THE UNION novel Chapter 23

"When will he wake up?" Richard asked, getting tired of waiting for Abayo to get up. The whole team had slept in the living room hoping that they'll meet Abayo awake but he was still asleep.

"The witches probably used a sleeping spell on him." Gboyega says as he lays on the ground. After minutes of waiting, Abayo suddenly jumps up.

"I will not surrender!" Abayo shouts at the top of his voice, the team quickly run towards him.

"We've been waiting for you, now say some of your incantation and tell us where Papa is." Ayo says swiftly, Abayo is still confused about everything going on, he wondered where the witches were and so on was going on his mind.

"I'll need to consult my father but I've not learnt the power of jumping from dimension to dimension so we'll have to wait for him." Abayo says and yawns.

"Children of these days, they can't make decisions for themselves." Ngozi says and chuckles softly, the others quickly knew the game she was playing.

"Yeah, when I was your age I was already making my own money." Richard says firmly.

"I can make my own decisions." Abayo says, he faces his head down ashamed.

"Then prove it, tell us where Papa is." Ngozi says while smiling.

"Fine!" Abayo yells, he says some incantations and his eyes glow up in a yellow colour. He started floating in mid air.

"Abayo." Gboyega says and waves his hand towards him, Abayo mind wasn't in this world again, it was in different dimensions searching around for Papa, for older magic users this would have been a easier process but Abayo was still learning the routes so this took time.

"Tolu is in trouble!" Dayo yells as he barges in.

"If it isn't you? How did you get here?" Ayo asked, he folds his arm.

"I've dropped Tolu here numerous times, Tolu was kidnapped at the hospital." Dayo says as his voice breaks down.

"What? How?" Gboyega asked.

"It just happened, I was with her and this group of people wearing red shirts came in, said some weird spells and everywhere was dark. Suddenly I woke up and I couldn't see her again, the CCTV camera at the hospital couldn't even provide anything." Dayo says, tears were on his cheeks he gently used his hand to clean it.

"That's The Trials." Abayo says from behind, he had finished meditating and heard everything Dayo said.

"Huh?" Ayo said, he was totally confused about everything that is going on.

"The Trials, my father cult. This guy said they came in wearing red shirts, it's them." Abayo says in a lower tone.

"What could your father possibly want with Tolu?" Richard asked aggressively.

"I don't know, they must think you guys are lying, we need to get her but I don't know how to get there, it's in the magic world another dimension." Abayo says sadly, a idea quickly pops to Richard head.

"Wait, I know this might sound a bit extreme but while I still stayed with my parents my mom was working on a teleporter device to replace me if I ever go against her, when I went to see her she told me she wants me to come to a party at her place, what if we sneak in and check the teleporter if it jumps from world to world." Richard says swiftly.

"That doesn't sound like a terrible idea." Gboyega says happily, Abayo nods to the positive liking the idea.

"Why do we have to sneak in? Just go meet your mom and tell her." Ayo says, Ngozi and Gboyega hit Ayo on the arm for what he said, Ayo was clueless.

"I don't know where you got this idea from but you've been a total asshole lately." Richard says to Ayo firmly as he moved closer to him

"I'm joining you guys." Dayo says.

"Sorry you can't, the most powerful crime Lords will be there and I'm pretty sure some will know that you're a officer, you can't blow our cover." Richard says and walks out, pissed about what Ayo said to him.

"What did I do wrong?" Ayo asked Ngozi.

"Stop this." She says pissed and walks out.

In a flashback, Richard is in a van with a group of people that work for his parents, by this time he had done different missions for his parents but he was nervous even the men and women with him could see it.

"You are sweating really bad." One of them says.

"I'm just a little bit nervous, that's all." Richard says as he tries to brighten up.

"Maybe you need some fresh air." One of them says, Richard nods and leaves the van, he runs far away from it.

"Save me from my normal depression." Richard says, he brings out a nylon filled with cocaine in it. Richard always did before a mission, it helped him to calm down and focused while not feeling concerned for others, as he was about to sniff it a old woman passes his side.

