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Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 2:14pm On Jan 12, 2019
From the stables of GHOST PRODUCTION in partnership with BLACK-DOGS ENTERTAINMENT and NAIRALAND STUDIO presents: Devil's Puzzle.

All rights reserved. No part of this write-up may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transported in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, re-cording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the writer himself.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

You can contact the writer OMOTAYO TAOFIQ SULEMAN through: osuleman11@gmail.com or osuleman11@yahoo.com



Personal note:Funny enough I made a new year resolution never to type stories again and face reality but this voice in my head won't just let me rest, it keeps whispering crazy things into my head and urging me to write. So now I have decided to obey (So that i will not come and run mad). I swear I don't know what this story will be all about, I don't know what shape it's going to take but I have this feeling it going to be super horrific and crazy. Mind you, I am not so good with English but I will try. I will try make this write-up one of my best here on nairaland and hopefully one of the best you will ever read. Trust me. But updates drops weekly.

pls no one should quote my story just to get my attention, it's insensitive. I will complete this story by God's grace.

I dedicate this work to every crazy introvert like me who dwells in the happiness of the beautiful events inside their heads. We are not mad, we are just wonderfully crazy.. wink

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 2:26pm On Jan 12, 2019
CHAPTER ONE

SWEET BOYS


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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Nobody: 2:26pm On Jan 12, 2019
Interesting cool following jejely.

I've never like boarding schools at all sad

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by queenitee(f): 2:42pm On Jan 12, 2019
KimberlyWest:
Interesting cool following jejely.

I've never like boarding schools at all sad
I loved boarding school, I still do but I was never chanced to attend one. *sad face*
My kids would attend boarding schools grin grin grin

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Ann2012(f): 3:00pm On Jan 12, 2019
Following

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Nobody: 3:15pm On Jan 12, 2019
Nice start

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Chommieblaq(f): 1:02pm On Jan 13, 2019
I'm a dedicated fan or your stories, love your choice of words and how you write, hovwever you have many other stories you haven't finished.
Don't get us all engrossed and leave us of dry
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 6:51pm On Jan 13, 2019
CHAPTER TWO

THE BOOK OF ULTIMATE WISH


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Re: Devil's Puzzle by germaphobe(m): 7:09pm On Jan 13, 2019
hmmmmmm
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghettochild(m): 8:51pm On Jan 13, 2019
ghostwritter:
From the stables of GHOST PRODUCTION in partnership with BLACK-DOGS ENTERTAINMENT and NAIRALAND STUDIO presents: Devil's Puzzle.

All rights reserved. No part of this write-up may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transported in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, re-cording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the writer himself.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

You can contact the writer OMOTAYO TAOFIQ SULEMAN through: osuleman11@gmail.com or osuleman11@yahoo.com



Personal note:Funny enough I made a new year resolution never to type stories again and face reality but this voice in my head won't just let me rest, it keeps whispering crazy things into my head and urging me to write. So now I have decided to obey (So that i will not come and run mad). I swear I don't know what this story will be all about, I don't know what shape it's going to take but I have this feeling it going to be super horrific and crazy. Mind you, I am not so good with English but I will try. I will try make this write-up one of my best here on nairaland and hopefully one of the best you will ever read. Trust me. But updates drops weekly.
I dedicate this work to every crazy introvert like me who dwells in the happiness of the beautiful events inside their heads. We are not mad, we are just wonderfully crazy.. wink
Wait o namesake.is this gonna b another unfinished story??
Mio raye nonsense o

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 9:07pm On Jan 13, 2019
pls no one should quote my story just to get my attention, it's insensitive. I will complete this story by God's grace.
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghettochild(m): 9:11pm On Jan 13, 2019
See omotayo.. If u don't finish this story I will borrow thunder from Darous n finish u..
Na so the story of that sheikh wey dey control al jannu.. U didn't finish it..
How u want make I even sign u to my movie company based in SA?
We were waiting for you to finish d movie but u didn't so we can call upon u..
Now u have started another masterpiece that may not see daylight
Re: Devil's Puzzle by queenitee(f): 8:36am On Jan 14, 2019
Hmmm
Re: Devil's Puzzle by Nobody: 8:56am On Jan 14, 2019
Well done Op

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by donteanz(m): 7:46pm On Jan 14, 2019
The Ghostwritter With The Double TT, Carry On Sir.

