The Prince Of Whales (16) Lillian and Michael victoriously came out from the room in their robes and waved at everybody like the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus the Son of God with his wife. The Sheikh requested Dr. Moshe, his staff members and the ambulance personnel to stay there for two days and to attend the wedding. Mr. Remus the manager of the Island resort showed them both double and single rooms according to their kooky hooky nooky requirements. The Island security personnel guarded the Island and the resort round the clock. They can watch the whole Island from their office monitor screens and from the watchtowers. If any unidentified thing approaches the Island either by sea, air or land they can find it and stop it right away. They have separate security staff quarters to live with their families. The resort staff has their separate quarters. Boris rehired all these staff members. Detective Bermann’s staff has separate quarters and offices. They are patiently waiting to record the conversations between Dukhobors and Nick. The Island resort can accommodate some 1000 resorters and vacationers along with their families at a time providing all the needed amenities. The word about the Sheikh’s Island resort somehow reached the filmmakers in the Kiritimati Island. One new guy came with his writers, production controllers and directors of all departments to buy the story from the Sheikh. The Island security men stopped the filmmaker’s helicopter until every thing is cleared. No one is allowed to come to the Island with weapons of destruction. The security personnel scanned the whole helicopter. When the filmmaker Akirosawa agreed to all security conditions he got permission to land. The security men received the filmmaker Akirosawa and his crew with due respect and checked every thing. The filmmaker Akirosawa and his crew should leave all the camera equipment, PCs, cell phones and all the other restricted items in the helicopter. They can carry the money cards and identity cards. According to the Sheikh’s personal invitation on arrival the filmmaker Akirosawa and his crew agreed to stay in the resort and attend the wedding. Remus showed them their special rooms. They got excited to see all the specialties in the Island resort. They said to themselves, ‘this place is perfect for the story treatment, screenplay writing, budgeting and all the other paperwork’. Matthew gave the conditions pro forma to the filmmaker Akirosawa. The filmmaker Akirosawa read all the conditions to buy the story as following: - There should be no night scenes, underwater scenes, camera shivering, too much talking, scene dragging, visual violence, open sex scenes, birthday suits, terror or horror scenes, flip-flop scenes or bloody killings. - The audience may get all those feelings in their minds without directly seeing those scenes. Like the famous drama of Mahanaim the scenes must bring peace and repentance in the hearts of the bad guys. This film must be basically targeted for the children and the adolescent youth. But all the mass and class should be allowed to enjoy. - One per cent of the approximate B class budget, which is about $200 million, in this case should be paid as advance at the time of initial agreements. - After the preview show to the area buyers nine percent of the anticipated income should be paid. After the release the remaining ten per cent of the total income should be paid. - We are talking about 20% of the total income. If the income exceeds the guaranteed target, which is $ one billion in this case all the exceeding income goes to the Island thirteen charity account. - All this will be used to establish the confederation of the State of Eretz Ephraim for all the diaspora communities as a sister nation to Israel for the sake of the world peace. - The international distributing area should be divided into one thousand zones and the film should be made only one thousand copies and be sold for $ one million each copy. The filmmaker Akirosawa quickly read and agreed to the conditions to buy the story and said, ‘I may be a religio-commercial filmmaker. But I do believe that one should first carry on his duty sincerely without dreaming for utopian profits. I always liked the seaman’s life. A seaman is always my hero. His life is full of adventure, thrill and drama unmatched by any other career. I know it’s not an easy task for him to monitor the waters. So many times he has to encounter death at close quarters. The seagulls faithfully indicate that he is approaching some land. People are terrified of the sea but there is nothing scary about it. Single mindedness is always a supreme quality of a true seaman. I do agree to open my account and deposit the entire film budget here in the International Island Reserve Bank. And I am prepared to buy the story’. Matthew introduced the filmmaker Akirosawa to the International Island Reserve Bank manager Mr. Jamboree. The amount has been