(A³) ADRIAN ARTHUR ARDEN (A³)

Armies of Prey

Three people dressed like museum thieves were searching a building; They split up and searched the whole area but to no avail. They quit and decided to go back.

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Zulu was in his castle talking with an aged woman wearing a black cloak with hood, both her eye lids and lips were painted black. The woman is aged with wrinkles on her face and she has also lost some teeth, They were still in a scanty room with few furniture. Suddenly; three bats flew in through the only open window, they changed to the museum thieves and bowed before Zulu. Zulu asked them if they got what they were asked to get but they responded in negative, Zulu stood up furiously; dashed to one of them and slashed off his hand, he made to attacked the second thief but the old woman stopped him.

She got up and told Zulu to be glad his men returned. She then stated that Alanso witches are very powerful, she told him that what they seek wasn't far from them but they can never reach it because it might be protected with a spell and it requires an equal and opposite counter spell to break it. Zulu asked her if she's strong enough to break the spell and her response was;

"There's only one way to find out and that's not by sitting here and assuming things".

Zulu asked the men to prepare themselves because they were going back but before he could finish; he heard his name echoed loudly in his mind. He looked around and saw no one, he used telepathy to trace the voice and ascertained the precise location. He told the witch that the book will wait because they have other things to attend to.

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At the hospital; Sheriffs and detectives were investigating the fight scene, Dale seemed traumatized so he couldn't give them any useful information. Wells approached him for some questions but he kept mute and stares at nothing, he was later taken into an ambulance and they drove off.

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A woman was dressing a little girl in a kid's stylish room when the table phone rang, she went to the living room; picked and started scolding the caller. She was yelling about her countless calls which the caller intentionally ignored.

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After Dale was rode away in an ambulance; he started looking about the room till he saw Dale's phone by the side of the room. He picked it up and it has about thirty five unanswered calls; The call was from Dale's wife so he called back. He was surprised hearing Sofia yell at him, he calmed and dropped the cellphone until she finished yelling. He took time to explain Dale's situation to her.

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The su was about giving up when the crowd darkened; Zulu appeared with the witch. He looked at the