RETRIBUTION PART ONE
RETRIBUTION
A few minutes before the full implementation of Andrew’s orders...
“How could one person order us around? What is it about him that we should be afraid of? Is he a god or something?”, a man asks a question. This question was asked in a meeting held by an underworld organization. There were talks heard all around, and only a few people were quiet in this meeting. They were majorly the people who have been fortunate to live so long in the business.
“Tap, tap”, the sound of a walking stick hitting the ground was being heard, and everybody suddenly became quiet. The man sitting at the head position in this meeting just stared at all the people who had been arguing initially before saying, “You think I don’t feel the same way as you do about being ordered around, or if I was able to I wouldn’t have ignored the order rather than calling for this meeting”.
The more he talked, the more anger could be felt from his words. “You think our organization can be able to handle his wrath if he decides to take out his anger on us?”, these words of his shocks the people present in the room, but some still didn’t want to give up as one said, “But this is our turf. We can gather the local powers here to fight back against him”. The others quickly agreed with him as they all thought this was the best option, rather than obeying Andrew’s orders.
The head just starts laughing which scares most of the people present in this room. “Gather the local powers and fight with him. I won’t blame you all for your shallow thinking though. You were not around when he was ravaging everywhere. Did you see any of your seniors arguing like you all?”, the head says.
This realization hits those who were arguing, not willing to give up. They were about to question them about why they were quiet, but the boss continued at that same moment, “You weren’t here during his rampage, so you won’t be able to fear him. You weren’t here when he was way prominent if you were, you all wouldn’t be here saying those same words”.
“If he was that great, why was he unheard of for a long while?”, a subordinate asks. “That’s because he was through with setting all his pieces and most probably because of his...”, he says but didn’t complete his statement.
Few people knew the true identity of Andrew. Those who had been in the underworld during his rampage, and were still alive and those who could be termed 'The Godfathers' of the country. Ordinary folks didn’t know who he was or what he looked like.
The head breathed in deeply before he continued, “Although you might be ignorant of his powers, I am sure you are not ignorant of the reformation of the country?”. Those words were like a hammer hitting hard on the hearts of everyone present.
The top officials all felt like they couldn’t breathe, and their memories all flashed back to that young man who could be likened to the devil incarnate, no one would believe he was a human after achieving those feats.
“That was just a fairytale right? There was no way something like that could have happened”, a man says. “Kelizo was the one who singlehandedly carried out the reformation. A lot of organizations were uprooted, top government officials were killed, and people were killed in their cells. Luckily, I was able to place my bet on him at that time. That was how I was able to get to this position I am in right now”, the boss starts before continuing, “He went off the grid after that incident like he didn't exist in the first place. Any records about him were destroyed, and no one spoke about him as he had become a taboo word in the underworld. If anyone dared to talk about him, the person would be lucky to die. If unlucky, his entire generation would be wiped out entirely before he/she would be killed. And that is how you all don’t know about him. Now you dare question his orders. I am only going to say this once. His orders are to be carried out to the latest. Those who dare defy would be killed by me, no exception”.
These words shocked everybody, but nobody dared to retort. Such meetings were being carried out in various parts of the countries, even places connected to the country were not exempted.
Lucious was currently fidgeting inside his room, thinking about what to do in order to avert such a situation. He fully understood that his family members would be well taken care of, but he didn’t want to just die alone. It wasn’t easy accepting death on one’s terms.
In a part of the country, a man could be seen with scars all over his head. They formed a line and tattoo on his face making him look scary to the max, he was currently smoking a big cigar. “So you have finally awakened, huh Andrew? I very well understood that I could never be a match for you, but at the very least I took your beloved brother away from you which is a win on my part”, the man says with a deep voice. “I, James won at the end of it all”, the man shouts and starts laughing hysterically.
This was James. Part of the trio who had fought during the group tussle that cost the life of Francis. His appearance was a total contrast from that of the little boy who was handsome with a flawless smile. If he smiled at this point, he would seem to be that of the Grim Reaper’s, his smile could probably scare ghosts.
Andrew was currently sleeping or should it be called resting, in one of the rooms present in the building where the meeting was held. He couldn’t go back to his house when he was thought of being kidnapped, he still didn’t want his face to be known to the world at this point.
By 7 that morning, food was brought to Andrew’s room, he switched on the television to watch the state of things while eating his meal, and he just stared at the TV seeing the headlines. “Eh eh eh. This is rare”, he says.
Lucious could be seen admitting to being the spearhead of the plans which was laid against Andrew. He was carrying out the orders which the top executives of his family told him to. He was being the scapegoat in this whole matter, but since his family would be kept safe, he didn’t care one bit. It was best if only his life was wasted in all these endeavors. Probably he thinks that this would settle all that has happened but he was bound to be wrong as the person he has wronged, wasn’t someone to let things go.
Andrew smiles devilishly as he says, “But I don’t care if you apologize or not, I want you all destroyed, no one is excluded”.
Currently, in Williams’ house, in a very spacious room which could be said to be a house in a house since almost all the things needed in a house were in this room, Williams’ son could be seen walking around nervously in his room. ‘But what if I am able to kill him? Wouldn’t that make it possible for Father to claim the throne? Then nobody would dare to oppose Father and I. I would squash those who dared point their guns at me’, don’t know if he was going insane, but that was his thoughts at this moment.
