I shall proof read later... Just re-read and noticed a number of errors... Happy easter everyone

What I needed now was good food, cold bath and a warm bed, and definitely change of clothes.
I pushed my thoughts to the back ground and Snapped back into reality. My car was gone, more blood on my hand, and I was surrounded by sociopaths. I too could call my self one, judging by my actions today. I thought to myself as I watched Rita draw closer. I observed she wore a white short gown.

Judging from the rough patches on it, the gown was never made to be short, and the lightness of the fabric left nothing to imagination.

The dissyness was taking over again. I simply sat on a kerb by the road side as the mist cleared off and I watched people gradually apper and fill up the streets from no where. So much people that I had to struggle amongst the crowd to reach out to Rita.

"Hey"

"Hey" she replied embracing me.

"We have to get out of here" She continued.

"We cant go back to the motel, I heard they trashed it up." I replied

"How did you..."

"Hello, I'm Lola." The ghost poped up from behind me.

"I advice you don't return my greeting ,before passers by begin to think you are crazy"

Rita gave me a stern look.
"I thought I told you not to engage her."


"I heard you guys have accommodation issues, I know a place you could crash." Lola continued with a tone of excitement.

"How far is it from here?" Rita inquired.

"Quite a distance..."

"Forget it, we don't have a car nor enough money to move around." Rita interrupted her

"Since when do you need a car to move around?" I managed to speak as hunger was killing along side the dissyness.

"I got my body back, so I cant move around like before."

"Helllooo? Like I was saying before you interrupted me..." And Lola paused.

"Continue" I and Rita chorused.

"You took room 11b at the motel for a reason." Lola said, then paused.

I stared at Rita in a form requesting an answer.

"Well, its a distance loop station." Rita spoke

" what is that?" I asked.

"Please leave the road o!!!" An angry porter cursed as he drove his wheel barrow in our direction."

"Lets find a quiet place to talk." I requested.

"Look around you, we are in a market. There is no quiet place to talk." Lola interjected .

I observed Rita was quiet and pale and lacking in interest to move the conversation further.

"You where saying something about a distance loop station" I said. Hunger was seriously kicking in.

"Chika, are you hungry?" Rita asked. Was she trying hard to evade my questions? Whatever it was, she got me.

"Yeah, I'm hungry, why do you ask?"
My powerful hunger must have conjured the thought . I chuckled .

"Give me a second" she said hurriedly and vanished.

Didnt she just say she couldn't move around like before? I was gradually getting pissed off at Rita. In less than a minute , she was back with four meat pies and tossed one at me which I caught like my life depended on it.

I had taken just a bite as I watched her consume her last bite. Even the ghost exclaimed. I wasted no time digging into my pie and concluded nothing could shock me any more.

"I was just as hungry as you are, so i couldn't concentrate with all your questions. Its the first time I have eaten in years. But that should hold for a while."

"I thought you said you couldnt move around like before." I stated, savouring my last bite.

"Oh, I really cant. I mearly cloaked my presence and stole the pies from a vendor down the street".

"Uhm, since you are all full, I would like to get us back to the motel". Lola said, with a different tone in het voice. Almost authoritatively.

"Why would we want to go there? You your self said the place is trashed up."

"Cause she wants you to put her ghost back in her body and that is not happening . From the desperation and lengths you have gone through in the past 24 hours, I am guessing you have till dusk before your death agent finds you and takes you to the other plane. Good bye. Chika we need change of cloths, lets go."

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"Wait, you cant leave me here. You could have taken me any where, some where far but here. They are so close by..."

"My powers don't work that way. I can only travel to and from places I have touched before, and I have never left the island. Good bye Inky eye."

"I have to get to the motel now." I whispered under my breathe.

"Uh , this is where I tell you they have trashed the motel and thats a no go area. I learnt you murdered a very high ranked priest ." Lola whispered.

I sat on the ground and rested my palm on my head. Where do I even begin from here , I thought , this time not aloud as it seemed of recent the ghost following me around was picking into my every thought.

