•••

She's such a disgrace to her parents!

I feel sorry for her mother, she must be so disappointed.

Chima! If you can't achieve something in life for yourself, why don't you try snagging a sugar daddy, you won't be with your parents forever!

Chima.. Friend why don't you introduce me to your parents, they'd surely appreciate ME as an honour daughter!

You are nothing and a failure and a disgrace! SCRAM!!

It was so nice of you to adopt this.....Thing.....May I recommend another option, she's just a nobody.

Why should you guys be stuck with a mistake and waste of oxygen like her! You deserve so much better!

Did you see your parents, they were so proud of me! I'm literally like the daughter they NEVER had!

Young Chima in the past had heard all these and been hurt, old, fresh-out-of-college Chima took all these insults with a pinch of salt, although she was still a bit hurt....But now, right now, she didn't care if she got a death sentence or of a long time in prison with hard labour, she'd tried, the Lord knew that.

And now, she just too weak to feel anything.

•••

Chima entered the court full of people and lawyers while being heavily guarded on both sides by the police. 'Gosh! Was there seriously any need for this?!'

Both of her hands were bounded tightly by handcuffs as she was led to the dock with her defender in front of her.

After the judge had settled in and all opening formalities had ended, the trail commenced.

"Chima Andrews, do you plead guilty or not guilty?"

Only an idiot would plead guilty.

"Not guilty." After then Chima sat there absentmindedly and watched as the two lawyers shot and fought with words, arguing.

The charge was mass murder and fraud of billions from multiple banks.

Chima Andrews was a normal girl whom had relocated from Nigeria to Austria, a vast change in her life.

There she had found she had another sister, a twin sister.

At first meeting, she had not seemed like that lost sister whom had had it really rough in life meeting her twin sister whom had everything good at her every beck and call then had gotten jealous and now wanted to murder her to take everything she had.

No.

Tirry was on the contrary, a very open minded and out-going person.

She had the same hair style as Chima: a bright yellow pixie with red stripes at random parts.

She too had just relocated from Africa to Austria two weeks back.

She too had been home schooled and had skipped a class in high school.

Tirry and Chima although just meeting connected so much it was unbelievable. They found they had so much in common.

Too much!

Tirry had been adopted by struggling parents.

But their home had been lovely and utterly peaceful.

But recently she had accidentally been mixed up in a bad deal having absolutely nothing to do with her and they had chosen to hang the blame of a murder and fraud on her neck.

And now it was on Chima's head.

Her twin was dead....It had happened in a gun fight when Tirry in an attempt to search for evidences that supported her innocence had broken into the The Snake Skulls' company building, a company well versed in loan sharking and scores of other shady deals.

That for anybody would be a death wish but Tirry wanted to prove her innocence.

Chima, having nothing but a vast inheritance of two oil factories, a long chain of hotels and restaurants and also the title of billionaire heiress plus her life, had nothing to lose, ofcourse had followed her of her own choice.

In their bull headed mission they had landed in the middle of a confrontation:

The Middle, another rival loan shark company was in the building.

A spark had ignited and a fire had broken out as a gun fight killing Tirry and putting Chima as the master mind behind the bloodbath.

There was no way at all to differentiate between Tirry and Chima and the police had taken their time to arrive leaving Chima to offer the best burial she could in a short amount of time before the police arrived.

Her finger prints had not matched and the police had questioned her.

Chima hadn't spilled anything concerning her sister's death so the police had swept that fact underground.

And now here they were.

At the memory of her sister, tears stung her eyes.

She had been such an innocent and beautiful and very loving soul, it had seemed surreal to find such a person in this world.

The trial was adjourned to another date as the court was dismissed.

People poured out of the court, they threw disgusted and scared looks at Chima but she ignored them.

As usual she was escorted by two police by her sides, she was being shoved into the van when there was suddenly an uproar, the police too was distracted so she straightened up and looked.

Two huge black vans had driven in the premises of the court.

Chima widened her eyes in shock as she recognised the logo on one of the buses.

It was the logo of the Snake Skulls!

Suddenly some persons in black off-loaded it, all carrying guns.

Without warning they let out fire in all directions.

