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CHAPTER 13
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THE FLESH OF PROPHECY
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ELLEN
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The king of the North was just as shocked as I was to see Kieran open his eyes and pull himself up and I wasn’t surprised to see him look at his wizard with rage in his eyes. Kieran shouldn’t be alive at all and more importantly I shouldn’t be able to sense his gift as he had released them in a complicated spell that should have killed him but he is alive and his gift was intact, how? His burnt skin was a gory sight and he was still bleeding from his cuts and wounds. He must be on his final strength and shouldn’t be standing but that was what he just did. He struggled to his feet with his clothes filled with holes and tattered. He struggled to remain on his feet and danced from one leg to another as though he was filled with wine. He managed to steady himself and seemed confused at where he was and the aura around him was quite weak, I wondered how he plans to defend himself from the attacks of the King of the North who doesn’t seem too happy to see him with such a weak gift.


The king didn’t wait for Kieran to get himself before attacking him with a venomous cursed flames that hissed as it moved from its creator towards Kieran. I have never seen such kind before, fire that hissed. Why the king see Kieran as an enemy was quite surprising to me but then, he probably doesn’t want to make the same mistake Lucien did by giving room for his rival to live this long. The hissing flames came close to Kieran and I expected him to hurl it back as he usually does but he was finding difficult to do that, probably due to his weak gift. He quickly created a shield around himself but the flames hit him and he fell backwards to the floor. He screamed of intense pain as he fell on his back to the ground, the flames still wasn’t done as it turned around and continued towards Kieran after being pushed back by the shield. Kieran saw it coming and spoke some words to the air and then a strong wind rushed from the east and pushed back the flames towards its creator. The king put out the flames when it was very close to it and quickly got himself out of the way to avoid the wind which was strange.


Lucien was able to stop Kieran’s wind attack the other time, why is the King unable to despite having the same gift Lucien had inside of him. Also, Kieran was unable to redirect the attack of the King but instead tried to protect himself and when that didn’t work, he countered the flames with something of his own. What would have caused that? Does it mean that Kieran and the King have different dimensions of both sides of the gift that do not meet but work against each other? Does that mean that Lucien was the wrong vessel to have housed that gift and the true owner is the king which explains why his cursed flames is far more powerful than that of Lucien’s despite being the same gift that initiated both? My head was starting to ring in pains as I tried to explain what was happening.


The King who didn’t look surprised from what Kieran did stretched out his arms and immediately, Kieran started screaming from pains I didn’t understand. I became afraid from the increasing screams that didn’t seem to stop; Kieran was shouting and scratching his already horrible skin. He would hold his neck now and then move to his back, then his leg. Whatever spell the king was carrying out seemed to be affecting the inside of his body, probably his blood. The king seemed to know what he was doing because soon after his recent attack, Kieran lost focus as he tried to stop the pains and opened himself to more attacks as his shield fell apart. The king saw this and quickly hurl another hissing flame to Kieran but Kieran despite his pains never stopped thinking and saw that he couldn’t win this fight in his weak state and did what Lucien did with me by attacking Melfisius sending forth a powerful lightening towards him. The king was strangely able to see the lightening and created a strange wall in front of his wizard just before the lightning struck which made turn his focus from Kieran.


As soon as he was free, Kieran made the ground shake with so much force, it cracked and the walls of the court crumbled which created a sort of separation between him and the King. He turned to me and I could see the pains he just passed through had nearly turned him mad because his eyes were very red and I could see tears falling from them. I quickly ran to him and helped him to his feet but he was more than prepared as he took hold of my right arm instead, which surprised me because he looked like he was already dying. He took me and ran towards the outer court of the palace and while we ran, I heard the deep voice of the King of the North uttering some strange words,


“You have always been a coward, Ethan Stones. You might be the first and the last elemental but you don’t fare better than an ordinary wizard in a fight. You have always sought for the easy way out but know this, I will find you and I will avenge what you took from me. There will be no hiding place for you as I am now King of both kingdoms and I will have all I need to find you.”


Kieran continued running towards a particular section of the palace and opened a door that led to the stables. He dragged himself into a house and asked me to sit behind me. He hit the beautiful white horse and instead of riding through the route to the palace gates, he took a different path that took him around the outer court and then he turned towards a little gate at the far west of the court. We emerged into a certain path that looked like it was rarely used. We continued down the route till the morning and then emerged at the path that leads to the forgotten land. I was shocked and wondered how he knew where the stables were and the path. I had a lot of questions for him but I was much more worried about his body that was still bleeding and looked decayed.


“I shouldn’t have gone but something kept pushing me to. Now, I have unleashed another evil on the earth. I didn’t even get to kill the man I wanted to.” I heard him murmur to himself.


