THE UNION

Chapter 16: JUST A NORMAL DAY OF A OFFICER

"Come on." Tolu says as she stands in a line at the bank, she had been there for a lot of hours and was

getting tired. Tolu could have been attended to very early but people kept on taking her space in the

line and she allowed them willingly, she had a habit of putting others before herself no matter what.

"Hmm, can I cut?" The lady behind Tolu asked, she had noticed the way Tolu has been behaving.

"I'm sorry but I've been waiting at the line for quite sometime now." Tolu says.

"Ohh, I just need to go and pick my daughter from school." The lady says, Tolu breathes out, rolls her

eyes and allows the woman to stay in her line. A hour later it's finally Tolu turn but she's referred to

another section in the bank and is given a number.

"I need to get out of here." Tolu says as she sits on a chair, she brings out her phone to check the

online profile page of a person, after searching she finally gets to the profile and it's her mom, Tife was

still successful and was still doing very well, she got married to another man and had been living her

best life.

"The bad ones always get lucky." Tolu said as she turns off her phone, she despised her mother not for

leaving her father, she understood why her mom left but was upset that Tife never made any attempts

to find her. She felt worthless and useless knowing her own mother never cared about her, the bank

was getting crowded with more and more people so Tolu runs off outside to get some fresh air, after

minutes of standing she sees a lady on the street standing really scared, there were blood stains on

her clothes. Seeing on one attending to her Tolu quickly runs toward the lady.

"Is everything fine Ma?" She asked, the lady didn't respond rather she took her face away from Tolu.

"I'm a officer, you can tell me anything." Tolu gently says as she brings out her badge.

"There are some thugs in my street, they've been harassing we the people that live around that place.

We called the station for help but no one came to help us, we can't even leave our homes without being

scared." The lady sniffs, tears rolled down from her eyes. Tolu brought out her phone to call Deji but

after thinking she puts it back in her pocket.

"Take me there." Tolu says boldy hoping she could finish up there and still get back to the bank on time.

Tolu and the lady hide behind a bush in a park waiting for the thugs to show up.

"Thank you for coming to help, most officers ignored our call for help." The lady says.

"Well, lucky for you I'm not most officers." Tolu says and smiles, after waiting for very long hours, three

men wearing a black shirt show up at the center of the park.

"There they are." The lady says and runs off scared, Tolu gulps and gently walks toward the thugs

hoping to reason with them.

"Boys, I know we all like to have fun and do crazy things with our powers..................." The thugs didn't

wait for Tolu to finish talking, without hesitation they suddenly gather around her and start beating her,

Tolu lays on the floor defenseless and thinking of what to do, she thought of her father and the many

advises he had given her.

"If they attack all at once then they are probably weak." A disoriented voice of Balogun echoed towards

her ear. They were shattered glass bottles around the park, she slowly picks one up and stabs the leg

of one of the thugs, the thugs get scared and quickly move behind.

"Try me!" She yells and gets up, two of the thugs flee from the scene.

"You better run along with your crew." Tolu says the last thug, the thug laughs sarcastically and

stretches his hand which suddenly turns elongated, he grabs Tolu's neck and pushes her to a tree.

"Shit." Tolu struggles to get his hand off her neck, he tightens hand and Tolu gasp finding it hard to

breathe.

"I can do this." She says to herself, the glass bottle had dropped from her hand but she quickly

remembers that she always keeps a pocket knife in her pocket, she gently grabs it from her pocket and

stabs the thug's hand continuously, blood spills out from the thug's hand and he let's her go as he cries

out in pain.

"Bravo." Essence says as he claps from behind sitting on a chair, Tolu quickly turns around.

"I've seen your face before while going through some files, you're Essence!" Tolu says, she quickly

shifts back.

"Stop trying to find Papa, you can't defeat me different have tried, the Gok heroes from Gok house

couldn't even stop me." Essence says, hoping she'll listen. Toku was quite surprised about the way

Essence behaved, the others had described him as chaotic and insane but he looked gentle.

"Let me help you, I can." Tolu says and gently sits besides him.

"You can't, Papa must pay for everything he has done to me." Essence says and snaps his fingers, the

thug suddenly vanishes.

"At least the readers got to see me after I've been missing for two chapters." Essence says, laughs and

snaps his fingers, he suddenly vanishes.

"Gok heroes." Tolu says to herself.

That night, Ayo is in Richard's room he had just told him everything that happened in The Organization.

"How could Papa do that to me?" Ayo says.

"My mom said............." Richard wanted to tell Ayo everything that happened to him too but Ayo

interrupts.

"I have to go." Ayo interrupts him as a thought came to his head, he quickly walks out of Richard's

room.

"Typical." Richard says to himself.

The next day very early, Oloogun and Abayo are in the middle of a forest getting ready to leave.

"I can't feel most of my powers again, The Trials are clearly using this to punish me." Oloogun says

sadly, a sudden mist surrounds them and they find themselves in front of Papa's house.

"Let's do this." Oloogun says angrily