THE DAY HE DIED
THE DAY HE DIED
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from: Prime insane Universe
Written by : Olusegun Ayomide Shedrach
INTRODUCTION
My name is Chuckwuebere Enema, only child of my father, the night my mother died, had been a terrible moment for my father. I never knew any family, they never wanted anything to do with my mother, she was the only reason my father wasn't spending lavishly, the only reason my father's family didn't have their way. And now she is dead, my father had refused to marry, he wanted his son to be able to fend and cater for himself before he remarried so no woman would ride me of my entitlement but now he is dead also.
These faces am seeing, am certain are guilty, the woman and her strange child coming out from nowhere, claiming to be the new wife my father married.
Their only grace should be that I don't find them guilty. One by one, I will certainly kill them.
CHAPTER ONE
Emeka sat down on the only one sitter chair in the huge living room, among others, three elderly men, chatting and using their hands as gestures to themselves, though their voices were inaudible, Emeka didn't care about what they said, on his left, a fair complexion lady, was seated with black cloth material know her, she clinched the three years old child tighter to her boss, beside her seated a middle aged woman, and another elderly woman, and next to them was a young man with a file in his hand, neatly dressed in an office suit.
"Thanks to everyone for coming" The man said, smiling and made sure his eyes moved from one individual to another. "I am Barrister Toks " He said and cleared his throat.
"due to the untimely death of Charles Chuckwuebere, he wasn't opportuned to leave behind how his property should be shared"
"You can leave that to the family head to decide, moodu mooodu " one of the elderly men said smiling and then turned it Kirk laughter alongside others.
"No, not all all sir, since he has a wife, all will be given to her" Barrister Toks said and opened the file.
All this while, Emeka studied everyone's reaction, and he knew something wasn't right, one they shouldn't have easy agreed the strange woman to take over, second, they were too calm and lingered their neck to see what the barrister was bringing out from the file..
"I wish to file a case" Emeka finally spoke.
Everyone were shocked by his sudden statement.
"I will meet belief my father never left a will, and I will never believe this woman is his wife or that child is my sibling, and secondly, I will love to run a DNA test" Emeka said, and adjusted himself.
"What is wrong with children of nowadays" Pa Chucks the family head blurted out his annoyance.
"No, Chucks, calm, this boy wants to hear history, when you father was still poor, I mean poor, we stood for him, no you that didn't know how he made want to decide for us"
"Uncle Emeagwali, I don't mean to be rude, but until I am satisfied no one takes any decision " Emeka said.
"Emeka" barrister Toks called out calmly and adjusted his tie "here " he said and handed a paper over to Emeka "That is the DNA test we did, and here, your toothbrush" Barrister Toks said and opened his briefcase and passed Emeka toothbrush over.
"You took my belongings without my consent? "
"With these evidence, please don't drag matters, you will end up on the losing side" Barrister Toks said and continued, "Automatically all property goes to your step mother"
Emeka sighed heavily and walked upstairs to his room, he allowed himself to fall hard on his bed and began to cry profusely, he knew this things were all planned, he knew his anger wouldn't keep a relative wouldn't know about. He raised his head, his eyes already swollen, he walked towards the teakwando poster that hanged on the wall, and angrily ripped it off.
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Emeka only grace he had was his father had written all company document in his name, so to some reasonable extent he could still fair fine, but these family were not relenting on the little they had acquired.
"Emeka, you still have a long way before you, your education, your career, running your Father's company will only distract you" The family elder had once persuaded him to hand over the company.
Emeka immediately took every necessary step making sure the company was still within him, from law firms down to the bank, he made sure everything was secure.
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Emeka woke up from the knock that came at his door, he knew asking who was it was stupid, he knew it was the so called wife, sluggishly he made for the door
"Yes" he said staring into Oluchi's eyes.
"Your sister's feed has been exhausted " his step mother said
"Good, get her another one"
"But how, if you don't give me money "
Emeka felt frustrated and tried to hid it.
"Didn't you and your mother, step on the plastic company, why don't you just get cash from there" Emeka asked and stared into her eyes with much hatred.
"It's not my fault, your father had to keep me secret" She said
"Then whose, and am very sure, you and the family are just fooling around" Emeka said and banged the door against her face.
Heavy bags repeatedly came at his door finding it hard to ignore, he retrieved his ATM card and opened the door.
"Here, 2966" he said and slammed the door.
A situation like this everything was at stake, what he needed was critical wisdom, and he had to thread carefully, even now that the family members had decided to turn his father house to their vacation, where they could come in anytime and go without question.
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Emeka stood in front of a newly constructed teakwando building, he had once participated in things like these, but since his father had died, he had lost interest in almost everything even education. He gently opened the door and went in, and walked up to the young man that was hanging a banner on one side of the wall.
"Good evening" Emeka greeted and walked closer.
The Man turned around to face Emeka, he wasn't really a man to Emeka's disappointment.
"What's wrong " the boy replied,
Emeka figured he could either be same age as him or a year older
"Are you in charge? " Emeka asked
"Yes, am Remi " the boy said and stretched husband forward for an handshake which Emeka reached out for
"You look a bit disappointed " Remi asked and grabbed two swords from the shelf where about twenty swords were displayed.
"I thought you would be older"
"well I have lived mire than a century" Remi replied and handed one sword to Emeka who skillfully caught it.
"Joke" Emeka said and laughed slightly
"How about if I told you I fought the great war" Remi said now moving in circulation motion around Emeka.
"Even it was my grandfather who told me the story of the great war" Emeka said scornfully and advanced towards Remi, sparring thr swords at themselves, for almost thirty minutes, then Emeka losses balance and his sword fell from his hand, he wiped the sweat that covered his face and exhaled loudly
Looking at Remi he was surprise at the kind of stamina he had. Just then Emeka's phone vibrated.
Looking at the screen of his phone his mood changed,
"Is everything alright" Remi asked observing Emeka's countenance
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"Oluchi " Emeka shouted and barged into the living room,
Oluchi gallantly positioned herself on the three seated with shopping bags about fifteen littered round the room.
"How dare you, how dare you withdraw every dime in my account, five million" Emeka growled and advanced towards her.
Oluchi only stared at him, like she didn't hear what he said and continued playing with her child.
"Good" Emeka mumbled and walked up to his room.
"You haven't seen nothing" Oluchi said and hissed loudly.
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Emeka was already getting irritated by the sudden behaviours these members, all he needed was time off, Oluchi stood at the second story balcony, looking at Emeka as he entered into the SUV jeep and drive out of the compound. The only place everyone knee he would go was his father's grave ground, that has been his normal routine whenever he was frustrated, but this time around, he decided to go somewhere else, and the teakwando gym seemed the best place for him at this time.
He found a good spot to park and alighted, then headed towards the entrance of the teakwando gym. A car recklessly drove by Emeka and what came next was the sound of a gunshot, immediately Emeka fell straight to the ground, without hesitation the car drove off.
Everyone in the neighborhood rushed down to the scene, scared of whatever might happen, nobody could attempt to help, just the Remi noticed the crowd and rushed out.
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News flash: Billionaire son, dead three months after his father's death.
News flash: Son assassinated in front of Prime teakwando.
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Final rite for Emeka was done and Remi surveyed every members of the family, it didn't take him long to know something fishy was happening, before the end of the burial, he took his leave.
He walked towards the shelf where he had the swords arranged and moved it sideways and opened the door that was behind the shelf and entered into the other side.
Emeka laid on a bed, with drip running through him, Remi neared him placed a finger on his neck, feeling his pulse.
