THE WATCHMAN

Captivity

Susan fell to the floor as she covered both ears, the deafening blast of the gun almost burst her eardrums.

Her ears tingled and she struggled to regain her composure as she heard more gunfire around her.

Then two people picked her up on both sides and carried her back upstairs as the gunfire continued. After a while, the gunfire ceased and more men came into the room where she was taken. When she was finally able to find her bearing. She recognized the men. They were part of the TimeKeeper resistance.

"Susan Boyle?" One of the men whom she believed to be the commander asked. Susan nodded.

"We were contacted by the Oraha and told to meet up with Antonio De Castillo, Yourself, and Moreno Jorge at this location. Unfortunately, agents sent. ey the Council of Barons to eliminate you people got here. before we did. We are sorry we arrived too late so save Mr. Moreno."

"No! Susan cut in. "You are not late! That's why you're a Timekeeper and have time on your hands. Follow me". She said as she walked out of the room to the entrance of the house where Jorge's body lay.

When they got to the entrance, everyone was shocked at what they found; the bodies of the agents lay everywhere but Jorges' body was nowhere to be found!

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Antonio was weak and furnished. It had been three days without food or water amidst numerous interrogations and tests. His blood samples had been taken severally. The Barons we're looking to study it and used it to create a biological weapon of their own.

The device on his arm prevented him from doing anything, and he didn't have the strength to fight his way out.

The guards would taunt him saying; " Aren't you the dreaded Angel de la Muerte? Do something to save yourself!"

But he was so weak, he barely even had the strength to respond. He had been tortured so much that he had lost all hope. He knew Jorge and Susan wouldn't dare a rescue based on the amount of security.

"Was this another game by the Fates?" He should have learned by now that nothing is ever as it seems with the Fates. But if the Fates meant it, he knew he would someway find himself out of this prison.

A bang on the metal door of the prison jerked him out of his deep thoughts. "Hey, Angel of Death! Seems death has decided to send you a visitor". One of the guards said mockingly.

The huge lock of the door clanked open and the door swung open and an old bearded man stepped into the prison. Antonio strained to see who it was through his bulgy eyes. He was barely recognizable and could barely see because of the several beatings and torture he had received.

Staining to see through those bloodshot eyes, the image he saw before for him shocked him to his bones. It was a ghost! No wonder the guard said death had sent a visitor.

" It must be a dream! I'm dreaming!" You are dead! You are supposed to be dead Antonio said out loud...

Sergio Angel was standing before him!

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She lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, a blank look on her face. The two most important men in her life had been taken from her in the space of a week and she was left alone. She thought of her son, Antonio Junior. He was just meeting his father, "what was she going to tell him about Uncle Reno?".

While she was deep in thought, she heard a knock on the door. " I said I don't want any visitors!" She screamed. The door swung open and the Oraha walked in. Immediately Susan saw him, she jumped out of bed, ran into his arms, and began to sob profusely.

He was able to calm her down after a few minutes. He then urged her to eat and take a bath which she reluctantly did. When she was done eating, she asked "Where is Antonio Jr.? The Oraha replied; "he's safe, he's still in Nigeria. it was too dangerous to bring him along on this trip. He would certainly become a target."

"I'm really sorry about Moreno Jorge, I know you did your best, don't blame yourself for what happened. You people were taken unawares. Don't wallow in self-pity, what we need to be planning right now is how to get Antonio out of that place. Only God knows what they are doing to him in there!"

"But how do we do that?" Susan inquired with a discouraged countenance.

"I have a plan that just might work" The Oraha replied with a mischievous smile on his face.

"It's been a while I have visited the General Council here in Spain. They don't know that I'm around, so I'm going to use this opportunity to visit. And this would be your opportunity to gain access into the estate and rescue your man.

" What's your plan?" Susie asked, now looking very interested.

"My team of bodyguards is part of the League of Watchmen, but they are very loyal to me and can be trusted. What we are going to do is we are going to sneak in a few men of the Timekeeper resistance, masquerading as my bodyguards into the estate."The Oraha replied

"They would then disperse themselves around the estate, disarm the motion sensor systems and also take over the surveillance cameras. By this their defense mechanisms and countermeasures will take at least 15 extra minutes to be activated, whereas if all is normal they would be activated the second anything unusual is detected". The Oraha continued.

"All these will be taking place at the same time with the search for Antonio. We haven't been able to find out where they are holding him, but we are sure he's somewhere within the estate."

"How's Mi Fuego?" the Oraha suddenly asked

"She's not doing too good" Susan replied. "She's not eating and attacking everyone that comes near here".

