RÊD FLÂGS
Red Flags - Episode 65 & 66
(Badasses•Bad•Jerks)
★★★★★★★★★
"Fu+ucckk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... No.... F+ck, f+ck!!!!!!.... Xhen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Emory's terror-ridden voice rode throughout the warehouse in strong wavelengths, and she could feel her world shattering to smithereens.
It's over.
It's f+çking over.
Her cry of horror was cut short when Rain jammed an injection into the back of her neck, and her teary eyes closed as she fell into Romeo's arms.
Her clothes were stripped, leaving her in her boy shorts and singlet, then Omar dragged out another body.
It's the girl with the same body proportions as Emory.
She's dead already with several cuts and bruises on her face and body, making it look hideous and unrecognizable.
Rain wore Emory's clothes on the body, then Fred smeared blood on it from a blood bottle.
"Now!" He ordered, and Romeo carried Emory on his shoulder.
They ran out of the house through the other door, leaving the fake body with the mercenaries.
Two of them carried the body downstairs, dropping it beside Sybil and Levi's body, but immediately they dropped it, their heads were blown off from their necks, and they fell headless to the ground as Rebekah came in with the guys and the rest of the Vikings, even Master X's men are part of the squad.
They opened fire on the mercenaries, and the bastards retaliated immediately.
Bodies started falling, and Rebekah fell on her knees when she saw the three bodies lying on the ground.
"No ...no Emz! Sybil... Banks!!!! Banks no... Emz!!!!!!!!" She shrieked, and in her weak state, a bullet hit her arm.
"Argh!" She gasped, pains journeying through her.
"Bekah!" Conrad knelt beside her, holding her in place.
"Bekah focus! They'll kill us all if you don't get back to your senses right now! Bekah!" He shouted, holding her bleeding arm.
"No...I can't lose three people at once. Not again!!!" She cried.
"Bekah!!!" Conrad shouted again, tears falling from his eyes too.
"Banks!" Chadwick suddenly joined them.
"His chest" Hyce added, joining them too.
They all directed their gazes to him, and truly, Levi jerked on the ground, more blood pooling around him.
"Quick! Get him out of here Chadwick! Master X's men will follow you" Hyce said.
Chadwick quickly mounted Levi on his back, and the rest covered him as he began running out with him.
They faced the mercenaries squarely, firing them back to back till they began falling too.
"At 2 o'clock Connie!" Rebekah suddenly shouted, and Conrad twisted, hiding beside a metal tank before shooting in that direction.
The mercenary fell from the stairs to his death.
The rain of gunshots continued till every single mercenary went down, and then the guys fell in grief to the ground.
They sat sadly right beside the body of Sybil and the fake body of Emory.
Rebekah's tears didn't stop for once, and no one is even consoling her since everyone else is crying too.
"If Banks dies, I don't care about jail or what f+çking ever... I'll kill Emory's parents" Conrad muttered.
*
The ambulance conveying Levi has professional paramedics inside together with Chadwick.
Levi kept making the jerking movement, and right now, his skin is already changing color to purple, deep one.
He's bleeding from the nose, ears and mouth too, even his nails.
"Do something! He won't make it till the hospital! There's no hospital around here do something!" Chadwick shouted at the medics.
"I'm not a surgeon! I'm an ordinary nurse! The ambulance is moving fast I'm sure we'll arrive before he gives up" The only female among them said.
"I don't care! If Banks dies, then this whole country might just have to burn and I'll lead the fire... Just to something!" Chadwick glared.
"I...I... really don't know what...I...
The nurse began stuttering, and Chadwick grabbed her by the collar as Levi jerked again, and it came faintly this time.
"Do something!!!!!!!!!!!" He yelled, almost snapping her neck.
"Nurse Layla, please try" one of the medics said, and the trembling nurse gulped as they started setting up the space for a impromptu surgery.
Levi was connected to oxygen and a monitor, and nurse Layla quickly got in place.