A knock was heard from the door of his room. He quickly stops his thoughts and goes to the door. It happened to be his father at the door. He quickly opens the door for him to enter. On entering, Williams takes a seat, then he beckons towards his son to take a seat beside him.
“Tommy, you should try to understand something about who we call the head of our organization...”, he starts, seems like he is about to advise his son, but who could be sure if he would take the advice or not.
Andrew was currently prepared with holsters and guns well equipped. Williams was currently by his side as he was making detailed reports about their movements. But Andrew interrupts him by saying, “You can deal with the rest, but leave Lucious and James to me. They are both old acquaintances after all. You should just bring Lucious to that old building, together with his family members. Hope it’s still in use?”.
Although he was interrupted once again, Williams did not take any offense, he just wondered how Andrew knew Lucious as he had never once spoken about the latter since he knew him, but he didn’t ask. He also in a way felt sorry for Lucious, being taken to that old building was nothing but bad news.
“Also, I don’t want the complete eradication of the Boxos family”, Andrew says. “Why?”, Williams couldn’t help but ask. This wasn’t the style of Andrew whom he had known since he was a kid. He would always make sure there was no one to take revenge on him when killing. He wasn’t the type to cut the grass without uprooting it.
“Well, I think I like them a bit”, Andrew says. Hearing such an answer puts Williams in a weird state, such that he wished he had never asked.
“Who would you be going for first then?”, Williams shifts the topic. “I am going to meet our former friend. Don’t you want to come along?”, Andrew asks. “I don’t think it would be right for me to come along. It would be better if I direct the rest operations”, Williams replies. “Ohh”, Andrew sounds while staring at Williams for a while before continuing, “Okay then”.
“I should be going then. It’s going to be a long day after all”, Andrew sets to enter a car which has been prepared for him. “Don’t you need backups?”, Williams asks. “You feel I might have lost my touch, right?”, Andrew replies with a question. “Don’t worry about that. I would be back before you know it. Just take care of Lucious”, he continues before entering the car and driving off. His destination was James' location.
An hour or two ago in what seems to be a hotel, along the corridor, a hotel worker could be seen pushing a trolley of eateries. She stops in front of one of the rooms, then she presses the bell lightly. The person who appears by the door, happens to be Ella who wears a loose nightgown, even though the nightwear is loose, and she doesn’t seem to have taken her bath, her beauty is still ever present, she seems alluring in her own right.
“Your meal has arrived”, the worker says. “Please keep it inside”, Ella says with a light smile on her face. The worker quickly did as she was told, she placed what had been ordered inside the room and quickly took her leave. Ella quickly went to freshen up before focusing on her meal, all the while wondering what was going on in this country. She had just thought of going back to her work this morning since Andrew had been put behind bars, but all this stuff started happening early this morning. When she woke up to the news headlines, fear gripped her tightly. Then Lucious even admitted to having committed all the crimes. It was a real bumper ride for her. She felt like she had been caught, but since no one had approached her, maybe nothing would happen to her, Andrew had been kidnapped after all, was what she had used to console herself, ignoring the fact that if that was the case, why would Lucious apologize, or perhaps what was happening in the underworld.
She quickly eats what she has ordered and calls for the plates to be cleared. The same worker who had brought the food was the one who came around to clear it. The worker quickly did her job and left the room. After leaving the room, the worker places a call, the name of the person unseen. She just said on the phone that, “It is done”, then the call was immediately cut off.
Now back to the present, Ella starts feeling somehow, she hasn’t felt this way before, it was at this very time that a call comes in from an unknown number. She frowns a bit before picking up the call, after all, this was her personal line, and not everyone could have it.
She didn’t say anything at first, a voice did, “Hey beautiful, thought I had forgotten about you?”. On hearing that voice, she felt somehow at first thinking about the way the voice was familiar, her brain quickly boots to who the owner could be and fear grips her heart. “You know the drug you gave to my brother? I found out that it works faster when the heart is beating at a fast rate”, the voice sounds out again. Who could the caller be, if not one of the most dangerous men in the whole country right now, Andrew.
Eve finally says, “Andrew, please....”, but she was rudely interrupted, “Did you think that only my brother would go through that? Be happy I am giving you the easy way out. I am respecting my Kiddo’s first love by allowing you to go this way. Join my brother on the other side”, Andrew says, after which he cuts the call.
Eve struggles hard to breathe at this point. It seemed like her lungs were blocked off, she tried to grab air, probably a way to feed herself oxygen. She didn’t last long though, as she slumps down. Her heart stops beating, her karma came way too early though, not more than a week.
Andrew was all smiles as he drove at full speed towards the location of James. It was not too far from his location, just a thirty-minute drive and he was there already.
James was currently based at what seemed to be a huge plot of land arranged like an army barrack, there were guards posted all over the place, which made entering or going out impossible. But a lone man comes down from his car in front of this place, with his guns well-shown, not bothering to hide them. How could one man fight all these people who were currently here?
Currently, in a building in this place, a man ran into a room, with a tablet in his hands. James was not the only one present in this room. He was talking with various people, they were trying to figure out a way to leave this country. But there were no available routes as everywhere had been locked down, even the seaports he thought he had control over, had been locked through. All his planes were currently useless.