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The day Emeka died, Remi rushed him to the hospital with the SUV, and found a way to contact his family, he made sure he monitored their movement unknown to them. The family head and some of the family members hurried to the hospital and after a brief chat with the doctor, the took Emeka's unconscious body with them, only to dump him by the roadside during the dark
"You have serious family issue" Remi said and picked up Emeka's body and bent down towards him, he placed his hands on Emeka's chest and they glowed, allowing life to flow through Emeka, then he licked him up brought him to his place.
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Emeka slowly opened his eyes and saw Remi who placed his hands on his chest, his eyes glowing white.
Emeka moved his body and immediately shot his eyes, before Remi could see him.
"You are awake " Remi said and smiled at him.
Emeka tried to keep his calm and groaned a little. Then looked at Remi.
"I thought I wouldn't make it " Emeka said and with Remi's help he sat down.
"Tell me about your family, they had to retrieve your body from the hospital and dump you by the road side" Remi said and began preparing tea for Emeka.
"Yea, they want me dead by all means, my father's properties, they want it all" Emeka said and collected the tea cup from Remi.
"How about I teach you how to put an end to them" Remi said and flashed his eyes thrice.
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Remi helped Emeka walk to main hall and made his seat in meditation post, he was about switching off the television when the headline the popped up caught his attention.
"Emeka, see this"
A man appeared on the screen, constantly wiping tears from his eyes and beside him was the step mother.
"Bastard" Emeka said clinching his fist, "they have now succeeded in what they want"
Remi switched the television off, and sat down facing Emeka.
"Close your eyes, think about nothing, make your mind void, it's the best place to kill depression " Remi said, after about three hours, he opened his eyes, seeing Emeka was already in cosmic, he gently tapped him by the shoulder.
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Oluchi alighted her car, feeling at the top of the world, she entered into the living room, and headed for the refrigerator, she then grabbed a bottle of whiskey and poured herself a full glass, and gulped it down.
"Ahh, money is good" She said admiring herself.
"Olu baby" a masculine voice called out and laid his hands on her waist from behind
"Uche, I know you need money again, I transferred three hundred thousand to your account yesterday" She said and turned to face him.
"I know, but I need quality time with my love " Uche said, and lifted Oluchi in his hands and gently laid her on the leather chair and began to get intimate with her.
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"I like your choice if weapon, the sword, is a weapon that flows with the mind" Remi said and attacked Emeka, who dodged it and raised one leg in mid air, with his both hands holding firm to the sword
"Another thing you should know, is, you shouldn't channel revenge with this weapon, it sucks your mind dry" Remi said and threw a punch at Emeka, who dodged it allowing Remi's hand to pass in front of his face.
"What are you, like where are you from? " Emeka asked following the moves Remi did.
"Ayenireti " Remi replied and still focused on the moves.
"What state? "
"Trust me, it's not on the map, it's a lost city, even I myself still struggle to find it"
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Emeka laid seven different pictures on the table before Remi.
"I want this one dead first " Emeka said and pointed to his uncle's picture.
"This is your fight and I have nothing to do, only if you need my help dearly" Remi said and slid a red hooded cloth to Emeka and a meta mask that could cover only the nose to the jaw.
"They believe you are dead, and you must remain dead, till fear is Casted on them. " Remi said
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Pa chucks dusted his slippers on the foot mat, pulling it off, he joyfully entered his living room, which housed, only a cushion three seater, which was really old fashioned, the box television, positioned on the ground, and a mini center table was all he had in the living room. He began singing in local dialect and pulled out three bundled naira notes from his pocket, he kissed it joyfully and then he noticed someone was standing at the entrance led to his room.
"Who are you? " he asked confidently.
The figure revealed itself, with red hood clothing, two swords hanging from it back, and a nose mask which his face totally dark and the eyes glowing white.
"Let me help you remember, my soul has come to haunt you and everyone that killed me"
Immediately it dawned on Pa Chucks what he was into, he trembled and knelt on the ground.
"Please spare me, I beg you, I will do anything to appease your spirit"
"Tell me, why you killed me? "
"Money all I needed was money and I told Emeagwali not to do anything to you, but he insisted" Pa Chucks slowly opened his eyes and saw the person was no more.
"Ewoooooooo" he screamed and took to his heels, bolting out as fast as his legs could carry him
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Pa Chucks managed to catch his breath after like ten minutes, he got to The family head.
He wiped the sweat that trickled around his face.
" See, Emeagwali, let's call a spade a spade, what I saw today, is coming for all of you" Pa chucks said and accepted the glass of water Emeagwali had offered before hand.
"If you truly saw his spirit there is only one thing we can do"
"See let's do it fast "
"We have to make sacrifice, to appease his spirit, we will go to, one babalawo tomorrow" Emeagwali said smiling like the family head he was.
"Are you sure it will work out?"
"See ehn, we have to apply wisdom"
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Emeka fell hard on his back on the teakwando mat floor, and was laughing hard, alongside Remi, who also held his stomach right, trying to subdue the laughter.
"You have to see his face, when he saw me, am sure his soul was far from him" Emeka said.
"Ahhhhhhhh, Ahh, good gods" Remi said and managed to get on his feet.
"Who is next? " Remi asked and sat down on the floor
"Oluchi, She is the sudden wife" Emeka said and his mood changed almost immediately.
"Don't forget to always record your encounter on phone with them" Remi said reminding Emeka how effective their plan must be.
"Yes, yes, I recorded, it all, thanks for the food" Emeka said and hit Emi slightly on the shoulder.
"Yeah,"
"So, I don't know much about you" Emeka said and folded his legs together.
"You can't comprehend, even the history books, don't have the real details" Remi said and smiled at Emeka.
"Brief me little"
"I am a god, even at that, I am long way from home, after the great war, opening my eyes, I saw things were different, and the history talks about the lost city of ayenireti " Remi said then paused, looking at nowhere in particular and continued "I am lost, I am finding my way home, and I may never" Remi said and didn't realized tears drooled from his eyes.
"Am sorry, am sorry I had to bring this up" Emeka said calmly,
"No, it's no big deal, at least an still useful" Remi said and stood up "Let's practice a little" He said and three Emeka's swords to him
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Oluchi gently sneaked towards Uche who was fully concentrated on the movie he was watching, suddenly his eyes was covered from behind.
"Oluchi" He called out and pulled her hands down, and pulled her over the chair to his laps, and kissed her deeply before breaking it
"Who else could it be" He said and kissed her again, slowly he worked his hands on her blouse, an attempt to pull it off, which he successfully did in less that thirty seconds, he planted another kiss on her lips, making her moan softly.
"See ehn, am not ready for any child o, even that my aunties daughter when she was becoming a burden, I sharperly return her ni o" Oluchi said and moved herself away from Uche's laps.
"I understand you, let me go and get it from the bedroom" Uche said and dashed upstairs
The light in the building suddenly went off, which made Oluchi lamented.
"Nepa again" She said and put on the torch on her phone.
Before putting on the torch, she felt a hand, gently pulled her hairs, she looked towards the direction, and quickly attempted to put on the torch, CLAANK her phone suddenly fell from her hand, she bent to pick it, and felt something wriggle on her body.
"See Uche, you know it dark, stop trying to scare me" She said and her phone moved a bit forward on the tiles floor.
She paused in fright and slowly moved her hand, swiftly she grabbed it and put on the torch.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, Oluchi screamed at the figure that suddenly stood before her. Red hood, With white glowing eyes, and a dark face, with two swords hanging from its back, she screamed more and opened her eyes only to see, the figure had disappeared, then the lights came on.
Uche bolted down the stairs with, three condoms in his hands, he threw it on the table and knelt before Oluchi.
"Wetyn happen? " Uche asked pulling Oluchi out of her temporary shock.