Since there's no surgical lightning, Chadwick and the other three medics had to turn on their phone torchlights for her.
"It's a silver-tip-hollow- point bullet, and the kinetic energy is obviously low, reason why he's still jerking" she said shakily.
"Just work! Don't talk!" Chadwick shouted at her.
"Ok....ok" she swallowed, picking the scalpel.
She started the opening up of Levi's head, and she started crying.
"I really don't know anything about this surgery! I'm just a nurse!!!"
"Work!" Chadwick retrieved his gun, pointing at her head.
The other medics started peeing on themselves.
"If he dies, I'll kill you" Chadwick told nurse Layla, and she sucked in a breath.
She wasn't breathing as she finally started the surgery.
Removal of the bullet took roughly ten minutes, and the moment she dropped the bullet on the ground, she gulped.
"Thankfully, no..no important brain structures were injured" she stuttered, then she began stitching the opened part back in place, but then, Levi's oxygen intake stopped.
His lungs stopped taking in oxygen, and his monitor went down.
"I...I think he's dead...I think he's dead!!!!!!" Nurse Layla cried out, the suture and needle falling from her shaky bloody hands.
Chadwick pushed her away and took charge, pressing Levi's chest and calling his name repeatedly.
"Levi! You will live, you hear me? You must breath, ok? You've never had a peaceful day of your own remember? You said you wanted to be an hotelier, and your hotel has been completed since you were 20... Who are you gonna leave it to? Levi! Levi! Levi!!!"
The ambulance driver drove into the first hospital he saw when they entered the city, and several doctors were already waiting.
Chadwick was pushed off as he was taken in on a stretcher, and the race into the hospital started.
Chadwick ran after them with nurse Layla, but the theater door closed on their faces, so they have to wait in front of it.
Nurse Layla sat on the ground in front of the door, her hands still shaking and her white uniform full of Levi's blood.
Chadwick's red hands went into his hair as he paraded the place, remembering how Levi gave him the antidote to the poison back then.
Tears came out of his eyes again.
"He must live.. Levi must live I swear. He must...
Uncle Reginald rushed in with his wife Kara, and when they saw nurse Layla's bloody uniform and Chadwick's bloody hands, they started crying too.
"Please tell me he's still alive! Tell me Levi is not gone for good! Please assure me!!" Kara started crying.
"He's in with the surgeons" Chadwick said in a broken voice.
Kara only cried harder.
Uncle Reginald just locked up, holding his crying wife and praying for a miracle.
He got his phone and googled about the survival of a head bullet.
There are few cases, VERY FEW cases of survival, so he began praying inwardly for a miracle.
A miracle is the only helpful thing right now.
Suddenly, the main door opened, and Master X ran in with Hazzan.
He's not with his stick, and his unbalanced left leg almost made him fall as he took each fast step till he got to them.
"Where's my son?" He asked.
No answer.
"Where is my son!!!" He yelled.
"You have no right to call him that, Xavier! No f+çking right! So now that he's at the point of death, you suddenly remember he's your son? The son you hate?" Uncle Reginald said stiffly.
Master X made to enter the theater, but Hazzan pulled him back.
"I need to see my son!!" He yelled again, tears coming out of his eyes shockingly.
"Stop calling him that!!" Kara yelled back at him, and he started crying in full.
"You never cared, did you? He lived most of his life in his room, in the dark under his bed, crying! You never cared Xavier! After your wife Xusan died, you left him at the hospital remember? I was the one who took him as a baby! I breastfed him like my own child! You never asked of him and each time I and my husband brought him to you, you sent us away! He would have grown up as a sweet boy but you ruined him! He acts like he doesn't care but he cares! Do you know the question he asks on his birthday every year?" Kara ranted, breathing heavily.
Master X continued crying.
"He'll be like... DID FATHER SEND ANY GIFT?" Kara continued.
Master X's tears increased.
