CHAPTER 5

MEGA CASINO: ‘AUCTION’

Walking through the aisle gamblers were already in position wasting their savings, leisure money on rigged slot machines. Some individuals won, others let their frustrations got the better of them. From the poker tables to V.I.P rooms, meant only one thing and Caramella could smell from a mile away her targets to get her into the Organ Black Market Auction. There was one gentleman: a handsome Italian man in his thirties who wore tuxedo filled her eyes with an intimating and lustful stare as he smirked.

‘What’s his problem?’ Caramella thought with a pleasant smile and looked away walking into another direction that led to a poker table with wealthy players. She had never played poker she preferred dominoes. With Maroon 5 ft Cardi B- Girls Like You playing, she was scanning the interior, fifty guards, cameras in every corner hidden in the ceiling lights about to entered the ladies restroom something grabbed her wrist, ‘Huh?’ looking back she saw the handsome Italian man who held her as she asked, ‘Excuse me? What are you doing sir?’

He apologised, ‘I apologise for my rudeness Miss’ and flirted, ‘but I can’t help it because you’re so beautiful. I just wanted to get your attention,’ releasing her wrist slowly.

‘Well you have it now I must say you’re really bold,’ Caramella answered.

‘I have my moments I’m Alexon Luciano: the owner of this casino. What’s your name, beautiful?’ He introduced himself.

Caramella thought, ‘Just my luck’ and smiled, ‘I’m Alicia Hope. You have an amazing casino. I’m sure many of the gamblers are very satisfied with your service.’

‘Ms Hope, thank you. I spent a lot to build this business my grandfather left behind and it’s paying off greatly,’ Alexon replied with a smirk.

‘That’s very impressive,’ Caramella smiled. ‘I preferred to be called Alicia if you don’t mind Alexon.’

‘It’s fine by me,’ Alexon flirted. ‘Alicia.’

Caramella thought, ‘Let’s see where this bait will take me?’ and blushed, ‘Thank you.’

‘I hope you don’t mind Alicia would you like to accompany to a charity auction this evening?’ Alexon offered.

‘I would love that Alexon,’ Caramella smiled.

‘Great,’ Alexon smiled. ‘Oh wait, don’t you have to use the ladies room?’

‘I can hold it,’ Caramella quipped. ‘But for safety measure…I’ll be right back.’

‘I’ll be waiting at the white door over there,’ Alexon pointed at the four guards protecting the entrance.

‘Okay,’ Caramella smiled with a smile and tip toed kissing his cheek before he could say something she escaped into the restroom. ‘What an idiot?’ She thought and entered the cubicle locking the door behind. She was alerted the cameras and motion sense they had in the room and switched on her ring device which sent a massive destructive virus that tempered with their signals. Checking her x-ray phone scanner she saw a lot of people gathered together underneath in a large secure room. She saw the organs and dead bodies being held in different area and mumbled, ‘It’s must be the freezer’ and what intrigued her the most red light she saw. It was the nanobots tracking device she put inside Stephan through their passionate kiss that was camouflaged into his body. ‘He’s here, let’s not keep the guest waiting,’ Caramella smiled in thought and exited the ladies restroom and met up with Alexon who blushing with a smirk.

‘What was that all about?’ Alexon asked and pressed his thumb on the keypad DNA scanner.

Caramella scanned it with her eyes, ‘It’s out of kindness. I’ve never had a gentleman, who’s been so nice to me before,’ she lied as her eye-contact device duplicated his thumb print.

‘I’m glad that I was the one, who got the kiss,’ Alexon flirted wrapping arm around her waist as they walked through the door escorted by his four guards.

‘I’ll do it a hundreds time over,’ Caramella flirted. ‘When you in your grave?’ She thought as smiled boarding the elevator that took them to the last ground floor. As soon as it opened many buyers were dressed formal and even causal. Music played, Justin Timberland: SoulMate, as some danced with champagne glasses being served since the auction was already in commence. He led her to the dance floor.

Alexon leant closer to her ear and whispered seductively, ‘I want a piece of your heart.’

‘I’ll give you everything if you bet your last breath on me,’ Caramella lied flirtatiously.

‘You already have it,’ Alexon flirted and kissed her before pulling back.

‘What is this charity auction for?’ Caramella asked looked at the organs being brought out as bidders gave their highest bid.

‘For those in need of an electron-organ to extend their life,’ Alexon explained.

‘Electron-organ?’ Caramella questioned. ‘So they fusing the organs with technology,’ she thought as she furrowed eyebrows.

Alexon continued, ‘Yes Alicia, it’s the newly reform organ our scientists from Organist have created that will help the body excel in performance. These electron-organs are the future for mankind.’

‘What if there’s a malfunction with the electron-organs? What will you do then?’ Caramella asked seriously.

‘Nothing that’s how our business developed because everyone is in need of an organ welcome to the trade organ world,’ Alexon smirked.

Caramella eyes widened in thought, ‘This is suicide’ and smiled, ‘So why did you choose to bring me here?’