"Ghost.. Ghost ooo" She said frightened and screamed again seeing the figure standing at the entrance of the living room.
"Uche looked behind and also saw the figure" at first his heart skipped, but he had to prove he was a man, prove his worth before Oluchi.
He stood up and dashed towards the figure in an attempt to punch in on the face and then the lights went off again, after about ten seconds it came on.
Oluchi screamed this time more loudly, seeing Uche in his own pool of blood, as blood free flowed out of his mouth.
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Pa Chucks rolled his eyes, as he sat in the living room, with the other elders of the family, Emeagwali had called the meeting to find a lasting solution to the issue on ground, it was becoming out of hand, if it continues this way, the whole world will know what they had done.
"Oluchi, are you certain it was a ghost" Emeagwali asked.
Oluchi got irritated by the questions and spoke angrily.
"See baba, am not a child, the ghost is blood cloth and a dark face " Oluchi shouted and continued "you saw for yourself Uche's dead body, how it was slashed roughly" She said and began sobbing.
"Pa chucks, won't you say something? " Emeagwali asked raising his hand in the air.
"What should I say, ehn, I told you, the stupid sacrifice we carried was a waste" Pa Chucks shouted annoyingly.
Emeagwali shook his head, he was the only one who hasn't encountered this ghost, and I was hard to deny, from the fact Oluchi and pa chucks had provided.
"See ehn, if our secret is lossed" Oluchi said patting her palms apart "me am scared oo, maybe I will just go and confess jeje "
"You are mad, sickness dey your brain, you that is spending over three millions in one week, so you even know your position in your family, do you know nobody knows your father , abi you will go back and be selling your zobo and kunu " Pa chicks said angrily.
"Haaa, it's because is e I respect you o"
"I have an idea
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Emeka pulled off his mask and offed his hood cloth, and he neatly replaced gbe sword back to its space on the shelf. He looked and searched around for Remi, but couldn't locate him.
To kill time he decided to practice.
"Yoi are ,back,, " Remi said and used his hand to block the incoming attack.
"did you kill someone? "Remi asked.
"Yes, he attacked first, how come you killed a whole city of ayenireti, more than 300,.000 souls"
Remi stood still at this question and flared up, shit eyes boiled like read coal, and almost immediately Emeka found himself flying him mid air, before he collided with the wall, and Remi walked out of the building, Emeka knew he had asked the wrong question, bit he had to be sure Remi wasn't some kind of imposter.
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Pa chucks tried keeping his calm, never in his life had been to an herbalist shrine, this day marked his first, he focused on the herbalist who was probably in his late seventies, he looked too fetish what pa chucks had imagined, his eyes brow was painted with white chalk, while his lips revealed his thick brown teeth, on him was plain red cloth that freely sweeped the floor as he walked about his shrine, with incantation that were strange to Pa chucks.
"When will he be through " pa chucks asked Emeagwali who was comfortable with lots of confidence in him.
Emeagwali gave Pa chucks a very annoying look and blinked his eyes repeatedly with grinning face
"My son, give me the boy's picture " the herbalist demanded.
Emeagwali wasted no time in putting his hand inside his trouser, and uncomfortably he squeezed out the picture and handed it over.
"Hmmmmmm, great ones, my ancestral mothers, do not shame, Emeka, I invoke your spirit, wherever you are, you should answer me with haste, the wind does not hesistate to blow, the sun knows it's daily duty and must not wary, Emeka oo, Emeka oo, Emeka ooo" the herbalist shouted shaking the horsetail with him in front of a water filled calabash.
"Is this him? " The herbalist asked confused, the image that appeared was different from the picture.
Emeagwali peeped into the calabash, and frowned.
"is like I know, kill him too"
GBUUUAAAA the calabash exploded throwing both the herbalist and Emeagwali away, thick white smoke, slowly rised from where the calabash had exploded and dispersed slowly revealing a figure before them.
"After taking all he has, you still.. Good gods " Remi said and in an instance he was facing the herbalist, and CRACCCKK, Remi broke all his left ribs and zoomed towards Emeagwali, and raised him in mid air with one hand, he brought Emeagwali to his face level and stared deeper into his eyes, as his eyes brightly glowed white, it became unbearable for Emeagwali hence he lost his eye sight.
"Amadioha, please save me, please spare my life, heee, my eyes o, I no dey see again o" Emeagwali screamed and Remi dropped him to the ground.
All these while pa Chucks was unable to move, like his bones had denied him the ability to run.
Remi floated in mid air and slowly advanced towards him. Pa chucks moved back a little an shook his head slowly, with muffled sound, Remi stopped some inches away from him and SWOOOSSHHH, Remi like the force of a rocket and speed of light, he bolted out of the shrine.
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Seven days had swiftly gone by, without Emeka setting his eyes know Remi, he knew he shouldn't have gone past his boundaries of words, and now food supply had already run out, another challenge Emeka faced was walking in public, hey already thought he was dead, what he needed was hidden identity till everything settles.
His stomach rumbled, making him uncomfortable, he had no other option than to go out and gather food supply, since he still had enough money to see him through
He grabbed the red hood shirt from where he kept it and went out through the back door of the building.
Walking amongst people, Emeka lowered his head, allowing the hood to cover his face completely.
Oluchi stood on her feet, the joy on her face almost made it impossible for other family members to think she was mad.
"Young lady tell us why you called us here" Pa Chucks shouted angrily.
Oluchi looked and hissed at him.
"So it has finally gotten to that extent" Pa chucks said. "Emeagwali you see what you caused"
"chucks,at least even in this my condition, you still have the guts to shout"
"Anyways, I want to inform you all that Emeka is not dead and I saw him today and also took his picture " Oluchi said and dropped what seemed like bomb on them.
"What happened to Emeagwali at the shrine last week, says otherwise o" Pa Chucks said.
"Take and see" Oluchi said and stuffed her phone into pa chucks hand, who carefully went through the picture of a hooded man.
"Chimmmoooo " Pa chucks stressed and placed his hands on his head,
"What next? "Emeagwali asked.
"As you see me so ehn, me na smart Anambra babe, I don arrange im death
, I made sure I tailed him, and know where he stays, I already sent hire killers to him, he is going to die again" Oluchi said and smiled at her master plan.
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Emeka sighed, feeling troubled, he looked at the wall clock, thirty minutes past eight, once again he had found himself lonely, sluggishly, he advanced to the door Th at led to the kitchen and began preparing what to eat, from the polythene bag he brought he retired two onions and a tomato paste, he didn't waste time in putting a pot on fire and rinsed two cup of rice into it and began preparing the tomato and pepper in another bowl.
A sound came from the fight ground, drawing Emeka's attention, thinking Remi was back, he wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen.
"Remi" He called out, standing next to a lamp, that illuminated the room. Emeka shrugged his shoulder, maybe it was just a sound, Emeka frustratingly squatted and his heart jumped, hearing a loud bang from behind, right in front of him, a tiny hole was bored into the wall, he looked back and saw a masked man, pointing a gun. Emeka quickly understood, if he had not squatted, the bullet was aiming for his head. He quickly dashed behind the shelf where the swords laid and reached for his sword.
The masked man, fired repeatedly at the shelf, probably hoping one would mark his target.
"CLIICKK...CLIKCKK " was the sound that came next from his gun.
Emeka noticed and quickly grabbed the opportunity, he ran out from his hiding and quickly used the butt of the sword to hit the masked man on the face, he withdrew the sword from its sheath and slashed towards the man's leg, who quickly moved his right leg bavkward, luckily he only got a little and minor slash from the sword.