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 10:43pm On Jan 15, 2019
CHAPTER THREE

NIGHTMARE


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Re: Devil's Puzzle by AkachukwuD(m): 11:18pm On Jan 15, 2019
Next update please
Re: Devil's Puzzle by germaphobe(m): 11:31pm On Jan 15, 2019
update sharp sharp and thanks for this one

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Ann2012(f): 6:09am On Jan 16, 2019
Well done OP

The sickness might be related to the mysterious book

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 5:43pm On Jan 19, 2019
CHAPTER FOUR

IN THE STORE


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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Ann2012(f): 7:29pm On Jan 19, 2019
Terrifying....
Thanks for the update

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by queenitee(f): 2:32pm On Jan 20, 2019
OMG

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghettochild(m): 5:47am On Jan 23, 2019
ghostwritter:
CHAPTER THREE

NIGHTMARE


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I laid on my bed till day break trying to wrap my head around what I had seen. It felt unreal but it was real. I could see the sweet boys excited all through the day as they kept smiling to all the pretty girls in class. I envied the boys and wish I had taken the chance of a life time the night before. By night fall, I was excited as I laid there on my bed in anticipation for the Sweet boys call till I fell unconscious. I woke up the next morning to the exhausted faces of the sweet boys. They looked tired like they hadn’t slept a bit through the night. I felt betrayed and challenged them for not waking me.

“Of what use is a Lollypop to a goat” Solomon replied me as he struggles to dress up for class. The boys all laughed. They got his message and so did I and it hurt seeing they must have had wonderful experiences the night before. I begged him to let me follow them the next night and he agreed. But that night, the gang failed to wake me and again I missed out of the wonderful experience.
The next morning, I could see they appeared more exhausted and noticed Benson, Ali and Kolade sleeping during lessons. In class, I would stare at Feyintola whose seat was at the front row adjacent mine giving me more chance to stare at her smooth legs, her lips, eyes, her chest. Wondering how wonderful it would be to caress them all. Few times she had caught me stare at her but smiled coyly, I felt she loved me too. So on that afternoon during break, I braced up and approached her with snacks, drink and my boyish smile.
Seated beside her was Kiki her best friend, both had their minds buried to a romance novel along the walk-way.

“Hi” I greeted.

Kiki swiftly looked up from her book with a frown as if I had disrupted her mind. “Hi, what is it?” she asked.

“I…I came to see Feyintola” I almost stammered.

Feyintola looked up and almost let out a smile on seeing me but she quickly frowned. “Why?”

I loosed it. I couldn’t remember all those romantic lines I had rehearsed, telling Feyintola how I felt about her seem difficult than I had imagined. “I…I…I have…have come to give you these” I starmmered and handed the snacks and drinks to her.

“Thank you…and is that all?” she asked expectantly.

“That’s all” I lied

As I turned and was walking away, I heard them giggling. I was sure they were making fun of me. I felt foolish. While going, the sweet boys suddenly accosted me, they looked at me suspiciously as they tried to know if I hadn’t been going around spilling their secret. I assured them I haven’t and wouldn’t do such thing. They walked away not after reminding me of the consequences if I do.

An hour past midnight the next day, I was woken by the alarm of my wrist-watch. I looked around and wasn’t surprise to see the six beds around me empty. I grabbed my flash light and sneaked out of the hostel away into the store in my pajamas. There in the store were the six of them flashing their lights on me as I appeared, I guess I scared them. I confronted them for not calling on me but they appeared too engrossed with what Solomon was about to do. I sensed they cared less about my presence but I wasn’t bothered, I had made up my mind to join in the wonderful experience. We watched silently as Solomon kept reading out the strange words from the book, he pronuced fluently and confidently this time. And as he did, the weather outside turned windy as numbing cold enveloped our bodies again. I became scared, skeptical of my earlier choice. All the boys appeared to care less as they seem eager to spill their bloods on the book. One after the other, I watched them dissolve into thin air with Solomon’s supervision. When it was my turn to go, Solomon insist I stay behind claiming it’s a must someone amongst us stay behind to watch over the book.

