black Monday, a story by clemzy

CHAPTER 2
The sounding alarm of Police siren soon
overshadowed the atmosphere in a rather
sophisticated manner. Two black Police hilux
convoy had just accompanied a Bullion Van
carrying bundles of money amounting to Millions
of Naira into the premises of a new generation
bank located around a suburb area of Warri,
Delta state.
The sudden presence of these highly
sophisticated men in uniform already sent panic
into the air due to the approach in which they
mounted the bank environment. Some persons at
the ATM stand who wanted to make withdrawals
were immediately shocked as cold shivers were
sent travelling through their spines in a split
second, while some other persons could be seen
vehemently shaking, and this was not an
exaggeration.
The Bullion Van, together with the Police escort
vehicles suddenly drove into the bank premises
immediately the gate was let opened by the
security guard, and just when everyone thought
everything was back to normal, they were taken
aback by surprise, seeing another set of two
White Hilux SUV arriving the scene almost
immediately. The first Hilux then quickly followed
the Police escort that was already inside the
bank premises. As soon as the Bank security
guard on duty realized that these new set of
Hiluxs' were not assigned to the Bullion Van, he
attempted to swiftly lock the gate, in order to
prevent them from gaining full entrance into the
bank, and just then, a bullet was shot directly
trailing his head; he was hit instantly and died on
the spot. It was until then that it dawned on the
bank customers that they were trapped in the
middle of a robbery operation. The panic attack
which the ATM users felt earlier tripled rapidly,
and they were now scared to the bone due to
fear of the unknown.
The first Hilux vehicle from the robbery squad
was inside the bank compound, while the second
one was parked outside. The robbers alighted
immediately in commando style and surrounded
the whole place in the speed of light. They were
fully armed with assorted rifles as they had
disguised themselves wearing facial mask and
Army complete uniform. The Gang had ten
members on arrival, but twelve members in total;
excluding Jude who was yet to show up, and the
overall General, the main leader and First-in-
command of the Gang. More so, they christened
themselves "The twelve disciples" as part of
their ritual and gang orientation. These men from
the underworld had aligned for this operation by
moving underwater having utilized a boat from a
nearby riverbank. Although, referred to as "Men
from the underworld" two female also belonged
to this gang of robbers, but during their ritual and
initiation process, their thinking faculty had
thoroughly been changed, so that they could
begin to think and act like their male
counterpart. They no longer had a soft
conscience anymore, and showed no mercy
before pulling a trigger.
There was pandemonium everywhere, the bank
customers that earlier stood at the ATM stand
were now all heads flat, lying on the ground with
fear written all over their faces. Also, there were
five members of the Gang of Robbers that
entered the bank with the first Hilux, while the
remaining five remained outside to ensure that
nobody tried to leave the scene until they were
gone, and also to exterminate any intruder that
wanted to infringe on their way to finishing the
operation successfully. Amongst them was
'Preacher,' the self-acclaimed new second-in-
command of the Gang.
Sooner than later, the five gang members inside
the bank premises stood strategically at different
positions and began shooting sporadically at the
police men - who in turn fired back, but were
eventually overwhelmed by the robbers as their
bullets practically had no effect on them. Put
differently, the bullets didn't penetrate into their
bodies which was a crystal clear sign that they
had been thoroughly cooked by the witch doctor
that prepared their protective charms. The entire
police men were dropped dead in the blink of an
eye and this paved way for the robbery operation
to progress into the second phase; except for
the Bullion Van driver whose life was spared.
The coast was more clearer now that the police
men were erased from the picture; Preacher
then walked inside the Bank gallantly, and came
back minutes later with the Bank manager who
was physically shaking like someone strucked
with lightening. He was holding a key on his
hand, as he was made to open the Bullion Van
to behold a truck-load of money wrapped in
bundles. Their excitement knew no bound as
they started packing the money into the 'GHANA-
MUST-GO' bags that became five bags filled.
Upon realizing the purpose of their assignment,
they began carrying the bags to the Hilux
vehicles that they came with; But then, they
couldn't hide their joy, hence, they began
spraying bullets into the air, unknown to them
that the bank customers outside who were lying
on the ground would become more petrified
whilst hearing different sounds of gunshot ringing
inside their head, as though they were knockout.
Extreme fear instantly gripped about three of the
bank customers who came for withdrawals, as
they swiftly stood up running for their lives.
Preacher was vexed seeing that they tried to
play a smart game upon his leadership manner,
which didn't quite go down well with him. Hence,
he shot three of them at intervals while they fell
to the ground gasping for breath. Preacher then
walked closer towards them, and again shot
them several times to ensure that they died a
pitiable death.
"Send my regards to the devil when you get to
Hell.." He said aloud and made a sinister smirk.
Other members of the Gang were stunned as
they watched with rapt attention how their new
so-called leader had just pulled a stunt that
people only get to see in movies. They had never
seen Jude pull such a stunt before. Indeed,
Preacher was trying so hard to outdo his closest
rival, as he wanted his fellow robbers to
acknowledge his Ruggedity.
Unsatisfied with the killings so far, Preacher
walked closer to the ATM stand and started
shooting every other persons lying on the ground,
thereby killing them with a feeling of impunity.
His intention was to ensure that anyone who
witnessed the robbery do not survive to tell the
story. He had succeeded in killing everyone of
them but the last person who was a very pretty
fair-in-completion lady; Just then, he halted for a
second, while she was glued to the ground
wailing and begging for mercy. For a moment, it
appeared as though Preacher still had an ounce
of conscience left in him as he kept scrutinizing
the lady from her head down to her toe. Then he
turned around and slowly began walking away as
if he wanted to spare her life, but turned back
almost immediately and aimed the gun at her
head, while about to pull the trigger, and just
then, something unexpected happened.......
*TO BE CONTINUED*