. You have before you an eight hundred million Vaitz worth of military and secret service intelligence.”
At exactly two minutes pass four, Stamper pulled the blind on the window to the side and looked down at city pond. He spotted two men seated on one of the public seats around city pond, then pulled out his mini telescope and looked through it to verify whether it was speedy and his billionaire friend. His calculations did not fail him, they were the ones. In a moment, Stamper came out right behind those two, now dressed like Sean Reeves - because Mark Edmonds could not be seen in places like that. It would be suspicious if someone who knows mark met him in such a place. To Patrick Stamper, safety measures are more important than the entire job itself, Speedy told Amos just at the moment Stamper showed up in front of them.
“Boys, I was wondering if the job you guys are offering me is not the trap of the century to track me down by the Maindream police together with the S.I.F. But whatever it is, I will take the job. I want to let that Damien bastard know that I am still the untouchable. So what is it all about?” he said as he
stretched a hand to take the bottle of vodka from Amos and pop it open, then he sipped the first gulp and the bottle was half gone.
This is one tough guy, Amos murmured to himself. How can he just sip a gulp and the bottle is half gone, he went on thinking.
“Now boys we can talk business, I think my old friend Speedy must have told you some of my rule without which if not brought in to terms, I don’t operated at all, even if you offer me a trillion Vtz.”
“Yes, but I will need for you to enlighten me more on that issue.”
“One question before you go- that Akeens bastard, papers say he is very rich; does he have up to a trillion Vaitz as his net worth?” Stamper rolled out.
”In cash yes but in wealth he is well past three trillions.” Amos replied.
“So now tell me Mr. Amos, what could be your motives of wanting such a big fish out of the water?” Stamper asked as he fixed an eye on Dominick Amos.“As Speedy here must have told you, I don’t track down decent people; my job is to get rid of the big bad guys out there and as far as decency is concerned, I can force a moving bullet back into the gun - most especially for misled information.” he warned.
“Well, what I can tell you about Akeens is that I have been trying to track him down for close to a decade now with very slim chances to even go near him. Akeens was the brain behind the plane crash that took the lives of my mother and father.”
“I read about that crash the year I entered the military academy. How did you come about all that information?” Stamper said.
“He also stole my family legacy. Stephen Akeens use to be the director of the Maindream branch of Master petroleum which was my father’s biggest investment where he embezzled large sums of money over that he was director but was fired by my dad a year before the plane crash. The Oil Empire suffered great failure due to mismanagement of funds by the directors of the other five branches, in which event my family legacy was forced into auction by the national trade society and Akeens was the highest bidder with well over four hundred billion Vaitz loaned to him by his brother - who is owner of Biz-Master group of banks, whose head office is found in Maindream. All this went on when I was still at the university and the only brother I have was abducted by his men.”
“So up till today Kelvin Amos is still missing you mean?” Stamper asked.
“Yes he is in Akeens custody for close to a decade today?”
When Dominick Amos revealed the whole truth behind Akeens’ money, Speedy felt like blood was sucked out of his veins.
Superbeings
At age seventeen, Willow Summers was far from being the ordinary teenager that he acclimated years back. He often suffered torture and mockery from other teenagers at his local school and around the quarters where he resided until one day some thing out of the ordinary happened to him. This was by far the most thrilling thing that would ever happen to a teenager at that moment of the time. All the same he was in seventh heaven to at last have gotten rid of the most horrific annoyance of being wishy-washy; Willow could now counter all his fears at his local school, especially torture by other teenagers.
WILLOW: - You would never believe it, if I told you that I fixe Mrs.
- Sugarman’s TV in just less than ten seconds.
- A TV that an old man nick named technical
- Who repairs electronic appliances,
-told her it was beyond repair
- And she was delighted to see me for the first time.
- She always said I was up to no good and a wimp.
- This name had some how
Sneaked its way to the school campus
- Where the students now call me wimpy.
- I was pushed from a ten story building.
- But I did not sustain even a single brush.
-This was when I first realized that
I was not like everyone else.
- I jumped across five moving trucks
- I also flew and landed on top of the
-One hundred eighty five feet tall FIRST FREE MAN Statue
- In Morgan Island where I live
- I was crushed by a moving van
- I suck off nine hundred thousand volts of electricity
- And left an entire city with complete blackout
- I also realized that I could stop any kind of machine from
Functioning if I wanted to
- I block a train from moving for close to five minutes.
- All these in a single night
- What is happening to me?
- Who could be controlling my life?
Willow was troubled and kept thinking what could be happening to him and who could possibly be behind this in his life.
Desmond, Brandon and Rolland rushed down stairs through the elevator to look for Willow’s body. No one was talking to the other. As they stepped out to the terrace, Brandon started talking at once.
BRANDON: -Where is he, he fell right here.
DESMOND: -That’s right, I saw him lying here from the roof
- This is strange all together, don’t you think?
- We are going to find and terminate him
ROLLAND: - No, that is out of the question
- What did he do to us for us to treat him this way?
- Let’s go home and leave him alone
- It was the two of you that pushed him
- I don’t want to go to jail, let’s leave now
DESMOND: - Let’s leave now but if I get the slightest noise out there
- About what happened!
-You guys know what I am capable of doing.
Desmond said to his two friends who had grown even more flabbergasted than they were before as they found out that Willow’s body was no longer where they saw it from the roof. The following morning at school, Desmond warned his chums again.
DESMOND: - A word from any of your mouths
-And I will personally break it off for you.
-Remember that if we are caught, we are all going down for it
- If anyone is interrogated, he should say
-We have not seen him since school got over yesterday
Nothing would ever be as beyond belief to the three bullies as when they met Willow in the stairwell leading to their classroom.
Brandon: - its him, its willow
Desmond: - what? My God, he is alive!
Rolland: -Willow we are sorry, we did not mean to do you harm
Brandon: -Yes Willow it was nothing intentional
-It was just to scare u a little bit.
Desmond: - Spare me all those excuses.
- He is alive and we don’t owe anyone any apologies.
- Common let’s go guys
Desmond and his friends got even more astonished than ever. Rolland begged him not go up to the disciplinary council. But Willow did not offer even a word to the three feral kids. He only knew one thing in his heart for sure; he was going to have own his pound of flesh.
Willow: -they must be a way to control this thing
-Think of something now!
-How does it work, I need to control it
-If I cannot control this thing
-Then it will keep on controlling me
- Like it has done for the past two days.
Willow kept on trying to use his new power and asking himself more than a million questions about how it works, but the power still was controlling him. He flew and landed in front of a moving van and got crushed by it but only realized that his body became petrified the moment the van ran him over. Willow went forth trying to control these powers in him. It was just a mater of thinking what to do, where to be, how to do it and having the willpower to execute any of his wishes. Willow also found out that he could move at the speed of light.
Willow: -I want to be on top of the first freeman statue
-Awesome! It works. I can do this!
-The world is at my mercy.
- The whole world is my play ground
At this time Willow was trying just about anything. It was so awesome being able to do just any thing in the world at his will. He thought of flying to the house and it was executed. The only problem he had was that he could not pass through a wall without breaking it something he finally found the solution to, by realizing that he could also magnet or repel things and adhere together in any fashion.
Willow: -I have to fix this some how.
-Mother is going to be mad at me for breaking this windowpane.
- I have got to fix it before she get in here this evening.
Mrs. Tania summers: -Willow, sweetheart is that you?
Willow discovered that he could as well recompose the broken parts of glass on the floor as well as those that fell on the terrace from the sixth floor where the summer’s apartment was found. In a moment’s notice he brought the window back to normal. It was amazing but true that he could magnet and stick things together.
Like most teenagers growing up in a broken home, willow did not have the parental love that he ever wished for more than anything. His father committed suicide when he was only eighteen months old. Mr. Daniel Summers was a Superbeing and used his own powers to steal from other people. This was because he was poor, indebted and could not find a job any where he went. Mrs. Tania Summers care about her Alcohol and boyfriend than she did her own son.
As time went on, willow also discovered he could not only magnet objects but also carry them away. Objects that could weigh even more than a thousand tone. He could also repel them if he wanted to.
In the evening, the night came a little faster than he expected but that did not stop him from carrying out his plan to frighten two of his three little enemies. He started up with the home of Desmond; the master planner. Willow deprived the building from electricity. Then he tossed Desmond who was begging and had already wet his trouser on the air and after suspending him for several minutes, he nailed him to the ceiling without harming him. He did the same for Brandon but spared Rolland because even though Rolland hanged around with the two bullies all the times he was not involved in most of their wicket activities.
Willow: Well, Well! So what can you do about this now huh?
Desmond: - let me down Willow, I know it is you.
- If you don’t, then I will scream
And my father will come in to this room.
- He is going to call the police
Willow: -let me guess, you just don’t understand, do you?
- Now let me see if I could make this a little more clear for you.
- Even your poor little Father or the police that u count on
- Would be incapable of touching my feet
- You use to be so in charge of everything huh!
- But I am sorry it’s my turn now
- And it’s something stronger than anything u know
- So deal with it. Or go to hell for all I care
Furious as he was, Willow said just as little as he could because he was a man of few words. He flew out to the terrace and lifted Desmond’s car, moved it up to the top of a nearby five story building and drop it on top the roof.
When Desmond was discovered by Curtis, his younger brother whom he often battered, Curtis scorned at him with hot annoyance.
Curtis: - ooh! Look at this, Are we trapped!!!?
- Ouch! That must hurt so badly you know!
- It sucks right? I mean hanging up there so helpless
- That must be some kind of revenge
- From one of the guys you must have hurt so badly
- Or let say nature is catching up with you
- For the cats dogs and other animals that you hurt over the years
-Oh the poor thing can’t take it no more, then he invited
-Spiderman to take care of Goblin for him
Desmond: - Curtis tell Dad to call the police, to get me out of here
- And stop ranting for this is no time
- For mockery and stupid jokes
Curtis: -oh you want to get down, sorry
- I forgot that you were hanging up there!
-This is no joke Des, just the reality
-And you got to deal with it
-It will teach you not to treat others or even animals
-With such Malice
Desmond: -it’s true that I have been so mean to guys at school
- Including you my own kid brother
-But like you said I learned my lesson little Bro,
- So go get Dad to get me out of here
Curtis: you know a while ago,
- If I was told that the mighty Desmond
- would stand as low as an apology to me,
- I would say; in a dream!
-but today, its feels like a lesson learned for you
- And I hope you change for the better because
- The next pay back would even more painful Des!
- Believe me or not your wrongs will always hunt you
- So change before it you get busted
Desmond: - I’ll do Bro, just get dad please,
-if I was not hanging up this ceiling, I’ll be on my kneels
- I can no longer feel my hands and feet, please
After he felt that he had mocked Desmond enough Curtis who was seated on the floor and leaning back on the wall decided to call out to his father. Dr Porter left his study room and moved up to Desmond’s room and Mrs. Porter followed.
Curtis: -Daddy, Desmond is hanging on the ceiling.
Dr Porter: - what happened Curtis, why is your brother hanging on the ceiling?
Curtis: -I don’t know Dad, I met him hanging there.
Curtis told his father but would not stop mucking at Desmond,
Desmond: - it was willow that did this to me dad.
Dr. Porter: - who the heck is Willow and how did he get in to my home?
Desmond: - He is my classmate who started acting weird
-And doing outlandish thing at school.
Dr. Porter: -And why would you classmate do this to you Des?
- We accidentally pushed him
From the top of a ten story building
- And he fell and did not sustain any injury
- He is dangerous and this is his revenge Dad!
Mrs. Porter stood and was already crying, she thought that someone had hurt her boy. She further asked her husband to bring her son down.
Mrs. Melina Porter: - Let him down sweetheart, I will allege the police.
- This willow could become a problem for us
-If we let this crime go scot-free
- Desmond’s car has also disappeared
-From the parking lot
As Dr Porter took a manual cuter and a ladder to free his son from the ceiling Mrs. Porter went down stairs to call the police. Inspector James Howard also was alerted that it happen to his son Brandon too, while he was at work. At this time, Inspector Howard was in a state of total chaos as he left the police department for home together with patrol partner; inspector Daniel Gage. And at the same time Inspector Jonathan Coleman also headed for the Porter residence together with inspector Kelvin Sly. Coleman and his Patrol partner arrived at the Porter Residence at the moment Dr Porter was trying to free his son from the manacles on the ceiling.
Mrs. Porter: - come right in Inspector, my husband is in our son’s room
- Upstairs, Where this took place,
- You would probably move upstairs and turn left,
- And then knock the door right next to you.
Coleman: - Understood madam!
Coleman and Sly went upstairs and entered into Desmond’s room. This was not the routine and in the event stranger than anything the two police officers had ever seen in their line of duty.