“But we can simply just hide the book somewhere around till we all come back” I suggested hoping I don’t stay behind.

“Sorry, it doesn’t work like that. The book must be left open till we all reappear” Solomon responded eagerly with his blood already dripping on the opened page of the book.

I was curious. “So what happens if the page is closed?”

Solomon vanished.

I felt him breeze away from the store. In my anger I sat down to watch vigilant over the book. I could hear my heart beating in the dark, quiet space of the store. Shortly, I heard a rumbling noice by the far corner of the store, I was startled. I flashed my light at the direction to reveal a black cat staring at me. It stood still as it kept it gaze on me even as I flicked my light at it. That was scary. I picked up a piece of wood to throw at it but the cat had disappeared. It was nowhere around. After about two long, silent and scary hours, the boys puffed-out one after the other all sweaty, exhausted but excited. By day break I tried to make them narrate their experiences to me but they kept avoiding it. At class that day, a handful of girls were absent from class including Feyintola and Kiki, I heard they were all admitted at the school clinic due to strange ailment. We heard it was so serious that four of the girls had to be taken for intensive treatment outside the school. Rumour quickly spread about Elizabeth’s prophecy coming to pass. That night before I slept, I thought about what had happened to the girls, perhaps they ate something poisonous. I woke up past midnight and was surprise to see the sweet boys all still asleep. I sneaked up to Solomon’s bunk, woke him up and reminded him of our activity but he simply shunned me off telling me they had earlier cancelled it.

“But why?” I whispered angrily.

“Are you daft, don’t you hear what happened to some girls?” Solomon asked sleepily.

“Yes I heard but that shouldn’t stop us. Besides, we are just going there to have a view”

“We are on solidarity break with the girls throughout this week” he said conclusively before falling back to sleep.

Solomon was right, my desperation had taken the better part of me. I withdrew to my bed and slept.

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I saw myself walking through the school football pitch in the middle of the a dead night, I couldn’t remember when and how I got there but I felt I was to wait for someone. Everywhere was awefully quiet and that got me uneasy. Who am I waiting for? Who is coming?” I looked across the field and saw Feyintola running towards me from the other end of the field in her school uniform. She was desperately calling for help against a creature that was pursuing her. Behind her was something looking like a gargoyle.

“David help!” she called in distress.

At first I couldn’t tell what it was from afar but the beast like creature effortlessly caught up with her and tore her into shreds like she was made of tissue. I stood unable to move my feet as the creature lumbered towards me with deadly intent. It took the figure of a human in a pitch black scaly body, balanced on two thick muscled legs that looked much like that of a horse, on its human-like face rested two long horns. Its eyes set under heavy bony brows that glowed ghastly red, while tufts of its lank sprouted from its diseased scalp. It got to me and slowly walked around me in circles. it sniffed my body and sneered. From it fanged mouth proceeded blood-curdling shrieks accompanied by the stench of rotten meat. The monster looked right into my eyes and I could see it had come for more than a kill. While it sharp-talon paws reached out to rend and tear me, I shut tight my eyes in fear and screamed.

I jolted up from my nightmare to meet everyone in my dormitory starring at me. I must have been screaming all along.

During the morning assembly, the school principal Mrs. Wright addressed the rumor and panic going around the school, she assured every student maximum security. Kiki resumed class that week but Feyintola hadn’t, she informed me that Feyintola was amongst the four girls with critical condition. I couldn’t concentrate in class as my mind kept dwelling on my nightmare, how the beast had killed Feyintola and also came for me. Is she going to die? Am I going to die?

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Correct guy... Ori e pe jare..
Keep it up..
One day all ur stories will become a movie...
I will work on it
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 6:58am On Jan 23, 2019
ghettochild:

Correct guy... Ori e pe jare..
Keep it up..
One day all ur stories will become a movie...
I will work on it
Honestly, it is creatures like u online that discourages me from posting. First, I told u never to quote my story which u did (pls delete it). Secondly, u kept saying u ar a movie director which i'm sure u ar not (U ar fake). Thirdly, u ar only waiting for me to complet the story before u hijack it to urself abi? (u sell it to other people)
If u need brainbursting and wonderful movie scripts why not email me directly with prove and stop all these rabbish.
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghettochild(m): 5:04pm On Jan 23, 2019
ghostwritter:

