01: Present = Night & Day

At the right time, at the right moment, separated hearts finally reunited once more

The clock kept ticking along with the heavy raindrops from the thunderstorm during the night rush hours making the traffic began to jam. Thunder, lightning, and horns from the cars were blasting around the traffic road making other minimal sounds in secluded areas to fade into silence.

Text Message/s:

New case: 11 tonight at Plaza Central. Code: BLOOD

Target: Ivan Fisher

Age: 58

Occupation: Car Rental and Repair

DEAL: Transporter of smuggled firearms; five times human trafficker: male teenager organs and Rapist of four teenagers. They were all from his son's college university.

Five minutes before the clock hits 11, the noises from the streets were still blasting and nature was making things cloaked in the Plaza Central. Nobody could hear or even noticed something in the shadow preparing a play on its hunting chosen hunting ground.

"What the fuck?!" Ivan Fisher groaned as he stumbled on his footing because of being in a drunken state.

The prey get up from his feet in fear and went on his way toward his car but there was something in the silence of shadow around the parking area. He stopped in his tracks and drunkenly looked around but see nothing just a few cars and lights. Nothing more. But when he went back on his tracks, a shadow suddenly passed by like a ghost in any horror film. Yet, it didn't bother Ivan, and just went to his car until he began on hearing some disturbing noise around the quiet parking area.

"Whose there?!" Ivan called out but there was nothing. He clicked his tongue in annoyance but there it goes again.

The noise began to get louder and clearer as if it was getting closer to his spot. Ivan feel the rush of fear creeping out from his body that failed him to open his car. He panicked. The speed of the noise that seems like coming toward him suddenly vanished as soon as he loses his balance and peed on his pants.

"FUCK! WHO ARE YOU?! SHOW YOURSELF ASSHOLE!" Ivan shouted but fear was indeed creeping out of his voice and drunken body language.

But nobody was with him. Silence cloaked the entire parking area until the lights began to flicker they shut down one by one. Ivan once again panicked since the lights were getting closer to his spot and made him run. The frightened prey started on dancing in his own sweat as the shadow take him on its hunting ground.

"Fuck." Ivan cursed to himself as he run away from the parking area and just to ended up in a certain establishment's alley.

The noises around the road or the heavy rainfall around the street were no longer playing in Ivan's background but the clashing of metals and heavy footsteps scared him more. He was panicking as he kept running around in circles from the establishment's alley that slowly getting dark and creepy.

"Dammit, where's the door here?!" he was totally scared as he aimlessly looked around for someplace to hide but the noise still echoed around him. Taunting him.

Ivan Fisher panted as he made some cluttering sounds to alert anyone from the road or the street yet no one would aid him because his back was already locked on. There's a red dot behind his back wherever he turned, he won't be able to cross and scream for help.

"Hmm, perfect." a voice from a lady in the shadow speaks in a very low whisper that nobody could hear as she watched his prey run around in a circle.

The playpen that has been prepared was not easy to distinguish as a hunting ground since it was a very dark alley that Ivan decided to stumble into. He run around as he looked for a place to hide not until his footing landed in the wrong step. He was already fallen into an unseen trap and his ankle paid the price. Unnoticedly, he suddenly fell down and started to feel the cursing pain. He began wailing in pain as the blood splattered on the dirty ground.

"WHAT THE FUCK! ARGHHH!!!!" Ivan screamed in pain but he have to do something to make the bleeding stop since he just lost his feet.

Ivan tried his best to make the bleeding stop by using his necktie and his polo to cover it up but he couldn't. Panicked became visible onto his face once again. He started on hearing heavy footsteps from a pair of boots that echoed through the empty dark alley. First aid was forgotten as fear took over his whole body and made him crawl on the dirty wet ground.

"Dammit! Move!" Ivan cried while he was crawling weakly on dirty and wet ground.

The bleeding wounds were making a flooding trail where he was going until the footsteps stopped. When it stopped, Ivan did too but as if it was in slow motion, sweat began to drip from his forehead down to his throat as he gulps in fright and even peed on his pants again.

"P-please…don't k-kill me…" he pleaded in fear as he didn't turn at who was lurking in his shadow. For whoever was standing behind him didn't say anything but once a spider lily fell beside him, one scream echoed around the place.

