The Missing Point; Chapter 1 Part 3

Master was out of the patient. ''Listen to me boy. I am not here to listen to your courtesies. Finish it off and tell me the god dammed location.

'' As you command'' said Clipp.

''I need another favor if you don't mind'' said Clipp looking up at Master like a little child looking at his giant father.

'' I'll ask stronghead here to open up your brain and send it to your father in his grave. 'You have eaten enough, now tell me where the damnable key is” said, Master. Clipp could feel the tightness around Master's mouth, the lust to possess what seems to be a treasure of a great expense. Clipp had a different concern, though.

‘‘Send Blue to get a glass of water for me and I swear I will tell you everything after I slaked my thirst'' he said.

Master was puzzled. He could not make a sense if this.

‘‘You said you will give me what I want if I gave you what you want. Is that what you what?-food?'' asked Master.

'' I'll tell you what I want as soon as I slaked my thirst'' said Clipp mischievously.

In the course of his stay here, Clipp had noticed that it takes thirteen minutes before someone could get to the kitchen which he thought was just behind the door. Few minutes after Blue was gone, Clipp started to shout with fury saying ''if I give you the key would it bring back my father? I've waited for this moment. I swear to avenge him. What do you get by killing people for some worldly pomp?'' shouted Clipp.

''Enough with it. What do you know about the death of innocents?'' Master shouted back.

Master could still see the face of that cruel man twisting a knife in his mother's stomach, laughing like a maniac, kicking Master's dead little sister.

"Do you know how many innocent people had died for nothing?'' he carried on. '' Your father got involved in something much bigger than him'' he said turning his face to a rectangular space on the wall which serves as a window. '' Besides that, your father shouldn't be alive after being here'' he said after a small pause. To that, he is telling the truth. Clipp could feel that. Master himself doesn't know all the secret that lay in this underground world. ''Everyone has his limit'' Friend would say when he speaks with Master over the phone. Master had never seen friend yet friend sees him where ever he is. At least that was what friend had told him. So Master calls him the almighty. '' I'll get you the key'' Master had promised. 

Now, as Master turned his back facing the place which looked like a window, Clipp grabbed the knife and the fork hitting away from the table in front of him.

It was so sudden that Master found it impossible to believe. Clipp had stabbed the knife through Master's right eye and had butchered Ivy's throat with the fork. Clipp went out of the Meeting Room. But that was only the beginning. Clipp found himself running through an endless darkness- dark as hell. His heart was pounding fast as ever. He was aware that if he keeps running it will push out of his breast. But he had to see the end of the darkness before Master could reach him. He did not see the end of the darkness, however, then he saw Master running toward him, holding his bleeding eye, a torchlight on his hand. A sudden blow hit Clipp so hard that it made him collapsed on the floor. He touched his forehead and felt some liquid running down. He runs his fingers around his chin and felt where his teeth supposed to have been. The pain was so fierce that he was no longer feeling anything. He could not tell whether he was alive or dead. The darkness swallowed him and for a moment he lost all sensation.

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The Missing Point; Chapter 1 Part 2

It was said that his father looked a mess when he was spotted dead in a stream. His skull was without content. One of his eyes was a trench, the other one nowhere to be found. The image haunted Clipp in his dreams for days. That was four years ago, though. Now his father is dead and he alive in an underground room. His limbs were tied and his mouth gaped while the murderer of his father stares at him with unmovable eyes. 'It shouldn't end like this thought Clipp. If he refuses to give info about the key, he is a dead man. Yet he knows nothing about it, nor did he hear his father talk about any key during his lifetime.

So he said'' If you give me what I want, you'll have wanted you to want.’’

‘‘Good'' said Master. ‘‘You are not as pigheaded as your old man. Now tell me, what is it you want?''

Clipp cleared his throat and began. '' First, untie me and then give me some food and a drink to wash it down.''

''Clever boy. It seems they never feed you in the library. Some books are to be tasted they said, others to be swallowed and a few to be chewed and digested. You ought to have eaten those few.'' said Master mischievously.

Blue laughed, Ivy Stronghead chortled. Ivy Stronghead always laughed at Master's jokes though he never finds it funny.

''Blue!'' shouted Master ''see to his demand''

Blue hurried to a door that opens to a large kitchen. In their secret meeting place, Master had made a kitchen and brought three servants to make it alive. The kitchen was two floors below the Meeting Room whereas the Meeting Room was five floors below an outhouse in a midst of a desert- invisible for the human eye. Master had made it invisible by burring it and then covered its surface with a mix of tar, soil, and coal; and on top of it, he spreads a dark color of sand- making it appeared like a rock. There was a set of patterns on its surface- a set of patterns which ancient symbol that can outsmart even the greatest of symbolism. But to get to the Meeting Room it must be solved. Master has always proud himself of this appeasable skill.

There inside the Meeting Room Blue brought a plate of rice, one fork, one knife and a plate of dessert. ''Wolf boy'' said Master '' and be quick about it. Clipp was startled when he saw the knife. He only needed a fork to cut Master’s throat and his friends’ thereafter. Blue the idiot has made it easy for him.

''And here is the juice'' said Blue extending a bottle of plum juice.

'' You are most kind, Mr. Blue'' blurted Clipp over the hot rice.

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The Missing Point: Chapter 1 Part 1

I'll put this metal through your heart' said Master looking down at Clipp, red with anger.

They had kidnapped him an hour ago when he was returning home. Clipp is a gentle youth not more than four-and-twenty. He has been studying in the library for the last three weeks. These men cut him off as he was coming out of the library. They had taken him to somewhere very strange that he could never have imagined existed in his hometown. They had been asking him about something which he doesn't understand;

‘‘Just tell us where your father keeps the key and maybe we will give you a chance to live'' they would say. Yet Clipp has no notion of where this key might be or even what means is. Even if he knew he would not tell. Pigheaded they call him. He never does what he doesn't feel like doing. Everyone in their family is like that. His father was killed because he didn't tell Master what he wanted to here. ''Alas, you could not know what is in my brain by opening it. You would have learned where the key is. It is in a place you would never know'' Clipp's father would say. He would close his eyes and say '' I can feel it. It is in a place you would never expect it to be.'' Master likes jokes but not of this kind. And now he knows this man will tell him naught. Pigheaded they call them. So he said '' sir, would you be so kind as to let us see whether we can find the location of the key by opening your brain?

Master has never hesitated to kill a man since the incident that happened on the second of March 1976.

Master was furious that he couldn't get the information by opening Clipp's father brain. Years later he started following his son.

Master's crew has been waiting since eleven AM and now it's 12 at night still no sign of the boy. They sent one of their men to check on him. Clipp was inside lost in a book. They waited for another hour. Their eyes were fixed on the entrance. Ivy Stronghead hesitated as he saw the boy. Clipp was on the phone giggling with delight. Ivy cast a long glance at Clipp. He failed to come up with something that will convince Clipp to get into the car without any inappropriate practice. So they drove toward him, jerked him in and disappeared off the road.

They waited in the Meeting Room for the master to come. Clipp was tied and gaped yet he was calm an unperturbed. ‘‘You don't have to die so young. You must have a dream as I am seeing you in the library trying to eat all of the books in a few days.'' said Master after his unexpected entrance to the Meeting Room. He pointed the gun toward Clipp's forehead when the boy laughed at his joke. '' I'll split up your brain and see how much is alike to your father's.

Clipp shuddered his mouth a hard line. He cast a hateful glance at Master. A whisper inside him told him to get up and rip up the man's throat. The whisper, however, has forgotten how he was strapped from head to toe.

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