episode 54
**The next morning**
Slimmy and OJ were discussing behind the gate of the Arch Angels mansion while their boys were assembled outside the gate with three cars there, all ready for the rescue mission. The Arch Angels had a total of eight men while the Tigers had seven, most of them weren’t dressed fully in their uniforms but only had a touch of their colours on their clothes, except for their leaders who were fully dressed.
“We can’t just go together, some of our boys have to wait as backup,” Slimmy was saying to OJ as they strategized their movements. “Maybe your assistant should wait here with Rough and some of the boys from both teams while we lead some other boys there.”
“Sounds okay,” OJ agreed. “So how many boys are you suggesting we go with?”
“Humm… I think the formation should be like this,” OJ began to demonstrate with his hands. “Let’s split into three teams; both of us would lead the first team, let’s call it team A. Rough could lead the second team, Team B while your assistant leads the third team, Team C. Since we are fifteen altogether, each team should have five people in it, that means the both of us are going to get three more people to join us. Now, ” Slimmy squatted and picked up a small broomstick, he began to sketch something on the floor.
“There are two major routes to the place,” he continued, this time illustrating with the diagram. “Team A would take the right route while team B, the left but they won’t get to the place with us, they’ll wait at a close distance. Team C would also take the right route and wait at a reasonable distance too. And when we get there and we see what’s on ground, we’ll contact the necessary team or both if needed.” Slimmy finished explaining and got up.
“Nice strategy! ” OJ applauded, staring at Slimmy’s face with a smile. He secretly wished he could enroll and learn some tactics from the Arch Angels after the battle but the ego he had as a rival cult leader would never allow that.
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“Here,” Kong was squatting behind a “Ghana must go” bag, bringing out bundles of money in two hundred naira notes and handing them over to the boys in front of him. “We have nothing to do with these girls, they aren’t our real goals, they are just a means to an end.” He looked up and said to them. Then he rose up to his feet after handing a bundle to the last of the twenty boys.
“Slimmy and OJ are our main goals now, and they are coming for the girls already, I already got a text message from one of the spies saying they are in their way to Rushi.” Kong said to the boys. “The goal is to capture Slimmy and OJ alive because I want to make them concede defeat and I’ll make a video record of them, to announce to the world that I’ve finally taken over. We will kill the rest of the boys straightaway. The only reason we would kill Slimmy or OJ before making them concede is if they claim to be stubborn or want to give us too much tough time. Remember, we have a greater advantage because we outnumber them and we also know all of their steps, let’s use this advantage to kill them all.” He paused and looked at all of his boys faces, just like the late Host used to. “Does everyone understand?” He shouted in a determined tone.
“Yes!” They all replied with a different type of determination in their voices. Theirs was not determination to take over but it was the determination stirred by the money on their palms.
Kong took in a deep breath and then signaled to one of the boys to pick up the bag of money and take it into another room. The money was what he had been able to make in just few weeks after Host had died and he became the major hitman and guardian of the Arch Angels’ arsenal.
While the rest of the Arch Angels and Tigers had been enjoying their moment of peace after the treaty was signed, Kong and Hercules had been working underground, making money by carrying out assassination jobs and political thuggery with the weapons of their cults. They had their proposed takeover well strategized already but Gentle’s disagreement with Slimmy gave them an early opportunity to start.
Kong’s phone notification tone sounded, he took it out immediately and swiped down the notification bar. “We just stopped on the way now, we’re waiting at some distance from Rushi. I don’t know what for and I don’t know if Capon and the rest are still heading for Rushi or going elsewhere ” he read. He looked at the eager faces of his boys and made a chuckle. Then he began to type a reply to the message. “Can you move away from the group, I need to speak with you and intimate you on some things” Kong sent. Few seconds later, he got the reply. “I’ll enter into the bush in three minutes, you can call then.”
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Rough sat on the bonnet of the car eagerly waiting for instructions from her Capon, as it was now, she was the second in command of the Arch Angels. From time to time, she’ll glance back to the boys who were standing around the car, close to the bush and either discussing things in low tones or soliloquizing but she also took notice of one who had been busy with his phone all through.
