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The Devil's Claw The Rising Flames
Keith was staring at the Mansion on fire, standing in front of its main gate, where cars of fire brigades and ambulances were gathered to evacuate and rescue the people there. It was once a big silver building with ten white pillars on the front of it, spaced in an order with a regular gap in between. Windows were as large as doors made of wood and glass and its wide corridors could be seen from far away the building. It was named as Mansion of Janes where the famous elite family named Janes were living and controlling all the affairs of city named Derfin including banking, media, journalism, accounting and everything, either directly or indirectly through some agents from all renowned companies regularly reporting to them about their internal affairs. "Thanks to God! Sir Micheal janes and his wife Dina along with their two older sons are saved!" said one of the rescuers in a loud tone. "But what happened to Watson? Their youngest son. He is nowhere to be found!" cried out other rescu
The Devil's Claw Helplessness
As years passed by, Sir Richard got closer and closer to acknowledging Keith's extraordinary mental abilities, like he could solve the most complicated mathematical problems without using calculator at only 11 years of age, design a map or structure of building without using any parameters or scales, and he could also tell height, length, width, weight, distance etc. of things accurately. During his recently started Astronomy class, "So Keith, why do you think that Earth revolves around the Sun while Sun is stationary?" asked Richard with his elevated brows as he assumed Keith wouldn't be able to answer. "Isn't it the apparent shift of nearby stars every six months, as the Earth moves from one side of orbit to other?" answered Keith in a simple tone. Richard was shocked to hear this answer because he has not taught anything of Astronomy to Keith yet, "Since when did you start observing the movement of stars without using telescope?" asked Richard. "I never observed that, but I just be
The Devil's Claw Reality, The Worst Nightmare
Keith kept quiet the whole time during breakfast with his family, his eyes were still as he was lost somewhere in his own world of imaginations, "What are you thinking? Keith" asked his father in a casual tone. Keith didn't answer, though his eyes were no longer still. "What's wrong with you? Is it Richard's death that's bothering you?" asked his father again in a casual tone. Keith ignored his father again and continued eating creamy fruit salad with fork. "You think your this behavior would bring back your tutor?!" yelled his father. "Calm down honey!" said mother, "He's just a kid, and he has already not eaten anything since yesterday". "He's no longer a kid, he understands everything, if his mentality towards us stays like this, he would one day be our own enemy!" yelled father again while getting up and leaving the table. "Your father has gone crazy, a kid and an enemy! does it even make sense? Just ignore him, Keith" said mother in a sarcastic manner after father had left. Keith
The Devil's Claw The Last 10 seconds
Although Keith had found out how brutally Sir Richard was killed, but he still hadn't found out the reason for all that. Despite his worsening condition, he hardly got hold of himself, sat again on the chair in front of table where laptop was placed, and there he clicked the play button on all recorded footages, covering different views of the Mansion to search for that particular reason which he believed could be some conversation between his father and his murdered tutor. Clicking and playing through most of the footages, he painfully found out that his family wasn't only used to hurt low class people at minor levels, like punishing them with sticks and pipes for little mistakes, giving them degrading remarks, overburdening them, starving them for consecutive days, and so on, but also physically tortured them and brutally killed them whenever they liked to do it, because of their own frustration or uncontrollable anger and hatred towards them. For this brutal purpose, they had a sp
The Devil's Claw Another Horrible Incident
Seeing his father's worried face, "Dad, don't panic, every thing will be alright" said Keith while looking straight into his father's eyes, "Instead of guarding the areas where cameras don't cover, why don't you just install some more cameras?" asked Keith in a calmly serious tone. "Because our fucking security got hacked by someone within our own mansion, no matter how many cameras we install, we are going to be hacked! Dammit!" replied Jason in an angry tone. " I think it is some unfortunate time for Janes, we should face it with patience and courage.." said mother while patting Watson's head who was standing just besides her. "Whoever it is, he will be witnessing hell before he dies, that's for sure" father predicted just before leaving the hall. After the reports of six dead bodies, no other body was found there, and the reports had stopped. But it all had left a terribly bad impact on Janes especially on Micheal and all other Entrusted class carrying out their respective duties t
The Devil's Claw Dina's Speech
This recent incident was more of a horrible mystery, rather than some normal unfortunate happening, because there was not even a single survivor. There were so many unanswered questions and unsatisfied comprehension of the event. First question was whether it was an incident or someone plotted it, because carbon monoxide cylinders were already there, to facilite domestic purposes like generators, stoves, grills etc. Second question was based on the answer of first one, if it was someone who did it, then is it someone from basement or could it be someone outside the basement. Third question was why there was not even a single survivor, because there was a certain possibility that alarms and other CO detectors would turn on automatically. Fourth question was the most common one, that whether all these events one after other were connected or were these just coincidences. All these uncertainties were creating hype and panic not only among Janes but also all others residents and workers o