" You know you're the only one she may trust, so you have to try calming her down. She's going to be very valuable in our mission being a successful one. But please be careful. I'm not ready to lose you too" he said putting his arms around her.

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"It must be a dream!" Antonio screamed while holding his head in his hands and turning away from Sergio Angel. "I must be hallucinating! You're dead!" he continued, trembling as he spoke.

Sergio Angel just stood there saying nothing, as two agents came and picked up Antonio and took him to a room to torture him some more.

When they got to the torture room, Antonio could see all kinds of sharp knives and scissors on top of a steel tray, there was the electric chair and a bathtub full of water. All these he had experienced at some point during his captivity here.

The torture room was a dark smelly room with concrete walls. There was a light in the middle of the room where the electric chair was stationed. At the corner was a table with the large tray Antonio saw. At the far end of the room was the bathtub full of water. Electric current buzzed and sparked from a naked wire close to the bathtub. It was used from time to time. Hung on the walls were whips of all kinds and hammers.

Usually after these "torture sessions", he would be taken to a kind of lab, where samples of everything would be taken. Blood, nails, hair, skin, urine, and all.

As they passed beside the tray Antonio picked up one pair of scissors and hid it inside the sleeve of his shirt. He waited till he was strapped to the chair. When the agent ha turned his back to Antonio, Antonio brought out the scissors with his fingers and then cut the leather strap on his right hand, and then he loosened the left. He then pretended to still be dazed as the agent returned to begin the torture session.

As soon as the agent was close enough, Antonio suddenly sat up and stabbed him in the neck, he then covered his mouth, so he wouldn't scream. When the agent was finally dead, Antonio took a while to rest and then blocked all spaces where others might be able to see through.

He then waited a while, surveyed the lab. There were four men in Lab coats working inside the lab, supposedly preparing for another series of tests on him. He banged on the laboratory door in order to attract their attention.

Two of them rolled in a stretcher to carry Antonio, in the blink of an eye he had slit their throats and they were sprawling on the floor. After a while the others notice that their colleagues had not returned as planned, so one of them came to check what was going on. Immediately he opened the door, he saw Antonio standing before him, holding a knife in one hand and bloody scissors on the other.

In a flash, Antonio stabbed him in the stomach repeatedly and then three the knives straight onto the head of the other.

Antonio sought painkillers to help with the pain. He looked for an exit, but there was none. He would have to go back the way he came.

After administering the pain killers he changed into one of the dead agent's uniforms and went back into the torture room. He checked the door and saw two guards standing outside. How they didn't hear the noise coming from inside was a miracle to him.

He opened the door and casually walked past them so they could only see his rearview. In one swift, flowing movement, he had slit their throats and kicked them into the room to avoid their blood spilling on the floor.

He then took their guns and access cards and a rifle. Suddenly a loud buzzer started ringing followed by an equally loud siren signaling an emergency. Something was wrong but he didn't know if he had been discovered.

He decided to shoot every camera, but it was too late agents had surrounded his location, and gunfire ensued. He was hidden at a door in the middle while the agents were at both ends of the corridor.

He had just two rounds left in the pistol and he knew that his escape attempt was a failure

Suddenly they stopped firing back and he heard their footsteps retreating till he heard nothing anymore. Then he hears footsteps approaching slowly, he peeked to see and to his amazement, it was Sergio Angel walking towards his position unarmed.

Antonio came out from his hiding spot and faced him, knowing he still had two rounds, he decided to end this nightmare and kill Sergio Angel once and for all.

" I don't know if you're a ghost or real, and I honestly don't care! All I know is I'm ending this right now!" Antonio said as he pointed the guns at Sergio.

Just as he was about to pull the trigger, a current of electricity went from the bracelet on his arm, all through his whole body and he fell to the floor jerking to the volts running through his body. And then he passed out

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When he woke up he was back in his cell, this time with chains strapped to his hands and legs, restricting his movement. The effect of the pain killers had waned so this whole body was hurting.

Bang!

The metal locks of the cell open and Sergio was back. He sat down beside Antonio and said "Why do you fight it? It's not a dream, it's very real and there's nothing you can do to change that! Why not give us what we want? And then we can let you go back to your friends and Lover...All we need is the source of your powers and how you survived the land of the fates."

"I have told you everything I know!" Antonio replied while sobbing. "Please just let me go" he pleaded.

"Okay," Sergio said... Tell us where to find the underground resistance, we know you're working with them." "I don't know!" Anton retorted

"Okay then!" Sergio said as he stood up and walked to the door and stopped, "you give us no choice." He walked out of the cell and returned with a young male child by his arm.

"Antonio Jr. Say hi to daddy," Sergio Angel said... A devilish smile on his face.