THE UNION

NGOZI HEAD PART2

"Don't go anywhere, I need to confirm from something from Tina, I mean it when I say you shouldn't go anywhere no matter what happens." Huffcupp says and walks towards Tina cabin. Richard gently hits his feet on the ground while whistling thinking of what he could do to past time.

"Richard!" Richard hears Ngozi voice crying out to him, he heard her wailing.

"I'm coming for you, just wait." Richard says as he takes off running with full speed looking for Ngozi, he had already forgotten all Huffcupp had told him about not going anywhere.

"No one will hurt you, I'm coming." Richard ran faster, he trips and falls as he raises his head up he sees Samson beating up Ngozi with rage in his eyes.

"f**k!" Richard shouts at the top of his voice, Huffcupp who has been looking around for him grabs his clothes and turns him away from it.

"I told you not to go anywhere." Huffcupp shouted at the top of his voice.

"What did I just see?" Richard asked traumatized about everything he had just saw.

"A part of Ngozi memory, her father was a terrible man who ruined her childhood and betrayed her trust." He says swiftly.

"We need to find her." Richard says boldly and walks away.

"We're almost there." Miss Vicious says as she leads Ngozi towards the Casket, Ngozi had second thoughts about going in there she couldn't handle all the negative emotions she was feeling.

"I don't think I want to go in anymore." Ngozi steps back a bit.

"Are you sure?" Miss Vicious stared at here, Ngozi heard her father's voice. The pain didn't stop, she felt his hands all over her body and tears suddenly roll down from her eyes.

"No, let's go. I want to be free." Miss Vicious leads the way. Richard and Huffcupp quickly get to her, they've been running with dashing speed to get to Ngozi, she was shocked to see Richard.

"Don't do it Ngozi." Richard breathes out heavily, Miss Vicious stretches her claw to impale Richard he was invading her memories Huffcupp quickly pushes Richard out of the way and is stabbed inside. Ngozi runs to Richard.

"What are you doing here Richard?" She said softly concerned about how all the ways Richard got to her.

"I came to save you, I saw everything and I understand now. Please don't go inside the Casket." He grabs her hand wanting to take her far away from this place.

"I can't, I need to be free from this torture I'm going through. I can't handle it anymore, it feels like this wave is taking over me day by day and I know I can't survive it." She sighs, this was the first time Ngozi was opening up to someone.

"I'm begging you, just stop and we'll handle it in the real world." Richard whispered to her.

Her claws on Richard's leg. Ngozi runs off to find the Casket.

"I'm sorry but I can't let you stop her." Miss Vicious stretches her other hand, rage filled her eyes she had other motives. As the claw got closer to Richard's chest, a sudden lightning hits her knocking her down.

"Go and help her!" Blitz shouted from afar, he was with the other imaginary friends as they ran towards them, Richard dashes off to catch up with Ngozi.

"We can't let her hurt herself." Daisy says as they all march toward Vicious and Huffcupp who was unconscious.

"You fools, if Ngozi dies then we'll all be free to live in the real world." Miss Vicious says and struggles to stand up.

"Bullshit." Blitz wanted it to be true, he wanted to be free just like Ngozi but couldn't believe Miss Vicious.

"It's true, I'm in charge of her memories and if you don't trust me wait for Huffcupp to get up and all of you can ask him by yourselves." Vicious suddenly vanishes into the shadows while the whole group stare at Huffcupp.

Richard runs through different doors looking for Ngozi but suddenly he sees a door standing on it's own without the support of any wall, without hesitation Richard opens the door and jumps inside. He finds himself in a graveyard, he spots Ngozi bowing before her father.

"Father is always right, father is always right, father is always.........." Ngozi repeated that same sentence, she was in a trance.

"You weren't ready for this Ngozi." Richard quickly runs towards them, Samson stretches his hand and Richard body was suddenly paralyzed.

"You can't save her." Samson said deeply, his eyes glowed in a red colour and turned into a huge giant figure, Ngozi doesn't notice this she continues to recite the same sentence until Samson uses his big foot to step on Richard

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"Ngozi! Ngozi! Ngozi!" Richard shouted and screamed in pain, he felt his soul departing from his body, Ngozi turns around and comes out of the trance immediately she sees Richard is in danger.

"No, not Richard. Leave him alone." She says quietly, she didn't make any attempt to help him.

"You can defeat your father Ngozi, you're not alone in this." He cries out in pain, his eyes were closing up.

"I'm not alone." She said to herself, she thought of her her friends and family. A huge wave of memories started coming to Ngozi and she smiled, they were all relaxing and calming. A memory of her talking with Ayo suddenly appears in front of her.

Ayo sees Ngozi cutting onions in the kitchen and walks up to her.

"Hmm hi, I know you don't talk to people that much but we at this house care about you even Gboyega." The memory fades away.

"I can do this." Ngozi says to herself, she thought of all the fun she had with her imaginary friends and how they were always there for her, how she and Tolu could become good friends.

"I have people that care about me." She smiles and as tears drop from her eyes, her legs were moving away from the ground, Ngozi was floating.

"Grandma always called me star." Ngozi says, she exhales deeply and finally thought of Richard.

"I want us to move together." Richard gently told Ngozi, she didn't feel comfortable with it but Richard goes on.

"I know it's strange and dumb but it will be cool, we can handle our s**t together like you always say. You're not alone too."

Ngozi snapped back to reality, for the first time she didn't feel alone she knew she had families and friends that were always going to protect her. Her body glowed in a very bright red colour.

"I'm not afraid of you." Ngozi said boldly to Samson, her voice echoed around the graveyard and a red orb ball comes out of her body it lights up the whole graveyard and suddenly explodes.

Richard wakes up after knocking out from the explosion, he sees Ngozi sitting beside him.

"How are you?" He gently sits beside her.

"I don't know, my father is still in my head but I'm better. I can handle the feeling better now." She slowly rested her head on his shoulder.

"Let's go home." Ngozi says and smiles, she was relieved from a pain she had battle for a very long time.

"Ngozi!" Richard shouts at the top of his voice as he woke up, he draws a near by chair closer to her bed and sits on it. Her eyes were still closed, so he holds her right hand with his two hands and lowers his head to kiss the back of hand.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be there to protect you all this while, I couldn't say beautiful things to you cause I was hiding my feelings and I was dumb to do that. I grew up in a very toxic home and I got a lot of shitty advise, rolled with it but I realize that was dumb should've been there for you." Richard pours his heart out.

"All that matters is that you came." Ngozi said as she gently opens her eyes while smiling. Gboyega walks in all bruised up, his shirt and trousers had patches on them.

"You're both awake." Gboyega runs toward both of them and gives them a big hug, Ngozi had never seen Gboyega this happy.

"Yeah, take your time and rest Ngozi." Richard says as he stands up from the chair.

He and Gboyega leave the room and head to the sitting room, on getting there the whole place was a mess and Abayo was laying on the ground snoring really loud.

"What happened here?" Richard says as he looks around the messy sitting room.

"It's a long story." Gboyega exhales deeply