Come to think of it, what did she even want. It was hardly the place not time to think about that.

Lila was just as cold as I was led to believe in our first encounter . The only question I wished could get immediate answer now is where the hell Rita was, i thought deeply again.

I remembered she said those priests have good of smell, its just a matter of time before I get discovered .

I crawled and peeped from underneath the bus. "Oh my , Rita!"

I saw her holding the head of the giant man. All the priests around her also had their heads severed off with their leader, the one they called Ema left standing. She pointed a semi automatic gun at Rita and dropped it in what seemed like hysteria written all over her face.

They seemed to be having a conversation and then Rita dropped the head of the giant she was holding. Before the head made impact with the floor , she had gained a distance at a speed I had never seen before. She held Ema by the shoulder with her left arm and , rested her right palm on Ema's face and had her warm smile which set me in deep confusion . As the giants head would make impact with the ground , she snapped Ema's head 90 degrees to her shoulder and she fell instantly dead.

My mouth was forced open but words wouldn't proceed out.

I slowly crept from underneath the bus and waved at Rita from a distance. She waved back with a warm smile on her face. She looked a bit different. Probably it was because I just saw her snap a persons neck like a twig.

My head felt light and waves of dizziness was taking its toll on me.

"What is it!"

"We should seriously to get out of here. I can feel a really terrible presence. "

I looked arround. Nothing crawled , walked. All market shade where ominously diserted like a cursed wind had blown all souls into limbo.

A dark mist had engulfed my surrounding . An uncommon happentance.

" chika this is very bad , I have to get the hell out of here. "

"We "had suddenly become "I".
I ignored the ghost and started the car. From a distance i could hear a wild wind headed my direction.

"Oh my god! I cant fucking leave . My powers are not working!! Please we have to get the hell out of here!"
And once again "I" had become "we".

What fear does the dead have. Nothing at the moment could explain the lack in logic . Perhaps I was the the one aloft the oasis of absurdity.

I steped on the accelerator as my mind processed very few thoughts other than muderous intent . My eyes fashed at every slight changes in my surrouding as i drove through the dark mist. I flashed my head lights, though could see way ahead without the light as my senses where higher than normal especially my ocular power since the inky substance flowed down my eye.

And like a flash , a head poked from the cloud of mystry. I shot at the head before it could disapper back into the mist, but i got the shocker of my life.

The bullet stopped right at his fore head and fell off like a canters off a bottled beverage. There was not a scratch on the man. This was no man I observed as the cloud cleared out. This was a giant , and looked too familiar. I had seen him before! Yes, it was the picture in the twins apartment. Before i could give much thought into the 7ft tall looking giant runing side by sides with my automobile at a speed even my blood thirsty mind couldnt comprehend, he ripped my bunnet straigh off with his hand and my car door followed , sailing into high altitude and disappearing in the mist.

Luckly the door was not at my side of the car. I pulled off my sit belt and opened my door. This was really a monster and I was not ready to engage this man. The new plan was ESACAPE.

He looked at me and laughed hard, right there in that moment , i smiled cause i had my window . I threw a granade into his mouth and disengaged from the car tossing the pin away. I did not wait to see the outcome . I ran as fast as I could out of the mist.

As the mist cleared , i realised I was surrounded . It was like an army of priests.

The viscus liquid had stop flowing and all I was left with was two pistols and fear.

If I live through today, I promise to be the most pius man that ever lived, I said to myself. I turned and saw Lola aloft the left shoulder of the giant as she struggled.

What the fvck! He survived?! As he drew closer I saw his jaw dangle off his face as he tried to force a smile. The explosive must have done that.

Clearly I couldnt reason with this ones, and I was way too frightened to go down with a fight. I noticed fear had taken over me since the inky substance stopped flowing down my cheek . I tried to estimate the number of priests. Twenty, maybe thirty , all armed to the teeth.

