The Rise of the Devil (1)

28 December, Military base City K, and twenty-eight years ago, City W, Country Y.

Walking out of the Hospital, Major Hung could not believe it. Again, he was dismissed by a senior officer, and his work belittled. Yes, he was acting to protect a source, but no one knew who that source was. He had been, able to hide his second cousin David Hwang's identities. Thinking of David, he thought about what had brought him to this place.

** Flashback **

Eight-year-old Robert Hung and David Hwang, arrived back at the family compound in City W. Their Mothers were cousins, and funnily they were born three days apart, so everyone in the family treated them as siblings. Three weeks ago, they had stood by the graveside of their great grandparents were buried. It had thrown the family into turmoil, with their grandfather's on one side, and their other great-uncle on the other as to who controlled the family company and fortune, as there were apparently two completing documents saying how the family assets were divided.

Walking through the door of the main villa, they found their great uncle, their grandparents, and their parents all in handcuffs, surrounded by police. Their mothers were in tears and tried to break free from the police to run to their sons but were grabbed and thrown to the ground. Robert stood there in shock, while David started to move towards his mother, but was stopped by the police, and pushed to the ground. Seeing this Robert, ran to his cousin and all the two of them could do was sit their crying out not only for their parents but the rest of the family members.

Before anything could be said, six people, four women and two more police officers came through the doors behind them, four of them picking up Robert and David, saying "Boys you need to come with us, the police have arrested your family, and we will place you somewhere in care at this time until their cases are dealt with by the courts."

Robert cried out "But they have done nothing wrong, we want to stay with them."

One woman moved in front of them, saying "Boys you have no choice. The Court has ordered that you are to go into care, and at this time it is unlikely that you will ever return here. You have two options, if you want to fight us, we will simply take you away, and the police will help us do that. Or you can agree to come with us, and we will take you to your family homes in the compound to allow you to pack clothes to take with you and some personal belongings and mementos."

Robert looked at David, who held up two fingers, and Robert nodded in response before David said "We will cooperate, but promise us everyone will be safe."

The two of them followed the four women out the door and they headed towards their family homes in the compound, moving around under the workers careful eyes to pack clothes, photographs, mementos, and other things that they wanted to take with them. Both, being careful and cautious children, made sure when they entered their parent's studies to obtain their birth certificates and the household registers with them on it before handing it to the workers. However, carefully they not only hid their parent's documents as well as the bank accounts set up for them by their parents, and information about certain accounts set up in overseas countries to ensure that they had access to them to help their parents.

As they headed with the workers and were climbing into cars, they saw the police and military dragging their parents, grandparents and their great uncle and his family into military trucks, while others were loading boxes of documents and other things into other vehicles. Being in the same vehicle they both looked at each other before Robert said, "I wonder what is going on?"

David replied, "I have no idea, but I hope that they keep us together."

Three days later, sitting in a room in a care facility, Robert and David, were shell shocked. Two workers had just told them that a military tribunal had found their family guilty of terrorism activities, and the sentence of death had been carried out immediately as ordered by the court. The second bombshell that had been delivered was that the Family Villa and all assets had been seized by the government as assets tainted by criminal activities, save and except for the bank accounts that their parents had set up in their name, which would be used to support them.

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