Not that she was too strict like the late Host who wouldn’t allow anyone use their phones in his presence but there was something about his seriousness with the phone. One more thing that got her suspicious about the boy was the way he vibrated when their eyes met. At first, she discarded his vibration to think that he was only afraid of being caught chatting with his phone by the second in command but she began to ponder more on it later. No one under normal circumstances would have a mood for chatting or playing games or whatever he was doing with the phone when they were going on a serious mission like this.
To make matters worse, the boy rose from the boot of the car where he was previously seated and said something to the other boys before he began to walk into the bush.
Rough climbed down the bonnet and walked to the back of the car. “Where did he say he was going to?” She asked the rest of the boys.
“He wants to ease himself,” one of the boys answered.
“Okay,” Rough nodded thoughtfully and returned back to the car to pick up something.
Rough climbed down the bonnet and walked to the back of the car. “Where did he say he was going to?” She asked the rest of the boys.
“He wants to hiss himself,” one of the boys answered.
“Okay,” Rough nodded thoughtfully and returned back to the car to pick up something.
She opened the safe of the car and took out a small transparent nylon containing bullets, she hid it in the pocket of her big hooded jacket. Without arousing suspicions she also told the boys she needed to pee too, she entered into the bush but not directly into the part that the first guy had entered through, when she was out of view to the boys by the car she then traced her way back to where the guy went through, she made sure to walk as slow and silent as possible to keep her presence unknown to the guy, she saw the guy standing with his phone to his ear, Rofiat kept a reasonable distance but could hear the guy’s voice from where she was.
“Baba na lie ooh…. You mean say una don commot from that place…. so na trap you wan set for dem Slimmy n Oj…. Haaa Baba you bad ooo” The guy kept on laughing silently but wickedly as Kong kept on telling him about the plans, Rofiat waited silently and patiently to see if the guy could talk some more. “Baba u no go believe say na dat Rough dey lead my team now, meee, woman dey lead my team….. Baba no talk say no beordinary woman joor, woman na woman……Ok baba…. I sabi Rothman’s street na… Enh that house for number 57, sheybi na der me and you go hide weapon dat day wey your girl just dey worry us…. No wahala baba, no wahala as soon as everything finish, na der I go dey run come” the guy dropped the call, kept his phone in his pocket and walked back to where the boys by the car where.
Rofiat came out immediately behind him, the guy was shocked to the throat and was scared that she might have heard all his conversation.
“Someone should collect this guy’s phone and check his last caller” Rofiat ordered.
“For wetin na” the guy protested as she immediately got up to defend himself incaseof any attacks.
“Do you have anything to hide” Rofiat asked.
“Wetin I wan get to hide na” the guy replied.
“Then bring out your phone, let’s check your last dialled or received call” Rofiat ordered again.
The guy paused and stared around calculating his odds and chances, the were four all of the, does he stand a chance of taking all of them out if he is fast enough, he pondered over it for a while.
“Okay Okay, let me bring out my phone” he mumbled as he swiftly quickly laid his hand on his gun behind his trousers and was about bringing it out, Rofiat who was already at alert shot him straight in the head even though she didn’t aim for any part of his body.
The remaining guys jerked back and all stared in surprise at what just played down, one of them then moved closer and them raised the guy’s shirt only to see his hands on a gun, the guy proceeded further and brought out the guy’s phone, fortunately the phone was still unlocked for whatever reasons, he scrolled the phone through to the caller’s log and exclaimed when he saw the last dialled.
“Na Kong number be the last the call wey hin receive oh” All of them but Rofiat who was already dialling Slimmy’s number had shock on their faces. Rofiat was dialling the number for the second time as Slimmy didn’t pick at first, luckily the call was picked the second time.
“Hello Capon” Rofiat Spoke to the phone with a pinch eagerness and excitement.
