THE MAFIA DON AND HIS NUN

Shikita sat at the back while Caesar drove. Alfred sat beside her, sticking the tip of his gun under her rib cage.

He had taken the trouble of having Shikita handcuffed. She wouldn’t be causing any trouble as long as he had her hands cuffed behind her back.

Theresa sat at the passenger seat at the front. She kept staring at Shikita and Alfred through the rear mirror.

A worried look appeared on Theresa’s face when she glanced at the wristwatch Antonio gave to her. She has less then one hour before the poison spreads throughout her body.

It had been a smooth operation. Alfred and his gang sneaked out of the Chashitsu before the servants would realize the massacre.

None of them said anything to each other during the long drive. One could feel the tight tension in the car.

Suddenly, Shikita spoke, “Where are we going?”

Alfred didn’t know if to answer her or not. Caesar glared at her through the rear mirror. His expression told Alfred he disapproved of her greatly.

“Shut up,” Alfred said, threatening her with the gun. “I don’t wanna pull a bullet through your heart.”

Shikita smirked at him. “Try it. You wouldn’t dare open fire in traffic. If you do, you’d be inviting the cops.”

The traffic was getting slow. That wasn’t the place to shoot someone. If Alfred did open fire, all hell would break loose.

Alfred snarled at Caesar. “How long until we get to the hideout, huh?”

Caesar consulted his wrist watch. “Ten minutes from now, boss. Gimme a little more time and we’ll be there.”

“Well, snap it up! We don’t have much time.” Alfred raised his voice at him.

He wasn’t feeling too good. Not because of the pain he was feeling from the cut in his stomach, but because of the antidote he was yet to get from Shikita.

Alfred still stink of human blood. If they ran into a patrol car, he would be arrested and taken into custody. They’d want to know why he stank of blood. Moreover, traffic wasn’t working to their advantage.

Alfred noticed Shikita was watching him directly. Her sparkling blue eyes studied Alfred’s and it was creepy how they glittered at him.

“So why are you guys abducting me?” She asked. “At least I should know the reason why I am being abducted before I die?”

“I need you to give me the antidote for a poison which was specially made by you.” Alfred replied.

“Is that the reason why you flew all the way from LA to Japan? To get an antidote from me?” Shikita asked with a mocking smile across her lips.

“That’s right,” Alfred replied with an angry smirk, “I have other reasons aside that, but getting the antidote is my main objective.”

“I see. The poisoned person must be very dear to you.” Shikita chuckled softly, “Can you describe the nature of the poison?”

“The poison is like a time bomb,” Alfred replied, “It spreads throughout its victim’s body and kills the victim within twenty four hours.”

“Oh! The green poison,” Shikita smirked widely, “That’s my deadliest poison.”

“Where’s the antidote?” Alfred asked, glaring daggers at her.

“Unfortunately, the green poison doesn’t have a cure or an antidote.” Shikita replied, “The victim will die a painful death.”

Cold fear gripped Theresa immediately. Her eyes slowly moved to the wristwatch on her wrist and her eyes widened in fear. It remains forty minutes before the poisons kills her.

“Don’t fuck me with me. Shikita!” Alfred growled angrily, “Every poison has its antidote. I don’t mind killing you right now even though it will attract the cops. So tell me where the fuckkng antidote is or I’ll blow off your skull!”

Shikita was a bit frightened by Alfred’s raging look. “Alright then, the poison is at my secret lab. It’s a thirty minutes drive from here.”

“And where is your lab located?” Alfred asked, impatiently. Shikita told Caesar the address.

“I wonder who the poisoned person is.” Shikita said with a soft chuckle.

“Keep your mouth shut!” Alfred threatened her. “I’m not gonna repeat myself again.”

Shikita behaved herself. Traffic cleared up and Caesar took the car speeding to Shikita’s secret lab.

They got to Shikita’s lab in less than thirty minutes. It was an abandoned building. Caesar parked the car in front of the building and they all got down from the vehicle.

Theresa suddenly felt dizzy and she bent her head, then she spurted out blood from her mouth.

Alfred ran to her side immediately with a worried expression on his face, “Are you alright?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Theresa replied, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.

Shikita chuckled, “I guess she is the poisoned one. I bet she has nothing less than twenty minutes to live.”

Alfred angrily walked to Shikita and he landed a heavy punch on her face, which bursted her lips. Shikita staggered back and was about to fall but she heals herself.

“Get moving or I’ll fucking shoot you.” Alfred threatened, pointing his gun at Shikita’s forehead.

Shikita spitted out blood, then she started walking towards the building. They stepped inside the building and they walked down the long corridor.

Shikita stopped in front of a door which required a password. Shikita couldn’t type the password because her hands were handcuffed behind her back.

“What’s the password?” Alfred asked behind her with his gun still pointed at the back of her head.

“Cobra.” Shikita simply replied.This is the property of Nô-velDrama.Org.

Caesar stepped forward and he typed the password, then the door swished open, revealing a large laboratory with loads of lab equipments in it.

“Hurry up!” Alfred pushed Shikita roughly inside the lab.

They all stepped inside the lab and Caesar also removed his gun from under his coat in case of danger.

Theresa felt weak and she fell on her knees, vomiting blood on the tiled floor. Her heart started beating faster than normal and her body trembled vigorously.

Alfred squatted beside her, “Where’s the antidote?!” He yelled both in fear and anger as Theresa kept vomiting a huge amount of blood from her mouth.

“It’s among the antidotes on that rack,” Shikita replied, “It’s red in colour.”

Caesar rushed to the huge rack which contained almost fifty medium-sized tubes of liquid. Caesar was confused when he saw three different tubes containing red liquid. He didn’t know which one of them to pick.

“Pick the third one!” Shikita said in a loud tone so that Caesar would hear what she said.

Caesar quickly picked the third tube and he rushed back to Alfred, but it was already late.

Theresa was now rolling on the floor in pain with her hands on her stomach. Blood oozed out from her nose. Her face was already pale like the belly of a fish and white as snow.

She suddenly stopped moving and her hands dropped lifeless to the ground.

“Theresa?” Alfred called, shaking her body, but he got no response from her. She just gazed lifeless at him.

“Theresa!” Alfred called in a louder tone, “Wake up Theresa! We’ve got the antidote! Get up Theresa! Don’t fucking die!”

Alfred touched her neck but he couldn’t feel her pulse. He placed his ear on her chest, but didn’t hear her heart beat.

“She is dead.” Shikita said from behind him.

Alfred’s eyes widened, and his body shook uncontrollably as his throat went dry immediately. His world crumbled a million times in that one minute, he journeyed to hell and came back.

“Theresa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”