Curse of Cites ---(Ch-18)

The next time Jason woke up, he was in a storeroom. As he guessed. He was tied to a chair, WOW! Jason was tied to chair but why? He looked around. He didn’t saw much but there was one tube light just above his head that was the only source of light. Dozens and dozens of boxes filled the storeroom. One box was open but Jason couldn’t see what was inside. He started wondering where Julius and Malrus were. Jason once again scanned the room.

Along the right of him were two more chairs and two figures tied on them. They were his friends.

“Julius! Malrus!” Jason whispered.

Slowly Julius’s head went up. She stared at Jason.

“Jason! Where we are?” She cried.

“Oh, my child! You woke up?” as Jason started to say another voice spoke up. The voice was dark and somewhat crazy and sad.

At first, they couldn’t see anyone. Then a figure appeared from the front. He was a tall man with messed up long brown beard. His eyebrows were also messed up. He had long mixed up black hair and dark black eyes. He was wearing a brown overcoat with patches sewed up. His black pants were tattered and his shirt was too long for him. His face was crazy and when he smiled Jason noticed that he did not had middle two teeth.

“W…who are you?” Jason croaked realizing that he with his friends were kidnapped.

“HAHAHAHAHA!!!!” he broke down laughing.

At this point Jason realized that the person was mad and he had to get out a way of this store room.

“Why you kidnapped us?” Julius asked.

“I didn’t kidnap anybody.” The man said innocently.

“Who are you?” Jason tried again.

This time the mad man answered correctly. Probably, as Jason thought.

“I am the right hand of Randolph Cites! I am Robert!” Robert said.

“Randolph Cites?” Jason choked down.

“Yes. I am the one who helped him in killing his famous brother.” Robert said with proud.

“You!” Jason said with anger bubbling in his stomach. But he controlled.

“Why you kidnapped us?” Julius asked.

“I didn’t.” he complained.

“Then untie these knots.” Julius said.

“Ok. But God is seeing everything. If I untie these knots, then God will be seeing everything.” Robert said coming to untie the knots. Surely, he was mad.

When, he untied the knots and the three friends stood independently. Malrus was still a little dizzy but he said he was fine. They needed to get rid of this Robert and Jason’s anger was now reaching the limits. What if they set off and this man kidnapped them again? He needed to reduce the situation. And if this man helped in killing his grandfather, then he surely was an evil person.

His eyes fixed on something. A bat was kept in one of the open boxes in a corner. He excused himself and went to take off that bat.

When he was about to take the bat, Julius cried from behind. Protectively, he ducked. Robert the madman was holding a club and was about to strike him on his head but he barely was saved. Then again, Robert tried to hit him with the club.

But Jason took the bat as defense. He stopped the hit by the bat and pushed him away. The madman came running with the club but Jason directly hit his bat on Robert’s left knee.

“AHHHHH!!!” he cried.

He went off to the floor. The three friends took this chance. They crossed Robert and was about to exit the store room, but, then a pained voice cried.

“Go as far as you can Cites! But remember me, this is not the time! Your family… Randolph is still alive. He visits your grandfather’s death and enjoys it! You cannot leave you family!” he cried.

“Jason, don’t listen to him. He is again playing games. He will try to kill you again.” Julius pleaded.

And one last time, seeing the mad man lying on the ground yelling sentences that had no meaning, they headed to Gigantic Villas.