“Rough which one na, shey you no say my phone no suppose dey ring, we are about tolaunch an attack na” Slimmy complained.
“Boss it’s a trap, it’s a trap, you guys should return back here Asap” Rofiat Screamed on the phone.
“Rough you are making no sense, calm down and explain to me properly” Slimmy replied calmly.
“Okay, one of the guys that was in my team was giving out information to Kong, I caught him talking to Kong over the phone and from their conversation, I gathered that they are not in Rushi, it’s just a trap they are trying to lure you and Oj into” Rofiat explained.
Slimmy kept mute for a while as he thought everything through “Rough” he spoke after a moment of silence, just stay where you are, we will be there now so we can all make another strategy and formation all over again” Slimmy Replied and the line went dead.
Rofiat collected the dead guy’s phone and began to study the code and manner which he and Kong use in passing messages to each other because she knew they will have to send Kong a message with the guy’s phone to lure him into his own trap.
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Oj began dialling Small’s number immediately Slimmy told him what Rofiat had just found out, Slimmy made a u-turn as they enroute back to where Rough and his team were.
“Hello Small”. Oj said.
“Yes baba” Small hailed.
“It’s a trap ooh, you guys should abort, head back to where team C is” Oj ordered.
“Yes boss” Small replied and the line went dead.
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Kong went into the room where Halimat and Hadijat was being held, he looked at them and felt pity at how their once beautiful and glowing face now looked gloomy, sad and pained, though despite all that they still look beautiful but not as ravishing and glowing like before.
“When all this is over” Kong said “I will have one of you as my girlfriend because I see the two of you have soft spot for Capons offraternities, or who knows, I might just have the two of you for myself”
Kong started laughing hysterically as he enjoyed how everything was turning out, he stared at them waiting for one of them to speak back at him but when he got no reply from any of them, he started walking outside still laughing.
“I’d rather die” Hadijat spoke just as Kong was about to open the door “I’d rather die than be with a coward like you”
Kong turned back and gave her an evil stare “Die you shall die then” Kong replied and left the room.
tbc
episode 55
“I’d rather die” Hadijat spoke just as Kong was about to open the door “I’d rather die than being with a coward like you”
Kong turned back and gave her an evil stare “Die you shall die then” Kong replied and left the room.
A message entered into Kong’s phone as Kong stepped into another room. He took out the phone from his pocket before he sank into a settee, he then opened the chat application.
“Baba, Slimmy don turn back o, im say igbo dey smell for Rushi.” He read the message from his informant.
“Igbo dey smell ke? Where im dey now?” Kong replied to the message hastily.
“I no know but he be like say them dey think say some people dey inside that Rushi compound.” Another message entered into the phone.
“Nobody dey there na, na only the grenade wey we set for the last room dey. The thing go explode immediately anybody enter the room con step im foot near the thing.”
“I go update you anyhow the thing dey go sha,” another message entered before going offline.
“Shi*t!” Kong stamped his feet on the ground in anger, also hitting his fists on the arms of the chair. He got up and dropped his phone on the sofa, pacing angrily around.
“What kind of person was Slimmy?” He asked himself, he remembered two occasions when he had tried to lure Slimmy into death when they were sent on missions as co hitmen. “Why wouldn’t he just die and let the war just end?” He asked himself again, this time scratching his head with his fingers.
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Rough entered into the backseat of the car as she saw Slimmy’s car approaching, she ordered for the guy seated behind the wheels to ignite the engine. Rough didn’t close the door but was waiting for Slimmy’s car to pass first but the car stopped as they leveled up.
“Rough, why una never go?” Slimmy wind down the glass and asked.
“I wan confirm something first,” she replied him.
“Make we comot for here now o, police fit appear soon.” Slimmy said to her in form of an advice. “Na the guy body we see for back?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, make we go caban first.” Slimmy said before winding up the glass. Their car moved and Rough’s team car followed behind.