Dr Porter: - come on in Gentlemen, as far as you can see,
- My son is been hanging on this ceiling
For close to two hour now
- The criminal fled and this I think is a premeditated crime
- I also think that this kind of thing is not of this world.
Coleman: - its okay Doc let us do our job
- And let your son speak for himself what he saw.
- But before I get to that,
I have a few questions for you Doctor.
Dr Porter: -oh! Questions are okay,
I want to get to the bottom of this crime.
Coleman: - Did you see or hear any thing that makes you think that
- Someone came into your home and did this to your son?
Dr Porter: - No Inspector,
I only heard my younger son Scream my name
- Saying I should come upstairs
And see what happen to his elder brother.
Coleman: - Dr Porter, it’s true that
This crime could be marked as outlandish
- But just simple curiosity
- Do you have any enemies around the city?
Dr Porter: - No Inspector, I don’t have any enemies as far as I know.
- I don’t drink beer or keep late nights;
I guess I don’t even have that time.
- My job takes most of my time
- And when I am home
I spend much time with my wife and kids.
- And then part of the time at the study room.
Mrs. Porter: what a liar!
You never spend time with any one
But your books in the study room (she murmured to herself)
Just at the time Coleman started interrogating Curtis and Desmond, Inspector Sly went back to the police cab and took an electric cuter to cut out the cuffs on Desmond’s hands and feet. He was liberated and free of wounds but felt pains on his arms and ankles. There was nothing wrong with any other thing in the room.
Coleman: - if that is Desmond hanging over there then that makes you…?
Curtis: - Curtis, the younger one!
Coleman: -faire enough, Curtis the younger,
Did you witness any weird thing?
That happened to your brother here
- When he got nailed to the ceiling?
Curtis: - No sir, I found him hanging up there
And he was not saying any thing.
- But he told my father that
It was one of his class mates that hanged him up there.
Coleman: - thank you Curtis; there are no more questions for you.
Coleman: - Desmond Porter you were tossed or should I say teleported in to the air and cuffed on the ceiling
-I want to know who did this to you
-And how we could trace this criminal
-I will also like to know what could prompt someone to do this to you.
Desmond: -Sir, it was Willow Summers who hanged me up this ceiling
It all began when me and my two friends;
Brandon and Rolland
Pushed him from a ten story building and he fell
But did not die nor sustain any injury
Coleman: - so you mean to tell me that this individual
Is some kind a supernatural being?
- That he will fall from a six story building
-And still stay alive?
- Say something else kid,
- You must have pushed something else in his place.
- He must have plaid over your intelligence
For you to think that he actually fell.
Desmond: - No sir, I saw his body
-Lying On the terrace near the flower pot
- But when we all ran panicking down to see his lifeless body
- He was gone.
- This was the strangest thing
I have ever seen in my entire life
Coleman: -No more question for Desmond Porter.
-But if I need you, I know where to get you
- Doctor porter,
- Your son must not leave the city
-Until we are able to lay hands on this Willow Summers.
-Or should I say David Copperfield
-And unravel this entire mystery.
Doctor Porter: - You can count on me for that officer!
At the Howard resident, Inspector Howard liberated his son who also told him that it was willow who hanged him on the ceiling.
Howard: - Brandon, things have not been so alright with you lately,
- So can you tell precisely what is going on?
And who is behind all this mystery?
Brandon: - Dad, it’s one of my class mates
-He started acting strange lately
- I and my friends accidentally pushed him
- And he fell from a ten story building
- We were all terrified the moment he fell
- But to our utmost disclosure,
We came down and did not find his body.
Howard: - Did you inform me or the police?
Brandon: - But Dad!
Howard: - no buts answer the question
Brandon: -No Dad, we apologized to him
But it seems he did not accept the apology.
Howard: - Did you inform your school authority about it
Brandon: - but Dad! Nothing happened to him, he did not die.
Howard: - you need to be very careful Brandon.
-Or that arrogance of yours is going be
- All you will have left someday
- When one of your mischievous actions
-Must have gotten you derailed for good
- I guess I am playing my role as a father to guide you as my son
- But you aren’t behaving like a son should
- Like I have told you once, if you don’t listen,
- That arrogance of yours might come to be all you have left
- Even the ones you call friends today
-Who are leading you into all these negative things!
-Are not going to be there for you
- Brandon!
-I don’t want you to look back down the road someday
- And wonder what could have been
-you should be in a better position to know
- Where that pass could lead a man
- Like I said, I am here to guide you as a father
- And watch you grow in to the man I will be proud to train
Brandon: - yes sir!
Willow Summers was taken unaware whilst sleeping some time at about 10pm into police custody after inspectors Coleman and Howard learned from the victims that he was behind the incident that same night.
Coleman: - Look here Mr. Summers,
- We are keeping you here in the police department
- Until you are able to convince the police
-About you’re innocent.
- If not tell us what you used to nail Desmond Porter
- And Brandon Howard on the ceiling
Willow: - Sir I have got nothing to claim other than my innocence.
- But there are also a lot of mysteries happening out there.
- Check and see if that was not one.
- Meanwhile I should be going home to my poor
- And already troubled mother
Howard: - Gentleman, you won’t be stepping a leg from here
- My boy never tells lies, if he says you are the one
- Behind this crime
- Then all I have to say is that you are guilty of the charge
- It is hard to keep you here
- But we would be making the furthermost mistake
- If we let you out there to hurt more people
- So we shall keep you until we find out that
- You are incapable of hurting someone
Willow: - Oh no, I can’t stay in the jail cell, it too dangerous for me,
- I am a student and I stand to loose a lot if I am put into a cell.
- Have mercy on me sir.
- My poor mother will die if she finds out that I am in a jail cell.
Howard: - you should have thought about her
-Before committing a crime
- She is not going to find out about this,
If we find out that you are not behind this, trust me
Unfortunately for Willow, there was nothing to proof that he was innocent. Fifty-five minutes after he was put into the jail cell where he shared the compartment with a boy who was accused of stealing ninety thousand Vaitz. From his Uncle’s Bed side drawer, he eloped, breaking the iron bars and fixing them back the way they were and then the prison walls. Together with his new cell mate he ran away but later on parted ways with him behind the prison yard.
Teddy Shaw: - hey, daddy’s boy what is your crime?
- How old are you, fifteen? Or let me guess sixteen…?
- Aren’t you too young to be here?
Willow: - I should be asking the same questions
- But as you will find out a moment from now
- I have no time for that
- Because I have got to leave this place in the
-In less a short while from now
- My mom can’t find out that I am in a jail cell,
- So I have to leave.
Teddy: - you have got to be kidding me,
-who the hell do you think you are any way,
- David Rice in jumpers
- He is to fine to be you.
- If you want I could lend you some coins though!
- So that you can call your little mama to come bail you up
With your family attorney
- Go and lie on your bed and relax man!
- I know that kind of stress
- Believe me I have been through it.
Teddy will not stop scorning at Willow who at the moment was thinking of his next destination. Before Teddy could notice, Willow was already out of the bars and was about to close them. He begged for Willow to let him out too. Willow who could also feel when a person is innocent about a crime, felt for Teddy and let him out of the bars. The noise Teddy made was already arousing the attention of other inmates but Willow fixed the bars quickly and disappeared with Teddy and reappeared behind the prison yard. The other inmate nearby began to talk about what they just saw.
Teddy: - I said it man, you are a jumper
- Now, that was just like David rice
- I like the way you closed those bars and the walls too.
- Can you please teach me how to do those things that you do?
- If I were you I will go straight to the bank
- And take all the money there present.
Willow: -if you were me you will hate me!
Teddy was still talking, when Willow disappear saying nothing more than just a phrase. Too thrilled Teddy stood behind the prison yard, not only rejoicing his freedom but also became so astounded by Willow’s amazing actions.
As the inmates made noise, inspector Daniel Gage and Kelvin Sly came down to the cells to find out what was the mater that caused a lot of disorder. They spoke to inmate Stanley Straws and his cell mate near Willow’s cell and were told about the escape of the two boys.
Daniel: - So Stanley, what happen to the two occupants of the next cell?
Inmate Stanley: - it is mysterious, what I just saw.
- Those two boys are not of this world.
- I saw them pass between bars as if it was a door way.
- This was even swifter than a moving car
- And to the point where
Martin here passed out on seeing it
Daniel: - I can see it’s actually a mystery like you said Stanley.
- I’ll get back to you boys.
Willow further discovered that he needed not to break in to a bank or have a credit card to get money but just to place a hand on the money distributor and get memorize a series of codes that were used previously. He could even decode the machine if he wanted.
Flying swift in the air, Willow drop on top of the sky scraper LAGONZA casino building where there was a swimming pool. There were many swimmers; men, women and children swimming and enjoying themselves in the beautiful pool at the top of a casino. He took the elevator in order to avoid breaking and building walls and also not to be noticed by any one while he break and build. Straight from the elevator in the gambling hall of the casino he moved to the money machine and forced out a hundred thousand Vaitz then went over to a mini fast-food restaurant found on the left part of the casino hall. Willow was served some cheeseburgers and a Pepsi cola drink. After he consumed his meal, he approached a casino table where a beautiful Meden was being cheated upon. He could also detect all the other cheaters in the hall up to a point where it became an obsession for him.
Mss. Nicole Campbell: - its my turn and this time around,
- Be prepared because I am going to take away
- That your beautiful brief case full of banknotes
-before I go away
Nash Simpsons: - Lets just watch and see how a lady
- Who just plaid nine games and won only three
- Is going to win the final game
- With all what I have put across
- I bet you, it’s going to be a tough job for you young lady
Thomas Route: -Well! Well! She wants to challenge me
-remember I have three games too!
- But I will make sure I put her where she belongs
- That is with the losers
As the tenth game was served, Willow fixed his eyes on the game. Nicole was not so sure that she could win but she felt that if she could mount a little pressure on the guys, they might end up in chaos or a quarrel where she could easily read the cards and know what is in their hands and then use it to win the game but her plan was far from working for everyone present at the table was aiming high on the large sum of money which was to the tune of one million Vaitz. So it was inadmissible that anyone there present lose the slightest attention over the game.
As they plaid on, Willow who had already seen the dark game plaid by Nash and Thomas, displaced the cards with his eyes and the game went in favor of Nicole. She declared her self winner of the game and took the brief case. Every one on the table was disconcerted at the moment Willow smiled and walked away. Nicole also went into the elevator with the case of one million Vaitz that she just won investing only three hundred and fifty thousand Vaitz. Then she moved upstairs to relax first in the sunny pool water before heading home.
Nash: - hey! Hey! Who are you and what have you done to my game.
- You distracted me and the lady won huh!
Willow who did not offer a word left and went up stairs through the stair well.
Nash: - yes, that’s it go away and dare not come back here ever
From the video room, the director of the casino assigned security to go after Willow who was already climbing the stairs. As the two security men approach the stairwell and went up through it in a hurry, they found no one in it. Willow was already at the roof even before Nicole came out of the elevator. The two security men separated and one of them took the elevator
Mendez: - Sir there is no one in the stairwell
- He must have gotten away through another means
Rudolph: - he is not on the roof either
Director: -is this some kind of joke
-or you are declaring your selves not fit for your job anymore?
- Well then come back and be watchful
- I don’t want some thing like that to repeat it self.
- You boys need to be keen
- In order to track down criminals like that one.
- And this does not happen again
-because if it does, you all know where you will be
- Out of the casino for good
Willow came up to the spot where Nicole was standing with a glass of juice in her hands. He avoided going too close to her. In a moment, Nicole mistakenly let go the brief case. She screamed and took off quickly to go down through the elevator and get it before some one lays hands on it. But it was not until Willow gave her the surprise of her life, that she knew the money was not gone. He swiftly got the case before it even got to the fifty eight floor and appeared in front of her, out of the blue with it just at the moment she was about to enter the elevator that is close to twenty seconds later.
Nicole: -interesting!
-since when have aliens become the security of this casino?
Willow: - I think the appropriate phrase would be thank you sir for bringing back my brief case
Nicole: -Oh! Thank you sir, for almost shoplifting my brief case
-so how did you do that huh?
Willow: do what?
-I mean how did get my brief case back?
- That must be some kind of old magic
- Well, you got nothing to tell me, well the pleasure is mind.
Willow: - My father,
-he thought me a few defense tactics before passing away.
- trust me on this one!
-it’s not magic, just my knowhow.
Nicole: -your father must have been a genius, so do you.
-so keep it up men.
-Oh No! It was you, in the casino hall
- Near the table where I was playing
-leave me alone, I can see you are truly not of this world.
-I have got enough problems already
-so stay away from me
Willow: - what are you talking about?
Nicole: -you changed the game in favor of me!
