"Why are you refusing to cooperate with us, we have you cornered. Just tell us where the other witches are and we can negotiate a deal for you"
Detective Stone had gotten frustrated with this lady's unwillingness to answer their questions. She was caught three weeks ago at a famous restaurant in France.
"Amanda, please just tell us what we want to know and I can get you out of here" said Detective Stone in a hushed voice.
"Detective let me make one thing abundantly clear, I , Amanda Mary Smith will never tell you what you need to know at the expense of my beloved daughters" .
Mrs. Amanda Mary Smith, the founder and leader of the crime syndicate known as the Six Witches. It consisted of women of all races and ages who had one thing on their minds to wreak havoc on mankind and anyone and everyone that stood in their way.
Mrs. Smith is a petite blonde woman from Manchester England. Her English accent is as prominent as her blue eyes. A widow who lost her husband to a mysterious illness.
"Detective Stone, I will tell you what I want to tell you not what you want to know. I allowed myself to get captured so I could correct the world's misunderstanding towards us not to help you". Detective Stone just stood shocked at the nerve of this woman. He was about to speak when something clicked in his head.
"Did you just say you allowed yourself to get captured?" asked Stone in a surprised tone.
Just then she removed the handcuffs that had been holding her hands together since she arrived at the investigation room.
"If I wanted out I would be out by now. So are you ready to listen?". Stone had no choice he was either going to sit back and listen or return to his supervisors empty handed.
"I'm listening".
Amanda cracked a small grin on her lips and crossed her legs before asking
"What do you think the Six Witches are?"
Stone just stared at her with an annoyed expression before responding with
"You're a crime syndicate responsible for the death of U.S congressman Harry Franks, Former Senator Jack Croft and Japanese business tycoon Kenzo Adachi among others. You are also thought to be responsible for exposing the facts behind the Mindy Drew case that led to her husband's arrest "
Amanda gave a small clap while saying
"Wow you know your stuff....." she stopped clapping and put on a serious expression for the first time since she arrived at the station "... but we are much more than that. Let me start by explaining why I founded the Six Witches syndicate in the first place. I wanted women who had been discarded by the rest of the world to have a place. A place to call home....."
Stone just continued to stare at her silent waiting for her to finish her sentence.
".....a place to get revenge". Just then a subtle sinister smile emerged on her lips but disappeared so quickly it had the detective thinking he had imagined it.
"What's your plan?"asked detective Stone
"My plan is help those girls get revenge. I raised them" she answered sounding almost proud as she said it . Mrs. Smith had truly raised those girls. All six of them had been found on different corners of the world looking dejected and run down. Thrown away by the rest of the world. She looked into each of their eyes and felt a sense of responsibility towards them because looking at them reminded her of herself before she met the godmother.
Detective Stone took a deep breath before taking out his notepad, opening through different pages then asking her
"Mrs. Smith, how did you meet Omphile Dlamini?"
"Mrs. Smith not Amanda? And here I thought we had rekindled our teenage love story. Anyway Omphile or Sapphire was a victim of human trafficking. I found her when I was trying to take down a certain Mafia boss that had been causing me trouble for quite sometime " she answered.
And what about he scrolled through another page and asked
"What about Jacqueline Dubois?"
"Ah the lovely Ruby our prized gem" she said with a smile. "She was a victim of gang rape and domestic abuse. She was thrown away from her home by her father after she became pregnant for one of the rapists. They were never caught so she was accused of promiscuity by the church her father was a high ranking minister in and unable to take the disgrace her father beat her till she had a miscarriage and threw her to the street. What else?"
"Priya Krishna "
"Priya's family was poor and her father left nothing but debt in the family. Imagine that in a country like India."
"And Camila Fernandez and Raeni Smith?"
"Garnet and Emerald. Garnet is from a struggling family in Brazil and Emerald is from Jamaica. She doesn't know her father's name or surname and her mother died before she could ask her. Sweet girls the both of them"
"And what about Anastasia Romanov?"
Amanda turned quiet for a few seconds before responding with her index finger in front of her lips.
"That's private."
Meanwhile, somewhere off the coast of Mexico is a young woman in her early twenties on a blue yacht with the inscribed name "Yankee" on it. She is wearing a black Louis Vuitton bikini with dark hair that's gently cascading down her shoulders as the summer wind blows. She's sitting in a lounge chair enjoying the sun when a male voice calls from behind her.
"Hey Maria, why don't you come inside for a minute"
The woman refered to as Maria gets up and walks to the inner deck of the boat where she meets Jose the person that called her.
Jose is a short young man around the same age as Maria. He's wearing a pair of beach shorts, an orange button-up shirt to match and black slippers. He has a small build, not very muscular with tanned skin and green eyes.
She asks in an irritated voice
"Yeah?. What do you want?"
"Boss wants to talk to you " was his only reply before leaving for the front deck.
Maria slowly walks to her room to get a see-through gown to wear over her bikini before going to the Captain's quarters of the ship.
She gets to the door and knocks before opening it and taking a few steps into the room .
In the room, looking out of the window is a man at least twice Maria's age. He's shirtless only wearing a pair of off-white shorts. He turns around to face her then eyes Maria from head to toe before motioning his finger for her to come forward to meet him.
She flirtatiously walks towards him and places her hands on his neck and he his hands on her waist. He leans forward place a small peck on her lips before releasing his hold on her and asking how she was enjoying her break .
Maria thinks for a second before responding with
"It's fine but you know what would make it better?. Putting that bed to good use. What do you say, Papi?"
He cracks a smirk before telling her
"Fine, get on the bed".
Maria hops like a bunny to the bed while Papi goes over to a table in the room and picks up a cigar and places it in his mouth. He pours out two glasses of bourbon and walks over to the bed. He sits in bed and hands Maria the other glass to drink from. She takes a sip and places it down on the bedside table. She begins to rub the man's hairy chest while he removes the unlit cigar from his mouth and drinks his glass to half it's content. He places his drink on a bedside table by his side and faces her with a cigar between two of his fingers. Maria brings out a gold lighter from her gown pocket and uses it to light Papi's cigar. He places it in his mouth and takes a sharp inhale but somehow the smoke refused to pass out through his mouth and he began suffocating.
He was gripping his throat and trying to cough out whatever was seemingly lodged in his throat but to no avail. He fell off the bed and that's when his eyes fell on Maria who wore an emotionless expression. He began reaching for her then she stood up and called
"Ariana, Ariana he's choking. It didn't work. Bring the gun over"
On hearing these words he stood up trying to get away from her but his knees failed and he fell face first to the floor still choking. He begins to crawl towards the door then he sees the feet of another person. Relief begins to wash over his now blue face until his eyes fall on the pistol Jose is holding. He fires two shots to the front of his skull and one more to the back.
Jose looks up from the body and asks Maria in her usual feminine voice and stoic face.
"Did you lace the cups properly?. You're sure he inhaled it completely before you yelled right Stacy?"
"Of course I did " Maria said calmly
"Well don't worry about that now. Boss let herself get captured."
"The plans getting closer to completion huh?"
"Yes, I've poured the fuel and the Treasures are waiting for us at our rendezvous. There's a boat outside let's go ". Ariana said before she walked away from there to the small boat waiting for them on the water. Stacy took one more look at the dead body in front of her before leaving for the boat. She stepped into the boat while Ariana lit a match and threw it towards the ship and it immediately caught fire.
Stacy started and boat engine and they made their way towards the land .