A skylark and an eagle met on a rock upon a high hill. The skylark said, "Good morrow to you, Sir." And the eagle looked down upon him and said faintly, "Good morrow."

And the skylark said, "I hope all things are well with you, Sir."

"Aye," said the eagle, "all is well with us. But do you not know that we are the king of birds, and that you shall not address us before we ourselves have spoken?"

Said the skylark, "Me thinks we are of the same family."

The eagle looked upon him with disdain and he said, "Who ever has said that you and I are of the same family?"

Then said the skylark, "But I would remind you of this, I can fly even as high as you, and I can sing and give delight to the other creatures of this earth. And you give neither pleasure nor delight."

Then the eagle was angered, and he said, "Pleasure and delight! You little presumptuous creature! With one thrust of my beak I could destroy you. You are but the size of my foot."

Then the skylark flew up and alighted upon the back of the eagle and began to pick at his feathers. The eagle was annoyed, and he flew swift and high that he might rid himself of the little bird. But he failed to do so. At last he dropped back to that very rock upon the high hill, more fretted than ever, with the little creature still upon his back, and cursing the fate of the hour.

Now at that moment a small turtle came by and laughed at the sight, and laughed so hard the she almost turned upon her back.

And the eagle looked down upon the turtle and he said, "You slow creeping thing, ever one with the earth, what are you laughing at?"

And the turtle said, "Why I see that you are turned horse, and that you have a small bird riding you, but the small bird is the better bird."

And the eagle said to her, "Go you about your business. This is a family affair between my brother, the lark, and myself."

Epic still looking at the sky, thoughts in the story his father always told him when he was still alive, stood thinking to himself 'What does it mean?'.

He was young back then, he remembered everything that had happened to his family. After hearing that story he heard a gun fire then the next thing he knew, his father was lying beneath his feet soaked with blood. In panic he cried out loud “FATHEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!” His mom rushed outside only to see that her husband was already dead. She rushed near her only son and held him tightly, then another gunfire had been heard, the only thing epic remembered his mother say was “I love you so much my dear”. Then his mom dropped beside the body of his father soaking with red blood. Epic was so shocked he could not move because he had seen his parents death in front of him. He didn’t know why, he was only 9 years old back then, he didn’t know anything about what was happening, he didn’t know that his parents were with the family of silence. Didn't know they were working with drugs, robbery and many other things. After 5 minutes a dark suited man came near their bodies and shot them some more to make sure the two were really dead then he walked away leaving epic behind crying in agony with his parents dead bodies.

After an hour a man suited in white tapped epic’s back….

To be continued….

Epic look at his back. He saw a tall, broad-shoulder man, five feet eleven inches. His red brown hair was cut business-man short and carefully combed, with a part.  He looks thirty years old look near forty. In closer examination, his youth showed in his attractiveness, open face and ready to smile;  but he have an air of early maturity, the look of a man that grew to fast. His name is Provenzano, a well known powerful Godfather of the Cosa family. But the child doesn’t know about that.

“Come on child, stand up, we cannot do anything about your parents. Come with me and I will guide you to your life, I will stand as your new parents and will teach you the way of our shore.” Epic stand on his knee and take the man’s hand and go with him.

“Hey Brother what are you doing here?”

Epic was startled and look at his back he saw his best friend Skittles staring at him amaze.

“Hi there Brother I was thinking of the past, what had happen to my family way back before I came to this kind of work.”

“You’re thinking again man, forget what happened to your family they are gone now you should think of what will be your future, you are the only heir of our Godfather, and you will be next in line to him.  You should be thinking how you will run our family,” Skittles say.

“You are right, I should not be thinking of it anymore but still the death of a loved one. For they that remain, the wounds grow deeper and deeper. They that remain grow weaker and weaker. An agony incomparable, their hearts that is in bondage. It is something like a bullet that slain into your hear.”

Skittles was so amaze of what his friend has said. “You truly has the knowledge of our Godfather, our Godfather has not mistaken on which to entrust you our family rather than to his greedy right hand man. And I am honored to meet you”

Epic smiled at his best friend and nod “Let’s go my brother, I think our father is waiting for us, you are here because he tells you to look for me am I right.”

“Oh yes I forgot all about that lets go now he is looking for you I think there is something he wanted to say to you.” Skittles Nodded.

To Be Continued....