‘Because I really needed your heart, Alicia,’ Alexon smirked and snapped his fingers as the four guards surrounded her.

‘Shit!’ Caramella thought and sighed. ‘I won’t let you have it’ and pulled out three smoke beards slamming on the ground as it exploded releasing sleeping gas. Disappearing into the fog she heard gunshots firing at rapid speed while the guest screamed running to the elevator. Some buyers were shot dead bleeding profusely.

Alexon shouted, ‘Find that woman! I need her alive!’

All the guards nodded, ‘Yes sir,’ the fog was so thick they couldn’t see a thing still moving cautiously with their weapons at arm’s length alert.

Stephen and Pique boarded the elevator and escaped with a few survivors. Caramella activated her EMP ring which caused the casino to lose power and stopped the movement in the elevator as the people panic.

‘It’s her, isn’t it?’ Pique asked Stephen who nodded.

‘Have no doubt about it. Its Elian,’ he answered and thought back to five years ago when she joined Organist. She stood among the rookies who sought a job as their surgeon. She was most good-looking and innocent woman with blue eyes that reflect despair and insanity.

‘The last person standing with more than one heart gets the job,’ he said and without furthered a due, the faster gunslinger was the woman he admired who shoot all the trainees and grabbing a two hearts still holding her gun.

‘If you freeze it, it won’t die,’ she spoke for the first time of the interview.

Stephen was impressed as he smirked, ‘Why do you want this job?’

‘Cause I offer you my heart,’ she answered and dropped them at his feet until she pulled him into a kiss, the best kiss of his life.

‘Your name is Elian Gaston?’ Stephen asked he smiled, ‘I hope you’ll be my good friend doctor.’

She smiled, ‘I promise I will’ as he kissed her and then his girlfriend Anne showed up.

‘What the hell Stephen? I thought you loved me,’ Anne yelled.

‘I did until I met her,’ Stephen replied and shot Anne dead, he found Elian looking into his eyes amused as she blushed as the memory faded

‘Why did she leave us in the first place?’ Stephen thought aloud.

Pique frowned, ‘I wish I knew but that woman is trouble for us.’

‘It’s no problem we can’t stop Pique,’ Stephen reminded.

Pique smirked and thought, ‘Elian, I’ll get you back for everything. The moment we get out of here’ and then they climbed out through the rooftop entering the ground floor and left the casino quickly.

Hidden by the dead guy Caramella’s eye-contacts had night and x-ray vision there was fifteen armed guards approaching her direction. She activated the camouflage device in her outfit transforming it into a maroon colour. Caramella spotted the vent behind the auction stand and thought, ‘Okay let’s make a scene,’ positioned her custom-made gun with platinum bullets which had a flesh-eating nanobot’s virus stored in it. She shot five guards in the head as they fell on the ground the virus covered their bodies vanished them into dust. Others were terrified started shooting randomly in the smoke. Caramella grabbed her blades and slashed it through the guards two by two, slicing off their heads and stomach in half as a pool blood spread across the floor like an ocean.

Alexon was shocked the moment he stepped in the blood and said, ‘What the heck? Blood?’ and overheard footsteps approaching him as he shot the target.

‘Hope you’re enjoy my peace offering Alexon,’ Caramella spoke and the bullets melt from her suit.

Alexon eyes widened, ‘What are you? Terminator?’

‘I preferred Organoid, Alexon,’ Caramella smirked and shoot him the head as he fell on the ground dead.

She spotted a vent and it led down to path that will take her to the back alley and then she left a time-bomb and escaped. Climbing out of the vent she changed her suit, heels and hair-beard black walking through the alley like nothing happen and when she boarded her vehicle and drove as the time-bomb set off and cause a massive explosion.

‘Goodbye Mega Casino and Alexon,’ Caramella smirked. ‘I’m not done yet with you, Stephen and Pique,’ she frowned and the tracking device she installed in Stephen showed on the monitor that he and Pique were on the highway. Speeding onto the highway dodging the vehicles she caught up to them and shot an explosive beard in his car’s wheel before pulling at his side and smirked.

He looked out the driver’s seat window almost surprised and thought, ‘Who’s that?’

‘Don’t bite your tongue babe,’ Caramella smirked and drove off ditching them.

‘Follow that car Pique! It’s Elian,’ Stephen shouted.

Pique stepped on the gas, ‘What is she trying to do?’

‘She wants us to play in her game that’s what,’ Stephen smirked and pulled out a machinegun.

Piques smirked, ‘Then let’s give her something to remember’ and driving faster almost caught up to her.

Looking back she saw half of Stephen’s body out of the vehicle window and started shooting with machine gun after her.

‘They want to play like this huh, okay,’ Caramella smiled and reversed the car kicking her driver’s door as it got torn off by passing vehicle. She drove full speed ahead and hopped out of her vehicle onto another vehicle as it slammed into their vehicle. Stephen flew out of the window letting of the machinegun while Pique did the same jumping of the passenger door rolling onto the road almost getting hit by a car.