A handshake beyond the elbow has turned into an embrace! The recent assault on the Country P merchant's farm by the redwitch gang had become unbearable to the profit-oriented men, and they were seen as they conversed together. "We will be going bankrupt in a few months if this assault continues," Priest let out with a disgusting look. "El Ramon is powerless against his brother, four farms and factories were destroyed in a week, this is unbearable." A man called Augur announced. "El Ramon is a weakling, and that is why I chose him, instead of his brother." Priest answered back "What about the black ninja? They promised to get back to us before the month-end?" "That was why I invited you all. Our agent called me that he will be here in a few hours." "That means he had been contacted by the black ninjas." The oldest man on the team announced with a toothless smile. "How will our assassins have access to El Capone's palace? He is always surrounded by thousands of his mafias." A
Andrea was the chairperson of the building committee, and she was seen seating along with lots of men in blue uniforms, while a long line of villagers was in her front. She had been able to collect over ten million dollars, and it amazed her that those who she believed were poor, were keeping such an amount under their pillows. Hours later, she peeked at the golden wristwatch in her hand and yawned and muttered. "We will be closing, and resuming tomorrow." "Please attend to me, I have been in the queue since morning," the next man on the line pleaded. "We will be attending to those on today's queue, before attending to newcomers. Which means you will be the first to be attended to tomorrow," Andrea answered back with a smile. And the man, left with no choice grunted aloud and soon leave with a mournful look. When the men were finally gone, the supervising committee arranged all the money into a big bag, then walked into the palace that is just a stone's throw from them. El Capon
El Capone was in the middle, and beside him were Andrea and Banjo at both sides, while hundred of his armed mafias scowl at his back. "We will not resume farming until you meet our terms," the leader of the rioting planters screamed at the top of his voice. "We have to go through all your terms, and we are assuring you that it will be discussed, and the best decision will be made. Please be patient," Andrea answered back. "We are listening to you because you are one of us-" the man paused, veered back at the rioting men at his back, and resumed his speech. "Otherwise, we would have ignored you all, until you are ready to accept our terms.""We are aware of the inflation and knew you only earn peanuts from your hard labour. All your demands will be met in due time." Andrea answered back. "As the spokesman of the North side planters, we are not resuming work until you are ready to pay us ten dollars per kilo for our products. And you will be compensating us for ripping us with a meag
For the first time since the tussle for the crown began, El Ramon found it difficult to sleep, and he was seen tossing to and fro on his king-size bed. A moment later, the telephone attached to his bedside ring, and the young and anxious prince leapt out of bed, yanked the phone from its hold, and barked into it. "What's the update?" "Successful," the voice on the other side of the line let out. "Any witness?" "None, it will be seen as an accident, as all the cars erupted, when the fuel tanks were shot." "Is my brother's car among the burnt car?" "Yes, its two personal cars were attacked." "And are you sure he is inside one of them?" "The cars were still burning when we left, but am positive he is inside one of them." "And his wife?" "I have no idea if she was inside along with him." "It will be unfortunate if she is," El Ramon said in a whisper, disconnect the call, and laid back on the bed. But the rioting in his mind prevents him from having his deserved rest. If trul
A young man in a white gown and a big straw hat walked close to El Capone's palace, and stopped in front of a seller, displaying different designs of clothing. "Please buy my wares, am just opening my shop, and I will give you a big discount because you are my first customer," the woman who just emerged from a wooden shop cried at the onlooker and quickly stepped close. "I don't need clothing, but I have some money and I need some information." The woman, at the sight of the money in the speaker's hand, smiled and asked. "What information did you seek?" "I heard there is an accident yesternight, and El Capone's cars were burnt. I'm just curious if he is inside one of the cars or not." The woman looked at the man in her front, and she instantly knew he was from El Ramon's camp. In truth, bad news travel faster than the speed of light. The whole villagers had heard of the accident, a few hours after it occurred, and the woman knew El Capone and his wife weren't inside the burnt
El Ramon was informed of his brother's death by the man he sent out, and the excited prince, quickly make a call to inform the country P merchants of the news. "My brother had an accident yesterday, and it's quite unfortunate that he died before help arrived," El Ramon gloated over the line. "Ahh, this is good news, I hope his death will have no negative impact on your name?" "Of course not, it was a catastrophe and it can happen to anyone. I have spies listening to people's opinions, and I was informed it was ruled as an accident." "In that case, congratulations my king," the voice on the other side announced. "Now that my brother is out of the way, I want us to meet and discussed the expansion of farms and factories to meet your demands." "Yes, we begged you to leave planting of opium to us, and fixed percentages of the profit that will be sent into the royal treasury." "Will that fetch me more money?" "Yes, you can even buy shares with us, and we will trade with your money a