Although he acknowledged the power of Andrew, it didn’t mean he was prepared to die, and it was at this point that a man ran into the room, disturbing their thought process. He almost killed this man, but seeing what was in the tablet, he just started laughing, which shocked the other people present in the room. They all asked to see what could be making him this way, and on seeing it, they were shocked as to why he would be laughing over this.
After a while of laughing, he finally says, “So it’s over, huh”. His associates didn’t understand what he was saying, they couldn’t help to ask, “What is over?”. James just smiled before he replied, “Say your last prayers. He has come. I didn’t expect him to come this early though”. “Huh”, they all sound out. They found his words unbelievable as it was only a man who had just come knocking at their door. With the amount of men they had, taking care of this one man would be a walk in the park. Seemed like James understood their thought process as he just shook his head before saying, “You all would understand soon enough”.
But as if thinking about something, James quickly runs to check the recording from the tablet while thinking, ‘It would have been possible to escape if he hadn’t entered the compound. Knowing him, he would be too lazy to go in pursuit of me’.
But his hope was dashed as the huge gate started opening ever slowly, and some of the guards who were in charge of defense started coming out to apprehend Andrew who was standing alone. James's associates didn’t quite believe that this man could take on all of them and they felt like mocking him the moment the guards started surrounding Andrew. But it was at this moment that something unbelievable happened.
Andrew starts walking towards the compound as if not noticing that there are armed men by his side. ‘Typical Andrew’, James thought seeing Andrew behave this way.
“Stop or we will shoot”, one of the guards says seeing Andrew moving towards the gates, treating them as air. Andrew didn’t stop though and continued moving with a smile on his face, as if he wasn’t afraid of anything.
“Aren’t you listening?”, the guards screamed and a shot was fired into the air as if warning Andrew for the last time.
But it seemed like that gunshot was the signal to the start of a very dreadful massacre. There were follow-up gunshots and the next scene shows the guards lying on the floor and Andrew was injured as a bullet had scraped past his hands.
He just shakes his head while saying, “Guess, I have lost my touch”. He walks to the spot where the men lay dead. He picks up an automatic gun. He weighs the gun slightly before saying, "Good enough, this should do". He all of a sudden picks up the body of a dead man and uses it to shield himself, it was at this same moment that gun bullets were fired at him. The body absorbed the damage from any bullet that was supposed to fall on him. Andrew understood that eventually the bullets would penetrate through the body and he noticed that the gates were being closed. He rolls over, with the submachine gun hung along his shoulders, he draws two Glock which was in the holster, and fires at an incredible rate while running towards the gate.
Men died at a quick rate, both those who thought they were hidden and those who didn’t bother to hide. He quickly reaches the gate just as it is about to close and jumps in. At an unknown time, he had put his guns back into their holsters and started firing the submachine gun which he had hung initially on his shoulders. All the men who were running towards him without fail, fell dead. But the bullets in the gun were exhausted soon enough. He quickly threw the gun at a man who was getting ready to fire at him, while running in the direction of that same man.
The gun connected with his head and disrupted his shooting, hence he misfired. Before he was able to regain his standing, Andrew had gotten to him and shifted the direction of the gun such that the man shot himself. Before he fell though, Andrew had collected the gun from his dead body, he continued his killing spree while moving.
If noticed, none of the bullets fired from Andrew’s gun ever missed a target, even those formerly from the submachine gun. This was something greater than an experienced shooter.
Andrew was relentless in his march towards the main building. Bodies continued piling up as gunshots were being heard. James who was inside just smiled while saying, “It doesn’t seem like he has lost his touch one bit. Although it was awkward at first since he tried to perform that crazy skill of his, there is not much difference between the him of then and now”. The crazy skill he was saying was when Andrew was initially surrounded. He jumps and spins in an anti-clockwise direction while bullets are being fired from his gun. His murmurings attracted the attention of his fellow associates who deemed it necessary to watch the ongoing fight.
On seeing how the fight was progressing, they couldn’t help but wonder how someone could show off such skills without being hit. Although it was with bullets being fired, him using human shields, and the rest, it was a feat none of them could ever think of replicating, as they would already be dead before getting past the gate.
“You might think that there is no logic behind all that he is doing, but if observed, it is explainable. Although he was the one who had explained it to me himself at first”, James says to grab the attention of his associates, “It can be simply explained as a footballer having an eagle view of the field. He sees the positioning of everybody in just a look, stores all that information in his head all at once, and then attacks using such information. You must not have noticed it, but he looks sideways from time to time in order to close up his blind spots”, he continues.
His associates start murmuring, all saying the same thing, that they could not believe what James seemed to be saying. But he didn’t bother arguing with them. He just says, “Well, he will be here soon. Those guards won’t be able to stop him. Guess, it is time”, James says and suddenly the scene switches to where Andrew is in front of a big building, sizing it out. He was currently holding a handgun, seems he liked guns like this.
No sooner though, he moves inside the building with a smile on his face. The moment he enters though, he quickly fires a shot and moves to a blockade to prevent himself from being shot.
He moves slowly around to intercept someone who held a shotgun. He shot the person in the head, not bothering about the fact that it would attract a lot of attention, he quickly tucked in his handgun and picked up the shotgun.
‘This should be nice’, he thought while jumping over an obstacle on his way and making it to the closest group of men. He quickly used the shotgun to hit the man closest to him, then pushed him back with the muzzle of the gun while using him to shield himself, once the man was close to some of his associates, Andrew let out the fire. The force from the bullet kills two other men. Andrew didn’t stop there though, as he fired another shot which hit an incoming man.