The Devil's Claw Keith's Wrath
That night Keith played on the recent footages to check the latest updates. Though he was sitting there in the bank as main accountant, yet he had placed his laptop in a way that screen couldn't be seen in the camera above him, installed to keep an eye. When the spy agent working in security department, named Miss Saila noticed his way of sitting and placing his laptop, she felt something suspicious. She immediately went to Micheal and informed him that she feels something not right about his son sitting's position. "Sir, don't mind but your son Keith has been sitting in that same posture for about 2 hours.. It doesn't feel right, should we check him?" asked Miss Saila. "No Saila, I'm going to have some break, I will check him on my way" answered Micheal in a casual tone. At that time, Keith was watching a footage in which his older brother was raping the maid named Kate, the only maid Keith liked the most. Then he played the next footage, where he saw how his mother was beating the c
The Devil's Claw The Flower that grows into Deserts
"You bastard! You traitor" said Jason in shockingly angry voice, "I will kill you once and for all" Jason repeatedly cursed Keith, as he started moving towards Keith with filled up anger. Keith poured gasoline in between them, separating mother, father and Jason on one side while Keith and Watson on other side of fire. Micheal and Dina were in shock, couldn't say a word, while Watson had realized that it wasn't some sort of game, "Brother Keith you're a traitor! You should better die" said Watson angrily as tears flowing down his cheeks. On seeing his mother full of burns and wounds, Watson just couldn't stand still and started running towards her, going through the fire... "Aahhhh" Watson was crying and screaming as fire had wrapped him up all around. Dina tried to protect him but her legs weren't helping, Micheal and Jason kept on seeing Watson burning in shock. Covered in fire, Watson kept moving rapidly and irregularly out of pain, till his foot got slipped on the edge of roof. "W
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Magical Uncertainties
First, Raymond's death was something of a incomprehensible mystery, as he was wearing a bullet proof suit similar to Keith's to protect him from being shot to death. Secondly, this hardened material that protected Keith and Karin was never seen before. What was it.. Why did it protect them... Keith felt like Halaya was somewhere around, looking at him and it was some sort of her magical power's interference. But no, she couldn't be seen around. "What's this?!" asked Karin in shockingly worried tone as she found themselves surrounded by some green crystal like hardened material making a circle all around them. Seeing this green crystal making a sheild around them to protect them, Arthur ordered everyone around to retreat. In no time, all helicopters circling above their heads went back to Mansion from where they came. Keith felt like Arthur knew something about it, and he wanted to hide it from the world, so he retreated in such a hurry. But what had broken Keith's existence into piece
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Losing Another Friend
Keith's double roles, both as an Elite performing brutal rituals on the public, as well as Avenger working against Elites, killing them in the same way as they had killed some low class victim, was now confusing all Elite families. Micheal Janes was being questioned repeatedly on the media about what was the matter with his son. Despite Micheal's repeated scolding to Keith about his avenging, he stayed stubborn. Before Micheal would say anything as an answer to all those raising questions on media, Keith himself held a press conference to explain his current situation to public. Wearing a robotic dress all over his body which he had made all by himself most presumably, to avoid getting shot, because now he knew his life was in danger, "Dear world... Elites thought that they had won over me, by making me addicted to that shit drug.. But neither did I stop avenging before in my life, nor will I ever stop that! Keep that in mind! Sorry Elites.. I can't be changed.. No matter how many dru
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Stubborness
The next morning, there was a knock at Keith's room on early morning. "Yes.." mumbled Keith in a sleepy tone, as he was still sleeping. Rim entered the room... "Sir.. What have you become?" asked he, in a sadly rough tone, as he shook Keith's shoulder to make him awake properly. Keith looked at Rim, now with widely opened eyes.. Tears filled into his eyes.. sat up hardly, rubbed his eyes.. "Why are you here... Rim?" asked Keith in a firmly sad tone, avoiding looking at Rim's face. "Sir.. You're not this.. Wake up and show the truth to the world.." cried out Rim, now bursting out of emotions. "Rim.. Who will believe in me now?" asked Keith in a helplessly sad tone, while moving his head sideways. "Everyone will do.. Just don't give up.. Just don't stop avenging!" screamed Rim, his voice shaken and broken as tears were flowing through his eyes. Keith looked at him.. He felt good that Rim still believed in him after every worst thing that had happened... "Rim.. You're a good friend" said
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Curtains fell, one after another!