I went down on my knees and bowed my head , slowly reaching for my gun. At least I would go down killing the first priest that comes close. But my hand was shaky.

Then I heard the 'clack clack clack' footsteps of a lady walk out of the battalion.

" Dont get close to him. I knew bringing him in would be a problem. "

I heard her foot steps move around once more.

" Ema, let me rip this one to pieces." I heard the giant of a monster rant which shortly followed a roar of laughter.


"Hush". there was a pause.

By whole body shivered in fear. I could not feel some parts of my own body.

"Open fire!"


I shut my eyes tight and felt a hand grab me by the collar of my shirt, and found my self behind a bus. I turned around and peeped behind the bus. I was hundreds of meters from my assailants .

I turned around and it was Lila! Bello's body guard . Before I could offer my gratitude, she warped her left palm around my mouth and signalled me to keep quiet.

"Bello sent me. Shh. " she placed her palm on the floor and vanished.

I rested my back on the bus. That was a close call. My heart was beating really fast. I felt sweat all over my head.

Lila appeared again! But this time with Lola the dead lady.

"Why the hell did you bring her?" I whispered.

"Excuse me?" Lola protested

"I thought you two where together."

"No we are not"

"You do know I am right here" Lola said again.

"Well I can not return her now. Do with the ghost as you wish . Good bye , and do not bring trouble down this territory. I heard so much legend about you and I am so disappointed. If those priest knew who you are, they would not engage you. Next time you cross into this territory followed, I would personally hand you over to the them, i don't care what issues you have with Bello."

My heart beat was really fast.

I opened my eyes and felt a liquid substance flowing down my eyes. It wasn't tears . I touched my cheek and realised it was some black and viscus liquid. Surprisingly, i felt no need to bother about it. My head wasnt clear , but I wasnt as scared as I should have been.


"I'm back, that , that and that building...they are that the topmost floors."


I drove roughly into the road at a high speed, causing chaos in the market ....people ran in random directions and all of them made curses and noise , screaming and shouting and all of a sudden their noises reduced to silence ; till i heard that noise." A bullet sound passes my ears as a bullet grazed my chair cutting the lock of the sit belt off, and another to my head rest. That was a big mistake on his part and all I needed to make out his exact location.


The shooter was good, but I felt I could do better. I pulled my pistol swiftly like I was possessed , slowed down and shot at the direction I could triangulate from his two shots.

"Bulls eye!!"
I head the ghost in the back sit cheer.

It was then I realised, no one ever stops at one murder. Once you commit one murder, it becomes the solution to all problems. I just killed someone trying to kill me, and I felt nothing. By some sheer stroke of fate I had "dodged a bullet" . Any day not dead was gradually becoming a good day for me. This was the new life I had signed up for. I thought of the paradox in the sentence I had just said to my self.

" make a turn!!"

I stepped lightly on the brakes and made a drift, cutting into a narrow road. I noticed a small red Nissan-blue-bird vehicle right on my tale. The driver of the vehicle rammed into my vehicle from behind and before i could recover, a well built man about my height climbed out of the moving vehicle with what seemed like an anchor on his right shoulder .

"What the bloody hell is that guy doing?"

"He want to stop this moving vehicle. "

"Is he strong enough to do that? Is any human even that strong" .... I replied, and she nodded her head.
This fellow was strong , but definitely not smart. I pulled out a semi automatic riffle from the bag pack under the car seat.

The night earlier I had woken up in the early hours of the day and studied the artillery. It didn't seem complex at all. The use of arms was surprisingly so easy for me, Like I had used them before.

I stopped the vehicle on the spur of the moment and the Manchu man came crashing in my wind shield . I turned and almost emptied a magazine in his face, the only rue I felt was the shattered wind shield . I was at least going to make the best use of it. I watched the driver try to reverse the vehicle, but it was otiose. I killed him even before he knew he was dead.

I turned and observed Lola had a smirk on her face like she was enjoying the whole violence. What a creep.