“Who is Ethan Stones?” I asked after I noticed he
was beginning to talk.


“He was the first elemental, a man so blessed by the good spirits; he was given the powers of the creation to stop evil. He did more than just that, that man is the same you now ride with.” He replied. If that man is Kieran, then he is surely a reincarnation, just as the King of the North.


“Do you know the King?”


“He was my rival and the only one whom I found difficult to take down then. He was the leader of the golden ones who towed the evil path. I took his gift and sent it to the underworld for eternity as that was the only way I could defeat me. Doing that cost me my life but I was glad I had accomplished my goal but now it seems that is not the case which is why I am here to finish what I started. I should have known that Anna didn’t properly interpret the riddle from my daughter. His name is Eugune the first and he has a broken destiny to fulfill.”

He said that and fell back towards me. The talking must have taken a toll on him, I still don’t know how he still breathes but we still need to get to the forgotten lands quickly where I can safely heal him.
The light that left his body then must have been the other spirit so that his gift which is actually the spirit of Ethan Stones will merge fully with this body which explains why he is still alive. The king of the North, who is actually Eugune the first used Nero and Melfisius to get back his gift which was banished to the underworld. He has been planning this for a long time and must have trusted the spirits to send back his arch enemy in Kieran. Well, he has what he wanted and not just that, but two huge kingdoms to himself. Kieran didn’t actually avenge anyone; he only made it possible for the one with the broken destiny to return in full strength. It seems their destinies are intertwined and this looks more just than a prophecy, it’s a fight between good and evil. A fight between the good spirits and the one who rules the underworld. It’s a fight I have no interest with, my only interest lies with the man leaning helplessly on my breasts, the strange man I have come to love.

..... THE END?

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... .... I know that there are still so many unanswered questions but all that will be looked into in the second installment. I had to conclude this way because I didn't want to drag the story for too long as the headaches have intensified in the last few days. I have to reduce my work load, I am sorry about that...
... But the good news is that, the first installment of the wolf series is almost ready and like I promised, I will be starting another story soon. Thanks for your comment, likes and prayers. I love you all.

...... It's your favorite supernatural writer, Solomon Brown signing out. Peace....

..... ... Sorry guy about the lack of updates. I will post a lengthy one tomorrow that should see the end of the story. Thanks for your comment and likes...

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ELLEN
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I wasn’t sure of how he plans to defeat three gordands at once and a king who is said to be very deadly in combat. I didn’t like the way he applauded Kieran’s exploits of killing four of his women, that was no small feat and I wondered myself how he learnt to use the sword the way he just did. The way he moved and his quick decisions to incapacitate the first two was what only experienced foot soldiers could do but Kieran was no soldier and hunters do not use swords in chasing games in the wild. If I had any doubts that he must have been a swords man at one point in his life, his next moves confirmed everything. The manner the next two gordands charged towards him scared even me but Kieran was calm and he performed a simple but very complicated trick that involves a lot of energy. I was scared of him losing steam just before the main battle as he has been using a lot from his gift which should be telling on his body by now, it seems his rage is what is still pushing him on.
Still, his accuracy and timing to move his sharp weapons across the throat of his enemies showed not just experience but perfection from not just the use of swords but also from killing humans and not games. Beasts do not stand at such heights like that of his assailants, something is certainly wrong somewhere.


Some of the things he did especially the one where he had to pick sand and blow to the wind were spells I have never heard or seen done before. It didn’t even look like a spell, it seemed like he was calling forth to those elements. Which also reminds me of the fact that all of his attacks since we met have always been elemental, he has never used normal spells and enchantments. The power behind his attacks were quite unusual, is Kieran an Elemental too? People of his powers are no more and not one who can control and manipulate even one of the elements the way he does has been born for generations now. But if he was also an elemental, mother would have known about it, after all she watched him for years and she would have known if he was a swords man too.


Regardless of his unusual gifts, no unlearned person especially one who just had his gifts unlocked should be able to carry out such difficult and complicated moves that involves series of spells and spells. The way he carries them out was like one who has done this over and over again. It doesn’t make any sense but then, the gift inside him was unusual too, so that being inside him the controlling him? Still, something cannot control one to carry out things he hasn’t done before with so much precision, who exactly is Kieran?