The situation was chaotic, bullets and people flew in every direction to kill and to hide.

Chima ducked behind the van shielding herself from danger.

Suddenly she heard a loud noise that sounded like glass shattering and everywhere went silent.

Chima no matter how much she wanted to look followed the warning: curiosity killed the cat.

She didn't like cats but--still.

"Hey! Who the heck---"

The person's voice was cut off as the snap of a neck and thudding was heard.

A man's shocked gasp was heard as he shouted,

"Back off from me you freak!"

While firing gun shots at the person.

Another snap of neck was heard and the person dropped.

"Fire!!"

A man's voice sounded as he with the other intruders fired at the new being. More snappings and painful groans and moans later, the firing stopped.

Chima could imagine the scenario now:

several persons in black lying on the floor with an alien in the middle staring at the rest of the innocent people with its oval black eyes or eye.

Too much of an imagination but that was all Chima could think of with the clues she'd gathered.

A heavy footstep against the ground was heard along with the sound of the ground breaking.

"Weak technology."

A deep dark voice sounded most likely from their 'saviour'.

Chima could almost detect something familiar from the undertone of the voice.

It took another step, then another and more.

A woman gasped as a child started crying.

'Why'd you bring a kid to a court? Does this look like a fun place to you!?'

Chima paid attention to the sound of the footsteps before she realised that it was coming towards her!

She sucked in air and moved as discreetly as possible towards the wall behind her.

Although she didn't care if she died some minutes ago, atleast she knew what she was to die with, not this!

A very probable death by an alien attack.

Yes aliens with very large black eyes and sharp teeth and slimy skin and---

She was in the process of crudely scraping her belly on the rough part of the ground but there was no other way to move quietly.

The footsteps moved closer and she could feel fear quickly paralyzing all parts of her body so that she could not move, her mind was quick but no matter how she tried, her body refuse to respond to any of her advances but just kept shivering and pouring out sweat.

Her teeth were shattering and as much all she didn't want to look, her eyes were glued to the area ahead of her, where she presumed the entity would come.

Soon the entity came into view, banishing all wild imagination Chima had of it.

It wasn't an alien but something much worse.

It was a black humanoid robot which looked dangerous, it was 12 ft tall and it's jet black covering shone evilly in the sun.

It had a bright red square in its head which looked like it was made of raw muscle.

"Found you,"

the muscle square on its face turned into a black screen and made a red smiley with black background which exuded aura of cruelty and darkness.

It's voice was metallic and grating and heavy sounding.

It raised it's hand towards Chima, it's fore arm disappearing in a flurry of small cubes revealing a long oval like blood red beam pointing at her.

Despite the huge difference in the distance between them she could feel intense heat radiating from the gun.

Then it lowered it.

"No, that would wipe you totally of earth,"

It then turned back and seemed to be looking for something, Chima's legs weren't working so she used her weak arms and starting pushing her body under the van.

But the robot came back quickly and raised it's arms at her head, before Chima could process anything, two quick bangs were heard.

Chima for a moment couldn't feel anything but the quick flow of blood on her cheeks, then came a sharp yet dull pain on the side of her head as her vision became lopsided.

She saw the robot walking towards her and when it was close enough, it said,

"My predecessor,"

She couldn't think straight anymore, her mind was hazy and her eyes heavily dreary.

The damn robot's aim was impeccable.

Multiple emotions waved through her as her life flashed before her eyes.

The pain which was intence before starts fading as you lose feelings from all over your body.

Your life's choices, happiness, sadness, anger, tears and arguments with certain persons that kept you both on malice for several years, they suddenly don't matter now and then comes the strong constriction on your chest and you know it's regret, regret of certain life choices you've made.

And also pride of some of the choices you'd made anyway.

And lastly---Fear.

Fear of the unknown, what was gonna happen to you after this.

You fade out of existence or is there heaven or hell, which one are you going to?

Is God going to ask you some questions on your life?

If he is, are you gonna remember every single thing you did and narrate them to he or she?

Most likely not.

She closed her eyes and gave in to death as she smiled.

Her only immediate regret.....

"Tirry....So sorry I couldn't prove your innocence...."

TBC--

M.R.