As Halaya woke up, she saw some black fatty nurse of about 35 plus years, putting some medicines on the tray. "Where's Carver?!" asked Halaya, in loudly worried tone, as she hardly managed to sat up, with her back rested on the back of Hospital bed. "Don't panic! he's alright.. You rather need to be worried about yourself Miss" said that nurse, in a slightly rough tone. "What do you mean? What happened to me?" asked Halaya, in confused tone, as she tried to remember what exactly happened. "You got fainted! Don't you remember?" asked that nurse, in rude tone. "Yeah I remember.. I hadn't eaten anything since I came here.. So I got fainted.." said Halaya, as she turned her face aside. "Wow! Great! You do finally remember everything now! then how don't you remember something more? You're pregnant Miss!" said that nurse, in a taunting tone, while moving her big hands around in a bluntly angry manner. "What?! No! Not now!" said Halaya as she helplessly faced palm. "Yeah! But luckily, I have
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Unwilling Settlement
[Caution : Violence]In the midnight, as Halaya came to see Carver lying on the hospital bed, his hand dripped, and his forehead having placed sponge to reduce his fever, she patted his head, kissed his side of forehead.. She knew that she was the only one for Carver and that he had no one else.. Though Arthur was his father, but after Najers found out that Carver had no special powers transferred to him from his mother, his behavior had changed towards him. Carver was then treated mainly as a trash, the child born for no reason at all. Though Arthur was used to physically abuse Halaya, but it wasn't the case with Carver. To him, Arthur never ever slapped or did any type of physical abuse, but mental abuse was common. Carver was mostly told that he was born just as a result of experiment, and that he wasn't loved at all. He was also told that his mother left him because she didn't love him enough. However, despite such continuous brainwashing, Carver never really hated his mother, inst
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Separation
Next morning, during the breakfast, while all the Janes were sitting in the main family hall, along with watching news, in which it was being shown how Machia family and Najer family had combined their forces against Janes family. "The plot played by Janes is extremely selfish. We also had access over Halaya, but we kept her as everyone's property" said the Thrish Najer, the owner of Najer family. "Keith is a Janes' masterpiece. Though he has gained access over Halaya, through his useful mental tactics, but he is neither the husband of her, nor the guardian of her. She either belongs to us or the Najers" said King Yumas Machia during his speech. "Keith was himself always a super power, having Halaya by his side, is something that has now made him invincible. If all the major Elite families wouldn't still combine their forces against him, we can never overcome him" said Dashi Rogera, the owner of Rogera family, one of the major Elite families. Thus, all the minor families that once app
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Husband vs Henatal Holder
That night, at about 2AM, Halaya got a call from the same unsaved number she got a call before. She knew it was Arthur.. He was trying to contact her again for some reason.. She knew that it was emotionally overburdened for her to talk to him.. But maybe he had to talk about Carver.. Why would he need to talk about him.. She kept on thinking.. Questioning and then answering to her own assumptions.. There was a knocking at her door.. Was it Arthur.. She immediately sat up in extreme fear.. Knocking got harder.. She shakingly asked, "Who?" in loud tone. "Open the door, Halaya" said Keith, in gently calm tone. She felt a relief.. It was Keith after all.. As she opened the door, Keith was standing there, with holding a knife in his hand.. "You.. at this time" said Halaya, in firmly serious tone.. There was a gap of silence.. Keith entered the room and locked the door.. "I need your fresh blood" said he, as he showed her that knife. "Why's that?" asked she, in curiously firm tone. "Because
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Unsettled things
[Mature Content Warning]On next morning, when all of Janes were having breakfast, sitting on the table in Main Family Hall, watching news along with eating, there was a knocking at the door. "Yes?" said Micheal in slightly loud tone. "Sir, there are some low class people gathered outside our main gate.. They said they want to meet Prince Keith.." said a worker, who then left from there after Jason gestured him to leave. Keith stood up, "Let me see" said he, as he left from there. After Keith reached there, people started clapping and hooting like they had seen some famous celebrity standing in front of them, "Keith! Our hero!" they repeatedly raised slogans to make him feel motivated. "Who are you people?" asked Keith, as he felt like he had never seen those faces before. One of them came forth, "Keith, we want you to resume avenging.. Look, we've proofs of brutality done by Elites to our relatives" said he, as he opened his mobile screen. "Call this number and register your name the
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Naked Reality
"Keith! You've done great job!" said his Dad in a loud tone, as he was brought there by Raymond in a Helicopter, which then landed there. Herlin and Rebecca ran towards Keith and hugged him tightly, "Keith rocks!" said they repeatedly, in cheerful tone. "Brother Keith, you've proved it that it is now Janes' reign!" said Safrali, in excitedly happy tone. Rasmali happily nodded. Jason punched Keith's back, "I can't believe that you stole those books all of your own!" said he, in gladly smiling tone. After the Halaya had used her powers, she fell unconscious, as before. Her body temperature was high, like she was having a fever. She was taken to the hospital, antipyretics were given to her to bring down her temperature. Though his family was appreciating him, he wasn't happy at all.. It was because of Halaya's reality that had become open to him now.. He felt like he had no longer any access over her.. She was someone's else wife.. It was hurting him deeply in a way that he felt like it
