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  "clicky cleakty".The train stopped at it's station inVancouver Just another cool morning to start the day's journey.Gab a Beautiful British woman with a long nose ,cigar in the mouth sat on a rickety seat a really old one at that. The wind whistled it's way through her sparse blonde hair as she read the "Welcome to Vancouver" inscription. She had left Atlanta Last night. Quietly she lit a stick of venae's cigar as she took out a stained page of an old newspaper,circled out a picture.  Winter in the heart of town, grasses growing greener..gab began her journey along the shrubs,her next target was Jefferson, flashbacks of bloodied body in the bathtub kept coming through,She fought through it after all she was a killer,a trained one at that "Good morning Harry she said hastingly to the Harry Rayfield , five two years old with a bad breath, diabetic and a heavy pipe smoker,a drug lord and most wanted on the police list.. "The Empress sent me" Gab sent with a grin They both took a cab to his old fashioned Room, it smelled of rum and cat food, Harry had an old cat He eat lunch hurriedly and took few steps backward, lifted an old rug revealing a large briefcase,few loads of old notes,photographs,ammunitions, a shiny double blade dagger and uncountable bunches of Car keys and that of Rooms He lit his tobacco as he shoveled the brief case "Want some?"He asked "No"Gab responded.,    Gab had been the empress' favourite.She was an old rook from the streets of Atlanta, the empress had raised her too, she had grown to be very tactical and tough ,at sixteen, Gab could take mission of the empress,she carefully and tactfully completed each of them,Jefferson was just another task to complete. The empress was concerned with smuggling of girls, guns and drugs,she had ears and eyes round the globe.   Jefferson was the empress next target,she was taking every one who comes in her way, Jefferson had sold his loyalty to the other Rivals of the empress.He was gab's next mission,she had to eliminate him for disloyalty. Gab and Harry drove their way mid-way town They had to disguise, Jefferson was as smart man, mid fourties and he loved women and parties. Gab had totally disguised with some kind of makeup, Harry Rayfield was to lie low and strike at a signal. She had just five minutes to eliminate Jefferson   They drove together to jefferson's house,He wad having another party, they went in as guest, Gab had customized timer wristband ,her purse had a dagger planted at the corner, all from the empress' Mercenary store,The empress made guns and other deadly weapons too. "Over here" The security guard beckoned on Gab,Harry had entered through the back door "Guest 239" she responded and stretched out a tag carefully crafted the empress    "Guest 239" He spoke over his walking talkie  Confirmed" a croaky voice responded from the Other end . She walked her way through the hall way , gab was a beautiful woman ,she commanded stares. Harry had found his way to the control Room,So He walked his way to the switches of the hall,Gab on the other hand had found her way to Jefferson "Hello Jeff" She said seductively, Jeff was startled and confused,She took a glass of wine as she sat close to him. "We have business to do"She said,  "Have we met before?"He asked "Maybe"She responded.   The lights went off and there was pandemonium, Gab passed the dagger through his nape, but She had stabbed his bodyguard instead, Unknown to her. She hurried down the hallway, Taking off her bloodied gloves as she walked to the car,Harry was waiting in there,they both zoomed off. "This is the empress' print" Jefferson said as he examined the body. Jefferson was skillful enough to maundered his Body guard into sitting close by, Gab missed him and stabbed his bodyguard instead. Gab had missed the Target, it was her very first failed mission. Words got to the empress,She sent for the duo. The Empress' Building was a huge one with large Chambers, She had donned a Long red gown that sprawled across the cold floor. She faced the fireplace,the room was dark and dead-cold, Gab and Harry walked down the stairs. "Halt" Kim Ordered Kim was the Empress' personal bodyguard, He had Seven fingers out of ten fingers,Three taken off by the Empress for every failed mission. "I smell anguish and sweat" the empress said with a grin.The empress was very tactical, words came to her before the duo could even realize. "You weevils" She cursed. "Jefferson isn't dead, Take them away I'll be so delighted to hear their screams".She said. Screams were heard afterwards and the air stank or blood and sweat.  The Empress was very powerful, her game grew and spread like Wildfire over the region,The law couldn't't catch her, She was the law herself,very skillful to dissolve charges brought up against her.    Marie, Mid fourties, a detective married with two kids, She lived in Pennsylvania, She moved into that region in mid year  Marie had heard of the empress, She wasn't the first to be sent to Virginia, There were tons of detectives before her, but they still could not bring the empress to book. Fourty eight hours in Virginia, Marie was exhausted, She lodged in an hotel in the heart of the city,She was half asleep when the doorbell rang. "Who? "She inquired and stepped out, There Was none in sight, only a box beautifully wrapped with an inscription "From the Queen" hanging from the side, This was a bad omen, the empress usually send gift boxes to her enemies to let them know she's aware of their existence,  Marie wandered around the room as she sipped her coffee and passed a called her superior Audrey. "Hello Audrey, There's a problem" she said as her eyes moved across the street just opposite her window "Hi