In the process of him flying, he hits two of his associates and one falls and gets his head pierced by a sharp object in the place. While the other hits an iron gas container.
Hearing the sound of that metal gives Andrew an idea as he quickly runs in that direction while shooting off his pursuers. The bullets in the shotgun were quickly exhausted though and he used the gun to block the shot fired by one of the men. This action shocks the men who are about to rain bullets on him.
“Lucky me”, he says while getting rid of the shotgun and bringing out the handgun he had tucked in. He performs a headshot on all the men he can see. When he saw he had the men where he wanted them, he quickly fired a shot at the gas container, which caused an explosion. But Andrew felt his hair rising, he quickly ran in the direction of the stairs, that was when a huge explosion occurred, even after getting to the staircase, he still felt the force of the explosion as it rocked the building.
Some men were waiting for him there, but since the stairs were crowded, he didn’t use his guns and rather used his hands to fight the men off, mostly killing them with their guns.
Soon he was in the room where the meeting was being held. But the sight he sees causes his smile to go more devilish, while he says, “You still do know me, James”. “We have fought together for a long while after all”, James replies.
“Did you do it with your bare hands, seeing that there are no blood stains?”, Andrew asks while walking towards James. The scene has been interchanging from Andrew to James during this short conversation, so there was no idea of what they were talking about.
“To be able to fight alongside you, this is the least requirement of anybody. And there have only ever been three people whom you had allowed to fight alongside you. Me, Williams and...”, but he was never meant to complete his statement as he was shot in the head. “You did your part, guess I should do mine. I still have some stuff to settle. So I am sorry if I can’t chat a bit longer with you”, Andrew says and the situation of the room could be seen as all the associates were currently lying down dead, with no exception.
Andrew moves towards the corpse of James and shoots his head two more times, the bullets pass through his eyes. “Just to be sure you know. No hard feelings”, he says. "Well then, I guess it’s time to move forward", Andrew quickly says while leaving the building. The fire at the bottom still hasn’t been quenched, but Andrew came out of the building.
Apart from the sound of his footsteps and that of the fire still burning, no other sound was heard. Soon, Andrew got to his car and that was when the last building went kaboom.
Andrew didn’t pay attention and just went ahead driving his car. While on his way though, he sees a red car parked in his way. He didn’t understand why someone would park in front of him, but he suddenly smiled and stepped out of his car, he then said, “What is the son of Williams doing over here?”. This was a shocking revelation, as the door to the car was suddenly opened up and the person was truly Thomas.
“I don’t understand why everyone is so afraid of you”, Thomas says the moment he gets down from his car with a handgun in his hands. Andrew on listening to such words just took a look at his wristwatch which was currently a bit cracked, probably from that explosion that had pushed him forward. “Hmm, I still have a few minutes to spare. No rush, no rush”, he says with a thoughtful expression on his face.
“You won’t be getting past here. This would be where you die. No one would know what happened to you or where you have gone to”, Thomas says with full confidence. He probably didn’t know what had happened previously in that huge building, that was why he was this confident that he would be able to kill Andrew.
He quickly tries pointing his gun at Andrew, but he is shocked that Andrew is no longer in the position he saw him in formerly. “I told your father that there would be no next time”, Andrew says all of a sudden. Fear gripped Thomas all of a sudden as the distance from which he felt the sound was so close. He didn’t know when Andrew had gotten this close to him. He hurriedly tried to put up a little space between the both of them, but it was impossible to escape the clutches of Andrew.
“You should learn to take the advice of your elders in your next life”, Andrew says then a gunshot is heard. The irony of this all was that the gun from which the shot was fired was from that of Thomas, and the new wielder was Andrew.
Thomas moves back after being shot, he hadn’t imagined that this would happen no matter how much he had thought about it. He stares at Andrew and is about to say something, but that is when another shot is fired from his former gun, followed by another, then another.
Andrew emptied the clip of his new gun into Thomas and watched him fall dead. He just watched him being wet in his pool of blood, no more deader than dead. Andrew quickly lost interest in such a sight though. He quickly moves his view to the red sports car in front of him. He quickly fell in love with it, thus he abandoned his old car and entered this new one.
“Zooooom”, he sped off. His location was a place he had long been to. He had nicknamed the place, his execution ground. It was an abandoned building which was well taken care of by him. The fact that it was called the execution ground didn’t mean that the execution would be swift. One would be made to plead for his death before he was killed. And this was the exact place that Lucious and his son were taken to.
Lucious had just woken up from being knocked unconscious. He had been taken directly from his house, together with his son. He was currently bound with ropes on a chair together with his son. He wanted to know who was behind all these things, as he had mostly heard the word, “boss”, from the mouth of his kidnappers. It was at this time that the sound of footsteps resonated in the hall and the relaxed men quickly became alerted as there was total silence in the building.
The steps continued and slowly the legs of the person could be seen, seeing the legs alone, Lucious couldn’t figure out the identity of the person, so he squinted his eyes while staring upwards trying to see the face of the proclaimed boss who had the guts to do this without any fear.
He was wondering if this boss was the Kelizo he had heard about that was currently shaking the whole country, and who had put this country in a temporary lockdown that those whom he thought were above couldn’t do a single thing.
But on seeing the face of the boss, he almost falls off the chair he was bound in.
