The Savior Of Hades

The week after passed by so quickly with Ed not even noticing.

He was still terrified by what he knew, and had avoided contact with Lorraine. Making sure he never ran into her whenever he went out of his house. But this didn't boil down to not tracking her movements.

He had enlisted Madeline and her little friends help. Children are the best spies as they were hard to notice nor suspect. He had thought and had decided to act on.

Lorraine wouldn't be receptive to children, that was sure but she wouldn't tell them away either. So he had better chances of finding out what she was up to that way when compared to him watching her himself.

He had specifically instructed them to inform him whenever they saw her with any body. Mostly men.

Lorraine hadn't been the kind of child that kept relations with people. Perhaps it had all stemed from here upbringing. Her father abandoned her mother and she did same to their daughter too, so that had made her have a not so good outlook on life and distanced herself from people.

Her getting involved with them now and the weirdest of them all made her the most suspicious person to exist in his eyes.

"Any eyes that sees, any ear that hears, any mouth that talks and any leg that can walk should run over to wherever I am immediately you see her with anyone and inform me, and you will win yourself a treasure from thr monastery" he had told them while dangling a Rosary before them.

Ofcourse the children had been ecstatic and cheered happily, each wanting to own this" treasure" he had spoken about and they hadn't seen anywhere before.

"The innocence of children" he had muttered. If only they knew he an adult hated the Rosary, they wouldn't have cheered excitedly the way they had done for it. Nor if they had known that it would need them to kneel down with for hours on a hungry stomach, praying to a Mother of the son of God he didn't know existed or not.

"Aunt Lorraine is entering a car!!!" A little boy screamed while running towards him.

Ed sat in front of his house watching the sky. For some odd reasons, he enjoyed doing so of recent till whenever he was able to think of which family friend's of his mother's he were to visit in order to find something to eat.

It was during one of such days that he had seen some children running towards him, screaming on top of their lungs for him to hear.

He immediately covered the mouth of the first boy that seemed like the ring leader, preventing him from shouting it out with his hand that was on his mouth.

"Where is she at?" He asked.

"Right in front of Mr Kuftan's store. The one that sells parathas down the street" he answered.

Ed thanked him and the others behind him , and then brought out the Rosary from his pocket and gave to him.

The little away excitedly with it with the other children following him. The Rosary glowed in the darkness. He had shown them once. So he could understand why they were all happy.

Ed began to run towards the street where he had been directed to.

At first, he stared around at the little cars that were parked along the streets. Which aged and dead man was Lorraine following now? He asked himself as he stared but found no one nor her.

He wanted to believe that he had been scammed by the children. It was possible. Due to their desperation, they might have agreed to collectively lie to him in order to gain possession of the magic object that glowed in the dark.

He sighed angrily. His irritation compounding to his boiling anger.

But just as he was about to leave, he saw Lorraine.

Only her hair made her recognizable because she didn't look like the Lorraine he knew.

She was dressed in a silky dress with no hands, which was a contrast to the uniform she usually wore at the monastery whenever he saw her at the church. She was always covered then, from head to toe with only her face abd fingers showing.

And she wasn't usually on makeup like she was on, and even if she had been Incase he hadn't noticed, it has never been this obvious before.

He wanted to rush towards her but his legs failed him when he saw her companion.

She wasn't alone and a man walked behind her as they came out of the neighborhood market.

It appeared they had gone to buy some things given the bags she carried while he followed her closely behind.

He was able to stare as that wasn't a man with his dead grandfather's face, and his heart ached with worry as his thoughts raced for Lorraine.

Had she turned into the life his mother lived from such an early age in order to be able to carter for herself?

He had no one to ask. The question didn't even need to be asked as that was the answer glaring right in front of him.

He somehow hated himself. If he had become rich anytime sooner before now, he would have been able to take her under his wings, marry her and take care of her needs and wants, but with the way things were going down in his life, it wasn't looking as if he would lead a different from his father's miserable lifestyle.

He watched closely for which of the cars sparked by the sides of the road they would enter, but got the surprise of his life when he kept watching them go on and on before arriving near a black and long vehicle on the neat and tarred road.

It was beyond the sort of cars Ed had grown accustomed to. Even the ones he saw on TV. It wasn't a bus nor the almighty BMW that trended everywhere and he was ashamed of himself that he couldn't identify what sort of car it was that the love of his life was getting into.

A group of four men climbed down the vehicle when Lorraine and the man behind her came closer and Ed became apprehensive.

She was the only woman in their midst and the Lorraine he knew wouldn't be comfortable being in the midst of a strange man less four of them.

His savior instincts kicked in and immediately without reason, he headed towards the direction of the big bellied man that opened the car's door for Lorraine.

"I won't let you kidnap her under my watch!" Ed screamed as he reached where the man was, forgetting his vows not to get close to Lorraine till he found answers to what he had seen the other night.

The man didn't do anything to Ed as he hit on his belly countlessly. Instead, he kept turning towards his fellows,as If awaiting for some sort of confrontation from them.

The windows didn't open. Ed had believed that Lorraine would atleast open the windows and acknowledged him but nothing of such happened and this intensified his belief that she was getting kidnapped.

" Throw him away and let's get moving. The leader says we're running late" the man who seemed like the driver said in a hurried tone. He stood at the opposite side of the car and had his hands holding the door.

Ed didn't want to be embarrassed in public,like he had heard he was to be treated, so he thought the only way to prevent that was to do something to take some of the men down.

He recalled the necklace his mother had given him before she left which he had always kept in his pocket and recalled that there had been sharp edges around it.

He extended his hand to his trousers back pocket to bring it out but was stopped by the hefty man who raised him up and threw him on the floor with a heavy thud.

"Let's go" he told the other man waiting for him as he entered the car. Ed could hear the closing sounds of the car doors as he writhed in pain on the floor.

But he still crawled underneath the car. He wasn't going to lose to them and even if he were to, he wasn't going to lose to Lorraine.

He was going to find out by following her, the meaning behind what he had seen. Because that was the only way he could truly bring himself to claim her after the mistakes she was compiling for herself and her body.