"He still called to ask that question today Xavier! He loves you so much despite your hatred. He'd do anything to gain your love but you thwarted his efforts at your feet! You're not a father Xavier! Xusan would hate you if she has been seeing everything up there, you're a beast!" Kara yelled in tears, and Reginald had to hold her so she won't breakdown.
"No leave me alone! Tell Xavier to get out! He's not needed here!" She cried hurtfully.
Chadwick wiped his tears, but new ones fell immediately.
Nurse Layla is still sitting there, shaking.
Hazzan doesn't even know what to do, he looked speechless and helpless.
*
GUEVARA HOSPITAL MORGUE, SAME NIGHT*
Tate and Adrian have no breaths left in their lungs as they were led inside the room of bodies.
Their steps are slow and lifeless as if they're entering a dread game, and their bodies are tensed.
Two dead bodies are lying on top of the stretcher.
One belongs to Sybil, and the other one the the fake Emory's body.
Immediately they saw their full faces, Tate stopped living.
"I'm so sorry for this big loss, Mr. And Mrs. Carson" the doctor in charge said, and Tate went down immediately, fainting flat.
"Tate! Tate not you too! Tate!!! Tate please not you too!! Tate!!!" Adrian shrieked.
She was carried out of the morgue to be revived at the ward, but immediately she woke, she jumped down the bed.
"Tate calm down!" Adrian caught her.
"Two girls, Adrian! Two girls!!! What did I do to Fred? He took them away from me!!!! He took away my life! He should have killed me too! Now I have nothing to live for! I have nothing to live for!!!!! Let me go and jump on Cema bridge! Let me go!!" She cried and thrashed violently.
Residents had to join to hold her so she won't hurt herself, but that did nothing to stop her.
She's too violent and won't listen to anything.
She was sedated at last, and she slept off with a teary face.
Adrian sat beside her, and he started shedding her own tears too as the cops came in.
"We're from the metropolitan, Mr. Adrian Carson, and though this isn't the right time for this, but it's proper to catch the culprit behind this"
Adrian kept crying.
"Fred Carson. That name has been circulating around the city since an hour ago. Who's he?" They asked.
"My...my junior brother" Adrian sniffled, snot coming out of his wet nose.
"And?"
"He...he raped my daughter when she was eleven" Adrian stuttered sorrowfully.
"Why didn't you report to the cops? Why did you keep it since then? Are you protecting him?"
Adrian spranged up immediately.
"Protecting him? I was protecting my daughter's life! She was scared that people would mock her for it, she was scared of the stigma! She was scared of the shame... keeping it was the only way to protect her!" He yelled.
"I'm sorry to say this Mr. Adrian Carson, but keeping it is not what a responsible father should do. Keeping it from the public gave Fred the morale to come back, and now he didn't only kill your daughter, but her cousin too, and the third person is still fighting for his life" the interrogator said.
Adrian sat on the ground, crying loudly...
"Help me get him.... Help me get Fred I want to kill him myself! I want to!!!"
*
SECOND HOSPITAL*
Master X is still crying, but not as before.
Kara is still held securely by uncle Reginald, and they're both sniffling from time to time.
Chadwick is now standing with Conrad, Hyce and Rebekah who arrived not long ago
Nurse Layla is still on the ground, but her shakiness reduced already.
It's been one long hour since the surgery started, but it felt like seven, and they're losing patience.
Rebekah was about to barge in when the door finally opened, and the surgeons came out, five of them.
"How was it?" Chadwick and the rest asked at once.
"First off, we have nurse Layla to thank. If she didn't perfom the surgery halfway through the ambulance journey, then it'd be a different story entirely right now" their head surgeon replied.
Nurse Layla quickly stood, inhaling in relief.
"So..." Kara said breathlessly.
"Head shots are life-threatening, and this is the first case of it we had in this hospital, but we tried our best, and the rest is left for him. He's on a life support machine right now..."
"C...coma?" Hyce muttered shockingly.
Kara immediately broke into tears.
"No...no...not coma... please"
"If he holds up strongly, he'll wake just fine" another surgeon said.
