THE UNION

Chapter 22: HOSTAGE

Tolu opens her eyes and finds herself tied down on a tiny bed, she looks around and sees nothing else

except a door, Fai'zah gently walks in and stares at Tolu in a very creepy way.

"Where's Papa?" Fai'zah says softly, Tolu doesn't know what to say.

"Where I'm I? What's going on?" Tolu says as her voice breaks down.

"Don't you lie to me lady, don't make me hurt you." Fai'zah says, her eyes were boiling with rage.

"I don't know where he is, I have no idea." Tolu cries out.

"I see you're injured, let's play the mental game." Fai'zah says in a menacing way, she moves closer to

Tolu's ear and whispers a incantation in her ear, Tolu suddenly stops moving and is in a trance. Fai'zah

walks out of the room and meets up with Oloogun and Odi who had been watching everything that has

been going on.

"Did she confess?" Oloogun asked.

"No, she left me with no other option than the parasite spell." Fai'zah says.

"The parasite spell? Really?" Oloogun says, he knew that particular spell was dangerous.

"Yes, the parasite spell will get the truth for us." Fai'zah talks boldly.

"And if she isn't lying?." Oloogun asked.

"Then let's hope she can mentally fight it, the gods are angry with us because of your foolish mistake

don't try and tell me what to do when you put us in this mess." Fai'zah says firmly and walks out.

"Ouch." Odi says, squeezes his face and follows Fai'zah.

Tolu finds herself in a room filled with knives.

"Fuck." She says and sighs heavily, a version of herself wearing a police uniform suddenly appears in

front of her.

"Tolu, it's nice to see me." The duplicate says in a sarcastic manner.

"Who are you?" Tolu says, she tries to pick up one of the knives laying on the ground but as she

touches it all the knives fade away.

"I'm a parasite, I have one job which is to find something important in your memories but you're pretty

messed up yourself Tolu." the Parasite says and laughs manically.

They suddenly find themselves in Balogun's house. Tolu walks in after graduating from Police

academy, exicted to tell her father the good news.

"Dad!" Tolu says and rushes inside, she drops all her bags as she gets inside. She sees a man wearing

a black mask holding her dad neck from behind.

"What is going on dad? Please let him go." Tolu pleads as tears drop from her eyes. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"Get out of here dear." Balogun says as he sweats and get scared.

"Please....... Don't..... Hurt him." Tolu gently moves closer to them, immediately the man brings out a

knife and stabs Balogun from behind continuously.

"No!" Tolu yells and runs toward them but the man suddenly vanishes into thin air, everywhere

suddenly stops moving.

"Such trauma at a very young age, what happened after that Tolu?" The Parasite says, Tolu and her

have both been watching this memory.

"I was there just watching, thinking of what I could do................ The blood kept on gushing out and I

called the ambulance sadly our house was quite far from other places, I lost my father." Tolu's voice

shakens and drops of tears roll from her eyes.

"So sad." The Parasite says and rolls her eyes.

They suddenly find themselves in a burial ground, Tolu stood beside her father's coffin while Balogun's

few family member showed up but after waiting for few minutes they end up leaving, Tolu stood there

for hours thinking about her father.

"Mother didn't show up dad, I messaged her but she probably didn't see it cause she got a lot of text.

You didn't deserve to die like that, I miss you and I vow to try and be like you father." Tolu says and

everywhere stops moving

"Hmm, so you're doing this because of your father?" The Parasite says.

"No, it's been my wish to be a officer." Tolu says boldly.

"Are you sure? Cause when Essence questioned you about this same thing you wanted to stop finding

Papa." She says firmly.

"This means I'm telling the truth that I don't know where Papa is right? Then let me go." Tolu pleads.

"I'm sorry, I can't. I still need to go deep, some of you are very dangerous."

They both find themselves standing in front of Chong coffin.

"You lost your only friend, you know the funny thing about this is you have no other friend apart from

Chong just like your father." The parasite says.

"Stop talking." Tolu says, she covers her eyes.

"Flashing forward." The parasite says while rolling her eyes.

They find themselves at the police station, Tolu and Dayo talk as she's excited about the promotion.

"I just know I'm going to get this Dayo, I deserve it." Tolu says happily.

"Yeah but don't get your hopes to high Tolu." Dayo says worried that Tolu might not get it.

"What do you mean? I've worked harder more than anyone in this station, most of the people here are

assholes." Tolu says.

"This world is a brutal place." Dayo says softly.

Timi walks out of the DPO office exicted.

"What happened in there Timi?" Deji asked.

"Both of you should not tell anyone but I just got a hint from the boss that I'm getting the promotion."

Timi whispers.

"You?!" Tolu yells.

"Geez." Timi says and steps back a bit.

"You've done nothing compared to me, all you do is wander around with your ugly ass friend and go do

rubbish with the authority both of you have." Tolu swiftly says and runs to her office, she sits on her

chair and tears roll down from her eyes. She picks up a photo of her dad laying on her desk.

"I'm trying dad, I'm really trying." Tolu says as her voice shakens.

"This is another proof that you're only doing this for daddy." The Parasite moves closer to Tolu.

"I'm not doing this for my dad." Tolu says and turns around.

"Listen to yourself! Even I'm concerned, you're trying to impress a man that isn't even alive, your father

isn't some kind of god." The parasite says, she got really interested with Tolu's life.

"You don't know me." Tolu says firmly.

"You don't know yourself to, what do you want Tolu? Who are you?" The parasite says, this question

hits Tolu in the head as her too has been wondering who she is since she faced Essence in the Gok

house