- With what I had in my hands
-I could never have won that game and I knew so.
-I mean, I felt like it was manners from heaven.
-Or a bed of roses
- But seeing the looks on the faces of my table mates
- I admit I can’t have been any less enticed than this
Nicole moved back to the place where the case fell to take a good look at the height again. It was unbelievable to her that this actually happened. Willow followed her and began to convince he that she was in trouble with the other men at the casino table where she won.
Willow: Don’t stay here it too dangerous for you
-they are coming right after you,
-come with me and I will get you out of here to a safe place.
Nicole: - oh! Superman realizes he made a mistake
-to give back the case to me
-and now you want to take me to a quiet place
- To shoplift my money again
-no I will not come with you for any reason in the world
-why didn’t you keep it when you took it earlier
-it is out of the question that I come with you
- I hardly even know you
- Who is coming after me and why would they do so?
Willow: - oh common! I am not a thief,
-and I am not shoplifting anything
- remember the guys with whom
-you were playing at the casino table?
-well, they used someone else’s money to play the game
- And now they would have to pay for it with their lives
-if the don’t get back the money.
-they must be in the elevator coming up to get you now
Nicole: - so what are you? Some kind of sorcerer now huh!
Willow: -none of that, I just want to help.
-we’ve got no time left, let’s move
Nicole: the reply is no, I won’t come with you.
Willow was right after all, the four men at the casino table where Nicole played were after her to seize her money and share it. Nash told the rest of them how to proceed. But he know only in his mind that none of the other guys will have even a dime from the money because he will get rid of them and go with the money to the boss after taking the three hundred thousand Vaitz that where added to his boss money to make a million Vaitz. Nicole only gambled with three hundred and fifty thousand Vaitz but in the end won six hundred and fifty thousand Vaitz more. Willow was still unable to persuade Nicole enough that she was in trouble.
Nash: -it is simple,
-Two of you go up stairs through the stairwell
- And I will take the elevator with my friend Thomas here
- look Thomas you are the rightful winner of this money
- And it has to come back equitably
- I will have to see it through that this is done
- But the percentages are sixty for me, thirty for you and ten for the guys
- How would you like that?
Thomas:-no men that is not the right way to do it. It going to be forty five you, forty five for me
Nash: -and ten for the guys right?
- I don’t care whether you bought my idea or not.
- All I truly care now is the retrieval of the money first
Thomas: - well then let’s go for the money first and then we could talk percentages later
Nash: -the is nothing to talk about again, I already made it as clear as spring water
As Nash and Thomas got out of the elevator at the roof of the building, willow was still convincing Nicole to come with him but she was being obstinate but not even having the slightest clue of what awaited her. Nash and Thomas approached them.
Nash: - my memory could never had failed me,
- It has never done so, not even once.
-I somehow knew that
-You had something to do with this bastard.
-And now you two are celebrating with my money.
- Give me the brief case gently
-And I will let you and your Boy Scout walk away from it all
-Without some one hurting anyone
- Because Thomas here is ready to fire
-If I don’t get my money, right Thomas?
Thomas: - that can never be truer than just fire.
-And oh! You don’t want to be on my hit list.
Nash: - he came out with that one for free.
Willow: -too shy! But did I just hear you called me a bastard?
-you should be sick to go after a lady
- And talk to her so meanly, now back up
-and leave before I turn you into durst
Nicole: -is he actually paying you for carrying that weapon?
Thomas: -negative, but I am a big part of this.
-Wait I don’t understand, you mean you two aren’t together?
Nash: -you will never understand a thing Thomas
-Don’t you see it’s her way to get us into perplexity?
Thomas: -oh common!
Nash: -screw you Thomas!
Thomas: -screw you double!
The other two men were already on the roof. Nash pulled out his gun and pointed it at Nicole.
Nash: -now give me the money and stop wasting my time.
Nash stretched a hand to hold the case and willow pushed it away and with out anyone noticing he held Nash’s hand and break it, just at the time Thomas and the two other men pull out their weapons to should at willow, he acted faster than they could ever think of. He pulled Thomas and the two other guys and threw them into the pool. Holding Nicole in his arms he flew away at the speed of light. A stray bullet from Nash’s weapon got a ten years old boy on his leg. He never got to see the bullet, only heard the shot and pass out. The poor little thing was relaxing on a chair after several hours of swimming. One other stray bullet from Thomas’s weapon got the brief case bursting and passing through it to the other side but did not harm Nicole anyway.
There was complete disorder the moment the gun shot went, people there present began to run in all senses three men in the cause of running away from the gun shot fall from the top of the hotel
As willow flew passed the next story building, he got pulled away by a strange force and Nicole fell off his arms. The brief case also fell away to a different direction as willow got puzzled. In the time frame of ten seconds he came back to himself and flew down catching the already falling Nicole on the air. She was screaming loudly as she knew in her heart that she was going to die. Then he caught hold of the falling case too as fast as he could. All these in just fifteen seconds, so then willow flew with the already dazed girl to the top of the first freeman statue. She was now wrapped up in bewilderment to a point where she almost passed out.
Nicole: -what did you do to me?
-Where am I?
-What exactly are you?
-A spirit from the underworld!
- A wizard or just superman
-trying to carry out his next heroic job!
-Whatever it is, I don’t care any more
- Just take me out of here immediately
Willow: -hey! One question at the time okay!
-And I will answer all.
-I read people’s minds,
-I can do whatever I want, whenever I want to,
-Disappear; I can change situations to favor me
-Or who so ever I want to
-I can look in your eyes
-and know whatever it is that you are thinking about
-In the present and what you thought of in the past.
-I can also guide some one to see in the near future.
Nicole: -stop right there, that is not true,
-I have got enough of your sermons this afternoon
-I want you to tell me exactly what you want from me.
-What ever you are Spiderman, ironman or jumper,
-I don’t want to know now
-All I want is that you take me out of here.
Willow: -Your mother remains in jail if you go alone
-Because they are going to take the money away from you
Nicole: -what! What are you talking about?
-I mean what do you know about my mother?
Willow:-she was incarcerated for a crime some one else committed
-The money was taken by
- the managing director of the bank where she works
She is just an innocent accountant in a jail cell.
I can still see what happened as I am talking to you.
Nicole: -my goodness how did you know all that?
Tears began to dripping from her eyes down her cheeks as she listened to willow talk about her own mother’s rough days. She had always known that her mother was innocent but there hardly was a way to proof it out.
Nicole:-So you actually made me to win at the casino
-because you knew my predicament huh
-I am sorry for being mean to you all this time,
-willow is the name right?
Willow: -well, let’s say
-I only helped to bring back what rightfully belong to you
-When I got to the casino my eyes went round
-And I saw all those cheaters
-And it was unfair to people like you
-I decided to help out the rightful winners
-Starting from you, but I was noticed
- By security and those guys at your table
- I got you out of trouble and decided to protect you from them
-Because I had seen the kind of trouble
-your mother is lying in
Now come and see what is cooking up for you
Willow held her eyes from behind and she was able to see what Nash and his gang were planning against Nicole.
Nash: there exists only one place where she could go
-And that is home.
-So locate her home and we will find the money.
Thomas: -I know just where to get that,
-The computer takes care of all the address issues.
-So this can give us her home location
- And we shall take care of the rest.
-Oh that’s right! I found her receipt
-Here are her full names; Nicole Campbell
-I am on it right away in the cyber café across the street
Nash: -be brief, so that she don’t get to spend
-even a dime on the money
Thomas: -trust me on this one, it going to be swifter than you know
Thomas went across the street in the nearby cyber café and did the search on Nicole and the result come out to be 58Appt., new berry building, third alley Westwood Avenue, New Morgan City. Thomas presented a paper work to Nash saying.
Thomas: perfect,
Nash, this is some paper work on the address men!
It is just ten minutes drive from her.
Nash: -great job, it is the best thing you have done so far.
Thomas: -you know that isn’t true men!
Nash: -what ever!
-Lets move, we have got to retrieve that money before dark
-If not we are all dead walking men
-Colonel King is coming right after us
-if we don’t get his money to him
Thomas: -wait you mean we are tracking down this lady
-For you to collect the money
-and give it to that psychopath of a colonel!
Guys lets go, let the lady go away,
It her money after all she won it
From the first to the last game
We only cheated on her from the first to the last game
But she still won anyway
Nash: out of the question,
No one is quitting
We are into this together
And we shall get to the bottom of it together
Nash shot Thomas who became a little obnoxious for him, right on his fore head. The two other men followed him out of the casino building and they drove off to Westwood in his car because they already knew what it will mean trying to contradict the great Nash. Thomas’s body was hidden in a lavatory, where a man went in to ease himself and discovered his lifeless body and called the police.
Nash: -thank you Thomas for the address
- But this is where we path ways
-Rest in piece loser!
Nicole was terrified, the moment willow took off his hands from her eyes should could never have imagine such a conspiracy to get her, by Nash the master planner.
Nicole: -please don’t leave me alone come with me to the biz-master bank
-So that you could protect me from any unforeseen circumstances
-But first I need to keep the money in my account
-So that the money could be safe
-While I work out the plan to bail my mother out of the prison
Willow:-I will come but the moment your mother is released
-I will go away and continue my way
Nicole: -no you won’t go away you are going to stay
-For me to personally take great care of you
Willow: -out of the question
Nicole: -why?
Willow: -because I am different and you know it.
Nicole: - you are not different you are kind and gentle
-you know how to nicely treat a lady
-And many other qualities that haven’t to unfold yet
Willow: -thanks but it changes nothing
Nicole and willow delivered the money safely at the biz-master bank and headed for the police department of westwood where her mother was being detained. She had kept part of the money with her to help bail her mother, so that she could come and start up with preparations of her court hearing with the bank. Not up to ten minute ago after she paid the bail of her mother, she was release. Mrs. Campbell came right out to the waiting room and took her daughter in her arms.
Nicole; mama what happened to you, you’ve grown so pale
Mrs. Alicia Campbell: its okay my daughter I am going to be fine
- You know I was unable to eat the type of food
- They serve here
- But now that I am quitting this dungeon
-I promise to eat healthily
-The story of taking back
-what I lost in this filthy hole
Nicole: -if you keep to your words
-Then the will be nothing for me to worry about
-By the way, there is some one I want you to meet
-He has been so instrumental in the retrieval of part the money
As Nicole turn to present her new best friend to her own mother, she could not believe her eyes for willow had fled away to continue his adventures as a supperbeing.
Nicole: -my God! He is gone.
-Mother don’t bother you will meet him some times later
-And get to know how kind and helpful he is
-Let’s go home now
-and see how to make you come back to your self
-You have grown so skinny
Mrs. Campbell: I should have thanked your new friend before he left
But you are right let’s go home
That will happen when I next me him.
Inspector Coleman and Howard who could not believe their eye at the moment they found the cell empty in the morning with no traces to show that some break the prison. They had sent out police patrol teams to track down Willow and Teddy but the two had disappeared without a trace.
As willow left Nicole, he wanted to make sure that those hoodlums did not come after her again. So he traced them out and nailed all three of them to the walls of an old building in the out skirt of the city, just the way he did with Brandon and Desmond.
Willow: -Nash or whatever you are called
-I don’t want you stocking the people I care about any more
-You can rest assure of the fact
- It will take long until someone finds you hoodlums
-Or even hear your cry
-So until I am convinced that
-you will do no harm to people again
-Then will I deliver you from this hell
- And even then I will hand you over to the police
Nash: -let me out and I will forever remain submissive to you
Willow: -tell that to the number of people
- You brought within the cemetery
Willow went back up to the first free man statue and was thinking about the force that pulled him down earlier in the day when he was flying away with Nicole in his arms. There was a room on top of the statue where he had never step a leg in ever since he stated landing on the statue. So willow decided to see how the place looks like as he entered the room, nothing had ever been so painful ever since he first realized that he possessed these powers as he fell in to a magnetic trap. It was at this point that he knew that there existed some thing that could counter his powers and that it was a magnet. As a mater of fact it was a magnet that pulled him down at the time he was flying with Nicole in his arms. Unfortunately for him it had started weakening his power and there was just nothing he could do about it.
Willow: so my weakness comes from a magnetic field.
Now more than ever I know what happened
When I was flying with Nicole in my arms
There was a large magnet in the center of that building
That pulled me away.
And now how can I get out of this one
I am becoming weaker and weaker by the minute
Willow was unable to release himself from the magnet but one thing was sure enough for him. He knew at least what was happening to him.
Spencer Morgan: this is the problem with you supperbeings of today
You thought you could just move about saving lives
And enjoying your self
And there will be no consequences just like that
Consequences always comes my boy, sooner or later
So this is all about stopping injustice huh?
