THE UNION

Chapter 2: Essence

The group stares at the portal. Gboyega panics around, Richard looks for his cigarette, Ngozi sits down

on a chair far from the others and Ayo moves closer to the portal. Ayo turns around and faces the

team.

"We need to go inside the portal." Says Ayo, Gboyega moves closer to him and questions his idea.

"No way." Gboyega said and turns around, Ayo stares at him in disgust knowing that this isn't the same

Gboyega he knew before they left the house.

"We're going in whether you like it or not." Ayo voice gets higher and he folds his hands. Richard

moves between them and chuckles.

" Why are we wasting precious time?" Richard says and jumps into the portal, Ngozi quickly jumps off

from the chair and move to the others.

"Well we can't just let him die." Ngozi says and jumps into the portal while Ayo grabs Gboyega left hand

and drags him, Gboyega knowing he has no other choice sighs and follows.

Richard wakes up and finds himself outside, the whole place is filled with waters. Richard wanders

around for a little bit and can't find a way out, he doesn't really care about his present situation and is

more bothered about his cigarette he serches the clothes on his body but can't find it. Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"Shit!" Richard cries out, he then sits on the watery floor, squeezes his eyes and tries to teleport out of

the place but his powers aren't working. Suddenly Ayo, Ngozi and Gboyega appear beside him,

Richard stands up and hugs Ayo out of excitement, Ayo pushes him. Gboyega looks around.

"Where are we? Ayo can't you use your robotic powers and scan this place?" Gboyega asked, Ayo

faces his head down.

"I don't use my powers anymore." Ayo's voice shakens, Ngozi moves closer to him.

"You won't or you can't?" She stares at Ayo very deeply.

"Hello!" The team suddenly hear a disoriented voice of Essence and all start looking around out of fear

Ngozi summons Huffcupp. Richard sighs, he has always hated Huffcupp they never got along and

Huffcupp feels Richard is trying to hurt Ngozi.

"Not the white gorilla again." The whole ground start shaking and the team quickly gather around

Huffcupp.

"We'll need him." Says Gboyega.

Essence appears in front of them smiling manically, Richard pushes Ayo to talk for them. Ayo moves

closer to Essence and starts questioning him.

"Who are you?" Ayo asked, he's robot eye starts blinking to fast, Essence notices the group are scared

of him and starts laughing manically again.

"Call me Essence you bunch of losers." Said Essence.

"That's a very shitty name, you expect us to take you serious with that name." Richard laughs out loud,

Huffcupp slaps him at the back of his head and Richard immediately keeps quiet. Gboyega who has a

very short temper moves forward to Essence.

"We are completely wasting time here, Where is Papa Essence?" Gboyega shouted, Essence jumps

around and replies.

" He is probably somewhere suffering right now." Essence gently tells them, Gboyega's hand start

heating up and fireballs start sparking out his hands.

"Don't let me hurt you." Gboyega said already losing his temper.

" Let the fun begin." Essence snaps his fingers.

Gboyega suddenly finds himself on the roadside with people running away from a very drastic

explosion. Gboyega starts shivering knowing this particular place he couldn't feel his powers anymore.

"What I'm I doing here? Someone get me out of here!" Gboyega cries out, this particular place holds a

strong and painful memory in him, Gboyega starts hearing Essence voice but can't find him.

Gboyega and everyone in the environment suddenly stop moving, Essence appears and starts talking.

"Readers! Meet Gboyega, a young Supernatural who can control fire and had no absolute control over

it in the past. It ruined his life and he was treated like a total outcast but why do I have to continue to

spoil this things for you, I'm sure you'll know more when you continue reading."

Essence chuckles and vanishes, everyone starts moving again. Gboyega starts moving to the place of

the explosion, he clearly isn't doing this by himself he tries to move back but Essence is in control of his

body. Gboyega contiones to struggles but he gets to the scene of the explosion, he sweats heavily and

he sees the burnt body of Gbemi.

"Gbemi." Gboyega rolls around on the ground, his heart starts beating very fast, he screams and cries

out for help but there was no way he was getting out of this nightmare.

Ayo finds himself in a very tiny kitchen. Ayo has a very high IQ due to the robot parts on him, he could

have easily scanned where he was but he chose not to, he had vowed to never use his powers again.

