XENDA’S GAME (GUARDIANS OF THE INFINITE STONES)

CHAPTER FIVE

What was with the diamond? What was so important or scary about it? Dra refuses to buy it because there was something with it that he feared. That he was not supposed to be in possession of it if he was to live another day.

Then this woman shows up and tries to beat the leaving hell out of me because it meant that much that she gets the stone.

Was that why ugly was so determined to get it? What wealth did he mean it meant to the lord of their planet? Was it just because it was expensive or was it just priceless? Dear to the heart.

Something was up with it and I might have just stepped into yet the worst thing to ever happen to me.

“You just needed to act clever, didn’t you,” she whispered as she paced up and down in the cell they locked us up in.

The place was dim, the only sources of light came outside the passageway. At the center of the cells was a vast hole down. Where it led, I do not know, and I didn’t want to find out.

“Well, it’s pointless now. Because they will surely come and get that diamond if we don’t get out of this cell fast,” I spoke. Keeping my tone open.

She just glared at me and carried on pacing. She even went as far as beating her hands together in anger.

“Who sent you to steal the stone from me? Why did they send you to steal it?” I asked as I stopped her pacing by standing in front of her.

She then kicked me in my genitals and pushed me aside. “Never stand in my way again, human. And I can’t tell you that. For your own good. Because of you money loving nature, we are here,” she gestured for the place.

Then a guard that had an elephant face beat the bars as the way of silencing us.

I straggled back to my feet. Touching my cracked balls.

“I was just asking. Was this necessary?” I asked and walked to the bed.

She stopped and looked at me studiously, “that was for what you pulled off out there. Just wanted to let you know that you need to stay within. To show you, I will kill you if you try to do anything stupid.”

“Now that it’s settled. Tell me why you need the stone? Who wants it?” I asked. “Don’t even lie, Maggie,” I spoke and raised a disk looking thing at her.

She walked over and grabbed the disk from my hands defensively.

“I couldn’t help it, man. I needed to find out. But I never saw anything that will incriminate you,” I smiled for good measure.

She looked sideways. Then rolled her eyes to the people in the shadows.

“I’m sure the cat wouldn’t mind it. And his weird human will be good with it as well,” I smiled at them.

“I’m not a cat human. You better respect me if you leave to see outside again,” he spoke and withdraw a dagger, walking to me defensively. “And he is a human like you,” he looked at the man that was about a year younger than me.

I raised my hands in surrender, “I meant no disrespect... and he is not like me. He is a duplicate of me. I’m the original,” I spoke.

“You really suck at being good. Stick to being a thief. Anyway, what he meant to say is, we need your help out of this place before Xenda sends his people after the diamond,” she spoke.

The cat. Even though he never wanted to be called a cat, looked like a Pomeranian dog with back fur. He had gray eyes that sliced me up.

Then he put on black boots — making him look like pussy in boots. Then he tucked his dagger in the boots as he looked at Maggie.

His human friend was light in complexion with long black hair that he tied in a bun. He was putting on leather pants and a black coat.

But he had no weapons with him, because they got them when they threw him and his cat in here for whatever they did.

“Why would we help you? For what we have heard so far, you both are screwed with whatever you have done. And helping you wouldn’t help us in any way. Why would we help you both? Mostly him?” He glared at me.

“Because if we don’t get out of this prison, then we are all dead. As she said, Xenda will be coming...” I looked at her after what she said echoed in my head. “isn’t Xenda just a game? I was rushing to enter the game when I get enough coins,” I looked from one to the other for anything.

Then the human spoke, “we are all in Xenda’s game. Your levels just keep increasing, but this all thing we play to survive is Xenda’s game,” He elucidated.

I looked at Maggie to elaborate. But nothing.

“He knows because we are at a higher level than you. Because we thought the same. I know your level because you are not the only one that is good,” he raised a disk at me.

Well, the damn thing contained all the information about the person. At least the most important things. But that was only true if the person registered the game with the true information about them.

I just grabbed it and put it on my side hip. I just looked at all of them. Feeling as damn as all hell. They knew about the game and yet I thought it was a different game and I was rushing to enter a game that I was already in.

But if this was Xenda’s game, why did they include the level that stated Xenda’s game?

“Your father needs the infinite stones to rule the galaxy,” the cat spoke.

I looked at Maggie. Her father needed the stones to rule the world. What the hell did I just stumble into?