This is part of a story I wrote . I hope you like it !
The Calcutta Rose
Chapter 1
The 9.00 clock train went into a standstill. Some of the passengers beside me gazed around with astonishment at the fact of having a perfectly ride brought to an abrupt stop. The ladies in velvet black still had the time flutter their hair while the elderly ones made quite of a rampant noise. The men as impulsive as always, stood up and started inspect and analyze the situation. Infants weep for their mothers while the young asked their guardians “Mommy, What’s wrong?” with their guardians replying “Hold on, Daddy will find out.” It’s funny what life does to you. There is just one darkly dressed mysterious man who doesn’t quite fit in to the background. He held a cane in his hand and looks with although a stern but calm face. It’s as if he foreboded this whole incident in the first place.
A child starts then to grab his mother’s arm and just then, I start to realize all that I could have - a family, kids, a beautiful and loving and affectionate wife. Not to mention, a house with a mountain as the scenery. To have the mountain’s snow-white peak incandescent against the blue sky. It reminds of a quote said to me by an old friend who went, “The saddest quotes of pen and tongue are the words that could have been said and written.”
The thing’s I would GIVE to have such a life! Sadly, those thoughts are just good for escapism. There is no such thing as love in my life. To me, the only reason love exists is for the purpose of survival. The only relationship I have is a platonic one. Anything other than that is only meant for malicious, insidious, and licentious fraternization.
Well, this is where I get off. I load my dual Colts with 9mm Hollow Point Rounds and turn off the safety.
Dogs bark in the distance. I look straight at the old man and aim at his chest. With my heart filled with no remorse and fear of guilt, I fire two rounds which go off with a loud bang. The bullets penetrated him as if he was perforated tissue paper. I walk up to him while the women and children screamed with fear. I pulled out the suitcase which was located beneath his chair. Just as I was about to make my way with my grandeur escape into the desert, the old man grabbed me by the arm and said something like “Keine verglimmen”
2 heavy loaders stop next to the train and unload its deadly cargoes, 15 well trained NKVD officers. Their main task is to guard the internal security of the nation but instead they seem to be
As the men search for me from one car to the other, I had only a few options:-
a) Blow up the train with you onboard
b) Shoot the hell out of those bastards
c) Put your hands behind your head and cry for your mommy
d) Jump out and duck for cover while firing back a couple of rounds back at them
e) Tell the passengers to get out and move as far away as possible from the train.
C)While trying to hold my guts inside, I puke and vomit pails of blood and body fluids. I should have known better than to have made this horrible choice. Well, the only thing left to do is to take away any evidence leading to the boss. I load my gun and put two well made hollow point rounds into the hind of my brain. Everything turns dark.
A)Fire and Ice. The explosion should be sufficient to blow the living daylights out of any dark night. The C4 explosives placed near the Hydrogen Payload is capable of annihilating and obliterating anything in a 0.5-km radius. While holding the trigger in my hand, I look at those fearful eyes staring back at me. As the women shriek with blood curdling screams, I smile and pull the trigger.
B)A bullet goes through my chest. I fall, another goes through my head.
D)I jump out of the window with a volley of bullets flying across the corridors of the train car. Many bullets missed and hit the bystanders while I quickly made my way to the mountains. I had to across the peak in order to get the nearest town……..
E)As the men in dark blue uniforms and strange hats closed in, I pointed my colts to the roof and fired blindly. I then shouted “This is a robbery!” while waving my guns to the escape doors. Without a moment’s hesitation, the passengers from the car I was on made their way out. They trampled, gushed and even farted as they valued their lives more than their belongings and pride. The passengers of the adjacent cars then got the signal and too ran out without much care of the officers holding them back. I then set the timer for the explosives to 10 minutes and made my way out. As the passengers dash out of the train, they provide cover as the NKVD isn’t really fond of having a large body count of Civilians outside their territory.
An officer who carried more fire-power than the usual ones aimed his FG -4-1 at the crowd and fired mercilessly. HE even laughed at what he had done. I aimed my gun at his chest and fired. The bullet went through his shoulder and tore out from his patellar region. His colleagues rushed towards him as I kept on moving on with the crowd as my foliage.
Soon after, the medley of men women and children were made to stand in a line with the subordinate officer taking command of the situation. The man in black took down the attendance while the medical workers who just arrived came to heal the wounded.
Strangely, there was no sight of the NKVD officers. It seems as if they made themselves scarce after their squad leader was taken out.
