THE UNION

Chapter 1: Supernaturals

"Presenting the villain of this story is me! Essence, your one and only true villain with a taste of

revenge.........." Smiles in a funny way.

In a white room filled with balls and a single chair, there is a young black tall Nigeria man with a very

strong Ijebu accent wearing a jumpsuit is sitted on the chair, scratching his left hand and he suddenly

faces the front of the room.

"I know you people are probably wondering what's going on but don't worry......." Essence stands up

from the chair and smiles.

"Welcome to a world filled with Humans and Supernaturals, who are the Supernaturals?" Licks his lips

with his tongue and laughs manically.

"Supernaturals are a group of people gifted with extra ordinary powers, I'm also a Supernatural."

Laughs.

"It's fun, some get useless powers, some get meh powers and some get extraordinary powers!"

Essence waves his hands around and goes to sit on his chair.

"I hope y'all are still with me, I got mine by mistake but I'm not the focus of this story. Our focus are on

four miserable souls, I hope you're ready to feel grateful for once in your life". Essence snaps his

fingers and the whole room flashes out.

In Lagos surulere street, a young black skinned short man with a very low hair rushes out of a building

and sits down on a chair outside. He folds his hands and breathes out heavily, a young black man

comes to join him and sits down beside him, the man talks calmly Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

"Gboyega you're needed right now! The boss wants to see you." The man says harshly, Gboyega nods

to the positive and the man walks away, he picks up his phone and checks his messages. Gboyega

hand starts heating up and the phone melts.

In Akure, Ngozi a young black skinned tall lady with a all back hair wearing a nurse uniform arrives

home after a very tiring night shift at the hospital, she lives in a three bedroom apartment. Ngozi rushes

to her room and quickly lays on the bed, a sign of relief is shown on her face and she smiles a little bit.

Her phone starts vibrating, she brings it out of her bag and picks the call. She talks in a very tiring

manner.

"Hey Ada, hope everything is fine? I just got back home". Ngozi says and sighs.

"I was just wondering if you would like to go for this party a friend of mine organized by tomorrow." The

caller talks back with a feminine voice, Ngozi puts the phone on mute and sighs heavily, she cuts the

call and closes her eye. In Ngozi perspective, she felt that she doesn't need anyone and all she needs

is to be alone and take care of herself, Ngozi receives a message and as she checks it she suddenly

screams.

"No way!" She opens her mouth wide.

In Ekiti, Ayo a young black skinned man lays on the ground in the street, something very strange about

Ayo is that he wasn't like other Supernaturals. The left side of his body was filled with robotic parts

black and white metal latched with freely moving connecting rods lifted his clunky left leg and flat feet

with protruding beams running up to his shiny hip. His exoskeleton sat within and partially behind a

bulging torso, home to several twisted tubes and bolts, moving in and out with each movement he

made, especially when his arms whirred up to tap the overhanging pipes on the ceiling of the corridor

he passed. Behind his elbow along the upper rear of his arms were black boxes, neatly arranged with

clasps surrounding them all. Ayo left eye suddenly shows a blue coloured holographic message, Ayo

reads it and grunts.

"Impossible." He says slowly, stands up and grunts in pain.

In Lagos, Richard is in a big rectangular bedroom wakes up from his bed with two women sleeping

beside him, Richard face looks pale and he rolls to the ground. Richard body suddenly vanishes from

the bedroom and he finds himself in a white bathroom, he picks up a cigarette pack that's on the sink

and lights it up, Richard picks up his phone and checks his messages. He drops the cigarette on the

ground and rushes out of the bathroom.

That evening. In Abuja, in a huge black and brown mansion four different cars park in front, Gboyega

comes out of a Lexus ES 330, Ayo comes out of a cab, Ngozi comes out of a corolla and Richard

comes out of a range rover with a cigarette in his mouth. They all show up in black clothes and

awkwardly stare at each other.

"It's great to see all of you again!" Richard shouts really loud cause of the distance they all maintained

from each other, Ayo sighs and walks into the house, Gboyega does the same. Richard and Ngozi

stare at each other, his heart was beating really fast and that's because Richard loved Ngozi they dated

in the past but both decided to move on since it wasn't going anywhere, Richard still thinks about Ngozi

and even though he tries to forget about her by sleeping with different women he can't while Ngozi has

so many other personal issues to deal with she simply doesn't think she deserves him. Ngozi breaks

the silence

"It's nice to see you again." Ngozi breaks the silence, Richard lights up a cigarette and pretends to not

care.

"Whatever."He says and walks toward the house.

The four move to a very large living room filled with extinct animals like The dinosaurs species, Dodo, a

sabertooth tiger and others. They all sit down on the chairs while Ayo remains standing and moving

around the living room.

"Where is he?" Ayo says angrily.

"Calm down, the man is already old. I can't believe Chong is dead." Gboyega says quietly, they all

remain silent and Richard's stop smoking, the group lived with Chong in the house. A sense of guilt hits

all of them cause they didn't really care for him while he was alive.