"For how many years will the coma shit last?" Conrad asked.
"I can't say, depends on how strong his will is" the head surgeon replied.
"Can we...see him?" Uncle Reginald asked.
"If you're family" nurse Layla quickly replied.
"I'm his uncle" Reginald quickly replied.
"And I'm like his mother" Kara said.
"He's our brother" Rebekah added.
The surgeons left, and nurse Layla led them to a different room where they all wore blue gowns and gloves plus sterile caps.
Everyone was allowed inside except Master X.
Nurse Layla proceeded to leading them to the private ICU.
"No loud talks" she told them, and they promised her before she left.
Levi's ward is surrounded by a glass wall, and though they can't go in, they're seeing him through the glass, looking powerless and lifeless.
Head bandaged, his monitor is beeping slowly, and his LS machine is right beside him through which several pipes were passed into his body, even his mouth.
Kara covered her mouth to muffle her tears, same with Rebekah.
"Emory ruined him, totally" Conrad whispered, his hatred for Emory climbing high.
"It's my fault, I shouldn't have called him" Chadwick whispered.
"He'll be fine, I put my trust in Levi" Hyce whispered too.
"You're thinking like me. He'll wake" uncle Reginald smiled painfully.
"What if ..what if he never...wakes" Rebekah muttered fearfully.
"Don't say that" Kara replied, rubbing the glass wall as if she can touch Levi through it.
"He'll wake, I believe" she nodded.
An hour later, they all left the hospital, leaving master X at the door.
Rebekah and Conrad drove to the palace in silence, but during their drive, they already knew things would go bad.
People are protesting in the streets that the king of the island should be dethroned, and that's not the only thing...
A video is trending.
It's a video of what happened at the warehouse earlier, but other faces were blurred out.
Only the the faces of Rebekah, Conrad and Hyce are showing, how they were shooting down mercenaries and spilling blood.
"Fred planned this well...I must say. He has been planning this for years" Conrad said.
They got to the palace and it's even worse cos it's surrounded by people protesting for the dethronement.
• How could we have a killer as a princess?
• Even the son of his queen-to-be!
• That's f+çked up!
• He needs to leave the throne!
• The king has to leave!
Boldly, they both came out of the car, and they were almost eaten raw by the people.
Thanks to the palace guards who guarded them inside.
The kind and Elsa were already panicking inside.
"You achieved your dreams already Rebekah, didn't you? I'll be the first king in the history of Terraverde to be dethroned! Congratulations!" The king said in defeat.
Rebekah couldn't talk.
"And you...' Elsa faced Conrad.
"I was busy flaunting you that you don't belong in any club, but you're in it too? I don't think I deserve this from you Conrad! You're a killer too? How!!!!" She yelled.
For the first time in history, Conrad couldn't talk back.
"Just how!!!" Elsa yelled again.
"I regret having you, Rebekah. I regret!" The king said disappointedly, and Rebekah rushed upstairs, into her room.
She flaunted herself on the ground, crying her eyes out.
Conrad came knocking on her door, but she doesn't even have the strength to open up.
She just wants to cry.
*
MCCALL'S MANSION*
Several papers flew to Hyce's face from General McCall, and tears came out of his eyes.
"I'm the police general of this island, and my son is in a frat club? He's a killer? Do you know what the world is saying about me right now?" The man yelled.
Hyce cried more.
"We're a family of law defenders, Hyce! Your brother is a barrister! He'll be implicated. Your mother is the city general too, and she's surely going down after this!" General McCall snapped.
Hyce stepped back, and the man raised up a letter.
"I'm going to submit my resignation letter right now, and I never want to see you again. Stay out of this family" he said, pushing past Hyce before leaving the house.
Hyce started crying again, his eyes stinging.
He has cried too much for a night, and nothing is more bitter than the salt he's tasting right now.
He begrudgingly walked out of the house, and he met Isaac waiting outside with his mother who has been discharged.
