The hound! [2]

"You think she let us in because she was smitten by you? Don't be stupid. The girl is a pro and it was a trap. Whether coming in or rejecting her is just the same, why do think I accepted her invitation?"

"How would I know? you're one hell of a crazy bitch!"

Inis na inis na bulyaw ni Rain sa kanya.

Sophia almost give him a heart attack, Rain might just be sitting in there but he was busy figuring out how to get out with out being eaten alive by those hound.

"We have to comeback, we need to know the name of those beast saka na natin proproblemahin how to get passed on them!"

"Those are not beast, they're hound!" 

Angil ni Rain sa kanya. 

"Next time give me a hint, don't just pushed me in with out a warning and besides it doesn't matter, what's the use?"

"What's the use? Are you crazy?"

Pinandilatan ni Sophia ng mga mata si Rain.

"The girl just give us a hint, You're not paying attention are you?"

"I was scared, I hate do—besides those large thing in there, could swallow us alive!"

Rain furiously yelled to Sophia, he had a phobia with dogs, nakagat kasi sya ng aso noong kabataan niya.

"Those are not dogs! Those are large—"

"Dogs!"  Rain insisted. "Hound or dogs they are still family!"

"But wait something is really off, you see she invited us in, she told us about her aunt schedule and how to get pass on that beast. ."

"So?" 

"If I were you, why would you tell something like that to a stranger?"

Makahulugang tanong ni Sophia kay Rain, the more she thinks about it the more it become suspicious.

Kasalukuyan nilang pinag aaralan ng mga uras na iyon ang structure ng naturang bahay.

"I got it!"

Ani Sophia na napapitik! 

napapailing naman si Rain habang di makapaniwalang nakatingin sa kanya.

"They don't have guards—what they have is a guardian of hell, you remember those three headed dogs?"

Wala sa uras namang napatango si Rain. 

"If I'm not mistaken, those three had the same name!"

Bigla namang napahinto si Rain, may kutob syang may punto si Sophia.

"Ceberus—seriously?" 

"But I think those three are not guarding the stone, there meant for something else!"

Ani Sophia na nahilot bigla ang sentido. Everything doesn't make any sense. First, the invitation was a trap, whether they declined it or not pareho lang ang resulta. 

Nang nasa loob na sila, the maids are occasionally checking the girl in discreet way, why?

and the girl just carelessly told them about the hounds.

Sophia accepted it out of curiosity, why would a host suddenly invites a stranger to come inside their house whom she saw right infront of their gates? 

Then, the girl was randomly talking but why Sophia sense something is really off, it was like the girl was screaming for help.

"Who would in the right mind to do that?"

"You're just guilty as you're going to rob her!"

Nakakunot noong sabi ni Rain sa kanya pinandilatan sya ni Sophia.

"By the way, why are you sitting there like a statue?"

Biglang baling sa kanya ni Sophia.

"I don't want to woo her with sweet nothings, hindi maatim ng aking konsensya ang—"

Hindi makapaniwalang napaawang ang mga bibig ni Sophia.

"Are you out of your mind? Who said you're going to woo her? Bago mo ipanlaban sa akin yang konsensya mo alamin mo muna ang punto ko!" 

"Geez that's all the same!"

"We're just going to conned her with some important information. Wooing and conning are two different stories!"

"Two different stories with the same outcome!"

Natigilan si Sophia sa sinabi ni Rain, it was like she miss something very important.

"Two different stories with the same outcome?"

She snap her fingers ng may biglang maalala.

"She said it's very impolite for me to make you guys stand in here, right?"

"Right!"

"Then next, she told us that she was alone with their maids and that her aunt will be back on friday, right?"

Napatango si Rain habang nakikinig sa kanya.

"But I noticed in the garage that their car is intact—"

"They could be using another one!"

Ani Rain na hindi parin makuha ang punto ni Sophia.

"No! They have a particular sequence, for example those cars in the garage are park in opposite ways, normally when we are parking the bumper should be in first but why those cars are set differently as if someone making it ready?"

Ani Sophia habang naglalakad at nagiisip.

"There's just one possible thing that's going on in there, the girl seems randomly talking to us but she was very careful, she might sound careless but what she actually said to us was the opposite!"

"What do you mean?"

"It's plain and simple, her aunt is actually home, she's telling us the other way around!"

"But why would she told us something different?" 

Rain asked confusedly.

"See it looks like I'm the one who does the talking but it was actually her, she let us in so she could trap us which is our curiousity! she set aside all the fact that we're stranger because she was probably desperate for help!"

"Pero bakit tayo?"

"It's probably we are in the same age, we could understand simple gesture which older people can't!"

Sophia said it in a matter of fact tone.

"You know what? You could be a great writer with that brain of yours!"

Sarkastikong sabi ni Rain habang natatawa sa kanya.

"Then how are you going to explain when she casually told us how to suppressed those beast pero hindi niya sinabi ang pangalan ng mga iyon, why?"

Rain gasped in shocked. 

Oo nga! Sophia has a point, Rain might not paying attention because of the hound, but he actually noticed something that he just ignored.

For example when Sophia was telling the girl that she doesn't have pet in her entire life but the girl cut Sophia by telling her how to suppressed the hound. 

The girl even asked them if those hound were adorable which infact they were one hell of a scary beast. 

But why would you tell a strangers an important secret like that?

"She wants us to come back!"

Rain said in a very precise tone.

"Exactly she was secretly conveying us a message, she did not tell us about those hound's name dahil gusto niya tayong bumalik!"

"I guess we're playing cat and mouse in here, the only different is that we are the mouse tricking a cat by rescuing her, pero may iba pa pala tayong agenda. but what if, all along it was just a trap?"

"That's impossible—no one is stupid enough to set a trap for someone else but let himself get into it, instead. Ibig sabihin lang nito she's willing to take a bargain."

"What's her name, again?"

Ani Rain.

"Something like Julia!"

"Julia?" 

Napamulagat na tanong ni Rain kay Sophia. 

"Princess Julianne Baranov, the long lost russian princess infamously known as the tears of heaven?"

"What?"

Napamulagat na tanong ni Sophia kay Rain habang titig na titig sa monitor na ipinakita ni Rain sa kanya.

"We are fuck off!"

Disappointed na sabi ni Sophia.

"This could be one hell of a game, Rain. But still we have to make sure we are not in the lossing side, as long as the price is enough, we are in service!"

"How much?" 

Ani Rain na busy sa pagtitipa ng kanyang keyboard. Sophia whispered silently, nanlalaki ang mga mata ni Rain ng mapag alaman kung magkano.

They just learned that there was a miss understanding, ang nakuha palang information ni Mike ay tungkol sa tears of heaven na code name, instead of tears of joy which was the stone. 

"Geez. .tao pala at hindi bato!" 

Napabulanghit sila ng tawa mabuti nalang at they analyzed the situation before taking an action.

If not, magmumukha silang tanga kakahanap sa wala.

"So those hound was actually guarding her?"

"Most likely!"

Now all they have to do is figure out how to make those hounds stay away from the girl in order for them to rescue her. 

Pero kailangan pa din nilang bumalik the day after tomorrow para hindi magduda ang mga nakabantay sa kanya.