**Fifteen minutes later**
Small and his team were already waiting at the Arch Angels mansion when team A and team B arrived. Some of the boys ran to open the gate immediately for Slimmy’s car to be driven in. Rough’s team car was parked outside like Small’s. Immediately after the opened gate was closed, Small and Rough marched in to meet their bosses while the younger boys who had gone with team A stepped out of the compound.
“What’s happening now?” Slimmy asked Rough as soon as she came into sight.
“I’m trying to scope Kong,” she replied and took out the phone she collected from the mole. “Is there any power bank here?” She asked. She had put on the camera of the phone to stop it from locking as there would be no one to unlock it it it did, now the battery was low.
Slimmy turned back to the driver’s side of his car and took out his solar energy power bank. He handed it to Rough who rested her back on the body of the car and connected the USB cord to the phone. She closed the camera and opened back WhatsApp. She began to type a message. Oj and Small also came closer to have a hint of what was happening.
“They set bombs into the last room of Rushi for us,” Rough said to the listening ears of her audience. “Kong knew we were coming there and he also has informants here with us; we should be more watchful of those juniors now.” She said and continued to chat in silence.
“But how Kong take get money for bomb na?” Slimmy asked aloud, although to himself.
“I think he’s been going out for operations without letting the house know; what I believe is that his recent frequent visits to nightclubs have been lies all the way. He was going out for operations while telling us he was going to club. And that is how he was able to lure several of the juniors into following him, most times he takes them along and pays them very well.”
“So you think he’s been doing all these while the Regionals have banned us from doing other jobs for the moment?”
“How else do you think he’s been getting all those monies to fund himself?” Rough said.
“It’s true,” Small joined, he took a quick glance at his boss who now had his narrow look on him, expecting him to reveal a secret. “I suspected Hercules’s recent excuse of clubbing too, Hercules never liked to club, he always complained of too much noise because of his ear problem.”
“We never suspected anything,” Slimmy said. “Kong was always clubbing before, so we just thought he was exhibiting his usual lifestyle.”
There was silence for some minutes, each of them were staring at Rough to give them a report, so that they could think of the next step. Small was frequently going out to check the boys at the gate.
“What’s going on?” Slimmy asked Rough impatiently.
“Wait!” She said, even though Slimmy wasn’t waiting, he was already peeping into the phone to read the conversation. “He’s shot falling…”
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Kong was still pacing around the room and thinking of his next step when his phone beeped again, another message had entered.
“Baba, Slimmy has said we’re going to wait several metres away from Rushi and block all entrance to the place” he read the message from his informant.
“That means he’s trying to lay ambush for me?”
“Yes, he believes that you and the guys would be coming to Rushi or leaving soon. He would kill them and leave one alive to make sure the person leads him to where the girls are.”
“Hehe…” Kong typed in with a big grin smiley. “I’m sending my boys to wipe them out now, shey they are all fourteen.”
“Yes.”
“Okay, I’ll send only ten men. Since we know their plan, we have the advantage.”
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“Kong is sending boys to Rushi now, let’s ignore those ones and go straight to 57, Rothman’s street where the girls are. Hadijat’s life means so much to me.” Slimmy announced loudly. “We’ll call the police on the way and lure them into meeting Kong’s boys at Rushi.”
“How far, una don reach there”
“Yes baba, we don reach” One of Kong’s boys replied at the other end of the line.
“Una see anybody there” Kong asked again.
“We don sight their car but we never see anybody, I will call you back, we want to take a closer look at the car”
The call was terminated and Kong paced around the room, he couldn’t wait for all of these to be over already. He was still moving around haphazardly when his phone started ringing.
“How far” Kong said into the phone with a lot of uneasiness.
“It’s empty, Kargo’s dead body is right here. We have been tricked” the guy replied
“You people should retreat back here Asap” Kong ordered.
“Errrmm I don’t think that will be possible, the cops are here, it’s an ambush…” The guy managed to reply before Kong started hearing sounds of gunshots on the other end of the line.
“Shiiiiit” Kong cussed as he quickly ran out of the room and entered into the living room where the rest of the boys were.