transferred from his Swiss Bank account to his new account in the International Island Reserve Bank. Matthew then introduced the filmmaker Akirosawa to Sheikh’s finance department to complete all the legal paperwork to buy the story. The paper work is completed and the filmmaker Akirosawa and his companions began to check out the locations for their future B class feature film. Slowly but surely all the wedding guests, banquet caterers, special cooks, symphony orchestra bands, singers, private media guys of Jacobsons Foundation, chief guests, officials from various government and private departments, friends, workers, relatives, board of trustee members, chairman, undercover cops, high-ranked brasses, seamen, fishermen, whalers, scientists, good ninjas, celebrities and Senators began to show up one by one with their families and children. Joan has already hooked her talking device to the underwater machine and continued her taped message inviting all the whales. The regional whale communities furthered the message to the other whale communities. And the whales began to come towards the Island. The diaspora communities got the wedding invitation and they came to the Island. Island thirteen was filled with colorful boats, seaplanes, helicopters and airplanes of different models. Mr. Remus the manager of the Island resort quickly promoted the bellhops as receptionists and promoted himself as the general manager. Tomorrow he is going to promote himself as the Chief General manager of the Island resort or as the Managing Director. Island thirteen is getting ready to receive all the young and old folks of all nationalities from all Islands and mainland. Boris has rededicated his resurrected social life to promote his latest idea of world peace through the confederation of the State of Eretz Ephraim for all the diaspora communities. Boris lived on the Island for twenty years. When he came back into the modern society he was terribly impaled and shocked to know about all the wars, suicide bombers, poverty, hunger, sicknesses, mafia gangbangs, drug trafficking, terrorism, lawlessness, illiteracy, racism, anti-Semitism, color-caste cancer and mobocratic hegemony. To err might be human but to take life just like that seemed quite diabolic to his humane understanding. He pacifically thought that the confederation of the State of Eretz Ephraim for the diaspora communities is the only way for achieving world peace starting with the Middle East. He wanted to introduce his new idea to all the diaspora communities and all the nations in a quiet and peaceful way without politicizing the issue. He started the lone fight against all those odds and gave an open call to the intelligentsia. The world peace possibly starts when we work for the Middle East peace. The Middle East peace starts when we establish the confederation of the State of Eretz Ephraim. This is what Boris believed. Chapter twenty What’s going on? Mr. Dukhobors possessed every thing to live long in his narcissistic politics as the proverb said: a hide of rhino, memory of an elephant, persistence of a female beaver, friendliness of hybrid mongrel pup, heart of a Barbary lioness, stomach of a three-toed ostrich and the devout stubbornness of an army mule. He thought that his stars are very favorable to make him the luckiest zillionaire this year. In him his public service and his private politics went hand in hand. He coherently sees no dividing line between reason and revelation. He synthetically gives place to every school of thought. He tolerantly recognizes sects rejecting sectarianism. He is temporarily all-powerful to legally sell the deluge-affected Pacific Islands in his own style. He does not deal with the IRS but only with the IMF. The concerned state officials received him at the Hawaii international airport and posh housed him in the state guesthouse near the hula-hula beach. He came to Hawaii to take care of his unfinished official auction business. He has to collect the remaining amounts from the successful bidders tomorrow. He has spent all evening enjoying the Hawaiian luau feast and the hula dance. He then rendezvoused the call girls and the kneaders. They are his surreptitious news hawks. He had furtively gathered all news all night from them. He learned that the landladies of Jacobsons Foundation had been kidnapped. The police suspected the great Sheikh that he should know about the kidnap. But the police cleared him right away. The police then doubted Rodrigo but they cleared him after the check. Then the only family member the most honest Rodrigo Mexicali had become the legal heir and the sole owner of Jacobsons Empire just like that. The Jacobsons Foundation board of trustees has been dissolved. All the managers of their companies, estates, industrial plants, colonies and factories have been dismissed. New employees have been appointed. All the previous public and private contracts have been cleared and cancelled. All resources, funds