Episode 2
The two men succeeded in entering into the building making sure the red
candles were not fallen by their breath because their breathing rate alone
can cause a heavy storm . They could see more red candle-light inside the
house hanging on the walls and illuminating at a very close range. Nothing
could be found there except the candles.
“Hello!” Lucky shouted, but the echo of his voice was the only thing heard
in return sounding repeatedly until it totally died down.
“Are you sure we are at the right place?” Fred asked looking around the
horrible sanctum.
“I’m sure, this is the place”
“Then where is the spiritualist?”
All of a sudden, a woman in red robe came out from one of the dark places.
Her face wasn’t visible neither can any of her body parts be seen. The two
men stepped backward when they saw her. Their actions weren’t as a result
of fear but was as a result of caution and precautions.
“I see blood in your hands ” the woman said walking to the windowside. She
looked through it to see Regina holding Charles very well in a way her face
rested on his chest. She was very scared. Immediately Charles directed his
eyes to the window, she left. “Whose blood am I seeing in your hands?
People like you shouldn’t be here coz its a holy place” she repeated.
Fred and Lucky glanced at each other wondering what she meant by her
interrogation.
“We came as a result of our missing wives” Fred said while Lucky nodded in
agreement.
“That’s not an answer to my question. The disappearance of your wives is as
a result of the blood in your hands. You,” she pointed at Lucky. “you
killed your mother while the man standing beside you killed your father”
“I don’t get it” Lucky stepped forward looking confused. “My father was
shut dead by an arm robber approximately seventeen years ago”
“This man standing beside you was the arm robber” the woman began while
Lucky took a glance at Fred who buried his face on the floor. “Your past
are the ones after you now through your wives. You have to journey to get
them back. That’s your punishment” she turned to leave but Fred’s voice
interrupted her.
“Where are we making our journey to?”
“I believe you have an answer to the question you’ve asked” she finally
vanished into the darkness.
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Outside the house, Regina disengaged from Charlse when they saw their
fathers coming out like angry soldiers who were about to engage in a
serious fight. To their surprise, Lucky gave a heavy punch to Fred. He
wanted to continue with another hand but Fred’s blocked it and returned the
punch .
“Dad!” Regina ran to them while Charles stayed back because he had a
glimpse of the cause of the fight. Regina stood in between the two men
wanting to become inquisitive but they left her without saying a word.
Charles meet her. “Come on, Regina, we have to follow them” he held her
hand as they hurried after their fathers.
“What has come over them!?” Regina lamented.
They all entered into the car taking their initial positions before Lucky
set it in motion. The speed in which he drove out was another signal that
there was a big problem. None of them said anything until Charles broke the
silence from the back seat where he sat with Regina.
“Dad, what happened in there, and why are both of you behaving like James
Bond?”
Fred didn’t reply his son rather touched the corner of his mouth where the
punch landed. Charles also didn’t need to push further with questions coz
he knew his Dad would never respond to him judging from the expression on
his face which he saw through the side mirror of the car after stretching
his head.
On the other hand, Lucky glanced at the centre mirror to see his daughter
also staring at him through the same mirror.
“Are you okay, Regina?” he asked.
“I should be asking you that!” she replied harshly. The father exhaled then
added another gear, yet, never responded to the daughter. The interior part
of the vehicle remained as quiet as a grave yard until they arrived to
Lucky’s residence except the sound of the car engine which was barely
heard. The house was a bungalow with flowers circulating it. One has to
climb three stairs before opening the first door which also leads to the
sitting room.
When all came out from the car, Fred and Lucky said to their children at
the same time, “Go inside the house”
“What?” Charles hesitated. “I’m going nowhere from you, Dad” he added.
Already, Regina was on her way inside.
“I said enter into the house!” Fred had to bark like a dog before the son
reluctantly entered using his back.
The two men glared at each other after they had gone inside. Of course, as
adults, they had an idea that their children would be somewhere watching
them. Therefore, they maintained.
“I can’t believe you were the very young arm robber that killed my father
after robbing us in our family house . I feel like squeezing you with my
hands!” Lucky shrieked glaring into his eyes at a very close range.
Fred stepped backward. “I’m so sorry, man. I did what I did in order to
make sure my love remain with me forever. You need to forgive me. We should
work together to see that we bring back the one we love and let the past be
past”
“I loved my father more than anything in this world, so I don’t think I’m
gonna work with the person who murdered him in cold blood” he stepped out
walking into the house.