I turned around and realised the road side business women where all about their business. No one care or seemed to have noticed the gore or vehemency.

"Why are they simply going about their business"

"This area is marked, maybe by priests, maybe by alchemist, i don't know. But to the normal eyes, we don't even exist as far as we are under such marked areAs....you have to get out of here , so step on it."

I drove as fast as I could go and suddenly i felt a change in my heart beat. I could see myself approaching the famous third mainland bridge and then something dark had happened to me. I turned the vehicle and started driving toward the chaos i had just escaped.

" what are you doing?" Lola asked in disbelieve. I ignored her and drove on . I emptied the bag pack on the chair my by side and took out a fine pistol which i tucked into my shirt. There where 6 of them, now that i remembered, i counted them well and i wanted them dead.

I had a craving, a blood lust... A new feeling. I felt the black substance flow down my checks from my eyes.
I stared at the mirror and i saw a different person. I spotted one a few yards ahead on a motor cycle , stepped on the accelerator . I noticed a small axe on his back and once he noticed me, he threw it with much precision at my direction. Like all my life, i knew he was going to make the throw. I stepped lightly on the brake, swerved off and the car made two horizontal spins and smashed him off his bike to an electric pole. The car finally came to an halt and i pulled out a pistol and shot him through the eye before his body could recover from the squeezed bike he was stuck in.

"Wow!! " Lola screamed.

"Hush" I said turning in her direction as she scrawled to a corner of the back sit.

I heard a "thud" sound on the roof of the car and emptied the remaining round in the semi automatic riffle on the car roof.I reversed and a body rolled off the wind shield and down to the bunnet and finally made its way to the ground.

"He is not dead yet. I can still feel life in him , its..."

I drove across the unconscious body before she could complete her statement.

"Definitely dead now." Lola cheered

Then the unexpected happened.
"Chika Chika Chika"

I lit ignition and quickly turned on the radio. I hurriedly tuned from one station to another trying to find a clear station, but to no avail , the frequencies seemed to have jammed. I cursed and tried to adjust the rear mirror.

"I think I might be the one messing the radio frequencies up"

My whole body went num and cold as shivers ran through my spine .I almost screamed in fright.

It was the girl in the bloody skirt from the motel ! Seating inside my car!!!!

"What the hell is your problem!!" I screamed.

"Hello, I'm Lola, at least I was, and you finally admit you can see me . Thats by the way , why are you acting like you have never seen a ghost before?"


I took a strong and deep breath.
"Please, what are you doing in my car?" Taking every word, one after the other.

" I think we can help each other so I followed you here. I was careful to avoid suspicion from the stalwart lady you move around with."

Now I had a ghost stalking me.

" What do you mean when you say we can help each other?"

"Straight to the point, I like you "

she said with a smile as I observed her face from the rear mirror. Now I had a closer look at her. Her face was pretty yet, disturbing .her eyes where blood shot and blood stains on the corners of her lips and a few bruises to the head. Her hair sat loosely and scattered , like she had been in a fight of some sort. Red marks on her neck. She must have died of strangulation , maybe hanging by suicide, maybe execution by hanging ... I was thinking too much again.

"Lets say how I can help you. For instance there are two cars parked just a street from here tailing you, priests I assume and the are 8 others all scattered around and I happen to be the only person that can get you out of this place alive. So , do you want this crazy looking ghost's help or not?"

Eight priest! I could barely handle myself with one without the help of Rita.

"What do you want in return? "

She smiled turned towards the window...

"Nobel one, I'm afraid time is not on our side. What I want in return is very easy and insignificant to someone of your kind. We better get going soon. But our binding agreement must be with a hand shake."

I reluctantly gave a satisfying hand shake.

I turned on the ignition and drove into the road no knowing where I was going or what I was doing. The ghost in the back sit wasn't making things easier for me.


"I advice you stay off the major road and places with high rise buildings. You see that building over there? " she said pointing at an old building about eight yards ahead and I recognised it at a glance.