RETRIBUTION PART ONE
RETRIBUTION
A few minutes before the full implementation of Andrew’s orders...
“How could one person order us around? What is it about him that we should be afraid of? Is he a god or something?”, a man asks a question. This question was asked in a meeting held by an underworld organization. There were talks heard all around, and only a few people were quiet in this meeting. They were majorly the people who have been fortunate to live so long in the business.
“Tap, tap”, the sound of a walking stick hitting the ground was being heard, and everybody suddenly became quiet. The man sitting at the head position in this meeting just stared at all the people who had been arguing initially before saying, “You think I don’t feel the same way as you do about being ordered around, or if I was able to I wouldn’t have ignored the order rather than calling for this meeting”.
The more he talked, the more anger could be felt from his words. “You think our organization can be able to handle his wrath if he decides to take out his anger on us?”, these words of his shocks the people present in the room, but some still didn’t want to give up as one said, “But this is our turf. We can gather the local powers here to fight back against him”. The others quickly agreed with him as they all thought this was the best option, rather than obeying Andrew’s orders.
The head just starts laughing which scares most of the people present in this room. “Gather the local powers and fight with him. I won’t blame you all for your shallow thinking though. You were not around when he was ravaging everywhere. Did you see any of your seniors arguing like you all?”, the head says.
This realization hits those who were arguing, not willing to give up. They were about to question them about why they were quiet, but the boss continued at that same moment, “You weren’t here during his rampage, so you won’t be able to fear him. You weren’t here when he was way prominent if you were, you all wouldn’t be here saying those same words”.
“If he was that great, why was he unheard of for a long while?”, a subordinate asks. “That’s because he was through with setting all his pieces and most probably because of his...”, he says but didn’t complete his statement.
Few people knew the true identity of Andrew. Those who had been in the underworld during his rampage, and were still alive and those who could be termed 'The Godfathers' of the country. Ordinary folks didn’t know who he was or what he looked like.
The head breathed in deeply before he continued, “Although you might be ignorant of his powers, I am sure you are not ignorant of the reformation of the country?”. Those words were like a hammer hitting hard on the hearts of everyone present.
The top officials all felt like they couldn’t breathe, and their memories all flashed back to that young man who could be likened to the devil incarnate, no one would believe he was a human after achieving those feats.
“That was just a fairytale right? There was no way something like that could have happened”, a man says. “Kelizo was the one who singlehandedly carried out the reformation. A lot of organizations were uprooted, top government officials were killed, and people were killed in their cells. Luckily, I was able to place my bet on him at that time. That was how I was able to get to this position I am in right now”, the boss starts before continuing, “He went off the grid after that incident like he didn't exist in the first place. Any records about him were destroyed, and no one spoke about him as he had become a taboo word in the underworld. If anyone dared to talk about him, the person would be lucky to die. If unlucky, his entire generation would be wiped out entirely before he/she would be killed. And that is how you all don’t know about him. Now you dare question his orders. I am only going to say this once. His orders are to be carried out to the latest. Those who dare defy would be killed by me, no exception”.
These words shocked everybody, but nobody dared to retort. Such meetings were being carried out in various parts of the countries, even places connected to the country were not exempted.
Lucious was currently fidgeting inside his room, thinking about what to do in order to avert such a situation. He fully understood that his family members would be well taken care of, but he didn’t want to just die alone. It wasn’t easy accepting death on one’s terms.
In a part of the country, a man could be seen with scars all over his head. They formed a line and tattoo on his face making him look scary to the max, he was currently smoking a big cigar. “So you have finally awakened, huh Andrew? I very well understood that I could never be a match for you, but at the very least I took your beloved brother away from you which is a win on my part”, the man says with a deep voice. “I, James won at the end of it all”, the man shouts and starts laughing hysterically.
This was James. Part of the trio who had fought during the group tussle that cost the life of Francis. His appearance was a total contrast from that of the little boy who was handsome with a flawless smile. If he smiled at this point, he would seem to be that of the Grim Reaper’s, his smile could probably scare ghosts.
Andrew was currently sleeping or should it be called resting, in one of the rooms present in the building where the meeting was held. He couldn’t go back to his house when he was thought of being kidnapped, he still didn’t want his face to be known to the world at this point.
By 7 that morning, food was brought to Andrew’s room, he switched on the television to watch the state of things while eating his meal, and he just stared at the TV seeing the headlines. “Eh eh eh. This is rare”, he says.
Lucious could be seen admitting to being the spearhead of the plans which was laid against Andrew. He was carrying out the orders which the top executives of his family told him to. He was being the scapegoat in this whole matter, but since his family would be kept safe, he didn’t care one bit. It was best if only his life was wasted in all these endeavors. Probably he thinks that this would settle all that has happened but he was bound to be wrong as the person he has wronged, wasn’t someone to let things go.
Andrew smiles devilishly as he says, “But I don’t care if you apologize or not, I want you all destroyed, no one is excluded”.
Currently, in Williams’ house, in a very spacious room which could be said to be a house in a house since almost all the things needed in a house were in this room, Williams’ son could be seen walking around nervously in his room. ‘But what if I am able to kill him? Wouldn’t that make it possible for Father to claim the throne? Then nobody would dare to oppose Father and I. I would squash those who dared point their guns at me’, don’t know if he was going insane, but that was his thoughts at this moment.
