A New Creation episode 22
A New Creation
Chapter 22A
“You?” Gentle expressed with great surprise as he stared at the leader of the group, the shock he got from the faces he saw had made him drop his knife and the turning stick to the floor.
“Yes, me Gentle, you were spared on that day but I wasn’t going to let you go forever. You think the peace treaty we signed would really bring peace and make you escape punishment for your sins?” The leader replied back with a mocking tone.
“But why?” Gentle l-ips trembled as he spoke.
“You ask your boss Host when you get to hell,” he said and then brought out his gun.
“Don’t do this, it may cause another war. Let’s settle our personal differences without involving others.” Gentle pleaded.
“War?” He mocked and roared with laughter. “What’s going to cause the war? You think your life matters to anyone?”
“Don’t,” Gentle said in a strong warning tone, “you’ll surely regret it. Slimmy and the rest of Arch Angels would come after you.”
“Which Slimmy? The same one that’s coming to join you soon? I’m sure he’s on his way here,” he mocked.
Gentle’s breathing was slow and heavy as he glanced at the guns pointed at him from different directions. Death was coming to him, and it was coming to him when he least expected it.
“Boss, don’t you think we are wasting too much time?” One of the other boys joined.
“No, Gentle deserves a respectful death.” The leader replied. He c*cked his gun and attached a silencer, he then released two quick shots at Gentle. One entered into Gentle left arm and the other his right lap. Gentle fell down immediately.
The shooter moved closer and dragged Gentle up to a sitting position, allowing him rest on the back of the sofa. He got up and released one more bullet to Gentle’s right arm.
“Hahaha,” he roared with laughter. “Are you catching the fun with me?”
Gentle strength was fast draining as blood oozed out from the three different places the bullets pierced into.
“I don’t want you to die quickly, I want you to die in pain.” The guy continued taunting. “I thought of strangling you before but I know you to be stubborn, that may not do.”
“Time Boss, time!” One of the boys cautioned.
Two more bullets were released into Gentle’s body and the guys bounced out of the house.
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“You’re back so soon?” Halimat asked as Hadijat stepped into the lounge, trudging forward with her black bag.
“Yes, Slimmy had an emergency. He had to go,” Hadijat replied and sank into the sofa. “He rushed out so impatiently after receiving a call, I just hope all is well with him.”
“Rofiat just rushed out too after she received a call,” Halimat added.
“Hmm… I hope it’s nothing serious.”
“I think Gentle needs their help somewhere,” Halimat suggested. “I heard Rofiat mention him thrice while she was speaking with him on phone, she also dialed his number and he didn’t pick.”
“But Slimmy was just coming from where Gentle was, I didn’t get to ask about the result of their conversation anyway.”
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Slimmy could see Nazaretha’s car driving roughly towards him from the opposite direction as he got to the front of Roy’s gate. He hurriedly parked the motorcycle by the fence and took out his gun, waiting impatiently for Nazaretha to join him. Soon, Nazaretha parked his car too and rushed out of the car with another guy, a junior cultist. Nazaretha was making a phone call.
“Just around there now,” Nazaretha said into the phone before cutting the call. “Boss, how do we do it?” He asked on getting close to Slimmy who was peeping into the compound through the gate h0le.
“We go in,side carefully, I can’t see signs of anybody or any strange thing in,side but I don’t think I got a false alarm.” Slimmy said.
“Have you called Gentle’s phone?”
“No, I sent him a text message but he has not replied yet.”
“Okay,”
“Let’s go in now, you know which direction to go.” Slimmy said and pushed the gate open with his leg. He charged straight forward to the entrance of the house with his gun raised above his shoulder. Nazaretha entered after him but walked closer to the left side where there was a walkway to the backyard, the junior who followed Nazaretha went closer to the right.
When Slimmy got to the door, he noticed signs of rough boots soles on the tiles in front. He was quite sure that some people had visited the place or were still in the place. He made a signal for Nazaretha to join him. He slowly pushed the door open and rushed in,side, he pointed the gun at several directions but saw no one nor noticed any movement. He searched around the walls to see if he could find anything, he saw none. He took two slow steps forward and stopped.
“Gentle,” he shouted twice but got no response. He then took out his phone and dialled Gentle’s phone. It began to ring, the sound was close in that same living room. Slimmy searched around the eyes with his eyes, then he saw the phone on the floor close to the the seater sofa, the back cover was removed showing that it must have fallen from someone’s hands. That was when he saw something strange, a thick liquid flowing in a thin narrow line from behind the three seater sofa.
“Boss, nobody is here.” Nazaretha said as he joined Slimmy in the sitting room. He stood near Slimmy and glanced at his face. He could see where Slimmy’s eyes were fixed. He took another glance at Slimmy’s face before walking slowly forward, glancing back at Slimmy’s face at every step he took.
Slimmy was temporarily motionless, his body was trembling on the s₱0t. He couldn’t move any longer as he was scared of what he would see.
Nazaretha finally saw where the blood was oozing out of from. He got to the back of the sofa and saw the lifeless body. Nazaretha body also began to vibrate all over, he couldn’t look up to Slimmy who was staring at him to give a report of what he saw.
From Nazaretha’s change in countenance and shakiness, Slimmy could tell that the worse had happened but he somehow felt like seeing it for himself. He summoned courage and moved closer, slowly. He closed his eyes as he was about getting close to where Nazaretha was standing.
