A New Creation episode 9

A New Creation

Chapter 9A

It was almost midday but Halimat and Hadijat were still in their new room at the Arch Angels Mansion, fear wouldn’t allow them step out of the room, they couldn’t even sleep a wink over the night, they were yet to hear any news from Rofiat who left with Gentle the previous night for the special Mission. After dropping them at the park the previous night, Slimmy brought the both of them to the mansion and showed them their room, it’s a well furnished bedroom that has a private toilet and bathroom, it also contains a tv set, the room was too beautiful to be just a spare room, it must be either Slimmy or Gentle’s room they concluded in their minds. They decided not to go outside of the room because of the dangerous faces they saw all around the house when they entered, even though the house was relatively quiet this morning they still didn’t have enough courage to step out of their rooms. They were about falling asleep again when they heard a knock at the door, Halimat went ahead to open the door and Slimmy walked into the room with no shirts on, he went straight to the closet without saying a word to the both of them and brought out one of his round necks, he didn’t bother putting it on but just hanged it around his neck instead and then headed back for the exit.

“Food is ready, you guys should come and eat” Slimmy said and left the room without waiting for a reply from them.

For a moment Hadijat was lost in her fantasy island again, his abs has made her gone wild again, his carriage, his presence, his composure, everything about him just made Hadijat feel so much awe for him, he was too good to be true for her, he was just everything she needed his dream man to be, everything but a cultists and a dreaded one at that.

“Should we go and eat” Halimat asked.

“Do we have a choice” She asked back

“Don’t we”

“He didn’t sound like he was giving us a choice, it sounded to me like an order”

“We better go before the General gets angry then” Halimat said jokingly and they both went to the living room. The wh0le house was almost empty compared to the number of boys they met when they got there the previous night, except for some few boys parading outside. They got to the living room and saw Slimmy dishing out eggs and arranging loaves of bread beside each plates, all in all it was four mini-tables with four plates of eggs and there they were, only three of them including Slimmy, who then is the Fourth meal meant for, they wondered in their minds but none of them was ballsified enough to ask him questions. They settled down on the sofa and began working on their meals, they all ate in silence until Slimmy started chuckling, they both stopped their food and stared at him in bewilderment, he starred back at them and then started laughing out loud.

“What’s funny” Halimat asked trying to sound as courageous as she could.

“Am soorry but I just can’t help it” Slimmy replied.

“Help what” she asked again.

“The seriousness on your faces, it’s hilarious menhh” He replied still laughing, Hadijat started chuckling too and at that point Halimat also couldn’t help but join the laughing session.

“So why were you guys forming strong face before” Slimmy asked but couldn’t get a reply before Host walked into the living room.

“Host baba” Slimmy hailed as Host went straight to the unoccupied sofa and mini table, as soon as the girls heard Slimmy called his name, they almost felt like running away, Rofiat had always told them about the notorious and infamous Host. Seeing him in reality sent cold chills down their spine.

“How far, you don hear any update” Host asked as he focused on his food not bothering to look at Halimat and Hadijat’s faces.

“Them Gentle and Rough don reach their destination, I just spoke with them but I never hear from the boys that went out this morning” Slimmy replied.

“Who be dem these girls” he asked another question still not raising his head away from the food he was busy devouring.

“Dem be Rough sisters, she no wan leave only dem alone for her crib” Slimmy replied. This time around Host raised his head as he sipped his tea, he then cast a glance on both girls who were looking like they just saw a lion.

“You” he called out staring at Halimat.

“Yeah” Halimat stood up immediately out of reflex.

“Sit down my dear” Host smiled as he realised how much the girls were trembling. Halimat sat down but was still fidgeting.

“What’s your name”

“Halimat”

“And you” Host referring to Hadijat.

“Hadijat sir” She replied stammering.

“You girls should rest easy, you Halimat actually look like my favourite little cousin and for some reasons you actually remind me of her” He paused for a bit to read the girl’s expressions before speaking again “My name is Olanrewaju”

“Nice to meet you” they both chorused.

“Slimmy go get a bottle of whiskey, let’s all chill together” Host ordered and Slimmy immediately went to the mini bar in a corner in the living room, grabbed a bottle of whiskey and four wine cups, handed over one of the cups to Host, filled it with whiskey and afterwards offered Halimat a cup.

“I think it’s too early for us to start drinking” Halimat spoke out softly pointing to Hadijat.

“Are you guys going out” Host asked

“Nope” she replied.

“Then let’s drink, I am mourning the death of my sweet Adesuwa and I want you girls to mourn with me…. Please” Host said stressing the please, they couldn’t refuse him anymore, they got a wine cup filled with whiskey and they all sat down sipping their drink in silence.

“Tell us about how you guys met” Hadijat broke the silence and immediately wished she could retract those words as she saw the blank stare Host gave her, even Halimat gave her a bad stare while Slimmy just smiled.

“She was the most brilliant girl in our class while I was just a crazy rapper always disturbing the class with my punchlines” Host replied much to Slimmy’s surprise, he wasn’t expecting him to reply the question “I approached her for the first time with the excuse that I wanted her to tutor me on some topics like that, after that we became great friends and from friendsh¡p we went into being lovers but some thing almost broke us apart some months into our relationsh¡p”

“Let me guess, she got to know you were involved with cultism” Hadijat asked another stupid question.