"What's going on?" Ayo quietly walks around, Ayo suddenly stops moving and Essence appears in

front of him.

"Readers! Meet Ayo, This dumbass got his powers by mistake, just like me. He has made alot of

mistakes in his lifetime but I don't need to spoil all the juicy secrets." Essence disappers and Ayo's

body starts moving again, Ayo stares at a tiny window and he sees himself in a full robot form without

any human part. Ayo quickly shifts back and looks around so he could possibly escape, he has felt like

a monster for a very long time and tries to accept his humanity in so many possible ways but has failed

countless times.

"That isn't who I am." Ayo talks confidently, the robotic figure comes out of the mirror. Ayo starts to

stammer a and shakes.

"It is you, it's us Ayo." Says the robot, a lady comes into the kitchen with a baby. Ayo knows who this

lady is, he quickly turns his face around cause he can't face her, the robot moves to the woman and

punches her on the guy. Ayo bends down and his robotic parts start malfunctioning, tears gushes out

from his eyes.

"No, no, no ,no." Say Ayo as his voice shakens, Essence appears in front of him and smiles.

"It's who you are, this is why you stopped using your powers Ayo. You can't change what you already

are." Essence says and snaps his finger.

Richard finds himself in a large room, he lays on the floor and is facing a large bed. Richard clearly

knows where he is but how he got there he doesn't know. Richard wanders around for a minute and

tries to look for a way out, he immediately starts chuckling.

"You really think this will hurt me? My mother is the Queen of illusions. I'll just sit and wait till you get

tired." Richard rants, time suddenly stops moving and Essence appears in front of Richard and slaps

him.

"Dear Readers, meet Richard also a Supernatural who has ability of teleportation." Essence vanishes

and Richard body starts moving again, a woman and man suddenly appear on the bed.

"What the fuck?" Richard shifts back, he sees the entrance door to the room and uses all his might to

open it but the door stays shut. The man tries to remove the woman's dress but she pushes him down

on the bed and brings out a knife from under the bed, the man tries to hold her down but she

successfully stabs him right through the head. Richard cries out and sits down on the floor grabbing his

head with his hands, he felt pain and betrayal from seeing that.

"Why would you do that Mom?" Richard sniffs and tears roll down from his eyes, he had seen what he

has always been trying to avoid.

Ngozi and Huffcupp find themselves in a cabin house, Huffcupp quickly stays behind Ngozi to protect

her.

"It's going to be fine." Huffcupp tries to calm her down cause he knows how dangerous her powers can

get when she's stressed.

Ngozi tries to look away and quickly hugs Huffcupp to not see anything, Huffcupp suddenly fades away.

"No." Ngozi streches her left hand but Huffcupp body had already turned into dust, Essence appears in

front of her. Ngozi grabs his neck and stares at him in a very vicious way.

"What did you do to him?" She said boldly, Essence giggles.

"Nothing, he's just back into that amulet of yours." He snaps his fingers and time suddenly stops,

Essence pushes Ngozi out of the way.

"Readers. Please stay with me, meet Ngozi the girl with the special amulet that has been passed on

from woman to woman. Her grandmother gave it to her but this one is very easy to break unlike the

others." Essence says and vanishes A strange man appears holding the hand of a little girl, Ngozi

kneels down and covers her eyes.

"Please stop this." Her voice shakens, she starts getting really scared and her amulet starts levitating.

The man removes the clothes of the young girl.

"That's enough!" Ngozi stands up boldly and her eyes colours quickly change to a very deep black

colour. A dark gas suddenly starts appearing around the room, one of her imaginary friend was

emerging but Ngozi never used that one cause it had some kind of control over her. This particular

friend only came out once when Ngozi was in very deep danger, a albino woman covered by black

feathers around her body with a black hat and deeply black high heels appears beside Ngozi. The

name of this strange woman was Tina, Tina summouns a dark power ball that starts expanding around

the room. Essence appears again and starts getting scared.

"Shit. it's Tina, even I can't really stop her I guess you bunch of fools are lucky this time. Thanks to

Ngozi and her dearest imaginary friend, next time don't come after your dearest Papa." Essence

laughs, his voice starts fading away and he snaps his finger.