“Lucky!” Fred called him before he stopped. “You have no choice. Remember,
this is our punishment which I don’t know if we gonna survive it. Our past
has visited us, so we need not only to accept it but to face it too” he
walked closer to him then asked with a very low voice. “You killed your own
mother, can you tell me why?”
“It’s none of your business” Lucky finally went inside followed by Fed.
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Without time wastage, the two men set for another quest without their
children this time. They wanted to know the exact place to find their
missing wives. The children remained at home sitting opposite each other
from different cushion in the living room. They have not been told by their
fathers the outcome of the first quest they made but believed everything
would be fine. As both occasionally glanced at each other, Charles stood up
walking the direction of a television-stan
d where the picture of Regina’s mother rested on the base of the wall. He
picked it up then turned.
“That’s my mum” Regina broke the silence.
“She’s beautiful” Charles smiled. “Your Dad must have sacrificed a lot to
have her” he kept it back, walked and sat beside her.
“What do you mean?” she looked at him with a worried face.
“You know, when you love someone, it requires a lot of sacrifices. But can
you kill or commit a crime because of the one you love?”
“Well, I love my mum so much that I can do anything within my power to make
sure she’s safe”
“What about your boyfriend?”
Regina twisting her mouth. “I’m not in the mood to talk about that” she
said.
“And what makes you think I’m so much in the mood to talk about it?”
Charles stared at her the same way she never averted her eyes from him.
“I think I’ll be in my room now” she stood up and flung her butt into her
room as Charles fed his eyes with her beauty.
***
Fred and Lucky met a man who had knowledge about maps . He was an old man
with gray hair all over his head and jaw. He sat in his office wearing a
white robe like doctors. On his face was a small pair of eyeglasses . The
two men sat opposite him after handing the papers gotten from their wives
to him. A table full of voluminous books and lamp demarcated them from the
man, and on the walls were maps of the worlds and other geographical areas.
After taking a look at it, he removed his eyeglasses.
“Young men, may I know why you want to embark on a journey to this
dangerous place?”
“Hum.. It’s personal” Fred replied.
“Just tell us where the place is and how we can get there” Lucky added.
“It’s located at South East, sixty degrees North in the forest of Hoom”
“Well, we don’t know the place” Fred said.
“But I just told you the place” the man laid back on his chair swinging it
gently in a hammonic motion.
“Wait!” Lucky shouted then all eyes went to him. “I once heard my parents
talking about Hoom when I was little. I guess the place has to do with
spiritism”
The man sat up. “Were your parents involved in some secret society?” he
asked.
“I’m not sure” he placed his hands on the table. “Please, tell us how we
can get there” he requested pitifully…
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The next day, the man did not only show them the way to Hoom but also gave
them chopper (Helicopter ) with two pilots, male and female.
Fred set to leave without his son but that was like a war between Spartans
and Persians right in the living room. He quietly met him standing and
boiling in eagerness. He placed his two hands on his shoulder like the
father he was and said, “Listen son, Your mum will be back but if I don’t
come back alive, remind her that I did what I did for the love I have for
her. Make her understand that I love her so much, and I love you too”
“I must go with you, Dad! Never will I let you out of my sight!” Charles
sparked with tears in his eyes. He disengaged the father’s hands from his
shoulder then walked towards the door.
“It’s a dangerous journey, son!”
“I don’t care!”
“I won’t forgive myself if anything happen to you”
“Neither will I forgive myself if I see you no more” he turned looking at
the father. “I told you I’m with you, Dad, no matter what. We are on this
together and we gonna finish it..”
“You got it all wrong, son” the father interrupted taking a few steps
forward. “This is as a result of the mistakes I made in the past, this is
the bell of the past ringing now, so it’s my cross to carry”
“My father’s cross is my cross” Charles concluded.
Fred had no choice but to let him go with him, so as Lucky to his daughter.
All went inside the chopper and were set to fly.
“Welcome onboard, I’m Agatha, and this is my co-pilot, Sam” the pilots
introduced then began the journey. Charles and Regina looked at each other
in the chopper with much concentration and observation. After an hour of
flying in the sky, the helicopter crashed and fell right inside the forest
of Hoom but the distance from there to their destination was something one
cannot write home about…
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TO BE CONTINUED