and bank accounts have been transferred to Rodrigo Mexicali the uncrowned monarch of the Jacobsons Empire within a couple of hours. The official name of the Jacobsons Foundation has been legally changed to MexSp Foundation. In spite of all these legitimate and sudden changes Rodrigo the Just has outright refused to accept the ownership of MexSp Foundation and said to his lawyers and solicitors, ‘first things must be first. I have to wait until Feggy, Eliza and Lillian are found. I must continue to search for Shea and Sam and the other missing persons. I request the police officers to please take the assistance of the Interpol and uprise the search. Let me be a watchdog and serve Jacobsons. I personally went to the Kiritimati Island to see whether the girls are with the Sheikh. But they are not with him. Until I return the chairman of the Jacobsons Foundation board of trustees will be looking after all these things as before’. Rodrigo is in the Kiritimati Island personally searching for the girls. The kidnap is still an unsolved mystery for the police. He is such a nice and lucky guy. God blessed Rodrigo for his honest service to Jacobsons Foundation. The call girls summarized the news, rumors and gossips of the Hawaiian Island. Mr. Dukhobors said, ‘really a saintly guy’. The call girls continued, ‘the Kuwait Sheikh has bought the Island for Eliza Jacobson the landlady of the Jacobsons Foundation. He is the dearest friend of the late husband of Eliza Jacobsons. The Sheikh is even nicer to spend that kind of money in memory of his dead friend. He has invited one and all for his grand kids’ wedding on the island tomorrow. After the wedding the great Sheikh will hand over the Island to Rodrigo the only legal heir since Eliza Jacobson was kidnapped and wouldn’t be around. So far no terrorist organization had claimed responsibility for the kidnap’. These are the main news of the Hawaiian call girls’ chitchat newscast. The headlines once again: first of all the Sheikh did not know about Mrs. Eliza Jacobsons kidnap. Second of all Mr. Sheikh may or may not change his mind to transfer the Island to Rodrigo tomorrow. Last but not least of all, the saintly Rodrigo may not accept the transfer of the Island to him at all. Mr. Dukhobors is slightly shocked to know that Mrs. Eliza Jacobson is the widow of her late husband Mr. Boris Jacobson and not the American wife of the Sheikh. He immediately got up, took his cell phone and went into the bathroom and dialed Nick and said, ‘hi Nicky! It’s me. The Sheikh did not know about the kidnap of the girls. And we may have a slight problem with the transfer of the Island tomorrow. We need to meet here tonight. You can go to the Island tomorrow afternoon from here for the Island transfer. You guys start immediately. We need to talk’. Nicky said, ‘it’s all our fault Dukh! We should have mentioned to Rodrigo that the Sheikh had registered the Island in Eliza’s name. But we didn’t know then. The kidnap is really a mystery. I am getting a bad feeling about the transfer of the Island tomorrow. But the Sheikh is a very nice guy. I trust him. Anyway we are on our way. We will decide it tonight’. Mr. Dukhobors said, ‘say hi to the uncrowned monarch of the MexSp Foundation. I can’t wait to see you guys. Take shuttle airliner. See you soon. Bye’. Rodrigo, Willy and Nick booked the fastest airliner. Suddenly the phone rang from nowhere. Nick picked up the receiver. Mr. Sheikh from the other side said, ‘Mr. Nicky! This is the Sheikh. I read the news about the kidnap of the girls. I am calling you to tell you that there will be no problem whatsoever tomorrow to transfer the Island to your Ibtos. See you all tomorrow at the wedding. Bye’. Nick appreciated the Sheikh in his heart for his timely information and the wedding invitation. He shared the good news to Dukh from the shuttle and said, ‘the Island transfer problem is secured. The sheikh agreed to do it even without Eliza Jacobson. We are on the way. See you. Bye’. Rodrigo teased Willy and said, ‘my wife is kidnapped and your wife is Mars-napped with her ex. You and I were born on the thirteenth. You and I have lost our jobs and regained in a different way. I am the watchdog of MexSp Foundation and you are the watchdog of Ibtos Foundation. Your real mother’s name and my real mother’s name start with b and ends with h. But your last name Mitropoulou ends with u and mine Mexicali ends with i. Therefore I am luckier than you in all respects’. Rodrigo laughed with Nick. Willy ignored Rodrigo and homiletically said to the airhostess, ‘why did you choose this job?’ She turned towards Willy and said, ‘are you talking to me? What’s your question again? Okay, it’s a long story. My ex challenged me that nobody would marry me because of my machismo. I took it as a challenge and got this job. I met my husband in the air. Isn’t it some thing bro!’ Willy pedantically looked at her and sycophantishly said, ‘so you are married. It’s good that you are married. But it’s not good for you to wear man’s dress and work like this. You must take care of your kids and the house’. She laughed and said, ‘you sound like my les-husband. She likes me to stay home. But I like this job. Nobody can tell me what to do even my picky les-husband’. Willy gushingly excused himself and quickly raced to the bathroom to perform his ritual washing. He has to wash his face and hands thrice every time he happens to face a woman in man’s attire and fails to convince her with his homily that it is wrong for a woman to wear men’s clothes and work like a man and vice versa. He does the same thing if he happens to see a man doing woman’s job. His counselor prescribed this naturopathic ritual for his obsessive-compulsive neurosis. While he was doing his ritual he heard the pilot announcing about the seat belts and transfiguratively returned to his seat. They heard that they are approaching Hawaiian airport. Nick, Rodrigo and Willy the geekiest triad of the decade mentally prepared themselves to meet their anointed bigheaded underhanded godling Mr. Dukhobors who is psychopathically enjoying his heavenly hallucinogenic bliss. The plane landed and the airport taxicab dropped them at the state guesthouse. The security personnel walked them in. Mr. Dukhobors received them with a cool aloha and a nude feministic hug. The call girls were gone already. Mr. Dukhobors introduced Mr. Zuloaga the Hawaiian chief of police to Nick, Rodrigo and Willy. Mr. Zuloaga announced the good news to Rodrigo and Willy that they were cleared and the complaints were withdrawn. Rodrigo blew up into laughter like a suicide bomber and said to Willy, ‘that means your wife is not dead. She must be with her ex. Right!’ Willy thanked the chief and said, ‘I did not mean to kill her. I miss her but I don’t want to be with her. I think I lovehated her’. The guesthouse attendants served hot drinks to everybody. Mr. Dukhobors settled down on the sofa and said, ‘the bad news first and the good news later is always better for us. You guys don’t need to see the Sheikh for the Island transfer tomorrow. Every thing will be done through his attorney here. Island thirteen will be ours in few hours. The UN has granted the self-governing status to all these thirteen Islands under the nominal US supervisory commissioner’. Mr. Zuloaga interrupted and said, ‘The Federal government has directly appointed Mr. Dukh as the commissioner’. Nick, Rodrigo and Willy congratulated Dukh. But they wanted to ask him how Mr. Zuloaga the chief of police suddenly came into the scene. They are not certain whether he is in or out. Mr. Dukh noticed that they are in a dilemma about the police chief and said, ‘guys! Mr. Zuloaga is with us. He is the new member of Ibtos. You don’t need to doubt him. He is our man in top brass. Tomorrow he is coming with us to the Ibtos. I will take care of the auction business by 10 am tomorrow and we will proceed to Ibtos. You guys get some sleep. Remember! Don’t tell any of your friends about our Ibtos visit’. Nick, Rodrigo and Willy understood that their road is clear and the their lucky stars are favorable to them. They made a toast for the health and longevity of the new member Mr. Zuloaga the police chief and for the successful life of Mr. Dukh the new commissioner of the deluge-affected Islands. They were already the members of Ibtos. But they never visited Ibtos. Every thing was done through the Internet. The computers have been taking care of all their e-business transactions. They are excited about visiting the Ibtos. They began to mentally prepare themselves for the rare occasion they have been looking for all these years. Nick is a senior member of Ibtos. Even he was never invited to visit Ibtos. He once expressed his willingness to go there but it turned out to be a death wish for him. Nobody is allowed so far to see Ibtos. Nobody knows whence and how it is operated. The members can only contact through the website of Ibtos. On the surface it’s an asylum for the mentally retorted with no public attraction and situated right in the middle of Hawaiian Island. Mr. Dukh received the surprise message from Ibtos to pay a visit along with Nick, Zuloaga, Rodrigo and Willy. They must be ready by noon and wait at Waikiki beach resort near Chinaman’s seal hat observing point for further instructions. That’s all He knows for now. They talked and talked about Ibtos and its death cap mushroom operations all night. They were filled with an outrageously intoxicated excitement without knowing that they got the death warrant to go into a death trap. They are like the stupefied childish kids who decided to play kittenish hide-and-seek games under the attractive shades of the carnivorous thicket. They didn’t know that the steersmen and the master cyberpunk hackers Matthew and Sam were recording all their conversations from Island thirteen at that very hour.
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