Thunder and lightning echoed behind the background as the heavy rain kept pouring out. No one could hear or even have seen what just happened in a very dark alley aside from the blood mixed along with the flowing water from a pipe. The lady in the shadow slipped without leaving any trace that she did something horrible in the same dark alley.

"The spider lily has landed." the lady spoke in a very freezing voice as she made a quick phone call to a telephone booth three blocks away from the scene. Then, moved out by blending among the walking people on a rainy night in the busy city and the lady has never seen again.

Another morning hits the city ground, there was a certain mansion that was filled with a greenery view and nice morning sunrise. Yet, inside the said mansion, at every eight in the morning, a noise from a television echoed into a quiet and clean space but seems haunted because there was no presence of humans around except for the television.

Breaking News:

Ivan Fisher from Car Rental and Repair was found dead in the dark alley near the Plaza Central parking area. His ankle has been cleanly cut and the police investigators concluded the comeback message of the so-called killer called Spider Lily…

"Hey, why did you turn it off?" a handsome yet beautiful lady named Iolana Caine Ervania, or ICE for short harshly asked someone who turned off the television all of a sudden.

"You already know the news before it became public." A man around his forties with messy hair and a neat beard answered while putting the pillow back on the couch.

"Still, there's a difference between hearing it from a police officer and the news." ICE sighed as she get up from the couch and stretched her entire body.

"I know but can you clean your mess around here. You drink again…six cans this time. I wonder if my wife heard about this one." Earl and ICE guardian sighed as he counted the empty can of beer on the center coffee table.

"Don't tell her, Uncle Earl. She's worse than you. She'll lecture me 24/7 non-stop with old teachings to the new ones. It will make my ears bleed. So, no, thank you." ICE immediately grabbed her mess around the living space.

"Then help me clean up." he sighed and kept cleaning up.

"There's nothing to clean here aside from this spot." She pointed out as she tied the trash bag since it was already full.

"I wonder if you can still talk to us like that when she got back here." he shook his head while wiping the table.

"What do you mean, Uncle Earl?" She wondered as she started vacuuming the couch and the floor to be spotless from the specks of dirt that she created when she got back home late at night.

"She's arriving tonight. The lady of the mansion is coming back. So, we better clean up." Earl answered while cleaning up but the noise from the vacuum died down which made him glance at ICE.

"ICE, are you okay?" he worriedly asked.

"Y-yeah, I am okay. Let's get things done then." ICE smiled forcedly that Earl knew well but he didn't comment and just finished cleaning the living area.

After they cleaned up the living area, Earl when to do his job at the well-known hotel around the city while ICE went to take her guardian's children to the kindergarten school. When they arrived there, the kids were totally excited to play with their friends while their guardians and some parents always looked at her with admiration.

"Aunty ICE, be careful on your way to work." a little girl sweetly said to her and ICE smiled genuinely at her.

"Same goes for you guys. I will ask your Daddy to pick you up in case I couldn't make it okay? So, don't go outside the school premises or let strangers take you away, okay? We won't be able to pay your kidnapers if that happens." ICE seriously warned them in her gentle voice that made the twins pout.

"It's not funny, Aunty ICE." a little boy pouted at what she told them.

"Then behave yourselves well, till we pick you up." She smiled and caressed their heads gently.

"We will. Love yah." they both kissed ICE's cheeks and giggled.

"Love you too, twins." she kissed their heads before they run off inside their school.

When the kids were settled in their school, ICE went back to her car as she didn't mind some squeals behind her as she leave the school ground. She sighed and entered the car then started the engine.

"Activate, Harv." ICE activated a security system that she created and installed in her own car.

'What can I do for you, milady?'

"Navigate fast route for DEMar Hotel. I need to head there before 10." ICE commanded as she started driving the car while listening to the navigation of her security system.

'Fastest route will cross the Central Market Plaza intersection and right corner of Cafe Logan.'

"Hmm, it was indeed the fastest one. Any traffic?" she asked as she stopped at the first stoplight that she came across not far from the school of twins.

'Just a minute of traffic due to the stoplights but other than that, there's none till 12 noon.'

"Alright, I'll take that route." she nodded and drove her car to the suggested route just to be at the right time at the hotel where she was heading to.