He rammed his legs on Emeka's chest, as Emeka staggered he quickly rushed him and forcefully pushed Emeka to the ground, the man now noticed his gun was no longer with him, and it was too dark and risky to start looking for it, hence he grabbed a dagger from the shelf. And knelt over Emeka, he slowly moved the dagger tohis neck.
"You this little demon " he said and smacked Emeka on the face.
Emeka head titled sideway from the heavy hit of the slap, and about three inches from his right hand, he saw his sword. He groaned with muffled sound, and struggled to reach his sword, from where he laid.
The Man raised hthe dagger up and drive it towards Emeka's neck.
AHHHHHH Emeka screamed and SLASSHHHH he slit the man's head, and blood gushed at his face. Emeka laid there panting heavily and then stood up, he got the second sword and ran outside the building.
Getting outside he noticed a strange vehicle that slowly followed behind him, and he quickly picked up pace and began to run.
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Emeka walked into a carnival ground, knowing they won't be able to trail him with the car and he had advantage over them.
He made sure he also had eyes on them as they alighted the car and followed him into the carnival ground. One by one he was to make sure he killed them in the congested crowd.
His hood suddenly came off, before he could put it back, his face met with a girl's own and she suddenly screamed loud.
AAAAAAARRRGGGG!!! amidst the noise everyone got caught by her scream.
"GHOOOSSST" The lady screamed and in an instant, the world quickly spread and without seeing who the ghost wa, they all took to their heels, colliding against each other.
"Oh god, o god, Remi where are you? " Emeka said panicking
Soon the ground was cleared, the only sound was that of Olamide's Eniduro music coming from the stereo.
Emeka Now faced three huge men, he removed his swords from the sheath and and waved it at them, trying to scare them off. They didnt hesistate to bring out their gun..
Just then they heard the blaring siren of police from afar .
"Sniper, fast fast" one of them said to the one that held the gun.
Emeka knew he was done for the only saving grace he had was Remi, and he was no where to be found.
The Man with the gun pulled the trigger, and expected Emeka to be dead, surprised he shot again, still Emeka was still unhurt. Emeka opened his eyes wide surprised also. He then smiled knowing Remi was involved. He swayed his sword and dashed towards them.
The Man continued to shoot repeated and slowly they backed up, trying to run. Emeka screamed and jumped on the man with the gun, bringing him down, he drove both swords into his eye socket and gallantly stood up.
Just then, he realized the others had escaped, now leaving face to face with almkst a dozen police and beside him was a dead body.
Emeka walked back slowly and made an attempt to run.
"One more step and we wont hesistate to fire" A voice came over the mega phone.
Emeka expected whatever saved him before should do it again, he was pinned to the ground and got handcuffed from behind.
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Emeka looked dumb, didnt know where to start from, he struggled with the handcuff that made his hands uncomfortable and settled again, all what he know felt was depression. The metallic door to the investigation room, where he was held prisoner, slowly came open, at first he moved his face to the opposite direction, hearing who spoke, his attention was drawn.
"Hey" Oluchi said and smiled mischeiviously before sitting on the chair that was separated by the table in front of Emeka.
"What do you want? "
"You know at first, I thought it was on useless ghost, but when I saw you in the market, I felt blessed" Oluchi said and relaxed
"Get out" Emeka said weakly
"Well, I have only come to tell you things, am sure you won't be surviving this time, you are now a murderer, anyways, send my farewell message to your father in hell, tell him his first love sends him greetings and in his next life, he will never break a woman's heart" Oluchi said and stood up.
"You have just seven days to clear your belonging, cause you will be the one joining him" Emeka said and smiled.
"What assurance, do you have of getting out of here? "
Emeka stocked out his tongu at Oluchi and smiled with the corner of his mouth, he was only hopeful, he knew deep down, he was not going to make it, even if the country's system was not corrupt. With all connection he knew Oluchi had, he wasn't going to make it.
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The voice continued to ring in Emeka's head, as hot stream of tears rolled down his face
"I hereby find the accused guilty of murder and related crimes and is hereby sentenced to death by hanging"
Where was Remi, why did Remi saved him at the carnival ground and now abandoned him, or was he making him suffer for his hurtful words.
Emeka was forcefully pushed into the armored vehicle, which had just one window for ventilation, with two police guard with him, he silently said his last prayers as he awaited horrible death to come his way. He still had lot of people to kill, starting from PA chucks, Emeagwali, the barrister, the chief judge who was newly added to the list, and Oluchi, the thought of them having their cake only bothered his heart.
They all jerked forward, as the vehicle suddenly came to a halt, one of the policeman angrily banged on the inner body of the vehicle
"What's the problem of driving carefully"
The policemen paid attention to the noise that came from outside, and knew they were under attack.
"Hold that boy, put gun for im head, I sure say na im dey find come" One said and made to open the door.
Immediately he laid his hand on the lock, the door suddenly tore away, flying great distance away from the truck. The policeman that attempted to open the door, suddenly flew off, and smashed against the windscreen of the car behind. The gun on the hand of the other police man, suddenly melted and he threw it off and suddenly went unconscious, after an unforeseen force, smacked his head against the vehicle
The cuffs on Emeka's hand suddenly shattered, making him move backward with his bottom. He was certain someone or something was in front of him. And suddenly he could see his sword and a note beside it. Emeka quickly grabbed his swords and opened the note.
"Retrive what is yours and join our team",he read our slowly,
He pulled the body of the police man down and hurried to he driver seat of the vehicle, his first destination was to go back to the court, where he had been wrongfully judged.
The vehicle drove recklessly into the court driveway, without heeding to the sign of the gate man to stop, Emeka stepped on the acceleration pedal and made for the gate, the gate man quickly dived to safety, as Emeka crashed down the gate. He halted the vehicle, and moved the gear, and collided with the vehicle directly in front. He alighted and with both swords in his hands he walked intobthe court room.
"Young man" a police man said and quickly ran to prevent Emeka from entering, while the judge listened to defending of the Case before him
Emeka didn't wait for the police man to say anything else, he ran at him and used the butt of his sword to hit the man on his head which immediately made him unconscious. Seeing what happened, the court room, went up in confusion, another policeman, bringing out his baton, started it at Emeka, who dodged it and used the butt of the swords to hit his stomach, he quickly advanced and dragged the policeman to the ground and smashed him on the face with his boot, which also sent the policeman unconscious, Emeka walked among the confused crowd who were eager to know what happened .
"Somebody should stop him" The judged shouted and banged the table.
Outside the building, in less than twenty minutes, the surrounding was already filled with reporters from different stations and a full police squad.
Emma walked up towards the judge chamber and slapped him on the face
"I slap at the face of corruption" Emeka said and hit him in the chin with the butt of the gun
"You I remember you, Emeka the billionaire son"
Emeka smacked him again and spoke
"How much did she bribed you? " Emeka asked and drove his sword into the lap of the judge.
"Aaaahhhhhh" the court went in uproar, as Emeka drove the sword into his leg.
"I know my right and you have no godd.. "
Emeka did not let him finish his statement, before he drove another one even deeper
"Ahhhhhhhh, pity me, I will confess" the judge shouted.
Emeka pulled him to the floor and dragged him outside the court by the gown he wore, and raised his up to speak, meanwhile the reporters were already set live to give report. Almost all television station now aired the incident.
"Talk" Emeka said and smacked him again.
"Your hands in.... " The megaphone suddenly stopped talking.
"Wait this boy is up to something, something we don't know, let him finish his business " a policeman said to the one with the megaphone
"Kill him na " the judge shouted and immediately Emeka slashed his tendon, making his right leg temporary useless.
"Three million naira, she gave me three million naira to sentence you to death, and extra one million naira, to make the case in her favour" The judge shouted and covered his face in shame, as the reporters now had the confidence to move closer.