You are not going to get any where with this
There will always be consequences
And injustice will continue to invade the world
Whether you like it or not
If you don’t learn how to be smart
But let me tell you something
There are more than a billion sinners in the world
And we only make up a small portion of it
Do you count on getting rid of them too?
Well my boy I think you just found yourself
On the wrong side of the river
Willow: hey, who are you? And what do you want from me?
Or rather how did you get up here?
Spencer: Ah! Now I know, you thought you were alone?
The moment I saw you I knew at once
That you were going to end up between magnetic fields
Let me give you a little advice,
Stay away from the drainers
They are the ones setting magnetic traps
For novice like you
If they lay hands on you,
- They will keep you in a magnetic room and wait for orders
-To come from the National security to get rid of you
And that my friend will be the end of you
Watch your back men!
Willow: hey, please don’t go away
Let me out of here first
After all we are the same
And we could unite forces to fight the drainers back
Whoever they are
Spencer: -you are right but I would not cherish you follow me around
Because I once helped a superbeing out
And found my self in a magnetic trap
That almost got me into the magnetic room
If not of my great experience as superbeing
Spencer took two long aluminum bars and sent them down for willow to hold it and climb out of the room. The role of the bars was to block the magnetic fields from having further contact with his hands and feet as he climb out. This worked perfectly. Just at the moment willow got out two drainers arrived in a helicopter to check the magnetic trap they were: Joseph Crown and Jason Trevor. They have been tracking down superbeings for years including Spencer who to them was the smartest superbeing they knew.
Spencer: hurry up men they are here
Willow: count on me for eloping
As the helicopter touched down on top of the statue, Joseph who was having an electromagnetic wave pistol in his hands shot out electromagnetic waves to the two superbeings who now more that ever were smarter than any thing. But that was invene for they had disappeared even before he shot out the waves. As they landed on the beach, Spencer told Willow;
Spencer: those waves that he shot could go up to thirty GHz in wave length
If a strand of it touches you
Then you will lose all your strength for close to two minute
In which case it would be easy for them to lay hands on you
And then increase the dose
Such that you only find yourself in the magnetic room
But if you don’t get a continues dose
And happen to flee
Before you get in to the magnetic room
Then you will be smarter than you have ever being
In your entire supperbeing life
At this point that I know so much about drainers
I think I should be the one to hunt them down now
So that one can move around
And do what ever he wishes without being followed.
Willow: yeah, I think we should hunt them and track them down
I have got ways to detained them
For as long as they would stay out of our way
Joseph and Jason discovered where Nash and friends were suspended by willow
Joseph: tell me how to find him and I will set you free
Do you know his mother or any close to him?
Nash I don’t know his family
But I do know some one who fits the profile
That you are searching.
But the one thing is that
What guarantees me that you will release me afterwards
Or let alone let me stay alive
Joseph: your freedom depend on how true the information is,
As a mater of fact I will release you then you can talk
Nash: I know who you work for
Colonel Norman King, I work for him too
Until that little hero showed up and spoiled everything
Joseph: not any more because I don’t even know that bastard
And I am giving all three of you your freedom
Joseph asked Jason to release them and as they were released, Nash started to elope at the moment he saw what the electromagnetic pistol did one of his Henchmen, he did not hesitate to give out the information about Nicole.
Nash: -her name is Nicole Campbell, tall and slender with blond hair.
-She and mother live in 58appt 10th street New Morgan City
Before he would even finish saying New Morgan City, Joseph shot him with the electromagnetic pistol and he was at his dying point. Jason went after the third man and shot him dead. The simple reason being that, they knew for whom Joseph and Jason were working. This alone could bring their entire mission to ruins, if the police found out their activities.
Joseph: rest in peace loser
I should have spare your life
If you did not stick your nose around
To know things that could implicate me.
The drainers left the old building and went for New Morgan City in search of Nicole.
While standing on the beach and thinking of what to do next after Spencer had gone his way asking Willow not to follow him behind, willow spotted a plane which had crashed in the air and was struggling and finding a place to land. He flew up to the plane and held it, controlling it to land on the airport which was just about ten miles away from the beach. Five minutes later, Spencer joint in to help out the plane, he had sat back and though about what willow told him, that is uniting forces to fight again the superbeing slayers what over the years had grown to be huge problem for him and now willow’s problem too.
Never has there been this type of happening in Morgan Island before. As the plane landed on the run way, willow and Spencer flew away together. And the emergency evacuation was established almost immediately. The fire fighting unit had also begun spraying high pressure of water on the air craft. After the evacuation, Ring box broadcasting TV was already there and had interviewed two of the passengers who talked about the crash as being a mystery. Jessica Smithfield reports for the Ring Box Television;
Smithfield – we are at the Oval airport of New Morgan city
-Where an aircraft on fire just landed and all indications proof that
- There were no casualties aboard
-and everyone aboard seem to be okay
- I am standing right in front one of the survivors
-And here is what he has to say
- Mss Jessica Smithfield Ring Box Television,
-to whom do I owe the honor Sir?
Keyright -Keyright, Brian Keyright
Smithfield -Mr. Keyright you actually is one of the lucky
One hundred and eighty two passengers
Of fight 102 of the newly put in place AIR MORGAN
So what does it feel like being so alive
After such an almost untimely experience
Keyright – Lucky! But I would confess that,
- left aside the turbulence that we witnessed on the air,
- In the first few minutes of the crash
- There were no other moments of absolute panic
-Aboard the aircraft and God was totally in control of the plane.
Smithfield- thank you and May God give you a long and happy life
- We now move on to our next lucky man of the day
- Sir you look a little pale,
-this shows that the flight was stressful
Mark Peligan- not stressful in the actual sense
- But in the psychological point of view
-Such as the state of the mind
-at the moment the plane caught fire
- Well but as far as I know, there are no casualties
-and from what I saw,
- No one aboard even ventured to use the contamination mask,
-It was kind of everything being normal
-But unlike the first fifteen minutes of crash
-when I thought we were going to crash so badly
-and there will be no survivor
-but it became magical a few minutes later
-And the intriguing thing was the plane’s left wing
-whose fire did not smother until touchdown
-when the fire fighting unit started spraying at the fire
Smithfield- thanks you sir
-right now the evacuation of the AIR MORGAN just ended
- And I have here in front of me the pilot
-and the co-pilot; Captain Mason Madison and Mervin Raymond
- Sir that was a beautiful touchdown for a plane on fire
- What could be the cause of the fire?
- And how did you manage to actually bring down
- A hundred and eighty two lives in an air plane
-we are talking about close to eighty five thousand tones
- Without a single casualty
Captain Mason –the true cause of fire on AIR MORGAN is that
One of the wings of the plane flew through
Two charged clouds, one positive and the other negative
This is not a routine and these two charged bodies collided and
Sparked in to a huge flame that caught the two left engines
This Immediately breakdown the reactors
And we started losing control over the plane
After fifteen minutes, the plane suffered collision
With a cluster of migrating birds
And the other two reactors also stopped functioning
The plane was now left on its own with strong turbulences
For about two minute, then it’s began flying normally
Without the aid of any one
My colleague and I even thought we were on automatic piloting
But that was far from being the case
It’s actually a mystery how we got out safely and to admit that
We weren’t in control of the plane entirely for over fifteen minutes
And the plane was not in automatic piloting
But through the outward view camera, Mervin sported someone
Under the plane but at the front part of it
I have never seen something like that
And I don’t believe it exist but at that timeless moment
I said to Mervin, if God has sent someone
To take us out of this situation then we should be thankful to him
Smithfield- you mean some unknown being
-Took over the control of your plane
- I mean this remind me of the ultimate story of
- Life savings by dolphins during certain water accidents
Raymond – we could only see him partly as the camera couldn’t make
-A full coverage of the plane’s front part
-Even at full zoom one could hardly see his face
Because he was facing front and so did the camera
Suddenly we found out that they were two of them
-They automatically piloted the plane and landed it here safely
- But before the evacuation ever begun they had disappeared
Joseph and Jason watched the news and got this information about their nightmare (Superbeings)
Joseph – superbeings! So they are now saving life so that
-the public will take them for heroes
I don’t so much like the sound of the word hero,
-Superbeings neither
-but I would not let that happen, they must return to
- Heaven, hell or where ever they come from Jason
Jason – yeah, you are right because they don’t belong to our planet
-But we must meet Reverent Colonel King
- For him to give us more men and more weapons
Joseph -You got a point right there and that is exactly what is lacking
-Reinforcement in men as well as in weapons
-let me call King and alert him that immediately
- Sir, here is Joseph, (talking on the phone)
-I am calling to let you know the present situation
-The mission is at the verge being compromised
- It will not be long until the public is informed
- By the media who actually brought down the crashed plane safely
King -just do the job I employed you for
-and leave the public interest for me to handle
-Don’t forget that you are working for the National security
-And must be efficient in what you do
-or else the job will be mutated to a more fit agent
-I should be convinced you don’t want that to happen now
-Satellite has located ten more superbeings within Morgan Island
-And now I am giving you forty-eight hours to bring me their heads
-There is a lot of insecurity with the presence of these creatures
- In Morgan Island the police have already registered
-A hundred dead since the last year
-The Government counts on this mission to rid this error of nature
-I am sending you then more men
-And everything that you will be needing
-These will normally include devices for teleportation
-And tracking trough satellite and strong weaponry
- The men and weapons are on the way as I speak
- So track them down, all of them!
-Even if it requires seeing them off at the gate of hell,
-Do it and be sure you will get major rewards on this one this time.
- I will also like you to take care of something for me
-The is a man out there in waterfalls
- Using my identity to do dirty businesses track him down!
-And make it look suicide
- I will have my most competent data analyst guide you
-At every step of the way should in case
-you need further tracking measures
- remember the Government is putting large sums of money
-So if you fail, that will mean I have failed too
Joseph – there is no point of doubt sir, Consider all that done
Willow and Spencer now work as a team to stop violence and remedy unexpected incidences
TREASURE HOODLUMS
It all began like a joke. William told his friends about the paradise on earth. Earlier that day, he has been to the internet to make his research when he came across some photos. No one will believe this supper cool, environment existed, but all they wanted was a beautiful place that they would spend their eight days of sightseeing and adventures. Elliott told them it will be well enjoyed in Europe, in the Mediterranean beach. Bryant said he will like to go to Australia, for he wanted to know much about the other continents than stay in one place all his teenage life.
Alexis explained to everyone the importance of going to Monte go Bay brought out by her lover Williams but Naomi would not listen because she too had to defend her lover by persuading the others to accept going to Europe. And since Williams and Alexis had the photos with them, everybody was anxious about going to Monte go Bay. At this time, Ryan said,” majority wins the vote” and everyone now turn to congratulate Williams and his lover.
Now as the proposal of the site, Williams will have to come out with strategies and plans to carry out this trip successfully. Everyone was okay with this proposal. Williams then stood up to recount his plan and strategies.
“Well, friends, I don’t know much but I will first of all thank everybody for being here and then Elliot and Alexis with whom I brought out the idea of this adventure. What I have to say here is that, this beach is found in a small town known as Montego found in Jamaica in the Caribbean Island. It is called the Monte go Bay. From what I read on the internet, it has not been visited by so many people before and is yet to be discovered by many site seers.”
“Now the question is, how do we get to Monte go?” Everybody began to murmur, when Williams continued by saying, “we have to leave by plane to Kingston Airport, from where we then go by train to the little town of Monte go. Once in Monte go, we will then rent a truck that takes us down to the bay. Who has a better idea? Please, don’t hesitate to point out.” Williams let the floor for any criticisms but everyone was impressed by his smart plan without any discrepancies. It was at this juncture that he said “everyone should get ready for takeoff, the following day” and the gathering closed.
“So Alex, what are you up to?” Williams whispered as they parted from the company of friends.
While holding him tight in her arms, she replied, “I must confess! My boy friend is so smart; he already said every bit of word that I wanted to hear. I am so glad I found you, you know! For without you, I don’t know what I will become.” She said,
While kissing her, he gently caressed her arms down to her finger-tips. “Don’t ever think about that again. For myself, I will not stand a chance of losing you. By the way, have I ever told you, you are the prettiest girl I have ever met in my entire life?” He kissed her again.
“Not until we are standing here,” she replied starring deep into his eyes.
“Yeah, that’s what I mean and it’s complete for me to say it.” Williams concluded.
“Guess what?”
“What?”
“You are the smartest, handsome and interesting guy I have ever met. I will never for any reason quit you for any son of a bitch. You are my one and only true love,” she continued.
He caressed her up and down her body. Then, came a kiss from her, while her hands were underneath his T-shirt feeling the gently sloping nature of his chest hairs. He felt being touch by an angel. “Alex, why don’t we go now? You know our trip is due tomorrow and we haven’t done any packing yet.” She had gone so deep in a sensation that spun the two together.