As a child who often came to the island with my mother to buy cloths ...
My mother once told me the building had caught fire twice in two years and since then abandoned.


"There is a priest on the the third floor. You go even a yard close to that building and he wouldn't waste the opportunity of putting a hole in your face."


"So where do I drive to? All the building around here are high rise buildings. "

"You are asking the wrong question"

I closed my eyes and took a deep breathe. The lady was annoying. " Can you circle around and
Note the buildings with priests."

"We have the best research team in the world here and we are going to run a few tests and study on it. This could be a huge break through in our pharmaciticles

"Tea or coffee Sir? "

"Nothing please "I said making a wave of the hand, acknowledging that I had heard the teenager.

I could not risk eating or drinking anything with such dangerous people.

"Just consider this a thank you pay back " he paused

" How is the new life? I can imagine some trains of thought missing." He said with a strong stare. "The brothers are coming ..."

He paused, as if irritated by my silence.

"Seeing you are back, I can imagine the war is about to start. You have to be on your way now , I can assume you have things to tidy up before it begins."

Like euphony to my ears , I could not put postponement to it,but at the same time I needed answers to many questions. What did he mean by new life, war, the long stares. I could imagine 'Inky eye' was a nickname of some sort. If for anything I was completely in the dark, daunted beyond tidings but in a good way I still had my sanity intact.



Most part of my life, I had lived in peace. I could count all my trouble moments in fingers of one hand and most had happened in just a few days. For all I knew , this could be the safest place I could be in and yet I was in a hurry to leave.

I could walk out the doors of this place and be arrested for the massacre I left behind in my apartment . I could hardly sleep, and felt a terrible distaste for food, but with Rita, every thing seemed ok.

"I see you did not come with your guard, I would let Lila see you out, She is my newest guard. I have issues to attend to and here is my card; next time you call before dropping by."

Did he just call the little girl his body guard? I thought to my self as I swiftly slipped his card into my pocket.

"She would hand over your gun once she has escorted you out of the building. "

I turned to the teenager as she stretched out her two hands gesturing me to hold them and I did.
That terrible feeling again like I was falling off a plane. We had just leaped another space , clearly as we found our selves in an elevator.

I could hear the soft music in the elevator and an awkward silence between myself and Lila. At least I knew that to be her name, and she could do that leaping thing that Bello could. Why did they even have to do that when we could clearly walk to the elevator. Show off?

I looked at the girl for a while, she did not seem the show off type and unlike Rita, her face seemed to hardly know smiles.

"I had to do that so that no one knows the location of Bello's office in the building, its just security protocol. " she said staring unblinkingly at me like she read my thoughts. Could she read my thoughts? I just had to be away from these people.

"I cant read your thoughts, strangely." She spoke again.

The rest of the ride down was in silence and I could swear the soft music in the elevator was not so bad; I had heard the song somewhere before.


The elevator door opened. I could see the damsel I accosted earlier at a distance and I smiled at her which she returned with a shocking expression followed by a frown .What a shame, we were just getting to know each other.

"Aren't we supposed to use the front door, where I came in from? " I spoke as I noticed Lila made a sudden turn towards a lavatory. I kept my thoughts to myself and followed Lila like a tale to a beast .

We proceeded into the rest room and she shut the door right behind me, and started unbuttoning her suit.

Lady, I don't think this is the place nor time to... My thought had come to a sudden bump as she gently removed my pistol from her jacket and handed it over. After which she pointed to a small window , at least large enough to fit a human.

Needed no fortune teller to say I was to exit through it.

"Why cant I use the front door I came in through?"

"Security Protocol"

Soon I was out of the building and found my way to my car right across the street.

My problems would finally be over. Keep a low profile and stay out of the radar till the whole appartment massacre thing dies down.

I entered my car and shut the door quickly making a quick study of the environment. I had to listen to the news.

