I Am Disappointed

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{Black Dragon Base}

Rarkham sat in a large, buoyant library with a book in his hands. The library looked ancient and mysterious, as it was devoid of any signs of modernisation except for the electric bulbs hanging from the ceiling.

"Excuse me My Lord" The butler interrupted Rarkham, although he salutated with a bow.

"Did you bring them. Butler?" Rarkham said while his eyes remained glued to the book.

"Yes sir."

"Bring them in." Rarkham gestured with a slight gesture of his hand.

With little to almost no hesitation, the butler led Fang, Falkore and Nefertiti to where Rarkham sat.

"Yo boss! It's been a while" Falkore said with a wierd laugh.

  "Sit down! I am not in the mood for your frivolities." said Rarkham with his eyes still glued to the book.

  " Why did you call us big brother?" Nefertiti asked as all three of them took their seats.

"Firstly, I am disappointed." Rarkham dropped his words like a bomb shell.

"You failed your mission woefully." He added.

" But big brother, the eye patch man was very strong. You should have seen him when he mopped the floor with Falkie." Nefertiti said with a pout at the end.

" Yes he is strong  Nefertiti, but if you had worked together you should have been not only able to defeat him but also capture him for Gregory to work on." said Rarkham.

" Failure is not tolerated within the Ten Heads. It seems I made a mistake in recruiting you, that is why I have decided to replace and  eliminate all three of you." Rarkham furrowed his eyebrows as he concluded. A frightening pressure engulfed the room immediately he finished speaking. Multiple cracks appeared on the walls, ceilings, and floor of  the library.

   Nefertiti, Fang and Falkore fell to the floor as the suffocating pressure acted on them. Rarkharm remained glued to his book throughout the whole conversation, not even raising his head once to look at three of them.

' Impossible!' Fangs said in his thoughts as he looked at the monster before him. He was exuding this much pressure while merely reading a book.

  They were nothing but ants that was not even worth a glance.

"Ple-please big Brother!!!" Nefertiti begged as her little body started to implode.

Rarkharm's monstrous pressure was felt across the entire base. It sent chills down the spines of everyone present within the base except one, Saturn the fourth Head who found it amusing.

  "Please!! Give us a second chance." Fang begged.

"We will not fail you." Falkore yelled as the pressure implode his body bit by bit.

"Alright." Rarkham said as the suffocating pressure instantly disappeared.

" I would give you a second chance." He added.

"Thank you big brother." said Nefertiti as she paused  to breathe between each word.

"You may leave. I'll call you when I need you." Rarkham concluded with a gesture urging them to leave.

    They wasted no time and left the library as fast as they could. No one was willing to linger any longer as they were afraid of displeasing him even in the slightest way.

"Butler." called Rarkham immediately the trio left.

"My Lord!" The Butler said as he appeared from thin air beside Rarkham.

"Bring Grater and Flynn."

" Yes My Lord." The butler said once more before he vanished into thin air.

......

  Adrian's life had supposedly returned to normal. Mr Leo and Miss Anna underwent a few surgical operations, while Mr Ford and Nurse Joan only received light medical attention. The only members of the school council that perished in the attack were Aisha, the P.A to Mr Winston and the principal Mr Winston himself.

   Life at the farmland was not as  exciting as the academy, but Adrian managed.  Doing chores, running training drills with James, sparring against  Natasha, were his daily routine activities and at night he had to contend with nightmares always ending with his death.

  Like the first, it ended with him dying by the hands of the silhouette with the scarlet sword on each occasion.