Marie, Need help?" Audrey responded from the other end. She spotted a red-haired girl downstair "I'll call in later Audrey, Gotta fix a jigsaw" she added as she picked up her car keys from the table and squeezed into her jacket hurriedly. She drove quite recklessly, she was following the red-haired girl, Traffic kept coming between them,Marie was bent on meeting up with her, she followed her tactfully.She pulled over in front of a mall as her car was running out of gas and gave her a hot chase. Harry on the other hand, Had followed her too, somehow he opened Her car, searched tirelessly and got hold of some things. her wallet and a small family size photograph of her husband and two kids and   Marie had gotten the red-haired girl, She grabbed her hoodie as she attempted an escape, She saw an arrow-like "N" carefully printed on her nape, this was the empress' means of identification,she tattooed the "N" symbol on every girl she abducted, Her guns and drugs too. Some how the girl slipped off her and ran away very fast, Marie was lost in bewilderment, she slowly descended from notion and walked to her car tired and frustrated, shoved her hair to a backward direction as she looked at the passenger seat,the letter "N" sat pretty on the seat alongside a "Welcome to Virginia" note, She picked up her phone and she got the message "Be smarter next time". Marie stared into thin air,She was startled and confused as she rang Audrey's phone.  "Ensure my family is safe" She muttered audibly.she was ready for the empress. she was going to take her mind off everything and stay focused this time. She drove back to the hotel,found her way to her room, sluggishly took off her jacket, Poured herself the liquor on the table,she gulped it down, picked up her jacket,ran her fingers through it,she Got hold of a paper, Becky was had sketched a little drawing with the inscription "Super mom" Becky was Marie's last child, she fought back hot tears as she held the drawing and somehow she fell asleep muttering inaudible words in-between.  Gab was alone this time, nursing her wound,she had fifty seven scars,she drew every scar on the wall,fifty seven drawing in all,She slept off somehow and woke up as the sunlight played a bounce on her face.Her doors and windows were open she had left them open.Her phone rang ,Harry was calling "I'm sending you some very useful information,use them wisely"he said hoarsely "Huh okay" She responded as she swayed, dancing in-between as she moved to the lobby, she stopped by and stared at her reflection In the mirror,She wanted a new hairdo so badly but she was so occupied with the empress' task, she picked up her phone,tapped the screen she got Harry's message the plan work from the empress' table,They were to abduct some girls at a baking school.She drove some miles away , Stopping at every traffic to exchange cars with others,Just in case they were followed by the enemies either the police or the empress' rivals and a ton of others.  Gab,Harry,Venice and others were to take care of the task, Venice was just one of the empress' girls but she was good but wasn't as good and tactful as Gab.They got to the baking school Venice drove a van,she found her way to the gate but was halted by the security guards "Deliveries" She said uncouthly to the Body guard "I'd love to see" The guard responded. "Flour and sugar dude" She said rather coarsely, The security guard signaled a wave as she drove straight into the premises "Son of a b***h" She cursed as she tapped her earrings,There were not real earrings but earphones "Over! Sixty! Sixty!! Sixty!!!".She said. This was some kind of code signaling Gab,Harry, and Darlene to come in   Harry found a way of distracting one of the guards, He attempted a fight with one of them,Gab came by and shot him twice in the head and drove in, others followed. They donned aprons like the tutors and walked their way into the Hall,The students were busy kneading doughs the best way the could, Gab entered through the front door, Venice through the back door, Harry and Darlene through the side doors "Morning dolphins" Gab greeted With a grin,The students were distracted and startled "Let's go on a trip". She said as Harry shot into the air she ordered them to sit as she blindfolded them and tied their hands, Gun on head, Gab walked just the girls into the waiting van, Twenty-four girls in all, Gab shot the boys, Others managed to escape,as the zoomed off into thin air   Three hours later, it was all over the news, Marie walked into the room Jacket in hand, She turned on the television,She stared so hard at it, She was tensed .She poured herself the liquor on the table and gulped down the content in frenzy. Her phone rang Audrey was calling..She tapped the table with the glass, Thoughts running through her mind. "Hi Marie, Seen the news?". Audrey spoke over "Yes Audrey" She responded "Stop sleeping for God's sake. Marie". She could sense the fury in his voice. She had to hunt the empress' down, she picked her phone this time, she dial Jack her old time friend,   "Hi Jack " she said "Hi Marie, been quite a while" jack from the responded other end . "Am in town, lets sit over glasses of liquor" she added giggling. "Huh, rum it is, beep me later" he said cheerfully Marie sipped her liquor as Andrey rang her again." . "Am sorry, we'll be be sending Robin at mid-day tomorrow" he added "I'm truly sorry, still trying my very best, just another chance Audrey, don't send Robin in yet" she said.  