WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO THEM?Damien looked from one man to another. There was not one of them that was not laughing. It was as though a sort of disease caused by laughter had broken out among them. After a while, the laughter died out. "You must have thought we are uncouth, to really think we would demand your head on a platter as soon as we set our eyes on you."One of the men started. "Is this the first thing that comes to mind whenever you hear them mention our name in the public?"The man laughed. "You must think we are some blood sucking monsters that can't live without having a dip of blood every second.""Perhaps a vampire, if I might say."A light laughter travelled across the hall. Which waned out almost immediately. "You shouldn't stand there."Mr Nagazumi called at him, pointing. Damien looked in the direction that the man had pointed. He saw a chair. He walked to it and settled in. He was seated in a position where all eyes were fixed on him. "I know you must have a l

"Who is he calling?""The BMX girls?""I'm not sure.""Y'all just be low with it."The men argued amongst themselves as they anticipated what Damien was up to. Not long after, the door of the hall was pushed open, and nine beautiful young ladies walked in. "Oh, my world!""I'd be damned.""Where did they all come from?""Mars, perhaps?""That's lame."The girls bowed to Damien and then made a file at one angle. The elites were curious and restless. They were looking to know what the next line of action would be. "Tell the BMX girls to gather around and be here in the next ten minutes."Damien ordered, and the man whom he had spoken to dialled a number at once. They watched the man speak over the phone for a while, then drop the call. "You should have your seats now."He relieved the men of the punishment. "Nagazumi, hand me your mask."Damien called, and Nagazumi hurried to him at once. To the rest of the men, Damien might appear rude and disrespectful. But Damien knew that he w

"Please excuse me for a moment."Ari said to the girls and then walked to the other side of the deck. "Please come."He called at Damien. Damien stared at the ladies for a while. Some of them were winking at him. He walked to meet Ari. "I know you have every right to see me as a joke."Ari started. "But you can go ahead and prove it for yourself. I mean, the news about going to the island with me."Damien's gaze was cold and unamused. Ari sighed. "Didn't you receive a call from a private number? If I were the one who was the brain behind all of this, why would I have called you with a private number?"Ari was doing all he could to get on the good side of Damien. Damien was not ignorant of that fact. "Did I argue with you otherwise?"Damien finally spoke. "Huh? Really?"Ari was a little surprised. He chuckled. "For a moment, you made me worried. I mean, you have such a weird expression on your face. Anyone could have misconstrued the motive behind it."Damien took a step closer

"Take a walk down this road. You would see a cut in the corner. He is somewhere there."An old lady said to Ayisha. "Thank you very much for your time."Ayisha walked away after appreciating the woman. She walked down the road and saw a cut as she had been directed. She had hardly taken the cut when she saw a man seated on the floor, his back to a big garbage can. He was there seated in the open, his head dropped. He looked to be sleeping. "Oh shit."She cussed, standing there as she gazed at the man. She fanned her face with the back of her hand. "AM I really going to do this?"A sound came from the man. When the man lifted his head, there was sticky saliva dripping from his lips. Hanging down and reluctant to drop. "No. No. I can't do this."Ayish was very irritated by what she had seen. She turned and started to walk away. But then she halted. She recalled the promise that she had made to the rest of the group. "Why did I volunteer to do this? If I had an idea that he had tu

The yacht came to a stop at the shore of the island. Damien was the first jumped off the yacht. "Mr Kevin, you should wait for me. I am responsible for your whereabouts, please. If the organisers realise that you are nowhere to be found, they would be quite displeased with me."Damien heard Ari call at him, but that wasn't his brother at the moment. There were a lot of things going through his mind as he stood and gazed. The island was no longer what it used to be. He clutched his hand to his chest as he his legs trembled. He was going to fall on his knees, but he did all he could to hold his body up. There were no trees in sight. Not even coconut trees. Not even one. "How could they do this?"He muttered, watching in great shock. Long ago, before he crashlanded on the island with the nine BMX girls, they had landed on an inhabited island. An island clothed in greenery and beautiful sight. But now, all that was left of the island were uncompleted constructions and workers doing