living off the Demons blood

chapter 6

Have you ever felt so much pain, anger and resentment in you that you just practically shut out the world? You are angry at the world all of a sudden, you feel things could have turned out better. And then you stay up awake all night and wonder,  why you? Why something so cruel and Tragic had to happen to you? Could you have avoided it if you had done things differently? Was the world playing some mind games with you. And then you just wish everything that had ever happened was a nightmare and with a snap of your fingers you'll wake up to reality. That's just the way life had been for Mariana, she had given up on life and concluded nothing good could come out of life. She was broken beyond repair, stiff like a stuffed animal, she was a victim of life's cruel side.

Mariana stood by the mirror on her dresser, as she trimmed the edges of her hair. She starred into her reflection through the mirror as she studied her face. All she could see was pain, anger, resentment and hate. Her once happy face and become stone cold. Someone had taken the light out of her life and replaced it with darkness. She wondered when last she laughed or smiled, her life has been full of pain ever since Tragedy kissed her right on the lips. Mariana studied her features well through the mirror,  she looked just like her mother, her grey eyes and the red hair were all inherited from her mother. Talk less of the well sculptured face with striking resemblance to her mother's

She did miss her parents so bad
Especially her dad. She was daddy's little girl. She remembered how her dad would sneak in chocolates for her just before dinner, her mum had strict rules against eating chocolates before dinner. She had concluded it would ruin her appetite. Her dad on the other hand was an easy going person with a kind heart. Every last Sunday of the month her dad and her would bake so many cupcakes and carry it to the motherless home. Her dad had told her it was good to put a smile on people's face.

It was because of his good will and kind heart that he was killed.
Her father was the local county sheriff of their town, he had noticed illegal movement of  children around the age of 16 upwards. He was told some people had come into town, and they had deceived vulnerable teenagers into believing they had a better life installed ahead for them. They had promised them power beyond imagination, They had told them they were going to be fighting for a greater force. They deceived them into leaving their homes and they shipped them somewhere else.

Her father had been looking into the case, he was warned several times to drop the case and forget about it. But his good will and sincere heart wouldn't hear of that. Ramanito had taken it upon himself to teach her father a painful lesson for disturbing the recruitments of his soldiers. This was what had caused Mariana her family and a life she never bargained for.

Droplets of tears rushed down her cheeks as she cried. The emotions just came down on her. She cried silently for some minutes as she let herself drown in her sorrow. A knock on the door brought her back to reality. She wiped her eyes dry with the back of her palms as she muffled a sentence .

"One minute please I'll be right there ".
She ran into the kitchen sink as she splashed water on her face. She grabbed a face towel on her bed and cleaned her face, before she headed for the door and opened it.

Dante was standing in front of her
"ICT room now !" He ordered and he turned around to leave.

Mariana knew what ICT room meant, it was where they reviewed their battle strategy before going for a mission. No doubt they were heading out for a mission soon .

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About 12 soldiers were gathered round a rectangular table as the battle strategy was been reviewed. Dante the army commander explained the strategy with his hands as he swiped around on the electrical tabletop which displayed their plans. He signalled with his hands the position where everyone will be, he signalled where the back up soldiers would be and how they were going in.

"Listen up the main Aim of this mission is to retrieve this" Dante pointed to the picture of a gun, well not just any gun it was a type of gun that was created by the rival family of Ramanito. The guns were not ordinary. The guns were designed to kill immortal humans like Ramanito soldiers who had drank his blood and become immortal. Dante continued  "whatever you do, you need to avoid being hit with this gun, the moment you get hit, you go down. Our inside men in the Bonaninos family had told us there were about 7 crates packed in one of their warehouse. They have it in mind to distribute it to other families, now this is where we come in, you are all assigned to retrieve this weapon before it gets into circulation and return back to base with it. Remember this is a powerful technology that is a threat to us. Make sure the mission is successful, Do I make myself clear"?

"Sir,yes sir''! They all chorused.
Just before Dante was about to dismiss the soldiers to go to the bunker room and retrieve their desired weapons for the mission, Dementro burst into the room panting

"So_rry sorry am late" he was totally out of breath as he tried to regain stability. Mariana's eyes rolled in disgust, what an inefficient person he was. Spoilt little brat.

"You should know Dementro, I don't condone such undisciplined act. The only reason am letting you come on this mission was because Ramanito insisted you will be of much help, I usually don't let untrained soldiers go on a mission".

"I'm sorry Dante, I was a bit held up" . He said non chalantly

Everyone's eyes shot up to Dante, they were all expecting him to react for calling him by his name instead of sir.

Dante didn't say anything about it,  instead he said the most infuriating thing Mariana had heard all day .

"Go suit up with the rest of the guys, you're with Mariana, you're to inexperienced to be on a mission alone" Dante ordered as he left the room.

Mariana shot Dementro a cold stare, that he could have wished the ground swallowed him up. In response Dementro just smirked at her. Two could play the game .