Andrey went mute  "Alright,"but stop sleeping Marie"he said  " Thanks Andrey" she responded as she walked her walked her way to the restroom   The empress had to access the girls they had abducted,The ones well endowed will be sold out to brothels for p**********n,the rigid and stronger ones will be trained to be serial killers, Drug smugglers and Body guards. The girls were stripped, the ritual was starting soon and other girls were working tirelessly to put things in order,a large bath was filled and a large fireplace filled with coal and shinny "N" Metals burning in the coal. Their hairs were cut to chin level and coloured red, The "N" Shaped Symbol was placed on their nape and some on their arms.   Scream and wails was heard from every corner of the hall as the empress descended from the stairs of her chamber, she donned a long White gown that sprawled on the floor, She usually wear these for occasions of sort. "You have new sisters Gab" She said amist laughter as she ran her slender fingers through Gab's hair and planted a kiss on her forehead. "The other one over there, Slit her throat!" She commanded as she ran her crimson blue eyes over the hall. "She looks sickly" she added and walked more closer as she held each girl's nape, Just where they had been tattooed and forced their faces into the tub as they gulped down the water turn for turn.  "Let their wound heal, then you send the seven to Miami, The ones left are starting classes tomorrow" She said to Gab as she walked her way chin in the air out of the hall into a waiting car. Jack, Marie's friend had stopped over Marie's Lodge, They both drove out to some kind of bar as they sat over glasses of liquor and speaking of old times and families, Marie spotted someone in the gambling section, She tried looking over, she could still recognize Harry, he had gone to prison for quite a lot of time. Harry, Tobacco in the mouth didn't notice the stares from Marie's .she walked up to him, he was skillful enough to leave before she got to him. She followed him through the Street as he entered an old rickety car. Jack was still in the car. They both drove,following Harry, Marie was quite unfortunate She lost him at the first traffic.  The Empress sat over a coffee table staring at a photograph,It was that of Marie,She stared so hard at as she ran her fingers across "Vio la" She screamed as she circled out Becky's image, Becky was Marie's last child.She rang Gab "Over here, We have business"She said as she sipped her coffee "Huh Okay!" She said hoarsely.as she stood up stretching she had just woken up from sleep.   Gab drove down to meet the empress,She walked through the balcony,She met Harry in a pool of his own blood, three holes in his head from a gunshot. She walked her way through,she met the empress in her yatcht stroking the water. "Mother! Harry's dead?" She said amist tears  "The old hamster is quite feeble and slow He isn't't useful anymore"She said as she dried her hands with a warm towel Kim provided. "And I took him off the police list, isn't't that enough help?" she added. "Oh no mother! Harry toiled for you"Gab responded sobbing profusely. "And I'll bury him like a monarch perhaps"The empress sobbed mockingly. "You killed your servant,to bury him like a monarch?..Oh no mother!" Gab said sobbing in between "You must have really doubled nerves to speak to me in such manner" The empress said in fury "Depart and talk to me when you are relieved of your ill-head" The empress added as she walked away.   Harry had been Gab's friend in little time,She cried so much,he had been the closest of the empress' servants.She picked up his body,Wrapped and cleaned it up and drove quite recklessly to a place far away, there she buried Harry,He had no family "Travel in power Harry!" She said amist tears as she covered up the grave she had dug, the sky dropped its spittle, She shook the little droplets off her hair as she walked to her car lighting a stick of cigar.She had seen him as a father She never had unbeknownst to him, Harry was stern but she loved the fact that he cared about her and carried her along.   Minutes grew into hours and hours into days,Gab mourned Harry the best way she could, Marie on the other hand had been on low tracks, She had been sourcing useful information, she never rested, She had been glued to her systems and reaching out to some very important sources of information.She was really bent on bringing the empress' to book   A fortnight had passed, Marie's husband Humphrey had dropped the kids as usual, He kissed them goodbye and drove off to work, Humphrey was a pilot, He was quite a busy man, So he didn't bother to pick them up after classes. They could find their way home. Becky and Nathan aged 18 and 16 were exceptionally outstanding, Nathan loved basketball and Becky loved Ballet, She probably took after her grandmother who was a dance coach. Nathan loved Becky so much, He cared a lot for her so Marie worried less about Becky being cared for.  Nathan had gone for his basket ball practice alongside friends,Becky had finished her Ballet practices and was packing up,She stopped by the canteen to get soda and chips.  While she walked to meet up with her brother,She met Gab "Hi, You are Becky right?" She inquired with a smile  "Yes Becky Humphrey" She responded holding her backpack tightly. "Ballet Dancer!!" Gab said teasingly. "How do you know" She asked" "Your Backpack zipper is not locked and I could see your tapping shoes"Gab responded "Oh yeah, Thanks anyways" as she locked up her backpack as she walked down the stairs "Gabriella, Gab for short" she said with a smile as they shook hands and parted ways. Gab met up with the empress afterwards,It was quite a long drive. "Seen the girl?" The empress asked "Yes tall, Blonde hair, quite pretty" Gab responded as she took off her gloves.   The Empress was quite strategic, She crafted invitation cards and sent them across to Becky's school requesting for the performance of Ballet dancers for a birthday party.....