Tbc
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from: Prime insane Universe
Written by : Olusegun Ayomide Shedrach
INTRODUCTION
My name is Chuckwuebere Enema, only child of my father, the night my mother died, had been a terrible moment for my father. I never knew any family, they never wanted anything to do with my mother, she was the only reason my father wasn't spending lavishly, the only reason my father's family didn't have their way. And now she is dead, my father had refused to marry, he wanted his son to be able to fend and cater for himself before he remarried so no woman would ride me of my entitlement but now he is dead also.
These faces am seeing, am certain are guilty, the woman and her strange child coming out from nowhere, claiming to be the new wife my father married.
Their only grace should be that I don't find them guilty. One by one, I will certainly kill them.
CHAPTER ONE
Emeka sat down on the only one sitter chair in the huge living room, among others, three elderly men, chatting and using their hands as gestures to themselves, though their voices were inaudible, Emeka didn't care about what they said, on his left, a fair complexion lady, was seated with black cloth material know her, she clinched the three years old child tighter to her boss, beside her seated a middle aged woman, and another elderly woman, and next to them was a young man with a file in his hand, neatly dressed in an office suit.
"Thanks to everyone for coming" The man said, smiling and made sure his eyes moved from one individual to another. "I am Barrister Toks " He said and cleared his throat.
"due to the untimely death of Charles Chuckwuebere, he wasn't opportuned to leave behind how his property should be shared"
"You can leave that to the family head to decide, moodu mooodu " one of the elderly men said smiling and then turned it Kirk laughter alongside others.
"No, not all all sir, since he has a wife, all will be given to her" Barrister Toks said and opened the file.
All this while, Emeka studied everyone's reaction, and he knew something wasn't right, one they shouldn't have easy agreed the strange woman to take over, second, they were too calm and lingered their neck to see what the barrister was bringing out from the file..
"I wish to file a case" Emeka finally spoke.
Everyone were shocked by his sudden statement.
"I will meet belief my father never left a will, and I will never believe this woman is his wife or that child is my sibling, and secondly, I will love to run a DNA test" Emeka said, and adjusted himself.
"What is wrong with children of nowadays" Pa Chucks the family head blurted out his annoyance.
"No, Chucks, calm, this boy wants to hear history, when you father was still poor, I mean poor, we stood for him, no you that didn't know how he made want to decide for us"
"Uncle Emeagwali, I don't mean to be rude, but until I am satisfied no one takes any decision " Emeka said.
"Emeka" barrister Toks called out calmly and adjusted his tie "here " he said and handed a paper over to Emeka "That is the DNA test we did, and here, your toothbrush" Barrister Toks said and opened his briefcase and passed Emeka toothbrush over.
"You took my belongings without my consent? "
"With these evidence, please don't drag matters, you will end up on the losing side" Barrister Toks said and continued, "Automatically all property goes to your step mother"
Emeka sighed heavily and walked upstairs to his room, he allowed himself to fall hard on his bed and began to cry profusely, he knew this things were all planned, he knew his anger wouldn't keep a relative wouldn't know about. He raised his head, his eyes already swollen, he walked towards the teakwando poster that hanged on the wall, and angrily ripped it off.
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Emeka only grace he had was his father had written all company document in his name, so to some reasonable extent he could still fair fine, but these family were not relenting on the little they had acquired.
"Emeka, you still have a long way before you, your education, your career, running your Father's company will only distract you" The family elder had once persuaded him to hand over the company.
Emeka immediately took every necessary step making sure the company was still within him, from law firms down to the bank, he made sure everything was secure.
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Emeka woke up from the knock that came at his door, he knew asking who was it was stupid, he knew it was the so called wife, sluggishly he made for the door
"Yes" he said staring into Oluchi's eyes.
"Your sister's feed has been exhausted " his step mother said
"Good, get her another one"
"But how, if you don't give me money "
Emeka felt frustrated and tried to hid it.
"Didn't you and your mother, step on the plastic company, why don't you just get cash from there" Emeka asked and stared into her eyes with much hatred.
"It's not my fault, your father had to keep me secret" She said
"Then whose, and am very sure, you and the family are just fooling around" Emeka said and banged the door against her face.
Heavy bags repeatedly came at his door finding it hard to ignore, he retrieved his ATM card and opened the door.
"Here, 2966" he said and slammed the door.
A situation like this everything was at stake, what he needed was critical wisdom, and he had to thread carefully, even now that the family members had decided to turn his father house to their vacation, where they could come in anytime and go without question.
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Emeka stood in front of a newly constructed teakwando building, he had once participated in things like these, but since his father had died, he had lost interest in almost everything even education. He gently opened the door and went in, and walked up to the young man that was hanging a banner on one side of the wall.
"Good evening" Emeka greeted and walked closer.
The Man turned around to face Emeka, he wasn't really a man to Emeka's disappointment.
"What's wrong " the boy replied,
Emeka figured he could either be same age as him or a year older
"Are you in charge? " Emeka asked
"Yes, am Remi " the boy said and stretched husband forward for an handshake which Emeka reached out for
"You look a bit disappointed " Remi asked and grabbed two swords from the shelf where about twenty swords were displayed.
"I thought you would be older"
"well I have lived mire than a century" Remi replied and handed one sword to Emeka who skillfully caught it.
"Joke" Emeka said and laughed slightly
"How about if I told you I fought the great war" Remi said now moving in circulation motion around Emeka.
"Even it was my grandfather who told me the story of the great war" Emeka said scornfully and advanced towards Remi, sparring thr swords at themselves, for almost thirty minutes, then Emeka losses balance and his sword fell from his hand, he wiped the sweat that covered his face and exhaled loudly
Looking at Remi he was surprise at the kind of stamina he had. Just then Emeka's phone vibrated.
Looking at the screen of his phone his mood changed,
"Is everything alright" Remi asked observing Emeka's countenance
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"Oluchi " Emeka shouted and barged into the living room,
Oluchi gallantly positioned herself on the three seated with shopping bags about fifteen littered round the room.
"How dare you, how dare you withdraw every dime in my account, five million" Emeka growled and advanced towards her.
Oluchi only stared at him, like she didn't hear what he said and continued playing with her child.
"Good" Emeka mumbled and walked up to his room.
"You haven't seen nothing" Oluchi said and hissed loudly.
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Emeka was already getting irritated by the sudden behaviours these members, all he needed was time off, Oluchi stood at the second story balcony, looking at Emeka as he entered into the SUV jeep and drive out of the compound. The only place everyone knee he would go was his father's grave ground, that has been his normal routine whenever he was frustrated, but this time around, he decided to go somewhere else, and the teakwando gym seemed the best place for him at this time.
He found a good spot to park and alighted, then headed towards the entrance of the teakwando gym. A car recklessly drove by Emeka and what came next was the sound of a gunshot, immediately Emeka fell straight to the ground, without hesitation the car drove off.
Everyone in the neighborhood rushed down to the scene, scared of whatever might happen, nobody could attempt to help, just the Remi noticed the crowd and rushed out.
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News flash: Billionaire son, dead three months after his father's death.
News flash: Son assassinated in front of Prime teakwando.
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Final rite for Emeka was done and Remi surveyed every members of the family, it didn't take him long to know something fishy was happening, before the end of the burial, he took his leave.
He walked towards the shelf where he had the swords arranged and moved it sideways and opened the door that was behind the shelf and entered into the other side.
Emeka laid on a bed, with drip running through him, Remi neared him placed a finger on his neck, feeling his pulse.
