The morning sunrise, perfect, I could feel the warmth on my face, I was dressed on bright red sleeves, black pant and a red all-star shoes, my watch says the time 10:54 am , I looked perfect and excited about my first date.
YOU LOOK EXCITED FOR YOUR DATE EJI
"Yeah, after all, it is my first time going out on a date, I have always wondered how it felt like"
HAVE YOU DISCOVERED ANY THING ABOUT HER YET, BECAUSE YOU SEEM TO BE HAVING SO MUCH FUN, YOU FOR GETTING WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT
"What you talking about? I looked at Marta
HUH, ARE YOU KIDDING ME, REVENGE
"Oh, I haven't forgotten, I am still on it"
Knock knock, "who is hoooome?
" She here, we talked later Marta, I got to bounce.
I slide the door open, she was most certainly gorgeous, her black flowing hair neatly swept behind her shoulders, her pretty skin with sparking ocean in her eye, she was on a fine dress white and blue in color and a white sandals neatly match. I observed her cup department in her chest had grow bigger than expected, maybe the school uniform had a way of hiding some delicate features. Still I appreciated the work of Mother Nature when she spoke
"Hey, Eji, you being staring", is my dress bad."
"No, contrary, I was admiring the work of God, he must have created you with a 9b pencil or best pencil in heaven, and he sure put a lot of work in you".
She chuckled "that so sweet, how was your night, good and you", we walked why holding hands but Marta felt disgusted.
I was expecting I and Bella like any aspirating lovers to have fun in an amusement park, eat ice cream , watching movies instead I was rather shocked to what I was looking at,
A brown building with Cross on top. Standing in front of a church associated with the school. At some point, I thought she was going to call a priest to cast out some demon in me but quite the contrary.
The school was owned by the Roman Catholics church. So when we walk into the church and to my greatest surprise.
Marta was afraid to come along, she decided to stay outside the church, I felt a burdened, harden stone lift from my heart.
Sited in a church Bella narrates her ordeal.
"Huh" bella, why are we sited in a church, I questioned
She touched my hand,
Eji, you said you like to know why I said we were similar and i promised if you agree to go on a date with me, I would tell you my story".
yep" OK, I am all hears"
Fumbling with her fingers she narrate.
"I am the eighteen child of my father, the last child of my family and my dad was a flirt, he had lot of women, at very young age, my father, he made so much money owning a transport company moving citizens from state to state and counties, for some reason he joined the occult.
"Cult? I raised an eyebrow
"Yes a cult, a fraternity, he was a devil and an angel at the same time, he function in a Catholic Church given free money to the poor and so many others, one of the condition of the cult gave was that he has to marry from the ladies of the cult and soon he had lots of women, my mother was just a pretty thing he had liked during those times though she was in a cult and we believe it was a spell that charm her to fall for him. my mother couldn't control her desires for him, he married him and gave birth twins, my sister and I, my sister name is Christabel and i am Bella. When the spell finally wash off,
My mum discovered that my dad was using her destiny to elongate his life. If I was supposed to died two years from now, with the power of the occult, I could swap my destiny with someone else and that person will die in two years and I get to live more.
My mum filed for a divorce and all but she was only able to go with Christabel.
I was held back. For some reasons my step mother never like me and then the violence began. I suffer for a very long time. I overheard, them talking about sacrificing me to some deities and I ran from the house. With no we're to go I wandered around streets for two years, I tried to locate my sister . I heard my mother died a year after I ran from home and she had suffered from a foster parents trying to sexually assault her and she ran. The last time I heard was that my mothers sister found her and she has being looking for me. It took me some time to locate them and hope that after I graduate, I will go and reunite with her.
Two years on the street, I lived on garage, trash bin, begging and one day I just got tired and decided to jump from the famous bridge called central metropolis bridge. And that's when a woman came, she was dazzling beautiful like an angel, she gave me a necklace with a cross and said to me, my child be brave be strong, your duty and role is not yet fulfilled . She pointed to a direction and I followed the directions and turned back to see her just few meters away, she was gone, I couldn't explain it. She just disappeared into thin air. I went to the directions I was sent and a priest said he was waiting for me, he clothed me, I ate good food and enrolled me to a school, the priest was transferred to this neighborhood and so I followed enrolling to the Catholic sister school. So eji, I don't know what you went through but you have to live your life to the fullest and enjoy the rest why you can, cause life is short and I truly would love to spend my remaining days of my years with you".
Bella story strike something in me that evening, I was not the only one who had hard time in life, I learnt that majority of the world's population including the ones I killed are wearing a mask, a fake smile, some smile just to cover their deep scares and Injuries to heal. Life is not fair. I told Bella a few about my story but not everything, I couldn't bring myself to tell her that I crash a plane just to avenge my mother, I couldn't tell her that I blew up an entire building because I was a scum. So I made up my mind not to kill any more, or at least if I was to, he must be extremely bad Criminals, just because of Marta,
How will she react? Besides, I would love to nullify the contract with her but I believe she will kill me for it.
