One Day Left

Five years later, Britain

It was already night but the light in the european style room was still off. The moonlight slightly brighten the room, revealing some silhouettes.

"Have you prepared everything?" asked a woman who was sitting on a black leather chair. She swirled the wine in her glass before she drink it in one gulp. She looked at five subordinates standing in front of her emotionlessly.

"Yes Master. Everything is ready." a middle age man wearing butler outfit replied. From those five people, he was the older and the leader at the same time.

"Good. Five days later i'll return to that place." The woman stood and walked out of the room. Her expression was like an iceberg.

The subordinates looked at their master back. She was so lonely. They wanted to relieved the pain she suffered but they had no way. They wanted to comfort their master but she had heard too much of it. The only thing they could do was to execute their master order well.

The incident five years ago brought a huge trauma to their master. On the night of the incident, she changed completely. At that time, their innocent master turned to a terrifying monster. That was the time when a monster called 'Demon Empress' born.

One of the subordinates sighed. It had already five years since the death of young master. Every year, their master would visit the cemetery and every time she returned from the cemetery, her mood would be bad. And today was the day of young master's death. "Leader, i know i should not say this but master is so pity."

The leader and others listened but they didn't reply because they agree with his statement. Then, the leader replied, "Zagan, do not say anything."

"Yes Leader Amon." The man named Zagan replied. He walked to the corner and turned on his laptop. He typed several IP adresses and numbers before he asked the leader. "Leader Amon, i have found some clues related to our master's order. I wanted to talk about it to master earlier but i didn't because master seemed so sad. Leader, could you please help me to tell master about it tomorrow?"

Leader Amon frowned. It was Zagan's task to investigate everything that master order and report it to the master directly. But Leader Amon knew that master's mood would not be good for tonight. So he decided to tell the master tomorrow since the matter was not pressing. He nodded, "En. Leave it to me. Just send me an encrypted email later."

"Yes Leader." Zagan logged into his email account and sent the information he gathered to Amon's account. They used the encrypted email because the content was confidential. Though there was a possibility that a hacker would hack the mail, as long as there was Zagan, nobody would dare to do so because he was known as one of the 'kings of hackers'. There were only less than ten people in the world who could fight with him on the same ground.

Leader Amon then walked out of the room to their workroom. The other follow him to make sure all the preparation done.

...

The morning light passed through the floor to ceiling window, enveloping the entire room in golden cluster. It was warm and comfortable.

On a king size bed, a woman was still sleeping but she frowned from time to time. She extended her hands as if she wanted to catch something and pitifully whimpered because she failed to reach that thing. Suddenly the woman jolted up and shouted in fright ,"Little Bun."

She she woke up drench in sweat. Her breath was erratic and her heart pounded in irregular rhythm. Her mind was chaotic that she suddenly cried. She missed her son, she missed him terribly!

One of the subordinates who heard his master scream frantically run to his master's room before he stopped in front of the door. Then, he worriedly asked, "Master, are you okay?"

The woman didn't reply immediately. She took several deep breaths to ease her emotion. Then, she coldy replied, "I'm okay. Just go."

"Yes master." He turned around and was about to go when he heard his master's order. "Leraje, gather Leader Amon and the others to the study room. I'll go there in a while."

"Yes Master." Leraje replied and started to look for the others.

The woman got down and went to the bathroom to wash up. She stood in front of the mirror and saw her reflection. She tried to squeeze a sincere smile but it ended up as a sneering, a menacing smile.

...

In a study room

The woman was sitting on her leather chair. She knocked her finger on the table as she read the report that Zagan entrusted to Leader Amon last night seriously. "Amon, where's Zagan?"

"Zagan is out for mission master."

The woman nodded. "Have you prepare everything for 'the surprise'?"

Amon knew what his master meant as a surprise. He replied politely, "We have master. We only need your instructions."

"Good. Just wait for my order." The woman stood up and looked out of the window. It was winter and the temperature was low, alike with her frozen heart. Then, the woman said, "I'll use that identity, Liliana Chen."

Leader Amon responded, "Yes Master."

The woman hold her hands on the back and gazed at the falling snow that created some dunes. Her eyes full of malicious and sinister emotion. She laughed menacingly as she murmured in amusement, "Animal creatures, i'll be back soon. Just don't let me down."

Her subordinates shuddered when they heard her laugh. Whenever their master laughed that way, someone was bound to be destroyed. Their master would bring a total annihilation to her target.

They only kept silent because they knew that her targets would be doomed soon because...

It was just one days left for their master to return to that damned place.