ALANA WAS STOOD behind the corner, grief-stricken as his friends—the people he’s been through a lot with—berated each other to the point of no return. Some of them have died in savage ways while their brain, Caine, got captured not long ago. His brother Albert tried to covertly rescue him, but all that did was dishearten everyone else when he left them all with no command.
“Do you, or do you not stand by with the plan?” Leopold roared at the congregation in front of him as they walked away from the rest.
“It’s over Leo. Let us just leave in peace.” They left with their t
FAT TITANIC COMPILED all the information he had of Charles in one big binder blend. Unlike the other two he did, this one had a very different purpose, for Charles whose hands reek of cleanliness from blood. Even when his family and friends metaphorically rounded up during the holidays to hang heads to roast them on the open fire, he never had the urges to do the same with them. Maybe that’s one big reason he resented Pierre; their circuits were really incompatible with each other.Nevertheless, Titanic still finished his work as he patted himself in the back for his job well done. The background noise was an original with the news reporting of the list he sent Spices using Charles’ fingerprints. He secretly got it when they shook hands the previous week. He now just let it dry beside his lampshade. At the other side of the light-giver, there laid three binders: Caine Meyer, Albert Meyer and one he still hasn’t named. He looked at the picture inside and proc
“DO YOU LIKE Phineas and Ferb?” Albert asked Willow as they walked towards a large alley to not risk them both from being seen talking. For as felines and canines tend to shake paws in gregariousness, mice rarely confer with its geeky hunter who wanted to give information about the boss who apparently shared the same goal as the mice—Albert, in case that wasn’t obvious.“I do. Why do you ask?” Willow was lagging behind, but Albert paused a bit to make sure they’re walking a same pace with each other.He quoted Willow who apparently quoted one of the best shows ever made, “My watermelon?”Willow giggled in remembering it. The shades he wore covered his fresh-cried eyes but Albert can see his expression.“Yeah.”They found an area near the other side of the alley with tables and chairs. They sat there with a little bit more people around. They needed to be inconspicuous, but still be b
TITANINC WAS DIALLING someone onthe phone with someone as he dragged his fatass out of his rolling chair towards the fridge for some snacks. He wandered alone at the food cooler box to gnaw on something while talking. When the call connected, “Yellow,” he said. “What is it?” the person on the other side of the line had that voice modulator that made their speaking voice garbled as if it’s gargling. The static of the tweaked larynx-generated wind force was missing its proper enunciation, but it was still comprehensible. The low-bass joe setting was a bit reprehensible, though. “First of all, how are you?” Titanic greeted. “Get straight to the point, Fat.” The boss meant business. “Wow, what a snobby muffin.” Titanic bit a portion of the blueberry muffin he found on the fridge then swallowed before talking again. “But I guess that’s not something new.” “What is it?” Titanic paused for a while. “It’s about Willow.” “
ALBERT TOOK TOO long to process what was set front him. He thought of a peculiar case of his friend Benjamin Button-ing himself with the short time they haven’t seen each other first before a more logical answer. “Sweetie, who’s that?” a woman—in her early 40’s, at least—carrying another child came into the rectangular door frame. “A lady, and another kid?” The lady brushed off Albert’s narration of the people he saw and asked him, “Hello, what d
BEFORE CASCADING TO a much-needed sleep from the long day-and-a-half’s worth of feeling uneasy for himself and his newfound temporary companions, Albert arrived to the conclusion of a swift night getaway towards the avenues of escape. As he used his shinobi ashi towards the car keys that he saw last at Von’s trousers, he did his best to adjust his eyes to the dark.Albert did not intend to look this present Friesian towards its muzzle, but he knew that Von knew that even with him leading the non-fugitive runner to their family seas, it’s not his place to make him drink—and that nod is as good as a wink.When he entered the couple’s room, they were already asleep since it was already midnight. He also needn’t worry about a babe crying in his presence for the children and the brother were spending some time with Dayan’s mother. Therefore, Albert had free reign over the hooks at the back of the door to find his way toward
THE BARON WATCHED the news reviewing the death of one Abiram Alana; and he was not pleased in any instance. Yes, he didn’t care about the deceased, personally…he doesn’t really care about most people; but the one suffering most, other than the rotting bodies of the two, was his reputation revered at the aggrandized podium. When the rulers of the underground find out about these seemingly casual murders of people under his umbrella, they’d lose trust in his men; his words; him. And because of the fact that moral-compassed people were making their presences known to the masters of evil, their shortage of men could not have come at a worse time. So, as he channeled his inner master of puppet semblance, he ordered some of his inner butlers to find his fix for this: Albert. “I want him alive and unscathed, clear?” he commanded. His purpose for wanting the already-running man was to seek and destroy whoever kicked his fake teeth like nothing else mattered. Pierre w
