DUBA

Chapter 7

Ben in his relaxed mode ready for the help that General Martin had promised him was seated on a sit eating some biscuits watching some videos on a tablet. To him the biscuit were something sweet and new to him, which were being provided to him to relax his adrenaline as he ate. Comfortably he was seated in a room that was calm and nobody was there to watch him to make an unconfutable environment for him.

The General who was also a wise man he knew after the chat with ben he won’t escape and reducing the resources he also mad no soldier watch the door to Ben’s room. Though Ben has never came across a screen that could display some videos that were funny to him as human nature he quickly adapted to the fact where he was handling the tablet as her was used to it.

Suddenly to his room Victoria bumped it where she closed her door back. Ben who was friendly in nature plus he remembered her face and everything about her he asked, “Why are you here?” As she was painting due to the long runs and turns off hiding of the soldiers, she responded, “Am here to help you.”

Ben who had full believed in the general convincing words he asked curiously, “How would you help me?” Victoria who was tired at the time and her unpredictable character he walked closer to Ben took a bite of some biscuits and off the topic she asked, “Are these things poisoned?” As he the thing did not crossed his mind, he shook his head to say no.

Victoria who was the one who really know what was going on that thousands of words were flowing in her mind not knowing what to start with she said, “The General does not want to help you all that he want is to use you.” Ben still not digested Victoria’s words he faced her in a look that was saying, “I cannot understand you.”

Victoria who was good in understanding the language started talking where she knew she had limited time,

“Before you came and attack the camp the General was talking to me of his evil plan that he has been looking for you and how you had power that was not meant to be yours. That was the reason he captured me because he knew you would come for me where he is going to take advantage to capture you. Where he confessed that he needed you power because you do not know to use it.”

“But he is going to take this power from me?”

“Yes and he is going to put it on himself and don’t ask me how because I don’t know.”

“That is ok because I want this demon out of me.”

“Don’t do this Ben he will misuse the power.”

“The beast has made me lose my family and my friends I know have nobody to care about me…”

Victoria as if Ben had said something hurtful to her she cut off his words by saying, “Don’t say that nobody cares about you because am here because of you. You are the only one who can control that beast in you I have seen that man all that he will do when he gets that power is destruction.”

Ben fully convinced by Victoria he asked, “Ok and how will we get off this premises?” Victoria knowing she had convinced him, she confidently and happily responded, “Turn to the beast will walk out here fast.” He responded rudely to cut off her high expectations on the beast, “It doesn’t work like that sometimes I am not in control of the beast.”

Victoria knowing she will use the long way to get out of the premises she grunts and said, “Ok we will do it my way.” Without a doubt her investigation skills were so perfect that she could also predict humans next moves this is what helped her walk in and out the premises without being noticed not as a normal person.

The next moment General Martin knocked into Ben’s room calmly. When he noticed there was no answer in the room he slowly entered in the room confidently hoping to find Ben sleeping due to the long watching of the videos that he had broadcasted to him. Into his astonished he found the room was empty where he did not believed his sight and shouted, “Ben.” When there was no answer he noticed that he was played but not knowing with how or how because he knew he had fully convinced him to stay.

Immediately a soldier walked in the room holding a tablet and found General Martin. As his work, he walked closer to General where he showed him a CCTV footage that was showing Victoria breaking in the premises. General a man quick to anger where he had given clear orders of the capture of Victoria or her kill he turned the soldier and shouted, “Killing this woman has been hard for you all here what kind of soldiers are you. She entered in here and took him without you knowledge.”

The soldier protecting his innocence he responded,

“General you were the one who order no soldier should watch him.”

“You saw his wrath, would you keep watch on him.”

The soldier with a cat eyes of asking mercy he responded no by shaking his head. General with a low pitched voice of rudeness he added, “The next time I want to hear from any one of you is that you have killed her and bring the beast here,” then he walked away leaving the soldier in a statue digesting the heavy words.

At night, Fridah the mother to Victoria was at the dining table taking supper with her granddaughter Lynn. Suddenly there was a knock on the door that made both of them pause and face each other in curiosity. To her it was a common routine to open the door if it was knocked twice to confirm her hearing. To the suburbs, it was rear for any robbery due to the community movement, that you had to know everybody in your area.

When they heard the second knock Frida with her old age, she slowly stood of the seat and walked to the door. Opening the door, she was surprised to see her daughter Victoria and a man standing at the doorstep. Due to Victoria’s busy work at the city it was rear for her to visit her mother, which had, create a bad repo between them.

Frida sharing the same brevity with her daughter, she asked rudely without caring the presence of the visitor, “This is the time you choose to show yourself.” Victoria after having disappointed her mother several times she responded calmly as an innocent child address his parent after a mistake, “Mother am in a complicated situation and I need your help.”

Frida as she was addressing to Ben who was at the moment innocently quiet, “Who is your friend here.” Victoria out of words of explaining ben she only simply responded, “He is my work mate.” Frida moved aside to give them way inside the house while saying to her daughter, “He is too shy for your type not like the other one who is brave.” Both Ben and Victoria walked in the house assuming Frida’s irritating words.

Immediately Victoria walked in the house her daughter Lynn noticed her where she rushed on joy and gave her a worm motherly hug. As Frida was shutting the door she added, “And you were not counted for supper.” Quickly Victoria responded to avoid too many questions or to many complementation, “its ok we are both fine.”

The house that was a bit familiar to Ben because it was in an old error arrangement he slowly walked and sat on the seat silently looking at Frida who did not looked welcoming. Victoria with her understanding heart she went and sat beside Ben to at least reduce the oddness of the situation to him.