Because of El Ramon's instruction, most of the farms and factories were deserted when the redwitch gang arrived. Banjo and some men in red uniforms sneaked close to a factory constructed inside a large farm of opium and surrounded it without being seen. "Attack only the foreign planters and burn their farm while I attack the factory. But leave our people. Their loss is enough punishment for them," Banjo instructed his men, then send them towards the men relaxing under some trees far off, while the rest of the gang walked towards the factory's door. And a leg whack soon jerked the wooden door, off its hold. One among the four men inside brought out a sliver colour pistol and fired at the incomers, and the bullet whizzed past Banjo's ear, then stuck into the forehead of the man beside him. "Oh my goodness, am lucky this time around," Banjo let out and quickly dived into the back of the iron box beside him. The redwitch gang fired, and they were fired at, and for some minutes, the s
El Ramon was seen yelling at some of his men in anger. He faced the man he had sent to snoop out the truth from his brother's palace, sneered, and asked. "Did you see the consequences of your lies?" "I was fooled by an old woman, am so sorry, please." "And you can't patiently seek the truth, before coming back to deceive me?" "So sorry, my lord. It was a mistake on my side, and I promised it won't happen again." "There won't be another time, as you are banished from my palace, and I will take your head when next I set my eyes on you." The man gaped with an open mouth and quickly scrambled out before the angry prince change his mind, and demand his head now. "And you," El Ramon whirled at another man, peeked at him for a while, then asked. "When are you meeting her again?" "Until she called for me," Kurt answered back, with a slight nod. "Tell her that I appreciate all her effort, and both of you will be rewarded handsomely when everything is okay." "Thank you, my lord. I will
The coronation proceeds the following day, and the wedding ceremony takes place three days later. Unfortunately, only one of the two suitors got married, while the other man was chained inside one of the cells in the dungeon. "Tell me how you start the fire that prompt your escape." "I send them out of the house with my continuous nagging and after hearing them lock the door at the other side, I raced into the kitchen, connect their oven to the socket and poured lots of dried papers inside. Then I dragged the cylinder of gas closer, lose it, and then hide inside the large freezer by the wall far off." "You take a great risk. What if you were burnt to death?" "He planned to kill me after all, so I decided to take my fate into my hands." "What happened afterwards." "I had drenched clothing with me, tied it over my nose, and then sneaked out of my hidden places. Since I had been in darkness for a long time, I can see two men searching blindly for me, so I jerked up a heavy rod and w
The dark witches were associated with evil, even before the reign of El Guje. And this was part of the reason why El Ramon was filled with anxiety as he alighted from the vehicle and was followed by his armed-to-the-teeth mafias."This place is filled with lots of bandits. Protect our prince with your lives." This order from the general is quite unnecessary because most of the bandits were probably shivering in their hideaways at the sight of the heavily armed mobs. And except for the sound of the rodents who scurried out of sight, the cock-a-doddle-do of the birds calling to their mates and the chirping of the insects searching for their breakfast, only the sound from the footsteps of the mafias seemed to be the disturbance to the serenity of that expanse forest. Moments later, the group arrived at the entrance of the dark witches' village, and all who set eyes on them scampered to the safety of their rooms. "Why are they running helter-skelter?" "Their previous experience in the
The journey to their destination was fast by driving, and the team arrived in a few hours, disembarked and spread across the deserted mass of land."This is the place where he stand and gawked at the ruin of that building.""Check and look for any item that can reveal the identity of the owner of this place."Apart from the Prince, none of the mafias knew what they were searching for, and this made them unearth several burnt gadgets, showed them to the prince, and then looked more puzzled when he shakes his head sideways in response."Where did this path leads to?""To the end of the island. It is an uninhabitable area of rocky land and a dangerous creek. And if we turn left then we will be heading towards the dark witches' village.""Let's drive there."The men breathed with relief when they were ordered to leave their blind search, and they immediately hopped into the trucks and sped out of sight. The route was barely passable, filled with erosion water and a slippery slope, and th