You, as a flower; innocent and pure Them, as your pickers; perverted and hasty Me, as the passer; protective and chivalrous You, as a flower; innocent and pure Them, as your pickers; successful and weak Me, as a protector; imprisoned and falling You, as a flower; bloody and bruised Them, as your pickers; successful and strong Me, as a prisoner; watching and waiting You, as a flower; perfect and expectant Them, as your pickers; disappointed and wrinkled We, as two vagabonds free and destined “Not bad,” August commented. “Not bad? Not bad? Not bad?” Bright was visibly offended with the half-assed praises his superior gave him that he had to triple his inquiry with significantly-spaced pau
THE ROOM SMELLED of typical guy smell, which was not a smelly smell, but a smell nonetheless. The brunet coming through, though, even during his first day, was accustomed to the weirdness of the scent. What he was not so keen about, was the scene he found while getting into the room he'll be spending at least 4 years in. The person he was supposed to be roommates with was dancing some sort of dance while chanting for several gods and goddesses of luck. He shared the sentiment of felicity, but the methods looked so cliché. “Excuse me?” he addressed the man. "Is this room 1-118?" With him realizing the guy at the door, the blond dancer didn’t stop his rituals, but just pushed him inside, locked the door and gave him a small cup. “I’m not thirsty,” The cup-giver still wasn’t relenting in his actions while he looked for something in his bag. The confused conformist waited patiently until his got filled with some alcoholic substance;
“VV, DO YOU know where this is?” one of the butlers under VV’s command told him of the latest news.“This wretched place?” VV had never personally been there; but the countless stories about the butchery division of the old version of the company drove even him, a hitman who based his entire work ethic on Benedict Arnold: the world’s most hated traitor, to barf beaches.“I know where it is, but I haven’t been there yet. I heard only of stories.”He was in pursuit of a different brother and was growing restless, but something as reliable as this made his whimsical side come up to love the recent development. The added bonus of having to see Von’s expression, who he thought would be with him, after telling him of his wife barbecuing. He and his flunkeys rounded up the rest of them prancing around the city because of the treasure hunt to play one dodgeball. Only the dodgers this time would have no Sandy fi
WHEN CAINE READ the latest update from the one person the public deemed missing about another person misplaced by the eyes of the birdwatchers, something clicked in his mind. The old Warehouse G that he was apparently hiding had been cleaned, cleared and abandoned during the end of the underground wars that he commended Albert’s quick-thinking of using it as his hideout: he knew the place like the back of his hand, it has hidden secrets and it’s pretty expendable.“I hope their plan goes well,” Caine said while he walked out of the orphanage to his car. He trusted them enough that he thought that his help wouldn’t be needed anyway.And he was right—about the plan part, the part about trust still had to be discovered by the flock cover in their shimmering plumage—because the moment they read the news, they were already done with their chirps of briefing; they just had to improvise a few.The first one to leave w
DEATH; DEATH IS an enchantress. Whether you’re young or old; rich or poor; there will come a day when be ensnared by it and succumb to the grave, eventually. The love could’ve been looming over your cotton-soft heart since your birth, or an acquired intimacy for it one day while sat in the wool; for as long as one had as ever trod shoe-leather.Those were some of the thoughts Venin had the moment his country had been attacked by its neighbour with their tanks and their bombs; and their bombs and their guns. And as his head thought about how the world had always been a roundabout of chaos, like Thanos, he longed more and more for the approval of death.Before the hardships he went through, he never wanted to experience it first-hand; that’s why in his younger years, he strove for his passion—acting. But now that all those theatre masks, stage play and bongo drumming had been replac
