After about 3 days of recovering from an excessively unprecedented drinking and smoking, he still remembered that his sorrows and burdens were still available before him, but the people in the community felt peace the few days he wasn't seen or heard, he stepped out in the evening to make sure he locates where the Preacher stays and decided.
"tonight, if I didn't die, then he has to die, either by a bullet or by a gun" T-Boy said this and then left home in search of the Preacher's home.
After taking steps upon steps and asking people around for directions and taxi drivers to decode routes, finally arrived a placed, darkened by the cloud but lightened by the pride of an architect, he let down his gun and weapons of defeat right in the field where no one can see, went on to a Door and as he was about to knock...
"it's 8pm, are you coming to the Son of Man or to the Thief in the night?, or are you here to witness the manifestation of the Son of God?, or here, to make me say My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me?" the Preacher asked while opening the door which he didn't knock on.
"good evening Sir, please can I come in?" T-Boy asked as his fears began to rise again
"the word 'can' depicts ability, you can come in, but what's the probability that I will let you in, so May I come in, that's the right thing to say and that's to establish certainty, so I will say yes or no, but what if you don't want to come in right now? Maybe you have someone else you're waiting for, you'd say I will come in and that shows discipline, you may come in but I'm not a Sir" the Preacher took him through a long journey of words just to read his countenance and when he saw how uneasy he was, he allowed him in.
The Preacher's apartment was well furnished, very cozy with the expensive home items, this made T-Boy curious.
"is this your house? Oga pastor!" T-Boy asked
"not my house, it's a rented apartment, I only came in to spread the gospel in this area" the Preacher responded but T-Boy just couldn't believe that where he was partly belongs to someone who walks under the sun.
"omo see screed na, see AC, see TV, I no sure say you be only pastor, wetin you dey do....I mean....who are you?" T-Boy asked still
"I'm whoever you think I am, take a seat, why are you here?" the Preacher asked while heading to his kitchen to get a juice for him and T-Boy.
"you said, you will pray for me the day I will die and that's the best day for anyone to repent...but....you killed my guys...my men, why didn't you kill me?, I'm asking because if you didn't then you know the day I will die and I'd like to know also" T-Boy asked as he wanted to keep the Preacher occupied with questions so he could check possible ways to kill him as a sniper.
"I don't know why, when or where people will die, but I only know what kills people and that's Death, I'm neither Death nor a killer, I didn't kill your men, they killed themselves, I only redirected the focus of the guns and weapons in their hands, and then, the best day for you to repent is the day you will die, not just anyone, I have repented and I'm still alive, for the beginning was the word, with God and the word was God, so I have a beginning filled with the word and that is God" the Preacher answered and T-Boy asked the remaining question which the Preacher began singing an old hymn song.
"in Christ alone
My hope is found
He's my light my strength my song
This cornerstone this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest droughts and storms
What heights of love
What depths of peace
Where fears are still
Where strivings cease
My comforter
My all in all
Here in the love of Christ, I stand."
And then turned to T-Boy and said
"the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, but I am not a thief, so I through Christ and Christ through me, I've come so that you may have Life and have it in abundance" the Preacher answered and left him there to the kitchen and while coming back with a knife in his hand.
"please, I beg you, don't kill me now please, I have no child yet, I'm just trying to break free please, don't kill me please" T-Boy began begging at the sight of the knife and with the knowledge of how mysterious the Preacher could be but he was wrong when the Preacher walked past him and brought to him a variety of fruits from his fridge.
"eat now, while death is far from you, I'm not a killer, I'm a Preacher" The Preacher answered staring at him and at the sight of these fruits, T-Boy had to feed his empty gullet to stupor.
"the song you sang, I remember it, my mom loved it, she was a lead singer in the church downtown, she sang it the day she died, mom couldn't make it through because of her health, she was dying and Dad was never there, I'd call him, he'd tell me he's busy, he'd say he's coming by weekend, weekends came, but he never came, mom needed medical attention but I was too young and couldn't take her up, she said she'd be fine, I should go to school, I went out while she was alive and came back when she was dead, I called Dad again, he hanged up on me, mom got buried, I dropped out, I joined the touts in the street, to make a living, they took care of me, made me forget my troubles, I learnt how to shoot and I became a killer the day I went in search for my Dad, he was busy with women, I reminded him of how I detest him, and killed him, I went away with my team, the one you just killed, that was 5years ago, my mom died 10 years ago, I'm 26 years now but I've been through hell, don't I deserve to die? T-Boy told his story to the Preacher as to make him emotional and focus less on being conscious.
"your mom was a Lead Singer, but you are a Lead Gangster, uhm! She died ahead of you so you can live, you have her life in you now, no need to die, except nature decides to take you away, I'm sorry about your Dad and Mom, you need to have Christ, to have the peace you long for, the more terror you cause in this city, the more damage it cost to the people here and as their spirit is troubled, you won't have rest, take in Christ and you'd be fine" The Preacher said and offered him another glass of juice, he drank.
"won't you pray for me still?" T-Boy asked and the Preacher decided to do so.
"Father thank you for the son of yours, whose past has he recalled, whose present he is regretting and whose future he wishes to have you in the picture, I pray that you grant the hearts according to the measures of the desires, as it pleases you, and let this be a prayer of repentance if he's truly sorry and wants you to save his soul, or a prayer of protection, if he's yet to and save a soul, in Christ name, Amen" prayed the Preacher and T-Boy made plans to leave afterwards as it was 9:13pm.
After leaving, he stayed away and planned how the bullet and what bullet would pierce the door and hit the Preacher straight to dead as he would be sitting on his Bible reading table that's facing the door from behind, figured it out and set everything up with eyes on the target's door, he lets out 6 bullets, piercing the door in a circle within 3 seconds.
"even prayers can't save you, it is better to die than to think of death" T-Boy said while climbing down from his elimination spot, straight to the Preacher's house, He knocked, no response came, and knocked again, no voice was heard, he then held the handle and moved in with his weapon of defeat well relaxed and as he closed the door from within, everywhere was dark and he couldn't even see his skin, suddenly, he felt a hand on his neck that he couldn't even hold his weapon anymore.
"the kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent ones, take it by force for the war of the church shall end in victory" the voice said and he got lifted up and his weapon taken down, straight to the Bible reading table, he was heavily dropped on the table that the table broke down, having his head hitting the floor that He laid down low, lights came up.
"I prayed with you before you left, for you and for me, as a prayer of repentance and as a prayer of protection, maybe you didn't understand the prayer, or maybe you want to understand the one who prayed the prayer, just like Paul said, That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection." the Preacher said to him who was laying on the floor coughing and in pains, the Preacher washed his hands but stopped at some point, went to him and said.
"I have come to you like the Son of God and like the Thief in the Night, but tonight, I will like you to experience the manifestation of the son of God, it's 11 seconds away from 10:27pm, the door is closed, it's too late to walk away from this experience, it going to last for just 30 seconds" the Preacher said and left him to switch off the lights again.
"please, Please, don't kill me, please" T-Boy tried to plead.
"it is said in a song that one day, the killer of mankind shall also be killed by mankind, sadly, I'm neither mankind nor the killer, I know how to hurt, I know how to heal, but I don't know how to kill" the Preacher said switching off the last light and setting up the stopwatch, went straight to T-Boy and his fists were feasting on T-Boy's face for 30 seconds and his blood was like a layer on his face.
To Be Continued.....