“No not now sweetheart,” she grinned yet holding so tight. “Why can’t we wait for a while and then I will accompany you to your home, while you'll see me off in your car,” she whispered.
“Let us make it a deal but before promise me you will not break the deal.”
“I promise my colonel”.
“Alex I was wondering how our eight days of adventure will look like and how the environment might be?”
“Don’t you bother; it’s going to be amazing. You will say I said it.” She told him. As they turned to leave, he held her on the arm and pulled her to his side as they move along the empty street.
“You know sweetheart, I will soon be graduating from the University and I will pick up a job as quickly as possible in a scientific research institution, then I will replace my car, not forgetting to move into an apartment on the beach with a good swimming pool, an orchard and a basketball pitch. This has always been my dream you know. Not to talk when there is a pretty face waiting to make me the happiest man in the world. I will stay far from home, so my mom won’t exert so much of her authority on me and trust me, twenty four years is good enough for me to be on my own.” What do you think sweetheart? “I have to work this out, so that we can be together once and forever. Get married, bear kids of our own, enjoy a harmonious stay as we grow old and grey together. I mean what I am saying because I see my future via your eyes and with the left eye I can glint our kids and a very strong family bond.”
She was tranquil for one moment and suddenly she broke away. “It’s far-fetched and incredulous to hear you speak this way for a man’s destiny is not planned when he is old. So you are right anyway. She was persistent while, saying! After, all time waits for no man but true love; they say last forever. It’s true a man in your age has got to be working out strategies for the near, while not the far future.”
They had just reached the Wiseman residence. Williams said, “Sweetheart, why don’t you wait in the sitting room and let me get my car keys. My mom is asleep and I don’t want us to wake her up.” After he got the keys, they left the house and drove off.
When he came back, he met Sean, his kid brother in the sitting room. He then told him, “Sean can you please meet me up in my room for packing.”
But Sean said, “I am going to mother’s to talk to her first. I will meet you in your room later.” “Mother, I came to remind you as regards the trip I’m taking with my brother”.
“Yeah, Williams told me already and I’m very happy that you boys are now working towards a change of lifestyle. But my son, you know; your dad is no longer here, so the immediate family you have is your brother and me. You’ve really got to pay attention to what happens to him. Don’t let him bear unnecessary risk in the name of being a leading actor as he has always done. By the way, is he back?”
“Yes, mom, he is in his room.
“Please, call for him. I want to talk to you both. Williams, I sent for you. I know you are tight up with preparation for your trip but I thought it wise to gather the family for a small talk before your trip comes up. As I have already told your brother, you boys have got to be careful, for your dad is no longer here and we are the only members of this little family left. Take great care of your brother and yourself and do not hesitate to call me in case you are needy.”
“Mother; I deeply appreciate your courage and the love you have always shown us. I must confess; I don’t know where we would be without you. I will take great care,”
William told his mother. “Now, you boys go and do your packing and try to go to bed early.”
“Thanks mom,” Sean said. Sean and William later did their packing and went to bed.
Meanwhile in Elliot’s home, his mother was pretty happy for him and gave him all he needed for the trip.
Lynda and Maury who share an apartment bargained on what to take with them for the journey ahead.
Ryan and Bryant who are twin brothers also talked about the trip in their home.
The flight was due for 9am.When Alexis got up in the morning, she immediately call on William and was like, “hey sweetheart , please get up, it’s already 7am.We have got to get ready for we do not have much time ahead of us. William left his bed and got his brother up. He then made calls to Bryant, Linder and Elliot to do the same. After the call, he took his bath after his brother’s. Then he did his final checkup to make sure he has forgotten nothing important.
Williams then called his brother and they went into their mother’s room to kiss her goodbye. “Mother, we are leaving,” Williams said.
“Goodbye my sons, I pray that you’ll be guided by God till your return. Once again, take care of your selves and do not forget what I told you last night. Save journey.”
“Thanks, mom,” both brothers replied. He got on the bed, kissed his mother and told her to take great care of herself. They left and went straight to the airport where the rest of the crew was already waiting for departure.
Once at the airport, Williams and his brother checked to see if everybody was in possession of he’s or her passport. At exactly 9am, they took off. What is in Kingston saw them. They then took a train for the little city of Monte-go; a little bit far off the countryside.
On reaching the city of Monte go, it was already night, so they checked into a hotel where they pass the night. The next day, they did shopping and everyone bought what he or she will need for the trip. After which they rented a truck and set off for the bay with two other Vaitnians and one coastguard who knew much about the beach. The Vaitnians were Billy Adams and Maya Simpson who said they were from Santa Milan and adore going out on tours, not to talk about places down the Caribbean Sea limit. Billy was like, “you guys are God sent. I never knew what to do to reach this great beach that I have heard so much about. So do I, Maya said. The coastguard was Mr. Barry Thompson, a father of two. “He told us so much about the bay,” Williams remarked.
“It is a very beautiful beach with incredible feature that you would not want to go home without escalating. One more thing” “and what could that be?” Williams asked zealously.
“It would sound stupid but the place looks frightful at night and tourists are not allowed to move out as from 10pm for there is a mystery about this whole place.”
“I like mysteries,” Elliot grimed.
“What I know is that…” the coastguard continued, “two years ago, 7 American marines were reported missing and it took place at night. Five months ago, nine tourists got missing and lastly four of our guards are nowhere to be found.”
“Just like that? William asked?
“Yes, just like that, Barry replied.
“What if I moved out with a lamp” Alexis asked.
“Try and you will find out yourself,” Barry said.
Most of the girls were already being panic. “I will personally ensure no one; I mean none of us is hurt here okay?” Williams defended. They all nodded and the guard was surprised by William’s way of handling a situation.
Once they got to the bay, they saw six large apartments in which he told them, “it lodges all tourists and marines who come here for their different purposes and it’s eventually where you are lodging for the rest of the time you are going to spend in Monte go Bay. They were nice apartments with four bedrooms each including toilets, large sitting rooms and nicely designed kitchens.
After haven examined the apartments, the story of choosing where to lodge for their eight days of site seeing, they ran to the white sand beach which rendered them blissful, for the environment was magnificent. It was already night, so they went to bed for a good night sleep, resulting from a long and tiring journey.
In the following morning, when everybody woke up, breakfast was served by the ladies. Afterwards, everyone went to the beach and activities began. William and Eliot set on the volleyball net on two poles.
Once they started off with volleyball and when it was hot, they decided to swim. The day ended with playing of card, monopoly, chess and scrabble not forgetting about charade. The following day, Williams, Elliot, Sean, Alexis, Bryant and Naomi escalated the rocky natured mountains around the beach and took picture. Also they did some videotaping with the video camera that they brought. It was fun in all its senses.
“I wish all this never end,” Elliot said.
“As usual, there you go dreaming again!” Williams replied.
While up there, they could see the thick nature of the Caribbean forest and a rocky path that led to nowhere precisely. So, they ignored it and came down to join the others in swimming.
Williams decided to make a call to his mother to inform her about their well being and also to let her know the type of fun they were having down here in Monte go, as he passed through the sitting room to get to his room he spotted a bag on the couch and a wallet on the floor. So he went down to pick up the wallet as it content slept out. They were photos of Billy and Maya escalating the bay side mountains.
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“Oh my God they lied to us, they have been here before” He murmured to himself. “Oh no, something isn’t sounding good here.” He called Alexis, “come over here sweetheart, Take a keen look at these photos, they lied to us, they have been here before, I will have to find out what they are up to.”
“Yeah it not logical at all for them to say they have never been to the bay and then have photos that were taken in the bay,” Alexis remarked.
“Nothing is happening sweetheart, no one not even Sean must know this. I don't want them to find out that we know something about them or making everyone panic Let's keep it a secret while I get to uncover more of what they came to do in Mont ergo.”
Before they would start kissing, Alexis and William put the photos back to the wallet and Williams placed it where he found it. As they kissed on, Billy just walked into the lodge and said; “teenagers! All you do is kiss and kiss” Then he went down for the bag and wallet. Alexis and Williams joint the rest of the crew to swim after he called his mother.
Days passed by and all activities were limited on swimming, escalating the mountains, playing of volleyball and in the night, watching of movies and playing of charade took precedence. In a total of eight days, they had only three left and William was tired of volleyball and all other activities, so he wanted something different. In this light, he kept thinking as Elliot got up and called, “Williams are you up?”
“Yes, I am, just that things are not moving. The activities are all exhausted and I need something new. Please, Elliot, come on over and lets figure out what to do tomorrow.”
Elliot came and suggested that they use the boat and marine attires he saw in the storage room and dive deep in the ocean blue. “But Elliot, don’t you think that will be a little dangerous?”
“Yes it will, but we need something and just that! Why don’t we try?”
“Okay fine! But the others must not know what we are doing with a boat,” Williams said.
“No not at all, they will just believe we are amusing with it and that will be all. You know, I have always dreamed of diving deep like a marine,” Elliot said.
“We can as well take with us a video camera to videotape the beautiful nature of the ocean floor. I want something that I will remember” said Williams.
“Why not take home some of this stuff from beneath the sea and use them as decors?” Elliot added.
“Yes that’s true but we have to be able to get there first.”
“Why don’t we get the marine suit now and hide them far off the beach, so that tomorrow we do not have any difficulty of taking them.”
“Yeah, that’s a better idea,” William confirmed. They took the stuffs from the storage room and went out to veil them on the sandy beach.
“Hey one thing,” Elliot alleged.
“And which is that?”
“ who will control the boat when we are about diving.”
“Brilliant question” Williams said.
“Williams, it is better we take one of the girls with us,” Elliot said.
“Hell no, not a girl, I know who will do the job”
“And who is that? Elliot asked.
“My younger brother, Sean but he will also want to dive. Now this is what we will tell him Williams said. He will dive when we are back with one of us that he will choose.” They had just reached the point where they wanted to hide the suits and Williams called Elliot and said “man, look at the lights over the there. What could that be? Hey! They are approaching. Come on! Let’s move, remember what the coast guard told us,” Williams cried out to Elliot who seemed to be taken, in the manner in which the lights were looming towards them. The light kept pursuing them and they ran into the lodge.
“Hell no” We almost got caught by those monsters.”
“So what have we forgotten?”
“Nothing, then goodnight buddy, Elliot said
“No, not yet, we have to get Sean up.” Williams said
“You right,” Elliott confirmed. So they got Sean up and told him not to make any noise or else he will get everybody awaken.
“So Williams, what did you guys get me up for?” Sean asked.
“Elliot and I have a mission for you little brother.
“And what is this of mission of yours all about?” Sean giggled saying. They told him everything and he was like, “you boys count me out, if I am not going to participate.”
“Well, little brother, you will, but that’s going to be after I have done so with Elliot. Then you are going to choose who to dive with,” William told Sean.
“Interesting, now you are getting somewhere” Sean replied “but I hope you don’t mind big brother for I will have to dive with Elliot.”
“That’s okay by me” William grinned knowing in his mind that it’s never going to happen. They all went back to sleep, avoiding more conversations that could wake the others. But before, Williams warned them to keep it a secret. He made it clear that; “I never keep secrets from Alexis but I am taking the risk to do so this time, so no screwing up guys.
In the following morning, the girls were playing volleyball while Bryant and his twin were escalating the Rocky Mountains. Williams, Sean and Elliot were watching a video that was all about diving deep into the ocean blue. They concentrated on it till it was noon. At exactly 30 minutes after midday, they got into a boat and sailed towards the middle of the ocean blue.
“Williams and Elliot were already getting ready to dive by checking their gas mask and putting on their diving suits.
“Sean at this time was controlling the boat. And all along was thinking about the crowd that he was going to pull in his school when they get back home with the video.
When they got to the point where Williams thought was good enough for them to start their new adventure, he asked Sean to stop the boat, which he did.
William and Elliot installed a mark with a balloon and a piece of heavy iron, each attached to both ends of a string, “this would serve like a reference if we get missing, he said. Hey Elliot, do you think anyone suspected our departure?”
“Well, man, we already sealed the deal and even they get to know, it still makes no difference anyway, for we are going right up to the end,” Elliot replied.
“I hope so” Williams grimed.
“No one suspected anyway, for they were busy in their different activities. All was well. The coastguard was digging up a spot far off the beach near the rocks where he believed the two other coastguards who died had hid some treasure (diamond in liquid form) worth over 8 million dollars, an equivalent of about 16 million Vtz (vaitz.)
Two of the coastguards who died used to work for Cyrus Kromps in a complete secret and Barry had come to a total suspicion about that, Cyrus Kromps is a treasure fanatic from the United States of America. Mr. Kromps is a multi-millionaire and the owner of Cyrus investments in the Maindream state of Vaitnia and four T.V stations in the United States. His main dream, becoming the richest man in the world before the year 2020.He is new into this game (treasure seeking) but is no easier folk to deal with.
