Chapter 3

Lily Castine was a slim light woman. She possessed a slender stature and was quiet busty. She had dark hair, brown eyes and had the face of an early teenager.

She was an ex-military woman and her time on the front lines had given her trauma but that did not make her stand down. Eventually she decided to settle and have a calm life and so she departed back to her home town only for her to find out it had been overrun-ed and taken over by the Harauki clan.

She swore that no matter what she would liberate her town and so the Archangels, a rebel group with the sole purpose of defeating the Harauki was created by her.

Now, she faces her most important mission-convincing the son of the tyrant that enslaved her home to join her and even though her first meeting with him didn’t go as thought she had hope.

After their encounter with Aaron her and Luke had decided to spend the night at a nearby motel.

They arrived at the poorly structured motel and entered to check in. They met the receptionist

“What do you want” he said tiredly and frustrated as if he hated his job.

“We would like a room please” Luke said.

The man turned to his back, picked one of the several keys that hung on the wall and handed one over to Luke. “You’re in room 206”.

“Thank you” Luke said, “Would you mind giving us directions”.

“Go out, take the stairs, first door on your right”.

They walked outside and viewed a janitor but paid no attention to him. They walked up the staircase and Lily looked down at the janitor once again only to notice something on his neck. It was a snake. She realized immediately that they were in imminent danger.

“We need to get out of here” she said to Luke who was surprised at current demand.

She held Luke by the hand and dragged him down the stairs. She looked at the janitor who pretended not to notice them and maneuvered their way to the back of the motel.

“The Harauki, their here” she said

“Wait if they found us, what of Aaron”

“Well,we just have to have hope that the future leader of the Harauki can take of himself”.

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I opened the door slowly and hoped that I had just forget to lock it. I entered my apartment and looked around and smelt something. Someone was in the kitchen cooking and whatever the person was cooking had a very arousing odour. I then remembered that there was an intruder in my house and pulled myself back to reality.

I headed to the kitchen while holding my kunai. I kicked-open the door an threw my kunai at the first figure I saw. The person easily dodged it and continued cooking.

I started assessing the person and I assumed the person was male due to the lack of bulging in the chest region.

“Assessing me already. You truly are the future king of the Harauki. Don’t worry you won’t find anything”.

I was stunted. I have always been able to assess everybody but he was different. It was like he taught himself how to hide everything that could give him out.

“What do you want”, I said trying to buy time.

“Your father wants you”, he said while bring out a transparent plate from the cabinet. “Food for the road”.

“I am not going back”, I said.

Upon hearing my statement he burst into laughter. “Once the Harauki wants something they send me their harbinger to deliver it for them and I always do no matter what. So now lets stop the chit-chat and lets skip to the part where I try to take you, you struggle but eventually I defeat you and I drag your stupid ass back to the door step of the clan.

He was not lying. Based on my lack of training, my fatigue and his own personal skill that I am not aware of, it was obvious that I was going to lose.But I was not going down without a fight.

I rushed to the kitchen to get a knife for defence but he was faster and caught me mid-way. He held my hand, dragged me towards him and used his other hand to punch me in the face but luckily I defended. He released my hand and hit me in the stomach and the impact sent me flying backwards in the direction of the kitchen.

I felt pain in my stomach but I was closer to the kitchen, closer to my goal. He jumped up and raised his leg. He was planning to hit me in the face. I quickly turned away and slightly missed his kick. I got up and ran to the kitchen and threw random things at him - pots, pans, knifes, fruits, even chips. Most didn’t hit him but the ones that did slowed him down.

I looked to my right and there it was, the box but it was on top a cabinet. I stretched my hand towards the box and fell it down and some of the items it contains fell out and with that I felt fulfilled. The only person that can save me now is Lily.

I turned to him and immediately he landed a punch on my face. I fell to the ground and passed out and unfortunately my life was in Lily’s hands.

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