Tarasha – Chapter 11 pt 11

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‘I don’t have a choice, I was hired to stop and stop you I will’ Audu barked back as Tarasha stood staring at him. ‘I don’t give in to threats by ladies’

‘Then, can we see what you can do without the gun’ Tarasha challenged, motioning him to put down his gun.

He smiled in response and began to unload the gun, taking up the challenge.

‘Don’t try to play fast with me’ he warned as he showed her the empty gun and dropped the pistol on the floor. He adjusted his trouser belt and positioned himself for a fist battle.

Soon, they were close to each other bouncing around in the little space left in the aisle between the computer systems.

Tarasha threw the first punch which Audu dodged effortlessly. He returned it with a blow to her side leaving her shaken a bit. She chuckled, straightened up and continued.

He threw a punch to her face but she dodged. He send a left punch to her belly, she blocked with her right hand. A right one, she blocked again with her left hand. This exposed his chest and belly for attack and she quickly grabbed the opportunity and made a heavy stamp of the soles of her foot on his chest. He staggered backwards and winced in pain, placing a hand on his chest. He didn’t expect such heaviness in her kick, it felt like he had developed an heart attack.

He cracked his knuckles and rotated his neck before moving forward to her again. This time after making some mock gestures with his fists, he directed a kick with his left leg to her neck but she bent her head and took off his other leg from the ground with a kick from her left foot. He landed on the floor thunderously. His leg pulled a wire from a computer set mistakenly and the whole computer desktop was pulled and dropped on his legs.

Tarasha sniffled as she brought out her gun. ‘I’ve got no time for more games, you ain’t got the balls’

‘But you said…’ He was saying when she fired a bullet into his chest.

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‘Go meet the boss’ Cole said to Benny, watching Benny’s position on his device through the redirection which Tarasha had done on the system. ‘I think she needs your help right now’

‘Give me directions, is she upstairs?’ Benny asked, staring straight into a camera being sure that Cole was watcing him.

‘Yes, upstairs’ the reply came. ‘Just keep moving, I’ll tell you where to enter’ Cole minimized the clip to the DVD homepage and searched for clip which had Tarasha captured.

‘Cole’ Benny’s voice sounded again. He already got to the entrance security department corridor without any word from Cole.

‘Calm down, I’m trying to find where she is again’ Cole answered. He selected an option and saw Benny walking slowly and glancing at the dead bodies. ‘Hey, go into the third room by the left’

Cole saw Benny pause to listen and then continued walking straight. Tarasha came out of the room before he got to the third door. She was still in her underwear, little drops of sweat fell from her body.

‘Here Boss’ Cole could hear Benny say as he handed over the extra gown to Tarasha. He saw Tarasha’s mouth moving but he couldn’t make out what she said.

‘Oh sh*t!’ Cole cursed as he minimized to check the way for them. Four security officials were at the end of the stairs, three men and a woman.

‘What’s the matter?’ Benny asked on hearing the curse. Tarasha walked where her ripped gown was, beside Afo and Blade’s dead body and picked it up. She dipped it into the nylon after bringing out the new one which she hung around her neck.

‘You guys have more problems to handle. More officials are climbing up the stairs’

‘Damn!’ Benny cursed too. Cole could see Tarasha turn to ask Benny what the problem was.

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Tarasha tapped the device in her ear on, she waited some seconds for it to connect. ‘How many of them are down stairs?’ She asked Cole.

‘Four and it looks like they are calling for more people’ Cole said, Tarasha could hear him taking a deep breath. ‘They are coming upstairs already’ Cole added.

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The cold dilution gas condensed on Henry’s forehead as the security officers sprayed. Henry could breath normally now, he took off the mask and picked his phone which had dropped on the floor. He stood and followed the direction which the security officers were giving.

A lot of the victims were just recovering and were being helped by the officers to stand up. Henry was not really given much attention because he was able to stand by himself already. He only received a hand gesture from an officer for him to go out of the hall immediately.

‘He took that direction’ Henry could see a junior police officer pointing at the stage exit where the killer took, explaining something to his senior. He recognised the senior officer as the one who interrogated him and Evelyn two days ago. The officers joined with another group of officers and hurried towards the direction the murderer took.

Henry paused and turned back. His mind was not at peace because he had not seen Evelyn. Even though he was suspecting her to be a fraudster, deep inside, he still cared for her safety.

‘Keep moving please, everyone out of the hall immediately’ a voice shouted at his back. Henry had no other choice than to keep moving, a crowd of staggering fellows who were being supported to walk was surging towards him from the back.

He hurried out of the hall. Several people were rushing out of the main compound and police officers were scattered everywhere looking for the person with the description of the killer they had gotten.

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Tarasha and Benny quickly positioned themselves for the coming enemies  Tarasha searched Afo and Blade’s body and took out their pistols. She ran to hide behind the wall by the entrance, squatting below the fire we extinguisher while Benny hid behind the curtain hung on one of the doors, holding with him the gun Tarasha gave him.

‘Oo!’ The first official that got to the landing, in front of the corridor exclaimed on seeing the dead bodies.

Two rushed into the corridor without noticing Tarasha behind the wall and she remained quiet and watched while the men scrutinised the dead bodies in awe. The other security man and the lady joined in the same manner except that the new man and woman were more careful. They cocked their guns immediately they saw the bodies and walked into the corridor, glancing around for signs of the killer

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The group of five policemen led by inspector Ken paused as they got behind the backdrop. One of the officers bent down to pick the black suit jacket on the floor, he dusted it to see if anything would drop from it. Nothing did.

‘The killer dropped his suit?’ Ken stared in disbelief. The officers all surrounded and checked the suit together.

‘Then he must have joined the crowd already’ an officer added.

Ken paused and stared briefly at the ground. He squatted and used his pistol to pull a piece of hair closer to himself.

‘Did they say the killer had beards?’ Ken raised up his head to ask.

‘Yes’ an officer replied him briefly.

‘That was just a disguise, here’s the fake beard’ Ken stood up. Another officer putting on an hand glove bent to pick the hair.

A man putting on a the events centre security uniform opened the backdrop and joined them. ‘Have you seen anything officers?’

They showed him the jacket and the beard. ‘The killer escape through this place’

‘He couldn’t have passed through here without meeting our men on the way’

‘But you wouldn’t have known, he changed his disguise’ Ken said.

‘Guests are not allowed to pass through here, our security men would have stopped him’ the man said and began to lead the way. The officers followed carefully searching around the dark walls to see if anything or anyone was hidden.

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The security woman was the first to see Tarasha, but a bullet was fixed into her skull before she could do anything.

The man with the cocked gun turned immediately to sh00t but Tarasha was faster, a bullet into his belly brought him down. The other two officials were taken with one bullet each from Benny from their back.

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‘If guests are not allowed to pass through this place and your men have not caught anyone yet. Does that mean it was done by an insider? One of your men?’ Ken accused.

‘NO’ the man turned back suddenly to refute strongly. It could be one of the external cooks and attendants that were… ‘ he was cut short by the sound of a gunshot. It sounded like somewhere far away.

The policemen were alert at once. One of them ran to peep through the backdoor and check if it was from the hall but it wasn’t.

More gunshots sounds followed. ‘Where could that be coming from?’ Ken asked widening his eyes.

‘It could only be from two places. Outside the hall or in the security department block’

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‘Is the way clear now?’ Tarasha pressed the Bluetooth device against her ear as she spoke to Benny.

‘No, six more officers are on the way’ Cole replied her in a shaky voice.

… To be continued