When William and Elliot got to the ocean floor, they were so happy to find themselves in such an astounding environment. So they brought out their cameras and started filming the flowery and sandy natured ocean floor. For them, it was the beginning of a never ending amusement as they swim northwards.
Sean on his part did not deem it wiser to stay waiting for them; he decisively steam up the boat to amuse himself further into the middle of the ocean blue. He planned to come back before the time allocated for Williams and Elliot's return to the surface.
It was here in the ocean dept that Williams and Elliot started their new mission which was filming the ocean floor and collecting decorative items from the sea. After filming the beautiful spots of that part of the ocean, they decisively moved westwards according to the compass that they had with them. They still had a good amount of oxygen left (about 62% of the total gas in each jars). They had gone some approximated; 400m west from the point that they stopped videotaping. It was pretty much fun for the two.
Now Williams came across a box, his right hand immediately stretched to reach for the box. Now with all the curiosity of knowing the content of the box, he pulled the box towards him.
“Hey Elliot, look what I found.”
Elliot came over to see. “Have you opened it?”
“No of course! You know, I wouldn’t do a thing like that without thinking about the repercussions.”
“It’s called being wise and I trust you when it comes to that; we should open it when we get to the surface” Elliot said.
“No I hold that we open it right away and if we find something hazardous, we swim away instead of exposing the content to the atmosphere, it might be a biodegrading substance thus will cause a lot of pollution in the air and destroy vegetation.”
“Well, I agree with you,” Elliot finally gave in.
“When the box was opened, they found a book inside two pieces of diamond and a diamond chain and ring. The base of the ring had a very shiny liquid in it; even the chain had it too. William took the smaller piece and the chain and ring. Then he gave to Elliot the larger one. On the cover of the book was written, “How to get to the Bay site diamond mine”. As he opened it to read it’s content, William looked at Elliot and Elliot looked back at him. As Eliot turned to look behind, he spotted a large great white shark from a distance moving in their direction at top speed. He immediately alerted Williams.
“Williams, I think we’ve got a little problem.”
“What could that be?” Williams asked.
“If you must then turn around and see for yourself, there is a great white shark heading our way from a distance at 2: 00 O’clock with top speed.” Now they also took off in fear and astonishment of what would do if the shark got to them. Unfortunately for them, they had lost direction due to the fact that they misplaced the compass.
Back on the beach, people began to wonder where the three of them that is; Williams, Eliot and Sean could be. Ryan had started being a little curious about that and began by asking Alexis where her boyfriend was.
“I have no idea, she replied
And then he went further to where Naomi was and asked her where Elliot could be. She was ignorant of her boyfriend’s whereabouts. “I don’t know,” she replied. This alone was enough to create a lot of terror and chaos in the midst of a cheerful friend hood.
On his part, Sean had amused himself enough and had retired to the point where he is supposed to wait for Williams and Elliot.
“Elliot, I know what is on your mind now. You are saying that we are going to be devoured by those sharks and all will be Williams fault for he asked you to take a look at other parts of the ocean but that is untrue. You aren’t going to die neither do I. Just keep up your swimming speed and we shall find a way to get rid of those heartless creatures.”
For a while, the predators kept multiplying. They were now over six in number but that only gave them the courage of saving their lives. They swam up to a point in the ocean blue that narrowed into a corridor like Tunnel.
“Hey Elliot, Move via the corridor that might serve like a gateway to survival. Elliot was like no man,”
“Do you know the upshot of what you asking me to do? We run the risk of losing our lives to those man eaters over there if the tunnel terminates in the bottom of the ocean blue.”
“Just do what I told you and everything will be fine.”
“Well, if we die, then you owe me your soul but if we get out of this, then I will pay you the respect that I will give to no one else,” Elliot said.
“Your word will be your bonds my friend,” Williams who had already studied the map of the mine in the book said to Elliott.
In less than half a minute, the shark became so hostile. Williams even had to fight with one to the point of bursting its right eye with a knife just at the time it was ready to devour him. In about some 20minuites of continues swimming, they came to the surface of the water but inside a very dark cave.
“Wait a second, this could be the diamond mine” Williams said.
“What diamond mine? Elliot asked.
“I mean the one this book is all about.”
”Well, then get us out of here an and stop saying nonsense about some dilapidated mine that may or may not even exist that is far from the kind of conversation I want to be having right now” Elliot continued, “ and for your information, I am not interested in some diamonds whole story,” replied Elliot as he pull out his own piece of diamond and threw it away. Williams went down and got it.
“I will get us out, as much as you owe me a lot of respect and honor,” Williams replied.
“But let me tell you one thing Elliot, Billy and Maya have been to the bay before.”
“That’s not true,” Elliot said.
“Yes it’s true, I saw his wallet on the floor and when I picked it up, some photos slept out accidentally I found he and the lady have escalated the mountains before”
“So they lied to us,”
“Exactly, Williams replied.”
“Is there anything suspicious about that?” Elliot asked.
“Yeah, but why not, it’s strange for them to lie to us just like that. Keep it a secret until we find out what they are up to. For now only you, me and Alex know about it.”
It was already getting dark outside and Alexis began to ponder over what Ryan told her about Williams. Then it came to her mind that Williams told her he was going to uncover the truth about Billy and Maya. She was consumed with chaos and fear, so did Naomi who already came over to share this kind of hard moment with Alexis.
Sean on his part had been waiting for 3 to 4 hours beyond time allocated for his brother‘s return, Elliot's as well. He took the boat and hopped around thinking that they might have missed direction and control and instead of coming out where the mark was pasted, did so elsewhere and would as such need instant help.
Alexis at this moment took her cell phone and dialed William’s number and it was picked up by an auto responding mechanism that he installed on his cell a week earlier.
“Williams, where the heck are you, you guys are scaring us you know. Come back soon sweetheart, everybody is scared.”
Billy Adams and Maya Thompson’s who pretended to be fiancée during all this while were working up a strategy of getting to the old diamond mine being close accomplices of Cyrus Kromps had not made any sign that could make them be suspected for what so ever.
But at the time the two got the news about Elliot, Williams and Sean who were reported missing, they began to suspect that Williams might have an idea where the old diamond mine is found and as such began setting strategies on how to urge William to take them to the old mine.
Barry Johnson had dug until he discovered a piece of diamond that was hidden by his two colleagues who worked for Cyrus and on retiring to the lodge; he was informed about Williams, Sean and Eliot’s disappearance.
He immediately reflected on the fact that Williams must be working for Cyrus and that he and his friends or rather collaborators are out to trace the old diamond mine.
Now he made everybody believe that Williams and his friends are going to die if they don’t show up before dark and it will be mysterious like any other case of missing lives on the bay.
On hearing this, it was too hard for Alexis to take. “I don’t think so Mr. Johnson. Or whatever you call yourself, from the beginning, you’ve been saying all sought of scary things to make us to die of fear but we refuse to be your victims. Our friends must come back alive or else you will go down for it.”
“Now Williams, how are we getting out of this filthy hole? From my point of view, there is only one way of getting out of here and it's that via which we got here,” Eliot said.
“First and foremost it's not just a hole, it's called a mine. And second of all that’s true, Williams confirmed but there is the wildest specie of sharks (great whites) out there, waiting to devour any human they find in the water. So it will be a lost battle if we make a u- turn,” Williams further explained.
“Well, then, that means we are going to die in here.”
“No, that is out of the question” Williams said to Elliot who was now getting depressed.
Cyprus Kromps had waited for five days for feedbacks from Maya and Billy but to no avail. Now he made up his mind to move down to Monte go himself.
Alexis hardly knew that Williams had installed an auto responding mechanism on his cell phone. But not until she called again, did she notice she was talking to an answering machine. Now she ran to the room only to find out William’s cell lying on the bedside cupboard.
“Hell oh no” She screamed, “where ever you are; sweetheart, I pray to God that you be guided by him until you get back to my arms again. Because I can’t stand the chance of losing you and can’t wait to see you again,” talking to William’s photo, she felt as low as she spoke. Alexis made a promise to keep her love for Williams no matter the consequences.
Naomi on her part was so angry and filled with sorrow to a point that she could barely lie on the bed without talking and no movement either. Her mind keeps repeating to her. “Oh my Lord my God protect my boyfriend from all sorts of trouble and guide him to retrace his steps and come back to me.”
Cyrus Kromps summoned eight of his henchmen. There was Denzel, Bradley, Cordell, Brittany, Sabrina and Slim as his fight back crew and two pilots, Jenna and Jonathan.
Alexis had left the room and off she went to a secret place that Williams took her the first day they came to play on the beach and this was a place he had termed an environment for inspiration and recuperation of a fresh memory. Williams had to wait until no one noticed for him to go there, the few times he's been there with Alex.
Cyrus also called his ship captain and here is what he told him. “Well, Monroe, I am going by air with eight of my henchmen and women and you and the rest of the crew in the ship will follow us there. You know, we are talking about the Caribbean Island here and it is a water world. So there is the need to anticipate all our percussions. It is called Monte go bay. I believe you know it more than I do. So move down quickly in time for us to deal with the little business I have there.”
After Cyprus was done talking with Monroe, he and his henchmen got into the jet and left. Meanwhile, Monroe also immediately set out for Monte go by sea.
When Williams pointed his torchlight on a small piece of stone, it immediately illuminated the entire cave and they find out that the cave had other corridors. “This must be where those monsters live he murmured to his best friend.
“That means we are in real danger, I would rather kill myself than give into that life taker, Elliott said. Do you see that Williams, there is a lot more diamonds in this hole than it could be found in the rest of planet earth.” Elliott remarked as he went to touch the diamond infested wall, then he said, “Hey Will, there is a liquid inside each of these stones be it a small or a large one this is just like the treasure island only this is a mine and only diamonds are found here” Elliott maintain the flow of speech.
“That is true Elliott there is diamond enough diamonds in here to build ten diamonds houses. But what puzzles me is that if this is diamond in the liquid state even though I don’t believe in diamonds being in the liquid face, then just what could be keeping it the this face we all know that diamond is the hardest substance in the world and I don’t even think that all of the chemistry that I have study can explain this phenomenon if there isn’t a great source of heat to the neighborhood of three thousand degree to keep it melted.” Williams said to Elliott
“In my humble opinion, how would one know that those stones with liquid inside are even diamonds? Elliott Asked, in a contemplative tone, and besides we would find the water bubbling near this cave which would have made us not to even dare approach it if those were to be diamonds trapped in the liquid face”
“I just know they are diamonds okay, if they aren’t, then just what are they glass? But glass is artificial and it’s gotten from silicon and its derivatives.” Williams asked his pal again.
“I know, I know now” he screamed
“Thank God you are cutting me this long argument short Elliott.”
“Let’s pick a name, for we just found ourselves a new element” Elliott sounded even stupider than Williams thought he can ever be in his entire life.
“Oh common”
“For real this is great treasure,” Elliott added.
“That I know okay say something constructive that I don’t yet know about this liquid diamond and stop screaming and besides I thought you were scared of this place.” Williams became a little critic on Elliott usual spontaneity of looking into a situation.
“Yes I was but not any more replied Elliott.”
“This is weird now, you mean to tell me that you replace your fear with these diamonds or I don’t even know what… new element of yours” Williams came a little harder this time around.
“Okay it’s not funny but first of all they are not diamonds and second of all we have to name it after me because I got here first.”
“Hell no, I found the map and gave you the directives to come in here remember. What are we even picking up a fight for? If there is a map that describes this place then that means someone has been here before, meaning we are not the first to see this new element of yours. And the name “Old diamond” on the book is also logical enough for one to know that these are diamonds,” William said to his pal.
“Why do you always have to be the smarter one and not me? Elliott felt so bad.”
“No, don’t get it wrong now okay you are as good as I am, don’t ever let someone tell you that you are not good enough, just that you need to sometimes be certain about things you say before you pass a judgment on them especially when your mind is not convinced are real, for instance, the true meaning of realism; physical objects continue to exist when not perceived.”
As they argue on, their minds had now gotten rid of the notion of danger or fear itself. All of a sudden, a very tall apelike creature came out of one of the corridors. Williams turn out his torchlight. There was fear in the air; Elliot would get in to a shell if he had one.
“Let’s move back and get into the water.”
“No Elliot that will be too dangerous with the sharks. Let’s keep moving back to the wall behind there. I want to try something.” The creature was already touching William’s hair and it began to caress it. This alone show how friendly this creature was to anyone who is not there to destroy their colony. “Hey Elliot, he is not harmful.”
