"It's been sixteen years since you killed the Wests, Gordon, but you don't have it yet. What should I say of your incompetence?"
Gordon bowed, disappointed at himself. "Makes me wonder where West hid it, King.""I'd never thought you would fail me.""Truth be told, King, the result was expected, and knowing how West is, his death is one thing he never feared. It was a mistake sending Gordon after them. He killed his family, and thereby not leaving any leverage against West."Gordon glared at Trick. "Why? You think your tricks would have worked against him?""My tricks are smart, Gordon. If his family was in my hands, he would have had no choice." Trick countered."You guys enough! You've argued about this forever. It's too late." King shunned them.Trick and Gordon bowed."I don't think it is, King. It is somewhere. We just need to know the location. We could find it the way we found West." Brainold suggested."How, Brainold? Sixteen years ago was the last favor the Eye owed us." One of them asked."Well, I'm guessing that's where Trick will come in. I think he should pay a visit to Eye. She might have no choice, but to give us the location."Trick could only smirk....."What's gotten your panties tied up in a bunch, Kara? You're lucky your expression didn't cost you your internship." Zoey scolded, noticing her behavior.Kara sighed remembering everything that happened earlier. She doesn't know if she should fill Zoey in on it, especially since she was having serious doubt about it.It was impossible. So surreal. She shook her head refusing to believe it happened even though it actually did. She couldn't get it off her mind."There's something you guys should know, and you might doubt, Lucifer isn't the king of hell. He's under the command of a very powerful demon king."Layla scoffed, shaking her head. "Professor Hall, and his nonsense."Emily rolled her eyes and looked at her. "It might be true, Layla.""Don't see what is true about it, or why we should be learning history about the greatest unknown." Zoey agreed to Layla's statement."Well, I agree with Emily. He could be right. There could be something about a great unknown." Kara stated, not looking at them, her gaze fixated on nothing in particular."Kara Rogers, and her cohorts, please no talking in my class." Professor Hall warned.Kara blinked, and as professor Hall was moving away from the screen, and altar, he tripped on the stairs falling to the ground. "Whoa!" He exclaimed as he hit the floor.Kara blinked again, but things were different. Professor Hall wasn't on the floor. It made her frown wondering what was going on."We wonder about some things, and I'm sure a lot of us have stumbled upon the unexplainable. Unexplainable that has been shrugged off even by the best of us seeing how impossible it is. But if you look...if you look closely..." He said walking away from his altar towards the little stairs. "If you look closely, you'll see... Whoa!" He lost his stance and fell to the floor causing a gasp from everyone.Everyone except Kara.She was left short of words."They should change that black linen covering the ground. It has a hole that makes professors trip." Emily stated in a humorous tone.Zoey nodded in agreement with a smile on her face. "Yeah. I wonder how many teachers will fall before something is done.""Why don't you go do it? No one says it's a...""Shut up, Layla." Zoey shushed Layla in annoyance.Kara sighed shakily and nodded. 'What should I expect from today? Always been weird. It'll pass.' She consoled herself in her thoughts.....The day was a stressful day for Kara, she walked inside her home but found everywhere dark. She frowned knowing there was supposed to be light, and her family home.She switched on the light... "Happy birthday, Kara!!!" Her heart skipped at the echo. Her eyes widened at everyone smiling at her. Her family, and friends."No wonder, it's my birthday." She muttered reflectingly with a low sigh and a frown of distaste."Cheer up, Kara. It's your birthday." Zoey warned, walking closer to Kara, wanting to get that broody expression off Kara's face."It's just how it is. Never happy on her birthday no matter how hard we try." Jonah, her brother said.Kara just rolled her eyes, and took off her shoes and put her slippers on.She put on a very appeasing fake smile. "Thank you so much for this, guys. I appreciate." She told them and walked further in.Ellie placed a cone on her head and wore it for her. "Happy birthday. You shouldn't neglect your birthday." She pleaded.Kara nodded. "Yeah, I try not to, but I just forget. Thanks to you guys, I can never forget." She said with a dull expression. "Excuse me." She stated, and walked out on Ellie, and up the stairs to her room."This is funny. Isn't she supposed to be happy?" Someone asked the question in everyone's mind.Jonah sighed "Cause this day isn't just her birthday, it's also the day her real parents died." Jonah disclosed as he watched his sister's retreating back.Kara's door opened. She sighed knowing exactly who was going to enter. "It's obvious you're here to counsel me about earlier." She figured.Nora sighed and sat beside her as she kept laying on her bed. "How long are you going to let this affect you, Kara?""This is a day that I want to forget, mom. It's a tragic day for me.""It is your birthday, Kara."Kara shook her head and turned to the other side facing her mom. "It is the day I died, mom. My birthday no longer mattered since that unfortunate day of my life. My parents died that day, and everything in my head about that day isn't exactly roses. I just want to forget."Nora nodded in understanding. "I know. I get it, but...""No buts, mom. I'm only human. Except someone deletes that day from my memory, it has taken the position of my birthday." Kara told her as a matter of fact.Nora nodded again. "At least something good came out. Congrats on your internship."Kara smiled. "That should have been worth celebrating."******"When y