A knock was heard from the door of his room. He quickly stops his thoughts and goes to the door. It happened to be his father at the door. He quickly opens the door for him to enter. On entering, Williams takes a seat, then he beckons towards his son to take a seat beside him.
“Tommy, you should try to understand something about who we call the head of our organization...”, he starts, seems like he is about to advise his son, but who could be sure if he would take the advice or not.
Andrew was currently prepared with holsters and guns well equipped. Williams was currently by his side as he was making detailed reports about their movements. But Andrew interrupts him by saying, “You can deal with the rest, but leave Lucious and James to me. They are both old acquaintances after all. You should just bring Lucious to that old building, together with his family members. Hope it’s still in use?”.
Although he was interrupted once again, Williams did not take any offense, he just wondered how Andrew knew Lucious as he had never once spoken about the latter since he knew him, but he didn’t ask. He also in a way felt sorry for Lucious, being taken to that old building was nothing but bad news.
“Also, I don’t want the complete eradication of the Boxos family”, Andrew says. “Why?”, Williams couldn’t help but ask. This wasn’t the style of Andrew whom he had known since he was a kid. He would always make sure there was no one to take revenge on him when killing. He wasn’t the type to cut the grass without uprooting it.
“Well, I think I like them a bit”, Andrew says. Hearing such an answer puts Williams in a weird state, such that he wished he had never asked.
“Who would you be going for first then?”, Williams shifts the topic. “I am going to meet our former friend. Don’t you want to come along?”, Andrew asks. “I don’t think it would be right for me to come along. It would be better if I direct the rest operations”, Williams replies. “Ohh”, Andrew sounds while staring at Williams for a while before continuing, “Okay then”.
“I should be going then. It’s going to be a long day after all”, Andrew sets to enter a car which has been prepared for him. “Don’t you need backups?”, Williams asks. “You feel I might have lost my touch, right?”, Andrew replies with a question. “Don’t worry about that. I would be back before you know it. Just take care of Lucious”, he continues before entering the car and driving off. His destination was James' location.
An hour or two ago in what seems to be a hotel, along the corridor, a hotel worker could be seen pushing a trolley of eateries. She stops in front of one of the rooms, then she presses the bell lightly. The person who appears by the door, happens to be Ella who wears a loose nightgown, even though the nightwear is loose, and she doesn’t seem to have taken her bath, her beauty is still ever present, she seems alluring in her own right.
“Your meal has arrived”, the worker says. “Please keep it inside”, Ella says with a light smile on her face. The worker quickly did as she was told, she placed what had been ordered inside the room and quickly took her leave. Ella quickly went to freshen up before focusing on her meal, all the while wondering what was going on in this country. She had just thought of going back to her work this morning since Andrew had been put behind bars, but all this stuff started happening early this morning. When she woke up to the news headlines, fear gripped her tightly. Then Lucious even admitted to having committed all the crimes. It was a real bumper ride for her. She felt like she had been caught, but since no one had approached her, maybe nothing would happen to her, Andrew had been kidnapped after all, was what she had used to console herself, ignoring the fact that if that was the case, why would Lucious apologize, or perhaps what was happening in the underworld.
She quickly eats what she has ordered and calls for the plates to be cleared. The same worker who had brought the food was the one who came around to clear it. The worker quickly did her job and left the room. After leaving the room, the worker places a call, the name of the person unseen. She just said on the phone that, “It is done”, then the call was immediately cut off.
Now back to the present, Ella starts feeling somehow, she hasn’t felt this way before, it was at this very time that a call comes in from an unknown number. She frowns a bit before picking up the call, after all, this was her personal line, and not everyone could have it.
She didn’t say anything at first, a voice did, “Hey beautiful, thought I had forgotten about you?”. On hearing that voice, she felt somehow at first thinking about the way the voice was familiar, her brain quickly boots to who the owner could be and fear grips her heart. “You know the drug you gave to my brother? I found out that it works faster when the heart is beating at a fast rate”, the voice sounds out again. Who could the caller be, if not one of the most dangerous men in the whole country right now, Andrew.
Eve finally says, “Andrew, please....”, but she was rudely interrupted, “Did you think that only my brother would go through that? Be happy I am giving you the easy way out. I am respecting my Kiddo’s first love by allowing you to go this way. Join my brother on the other side”, Andrew says, after which he cuts the call.
Eve struggles hard to breathe at this point. It seemed like her lungs were blocked off, she tried to grab air, probably a way to feed herself oxygen. She didn’t last long though, as she slumps down. Her heart stops beating, her karma came way too early though, not more than a week.
Andrew was all smiles as he drove at full speed towards the location of James. It was not too far from his location, just a thirty-minute drive and he was there already.
James was currently based at what seemed to be a huge plot of land arranged like an army barrack, there were guards posted all over the place, which made entering or going out impossible. But a lone man comes down from his car in front of this place, with his guns well-shown, not bothering to hide them. How could one man fight all these people who were currently here?
Currently, in a building in this place, a man ran into a room, with a tablet in his hands. James was not the only one present in this room. He was talking with various people, they were trying to figure out a way to leave this country. But there were no available routes as everywhere had been locked down, even the seaports he thought he had control over, had been locked through. All his planes were currently useless.
