The Last Virgin - Episode 4

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***** Cries. Shouts. Wails. Filled her ears.

She could feel several hands,soft and rough, big and small patting her and giving her their condolences as they filed past.

Yet nothing seemed to register in her brain.

She couldn't seem to differentiate between reality and nightmare.

"Yes! Don't be late. Return on time!"

Those were the last words she had said to her.

Annamarie always returned on time anytime she went out.

She was always on time.

Always.

And a few times when she was late, she'd usually pretend to be sick just to avoid her Father's scolding. 

Anna could be very creative when it came to pranking them just so her father won't scold or punish her.

She cocks her head to one side stating at her daughter's body which lay on the bamboo slack.

Her face was peaceful.

Too peaceful.

She chuckles, shaking her head.

Oh Anna, this was another one of her pranks to avoid punishment for staying out so late.

She gets up from the kitchen stool and strolls towards where Anna lay in the middle of the compound underneath the coconut tree.

Mrs Quaye begins to laugh hysterically, shaking her head.

All talking and crying ceased immediately at the sound of her laughter. . Mr Quaye who was in the meantime, being consoled by a few of the village elders, lifts his head to stare at his laughing wife.

He watched flabbergasted as she stopped near their daughter and knelt down, reaching out to caress her wet face.

"That's enough now Annamarie

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. Get up now. Your father won't punish you, I promise. Stop this now and get up"

she laughs.

Everyone stares.

No one dared to go near her.

She turns to stare at her husband.

"My husband! She's pretending again. You remember the last time you sent her to get some palmwine and she ended up playing with her friends on her way? Remember she returned very late and when you wanted to punish her, she pretended to be sick,saying she got a running stomach! Remember?!"

Mrs Quaye tips her head back, more laughter spilling out of her.

"Oh dear..."

She continues after her laughing fit had died down.

"This child of mine won't kill me"

Mr Quaye bows his head, burying his face between his hands.

A tear slipped.

He blinks it away quickly.

He shouldn't cry.

He wasn't going to cry.

Now more than ever he had to be a man and be there for his wife who looked like she wasn't ready to accept their only child's demise.

He wouldn't cry.

Not in front of her.

"Annamarie my child. My beautiful flower get up now. Stop this prank now. It's enough. I've promised you I won't let your father punish you"

Mrs Quaye continues.

There was silence.

She sighs in agitation, grabs Anna's shoulders and begins to shake her softly.

"Get up now my beautiful flower. Your father won't do anything. See you're making everyone cry. Get up my dear"

"Mr's Quaye, please..."

A woman comes to her, trying to talk but she cuts her off.

"I'm talking to my daughter don't interrupt or else she won't wake up. Go!"

She snaps at the woman who shakes her head pitifully.

"My flower wake up! This is not funny anymore"

More silence.

"Annamarie Quaye get up now! This prank isn't funny anymore. Up now!"

Silence.

"Up! Get up! Wake up! Wake up! Up! Get up my child! Wake up!"

She begins to scream uncontrollably as she shakes Anna more vigorously now.

The reality of the situation suddenly hitting her.

This was no prank whatsoever.

It was reality slapping the truth in her face and it stung.

She shakes her head.. This could not be possible.

Annamarie was full of life and healthy barely three hours ago as she sat underneath this ccocnut tree washing the cooking utensils and singing along.

And to think her dead, lifeless body was what now laid under the same coconut tree too much to process.

Impossible!

"Anna my flower, don't to this. Please. Open your eyes, come on! Please! Anna!!"

Her mother let out a heartbreaking wail, clutching onto the bamboo slack for dear life as her shoulders shook with each cry she gave out.

***

At the far end of the compound stood Anthony, Bryan, Felix and Eugene.

Their heads bowed as they listened to a mother cry for her daughter.

A daughter they had singlehandedly murdered.. Something they didn't know was going to be their worst nightmare.

****

"You have to take me back please. I'll do any thing"

Anna continues to plead while Hades stared at her without uterring a word.

His expression as blank as ever, not giving away any kind of emotion.

For a second.

Just a second, he was tempted to consider and help her but then again, doing that will only invite unwarranted trouble.

He would also be breaking the rules of the underworld by setting a soul free.

He shakes his head, deciding against it.

He begins to walk out.

"You may go join the other souls"

he says stiffly.

Anna quickly rushed to him and knelt before him, clasping her hands in a prayer fashion.

Her eyes pleading.

Hades sighs.

"What you're asking for is almost impossible girl"

"But not entirely impossible right?"

She insists.

He sighs again.

Hades snaps his fingers and the throne which was situated at the far end of the hall moved and appeared beside him where he stood.. He takes a seat, folds his arms beneath his chin as if in deep thought.

"There are consequences"

he begins

"I'll bear them"

she answers immediately

"I can't send you back into your body"

he adds and her face falls immediately, all hope she had vanishing into thin air.

"But.."

Hades lifts a finger, leaning back into the seat

"I can send you back to earth through reincarnation fifty years from now. You'll be reborn in a different country, place and time and you'll have an entirely different family."

Her eyes widen

"Reincarnation? Tha..that means I'll be reborn as a baby and I'll grow up again like a normal human?"

"Yes. Indeed" he nods.

"Fifty years? But by then my murderers would have been dead or they'd be old people"

"They won't be dead. Leave that to me. All you need to know is, when the time comes, you'll recognize them."

He explains and she nods In understanding.

"And about the rules"

he continues

"Rule no 1: This isn't going to be a fight where you'll stab your murderers with a knife and expect them to die. No. This is no longer physical. It's spiritual now and hereby you'll need powers. Supernatural powers. That being said, you're going to gain supernatural powers on the month of your eighteenth birthday,during the full moon.

Rule no 2: You have to specifically use your powers to kill the four boys who raped and killed you and no one else. I repeat, no one else. Your powers must not be used to help or punish anyone regardless except to destroy your murderers.

Rule no 3: You have to remain a virgin all your life..."

He finishes and watches her determined expression morph into confusion.

"A Virgin? All my life? Does this mean I'm not allowed to be with the opposite s*x?" Lord Hades shrugs nonchalantly

"I don't care what you do with your life as long as you don't break any rule. You can fall in love with as many men as you want I don't care. Get married to whoever you want, I still don't care. But the bottom line is, under no circumstance should you have s*xual inter course with the opposite s*x. You're supposed to remain a virgin your entire life. Entire life."

Anna remains quiet for a moment,weighing her options.

Could she forfeit the pleasures of intimacy?.

Of course yes! She would forfeit anything in order to avenge her death.

And s*x, was the least of her worries.

"I understand. But you said I'll be reborn after fifty years? How then will I remember my past life, and everything?"

She questions.

"That's all up to you. You need to psych yourself if you want to remember everything girl. That is up to you. I'm not helping you further than this. Now, After hearing my rules are you still willing to let yourself be reincarnated into the human world?"

"Yes. Yes I am"

she answers determinedly Lord hades chuckles darkly, picking at his nails

"This is no child's play girl. I am Hades, collector and keeper of souls.

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. There is nothing like forgiveness or second chances in my dictionary. You break one rule, I break you a thousand times it's worth. I do not forgive. I deal with rules not emotions. You break it, you face the consequences. Believe me girl,you wouldn't like to see my anger"

he warns beforehand.

Yet Anna still nods.

"You still have time to back out girl. You still have time for I do not go back on my words. My yes,remains yes till eternity. Do we still have a deal girl?"

Anna takes in a deep breath and without asking him about the consequences for breaking any of the rules, she nods.

"Deal"

*****

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