THE UNION novel Chapter 1

"Presenting the villain of this story is me! Essence, your one and only true villain with a taste of revenge.........." Smiles in a funny way.

In a white room filled with balls and a single chair, there is a young black tall Nigeria man with a very strong Ijebu accent wearing a jumpsuit is sitted on the chair, scratching his left hand and he suddenly faces the front of the room.

"I know you people are probably wondering what's going on but don't worry......." Essence stands up from the chair and smiles.

"Welcome to a world filled with Humans and Supernaturals, who are the Supernaturals?" Licks his lips with his tongue and laughs manically.

"Supernaturals are a group of people gifted with extra ordinary powers, I'm also a Supernatural." Laughs.

"It's fun, some get useless powers, some get meh powers and some get extraordinary powers!" Essence waves his hands around and goes to sit on his chair.

"I hope y'all are still with me, I got mine by mistake but I'm not the focus of this story. Our focus are on four miserable souls, I hope you're ready to feel grateful for once in your life". Essence snaps his fingers and the whole room flashes out.

In Lagos surulere street, a young black skinned short man with a very low hair rushes out of a building and sits down on a chair outside. He folds his hands and breathes out heavily, a young black man comes to join him and sits down beside him, the man talks calmly

"Gboyega you're needed right now! The boss wants to see you." The man says harshly, Gboyega nods to the positive and the man walks away, he picks up his phone and checks his messages. Gboyega hand starts heating up and the phone melts.

In Akure, Ngozi a young black skinned tall lady with a all back hair wearing a nurse uniform arrives home after a very tiring night shift at the hospital, she lives in a three bedroom apartment. Ngozi rushes to her room and quickly lays on the bed, a sign of relief is shown on her face and she smiles a little bit. Her phone starts vibrating, she brings it out of her bag and picks the call. She talks in a very tiring manner.

"Hey Ada, hope everything is fine? I just got back home". Ngozi says and sighs.

"I was just wondering if you would like to go for this party a friend of mine organized by tomorrow." The caller talks back with a feminine voice, Ngozi puts the phone on mute and sighs heavily, she cuts the call and closes her eye. In Ngozi perspective, she felt that she doesn't need anyone and all she needs is to be alone and take care of herself, Ngozi receives a message and as she checks it she suddenly screams.

"No way!" She opens her mouth wide.

In Ekiti, Ayo a young black skinned man lays on the ground in the street, something very strange about Ayo is that he wasn't like other Supernaturals. The left side of his body was filled with robotic parts black and white metal latched with freely moving connecting rods lifted his clunky left leg and flat feet with protruding beams running up to his shiny hip. His exoskeleton sat within and partially behind a bulging torso, home to several twisted tubes and bolts, moving in and out with each movement he made, especially when his arms whirred up to tap the overhanging pipes on the ceiling of the corridor he passed. Behind his elbow along the upper rear of his arms were black boxes, neatly arranged with clasps surrounding them all. Ayo left eye suddenly shows a blue coloured holographic message, Ayo reads it and grunts.

"Impossible." He says slowly, stands up and grunts in pain.

In Lagos, Richard is in a big rectangular bedroom wakes up from his bed with two women sleeping beside him, Richard face looks pale and he rolls to the ground. Richard body suddenly vanishes from the bedroom and he finds himself in a white bathroom, he picks up a cigarette pack that's on the sink and lights it up, Richard picks up his phone and checks his messages. He drops the cigarette on the ground and rushes out of the bathroom.

That evening. In Abuja, in a huge black and brown mansion four different cars park in front, Gboyega comes out of a Lexus ES 330, Ayo comes out of a cab, Ngozi comes out of a corolla and Richard comes out of a range rover with a cigarette in his mouth. They all show up in black clothes and awkwardly stare at each other.

"It's great to see all of you again!" Richard shouts really loud cause of the distance they all maintained from each other, Ayo sighs and walks into the house, Gboyega does the same. Richard and Ngozi stare at each other, his heart was beating really fast and that's because Richard loved Ngozi they dated in the past but both decided to move on since it wasn't going anywhere, Richard still thinks about Ngozi and even though he tries to forget about her by sleeping with different women he can't while Ngozi has so many other personal issues to deal with she simply doesn't think she deserves him. Ngozi breaks the silence

"It's nice to see you again." Ngozi breaks the silence, Richard lights up a cigarette and pretends to not care.

"Whatever."He says and walks toward the house.

The four move to a very large living room filled with extinct animals like The dinosaurs species, Dodo, a sabertooth tiger and others. They all sit down on the chairs while Ayo remains standing and moving around the living room.

"Where is he?" Ayo says angrily.

"Calm down, the man is already old. I can't believe Chong is dead." Gboyega says quietly, they all remain silent and Richard's stop smoking, the group lived with Chong in the house. A sense of guilt hits all of them cause they didn't really care for him while he was alive.

A old black man wearing a black suit called Papa comes out of the shadow, the group all move closer to him. Papa smiles and sits down on a chair beside him.

"It's good to see all of you again, you've all grown." Papa says and folds his arms, Richard moves closer to Papa and whispers to his ear.

"Trust me when I say I'm still pretty messed up." Richard say and winks with his right eye, Papa shakes his head disappointed but happy to see the people he took care of.

"What killed him?" Ngozi says softly, Papa stammers at first but finds the courage to respond.

"He had a headache and before I knew it the sickness got worst, I did my best to help him..........." Papa breaks down and tears quickly roll down from his eyes, Papa and Chong had a very tight relationship when the others left to figure out more about themselves Chong decided to stay and take care of Papa, Ayo quickly runs and comforts Papa, Papa stands up and faces them.