Although he acknowledged the power of Andrew, it didn’t mean he was prepared to die, and it was at this point that a man ran into the room, disturbing their thought process. He almost killed this man, but seeing what was in the tablet, he just started laughing, which shocked the other people present in the room. They all asked to see what could be making him this way, and on seeing it, they were shocked as to why he would be laughing over this.
After a while of laughing, he finally says, “So it’s over, huh”. His associates didn’t understand what he was saying, they couldn’t help to ask, “What is over?”. James just smiled before he replied, “Say your last prayers. He has come. I didn’t expect him to come this early though”. “Huh”, they all sound out. They found his words unbelievable as it was only a man who had just come knocking at their door. With the amount of men they had, taking care of this one man would be a walk in the park. Seemed like James understood their thought process as he just shook his head before saying, “You all would understand soon enough”.
But as if thinking about something, James quickly runs to check the recording from the tablet while thinking, ‘It would have been possible to escape if he hadn’t entered the compound. Knowing him, he would be too lazy to go in pursuit of me’.
But his hope was dashed as the huge gate started opening ever slowly, and some of the guards who were in charge of defense started coming out to apprehend Andrew who was standing alone. James's associates didn’t quite believe that this man could take on all of them and they felt like mocking him the moment the guards started surrounding Andrew. But it was at this moment that something unbelievable happened.
Andrew starts walking towards the compound as if not noticing that there are armed men by his side. ‘Typical Andrew’, James thought seeing Andrew behave this way.
“Stop or we will shoot”, one of the guards says seeing Andrew moving towards the gates, treating them as air. Andrew didn’t stop though and continued moving with a smile on his face, as if he wasn’t afraid of anything.
“Aren’t you listening?”, the guards screamed and a shot was fired into the air as if warning Andrew for the last time.
But it seemed like that gunshot was the signal to the start of a very dreadful massacre. There were follow-up gunshots and the next scene shows the guards lying on the floor and Andrew was injured as a bullet had scraped past his hands.
He just shakes his head while saying, “Guess, I have lost my touch”. He walks to the spot where the men lay dead. He picks up an automatic gun. He weighs the gun slightly before saying, "Good enough, this should do". He all of a sudden picks up the body of a dead man and uses it to shield himself, it was at this same moment that gun bullets were fired at him. The body absorbed the damage from any bullet that was supposed to fall on him. Andrew understood that eventually the bullets would penetrate through the body and he noticed that the gates were being closed. He rolls over, with the submachine gun hung along his shoulders, he draws two Glock which was in the holster, and fires at an incredible rate while running towards the gate.
Men died at a quick rate, both those who thought they were hidden and those who didn’t bother to hide. He quickly reaches the gate just as it is about to close and jumps in. At an unknown time, he had put his guns back into their holsters and started firing the submachine gun which he had hung initially on his shoulders. All the men who were running towards him without fail, fell dead. But the bullets in the gun were exhausted soon enough. He quickly threw the gun at a man who was getting ready to fire at him, while running in the direction of that same man.
The gun connected with his head and disrupted his shooting, hence he misfired. Before he was able to regain his standing, Andrew had gotten to him and shifted the direction of the gun such that the man shot himself. Before he fell though, Andrew had collected the gun from his dead body, he continued his killing spree while moving.
If noticed, none of the bullets fired from Andrew’s gun ever missed a target, even those formerly from the submachine gun. This was something greater than an experienced shooter.
Andrew was relentless in his march towards the main building. Bodies continued piling up as gunshots were being heard. James who was inside just smiled while saying, “It doesn’t seem like he has lost his touch one bit. Although it was awkward at first since he tried to perform that crazy skill of his, there is not much difference between the him of then and now”. The crazy skill he was saying was when Andrew was initially surrounded. He jumps and spins in an anti-clockwise direction while bullets are being fired from his gun. His murmurings attracted the attention of his fellow associates who deemed it necessary to watch the ongoing fight.
On seeing how the fight was progressing, they couldn’t help but wonder how someone could show off such skills without being hit. Although it was with bullets being fired, him using human shields, and the rest, it was a feat none of them could ever think of replicating, as they would already be dead before getting past the gate.
“You might think that there is no logic behind all that he is doing, but if observed, it is explainable. Although he was the one who had explained it to me himself at first”, James says to grab the attention of his associates, “It can be simply explained as a footballer having an eagle view of the field. He sees the positioning of everybody in just a look, stores all that information in his head all at once, and then attacks using such information. You must not have noticed it, but he looks sideways from time to time in order to close up his blind spots”, he continues.
His associates start murmuring, all saying the same thing, that they could not believe what James seemed to be saying. But he didn’t bother arguing with them. He just says, “Well, he will be here soon. Those guards won’t be able to stop him. Guess, it is time”, James says and suddenly the scene switches to where Andrew is in front of a big building, sizing it out. He was currently holding a handgun, seems he liked guns like this.
No sooner though, he moves inside the building with a smile on his face. The moment he enters though, he quickly fires a shot and moves to a blockade to prevent himself from being shot.
He moves slowly around to intercept someone who held a shotgun. He shot the person in the head, not bothering about the fact that it would attract a lot of attention, he quickly tucked in his handgun and picked up the shotgun.
‘This should be nice’, he thought while jumping over an obstacle on his way and making it to the closest group of men. He quickly used the shotgun to hit the man closest to him, then pushed him back with the muzzle of the gun while using him to shield himself, once the man was close to some of his associates, Andrew let out the fire. The force from the bullet kills two other men. Andrew didn’t stop there though, as he fired another shot which hit an incoming man.