"Hey ma, you'll probably need to get out of this street." He says quietly, the old lady didn't bother to ask why he said so she quickly ran away.

"That was nice." Richard says and sighs in relief.

That night, the team walk down a street in a very slow way, the guys with Abayo were wearing a black and white suit while Ngozi wore a long yellow gown.

"Good thing you still know your way around this place Gboyega, we wouldn't have gotten this suits really early." Ayo says softly.

"Let's get this over with." Richard says and walks away, Ngozi quickly follows him she was worried about his well being.

"Hey, I know you're scared about this but you're going to be fine." Ngozi says softly.

"I hope, I'm just praying that she doesn't say I should do any stupid thing for her this time." Richard says as he exhales heavily.

After hours of walking they all finally get in front of Mariam house, a group of guards spot them from a distance and quickly run towards them to welcome them.

"Dude, your mom is so rich, look at this place." Gboyega says as he exhales out.

"If only she was a good mom." Richard says and leads the team to the house before they got inside, Mariam quickly walks out of the house.

"Hi son, who are they?" Mariam says, she was wearing a night dress cause she hasn't gotten ready for the party.

"They are my friends, at least I can bring them." Richard says, his voice was shaking and he was sweating heavily.

"Uhh and you brought a teenager?" Mariam says as she looks at everyone of them slowly, she laughed disgusted by the friends her son was rolling with but she was fascinated by the way Ayo looked.

"That's my son." Ngozi says swiftly.

"Well, I don't care about anyone of you except that your robotic friend. He'll look good as my bodyguard for tonight." Mariam says in a commanding tone and drags Ayo hand inside the house.

"Good, she's distracted all that remains is for us to find the teleporter." Richard says and sighs heavily.

A guard takes them around the house, after hours of going through different artifacts and trophies of Mariam, Richard sees this as a perfect opportunity to get to the teleporter.

"Where is the teleporter?" Richard asked the guard.

"Hmmm, I can't show you so sorry but the boss doesn't allow it." The guard says softly hoping not to piss the boss son.

"To the boss son? That doesn't sound fair." Ngozi responds loudly.

"I'm sure the boss won't want to hear that." Gboyega says and steps back a bit.

"Don't go to her, I've already offended her enough I can't risk dying, let's go." The guard gulps and leads them to a secret room underground, inside the room is filled with different the technological weapons, the guard doesn't talk about the weapons rather he leads them to a huge circular shape machine beside the machine is six different colours head band laying on the floor.

"This is the teleporter." The guard says quietly.

"Wow! How does it work?" Richard asked, he was upset that his mom actually built something to replace him.

"Those head bands." The guard points. "They are connected to that big portal, there's a keyboard around the portal, you write where you want to go and you teleport there." The guard says swiftly, he wanted to get away from here as soon as possible.

"Thanks." Gboyega says and moves closer to the guard blocking his way.

"Ku su." Abayo says a incantation and the guard suddenly sleeps off on the ground.

"Okay, I need to learn magic as soon as possible." Ngozi says astonished by the way Abayo used his powers, the three all pick different head bands and wear it, Richard moves close to the machine to set the destination.

"The name of the place is shrine of the powerful gods." Abayo says to Richard, Richard quickly sets it. The teleporter suddenly starts spinning really fast.

"If we don't make it out alive, tell my daughter that I............" Gboyega and the two fade away before he is able to finish his statement.

"Now the worst part of the mission, my mother." Richard says and sighs heavily, he looked really down so he tried to compose himself by faking a smile.

Hours later Richard remains smiling while he stands beside a elegant Mariam who was wearing a golden dress and Ayo was standing at the left as her bodyguard, the Villain party had already started and the three have all been going around welcoming villains from different parts of the world, Mariam was quite feared by most of the villains, she had made a huge name for herself and wasn't ready to back down, she meets up with a young lady who is a huge fan.

"I'm so happy to be here ma, you're paving way for we the new female villains." The lady says and squeals.

"Thank you and here's my son." Mariam says proudly and points to Richard