“Hadijat” Halimat scre-med at her.

“It’s okay Halimat” Host said smiling “You are right dear, she got to kno…” He was distracted by the arrival of Kong and some other guys.

“You know what girls, we will continue this discussion later. You guys should go into your room” Host ordered and they obliged immediately “How far Kong”

“Problem dey oo” Kong replied.

Chapter 9B

“What’s the problem?” Host asked Kong impatiently, glancing at Nazaretha and Fabio who entered after.
“It seems those guys are well prepared than we are, we’ve only taken out two of their boys while they’ve taken out five of ours.” Kong answered.
“Shi*t!” Host bit his l-ips and ran his fingers through his hair. “I saw the signs but I chose to ignore, thinking that we have well trained guys.” Host got up and began pacing around. Slimmy jumped up from his seat and remained standing.

Host stopped after sometime and turned to Slimmy, he shook his head at Slimmy with his eyes full of disgust and anger. Slimmy turned his face to the ground, desperately avoiding Host’s angry eyes.
“Why won’t they be more prepared than we are?” Host barked. “You think their silence for a month was for nothing? I’m sure they must have been preparing their boys and recruiting some more while the blockheads here who started it all were hanging around and playing hide and seek.”

Host turned away from Slimmy to Kong, “how are they operating?”
“It’s obvious that they were expecting us, while we planned to use the two to one formation, they refused to play along. None of them was seen walking alone, they were always in groups numbering between four to seven.” Kong replied with a gruff voice.
“Who were the five killed?” Host asked.
“They are all juniors, two new members from 100 level and three in 200 level.” Kong answered.

“We have to change our strategy, we’ll still use the two to one formation but we’ll also add another formation.” Host said and proceeded to the mini bar by the right side. He took a bottle of alcoholic wine and a glass cup, then he returned to his seat.

After taking two to three sips, his eyes became bloodshot again as he remembered Adesuwa. Times like this when he needed to think of a solution to a problem, all he needed to do was to just visit her and take sometime to chat or cuddle with her. Most times he would also have a quickie with her to enhance his reasoning faculty. Now she was no more, he had to resort to using wine as his enhancer.

Pictures of the White Tiger’s signature flashed back into his mind suddenly, he stood up and smashed the glass cup on the floor. He began to search his pockets with his hand and sofas with his eyes. He finally took out a gun from his pocket and waved it round the living room in anger. Unfortunately, no one met his criteria to qualify for a bullet in the skull. All the boys were all standing still and there was no movement whatsoever. They all knew Host and knew how to avoid getting a bullet from him. In times when he was angry like that and had c*cked his gun, the most likely person to be the receiver of the bullet was the one who would tremble the most or visibly shake at the sight of the gun. Once nobody shook or made a wrong movement, they’ll all be saved from his wrath.

Host’s rage dropped and he lowered the gun, he took out the bullet in it and flung both the bullet and gun to the three seater sofa. He proceeded to the bar and took another cup before finally going to take his seat.

After gulping down some of the contents of the bottle, he began to talk again, in a more relaxed manner this time.
“We’ll still make use of the two to one formation but we’ll do that at the point of attack,” he began to explain a new plan. “Then we’ll add the no appearance formula when we are not attacking.”

Host paused and looked at his boys’ faces to see if they were grasping the new plan he was sharing. The look on their faces told him he had to explain more and he began. “Look, since they are using what looks like the group formula, we know that they can’t use it for twenty four hours in the day, so we’ll take advantage of those times of the day they cannot use it and attack then.” He looked up again to see their faces, he was more satisfied with the response now. He poured another quantity of the liquid into the cup and stood up with it.

“I’ll leave it to Slimmy to arrange the formula,” he said and then took a sip from the cup. “Any question?”
“Yes,” Slimmy’s voice came softly.
“Yes?” Host turned to him. He rinsed his mouth with the liquid in,side before swallowing it.

“There’s no way we can use the no appearance formula if some of our boys still stay at their various lodges, they may use that opportunity to strike back at us.” Slimmy suggested.
“Then you tell the boys to relocate to the quarters immediately,” Host answered. “Those who want to die can stay behind though.” He finally emptied the contents of the cup into his mouth before walking away.

The guys stared at each other in silence. For Slimmy, the Boss had come up with a brilliant strategy. Since the White Tigers were seen moving in groups of four to eight people, there was a hundred percent certainty that they would not remain together for twenty four hours a day, there would be times such as very early in the morning or late in the night when they had retired to their homes where they stayed alone. The Arch Angels would then make use of such times to enforce their two to one formation, they’ll attack them in their homes and hostel rooms if anyone was found there. Then after several of such attacks would be a formation of no appearance where the Arch Angels would be somewhere together and wouldn’t show themselves to the Tigers no matter how the Tigers would present themselves vulnerable to attack. But the Angels would keep watching and monitoring the Tigers in silence until they separate again.

Slimmy’s phone ringing tone disrupted his thoughts, he took it out of his pocket and answered it before sinking into the sofa.
“Hello Gentle,” Slimmy said into the phone.
“There’s a problem o,” Gentle’s voice came through.

…to be continued