Isaac quickly rushed to him, and merely seeing the tears in his eyes, he started crying too.
"I'm sorry about everything that happened to you" he said.
Hyce hugged him tight, crying on his shoulders while the woman just watched sadly.
*
TWO DAYS LATER*
It's the burial of Sybil and fake Emory.
The bodies has been lowered into their holes, and the diggers are currently covering up with sand.
There are barely ten people present.
Only Chadwick and Nina came from school, and Nina's eyes are so swollen.
She even forgot how to cry already.
Tate is sitting beside the grave, hugging Emory's picture frame to her chest with a barely-alive look on her pasty face.
She looks dead, and Adrian is the one consoling her though he's dying inside too.
"I hope Fred gets caught. If he wrecked this much havoc in one night, then he's a walking time bomb. I can't believe I lost Emz, too" she hiccupped, going on her knees right there.
"I can't believe it"
Chadwick sighed beside her, thinking about Sybil.
To think he was starting to get attracted to her.
First was Lizzy, and now Sybil.
Is he cursed, too?
He blinked his red grief-stricken eyes, and then they heard sniffs behind them, making them turn back.
Rain is standing there, crying loudly.
They didn't even try to talk to her cos her tears are much more.
"Sybil was my best friend! How dare she! How could she!!! Emz too? It was too fast what the hell is going on! The last I remember was Emz coming to pick her up at my place that night, and then I heard they're both dead. How could it happen so fast!!!"
She went on her knees like Nina, crying harder.
Nina sighed, wiping her tears and hiccuping.
Chadwick left the grave that minute.
Rain faced the ground, and a evil smile secretly fell on her lips despite her tears.
Fred is currently wanted, and the cops are madly searching for him, but they'll never find him since he flew out yesterday as Prof. Hayden.
She'll go meet him with Omar and Romeo after their final exams.
Taking Sybil's life made up for her late mother's life already, and as for Emory...
Emory will suffer what she went through... Emory will cry.
Her family already buried her fake body anyways, so she's dead to them.
Rain continued her fake tears, raising her volume.
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The smell of blood filled her nose like dead meat, and then the coldness of the cemented floor hit her pores.
Emory didn't understand at first, but then she moved slightly, and she began hearing noises.
Several noises as if she's in a political campaign, or worse.
Her eyes peered open, but she met blurriness, so she blinked, opening it again.
This time, it's better.
She's lying on her back on the ground, and she saw two faces staring down at her.
One is a ash-eyed girl who's obviously older than her, and the other is a black guy who looks her age.
"She's awake" the girl said.
"Hey, newbie" the guy added, and Emory's eyes opened wide.
She sat up, her head snapping and her eyes twitching.
Her heart pounded, and her eyes widened when she remembered what actually happened.
Levi got shot!
She didn't trust him.
He got shot because of her...is he....dead?
No!
She spranged up and dashed for the door, but instead of a door, she met a metal bar like a cell door, and her eyes widened again cos there are several others.
There are hundreds of cells like this one, facing each other in the long hallway, and there are several males and females inside, chatting and making serious noise.
They look shabby, unkept, and haggard.
What the hell is going on?
What did Fred and Rain do to her??
She turned back to her cellmates, not having the time to notice that her period blood already stained the gown she's wearing.
"Where...am I?" She asked slowly, holding her breath.
"I'll make is simple... You're in Europe" the girl said.
"Wh.. what!" Emory gasped, feeling her world spinning.
"And this place is two sessions. The upper part is a psychiatric hospital where mad people are kept, and that's what the outside world sees" the guy added.
Emory staggered weakly.
"But this place is the underground, and it's an organ harvesting market. They kidnap us, bring us here, then sell us to organ hunters." The girl said.
Emory fell on her butt.
"Welcome, newbie" the guy added.
Emory felt her menstrual blood rushing, staining her gown more.
The immense shock did a good job in pushing out more and more blood, and immediately she saw the blood, darkness enveloped her.
She fainted.
TBC.
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