As he approached me I could feel a strange aura around him. Before Words would escape my lips, he grabbed unto my left shoulder and stared into my eyes. I felt my heart beat slow down like life was slowly slipping away as quiet gradually grew louder, my mouth quivered and the next second I was in a dark place. I could not make a thing of the environment asides the chair I sat on. Every where was pitch black.

Come to think of it, I can see the chair, that means there is light somewhere, i thought to myself; but I could not find its source. I could concern myself less with the source of light , at the moment all I needed to do was get the hell out of wherever I was. Damn it. Rita had led me to trouble. It felt like I was in outer space. Everywhere was dark, void and empty, asides the chair of course . I had spent just a few seconds short of a minute and it felt like hell. Precious would have surely picked death over this cold ,void and terrifyingly silent limbo.

I felt cold sensation on my forehead as I stood from the chair. It was water. I turned up and a heavy rain fall poured down my body. The water gradually changed colour till it became red and I was sure it was blood. I tried to wipe my face from the intense downpour of blood as it blotted out my vision ;and gradually, something else followed the blood. It felt solid, but soft.

I wiped some blood off my face to see clearly. It was raw meat. Gradually, more and more kept falling as I fought hard to get them off me in disgust until a human arm fell , and then a foot , and a thigh. I fell and vomited. I was choking on the smell and petrified. Finally a head fell, and it was her head...



Precious head. I stood briskly and kicked the head away . Doing so, I slipped and fell. Someone was definitely messing around with my head. This was not real, it wasn't and it couldn't. It had to be some really messed up dream.

The blood rained heavily and In a matter of seconds, I was drowning in blood... My nostrils and lungs where filling gradually with blood. I struggled to swim upwards , but something held unto my legs. I turned and looked downwards, it was Precious terrifying detached head as her mouth had a grip of my leg.

My eyes started to close as life slowly faded.

"Its not real" I heard Rita say faintly from a distance.

How could she breath under this pool of blood. I asked my self as I slowly opened my eyes.

I saw Rita pat me on the cheek . "Wake up its not real".

My eyes dilated as light got really bright in my surrounding .

"That was quicker than I expected but you know how the drill works, I had to get into your mind to dislodge from your being ." Bello whispered as I found myself once again in the room I was once seated.

I stood with ease off the chair and shook hands with the man and we found ourselves in an very large office , as it seemed we leaped through time and space. In fright, I withdrew from the hand shake quickly.

"Tea or Coffee Sir? " a young lady in her teens said approaching me from behind.

"Welcome to my office Inky eye. Feel comfortable please."

"Inky eye?" I whispered aloud

This Bello guy is really powerful, I thought to myself. I had to be wary of the man. Why was he calling me Inky eye.

I observed the teenager wheel a fancy trolly on which sat a beautiful and well decorated silver ware tea set. She had a very dark complexion and the face of a child. If not for the mold swollen on her chest , I would have taken her for a tall eleven year old. Her eyes were large and pearly and her lips ,small and pink. She had dreadlocks that were carefully packed into a pony tale and a few short ones draping at the edges of her forehead . I also noticed she was clad in a white trouser suit. I tried to take a look at her foot wares when something rather strange got the better of my attention

I observed a chimp in a cage just across the room, peering straight into my eyes. It had a sinister stare that pierced into my soul.

"If I were you , I would avoid staring at that creature."

"What kind of chimp is that! " I exclaimed in horror. It felt like it had just fed on my soul. I couldn't wait to be out of the place and get on with my life.

"Its called a Julong. I caught it during one of my hunting expeditions. Its an endangered beast, very few of them left , so when I heard from one of the locals in a little town in Akwa Ibom of people getting possesed after entering a so called evil forest. Put a few pieces together and went to find out my self. It took myself and six other able alchemists to catch the thing. You needed to have seen the look on those old gazers downstairs when I brought it in." What he said must have sounded really amusing to him as he roared in laughter. I smiled as I tried to study the man.

"So, why go through so much stress to catch the creature, just to cage it up"