Wicked God - S01 E44

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 44

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[Marisa’s Manor]

The woods was shaking, vibrating, tilting and the birds on the trees were flying around happily as the sound of Marisa’s piano dominated.

Her tunes were always haunting, but this one was extra.

It’s like the melody was taking shape from the nutrients of the soul and the fluids from the trees.

The dried leaves from the trees around the house fell one by one. The birds cried louder.

Two of them collided into each other, and their bodies dropped on the ground, bloody and lifeless.

The dried leaves on the ground swept over El Crow’s grave at the backyard.

A crack formed on the tombstone.

Inside the house, the stewards stayed behind Marisa in the repaired piano room as she played the new third piano with her eyes closed.

They were smiling.

The window slammed without anyone pushing it, and a heavy, really heavy rain started in the city.

“Do you even know who El Crow is?” Marisa asked suddenly, standing up and facing the stewards.

The stewards confused exchanged glances.

“Do you know who he is exactly? Do you know how many people will be after him once his real identity gets revealed?” Marisa continued.

The stewards still couldn’t talk.

Marisa smiled.

“Is my clothes for the two weddings ready? Prepare black dresses for the two weddings,” she instructed.

“Yes, Ma.” They bowed.

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[Next Morning – Montgomery Nurseries]

The caregivers said the kids were going outside the nursery for morning jog, and everyone is ready for the run already in their gears.

As usual, Eden stood out.

While other kids wore old gears, hers was new, sparkling, and posh.

A typical rich kid vibe.

Even her hair had rollers which she smartly set by herself.

The other kids stared at her with great envy as they lined up to enter the car that’s take them.

She was the last in line, and when she made to enter, her personal caregiver pushed her from behind.

Her forehead slammed on the car body, and she bled a little.

Eden didn’t even look at the woman or cry out like the woman expected.

She entered the car, and the woman have her a disdainful look.

“Witch!”

She got in the car with other caregivers, and they drove them out to the nearest children’s park.

The kids filed out of the bus again, and their jogs around the park started, undisruted.

As they jogged, they sang nursery rhymes to match their pace.

But soon, behind a unhidden corner, Eden noticed something, and her blood froze completely.

The fear she hadn’t felt since she got to the Nursery came back.

She quickly got her phone.

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[Dread House]

Satan and her daughters set out early. At 8, they were filing out of the house. Everyone wore black.

Including midnight.

Satan wore black hat too, and she held the bird cage. The bird attends Darius anniversary yearly, and this year won’t be any different.

Midnight followed after them, and then every member of the team vegan filing out too.

Every single one of them.

No one would say they don’t know Darius Osborne, the best male fighter of this team when he was alive.

Everyone honours him yearly.

But Skylar is missing.

She wasn’t part of the crowd.

Still hungover from last night, she remained in bed in her bedroom, tossing around with headache under the thick, thick covers.

It was her workout alarm which woke her. She took the alarm and tossed it across the room.

She managed to push herself to sit up, and she saw the alarm screen on the ground. There’s a reminder on it.

Dario’s anniversary.

She quickly got down from bed.

Darius might be Satan’s son, but he wasn’t like Satan at all.

When she grew up to meet herself here as a kid, Darius was the only one who showed her kindness in this house. He shared his food with her, always. He was always smiling.

Darius was the kindest boy alive.

Till he died just like that.

Of course she attends his anniversary yearly, and this year won’t be different. She began stripping, aiming to go for a short shower and dress up.

But her phone dinged, disturbing her thoughts again.

She picked the phone up, only to see a notification that made her mouth come tragically wide.

• Wedding program in six days!

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[Enigma House]

El Crow knew Satan would never allow him into the anniversary service. She has never allowed him.

After all, Enigmas and Dreads became enemies after Darius’s death. But he’s still gonna go, even if he’s gonna stay outside through the memorial service.

He’s dressed in a black shirt and slacks, ready to go for the memorial, but he stayed by that wall, staring at Darius’s smiley picture.

“Wish you weren’t dead…” He muttered with heavily clogged voice, filled with unsaid sorrow.

His eyes looked grievous too.

His phone betrayed his moment by buzzing. He retrieved the phone and saw a message floating there.

• Wedding program in 5days.

His eyes widened.

“What wedding?”

But he hasn’t even digested that when he received a call.

Seeing Eden’s number, he quickly picked the call.

“Brother…I…we came out for jogging, but I’m seeing the villains again. I think the bad guys are following me.”

“Came out?” His eyes widened again. “Why the fuck would they take you out of the Nursery!”

He dipped his hand in his hair, and the call ended.

“Eden?” He dialled the line again.

It kept dropping.

Sensing danger, he rushed to his window, and he luckily met Skylar’s window open across.

She was by the window too.

He quickly wrote a note and attached it to a knife, throwing it to her.

Skylar was still boiling about the message she received, but she caught it anyways, and she unwrapped.

• Eden is being followed.

She read with a straight face and instantly wrote back.

She threw it at him with the knife too, and immediately he caught it, she shut her window.

El Crow unwrapped the note,…

• Her business is not mine. I’m not her mother.

El Crow didn’t wait anymore.

He rushed out.

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[Children’s Park]

Eden made sure to stick with the other kids. They were instructed to jog in a straight line, but she refused.

She gummed herself to the middle of taller kids and kept going, panicking, slightly trembling.

She couldn’t even sing the rhymes anymore. He felt her knees freezing. Her mind was getting muddled.

Fear continued licking the back of her neck as she gulped repeatedly.

She could feel the closeness of the follower… closer.

Closer.

Clo…

A gunshot rippled through the air, and the kids scattered.

Even the caregivers ran. They were the first to run off, leaving the kids to the mercy of the gunshots that kept coming from different angles.

Eden ran with the others, but she couldn’t take two steps before she was gripped by the back of her neck.

“No no no!!! Leave me alone!!!” She burst into tears.

The rollers in her hair fell off.

“Leave me alone!!!!”

She could already smell gunpowder and danger…

They were definitely her Master’s men. The bad men.

“Leave me alone!!!!” She cried again as she got dragged like a dirt bag.

“Leave me….”

“Let go of her!!!” El Crow’s voice broke into the scene as he appeared from the side of the fountain.

He stood there, panting, sweating cos he had rushed her.

But they didn’t even wait.

It was like they came with renewed confidence this time.

But the worse part was that he couldn’t move more than that.

He couldn’t fuckin move.

Like something was tying him down, restricting his legs.

“No….” He sounded, desperate. “Inferno…this isn’t the time to be a jerk!!! Eden!!!” He screamed, trying to move again, but he couldn’t.

“Brother!!!” She cried louder.

“Eden!” He responded.

If Skylar was here, maybe super strength would work like the other time, but she wasn’t here.

He was helpless.

He resorted to the only way, getting his gun and aiming protectively at the man holding Eden.

But that was a mistake.

Immediately he pulled the trigger, the man let go of Eden, kicking her forward, to the gunpoint.

The bullet caught her straight by the chest, knocking life out of her.

The gun fell from El Crow.

A scream followed.

TBC