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The day Emeka died, Remi rushed him to the hospital with the SUV, and found a way to contact his family, he made sure he monitored their movement unknown to them. The family head and some of the family members hurried to the hospital and after a brief chat with the doctor, the took Emeka's unconscious body with them, only to dump him by the roadside during the dark
"You have serious family issue" Remi said and picked up Emeka's body and bent down towards him, he placed his hands on Emeka's chest and they glowed, allowing life to flow through Emeka, then he licked him up brought him to his place.
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Emeka slowly opened his eyes and saw Remi who placed his hands on his chest, his eyes glowing white.
Emeka moved his body and immediately shot his eyes, before Remi could see him.
"You are awake " Remi said and smiled at him.
Emeka tried to keep his calm and groaned a little. Then looked at Remi.
"I thought I wouldn't make it " Emeka said and with Remi's help he sat down.
"Tell me about your family, they had to retrieve your body from the hospital and dump you by the road side" Remi said and began preparing tea for Emeka.
"Yea, they want me dead by all means, my father's properties, they want it all" Emeka said and collected the tea cup from Remi.
"How about I teach you how to put an end to them" Remi said and flashed his eyes thrice.
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Remi helped Emeka walk to main hall and made his seat in meditation post, he was about switching off the television when the headline the popped up caught his attention.
"Emeka, see this"
A man appeared on the screen, constantly wiping tears from his eyes and beside him was the step mother.
"Bastard" Emeka said clinching his fist, "they have now succeeded in what they want"
Remi switched the television off, and sat down facing Emeka.
"Close your eyes, think about nothing, make your mind void, it's the best place to kill depression " Remi said, after about three hours, he opened his eyes, seeing Emeka was already in cosmic, he gently tapped him by the shoulder.
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Oluchi alighted her car, feeling at the top of the world, she entered into the living room, and headed for the refrigerator, she then grabbed a bottle of whiskey and poured herself a full glass, and gulped it down.
"Ahh, money is good" She said admiring herself.
"Olu baby" a masculine voice called out and laid his hands on her waist from behind
"Uche, I know you need money again, I transferred three hundred thousand to your account yesterday" She said and turned to face him.
"I know, but I need quality time with my love " Uche said, and lifted Oluchi in his hands and gently laid her on the leather chair and began to get intimate with her.
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"I like your choice if weapon, the sword, is a weapon that flows with the mind" Remi said and attacked Emeka, who dodged it and raised one leg in mid air, with his both hands holding firm to the sword
"Another thing you should know, is, you shouldn't channel revenge with this weapon, it sucks your mind dry" Remi said and threw a punch at Emeka, who dodged it allowing Remi's hand to pass in front of his face.
"What are you, like where are you from? " Emeka asked following the moves Remi did.
"Ayenireti " Remi replied and still focused on the moves.
"What state? "
"Trust me, it's not on the map, it's a lost city, even I myself still struggle to find it"
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Emeka laid seven different pictures on the table before Remi.
"I want this one dead first " Emeka said and pointed to his uncle's picture.
"This is your fight and I have nothing to do, only if you need my help dearly" Remi said and slid a red hooded cloth to Emeka and a meta mask that could cover only the nose to the jaw.
"They believe you are dead, and you must remain dead, till fear is Casted on them. " Remi said
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Pa chucks dusted his slippers on the foot mat, pulling it off, he joyfully entered his living room, which housed, only a cushion three seater, which was really old fashioned, the box television, positioned on the ground, and a mini center table was all he had in the living room. He began singing in local dialect and pulled out three bundled naira notes from his pocket, he kissed it joyfully and then he noticed someone was standing at the entrance led to his room.
"Who are you? " he asked confidently.
The figure revealed itself, with red hood clothing, two swords hanging from it back, and a nose mask which his face totally dark and the eyes glowing white.
"Let me help you remember, my soul has come to haunt you and everyone that killed me"
Immediately it dawned on Pa Chucks what he was into, he trembled and knelt on the ground.
"Please spare me, I beg you, I will do anything to appease your spirit"
"Tell me, why you killed me? "
"Money all I needed was money and I told Emeagwali not to do anything to you, but he insisted" Pa Chucks slowly opened his eyes and saw the person was no more.
"Ewoooooooo" he screamed and took to his heels, bolting out as fast as his legs could carry him
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Pa Chucks managed to catch his breath after like ten minutes, he got to The family head.
He wiped the sweat that trickled around his face.
" See, Emeagwali, let's call a spade a spade, what I saw today, is coming for all of you" Pa chucks said and accepted the glass of water Emeagwali had offered before hand.
"If you truly saw his spirit there is only one thing we can do"
"See let's do it fast "
"We have to make sacrifice, to appease his spirit, we will go to, one babalawo tomorrow" Emeagwali said smiling like the family head he was.
"Are you sure it will work out?"
"See ehn, we have to apply wisdom"
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Emeka fell hard on his back on the teakwando mat floor, and was laughing hard, alongside Remi, who also held his stomach right, trying to subdue the laughter.
"You have to see his face, when he saw me, am sure his soul was far from him" Emeka said.
"Ahhhhhhhh, Ahh, good gods" Remi said and managed to get on his feet.
"Who is next? " Remi asked and sat down on the floor
"Oluchi, She is the sudden wife" Emeka said and his mood changed almost immediately.
"Don't forget to always record your encounter on phone with them" Remi said reminding Emeka how effective their plan must be.
"Yes, yes, I recorded, it all, thanks for the food" Emeka said and hit Emi slightly on the shoulder.
"Yeah,"
"So, I don't know much about you" Emeka said and folded his legs together.
"You can't comprehend, even the history books, don't have the real details" Remi said and smiled at Emeka.
"Brief me little"
"I am a god, even at that, I am long way from home, after the great war, opening my eyes, I saw things were different, and the history talks about the lost city of ayenireti " Remi said then paused, looking at nowhere in particular and continued "I am lost, I am finding my way home, and I may never" Remi said and didn't realized tears drooled from his eyes.
"Am sorry, am sorry I had to bring this up" Emeka said calmly,
"No, it's no big deal, at least an still useful" Remi said and stood up "Let's practice a little" He said and three Emeka's swords to him
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Oluchi gently sneaked towards Uche who was fully concentrated on the movie he was watching, suddenly his eyes was covered from behind.
"Oluchi" He called out and pulled her hands down, and pulled her over the chair to his laps, and kissed her deeply before breaking it
"Who else could it be" He said and kissed her again, slowly he worked his hands on her blouse, an attempt to pull it off, which he successfully did in less that thirty seconds, he planted another kiss on her lips, making her moan softly.
"See ehn, am not ready for any child o, even that my aunties daughter when she was becoming a burden, I sharperly return her ni o" Oluchi said and moved herself away from Uche's laps.
"I understand you, let me go and get it from the bedroom" Uche said and dashed upstairs
The light in the building suddenly went off, which made Oluchi lamented.
"Nepa again" She said and put on the torch on her phone.
Before putting on the torch, she felt a hand, gently pulled her hairs, she looked towards the direction, and quickly attempted to put on the torch, CLAANK her phone suddenly fell from her hand, she bent to pick it, and felt something wriggle on her body.
"See Uche, you know it dark, stop trying to scare me" She said and her phone moved a bit forward on the tiles floor.
She paused in fright and slowly moved her hand, swiftly she grabbed it and put on the torch.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, Oluchi screamed at the figure that suddenly stood before her. Red hood, With white glowing eyes, and a dark face, with two swords hanging from its back, she screamed more and opened her eyes only to see, the figure had disappeared, then the lights came on.
Uche bolted down the stairs with, three condoms in his hands, he threw it on the table and knelt before Oluchi.
"Wetyn happen? " Uche asked pulling Oluchi out of her temporary shock.