Kara stared deeply at the newspaper byline. "Truck swept woman, and child to death."Apparently, it was already investigated why the woman died. She got herself into the ordeal. She wanted to die because she no longer had anything to live for.Kara scoffed. "What a woman! If only the child has a say on it." She uttered, although still deep in thoughts about everything."Horrible right?" Zoey commented getting a seat beside Kara.Kara looked at her as she sat down, and dropped the article on her desk. "Indeed.""Funny how it happened in front of the Daily Research," Zoey stated.Kara just nodded. "We need to find a scoop. Something to write about, 'cause I sure as hell wanna leave this basement." She said looking around with a slight frown on her face.Zoey nodded in agreement. "And you sure as hell ain't the only one thinking that way. Everyone wants to leave. It's a competition""Right from high school, we've ruled the journalist world, and it's all thanks to the fact that my mom is
The Hook...Kara kept typing, trying to decipher where the place could be found, but it was becoming really hard, and time is not waiting patiently for her, since it was now the next two days.She sighed remembering the faces and still wondering how she saw something, or someone she's never seen before.Everything she's seen, she has always been there at that spot, but this time...it's different. She has no clue whatsoever."Hey, Kara!" She heard making her look up from her laptop."Layla." She responded with surprise, seeing Zoey beside her. "And you're here."Zoey nodded. "Yep. My class took longer than usual.""I know you guys will not be busy by four. I need your escort." Layla told us."To where?" I asked with furrowed brows."A club. I was invited by a friend to an underground club called The Hook." She informed.Kara's eyes widened at the information. "The Hook." 'Big coincidence.' She said in her thought.Layla nodded. "According to my friend, it's a club that only special peo
"Mommy! Mommy! No mommy please!" The little girl cried aloud seeing her mom's head separated from her body, and blood gushing all over.Her cries were very loud knowing her mommy has left her. Her mommy is dead.In anger, she glared at the monster and stood up to pursue the monster away. It must go away. The fire monster must go away!!"You..."She sighted her dad shake his head in disapproval. "Ca.."But before she knew it, she found herself flying with her scream all over the room, and then she rose from the bed like someone with a heart attack. Her breathing was incredibly fast, and it made her wonder when she'll ever stop having nightmares about that unfortunate day.After a heavy gulp to completely steady her breathing, she got a glimpse of her surrounding, and her face scowled as she looked around.She got off her bed wondering why she was in the middle of the road, and a seem to be empty city.Funny thing is, no matter the time, Capital City is never empty.She kept looking aro
"I was able to slightly decipher what that club 'The Hook'' is about, and I got something," Zoey informed Kara as she noticed Kara walking in, her eyes fixated on her laptop screen.Kara stopped beside her and nodded slowly in slight disbelief knowing how much she tried to. "Okay.""It's owned by a very weird name, but I'm sure it's a guy who calls himself Leopard."Kara frowned. "Weird name. How?"She raised her ticket up. "The serial number written on it. I traced it, and discovered it was faked, and not from a company.""You didn't confront the guy who faked it, right?" Kara asked her.Zoey shook her head. "Of course not. That would be stupid. Anna did that for me.""Anna Gray?" Kara asked loudly with a sudden frown and a distaste in her voice.Zoey nodded. "You know how she'd do anything for money. I paid her to help me get close to the guy since I discovered one of his weaknesses was women, and she was able to get this one information from him."Kara sat down. "A weird name, not
"Do you already have something you're researching about, cause I'm surprised you haven't met me for a scoop?" Nora asked looking at Kara as she stole a piece of cupcake her mom baked to give out to the orphanage tomorrow."Kara," Nora warned seeing she was disturbing her arrangement, and shortening the cakes."Last one," Kara promised with the food in her mouth and gulped it hard into her stomach."Be careful how you eat, Kara."Kara took water from the fridge and drank it."So answer my question."Kara nodded and closed the water. "Yes, kind of.""What kind? Not a dangerous kind, right?" Nora asked her.Kara sighed. "You are the one doing the dangerous work, mom, not me.""Tell me what you're researching about." Nora cajoled."Don't even know. Still working on loose ends, hoping it becomes something."Nora nodded. "I get that.""When is Sofia coming back?" Kara asked."Oh. She didn't tell you?""Tell me what?" Kara asked confused."She's sleeping over at Kate's. She won't be coming b
"How much longer do you think you can hide, Percillia?"Percillia shut her eyes closed for a while. "It means I don't want you to find me, Trick."Trick stood waiting for her to finish what she was doing, and then all her eyes opened. "What invited you to my abode?""Don't I have the right to come here?""I no longer owe the king anything, but I've known I'll meet one of you on my doorsteps one day. I warned about that last chance to be used wisely, but instead, Gordon was sent to do the job.""That was one flaw we'll always regret.""I'm sure it took some guts to come to me again. I owe you guys nothing."Trick nodded. "Well, you'll be surprised to know we owe you something. I'm sure your three eyes didn't help you to notice something of yours missing.""What did you do?" Percillia asked with clenched teeth like she was realizing something."I took something important of yours. Your eggs."Her eyes widened. "No!!""You do as I say, or your eggs hatch in my abode."....Zoey kept g
"Fourteen more days for the eggs to hatch. I'm sure Percillia will come around soon. She won't leave her eggs to die." He said looking at the eggs that sat still in his lair."Hmm. The eggs would have been a great addition to hell."Trick looked at him. "Lucifer, Lucifer. I'm pretty sure your dumbness is what got you sent out of heaven.""What do you mean by that?" Lucifer queried with a frown on his face."Truly the eggs would have been a great addition, but these eggs are programmed to die if their first sight isn't Percillia. Mama dragon made sure of that before she died.""Then it's useless then," Lucifer concluded.Trick shook his head. "Not useless. These are another of mama dragon's descendants, so I'm pretty sure Percillia will make sure her descendants don't go into extinction. It was a promise she made to mama dragon.""Don't you think there could be a way to reverse mama dragon's curse on her children?" Lucifer asked.Trick tilted his head at the eggs. "Hmm. Probably. But l