Frida walked to Lynn with a changed tone of a soft person and said, “Its time for bed.” Lynn who was respectable girl, she responded, “Ok! Grand mom.” Then she faced to where her mother was seated and Ben and shouted softly due to the distance, “Good night mom, good night Ben,” then she walked away.

Immediately Lynn went to the bedroom Frida faced Victoria and asked,

“Now tell me why you are here?”

“Mom you know my work its risky some time so am here hiding for some days.”

“It’s ok you always come to me when you are in need of hiding am no more than that to you.”

“Mom is not like that.”

“You know where to sleep. And before you do it clear the table as so tired.” After the supper, the table was messy but of in need Victoria did not rejected the request where she responded, “Ok Mom.” This was common to Frida for her daughter to hid with her work mate Drake but this time it was somebody new so he did not see a big deal in the words  

Frida as she followed her granddaughter to the bedroom she said, “At least next time bring somebody else who is not your working mate.” It was annoying for her to see her daughter single while other daughters in the neighbourhood married and having a happy life not like her daughter’s life of moving up and down. This left an odd and silent environment for both Victoria and Ben. She broke the silence monotony by saying, “Do not worry she is like that because of me but she is always good to people.” Ben responded, “Its ok am used to that.”

In the morning, Victoria stood for a moment watching Ben who had slept on the sofa the whole night. It was common for a normal height of a man to sleep on a sofa the whole night and wake up the next morning with backache. Avoiding her mother attacking the visitor with her damaging words she softly called him.

Ben who was born arlat on his sleep she sat on the ground while stretching his back and said, “Ohh! That was a long night.” Victoria responded,

“Get up before my mother meets you here sleeping.”

“First where are the toilets here?”

In the urban homes toilet were usually located outside the main house. Victoria as he moved she responded, “Follow me.” Ben he was so pressed where he spring out of the bed and followed her outside the house.

Calmly without expecting anything odd, Victoria walked out of the house followed by Ben. Immediately Ben bang the door behind him, a needle was shoot on his chest. Everybody paused where Victoria faced Ben and Ben faced the needle. He was astonished of the needle where she faced forward to the direction at which the needle flew from where other needles flew and hit him.

Ben before the tranquilizers needles work he quickly held Victoria, open the door, threw him in the house and bang the door. Victoria who was pissed off with the act she tried to open the door where he had hold it tight to prevent her opening due to the situation.

Victoria shouted, “Open the door.” As needles were being shoot to his back he responded, “No they are here for me I just want you to take your mother and daughter and run away the scene will be ugly.” After the words, the tranquilizers became too strong for Ben where he fell helpless on the ground. 

That was the moment Victoria got a break through, she quickly rushed out of the house assuming the many soldiers that were standing on the compound pointing guns towards her. Ben who was laying helpless and unconscious on the ground she knelt beside him and started shouting continuously, “Leave him he is not harmful.” The General who was part of the operation walked towards Victoria in pride while saying, “So the beast can be defeated by the current technology.”

Suddenly Ben who was lying unconscious on the doorstep suddenly started trembling where General Martin stopped some few meters to where he was laying. Shockingly he asked, “What is happening?” Victoria who was in stress trying to stop the soldier who had attacked her mother’s home. Where she knew for sure, her mother is going to kill and that is what she feared the most in this world she responded “Is the cause of high tranquilizers  in his blood.”

General still not accepted Victoria’s words he paused besides her watching the trembling where Ben stood knelt and started roaring. This was a red flag to General Martin, he turned back and rushed to the soldiers while shouting, “Open fire!”  

Victoria who was also shocked moved a meter back and there she saw the full transformation of the beast. Ben’s hand veins stated enlarging that was an indication that blood was flowing in a high rate, his normal human hand started enlarging while it became hairy, the biceps and triceps of his both hands were enlarging in the way a balloon enlarges when subjected to pressure. The turn was moved notch further where also the other body parts stated enlarging where it lead his clothes being torn because they could not handle the large mass that continuous growing. Ben’s turn to the beast was painful because of the loud roar and back scratch.

Within a moment, the normal human body of Ben had already turned to the beast of a hundred elephant strength. Then the beast with a loud scary voice it roared. Suddenly Frida holding Lynn opened the door where everybody paused including the beast and without looking she rudely asked, “Why are those noise outside my house.”  

Without anybody telling her this was the wrong timing, she politely said after looking at how the scene was. Without caring her 19s expensive house that it was built with her dead husband, she said, “I am sorry of interrupting you may all continue.” At this time not even, a blink of her daughters love blinked in her heart.  

Immediately Frida shut her door, the soldiers opened fire to the beast. The beast at the time it was full on range where it jumped to them where it got hold of a soldier it would tore him into two. The scene was a massacre to the soldiers this time mercy did not fall upon them the beast was killing them.

Victoria who at the time could control her anger and could not fear the beast she walked close to it where she shouted, “Ben stop the massacre I know you are somewhere in there listen to me.” The beast at the time it was full in range and the character Ben was not in control at the time so it was continuing killing the soldiers.

The beast for a moment it stopped fighting and faced Victoria who was trying to cool it down but the attack of the soldier distracted the conversation where it made the continuous killings.

Suddenly a tanker threw a missile to the beast where the beast was quick to move and missed the missile where it flew and hit Frida’s house where it all exploded. For a moment, everybody paused including the beast. This is when Victoria remembered her whole world was in the house and quickly rushed to the house to save her mother and daughter.

The beast at that time seemed to be human again as if Ben was controlling the beast feelings at the time. Slowly it turned to the tanker that had launched the missile and spring to it and its hundred elephant’s strength it shredded the tanker into pieces and after that, it jumped off the view and vanished.