"Ghost.. Ghost ooo" She said frightened and screamed again seeing the figure standing at the entrance of the living room.
"Uche looked behind and also saw the figure" at first his heart skipped, but he had to prove he was a man, prove his worth before Oluchi.
He stood up and dashed towards the figure in an attempt to punch in on the face and then the lights went off again, after about ten seconds it came on.
Oluchi screamed this time more loudly, seeing Uche in his own pool of blood, as blood free flowed out of his mouth.
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Pa Chucks rolled his eyes, as he sat in the living room, with the other elders of the family, Emeagwali had called the meeting to find a lasting solution to the issue on ground, it was becoming out of hand, if it continues this way, the whole world will know what they had done.
"Oluchi, are you certain it was a ghost" Emeagwali asked.
Oluchi got irritated by the questions and spoke angrily.
"See baba, am not a child, the ghost is blood cloth and a dark face " Oluchi shouted and continued "you saw for yourself Uche's dead body, how it was slashed roughly" She said and began sobbing.
"Pa chucks, won't you say something? " Emeagwali asked raising his hand in the air.
"What should I say, ehn, I told you, the stupid sacrifice we carried was a waste" Pa Chucks shouted annoyingly.
Emeagwali shook his head, he was the only one who hasn't encountered this ghost, and I was hard to deny, from the fact Oluchi and pa chucks had provided.
"See ehn, if our secret is lossed" Oluchi said patting her palms apart "me am scared oo, maybe I will just go and confess jeje "
"You are mad, sickness dey your brain, you that is spending over three millions in one week, so you even know your position in your family, do you know nobody knows your father , abi you will go back and be selling your zobo and kunu " Pa chicks said angrily.
"Haaa, it's because is e I respect you o"
"I have an idea
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Emeka pulled off his mask and offed his hood cloth, and he neatly replaced gbe sword back to its space on the shelf. He looked and searched around for Remi, but couldn't locate him.
To kill time he decided to practice.
"Yoi are ,back,, " Remi said and used his hand to block the incoming attack.
"did you kill someone? "Remi asked.
"Yes, he attacked first, how come you killed a whole city of ayenireti, more than 300,.000 souls"
Remi stood still at this question and flared up, shit eyes boiled like read coal, and almost immediately Emeka found himself flying him mid air, before he collided with the wall, and Remi walked out of the building, Emeka knew he had asked the wrong question, bit he had to be sure Remi wasn't some kind of imposter.
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Pa chucks tried keeping his calm, never in his life had been to an herbalist shrine, this day marked his first, he focused on the herbalist who was probably in his late seventies, he looked too fetish what pa chucks had imagined, his eyes brow was painted with white chalk, while his lips revealed his thick brown teeth, on him was plain red cloth that freely sweeped the floor as he walked about his shrine, with incantation that were strange to Pa chucks.
"When will he be through " pa chucks asked Emeagwali who was comfortable with lots of confidence in him.
Emeagwali gave Pa chucks a very annoying look and blinked his eyes repeatedly with grinning face
"My son, give me the boy's picture " the herbalist demanded.
Emeagwali wasted no time in putting his hand inside his trouser, and uncomfortably he squeezed out the picture and handed it over.
"Hmmmmmm, great ones, my ancestral mothers, do not shame, Emeka, I invoke your spirit, wherever you are, you should answer me with haste, the wind does not hesistate to blow, the sun knows it's daily duty and must not wary, Emeka oo, Emeka oo, Emeka ooo" the herbalist shouted shaking the horsetail with him in front of a water filled calabash.
"Is this him? " The herbalist asked confused, the image that appeared was different from the picture.
Emeagwali peeped into the calabash, and frowned.
"is like I know, kill him too"
GBUUUAAAA the calabash exploded throwing both the herbalist and Emeagwali away, thick white smoke, slowly rised from where the calabash had exploded and dispersed slowly revealing a figure before them.
"After taking all he has, you still.. Good gods " Remi said and in an instance he was facing the herbalist, and CRACCCKK, Remi broke all his left ribs and zoomed towards Emeagwali, and raised him in mid air with one hand, he brought Emeagwali to his face level and stared deeper into his eyes, as his eyes brightly glowed white, it became unbearable for Emeagwali hence he lost his eye sight.
"Amadioha, please save me, please spare my life, heee, my eyes o, I no dey see again o" Emeagwali screamed and Remi dropped him to the ground.
All these while pa Chucks was unable to move, like his bones had denied him the ability to run.
Remi floated in mid air and slowly advanced towards him. Pa chucks moved back a little an shook his head slowly, with muffled sound, Remi stopped some inches away from him and SWOOOSSHHH, Remi like the force of a rocket and speed of light, he bolted out of the shrine.
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Seven days had swiftly gone by, without Emeka setting his eyes know Remi, he knew he shouldn't have gone past his boundaries of words, and now food supply had already run out, another challenge Emeka faced was walking in public, hey already thought he was dead, what he needed was hidden identity till everything settles.
His stomach rumbled, making him uncomfortable, he had no other option than to go out and gather food supply, since he still had enough money to see him through
He grabbed the red hood shirt from where he kept it and went out through the back door of the building.
Walking amongst people, Emeka lowered his head, allowing the hood to cover his face completely.
Oluchi stood on her feet, the joy on her face almost made it impossible for other family members to think she was mad.
"Young lady tell us why you called us here" Pa Chucks shouted angrily.
Oluchi looked and hissed at him.
"So it has finally gotten to that extent" Pa chucks said. "Emeagwali you see what you caused"
"chucks,at least even in this my condition, you still have the guts to shout"
"Anyways, I want to inform you all that Emeka is not dead and I saw him today and also took his picture " Oluchi said and dropped what seemed like bomb on them.
"What happened to Emeagwali at the shrine last week, says otherwise o" Pa Chucks said.
"Take and see" Oluchi said and stuffed her phone into pa chucks hand, who carefully went through the picture of a hooded man.
"Chimmmoooo " Pa chucks stressed and placed his hands on his head,
"What next? "Emeagwali asked.
"As you see me so ehn, me na smart Anambra babe, I don arrange im death
, I made sure I tailed him, and know where he stays, I already sent hire killers to him, he is going to die again" Oluchi said and smiled at her master plan.
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Emeka sighed, feeling troubled, he looked at the wall clock, thirty minutes past eight, once again he had found himself lonely, sluggishly, he advanced to the door Th at led to the kitchen and began preparing what to eat, from the polythene bag he brought he retired two onions and a tomato paste, he didn't waste time in putting a pot on fire and rinsed two cup of rice into it and began preparing the tomato and pepper in another bowl.
A sound came from the fight ground, drawing Emeka's attention, thinking Remi was back, he wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen.
"Remi" He called out, standing next to a lamp, that illuminated the room. Emeka shrugged his shoulder, maybe it was just a sound, Emeka frustratingly squatted and his heart jumped, hearing a loud bang from behind, right in front of him, a tiny hole was bored into the wall, he looked back and saw a masked man, pointing a gun. Emeka quickly understood, if he had not squatted, the bullet was aiming for his head. He quickly dashed behind the shelf where the swords laid and reached for his sword.
The masked man, fired repeatedly at the shelf, probably hoping one would mark his target.
"CLIICKK...CLIKCKK " was the sound that came next from his gun.
Emeka noticed and quickly grabbed the opportunity, he ran out from his hiding and quickly used the butt of the sword to hit the masked man on the face, he withdrew the sword from its sheath and slashed towards the man's leg, who quickly moved his right leg bavkward, luckily he only got a little and minor slash from the sword.