“You all should arm yourselves right now, I am sure that Slimmy and Oj are headed in this direction right this minute” Oj said as he started loading bullets into his own gun himself.
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A group of five men were seen in a very beautiful mansion, they all sat on a round table. While some were smoking hemps and cigarette, some were just drinking alcoholic wines and whiskeys. The setting of the house was themed with green, everything was green except for the ceiling which was white, they all continued with whatever they were doing until one of them stood up.
“I swear pon Jah rastafaria me gon make that guy pay him dues with him blaad” Ace weaving his dreadlocks around, that was how he exhibits his anger whenever his anger was at it’s peak.
“Ace calm down first” Emperor, also a regional leader and one of the guys sitting on the roundtable cautioned Ace.
“Whatcu mean calm down home boy, watchu mean calm down, watta guan” Ace replied angrily.
“My friend calm your nerves and sit your f--k!ng azz down there” Emperor shouted back at him.
Ace immediately brought out his revolver and pointed it at Emperor. Emperor stood up and moved closer to Ace placing the gun on his own head.
“Shoot me coward, shoot me” Emperor dared.
“Even after five years that both of you had graduated from university, you both still see each other as rivals” Cent cuts in as he stepped in between both of them and Separated them.
“No mind them jaare, make them they fight like cat and dog every time we get meeting” Ghost joked as he stood up and walked to the fridge to Bring out another bottle of wine.
“Guys can we proceed with the meeting now” Lexi beckoned on them.
Ace, Emperor, Ghost, Cent and Lexi are the five regional leaders of the Arch angels, they controlled the major affairs of the fraternity while Lexi acts as the leader of the five, the staff of leadership was always been rotated among the five of them. Host was supposed to be the next capon to join the regional leaders but unfortunately he couldn’t live long enough, Slimmy has also been considered to have the attributes needed to be a regional leader but Ace who has always seen Slimmy as the younger version of Emperor had opposed the notion right from the start, Emperor who has grown to like Slimmy so much because he reminded him of his dealings when he was also a capon, a co-capon actually.
Emperor and Ace used to be best friends when they both were freshers in the university but their friendship faded away in the quest for power, Ace saw Emperor as a major threat to him being the Capon while Emperor hated Ace due to his thirst for blood and his trigger happy life style, Ace was always ready to kill anyone and anything blocking his part, rumours had it that he killed his parents by himself just to prove to people how heartless he is. Despite all his ruggedity and crazy lifestyle, there was only one person that was never and will never be afraid of him, Emperor. After long fights about who was going to be made Capon between the two of them, a compromise was reached that both of them should be made Co-capons..
“Strong men, what do we say we do about this Slimmy’s issue” Lexi asked.
“I’ll say we give him more time, say like a week at least” Emperor said.
“And if at the end of next week, he still refuse to pay his dues and still relates with enemy gang” Ghost asked as he puffed some smoke into the air.
“Then we cut his wings, strip him of being an angel and kill him” Cent replied with all seriousness.
“Sounds fair” Lexi replied.
“When the time comes to kill him, I will like to lead that attack” Ace said as he stared straight into Emperor’s eyes.
“Granted” Lexi replied Ace.
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Kong alongside some boys barged into the room where Halimat and Hadijat were being held, they loosed the ropes that was used in tying them and they marched them forward to the living room. Everyone in the living room were armed to the teeth except for Halimat and Hadijat who were made to sit on the two sitter couch, they had no idea what was happening but they knew whatever was about to go down is not favourable to the boys in the room as they all had unhappy looks on their faces.
“Do not let them out of sight until you get a go ahead from me and if in any case you think I have been taken down, Killed them both” Kong paused and stared into Hadijat’s frightened face and smiled “Kill this one first” he ordered as he kept on stroking Hadijat’s hair with his gun.
They all went outside immediately leaving only one of the boys with Halimat and Hadijat that has been tied together again. No sooner than they all stepped outside they saw Slimmy and Oj’s car approaching.
Tbc
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