Purified Tomorrow: The Mad Awakening - Episode 17

 

 When they got to the riverbank, Richard was very sure he had the best instinct in the world, one that worked better than any computer in the world. He wasn't wrong about the place after all. The place was deserted and looked as if nothing had ever been done there. Tina scowled and hissed as she looked around. He would have done the same if he hadnt been there before, meeting the same obstacle . Tina was so angry that she picked a stone and threw it at a tree that was withering away near the river. Immediately, machine guns sprung out of the rivers and shot at the stone. Richard, as well as the women with him, scrambled into hiding. Katrina's noise was louder than the machine guns'.
'This is it', Richard said. 'This is the place'.
'Why is there security around the place?' Tina grumbled.
'Are those ones security or death? I'm not smelling the anus of that thing again in my life'.
'Words', Richard said disgustedly. He might puke if he stayed beside Katrina.
'You won't understand'.
'We need help', Richard said.
Tina stared as the machine guns retreated into the river again. She nodded. Katrina, awed, pointed at the innumerable cases of bullets on the ground

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. They rose from their hiding, and returned to the car, but didn't drive far before Katrina started vibrating again.
'Richard. She's doing it again', Tina said, irritated.
'I don't condone all this rubbish. What's wrong with her? Eyes on the road, Thin'.
Tina kept looking at her, firstly from the rearview then she began to turn to check her out from time to time.
'Take me to Decky Estate. I want my Oracle to join the team'.
'I'm not going to meet any freak. I can't even imagine moving into their midst. I'll kill them all'.
 'We need to go At least to get over this rubbish'.
'No. I'm not driving this beautiful queen into the midst of freaks. What if what possessed this whore begins to operate through it. What's wrong with your analysis?'
'It's simple. This might solve the mysteries of the missing children. We need her to help find those kids. She might be an android for all we care'.
'Then, let's rip her guts out. That way we are safe on both side'.
'Tina?'
'Yes. Rip the crazy thing out'
He stared at her in unbelief. She retaliated and shrugged. They all knew Decky Estate. It was rumored to belong to the Grousters. So, Katrina led the way to the house of a very rich person. Immediately they got there, Richard sensed that their problems would end soon because he didn't see anyone there. However, when he began to ask the security man a lot of questions, a black lady, who had a big afro haircut, strutted towards him in a peach satin gown. She moved as if she had a fan blowing her from the back. There was a sort of peace that eluded Richard or anyone he had ever come across that was laid on the face of the young lady.
'Who are you?' The lady said as soon as she got to their side. Tina's face spoke volumes about how she felt irritated by the lady's gait. Richard had to take over before she decided to snap the lady's neck.
'I know this is odd. But, the woman we worked with went unconscious and started blabbing about the existence of a team here that we need to bring to her'.
The lady looked interested in what he was saying. He glanced at Tina, and she brought out Katrina, who was still under the influence of whatever she was under. Tina brandished her Glock 17.
'Why the weapon?'
Tina smiled at the dark lady. 'I trust nobody Well, except Richard'
Katrina walked as if she was being pulled by different people at the same time. Tina stared in utter disbelieve and raised the butt of the gun to hit her on the head.
'Tina?'
She gritted and pushed Katrina forward. Richard was quick to catch her. The lady looked at her as if she was seeing an invention. Katrina rocked forward and backward in Richard's hand, while Tina gripped her gun harder. 
'I see that you've been asking for the existence of a spirit. I have come', Katrina mumbled. 
 'Who is she?' The lady asked Richard with a horrid look on her face.
'She is my oracle. I'll use her', Katrina said as she kept swaying from side to side.
'Who are you? Are you people spies?'
'I am God... I have come to help you'.
'Spies?' Tina sneered. 'Do you people have an iota of sense? How will a spy come bearing a gift to your feet? That's by the way, what do you people do here?'
Katrina, who had returned to another fit of ranting, suddenly snapped up with blood-red eyes. She suddenly began to levitate in the air, and that surprised Richard, who moved back and drew his gun. Katrina barked some incomprehensible words into the air, and suddenly her body moved in that same fashion as the words.
'I told you to let me rip out her guts'.
'Later. Start moving to the car', Richard shouted as the lady, whose countenance had been calm all this while, was suddenly transfixed to a position. Tina moved away to the driver's seat. 
'Richard, let's go'.
'We need her back'.
Katrina's hair was suddenly blowing in a hurricane as they began to gather around her and make him have the same feelings the first time she started. Richard had never seen such act, even in movies.
'Grousters, catch these two. They will be sacrificed. I am God. I have seen your desire to know of the existence of something else in this world. I am the one you need to know'.
The people who had begun to gather to watch the mysteries of Katrina shouted excitedly and sprang forward to catch Richard and Tina. The only person that still watched curiously was the young lady in the long gown. Richard dove for the car, and scurried into it. The people were hot on their chase.
'This is cool', he said and heaved as they ran out of the estate. Within a few minutes, a wild range of cars had taken over the road in pursuit of them.
Tina's hands looked rigid as she sped off. Richard hurriedly switched on the music board and played her favorite rock songs. She grinned and twisted her head as her rigid face suddenly loosened up. 
'Yeah', she screamed and stepped on the accelerator. If Richard had seen her before in her rage, he was sure she just upgraded her version.
Richard flipped the company's intercom and sent a distress message to the whole board. They were to help them. The protocol provided that at the advent of any major outbreak all agents should be informed and be prepared for it. Immediately he sent it, Tina's phone vibrated on the dashboard.
 He was sure that whatever the world was facing before would soon become bigger. The little battle that had been going on between the authorities and Grousters had suddenly become a full-fledged war. They've received a new leader. One that is led by something he couldn't fathom.
After a little deceit, they lost their pursuers. Richard, so tired, sent another message to their computer analysts that he needed the information about the place the tracker was coming from. She sent it to him, and he saw the shock of his life.
'Where is it?' Tina asked. He showed her. She stopped typing into the security machines and stared into the pad.
'Is that not.?' Richard asked.
'Yes.

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. It is'
'They are at the mountain near the Centre of Rulership', he said and became numb.
'No. Can you see those waves? They are underwater, very far from the Centre of Rulership. The Centre is just a landmark'.
'Can we ever penetrate that place?' He asked as the door slammed, which indicated that no one could enter the place or go out within the next 24 hours.
Immediately the door slammed behind them and the beeping tone of the security machines ceased after she stopped pressing it, he headed for one of the numerous rooms in their hideout.
'Sweetie, switch off the light', Tina shouted.
He turned just in time to see her hand unbutton the last button of her dress three feet from him. She planted a kiss on his lips, and didn't stop at that.
'I had been trying to reserve myself for you', she whispered into his ears. 'Until you were ready'
He was so stunned to make any move, to push her away or flee from her touches and kisses. She stopped and moved back. He stood still, panting as if fire was gaining momentum in his stomach.
'What have you done?' He growled.
'Nothing. Sweetie, lights on', she said as she walked away. 
He rushed to her and broke his words. If they would die very soon from the coming war, he had better break his promises. As if she expected it, she turned in time to see him lift her and plant a kiss on her lips. She giggled and shouted, 'Sweetie Lights out'.