He rammed his legs on Emeka's chest, as Emeka staggered he quickly rushed him and forcefully pushed Emeka to the ground, the man now noticed his gun was no longer with him, and it was too dark and risky to start looking for it, hence he grabbed a dagger from the shelf. And knelt over Emeka, he slowly moved the dagger tohis neck.
"You this little demon " he said and smacked Emeka on the face.
Emeka head titled sideway from the heavy hit of the slap, and about three inches from his right hand, he saw his sword. He groaned with muffled sound, and struggled to reach his sword, from where he laid.
The Man raised hthe dagger up and drive it towards Emeka's neck.
AHHHHHH Emeka screamed and SLASSHHHH he slit the man's head, and blood gushed at his face. Emeka laid there panting heavily and then stood up, he got the second sword and ran outside the building.
Getting outside he noticed a strange vehicle that slowly followed behind him, and he quickly picked up pace and began to run.
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Emeka walked into a carnival ground, knowing they won't be able to trail him with the car and he had advantage over them.
He made sure he also had eyes on them as they alighted the car and followed him into the carnival ground. One by one he was to make sure he killed them in the congested crowd.
His hood suddenly came off, before he could put it back, his face met with a girl's own and she suddenly screamed loud.
AAAAAAARRRGGGG!!! amidst the noise everyone got caught by her scream.
"GHOOOSSST" The lady screamed and in an instant, the world quickly spread and without seeing who the ghost wa, they all took to their heels, colliding against each other.
"Oh god, o god, Remi where are you? " Emeka said panicking
Soon the ground was cleared, the only sound was that of Olamide's Eniduro music coming from the stereo.
Emeka Now faced three huge men, he removed his swords from the sheath and and waved it at them, trying to scare them off. They didnt hesistate to bring out their gun..
Just then they heard the blaring siren of police from afar .
"Sniper, fast fast" one of them said to the one that held the gun.
Emeka knew he was done for the only saving grace he had was Remi, and he was no where to be found.
The Man with the gun pulled the trigger, and expected Emeka to be dead, surprised he shot again, still Emeka was still unhurt. Emeka opened his eyes wide surprised also. He then smiled knowing Remi was involved. He swayed his sword and dashed towards them.
The Man continued to shoot repeated and slowly they backed up, trying to run. Emeka screamed and jumped on the man with the gun, bringing him down, he drove both swords into his eye socket and gallantly stood up.
Just then, he realized the others had escaped, now leaving face to face with almkst a dozen police and beside him was a dead body.
Emeka walked back slowly and made an attempt to run.
"One more step and we wont hesistate to fire" A voice came over the mega phone.
Emeka expected whatever saved him before should do it again, he was pinned to the ground and got handcuffed from behind.
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Emeka looked dumb, didnt know where to start from, he struggled with the handcuff that made his hands uncomfortable and settled again, all what he know felt was depression. The metallic door to the investigation room, where he was held prisoner, slowly came open, at first he moved his face to the opposite direction, hearing who spoke, his attention was drawn.
"Hey" Oluchi said and smiled mischeiviously before sitting on the chair that was separated by the table in front of Emeka.
"What do you want? "
"You know at first, I thought it was on useless ghost, but when I saw you in the market, I felt blessed" Oluchi said and relaxed
"Get out" Emeka said weakly
"Well, I have only come to tell you things, am sure you won't be surviving this time, you are now a murderer, anyways, send my farewell message to your father in hell, tell him his first love sends him greetings and in his next life, he will never break a woman's heart" Oluchi said and stood up.
"You have just seven days to clear your belonging, cause you will be the one joining him" Emeka said and smiled.
"What assurance, do you have of getting out of here? "
Emeka stocked out his tongu at Oluchi and smiled with the corner of his mouth, he was only hopeful, he knew deep down, he was not going to make it, even if the country's system was not corrupt. With all connection he knew Oluchi had, he wasn't going to make it.
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The voice continued to ring in Emeka's head, as hot stream of tears rolled down his face
"I hereby find the accused guilty of murder and related crimes and is hereby sentenced to death by hanging"
Where was Remi, why did Remi saved him at the carnival ground and now abandoned him, or was he making him suffer for his hurtful words.
Emeka was forcefully pushed into the armored vehicle, which had just one window for ventilation, with two police guard with him, he silently said his last prayers as he awaited horrible death to come his way. He still had lot of people to kill, starting from PA chucks, Emeagwali, the barrister, the chief judge who was newly added to the list, and Oluchi, the thought of them having their cake only bothered his heart.
They all jerked forward, as the vehicle suddenly came to a halt, one of the policeman angrily banged on the inner body of the vehicle
"What's the problem of driving carefully"
The policemen paid attention to the noise that came from outside, and knew they were under attack.
"Hold that boy, put gun for im head, I sure say na im dey find come" One said and made to open the door.
Immediately he laid his hand on the lock, the door suddenly tore away, flying great distance away from the truck. The policeman that attempted to open the door, suddenly flew off, and smashed against the windscreen of the car behind. The gun on the hand of the other police man, suddenly melted and he threw it off and suddenly went unconscious, after an unforeseen force, smacked his head against the vehicle
The cuffs on Emeka's hand suddenly shattered, making him move backward with his bottom. He was certain someone or something was in front of him. And suddenly he could see his sword and a note beside it. Emeka quickly grabbed his swords and opened the note.
"Retrive what is yours and join our team",he read our slowly,
He pulled the body of the police man down and hurried to he driver seat of the vehicle, his first destination was to go back to the court, where he had been wrongfully judged.
The vehicle drove recklessly into the court driveway, without heeding to the sign of the gate man to stop, Emeka stepped on the acceleration pedal and made for the gate, the gate man quickly dived to safety, as Emeka crashed down the gate. He halted the vehicle, and moved the gear, and collided with the vehicle directly in front. He alighted and with both swords in his hands he walked intobthe court room.
"Young man" a police man said and quickly ran to prevent Emeka from entering, while the judge listened to defending of the Case before him
Emeka didn't wait for the police man to say anything else, he ran at him and used the butt of his sword to hit the man on his head which immediately made him unconscious. Seeing what happened, the court room, went up in confusion, another policeman, bringing out his baton, started it at Emeka, who dodged it and used the butt of the swords to hit his stomach, he quickly advanced and dragged the policeman to the ground and smashed him on the face with his boot, which also sent the policeman unconscious, Emeka walked among the confused crowd who were eager to know what happened .
"Somebody should stop him" The judged shouted and banged the table.
Outside the building, in less than twenty minutes, the surrounding was already filled with reporters from different stations and a full police squad.
Emma walked up towards the judge chamber and slapped him on the face
"I slap at the face of corruption" Emeka said and hit him in the chin with the butt of the gun
"You I remember you, Emeka the billionaire son"
Emeka smacked him again and spoke
"How much did she bribed you? " Emeka asked and drove his sword into the lap of the judge.
"Aaaahhhhhh" the court went in uproar, as Emeka drove the sword into his leg.
"I know my right and you have no godd.. "
Emeka did not let him finish his statement, before he drove another one even deeper
"Ahhhhhhhh, pity me, I will confess" the judge shouted.
Emeka pulled him to the floor and dragged him outside the court by the gown he wore, and raised his up to speak, meanwhile the reporters were already set live to give report. Almost all television station now aired the incident.
"Talk" Emeka said and smacked him again.
"Your hands in.... " The megaphone suddenly stopped talking.
"Wait this boy is up to something, something we don't know, let him finish his business " a policeman said to the one with the megaphone
"Kill him na " the judge shouted and immediately Emeka slashed his tendon, making his right leg temporary useless.
"Three million naira, she gave me three million naira to sentence you to death, and extra one million naira, to make the case in her favour" The judge shouted and covered his face in shame, as the reporters now had the confidence to move closer.
Tbc
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