“But he can become or who know if there are many of them back where he is coming from.” Elliot said to Williams.
“It is right that where he is coming from could be dangerous but he is temperate. I think we can do with that for the moment.”
In a while, the ape continued to play with his new friends. “Now that he is a friend, I will give a name; as from now onwards boy you are called “Cola”.”
Elliot came up and started caressing the ape too. “You were right after all, he is a friend. Hey look, he is going back.” Elliot said,
“It’s okay let him go. Cola was only a messenger. Believe me he will tell the others that we are friends or he will simply not tell them anything about us if he finds it dangerous for his new friends, us of course.” Williams told Elliot.
“How do you know all that?”
“I have read a lot about animals and their territorial security.”
“Now, Elliot, try to turn out the light on your mask.”
“What for, you know how dark it is in here”
“Would stop talking and Just execute,” Williams said.
“I believe Dr Know has gotten another preposterous strategy to increase our already deplorable situation.” Elliot was becoming a little cynical.
“What do you know about strategies, Elliot? Cut the crab and put off the light.” William had seen a minuscule ray of light reflection on a glossy piece of stone.
As the lights were out, Williams noticed that the light was coming from the roof of the mine. “Hey man! Look up to the roof and tell me what you see.” Williams murmured to Elliot who immediately passed an eye through the roof and said
“Yeah, that’s a ray of light; we are going to get out of this nightmare finally.”
“Yes, my friend, we are getting out of your filthy hole but then I need you to be a lot more courteous if we must get out,” Williams said to Elliot.
“Now buddy, get the ropes and let’s figure out how we can increase the hole and make a passage of it.”
It was the main chamber of the mine that is the place where miners dress up before work after swimming into the mine.
Elliot had the lights pointing to the spot where the ray was coming from and Williams swung the ropes to anchor on a large root which protruded into the mine near the ray of light. This was enough to carry someone who will enlarge the hole.
“Look Elliot, here is what we are going to do to get out of here. I am going to attach this end of the rope on my waist and you are going to pull the other end till I get to the hole then you attach the rope to this stone here while up there I will increase the hole for us to pass through and get out in the forest where we shall then find our way to the beach.”
“Brilliant idea, Elliot confirmed.”
“Williams I can’t tell what I will become if you don’t come back. Lord you know he is the only thing I have left after the lost of my family in a ghastly motor accident.” Alexis remembered her past agonies filled with dreadful moments regarding to Williams disappearance. She called unto God to come to her help. Standing on Williams love and sacred ground, Alexis kept lamenting.
In a moment later, Alexis reminded herself of haven’t viewed Williams with a boat. So she made up her mind to ask from the rest of the crew if someone saw that too.
Sean had searched until was tired, haven’t search for two hours, he concluded that his brother and Elliot must be playing games with him. They surely must be back to the beach to make me work up myself for God alone knows how long. They also fooled me to escort them. Well, that’s what we are going to see when I get back to that beach.
Sean who now believes the two guys blind fooled him, turn the boat and off he left for the beach.
Back at home, all was well if not for Sean’s girlfriend whom he fooled that he was accompanying his mother to Santa Milan to spend a week at an uncle’s place. She came down to the Weismann’s residence hoping to meet Williams and asked when Sean will be back but to her greatest dismay, she met Sean’s mother and was like “hey Mrs. Weismann, you are already back?”
“How are you doing my daughter? And where am I supposed to be coming back from?
“Santa Milan of course, Sean told me you went with him. Is he in there? I know he must be tired but I will take care of him” Marissa said.
“Well my daughter I believe you and Sean are pulling on well? He left for Monte-go Bay six days ago with his brother and friends; I thought you were one of those.” She felled as if something break all the bones on her body at once.
Sean did not tell Marissa about the trip, knowing that it will be an impediment to his going to Monte go because her parents will never let her go to some place as far as Monte-go and as such Marissa will not let him go as well. Marissa was upset from the moment she learned of Sean disloyalty to her.
Cyrus knew so much about the old mine that he has been hearing from childhood. One thing for him is sure enough that, treasure worth over 800 billion dollars (an equivalence of 1.6 trillion Vtz) is found in there, said to have been abandoned by a group of miners who lost the lives of fifty of their colleagues to some very hostile creatures that occupy that area back in the 19 century that is, so many decades ago. No one on earth knew how to get to this mine which had lost all traces from the rest of the world, according to Cyrus's knowledge. But he knew he will be the first man in history to explore this great treasure opportunity.
Alexis came to Bryan and Ryan and asked them if they saw Williams, Sean and Elliot riding the boat and they all remembered when they saw the boat and thought Williams and Elliot were just having fun around the beach with it.
“Yeah, I saw them,” Bryant said.
“Now that’s what I’m talking about Alexis grimed. They must have had a breakdown somewhere in the ocean and as such will be needing help.” This was at the time Sean came back to the beach with the boat.
“Hey Sean, what happened? Where is Williams and Elliot?” Alexis asked.
“I don’t know, aren’t they here yet?”
“If they were here then just why will I be asking you?”
“Please, Sean if this is a game then let go the jokes for we are beginning to get real scared here she said.” Bryant Said.
The rest of the crew came to see what was wrong and why Williams and Eliot were not back. Sean explained everything the best he could, and then he made it clear that the remaining part of the story is best explicable by both Williams and Elliot.
Naomi who had been lying on her bed holding her pillow tight now came to see if the noise was due to their return. But she only got more and more gloomy, haven’t heard Sean’s version of the story. Alexis approach her and here are her words. “It kind of hard for either of us to admit this is actually happening,” taking Naomi into her arms. “I have grown to know Williams, you know, like what he will do and what he will not do. Its true they left out of our knowledge but believe me, they will come back. Williams like I said is that kind of guy that will find a way where there isn’t and as such will do anything to stay out of quandary. So I strongly believe they will come back, from Sean’s version of the story.”
Minutes later, Cyrus Kromps landed on the beach in his jet with his henchmen. When Alexis and the rest of the crew saw this, they believed it was the coast guards and Barry told them it wasn't. Barry had been trying to reach the heat-office via phone, so that they could send a search boat to look for Williams and his friend, but without success for the line was busy. One of his main goals for doing this was to know for whom Williams was working.
Little did Alexis know that the man that just landed on the beach was her long lost uncle who left Vaitnia for the United States before she was born? But still she had a photo of her only leaving family member in her wallet. Most of the times in her life she used to take out the photo, kiss it, just to reassure herself that she still got family somehow and with strong faith and hope that God will one day bring him to her.
Alexis thought of haven seen that face somewhere but she could not figure out where. She kept memorizing as she move u to Cyrus to ask for help. Least did it occur to her that Cyrus constituted a great danger for her and the entire friend hood.
Hey Williams, do you think that Sean will still be waiting for us at this time? Well, I don’t think so. He must have gone back to the beach to look for help, Williams replied. But that does not rely matter now, what matters is how to get out of this filthy mine and get back to the beach before its dark. I am already missing Alexis and I know as well that she is furious at me by now. Naomi as well for me, Elliot added.
After thirty minutes of struggling, they finally got out of the mine into the thick Caribbean forest and this was with the help of ropes. End of plan "A", Elliot remarked. Yeah, I guess we move down to plan "B", Williams whispered.
Hey, Williams do you remember when we first escalated the mountain? Sure, why not Williams replied. Oh yeah? This is the path that we saw and you described as the path that leads to no where precisely. That’s correct, Elliot you are smart for the second time since we got missing. We just have to climb pass those rocks and then we will see the beach and the lodge, Williams further explain to Elliot.
As they were still climbing the rocks, Williams looked up and saw ten apes waiting for them. Oh no! Cola betrayed us he said to Elliot who almost slide back into the cave when he also saw the apes. One of the apes made a peaceful demonstration by putting his hands together. Cola! Williams shouted in delight. Cola stretched a hand and pulled Williams up and then Elliot. As he concentrated on Elliot, one of the apes lifted Williams and threw him against the trunk of a tree. The others joint in, as Cola turn and spoke to them to let go of Williams. Then he directed them to go back into the cave via a secret passage and all of them did. Williams and Elliot caressed him up and down his body and Elliot videotaped him and the others as the move in to the cave. Williams removed his bristly and put it on Cola’s hand. Then he told him to say thank you and Cola repeated but it was not so clear. He can also talk. He is wonderful. Elliot who had everything on tape remarked. The said good bye to their new friend and went away. Cola wave a hand and stood watching while they walked away.
When Cyrus met with Alexis, he asked her what kind of help she was talking about. Young lady, as you can see I am here for a special mission and my day is already ruined. Now, don't let me cast all the blames on you for it will be more than just catastrophic if I get enraged.
Viewing the way this man responded and the weapons his henchmen were carrying. There was no doubt for Alexis and her friends that Cyrus was out for something devious. I am sorry for being bothersome sir, she replied to Cyrus. You better be! Young lady, Cyrus replied. But a voice deep in Alexis, kept repeating to her; there is something about this man. It's as if I know him from somewhere.
Cyrus, as furious as he was moved up to where Billy and Maya were and Billy took him into one of the rooms and Maya follow while two of his men blocked the door and the rest of them were bound to stay watchful out on the beach for any unforeseen situations.
Now, what do I pay you two for? I send you on an errand and was expecting feedbacks but up till this point, you have done nothing productive. No Cyrus, it's not what you think, Billy defended. Oh, it's what you think!! Cyrus got even more furious. Well but we did found out that Williams the missing kid knows how to get to the old diamond mine. He must surely be in the mine right this moment, Billy further explained. So why didn't you girls up large him to take you along, Cyrus said, the reason is that we took him for one of your agents. Well I hope for the two of you that your story be true. If not what I will do to you, I will only have to regret afterwards.
Two hours after Cyrus landed on the beach, Monroe and the rest of the crew showed up in the ship. Now Cyrus told Alexis and all her friends to get aboard the ship so that they could go look for their friends together. They were a little feeble about it but the maw of a gun soon made them to all move aboard the ship.
Billy came up to Cyrus and here is what he told him; Sean knew where Williams and Elliot are, he even took them there in a boat. In this light, Sean was threatened with a gun to tell nothing but the truth, which he did at gun point.
Now Cyrus ordered his men to put all of the kids in ropes. As for Alexis and Naomi, they should be taken to his cabin, while Sean should be closely watch and forced to give directives about the whereabouts of his brother and friend.
It was getting dark and the sun had already set that evening but leaving a blanket of shiny cloud that kept darkness from over throwing the day. Williams and Elliot had just reached the position where they could now perfectly see the beach and the lodge. Elliot knew at once that they were now safe. Now, the toughest task of their adventure was how to move down the rocky natured mountain.
Here Elliot, do you remember this gleaming piece of natural marble that we saw last time? Yeah, it's it the shiny piece of stone, Elliot shouted. That means we are on the exact spot where we escalated and ended last time. So get the rope, you are descending first and I will follow you closely. Williams proposed to Elliot who at the moment was panic because the rope was a single string without grips and hooks. But one thing for him was sure enough, that they were just some two hundred meters away from survival, even though descending with that single strand of rope is close to the grave. He turned and murmured a yes to Williams, as if he could make an impression of himself before his best man. Yeah why not, I will, right away. We’ve been through a lot, lately and now we are relief of the greater part of the difficulties. The only thing that I can’t forget is Cola; he gave us the hope that we had long lost. Elliot added.
When Elliot brought the rope, they soon found themselves down the cliff on the beach.
Sean on his part was thinking of a strategy to escape before the boat. As he scrolled through his memory he came out with the most pertinent ideal. Then he turned to the two men in charge of him, Codel and Slim and said; boys when are you guys going to be masters of your own. These man using you guys to achieve his goals and after he gets what he wants, he is most probably going to get rid of you folks. Sean was asked to shut up and better be thinking about the where about of his sibling. Then he was threatened with the gun, should he continue talking.
He waited for a while and came again listen you folks, I know you would like to discover treasure out of your boss’s knowledge. One of them was caught up bye the word “treasure” something he had been thinking about for so long a time. Ever since Cyrus told them his objectives, which was treasure seeking. Slim moved up to Sean and asked him whether he knew how to get to the diamond mind? But his protesting friend soon saw the importance of seeking treasure out of the boss’s knowledge. So Sean or whatever you call yourself, I hope you are telling the truth and now that I made up my mind, we shall device a means to protect you from Cyrus and other dangerous elements aboard.
In a moment the first thing that came to Sean’s mind was how to get out of the boat and how he would device a plan to get rid of the two guys. If we must carry out this little adventure, then we must find a way to the beach. Codel and Slim agreed with Sean’s plan.
Codel left and went to trace the way out of the boat without arousing others attention. When he had initiated their way out, he came back and they set out for the beach. They successfully get out to the beach without being caught.