Honestly, it is creatures like u online that discourages me from posting. First, I told u never to quote my story which u did (pls delete it). Secondly, u kept saying u ar a movie director which i'm sure u ar not (U ar fake). Thirdly, u ar only waiting for me to complet the story before u hijack it to urself abi? (u sell it to other people)
If u need brainbursting and wonderful movie scripts why not email me directly with prove and stop all these rabbish.
So me I be fake... Oya continue dey run ur mouth.. Na so Yoruba folks dey like jabo n misyarn...all d time and helper go pass dem.
Shey ur story na ur typical everyday naija film??
Ode!! Do u know the CGI that will b involved n the funding of such a movie by an African....talkless the series of convincing any producer to get it to become A movie.
Anyway its d blank man mentality n curse wey dey flow thru u.
The author of HP series never exhibited this when she was approached for her books to become a movie...
Sha change ur black mentality.. My pain b say as idiotic as u sound with ur reply.. We share same name
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghettochild(m): 5:10pm On Jan 23, 2019
Hijack ur story.....??
I'm sure u thinking with ur anus...
Sha complete it...and if u like don't....
This is why blacks no dey progress for international movie industry....
Do u know how many horror flicks novels and become movies
So who be u??
This is people lose opportunities with their big loud poor mouths
Re: Devil's Puzzle by queenitee(f): 6:21pm On Jan 25, 2019
ghettochild:

So me I be fake... Oya continue dey run ur mouth.. Na so Yoruba folks dey like jabo n misyarn...all d time and helper go pass dem.
Shey ur story na ur typical everyday naija film??
Ode!! Do u know the CGI that will b involved n the funding of such a movie by an African....talkless the series of convincing any producer to get it to become A movie.
Anyway its d blank man mentality n curse wey dey flow thru u.
The author of HP series never exhibited this when she was approached for her books to become a movie...
Sha change ur black mentality.. My pain b say as idiotic as u sound with ur reply.. We share same name
Presentation matters uncle. The way you presented it was like you were merely waiting for him to finish the story before hijacking it truly. You used 'I'even if you would be the producer, it's his story, so you have to carry him along. 'we' would have been more proper or 'You and I.' So even if you are original like you claim, you went about it the wrong way.
And please treat business like business. Send him a mail or chat with him on a more private app. Your temperament and manner of talking sure won't earn you many client.

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghettochild(m): 9:04pm On Jan 25, 2019
queenitee:

Presentation matters uncle. The way you presented it was like you were merely waiting for him to finish the story before hijacking it truly. You used 'I'even if you would be the producer, it's his story, so you have to carry him along. 'we' would have been more proper or 'You and I.' So even if you are original like you claim, you went about it the wrong way.
And please treat business like business. Send him a mail or chat with him on a more private app. Your temperament and manner of talking sure won't earn you many client.
Thanks Mrs advocate..
Point noted..
I don't and won't hijack anyones story.... Moreso there are lots of free stories here n there...
Anyways he shd change his mentality too responding to comments... By the way where is d temperaments in my comments.. I only said my mind n gave me a reply.. If I was I wouldnt reply him.
Even mighty darous never responded like him when I told him bout my intention..
Anyways shit will always b shit... Even if u add 1 million fragrances
Re: Devil's Puzzle by queenitee(f): 7:05am On Jan 26, 2019
ghettochild:

Thanks Mrs advocate..
Point noted..
I don't and won't hijack anyones story.... Moreso there are lots of free stories here n there...
Anyways he shd change his mentality too responding to comments... By the way where is d temperaments in my comments.. I only said my mind n gave me a reply.. If I was I wouldnt reply him.
Even mighty darous never responded like him when I told him bout my intention..
Anyways shit will always b shit... Even if u add 1 million fragrances
Okay sir
Re: Devil's Puzzle by ghostwritter(m): 10:46am On Feb 16, 2019
CHAPTER FIVE

INTERROGATION





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Re: Devil's Puzzle by germaphobe(m): 11:32am On Feb 16, 2019
ghost ghost!!, i hope you're back to finish this story and not leaving us to potonopo again

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Re: Devil's Puzzle by Ann2012(f): 11:51am On Feb 16, 2019
Thanks for the update

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