In twenty minutes, we all gathered round the oblong table we dragged earlier in the middle of the coven, Julius was the one to lead us in the plan but the problem is, he said everyone was allowed to opine.He stood up and started while we sat down and watched keenly waiting to interrupt when necessary, of course a bottle was going round already and you know who the waitress is."Guys, this is no child's play and take it from me, Karl is preparedly waiting on the other end for our arrival. Now he probably have over a hundred armed soldiers with him and we are apparently.....""Wait...we are literally sacrificing our lives? As what burnt offerings? for what again, can someone please remind me?"Collins was beginning to freak out, it just dawned on him."Okay how about I look after the boat while you all go and do your....'thing'?""Dude, it's 'our' thing now, it's either you do this with us or you swim back to the Marshalls."Henry was not having it at all.Julius sighed and continued, h
An hour en route to Ramoha, we started growing cold about everything.So many ambivalent thoughts began to slip into our heads through the windows we unknowingly created; doubt, fear and anxiety. We couldn't picture a future after Ramoha, it felt like the beginning of the end as Claudia and Shalonian's future where in our hands.But I brought our minds together, made everyone to take a deep breath and exhale as many times as possible our morbid thoughts away with it. Then, we said our war prayers before the last navigation, bringing us up above water.Ready as expected, we marched stealthily into Karl's HQ, but unfortunately, there were uncountable number of armed soldiers scattered around, alert and enthusiastic."This was not the plan guys. Julius promised that they wouldn't be this much."Mercury whispered."There was never a plan. I only speculated.""You what!? speculating in a matter of life and death? Aren't you a joke in a handsome face?"Collins looked like he could have kille
"What do you mean?"I asked Julius who provided me with the first answer with my calmest voice ever."She said something that got Karl angry and he took her away."My chest began to heave up and down.I got infuriated to the point my heart swelled up and in my rage, I roared heavily making everyone in the other cell to stand up and hang onto the cylindrical rods that created a barrier between us.-"Helion?! Please stop! You are hurting yourself."-"Oh my God, this is not good.""Anyone with water?!"Most were trying to help while some just stared blankly. Everyone acting according to their reaction towards panic.My muscles became stiff as if my tendons was growing apart from my bones, the chains got hotter by the minute but I couldn't decipher which was burning up; my hands or the chains? There was a rush of strength in me, I couldn't contain my being.In the next minute, the chains clamping my wrists began to glow. A cobalt-blue rays as though it was being subjected to an oxy-ethylen
It has been five years since tranquility and harmony was restored in the three country's affected by the historic prison of stones.My mother came home to us and we nortued her back to a human being because she was looking like a scarecrow after serving some time behind the bars.Just like I imagined, a monument was built in our names and the nine of us, including Anderson, became the government's most valued assets and our accounts specifically was weekly blessed by them. I wished so badly I had a bet on that with Washington.Now, you must want to know who the chosen one became eventually, little Nora opened the spellbound vault because she had the bloods of a Shalonian and a Dogma running in her veins.Owning to the fact that she was fiery and dauntless regardless of her age, she did a magnificent job. Karl Sullivan and Gal Mayer were later convicted and were serving a life sentence in the state prison while Ragnolf Henry committed suicide when he found out that the Capleton's weren
We were just a family of four trying to survive somewhere in the big country of Claudia. I am my mother's first daughter, Helion is the name and I have a younger sister who I am five years older than. Yuvonne is having a hard time settling with the fact that our dad is gone for good. I don't quite blame her because she's just fifteen years and dad had been her best friend before the sudden break up with mum. We use to be an average family because my dad worked in the fish factory at the end of the town. And, well, my mum was a non-academic staff at Make It highschool where I and Yuvonne schooled. We were a one happy contented family who could put up with three square meals every day and fish was inevitable, my mum gives us different recipes of fish foods with the leftovers dad comes home with; fish barbecue, fish and bread, fish fries and Yuvonne's best, fish sauce.But one day, something I perceived as a normal couple misunderstanding and fight got so intense that mum was yelling and
My curiosity set in as I watched my mum's every move. I wanted to know what it is she does that she said I don't want to know because of course, I was dying to know.My mum had a friend, Tessa whom I have never met but I will always find my mum on long calls with her. She leaves very early in the morning and comes back late at night but will make sure we have something to eat for the day. Sometimes she will stay at home during the day and will leave late at night.One fateful night, I decided to follow behind her to see where she goes and what she does.It was a successful one. I followed behind her as she moved five blocks away from home. She was on her Bluetooth making her less aware of me because one thing my mum has is a strong instinct, she made a quick call and waited for five minutes, then a car stopped nearby as she went close to them, she gave them a parcel she had been hiding in her jacket all the while and they gave her some money, after a small talk with one of them, they d
I broke down and I cried my eyes out hugging my pillow. The past weeks had been hell for me and Yuvonne, I hated dad for leaving us in this trying times. From mum's story the other night, I learnt that dad may or may not be my biological father. Mum had a very dark story growing up and she doesn't share alot. I felt like I don't know my mum and there is more to what she had not and would never tell me. She mentioned also that she had three sisters and a brother, where will they be now? Aren't family supposed to look out for each other? At this point I knew that if some how mum doesn't come back, the responsibility would automatically be shifted to me and I don't think I'm ready for that, I can survive on my own but then what about Yuvonne?I went to Yuvonne and I asked her to give me her hands, she did and I prayed for mum's safety as we hugged each other, slept and hoped to see tomorrow.Tomorrow came and she was nowhere, I dialed her line but it was not connecting, I stayed calm an
The Marshalls is an establishment were children of ages twelve to twenty three are taken to be trained skillful sword swingers and arm handlers before taking to the military if found worthy. It is the shortest route and the window to the Claudia Military popularly known as the KS MILITARY, CLAUDIA. When we arrived, mum gave us a hug and took us to the counter after putting down her information in a paper provided, she left.For the first time in my life, I felt, alone. Walking into the reception hall, I looked up and I saw the picture of the president of Claudia and the next picture beside it had a blur face with no name tag but an abbreviation, KS. There is a giant writing of the name MARSHALL on the wall and on the three legs of the letter M was an anchor on each of them facing the west hand side. An anchor? Is this a fucking pirate school? I asked myself. I rubbed my eyes and exhaled not wanting to think about it that much or read unnecessary meaning into it so I looked away and my