EVER SINCE AUGUST came out of the room of deceitful contemptuous tête-à-têtes, there’d been some weird air discharging from his pores that caught Bright off-guard. It wasn’t an obvious one, because he still is the same person in the mannerisms in his actions and words and the entire personality, but there’s just something that he can’t locate even looking at the 88x94-foot map steady on his driving. He’s perspiring buckets when he asked again, “Sir, what happened there?” And like the 17 times he asked, 17 times there wasn’t any reply. That happened a few times before, so Bright didn’t really attribute that to anything rather other than him having found out some really critical information. Bright waited patiently minding his inaudible Ps and Qs to not overstep the mark secured by a portcullis guarding his Sherlockian mind palace. After a few moments more of Bright camping the premises, the hydraulic winches started releasing the drawbridge to what August was
THE BRICK BLOCKS withstood the trickle in heat as the room warmed up more from the summer reign over the two reconveners after their brief one-week recess of various tasks. Caine, upon losing his ship of an enforcer was grief-stricken for about 30 standard drinks, emerged a new monarch of his own devising where he concluded to himself that he—like a certain 1970 musical comedy—is the company. And as frightened as he was of dying without the fall of the empire that cost him a hundred people who worked side by side by side, he’s more frightened of letting them roam about while he sat on his chair, being alive. So, unusual for him it may be, he asked for help personally from a person capable enough to withstand the intensity of his words; but is also proficient enough that it won’t be a hindrance to his problem-solving. August, on the other end of the seat, had a less emotionally jarring week; but rather a pretty enervating one for his getting’ old eyes. Togethe
THE BUILDING WAS settling, but not more than Von; the doors were unhinged, but not more than Von; the woodworks were sapped, but not more than Von; the downfall of the warehouse was overtaxation, but so was Von’s. For as the wind whispered through the windows of their rustic solace, so did Albert’s story—though his ear to absorb the few one he found really easy to comprehend; like the Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris song story that he had with Margaret. Because even though he couldn’t find the strength and face to admit it, that experience they had was a mouse squeaker from probably one of the world’s most hopeless place. But what he can’t put twenty of his fingers on, was how did Caine “erase her memory” like erasing chalk from a blackboard. “It’s hard to comprehend, but it’s a higher for of hypnosis. I, myself can only do very little.” Albert also explained why the mind-wipe was important to the Baron’s reputation. “Marge knew so much, so Pierre just locked those
“IT WAS A weird first meeting for the three of us because it was mine and Alexis’ first date; and Albert was just suddenly there.” That was how she felt the first time he got to sit with them, being an advocate for discomfiture around the table.She also noted that that exact was the time their friendship bloomed into what they had that today. They shared the entirety of three years together laughing, crying and cramming the nights off. It even got to the point that the introverted Albert and the skeptical Margaret fully embraced the 1st of every month’s tradition of having “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” as their war cry when they found out about the intensity of the subjects. They dowsed themselves in the light superstitions in order to back their intense studies hard; because with their experience, being really, really smart is not enough to guarantee their safety from the thin ice under their feet.Every now and then, Alexis
THE BAR SCENE got a little bit quitter as the gradient of colour faded to a cadaverous whites and greys while the Black-Eyed Peas’ electronic rap dance music scratched a disc for a halt; all to simultaneously look at Albert unfamiliar with the situation he was in. His date just left him stranded at the middle of the dance floor for an unknown reason and abandoned his boogieing soul ass and thighs.The noises all went back to him when he got tapped on the shoulder by Alexis.“Abe?”“Alex? What are you doing here?”“Ware you doing here, all by yourself? Where’s—”“No reason.” He started walking towards the stool by the bartender with Alexis following him.Alexis was contemplating it, but he decided on it after a while. “You should come sit with us.”Albert okayed after a bit more push-and-pull arguments to later find himself seated with Alexis and his
THE ROOM SMELLED of typical guy smell, which was not a smelly smell, but a smell nonetheless. The brunet coming through, though, even during his first day, was accustomed to the weirdness of the scent. What he was not so keen about, was the scene he found while getting into the room he'll be spending at least 4 years in. The person he was supposed to be roommates with was dancing some sort of dance while chanting for several gods and goddesses of luck. He shared the sentiment of felicity, but the methods looked so cliché. “Excuse me?” he addressed the man. "Is this room 1-118?" With him realizing the guy at the door, the blond dancer didn’t stop his rituals, but just pushed him inside, locked the door and gave him a small cup. “I’m not thirsty,” The cup-giver still wasn’t relenting in his actions while he looked for something in his bag. The confused conformist waited patiently until his got filled with some alcoholic substance;