Blood And Thunder

Episode 11

He had all his moves planned out; as he got close to the hotel he parked 200meters from the hotel then came down from the bike, he deeped his hand in his pocket and brought out a handkerchief and cleaned the handles of the bike then walked away leaving the bike by the road side in front of a supermarket. He walked back to his hotel and parked his things and came out and took a cab to the airport and flew back to Lagos… Monday 3rd of Oct… Luke drove to Zeus’s home to make reports about his job; as Luke arrived at Zeus’s home and entered the house, the whole house was calm and no one present in the sitting room so he was about to go out through another door and check the back “Luke?” Ade said coming down stairs “Hey Einstein” Luke said “You’re back” Ade said “Yeah” “When did you get back?” “On Saturday” he said “Saturday? Waw, so how did it go?” Ade asked “Was easier than I thought” “Yeah, of cause it’s easy, they are just bunch of old fools” Ade said “Where’s Zeus?” Luke asked “He travelled yesterday and will be back on Tuesday” “Alright” “He went to do a deal on arms with Hades in Brazil; he did even know you’d come back so quick cause he was expecting you to arrive on Monday” “There was no need staying too long” Luke said “Hey, I have something to show you” Ade said and ran up stairs; Ade and Luke had become real close friends and Ade always shared his latest inventions with Luke. Luke then sat down on a sofa calmly; he was dressed in an immaculate black suit, he stood up and walked to the wine bar in the room and looked around it then picked up a bottle, he looked at the label and saw 90% alcoholic, he then poured some wine in a small glass cup then covered it and kept it back and as he was about to sip from it “Who are you?” a voice said and he paused with the glass slightly touching his lower lip, then brought down his hand as he turned and saw Zeus’s beautiful sister coming down. At that very moment his heart skipped a beat on hearing her voice because he knew she was the one. This time he had a closer look at her, she was a very bright skinned girl (Coffee skin), she looked more like a beautiful Indian woman and she had that Arabic accent “Hi” he said calmly in a weak tone like he was going to faint “Hi is not the answer to my question” she said coming down in a blue gown “Am a family friend” he said “How come I have never met you?” “Because am new” “New; family friends ain’t new” she repeated “Am Luke” he said stretching his hand for a shake but she stared at his hand and then smiled “Do you know what would happen if I shook you?” she asked “You’d fall in love” he said and she smiled and then shook him “Call me Jameel” she said “Jameel? No” he said “Why?” “ I’d rather call you Rapunzel” “Why would you call me that?” “Because you are the princess who’s locked up in a castle and not allowed to meet your prince charming but today the curse is broken” he said and she smiled “I see, so you’re the prince charming” she said smiling “Be the judge, princess” he said and she smiled at him “You’re as guilty as charged” she said “No doubt and I’d prefer a life sentence” he said and she laughed and walked to the bar and poured some wine “How did you meet my brother?” she asked “Which one?” he asked “I meant Zeus” “I met him through Ade” “So you’re part of the team” she said and he was silent “What team?” he pretended “(Chuckles) You think I don’t know? Do you think my brother hides anything from me? We are a family” she said “That’s good” he said smiling “Why did you join them?” she asked and his smile disappeared and he stared at her for about 5secs “Because I found a family, a family that has embraced me like no other.

This thing you call a ‘team’ is a family and this is a family business, we have scores to settle with the government” he said “What score do you have with the government?” she asked “Poverty” he said raising his voice a little “Unemployment” “My mother was denied her pension but someone out there has added it to his collection of stolen wealth. She was denied her gratuity but somebody out there is feeding it to his family while ours starved. When my mother fell sick there was no money to treat her and she lay on the hospital bed dying while the nurses and doctor ignored her because there was no money and the government had not paid them for months. Then I said to myself one day, when the time is right, I will visit this government one by one and Take their money and lives, I will visit all those who have diverted the pensions and gratuities of the poor to their family and I will Take their money and the their lives. That time is now” Luke was in the pain of the past as he said those words; Jameel felt pity for him, she then said to him “My father was murdered by politicians because he tried to change the dirty game, because he had made promises that were genuine and they didn’t want him to change all that. Not only did they Take our father but they took all we had but they didn’t know what my brother was capable of, he had millions of dollars in his account and he vowed to Take everything from them” “We are all in pain but we will achieve the set goal no matter what” Luke said “Hey, what are you doing” Ade said coming down holding a pair of glasses “If Zeus catches you with her” Ade said “O shut up” Jameel said “Remember what he did to Raman” Ade said “That was a long time ago and it was Raman’s fault, Zeus will not touch you, don’t mind him” Jameel said “Anyway, this is a new invention” Ade said handing the glasses to Luke “Invention? This is a normal nerd glasses” “Put it on first” Ade said and Luke put it on “Push the button on the left” Ade said and he did and immediately the glasses became dark and was an X-ray “What the hell? How did you do this?” Luke was surprised; he could see the complete skeleton of Ade in front of me and that of Jameel “Incredible” he said “Let me see that” Jameel collected it from Luke and put it on “What the hell Ade? How can you invent such creepy stuff” she said and took it off “It ain’t creepy? It’s beautiful” Luke said “hell no it’s not” she said “Ade I must say, you are unique, I give you that” “Yeah thanks” he replied “I have never seen anyone so intelligent” Luke said “There are only 25 persons like him in the world” Jameel said “Yeah, only 25; one is a mathematician in London and am a Technological scientist here and as for the others I have no idea where they are” Ade explained “God damn, this is superpower” Luke said “When he was a 3, he taught himself how to count numbers and when he was 7 he was already learning secondary math but our dad thought it wasn’t right but he still secretly studied it because he enjoyed it.

I learnt a lot from him” Jameel explained “Good one Ade, you’re really lucky” Luke said “I guess” Ade said; Luke looked at his watch “I have to go” Luke said “So quick” Jameel said and he smiled “So you want me to stay, huh?” he said “Yeah, maybe a little more” “I wish I could but I just have some things to do” “Don’t tell me you two have started hooking up” Ade said and Luke laughed “Come on Ade, we are just being friends” he said “Ok, if you say so” “I’ll see you around” he said “Have a good day” she replied and he left…