So when I got home. I told Marta that I killed over 3000 people which should fulfill my weekly killing task for a while. I won't be killing for a while and if I have to do so. It must be bad criminals. And so year passed by, I and Bella began to date seriously and a lot changed. I had stop killing not knowing Marta had a surprise in store for me.
....
In my first year of senior school, I saw a webtoon contest, to qualify for that competition, you have to choose a categories, heartfelt or brain. The heartfelt rules are
I had to draw a romantic webtoon story to win million of dollars. I decided to draw Bella and my story for the competition and then I linked the webtoon to my social media, book face and instar -ram and other social platform, to win 30 percent points would be given to followers who like your works. I needed a lot of viewers to like my graphic novel, I put in lots of effort in it. When I was curious, checked the comment.
I saw Ill comments against bella,
Comments like what a crappy story, why did Bella not get rape, what an idiot author, the weird thing was that it was not just the platform, even my social media. Three persons from the platform
Turned other readers against me to speak sarcastic comments.
I tried to find out their names, picture but the funny thing was that there were none, I was blinded by rage and anger and Marta showed up.
WHY DON'T YOU JUST KILL THEM, THEY ARE JUST THREE PERSONS, THEY TURNED THE VIEWERS AGAINST YOU, YOU COULD END THEM EASILY ANY TIME AND CONTINUE.
"No, there is no reason to kill them, I don't want to kill them".
THEY INSULTED BELLA AND YOUR PRIDE, WITH ALL YOU HAVE SUFFERED, PEOPLE SHOULDN'T TAKE YOU LIGHTLY, YOU HAVEN'T GAVE ME A SOUL FOR A YEAR, I THINK IS UNFAIR, I AM OFFENDED,OK LET ME OFFER YOU A DEAL, JUST GIVE ME THREE SOULS AND I WOULD NOT BOTHERED YOU FOR A YEAR.
What?
"Really" Marta or you just pulling my legs"
HAVE I EVER LIED TO YOU BEFORE
Men I was damn naive to trust Marta. A ghost.
The enticement was too good, for three good for nothing persons, I would not have to kill any one for another year, I was careless,
"But there is no photo of them, how do we draw them?".
EASY, I HAVE SCRIPT LAID OUT, WE CAN SKETCH A SCENARIO OF A MONSTER STRETCHING HIS HAND OUT AND CREATE A RULE, CALLING THEIR NAME, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, AT THE LOOK OF THIS PHOTO AND MENTIONING THE PHRASE BLOODY MARTA OF WEBTOON, JAMES YOU HAVE INVITED BLOODY MARTA OF WEBTOON TO YOUR HOME AND YOU SHALL SURELY DIE
SO WHEN THEY SEE THE PHOTO,AND THEN WITH THEIR LIPS, MENTIONED THE PHRASE, THEY HAVE GIVEN THE PERMISSION TO COME OVER AND KILL THEM, THAT IS UNDER THE SPIRITUAL LAWS OF THE SPOKEN WORD. IF YOU ALLOW ME TAKE OVER YOUR BODY, I COULD DO A PERFECT JOB FOR YOU.
Marta promise to sketch using my body and then immediately I agreed and gave her my body that was when my nightmare began.
Marta suddenly took control over me, i felt a strong dizzy sensation as if I was drug, it was the same method she used in attacking my enemies, light faded from my eyes and somehow I drew and i slept of.
When the sun peaks it's humble head over the horizon.
I stretched out, tired and for some reason I was extremely hungry, I checked my phone .
80 miss calls from Bela
"Shit! " What the hell happened?, my stomach growls and I decide to make breakfast first, since I was going to school, I would call her on the way. I felt Marta controlling my body made me sleep deep that I couldn't hear my phone ring. I look into the computer
"Message sent".
Growl! Haaaaaa am so hungry, I have to get some food
"Message sent? I did not send any messages, anyway, I checked it when I get back from school, am late already."
I walked down my apartment and put on the TV.
On the screen , the national news was covering a story,
[CCN News:Today Friday of June]
"Huh, Friday ? Yesterday was sundayy and today is Monday, how come it's Friday. "Is the reporter alright".
[The world mourn as it faces a global death pandemic as it records 10 million death across the world, Detectives of the city metropolis reveals that this death are linked with black hand imprints across their necks. Every victim had died at the hours of 8 to 4am in the morning .Further details will be updated subsequently. reporting live ccn]
Crack!
The plate on my hand falls to the ground
What the hell?