DUBA

Chapter 1

That night, soldiers walked slowly passing through the woods as it was heavily raining. By their heavily armed attire and the mode of walking, they were ready to attack. Behind the walking soldiers there were other military vehicles following them in the same slow pace. Everything was adding up to a serious mission that they were in. They walked until to the cave entrance where the once on foot walked in the cave leaving outside the once in the heavy military vehicles ready to attack anything that come out of the cave.  

The operation was slow and silent done that only the raindrops was heard thudding on the ground. In the cave, they were searching for anything fishy. They operation was not specific all that they were told is what they were going to retrieve was risky and no more than that. During the operation one of the soldiers in the cave found a gold medallion. Lose his concentration, lowered his gun and took off the medallion off its hanging place to have a closer look. Indeed the medallion was beautiful and attractive because it was made of gold.   

As they were all ordered to report for anything they see he turned, back thinking he had archive the search and shouted, “I think I have found what we were looking for.” Everybody turned to faced him in suspense. In the other side the man who was in the control centre watching the operation he exclaimed, “Jesus!” then quickly took the radiophone beside him and said, “Tell him to first return it to its position.”

Inside the cave, the head of the operation named Peter pressed in the earphone to get a clear hearing while saying, “Commander you are not clear. There is poor network.” This was an expected thing due to the remoteness of the place and the deepness of the cave. Suddenly a loud bang disrupted the conversation where Peter due to unknown force thud on the ground.

The intense gun shoots and soldiers’ scream raised Peter from his unconscious state. Due to the bang on the ground, he fell unconscious. The first visual introduction that he had it was sparks of the bullets that were hitting the hard rock wall of the cave. As a soldier trained to react quickly on situations he took, his gun from ground stood still ready to attack. He was breathing heavily due to fear because he had no clue of what was being attacked by other soldiers.

Behind him, a soldier shoot. Thinking he might have a clear look of the attacked he quickly turned back holding his gun still. Before having the look of the attacked, the soldier was pull to the dark while screaming which suddenly stopped. The cave went to silent and at that moment, he knew he was the only one standing alive in the cave. Peter pointing his gun to the direction at which the solder was pull to ready to make a shoot at any movement.

Suddenly he heard some movements where due to tension he opened fire and shoot some couples of bullets where he stopped only to notice it was a dead soldier’s body thrown to him. Knowing that he was the only soldier standing against unknown thing that he had no clue of what was it. He trembled, breathed heavy as he was attentive to any movement round him.

His breathing suddenly brought to an end when he noticed something behind him and turned back. Due to the partially light into the cave, Peter had a vivid look of a ten feet man looking creature before him. With the aid of adrenaline into his blood, he stated shooting the creature. With the perspective of guns that have never failed to kill with a shoot, he shoot the creature continually until his gun was empty. Expecting the creature to be down due to the intense shooting he was astonished to find the creature stood before him with zero wounds.

The soldiers outside on the military vehicles were prepared to attack due to the intense screams and gunshots that were coming out of the cave. It was sure for them what was to be retrieved was dangerous. Suddenly they heard a scream out of the cave that stopped at once. This was clear to them that there was something going to attack them at any moment. Ready waiting to attack the ten-foot creature with its 20 elephant strength it jumped off the cave to one of the military vehicle where it break into two as a piece of bread.

The other two vehicles turned to the creature to shoot it but bullets to the creature was like a young child punching a body builder. The speed and the strength of the creature it broke the other vehicles and leaving no survivors in the scene.

Victoria a single mother to a 12 years daughter, Lynn was at the kitchen cooking after a long day of her work of serving the justice. The struggles that the world had stick on her face after her pregnancy rejected by the father at the age 19 years she was tough. Lynn in the sitting room was before the TV watching that TV programme that her mother influence her. The house was calm as normal but the rain outside was making the house cool for a conducive environment of sleeping.

Suddenly the door was knocked softly as if it was a trusted person on the other side of the door wanting to be saved from the heavy rain. Due to the untrusted city, that Victoria was living and the turns of stories of how robbers used to enter the house as innocent people, she had warned her daughter from opening door whenever she had a knock.

She dimmed the cooker fire to prevent the burning of her sweet delicious meal for two and walked to the door. The knock was strange to Victoria because of the late night and the fact that she had no timetable for a visitor at that night. Onto the opening of the door Victoria was surprise to see a naked man who was shivering because if the rain before her. For a moment, Victoria paused for a moment in silence looking at the man.

Due to the Lynn age of curiosity, she slowly walked behind her mother to see what astonished her mother. Quickly Victoria noticed it where she turned back and gently pushed her daughter away to prevent her from looking at the naked man. When her daughter was away from the door view, she turned back to the man and said, “Wait a minute.” Then she moved back in the house.

The lost confused man staid at the door silent where Victoria had left the door open. After a minuet Victoria moved back to the naked man on the door holding a trouser and t-shirt. Still as Victoria not convinced yet that the man was no harm, she stood there by the door and watch the man slowly wearing the clothes. She was not embraced by looking at the man because her work as a detective she was used to all kind of stuffs that were messy.