A old black man wearing a black suit called Papa comes out of the shadow, the group all move closer

to him. Papa smiles and sits down on a chair beside him.

"It's good to see all of you again, you've all grown." Papa says and folds his arms, Richard moves

closer to Papa and whispers to his ear.

"Trust me when I say I'm still pretty messed up." Richard say and winks with his right eye, Papa shakes

his head disappointed but happy to see the people he took care of.

"What killed him?" Ngozi says softly, Papa stammers at first but finds the courage to respond.

"He had a headache and before I knew it the sickness got worst, I did my best to help him..........." Papa

breaks down and tears quickly roll down from his eyes, Papa and Chong had a very tight relationship

when the others left to figure out more about themselves Chong decided to stay and take care of Papa,

Ayo quickly runs and comforts Papa, Papa stands up and faces them.

"You people need to get some rest, you'll need it cause we're going to the mortuary tomorrow." Papa

says swiftly and walks out of the living room.

A hour later, Ngozi settles in her room she brings out a red crested amulet from her pocket. The amulet

is a old ancient artifact that has been passed on to different ladies, Ngozi grandmother passed it to her

before she died, the amulet contains different powers but Ngozi sees no purpose to it and rather uses

only one power from it which is to create her own imaginary friend. A black German Shepard dog

suddenly appears beside her and a talking white gorilla suddenly appears behind her, Ngozi smiles and

turns around she hugs the gorilla and speaks to it.

"Today has been a horrible day for me Huffcupp." She says happy, the gorilla sits on the ground and

responds in a British accent.

"Apart from Chong death, is it because of Richard?" Ngozi moves back a bit.

"I don't care about Richard, it's a old flame." Her voice shakens a bit, Huffcupp punches her hand,

Ngozi pets her dog and hits Huffcupp back.

"You ready to play monopoly?" She says softly,Huffcupp nods to the positive.

Ayo settles in his room, he stares at his robot hand so much that he wasn't aware that Papa has

entered his room. Papa taps him and sits down on Ayo's chair, Papa speaks.

"Are you fine Ayo?" Papa asked, he was concerned Ayo was in a very different mood of brooding, Ayo

chuckles.

"Will you stop pretending like I don't send you a text every week." Ayo says while laughing, Papa

smiles and hugs him. Ayo was always the closest with Papa, he was the first that got into Papa's house

and while the others agreed to leave Ayo didn't really want to but felt he had to move on, Ayo always

said that Papa saved his life and he owes alot to him.

"Your decision to stop using your robotic powers Ayo............" Ayo quickly interrupts Papa.

"I know you want to know why but it's my decision not to use it and I really want to tell you the

reason...." Ayo sighs heavily. "But I don't think I can." Papa pat's his shoulder and looks into his eyes.

"You'll be fine boy." Papa assures Ayo.

Gboyega sets up his room and lays on his bed, Gboyega sighs in relief he always found comfort in this

room. He stands up from the bed, checks his box and picks up a portrait from his bag, the portrait is of

a young black lady smiling, Gboyega places the portrait on the bed beside him and lay down, his hand

starts heating up again and he quickly picks up the portrait again, he talks to himself. "I'll always miss

you Gbemi."

Richard is asleep with different women on the bed and bottles of wine on the floor. Richard checks his

phone and sees alert of different amount of money entering his account, he makes a phone call and

speaks with a woman. "Thanks."

The next morning, the whole group gather in the living room waiting for Papa, Papa joins them and

speaks.

"We need to move now! Chong has a friend that will be waiting for us by now." Papa says sharply,

Richard brings out a cigarette but Papa quickly takes it out of his mouth.

"They will be no smoking today Richard."Papa scolds Richard he was in a hurry, Ngozi starts getting

suspicious.

The whole house suddenly starts shaking, Gboyega hand starts heating up.

"Everyone get behind me." Gboyega says and a huge flame comes out of his hand,Papa starts moving

back, Ngozi moves closer to him.

"Papa what's going on?" Ngozi says bold enough to question Papa's movement, Ayo gets annoyed by

her question and pushes her aside.

"Just leave him alone." Ayo says angrily, a large red coloured portal suddenly opens in front of the

living room, Richard opens his mouth wide.

"What the fuck!" Richard screams a bit, time suddenly starts moving slowly it affects the team except

Papa, Essence appears in front of them,Papa faces Essence.

"You!" Papa says scared, Essence smiles manically and responds.

"Yes, me!" Essence voice echoed around the house, Papa moves back and tears fill his eyes.

"It's been years, why can't you let this go?" Papa pleads, Essence appears out of nowhere and grabs

Papa left hand.

"You ruined my life and now that I can finally locate you I can ruin yours back." Essence says, snaps

his fingers and disappears.

Time starts moving normal again, Papa streches his hand towards Ayo.

"Help me." Papa says swiftly as the portal sucks him inside. Ayo screams and cries out.