Hevean or Hell?

"And what is that thing?", Ralph asked.

"I don't know! He said he would tell you only! Now please come to the spot and save me!", Lucian hurried, while some kind of noise was coming from Ralph's phone.

"Hold on right there! Where is it? I'm getting there asap!" Ralph asked excitedly, 

Lucian was going to answer but he was interrupted by someone, and so, another voice came from Ralph's phone, "I'm Elias Blackwood talking, I have your sister here with me. Come here, at the 1st apartment of Barlow Street quickly…..otherwise I'll kill her, along with Lucian Cole ofcourse."

Elias's voice was threatening and rough. And just after he made his comment, the call was cut, with some external sounds of a woman.

Ralph quickly looked around him and took a glance through the window of the dark room. He saw the bright sky, contrasting hard with the inner darkness of the room.

The next minute, Ralph was seen in a black four-wheeler accelerating towards Barlow Street. Drops of sweat were visible on his forehead, his hands weren't stable, and his focused eyes opposed the dark circles underneath.

In around 5 minutes, he reached the spot he was asked to.

He opened the door of his car, parked it beside the apartment and quickly navigated his way to the room he heard sounds from. He opened the door with a kick and the sound it made stopped the whispering chatters coming from inside.

He saw three, no four people in front of him. One of them was Elias Blackwood, another was Lucian Cole. Then there was a man standing with a mask covering his mouth, and a girl tied up, sitting on a chair, unconscious.

The man with a mask was holding a gun in his hands, though it was pointing towards the floor, at a rather non-lethal position.

Lucian's hands were also tied, but he was standing instead. Unlike the girl, his whole face wasn't covered with a black cloth, the mouth and nose were spared for breathing. And he was conscious. In the middle of it all, was Elias Blackwood, sitting on a sofa.

Ralph's hands were still shaking, but as time went on, he composed himself and finally asked, "What's the matter, Mr.Blackwood? Why did you go this far?"

"I had to. Otherwise, I can't know the secrets, can I?"

Around 5 hours earlier,

"Elias, I'm going to explain to you my plan then. I talked with someone and got some crucial information!", Lucian called Elias and didn't waste a second.

"Yeah tell me. I'm hearing.", Elias quickly replied as well.

"I got to know that Ralph is working with O3 because he is forced to do so. Because his sister is being held hostage! And I have access to that sister! So listen to me and set this up…", Lucian continued explaining. 

And after a few minutes of talking, Elias quickly went to Luther's office.

"Luther, quickly wear a mask covering your mouth and tell your guards to allow Lucian Cole in here.", Elias ran through his words.

Luther's left eyebrow rose a little bit as he asked, "Lucian Cole? Why him all of a sudden?"

"Because I talked with Luke and he made a plan to use Lucian Cole as a step forward!", Elias replied with a little more explanation of Luke's plan.

Luther asked no further questions and quickly started arranging stuff through his computer.

Elias also started wearing formal clothes. 

As Elias went to his room, a guest came over Luther's office.

Luther was looking at his computer screen, but hearing a knock on the door distracted him and he moved his eyes towards the door.

"Yes? Come in,", Luther shouted.

A girl in a dark blue shirt came in through the door. She looked young, around 20 years old maybe. She came and sat on the chair, looked around for a few seconds and finally asked.

"Are there any rooms left?"

"Yes there is! How many do you want?", Luther replied in a deep voice, with an excitement in it.

"No no. Just one. Just one for me. That's all.", she said.

"Alright, here, sign it and you're done. The terms and conditions are also written here, feel free to ask me anything.", Luther handed her a paper, with a little smile on his face.

Luther's phone rang suddenly, he picked it up. It was Elias's.

"Someone entered your office, a customer I guess. Pack it up quickly and set up the things I just said. Do it quickly.", Elias cut the call instantly.

She took another minute reading and signing that paper, and then went to her assigned room.

Luther quickly looked at the signed paper and saw the name.

He then put it in his drawer and turned off everything in his office.

Current time,

"Hey guard, open the mask of this girl, quickly!", Elias ordered and the masked man went towards the tied girl.

Ralph was standing still, looking at the girl. Same as Lucian.

The man pulled the mask over her head, revealing her face.

Ralph's eyes opened wide. That face, that face was the reason he was there, his sister.

A lot of memories, conversations were getting replayed in his brain. Everything made sense all of sudden, a feeling of victory and defeat at the same time, was being felt by Ralph, no, not Ralph. Rather, by Ivan.

Lucian was staring at her. A face he saw after a lot of time. Even though this was all set up by himself, this feeling, wasn't something he set up. His heartbeat was hearable to himself all of sudden.

The girl's eyes had dark circles under it, as if she hadn't slept for days. But she was in deep sleep at that moment.

Elias spoke up, "Detective Ralph, here is your sister...….Aria Volkov."

Without giving a chance to reply, Elias continued with, "Now, I'll only give you your sister if you reveal one secret information to me."

Ralph was standing there still and asked, stuttering, "W-Wh-What is it?"

"Tell me the location of the secret organization, called O3!", Elias shouted a little.

Behind him was Luther Kane, as he was the masked man. He opened up Lucian's hands.

Lucian's eyes were still looking at Aria, but he spoke up with a pity voice, "Ralph, please give him what he wants and free me from here."

Lucian, in his mind, was smiling. As he was on his way to reveal crucial information from Ralph, and more importantly, get someone back. Elias was tensed up too, as this was more about him than anyone else.

"Oh, is that it?", Ralph, all of sudden, started smiling.

Elias's eyebrows rose and he was confused because he didn't get an answer from Ralph, instead, a cunning smile.

Slowly, Ralph made a gun sign with his fingers and at first pointed it towards Elias and closed one of his eyes, trying to aim towards Elias with his hand sign.

But then, he slowly moved his finger-gun towards Lucian, and then made a 'bang' sound with his mouth, pretending to shoot Lucian, and then said, "Lucian Cole. You're caught now."

He then put on a genuine smile and put his hands down, "It was a good battle I fought. And I almost lost, but then maybe a God, or a devil, wanted me to win. And I did. Elias Blackwood, and Lucian Cole, you guys fought it well.", Ralph laughed a little.

Then he made a gun sign with his fingers again and this time put it on his own head and while pretending to pull the imaginary trigger quickly said, "I'll see you in hell", and then continued with a, "O3"

As he pulled his imaginary trigger, his head exploded. A fountain of blood splashed within the room and the explosion of blood strained everyone's clothes…..