The Race

The room was cold, empty and dark, with no windows to allow the bright moonlight outside to enlighten the room. A low whimper is heard at one of the corners in the room, where a figure lies cuddled up on the floor looking for warm. The room was completely engulfed with deafening silence expect from the sounds of whimpering being made by the figure due to the cold.

After a few minutes, the door is opened and light from the other side eluminates the room, two men with bulky figures enter the room and they go and cover the figure's face with a dark sack cloth,and forcefully drag the figure out of the room into a bright big hallway with numerous doors that lead to other rooms. The hallway looked like a prison where criminals were kept. With gray greasy walls and titanium bolted doors, with faint foul smells of sewer and sweat.

After a lot of twists and turns, the company of three entered into a new hallway, this one was in contrast to the one they came from.

It was decorated with various paintings and plants and it was carpeted with a red velvet carpet. After a few more minutes of walking, they arrived at the end of the hallway and stood in front of huge gold and cream colored double doors. The two man opened the doors and dragged the figure inside and hawled the figure on the floor and they stood aside.

After a few seconds of silence, a deep male voice is then heard saying, "Remove the cloth", and the cloth was removed from the figure's face. After having the cloth removed from her face, Patricia squinted her eyes to get used to the bright lighting of the room. And after getting used to it, she then looked at her surroundings, she was sitting on the red velvet carpeted floor, in a big white and gold coloured living room filled with over expensive furniture. " Tsk,tsk, tsk, I can't believe my eyes. The great Patricia Milton, the world's second best champion derby racer, in my humble home. I could have said what a pleasure and honor it is to finally meet you. However if you were not one of my biggest enemies looking out to get me and destroy me, I would have made a proper welcome for you."

Patricia then moved her eyes towards the other male figure in the room, and her eyes landed on a handsome middle aged man, with dark brown eyes, pink plushy lips, sharp nose and long wavy dark brown hair with an athletic body plumped with muscles sitting on a golden white chair and looking down at her with a smirk on his face.

The sight of this man brought a certain revulsion inside Patricia and instantly a wave of anger started roaring inside of her and screaming to be let out. 'This is him. The man that destroyed her family's life. The man that is planning to introduce the impossible in the world whilst also planning to destroy it. I thought that I was going to destroy him with the element of surprise with all the evidence I gathered against him but no. He was the one who got to me first. And now I am stuck in this situation...how am I going to get out'. These were the thoughts running amok in Patricia's mind whilst looking at the man sitting before her. If there was an invisible knife she would have gladly used it to slit his throat and face the consequences later, but since there was none, she rolled her palms into fists and glared fearlessly at the man.

The man chuckled at her and said, "Wow woman! I really like that fire that I am seeing burning inside of you. It almost wants to tempt me to wisk you into my bed right now so that you can truly set it on fire.", then the man leaned forward in his seat and went on saying, "You came all the way here looking for me...its a real pity that I caught wind of your game plan before you initiated it and right now I must say that I am impressed by your audacity to challenge me. But since you want to play it that way then...I will grant you your wish. Bring them in!!", the man shouted and quickly stood up from his chair.

Soon after the double doors into the room opened, and Patricia saw three figures being dragged inside whilst their faces were covered with black sack cloths. One looked battered and bruised, whilst the other two looked fine. The three figures were forced down to the floor and their cloths were removed. " Sister!!", the other two people who were not bruised, a young boy and girl who looked to be in their late teens, yelled the moment they saw Patricia. "Alisha! Zachariah! No!!", screamed Patricia and she tried to run towards them but she was forcefully held down by the two bulky men who brought her to the room. After much struggling her eyes then met with his, the other figure who was battered and bruised, the man whom she gave her heart to, the man who swore to protect her no matter what, and that protection is what led him to be in this position in the first place. Patricia felt her heart squeeze in pain and she remembered all the times that they spent together and honestly she never knew that one day she will end up falling in love with a guy like him, who is mysterious, dangerous, corky and sometimes annoying. She never thought that destiny could bring them together because of one man and one mission, which both of them were determined to accomplish no matter what. So destiny brought them this far but how are they going to get out of this tight situation and accomplish their other mission of the 'Happily Ever After' since all the odds appear to be against them'.

She never wanted this to happen. When she began the race, she never thought that she was going to get stuck in the situation where she will have no escape plan or answer to, so literally she was doomed and unfortunately all her loved were going down with her and it was all her fault and she could do nothing about it except glare at the man who was the center point of this entire mess. The man in question briefly looked at Patricia and then said, " Well since you are all reunited now....Miss Milton..", and he went and stood in front of Patricia and went on saying, "I accept your challenge. You and I shall race! And since I am a well known generous man with a kind heart, if you win, I will let you all go free and with you holding your champion trophy after beating the world's best derby racer in history. However it will happen after an exchange for a special prize of course. But if I win....I am sure that you and your family will very much like to be my lab rats for the coming evolution that this world has ever seen! So what do you say Miss Milton....is it a date".

Patricia looked at the man before her and smirked, and she thought, 'Well if thats what he wants then...I will gladly comply. Since all this started with A RACE THEN IT WILL END WITH A RACE.'