Lightout Hotel & suites
Lodge 12
Miami Florida
10:30pm
The sound of cutleries was heard accompanied by happy giggles.
The dining area was filled with love and warmth as the family conversed freely.Love as their watchword.
"So mom,you mean I'm having a baby sister?" Little Eve asked, stuffing her mouth with bacon.
"Yes sweetie, isn't that wonderful?" Her mom beamed with smiles.
Little Eve let out a happy squeal, clapping joyfully,she raised her glass of orange juice and the eight year old made a toast to the new life on the way.
"Mum, Dad,cheers..!"
The happy family clicked their glasses together as the couple intertwined their hands and drank with joy and gladness in their hearts.
The couple has been trying to have another child after Eve but nothing worked out except for miscarriages.
Five whole painful miscarriages before this one and it was six months gone,they were certain this one would stay. If only they know what fate has in stock for them.
The family's happy dinner was cut short by the loud bang on the door jolting them out of the atmosphere of excitement.
Into the anticipation of the unknown
The bang came yet again.
"Honey,go get the door.." Eve's mom said to her husband, pulling her daughter close to herself but before the husband could take a step,a grenade was thrown into the dining area.
"Get down..!"he screamed at his wife and child.
The family quickly bent down as the husband flung the table cloth over them to shield them from the smoke.
"They are here, right?" She questioned her husband coughing loudly, placing one hand on her abdomen.
"Yes..find a way to hide Eve fast"
She immediately grabbed Eve who was already shivering in fear.
She pulled her daughter to the kitchen which happens to be the closest.
She glanced at the door continuously while opening a closet in the down part of the kitchen cabinet.
"Wait here for me sweetie, mummy loves you most" She kissed Eve's forehead before putting her in the closet and pulled the door close.
The Young girl could not utter a word, she just nodded her head affirmatively her mother's words to echoing in the back of her head
"Mummy loves you most".
"Arrrghhh..!"A scream resounded in the air,her mother snapped her head towards the kitchen door and her heart skipped a beat.
Her husband!
The door was pushed open by masked men.
"Where's She?"the middle one demanded.
"She's not here.."Her mother replied,her back shielding the exact closet where she had hidden Eve.
The leader signaled his goons to grab the woman.
Eve instinctively shrink back in fear when a heavy blow landed on her mother's abdomen.
The pregnant woman crouched in pain and her eyes went to the knife beside her.
"Why did you have to betray him?, Bris could have given you anything you asked for
Just why?"? The leader rasps in agitation, turning his back to her
"I would never hand over my daughter to that monster" She let out a war cry and charged with the knife to stab him.
But unfortunately he turned that instance,he swiftly grabbed her hand and twisted it to the back and stabbed her.
Little Eve let out a muffled scream as tears streamed down her face.
The guy wasn't finished yet,he slashed her neck with the knife and ripped her open.
He pulled the fetus out and dropped it beside the mother's lifeless body to drown in the pool of her blood.
The masked men took a clean glance around the kitchen before walking away.
Little Eve waited for some minutes before coming out of her hiding place to the gruesome scene.
She knelt beside her mother's lifeless body and sobbed heavily.
She carried the dead fetus carefully and went out through the kitchen back door that opened to the garden.
Some distance away from the garden the house blew up.
****
"Eve, Eve..!!"Sandy yelled tapping her slightly..the latter jerk awake panting heavily.
"Hey.. you're okay, it's fine now" Sandy assured and engulfed her in a hug.
"Ladies..! it's time to go"Belle announced loudly but quiet down on noticing the cold atmosphere.
"What happened?"She whispered, joining in the hug.
"The nightmare again"Sandy responded, feeling emotional.
Every one of them has a story which differs from another.. that left them with scars that ran deep.
"It's alright,we can't afford to be weak and emotional right now,we are going on a mission"Belle said, rubbing Sandy's back.
Eve sighs out " I'm fine, let's get ready, Boss is waiting".
Soon they were ready.. They descended from the stairs looking regally powerful in their combat clothes.
Roses and Thorn were already doing the final briefing with Lara.
"You kept me waiting"Lara's voice came as a boomerang that sent shivers down their spine whilst they gulped down nothing.
The three exchange glances which say ' who's gonna speak first'.
Sandy stepped forward to speak but Eve shook her head negatively before speaking out.
"I was having a nightmare.. I'm sorry Boss"her head bowed.
She had feared that despite the soft spot Lara has for Sandy,she wouldn't spare her if she admitted to what she didn't do.
"Does that apply to the both of you?"She questioned, pissed at them especially Eve.
Tonight is a night where she'd sated her blood thirst.
"We're sorry boss..!" They chorused
"Punishment will be meant out after this mission"
"Yes,boss"
Each of them grabbed the black bags on the floor filled with their guns and other necessities for the operation.
They set out in a single file into the warm embrace of darkness.
The rebranded SUV by Sandy, drove out silently to the Eastern part of the cathedral.
The fate of Diego is in the palms of the girls; whether he gets to live or die is up to Lara's revenge squad.
****
The tinted SUV drove out cutting through mother darkness,the heavens seemed to agree with the girls because there was no moon in sight.
The girls were quiet until Roses decided to break it "I'm so excited".
The girls took turns to glance at her.
"Who wouldn't be?" Sandy stated with a loopside smile.
"I know right? what could be more satisfying than ripping the heart from the enemy's body?" Thorn countered, smiling dangerously as she thought of various ways to kill Diego.
All of them shared a manically dangerous laughter.
Lara stares at everyone through the side mirror.
One thing she made sure of in creating her team is that they're family and family shares everything,pain, laughter, joy.
They share them all, together.
Slowly, slowly,she zoned out leaving behind the mirth, going down memory lane as the SUV moved fast leaving the trees behind.
****
"Lara honey.., would you do daddy a favor by blowing out the candles" her dad's voice came.
It was her sixteenth birthday and they were celebrating it happily without a care in the world not knowing it was going to be the last.
"C'mon dad.., it's my birthday not yours" she replied with a smile.
"Ouch..my heart,my baby is becoming naughty" her dad stated dramatically faking a heart attack making the family erupt in laughter.
They dug into their meal with smiles on their faces laughing wholeheartedly.
**
It has been a whole ten years,a decade but she still can't move on.
The pains are still there in the darkest part of her heart torturing her slowly.
She can't even recall the last time she smiled or laughed because she felt happy.
Lara let out a small laugh void of mirth resting her head on the window frame.
It's funny that people who caused the pain are still breathing, forgetting that they've inflicted pains on innocent people.
Gripping her blood red jacket tight,she made the same resolution she had been making for years.
'To find them and make them beg for death,to let them know nemesis has caught up with them'.
"Girls..!!" She growled out, startling the girls who were carried away by the momentary pleasure.
"Yes, boss"They chorus as their van seems to slow down, stopping a few yards away from their destination, hidden and covered by the tall trees in the pregnant darkness.
"The code?" She demanded,clenching her fists till they turned white.
"Giving them a dose of their own medicine and letting them beg for death" They echo loudly.
"Because?" Lara deadpan.
"We are their nemesis" They chorus again.
Their spirit lifted in high ecstasy, eyes filled with passion to kill and untold hatred as they hardened their hearts.
They stepped down from the van after their leader.
"Remember,stick to the plan and leave the rest to me" Lara instructed, taking the lead as the nemesis advanced towards the cathedral.
Yeah, that's the name of the gang
NEMESIS!.