I put Kieran aside and tried to think of a way to help in whatever he had in mind for the king and his wall. He held my right arm but I knew he wouldn’t be able to do much if he has me in mind. I pulled my arm away from him and tried to think of something, probably, I will use the invisibility trick on the gordands if they attack us but that didn’t happen. Kieran was waiting eagerly for them to attack but that didn’t happen as the king used his experience and instead focused on me rather than his rival. He sent one of the deadliest and dreaded things in the world of magic to me – the cursed flames. I didn’t know how I was supposed to evade such as Kieran will be preoccupied with trying to stop the charge of Vanessa but instead of facing his own fight, he came to my rescue which was lovely but equally stupid as that opened him to the attack of Vanessa. I thought she would be a little lenient on him as they were once lovers and also, Kieran saved her life but I was wrong. She cut him so deep into his abdomen that I thought his intestines would fall out but they didn’t. Despite her clear intents to incapacitate or kill her former lover, Kieran was only able to hit her head with his sword as he must have been surprised at what Vanessa just did to him.


The king had found a weakness in Kieran and it was me, so he continued to focus his attacks on me and Kieran kept taking the bait and kept coming to my aid and kept opening himself up to attacks from ones more vicious than his former lover. They attacked him relentlessly until they forced him to his knees with him drenched in his own blood. I didn’t know what to do anymore because the only who could protect me from them was on the floor and it was no surprise that immediately Kieran was where they wanted him to be, the traitor came after me smiling from ear to ear. I couldn’t use magic against her and my pony trick might not work since their king was getting closer to where Kieran was. When she was just a few metres from me, Kieran suddenly stood to his feet like nothing was wrong with him and held Vanessa from coming any closer by pulling her hair. She screamed and her fellow women came to her aid by cutting through Kieran like he was a game. He returned to his previous position and I wondered why he even bothered to stand up in the first place as he only made Vanessa angry. She hurried her steps and was about to drag me when she was stopped by an invincible wall, she tried again but the same thing happened. She was beyond shocked to discover that magic could actually work against her. I was surprised myself and wondered how Kieran could have carried out something like that as quickly as he did, what sort of shield did he put around me that even works against beings such as gordands? I have never heard of something like that before so how come Kieran knows about something like that.


The king himself was surprised but then he thought he had had it with Kieran and sought to finish him once and for all as he was already bleeding to his death. As I watched the king walk closer to Kieran, I realized that I had failed in my duty to stop Kieran from doing what he has just failed to do as well as protect him. I couldn’t even stop an attack, I have only turned out to be his weakness and if I wasn’t here, maybe he would have had his vengeance. I wept as the king got closer to put an end to the only man I had ever fallen in love with but suddenly, I felt the weak aura of Kieran change and then it seemed like his gift was leaving his body on its own without anything calling it out. I was wrong, it wasn’t leaving, it was changing to something else. Kieran’s gift was turning into some kind of attack, no a powerful beam of light. The one that is called the light of creation, a light that destroys and as well as creates. If Kieran was going to unleash his light, it means he was ready to die just to make sure the people behind the death of his family walk in the underworld and not the world of the living. I tried to stop him but failed as the light surged out from every part of his skin and caused a thunderous sound that went deep into the foundations of the palace. The gordands with him were taken off their feet as well as the king. I turned to find Vanessa but I couldn’t see her. The walls of the inner court cracked and some broke to pieces but the shield around me held. If the shield still holds, then it means that Kieran still breathes despite the fact that his body was horrible to look at as he was the first casualty of what he called forth. The king was lying still on the floor with the other gordands too. I tried to move but discovered I couldn’t because of the shield, I looked around me there was nothing but death and destruction brought about by a single man.


I sat on the floor and hoped for Kieran to wake up but I doubted if that would ever happen. After a while, I heard footsteps and it revealed to be the feet of the king of the North and his wizard, Melfisius. What were they doing here? They looked around and saw that I was the only one awake, the wizard immediately tried to hurt me but it didn’t work because of the shield. He realized he couldn’t as well as I wasn’t a threat and so he walked towards Kieran. He shook his head after touching him and quickly they left him and went for the body of the king who was still lying still. They dragged his body to a corner of the court and then the wizard drew a circle around Lucien’s body and then put candles around the circle. He lit the candles and just as they were about to begin their ritual, Lucien opened his eyes. I was shocked I thought he was dead but he wasn’t. He tried to get up but something held him back. Then I heard the king of the North say something about taking what belonged to him in the first place. Lucien was surprised and tried to get himself from the strange hold but that didn’t work. The wizard drew a circle too after the other king laid on the floor beside Lucien. He didn’t put candles around him this time but instead brought out a book and started calling out some strange words.


After a while, Lucien who was screaming to be released started screaming of pain as his body started shaking furiously. The wizard continued and then slowly, a white light started leaving Lucien’s body in the form of a man and moved towards the king of the North. As the light moved, Lucien’s screams became even more agonizing but they soon stopped as soon as the light entered into the King’s body. Another thunderous sound similar to that of Kieran’s happened, followed by lightening and then the king stood up. He was on all smiles but the they disappeared when Kieran suddenly opened his eyes. How is he still alive?