After the man was presentable to her kid, she let him in the house where the man sat on the seat just beside the door. The man in his lost and confused face he was looking all around the beautiful house that had a modern look. Lynn was beside the man gazing and having questions like who is this? Where is he from? Why is he hairy like this?  

The way the man walked and the way he gazed at everything it was sure he was of no harm. Victoria as a typical African woman a proper way to welcome a visitor she walked to the kitchen to serve food. On her way back to the sitting room, she found her curiosity daughter gazing at the man who was weirdly smiling on her. This was not embarrassment to Lynn but it also reflected how she taught her daughter. Quickly Victoria pulled her daughter from the gaze and with a low voice said to her, “That is not how you act before visitors.”

After Victoria dragging, her daughter to her usual unique eating position. Victoria with her detective skills moved back to the man gave him a plate of food and started, “What is your name?” furthermore she had not completely trusted the man her work was to help people. The man who was looking as a victim of crime took the spoon off the plate because he had no memory of using a metallic thing to eat and hand it over to Victoria. She curiously took the spoon away and continued looking the man waiting for the answer. The man responded “My name is Ben,” then he faced the plate, took a large scope of the meal with his hand and ate it relaxed as if it was normal.

Victoria living in the 21^st century saw this was odd but she had learn to not judge people she faced her daughter to escape the bad eating manners that she could not judge where her daughter quickly turned away pretending not to hear a word. Victoria faced the man and said, “Where are you from?” he paused faced her silent. Ben not knowing where he was from nor where he was he faced back the plate and continued eating the food politely.

Thought the man looked weird but she had saw the innocence of the man where she walked back to her food on the table and started eating it. After some few stories of innocent people turning to deadly still Victoria had not trusted the man 100 present.

Watching him until he had finished the food that looked like a sip of water to him. He walked to Victoria carrying the plate hand it over to her and said, “Thank you.” Victoria knowing of how men used to eat he asked, “Are you full?” Ben quickly had a flash back of the last meal that he had beside a fireplace a roosted goat thigh that was weighing about five kilograms. Suddenly Ben remembered that he was no more in his home place where he responded, “No am full.”

For a long time Victoria had never found a true man in the city where she was intrigued by Ben’s nature where she extended her goodness by saying, “You can also take a shower I know you are all wet and you need shower to warm you up.”  Still after the long rain being rain on Ben still felt sweaty and also he wanted to see this hot night bath that he heard for the first time where he nodded her head innocently.

The next moment Victoria was directing Ben inside the bathroom where she had already noticed the guy was from deep country side and was new to all this. Therefore, she turned on the shower and said, “Take off your clothes and shower here after the bath walk to the next room where I will have already put some clothes on the bed for you to ware.” She gave him his privacy where she walked away.

In the bathroom, Ben slowly walked to the shower that a device pouring hot water was somewhat magical. As the first drop of water dropped to his body, he did not found it weird as he presume but enjoyed by the shower. In the other side of the house, Victoria was washing the utensils listening to her normal classic song. She had no fear of the good man turning to deadly because the last time she remembered she could take down four men.

To Ben the shower was so magical that he took his time taking the hot shower that made him look live again. Without caring, he walked naked to the next room to where his clothes were. The scene was safe for Lynn because she was already in her room sleeping after an hour ago when her mother took her in bed.

In the changing room, slowly Ben walked looking to all things that were new to his eyes. This feeling felt as a dream to him, the hot shower and the beautiful house but the dream looked more reality this prevented him from acting in a strange way. On the stool, he saw a short that he was given where slowly took and wore it.

At a distance, a gigantic mirror on the wall drop door attracted his attention. Ben having another magical thing before him that was displaying his image he slowly walked to it. Then flash of memories flashed to him in the river when he was facing his image and dipped his hands to the river. He found himself trying to touch the other side of the mirror where it could not be access.

This raised more suspense to him where he was fully convinced this was a witch house but before he started rushing up and down as mad man, he noticed a handle on the wall drop. Victoria as a detective she had to carry a small Gun by her due to the insecurities of being a person who fight with the bad guys. When Ben opened the wall drop, he found a gun and without knowing it, he took it and looked at it closely having no clue of the good-looking metal object.

Without knowing what the small metallic thing was capable of, he turned it to him where suddenly as a replay memories flashed to him of how some men were using it to shoot bullets to him. He paused dropped the gun and started walking back wards in fear. Where he accidentally hit a glass that fell and produce a clatter sound as it fell broken on the ground. Ben turned to a confused person where his heart pounded so first because he was new to all this.

Suddenly he fell on the ground while looking he was on a bipolar episode where he started roaring in pain that he was trying to do it in low tone.  In the kitchen, Victoria suddenly heard the door banged so loud. As her duty, she ran to the door where she found no one. Then suddenly she remembered she heard a visitor where she ran to her bedroom and the first thing she noticed that it was his personal bullet was laying on the ground. By the next scanning, she had a full detail of her bedroom.