He took him some few more seconds before he could open his eyes with so much quivering and trembling. Then he saw lifeless Gentle with the eyes widely opened and blood dripping out from several places in the body.
Slimmy fell down to his knees and gave a loud cry. A cry which echoed round the building and street and could be heard reverberating around the wh0le city.
Chapter 22B
It took him some few more seconds before he could open his eyes with so much quivering and trembling. Then he saw lifeless Gentle with the eyes widely opened and blood dripping out from several places in the body.
Slimmy fell down to his knees and gave a loud cry. A cry which echoed round the building and street and could be heard reverberating around the wh0le city.
He sustained the cry until he lost all his breath, he then fell on the floor right beside his brother.
“Gentle Noooo” He scre-med again.
Nazaretha who was also sitting down right beside Gentle’s lifeless body was shedding tears uncontrollably, his phone has been ringing repeatedly, different members of the arch angels has been calling him but he refused to pick any of their calls. His eyes were soaked in tears, he sobbed like a little child. Slimmy on the other hand had ran out of breath, he tried to scre-m again but his vocal cord couldn’t produce any form of sound anymore, his red eyes popped out but a drop of tears was not in his eyes. He laid his dead brother’s head on his laps while he sat on the floor, in a split second he was lost in thoughts, his mind travelled back in time to when He and Gentle were little kids, he remembered as they used to do the pillow fights, the days when they used to do the police and thief game. He remembered their first day in high school, how one of their classmates tried to bully him and how Gentle stood up for him as they both fought and defeated the bully together, he remembered how they used to be the best sports students right from the beginning through to the very end of their secondary school. How they both got admitted in the university, how happy and proud they made their parents when they got into the university, he remembered the countless fights they have both fought and won together. At that moment he felt guilty for Gentle’s death, if only he had not decided to date the same girl his brother had eyes for, if only he had not allowed Gentle pack out of the mansion, if only he had instructed some of their boys to watch over Gentle, if only he had been a good brother which Gentle was to him till the very end, Slimmy scre-med again after he noticed he had gathered enough strength, He roared again, a roar of pain, a roar of agony, a roar of regret, a roar of vengeance.
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Rofiat parked her car as she saw the Arch Angels bus Parked right in front of her, she dropped down and rushed to them.
“What’s up guys, where dem Slimmy and Gentle dey?” She asked no one in particular.
“We never know ooh, None of dem dey pick their call” One of the guys replied.
“Even Nazaretha sef no pick call, and na the area wey hin tell me be this” Rofiat
“Na the same thing hin tell us too na, buh him no tell us the particular house abi make we begin dey burst all the houses for this area” the guy replied again.
“Make we still wait small, if we no kan hear from them then we might start bursting all the houses” Rofiat was about to turn back to go and park her car very well when they started hearing Slimmy’s roar. Without telling each other, they all rushed in,side the house that the noise was coming from. They charged in with trigger ready guns only to find Slimmy and Nazaretha sitting down on the ground, Rofiat walked closer to them and saw Gentle’s body on the ground with bullet wounds.
“Is he dead?” She asked.
When she saw how Nazaretha was sobbing and how Slimmy’s eyes were red shot, she answered the question herself.
“He is dead” Rofiat said and immediately she felt that her legs couldn’t take the weight of her body anymore, she fell to the ground landing on her elblow, it was a loud thud but she couldn’t feel the pain, she couldn’t feel anything, her hands, her legs, her head, she she couldn’t feel anything. She was filled with regrets, she didn’t even get a chance to tell him how he felt about him, she had fallen in love with Gentle ever since she joined the Arch angels, she had always loved him all this while, she just didn’t tell him because she was waiting for Gentle to love her back, she didn’t tell him because of pride and now she will regret it all her life. If she had told him how she felt about him a long time ago, Gentle might have accepted to date her then Gentle wouldn’t have fallen in love with Hadijat, Gentle wouldn’t have been mad at his brother for loving Hadijat , he wouldn’t have had a course to leave the mansion where no one could have attacked him. If she had told Gentle how she felt then Gentle would still be alive, Rofiat cried profusely. The rest of the guys also couldn’t hold back the tears, they were all in shock and pain, they never saw Gentle as their leader, they saw him as a friend, he was the one they always approached if they needed Slimmy to do something for them, Gentle never saw them as his boys, he saw them as his brothers, he treated them with love and Respect. Gentle’s death brought down a cloud of sadness, everybody stayed mute until one of the boys saw something strange right under the centre table, he moved closer and picked up a gun wrapped in an handkerchief, he then walked towards Slimmy.
“Boss” He called out.
Slimmy raised his head slowly and saw the guy holding a gun wrapped in an handkerchief in his hands.
“Where did you get that from” Slimmy asked.
“I saw it under the table there” the guy pointed towards where he picked the gun “I think the attackers forgot this” He added as he handed over the gun to Slimmy.
“White Tigers” Slimmy said in a calm tone “White tigers killed my brother”
Everybody looked at Slimmy as he gently laid his brother’s head on the floor, he rose up slowly with the gun still in his hands.
“I will kill all the white tigers, I will start with the lowest ranked member and end with their capon, I will kill all of them, I will Kill everybody, heads will roll, I will kill every single one of them or my name Is not Slimmy” Slimmy still speaking softly.
…to be continued.
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