Only a fool will be sleeping when his or her house is on fire. El Ramon is no fool, and this is the reason why his eyes are unblinking as he welcomed Banjo into his parlour.After the usual salutation, the sleepy-looking mafia was permitted to seat down."You have my ears.""He left the palace, went to his house and spend an hour inside, emerged later and went into Johji Inn. And it was very late in the night when he left the Inn.""He didn't come to the palace, so I assumed he went back to his house.""No. He waddled inside the heavy rains for hours and was followed by my men who lagged some feet away.""Be quick. Where did he go after leaving the inn?""Towards the end of the city.""And then what?""Nothing.""What did you mean by nothing?""He arrived beside a burnt down house, gaped at it for a while, then walked back into Johji Inn and he is sleeping inside the liquor section as we are speaking.""When was the house burnt down?""Just of recent. The ashes were still fresh and s
Zuma ordered more liquors and was drunk than a skunk when the stars appeared for their night duties. After finishing the content in the last bottle in his front, he belched louder, placed his two palms on his thighs and stood up with a grunt. The inn was populated by the few night crawlers, and no one seemed to notice the man wobbling among the columns of chairs and tables, nor seemed to mind when he crashed into a table filled with empty bottles, staggered and fell, and then stood up and resumed his waddling. A moment later, he arrived at the outside of the Inn, breathed out loud with relief and walked closer to the gate side."It's already late, Honey. Come to my room and let me make love to you through the night.""I need a man that can penetrate me through the backside. It's been days since I experienced doggy style.""Spend the night with me for just a few dollars.""Is that not Zuma?""He looked like him.""Hey! Come here...What's wrong with you?"He ignored the invitations o
The two guards attending to the pregnant woman in captivity were having the worst time of their lives."I want the water to be hot and not lukewarm. Please prepare another one for me-. And you, did you call this disgusting morsel a meal? Get it off my sight before I puked and prepare my a flavorful feast with lots of vegetables, fish and meats."The two men scrambled out of sight, and one promptly returned to inform her of the readiness of hotter water for her bathe."Holy Madona! Did you want to burn my skin?.. I need cool water to mix it, please."After fetching two more buckets, the man was appreciated with more scowl and nag as he hurried out of the presence of the bitter woman. "The food is done.""Thank you, I hope it was worth all the time I had spent waiting for it.""Huh!""Oh my gosh. This is worse than the previous meal... Please take it out of my sight and get me a jug of juice as you prepare me a sandwich."After hundreds of errands in a few hours, the two men slammed t
El Ramon fixed his eyes on the outgoing mafia, turned towards the lady on the queen's throne beside him and asked, "why did he lie?""I have no idea.""Are you sure you don't?""Yes, my lord. I don't know why he speaks with false tongue."El Ramon shrugged, stood up and let out, "go back to your room and remained indoors. As I warned earlier, don't accept anyone inside until I allow you to.""As your lordship wish,"Mafias and maids bowed as he strode through the palace corridor, and the grim on his face became less horrific suddenly."I am on my way to see you, my prince.""Here I am. Tell me about the progress.""Nothing yet. All this island was ransacked but we didn't see the subject."" Did you meet Zuma on your way in?""Yes. And he was as sad as doom and hardly noticed my presence.""He lied that he spend his night in his house when I have mafias watching his places and he hadn't stepped there since he left here yesterday.""Why will he tell an untruth over trivial things like t
All Banjo's efforts to locate Andrea proved abortive, and after searching through the nook and cranny of the Inn, he shrugged, hissed and instructed some of the men at his back to go into the town and search for her. All the ladies of services claimed they haven't seen any stranger except for a lady who believed she saw someone in a black tuxedo and head scarf."Where is she?""I have no idea. She informed me she is a new worker here, and I advised her to stand on her feet and look for customers.""Did you see her after?""No.""Did she talk with anyone else?""Not sure. I was picked by a rich merchant and we were together afterwards.""Don't hesitate to inform any mafia around whenever you see her again.""I will. Did she steal something from the palace?""Worse than that.""Any bounty on her head."Banjo nodded his head, stepped closer to the lady and whispered, "she is supposed to get married to my best friend in two days. My friend is dying from her absence, and I had vowed to ca
"Why did you agree to trick me?""Am sorry, your highness. Her majesty made me do it.""Where is she?""I have no idea.""This may cost you your life. Speak now.""Before all gods, I have no idea where she went to. I was ordered to remain indoors and not to attend to anyone until she comes back.""What kind of clothing did she wear?""An oversize black gown, scarf and black net... She was talking to herself and I believe she is on her way to search for Jade.""Gush!" El Ramon exclaimed, cast a killing look on the kneeling lady, shakes his head and announced, "I will be back for you. Remain indoors and don't attend to anyone."The lady was too shocked at his shrieking voice, and the prince did not care to wait for an answer, but breathed out loud and stormed out of his wife's room."Where is Banjo?""At the rear gate.""Call him for me now!"He was still fuming and walking from one end of his palace to the other end when Banjo strolled inside, bowed and let out, "here I am, my lord.""