On reaching the lodge, Williams and Elliot did not believe their eyes. Everybody had vanished. Elliot, this is just my imagination or am’ I in a dream and I will soon get up and discover that I was only dreaming. Where in the world could everyone be? I don’t know man, may be they all went home Elliot said with a choking laughter. Stop, man that is not funny at all, this no time for jokes. We’ve got a situation here and a solution has to be devised. Williams protested.
At the moment Cyrus got into the cabin, he was glad to have two sweet ladies waiting to give him the sweetest moment aboard.
Mean while Alexis was busy searching her mind to find out where she had seen this man. It suddenly came to her mind that, he looks more like the man on the photo I her wallet. Then she sent a hand in her wallet and pull out the photo. Her memory did not fail at all. In a moment Cyrus came up to her and was like; you young lady, pull out your clothes, let me see what you have got. But she made no movement. Cyrus then spotted a photo in her hand and then his right arm stretched for it, and whose photo is this you are having?
To the greatest disclosure of his life, Cyrus discovered it was it was him on the photo. Young lady, how and where did you get my photo? But she was still for a moment and suddenly broke out. That is not your photo, it’s the photo of my uncle and he is a fine dude than you are. My uncle’s name is sugar Blair Tyron
At this point in time, Cyrus knew at once that he still had family in Vaitnia. Those are my names, I change my identity when I found out that I lost my only brother and his entire family, I was filled with grieve to a point where keeping this last name only hurt me more and more. So what is your name young lady? Alexis, Alexis Tyron, she replied
Sean told new treasure seeking mates to be watchful out side then told his while he get in to the lodge and get the necessary tools for the digging and extraction of the treasure. The moment he got into the lodge. He met Elliot and his brother. Hey! Sean where the heck is everyone? Elliot demanded from Sean. I have got no explanations to give you guys but for the sake of survival and our crew mates, I will tell you guys what I know. It has to deal with kidnapping by treasure hoodlum who is in the hunt for a diamond mine, it was said that you and Elliot know how to get there. So he and his men were taking me to the ocean blue to look you and Elliot. This is not important now Sean, tell me where in the world is this folk and I will personally break his neck. If he touches a single strand of Alexi’s hair, Williams said. Naomi’s as well, Elliot protested. Hell no! That is not what to do now said Sean.
Codel and Slim already smelled something underhanded. Hey Codel, don’t you think this kid is trying to play us around? Well that could be, because he has taken too long just to get the tools. Let’s go and check what he could be cooking up in there.
So Sean what is your suggestion, William asked. Well I manage to blindfold two of his men to come with me in search treasure out of their boss’s knowledge. So what to do now is to make them reveal the plan of their master to us. We could do this by setting a trap and then I will go out and ask them in, while you and Elliot make the trap. Perfect, now that’s my kid brother, Williams affirmed.
Hey guys while don’t you buddies come in side with me to check out what my brother found on the beach yesterday evening? Sean came up to Codel and Slim saying. Men this kid is crazy, Codel told slim. How are we not convinced that you made a trap or something…? No, far from that, why will I want to do a thing like that. Enough of all that, Slim said. Now let move in there and see what the kid has got man.
Sean then led the treasure seekers in to the lodge. Sean and Slim walked past the living room and headed for Williams room but at the moment Codel stepped a leg into the living room he was knocked on the fore head by Elliot who started rejoicing as he went down to put the man into ropes. Slim almost noticed but Sean as intelligent as he is, smartly push open the door and as Slim step in the room, he could hardly imagine the type of danger that could befell him in there. Slims’ eyes looked all around the room and quickly fell on the diamonds that Williams had place on the bed side cupboard. Then he headed for it and as he squashed near the bed side to admire the diamonds, Williams got out of the closet and slammed a base ball bad on his hind head. Slim fell to the ground and Sean immediately went down to tie him up but Williams took over to do it properly. Then Sean gave a shout to Elliot saying everything is okay.
After several hours in ropes, they regain their memory only to discover that they fell into Sean filthy trap with body and soul. Now Girls, personally I have nothing against you folks but your Boss has a series of things that belong to me and I am following this stunning course of action to recuperate it, in other words he has my girl friend and my crew mates in detention and I hate that some I don’t even know toys with me to that extend. Now what I mean here is that that you girls are going to collaborate with me to your very last breath in the goal of getting back my friends or else they are your very guns that will act on you. So make a choice between bringing back my friends and gunning yourselves down. Williams preferred to negotiate rather than using violence.
Look here kid, I believe and Cyrus as well that you got some important piece of information for Cyrus; about the diamond mine, while not reveal this information to him in exchange of your friends’ lives. Slim said hopelessly to Williams. No, never, he must not go to that diamond mine; else he is going to destroy what nature has put together for so long a time.
Williams further took Cyrus’s number and called him. Hey Cyrus Kromps or what ever you are called, I will like to cut everything short. I have two of your best men Slim and Codel and I am hereby ordering you to release all my friends as quickly as possible before the whole situation ruptures.
Hey look who we got on the phone, the smart Williams Wiseman. Alexis’s mind was filled with joy, the moment Cyrus Kromps pronounced the name of her boy friend. I knew he will always be there for me, she kept thinking. Here is what I am proposing to you in return; give me the map of the old diamond mine and all your friends including my beautiful niece are free. You have my words Cyrus became a little negotiating, what he has never done all his life. You have got two hours to think and act or I will hit you where it hurts most, Cyrus continue to be a threat for Williams and his friends.
It was at this point that Alexis knew that even though she found herself an Uncle, she was very mush mistaken because from his words on the phone Cyrus will use her as a fight back tool to get what he wants from Williams. Now listing to me Alex, you are my beautiful niece and I will do nothing the whole world to hurt you just remain wise and I will make sure you are safe from any eventual ruff situation. No Cyrus, you are an Uncle I have not known all my life and can’t just bomb into my life and control it the way you like. I love and care about Williams and all of my friends. I would rather you have me murdered than being on your side. Hey, that is not a polite way to talk to an Uncle.
Before talking to Alexis, Cyrus had sent three of his henchmen, who were Anderson, Edmonds and Roderick to move down to the beach and do everything to bring Williams to him alive. Do not hurt him, he is still too precious for me, Cyrus said to his men.
The moment he finished thinking over what Cyrus had told him, he thought it wise to workout a defense system that will counter any thing brought up by Cyrus and his men. When Anderson and his friends got to the beach, they found out that Williams was no easier kid to deal with, he was strictly too good for them, he had sensed the arrival of those three before they even dare to enter the lodge.
Now Williams Elliot and Sean immediately set up a second trap like before but this time around the trap did not work because Codel shouted and they became more vigilant. They got up to where Codel and Slim were and untie them. Then Anderson told them that the boss wanted them dead but you can count on us, Edmond said. Now you guys must keep out of Cyrus’s way, so that he doesn’t carry out his plans as previewed.
So Codel man how can we get this kid? Man it is hell talking about him, he knows just too much for a single bastard of his age. His younger brother as well, Codel made a confession to Anderson and Roderick. But they are just some spoiled brads that need to be thought a lesson, Roderick remarked. The only way to reach out for them is by putting aside your guns and trying to become friends not foes with this brads, so that when they least expect we encircle and catch them. Slim gave his point of view. That is right, Codel supported.
Haven failed by their second trap, Williams, his friend and sibling devised another means to get back at the men that Cyrus sent across to arrest and bring Williams to his ship. Sean was then send by Williams to spy the three guys and see what they look like, but was also warned by Elliot to be precocious not to be caught.
Cyrus put Alexis and Naomi in ropes as she gradually became a pest to his undertakings. The he order for she and Naomi to be taken up to another cabin and locked up in there. Before she would be taken to the other cabin, she protested and said; Cyrus, I now know who is behind the lost of my entire family but rest assure of one thing, it will not take too long until Williams gets rid of you, he is a smarter guy than you are. Alexis kept protesting as she and her friend was being taken away from Cyrus. Well, that is what we shall see, Cyrus replied.
Mean while Anderson and his friends were still contemplating what strategy they would use to get at the brads. Codel still insisted they put aside their guns and confront the kids like friends. I don’t see any other alternative he said, the point is that you guys have to get the kid to Cyrus.
Out in the open atmosphere, the sun was over head and it was difficult to get to work in such harsh conditions. Sean came back to tell Williams and Elliot where they were how they look like and what he overheard them saying. They are five in number, with our first two men inclusive. They recognize the fact that we are smart and that it will never be easy for them to lay hands on us if they don’t disarm and move towards us in a friendly comportment so that they can then get us without any constraint. It seems Cyrus wants Slim and Codel dead and the only way for them to stay alive is to help the others get us and that will then guarantee their lives in front of their friends. Sean told his brother and friend all what he heard.
Guys get ready for we are accepting their friendship but in a more logical approach, so that before they know it, they must have fallen deep into our trap and Cyrus of course will lose three additional men to the first two he ordered dead and in this light his force will get weaker and weaker.
It simple says Williams, since they have opted to come in a friendly technique, they will most probably put away their weapons, for us to believe they are disarmed. We shall not waist the least time that may permit to execute their plans before ours Sean added. That is correct, Elliot remarked
Unfortunately for the two men who took Alexis and Naomi to the cabin where Cyrus ordered them, they were both knocked on their testicles. Untying themselves, the two girls used the same ropes to tie up the two men. Then Alexis took one of their cell phones and call Williams. Hey my love, what is happening? Where have you been? Alex my love, calm down and tell me exactly where precisely you are. How can I get to you? No, it’s not possible to get to me now, but tried to call the police and tell them that we have been taken hostage by some treasure hoodlums.
Cyrus overheard her speaking on the phone by means of his call detecting machine. Then he immediately stepped on to listen to what she was saying to Williams. He now went to the cabin where it was happening only to find his two men lying unconscious on the floor. He pulled out a gun and pointed it at the girls. Cyrus further put the two ladies back into ropes.
Meanwhile on the beach Slim, Codel and the three other guys ran up to where Williams was standing, and Williams pointed a gun at them, pretending to be unaware of their plan. Please Williams keep the gun aside, we are now on you side and we will help bring backs you friends to you. Williams immediately instituted a search exercise on then to retrieve any weaponry that they were having. Okay Girls I want you ladies to stay under my command and no screwing up, for it will cause he that tries it a paralyze leg or arm. Now what I mean is that I am the one directly in charge here and one more thing; you folks must be able to help us retrieve our friends from you so called boss and you guys must also promise me you will remain submissive, in which case I won’t have to turn you girls’ in. That will be okay by us Anderson responded. The two guns found in them were kept by Elliot and Sean and the daggers were thrown into the ocean. Even though he had taken away their weapons he still did not proof any trust for them, this best explains why he asked them to stay ahead as they headed for the flying boat with which they will join the “new dream”; Cyrus’s ship
As the boat approached the new dream, Williams and his friends tie up the five men with hard twine rope and forced them into the ship. I hate doing this but I don’t have a choice. Williams said as he hit the Slim and Codel with the bottom of his gun. Then he took Anderson and Sean took Edmond, Elliot went with Roderick. As they approached the main hall of the ship, Cyrus came out and personally shot the three men in ropes. Now he is happy killing his own men, Sean said, do not question my actions for they are losers and what ever the case, they were already dead in the spirit before you brought them here. While talking, Cyrus had made a sign to three of his other men to get the kids at once.
Throw you weapons away, the game is over, you won’t need those guns any more. Now, listen careful, because I will not repeat it. I am going to execute one hostage each time you give me a negative answer, this is the proof, he turn and made a sign and Barry was taken to him and he shot him. That will be all for now, I give you ten minutes and don’t waste it because I will be wasting the lives of your friends, including that of my beautiful niece.
Sean told Williams that Alexis found out that Cyrus was her long lost Uncle. Its okay, Cyrus I will take you there but on one condition. And what could that be? Cyrus asked. That you release all my friends and send them back to the beach, so that I can be certain that they are out of harm's way. No, that is out of the question that will be too risky for me. What I will do is to take all of you to the mine. Cyrus said, that is okay bye me. Williams replied. Williams do you know the danger you are exposing everyone to? Elliot asked him. Williams turned and murmured the word “Cola” to him in a low voice. Great! Elliot whispered back.
As Cyrus move into his cabin, his men went to prepare the mini submarine which will take them all to the diamond mine, Williams drew closer to Elliot and Sean and here are his words; Cola and his tribe won’t let them take what belong to nature and them. And who is this Cola? Sean became very curious. Oh! Cola, he is our new friend from the old mine. You mean that two of you have been to that filthy old diamond mine? Yes brother but it’s a very long and stressful story that can’t be told now, Williams replied his sibling. One of Cyrus men overheard the last phrase and moved closer to listen without interrupting but Williams had already put an end to the conversation.
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