In the process of him flying, he hits two of his associates and one falls and gets his head pierced by a sharp object in the place. While the other hits an iron gas container.
Hearing the sound of that metal gives Andrew an idea as he quickly runs in that direction while shooting off his pursuers. The bullets in the shotgun were quickly exhausted though and he used the gun to block the shot fired by one of the men. This action shocks the men who are about to rain bullets on him.
“Lucky me”, he says while getting rid of the shotgun and bringing out the handgun he had tucked in. He performs a headshot on all the men he can see. When he saw he had the men where he wanted them, he quickly fired a shot at the gas container, which caused an explosion. But Andrew felt his hair rising, he quickly ran in the direction of the stairs, that was when a huge explosion occurred, even after getting to the staircase, he still felt the force of the explosion as it rocked the building.
Some men were waiting for him there, but since the stairs were crowded, he didn’t use his guns and rather used his hands to fight the men off, mostly killing them with their guns.
Soon he was in the room where the meeting was being held. But the sight he sees causes his smile to go more devilish, while he says, “You still do know me, James”. “We have fought together for a long while after all”, James replies.
“Did you do it with your bare hands, seeing that there are no blood stains?”, Andrew asks while walking towards James. The scene has been interchanging from Andrew to James during this short conversation, so there was no idea of what they were talking about.
“To be able to fight alongside you, this is the least requirement of anybody. And there have only ever been three people whom you had allowed to fight alongside you. Me, Williams and...”, but he was never meant to complete his statement as he was shot in the head. “You did your part, guess I should do mine. I still have some stuff to settle. So I am sorry if I can’t chat a bit longer with you”, Andrew says and the situation of the room could be seen as all the associates were currently lying down dead, with no exception.
Andrew moves towards the corpse of James and shoots his head two more times, the bullets pass through his eyes. “Just to be sure you know. No hard feelings”, he says. "Well then, I guess it’s time to move forward", Andrew quickly says while leaving the building. The fire at the bottom still hasn’t been quenched, but Andrew came out of the building.
Apart from the sound of his footsteps and that of the fire still burning, no other sound was heard. Soon, Andrew got to his car and that was when the last building went kaboom.
Andrew didn’t pay attention and just went ahead driving his car. While on his way though, he sees a red car parked in his way. He didn’t understand why someone would park in front of him, but he suddenly smiled and stepped out of his car, he then said, “What is the son of Williams doing over here?”. This was a shocking revelation, as the door to the car was suddenly opened up and the person was truly Thomas.
“I don’t understand why everyone is so afraid of you”, Thomas says the moment he gets down from his car with a handgun in his hands. Andrew on listening to such words just took a look at his wristwatch which was currently a bit cracked, probably from that explosion that had pushed him forward. “Hmm, I still have a few minutes to spare. No rush, no rush”, he says with a thoughtful expression on his face.
“You won’t be getting past here. This would be where you die. No one would know what happened to you or where you have gone to”, Thomas says with full confidence. He probably didn’t know what had happened previously in that huge building, that was why he was this confident that he would be able to kill Andrew.
He quickly tries pointing his gun at Andrew, but he is shocked that Andrew is no longer in the position he saw him in formerly. “I told your father that there would be no next time”, Andrew says all of a sudden. Fear gripped Thomas all of a sudden as the distance from which he felt the sound was so close. He didn’t know when Andrew had gotten this close to him. He hurriedly tried to put up a little space between the both of them, but it was impossible to escape the clutches of Andrew.
“You should learn to take the advice of your elders in your next life”, Andrew says then a gunshot is heard. The irony of this all was that the gun from which the shot was fired was from that of Thomas, and the new wielder was Andrew.
Thomas moves back after being shot, he hadn’t imagined that this would happen no matter how much he had thought about it. He stares at Andrew and is about to say something, but that is when another shot is fired from his former gun, followed by another, then another.
Andrew emptied the clip of his new gun into Thomas and watched him fall dead. He just watched him being wet in his pool of blood, no more deader than dead. Andrew quickly lost interest in such a sight though. He quickly moves his view to the red sports car in front of him. He quickly fell in love with it, thus he abandoned his old car and entered this new one.
“Zooooom”, he sped off. His location was a place he had long been to. He had nicknamed the place, his execution ground. It was an abandoned building which was well taken care of by him. The fact that it was called the execution ground didn’t mean that the execution would be swift. One would be made to plead for his death before he was killed. And this was the exact place that Lucious and his son were taken to.
Lucious had just woken up from being knocked unconscious. He had been taken directly from his house, together with his son. He was currently bound with ropes on a chair together with his son. He wanted to know who was behind all these things, as he had mostly heard the word, “boss”, from the mouth of his kidnappers. It was at this time that the sound of footsteps resonated in the hall and the relaxed men quickly became alerted as there was total silence in the building.
The steps continued and slowly the legs of the person could be seen, seeing the legs alone, Lucious couldn’t figure out the identity of the person, so he squinted his eyes while staring upwards trying to see the face of the proclaimed boss who had the guts to do this without any fear.
He was wondering if this boss was the Kelizo he had heard about that was currently shaking the whole country, and who had put this country in a temporary lockdown that those whom he thought were above couldn’t do a single thing.
But on seeing the face of the boss, he almost falls off the chair he was bound in.
