Flames of Phoenix ( mystery of shadow-book 2 )

8. freedom

Felix was locked up in a room. Not a single person came to meet him. Only food and water was send with a small window. But today, after many days, the door slowly opened showing a well built man. Felix looked so tiny in front of his body.
"Shall we talk? Don't try to escape. There is no way you can get out of here.", he said and sat on the chair beside the bed. Felix also sat on the bed.
"I'm foster fox, deputy head of black spider mafia gang. I'm sure that you don't know about the current situation of our gang. Madam Sofia is our gang leader." As he said that Felix became shocked. "From ten years. "What? From ten years? That means even before Mr. Leander’s death?", Felix asked being more shocked.
"I will explain the whole story. Let me tell first. Then you can ask questions.",  Fox said being bit annoyed due to interruption.
"Madam Sofia was the founder of the black spider gang. She made this gang when she was 15 years old with some street boys like us. I'm her first member. For now we have 248 gang members and 34 small gangs under us. Mr. Leandor was just acting as the leader. He had few authorities but madam Sofia owned the full authority. Last time when you asked our help to catch shadow was the only incident happened without madam's consent. We were the first people who saw madam's duality but it was never be a problem until she met you, sir. She started to kill for her private reasons. It also didn't matter for us because she was the reason of our survival. She is our saviour. But now we sensed something wrong with the order of locking up you in a room because she loved you the most. Then we found that she was being manipulated by Mr. Lawrence. We couldn't release sir because we can't risk madam's life. We even tried to remove it but we couldn't. It was made with high technology. But yesterday Mr. Ferdinand, Mr Lawrence's partner who is a politician killed Mr. Lawrence. So we got a chance to tell whole story about you.", Fox gave a brief explanation about the whole incident happened from beginning to the end.

"Does that mean Sofia was the one who killed the three politicians?", Felix asked.
"Isn't that obvious? Who can kill in such a manner without any proof? But I highly doubt that madam didn't killed them intentionally.", fox said without any interest. Fox was the most loyal member to Sofia. He was a short tempered outrageous guy who was same as Sofia's age. Talking was his most reluctant activity. But at this critical situation, he had to be patient.
"You know about her disease right?", Felix asked with a low voice.
"Madam is not just a leader but my non-blooded sister. I secretly found about her because he became inactive. After knowing the truth, the reason for her duality was revealed. Isn't she being herself? Why should I see her like a sick person?", fox said getting bit angry.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean that. I'm glad that she had you in my absence.", Felix said.
"Let me take you to our secret bunker. There we can talk other things freely.", fox said and take Felix with him.

For Felix's surprise, they stopped in front of Sofia's red dragon mansion.
'How it could happen? Is this the reason that Sofia was against to settle down here as a resident? How can other people freely enter into their house?', many questions roamed in Felix's mind but he didn't dare to ask any question understanding how thin Fox's temper was. They got down from the car and fox started to walk towards inside of the car park. Even Felix was confused he went behind Fox. Fox opened a secret door present at the rear of the car park left bottom corner.  It was really a hidden place. Even he stand there, he will not find this door. As he went inside, all the lights were on. It was like a hall. Except a huge round table, chairs and few black dressed men, the hall was empty.
"Let's go inside. Don't underestimate this place. You didn't even see one tenth of this place. This is our meeting room. I'm not being disrespectful but even we can rescue madam alone but we have a obstacle which only you can pass. Our bunker is situated in the underground of your house and the land. There is a hall where we held meetings and do our special trainings. There is a torture room and a prison. There are 3 rooms with weapons. First room can be accessed by members who allowed to enter into the hall, nearly 25 members. I can be accessed for first and second rooms and third room is accessed only by you and madam.", fox was interrupted by Felix. "Why me?"
"I think if something happen to madam, there should be someone to open it right? For an emergency situation like this. And there are two technical rooms which first one can be accessed by me and our technical team. Second room is accessed by you and madam. We have the best team and equipment. But without sir's help  we won't be able to access to our highest technology. So I would like to tell you to join to our gang at least until our madam's rescue mission is completed."

Like that Felix joined to black spider gang.
They further discussed about a method to free Sofia from Mr Ferdinand. It was hard because they didn't have a single information about Sofia after Mr. Lawrence's death. She was taken to unknown place by Mr. Ferdinand.
     Black spider gang started a mission to find their leader with the temporary leadership of Felix and Fox. They found that she was locked up in a country side bungalow owned by Mr. Ferdinand. So they planned to launch their mission after two days with full preparation. They replaced Mr. Ferdinand's security guards with gang members for that day. Then in absence of Mr. Ferdinand, they entered into the bungalow. Sofia was locked up in the basement. They should completed their mission within half and hour because the next security team will come to change the shift. Survival cameras were already hacked so they didn't have to pay concern for that.
      Felix, fox and  5 to 8 gang members entered into basement and saw unconscious Sofia was chained on the cold floor without any clothes. Felix quickly ran towards Sofia and removed his jacket and covered her up. But suddenly she opened her eyes and started to move away from the touch. "What are you doing? Please move away. Don't touch me.", she started to cry. Felix should stick to the plan no matter what. So his first work was to remove the chocker from Sofia's neck. He tried several times but he couldn't fight with Sofia's strength. At last they inject a vaccine to made her faint and remove the chocker. At that time they felt the greatest relief.  They took Sofia to the red dragon mansion.