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.. Alright, just a few more chapters to the end of story. Another is coming and this time it will be a setting in Nigeria. Watch out for that as well as for the first installment of the wolf series...
.. .. Sorry about any errors in this update, I didn't really proof read.......

Oladim001:
@solomonbrown64, so i'm not important thats why you ignored my post abi, you cannot reply well done oo.
Thanks for the update. I noted somethings.
1. You didn't introduce those two gordonds well at all. If you wanted to give them names, then you should have named the others as well. It doesnt seem right.
2. You said 'the gordonds looked AT with fear in their eyes'. The AT shouldn't be there and if it should, then there should be 'me' after the 'at'. Also you said 'how IS she still alive. And you've been narrating with past tense, why would you use present tense.
All in all thanks for the update.

[b]... Ola, you won't kill with laugh... Anyway, I reply those who seldom comment so that they will do more of that, shey you understand?... It's not that I ignored you, I replied your question yesterday na... If I don't reply a comment, I press the like button... No put am for mind, lol.... You be my padi na...
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... To your first question, I don't want to reveal everything now because I do have the intention of rewriting each book I post on nairaland and then publish them later, so I deliberately skip some characters or briefly introduce them. I didn't mention the names of the other four gordonds because they were of no interest to Nyasa, Kieran, Lucien and the reason they were fighting in the first place, you get my point? Kieran is out for vengeance and he wants the persons responsible for the death of family killed, the other gordonds don't count, except Celine, Cara and Nyasa. If you have followed my stories closely, you will see notice that pattern of me deliberately skipping characters and facing the main plot...
.... To your second question; it's the way I write. I switch between tenses to make it seem as though the person has experienced what he/she is relaying in his/her point of view to make for better reading. If you read carefully, you will notice that the present tense started when Kieran entered the inner court. Which means the King was only relaying what happened before then. I will amend some of the things you pointed... Thanks for heads up.... [/b]

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... ... Lol... No die yet oh...

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LUCIEN
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If only I didn’t need this old man, he would have been walking in the underworld a long time ago. Sometimes, he seems to forget I am the king and he is only an adviser and therefore I can decide to do what I want with his so called words of wisdom. This time, I didn’t even ask for any of such words of wisdom or whatever, I only called him to carry out a task for me but he suddenly remembered his duty. The other time, he was busy looking into what was not his concern and when he knew he was going nowhere, he suddenly remembered he had a duty to his king. Since he was quite interested in the outcome of the battle and somehow been able to see the hundreds of people die, I ordered him to lead the first charge towards the city wall and I would follow closely behind later. He bowed and left my presence to begin the first strike against the might of the North.


I actually decided against going towards the North because for some reason, the gift I stole from the hunter’s daughter suddenly started working after all this time. I had this uneasy feeling about leading the assault against the North and since my father got himself killed doing the same thing I was about to do, I stayed in the palace with six of my gordands. Something was going to happen sooner or later to me, so it’s wiser and safer for to be in my palace where I have the advantage of both magic and steel.


I waited patiently for whatever was coming throughout the whole day but nothing happened but the feeling remained. I managed to sleep with my gordands watching me. I woke up with a start; I knew what was chasing me. The hunter was back from the forgotten lands and he was coming for me. The Aura from him was quite powerful and filled with rage. He must have found out the way his family was killed as that could be the only reason why he was filled with so much rage. He must be quite determined and even a battalion will be unable to stop him. I got up immediately from my bed and washed myself before putting on my royal robes for battle. My gordands were surprised at my dressing but I just ignored them and ordered them to get the experienced ones who were quite gifted and foot soldiers to guard the entrance to the palace. Deep down, I knew they wouldn’t be enough to stop this man coming as his rage knew no bounds and as someone who wields the same gift as he was, I knew that to be true.


I waited patiently in my court for the man to arrive and the morning came and went yet he wasn’t here. Afternoon came too and passed but the man was yet to arrive yet I could still feel his rage from where I was. I told the men at the gates of the palace to stand their ground but I didn’t need to because as soon as it was nightfall, we are heard lightening ripped through some men outside. Immediately, the wall of steel and flesh moved closer to me. I could feel his aura more closely now and I could tell that he was the one who just summoned the lightening. We awaited his next move to take out the men in the outer yard and it came in a marvelous way. I felt the ground shake with so much force; it made cracks along the walls of my court. The gordands looked at me with fear in their eyes as they have never experienced magic like this before but they had more reason to fear as the next attack made them hold hands together and prayed to the good spirits. I never actually knew they still prayed. The next attack after the earth moving one was a wind so powerful it caused some of the parts of my beautiful palace to collapse. If the wind could destroy stones and rocks, it was no surprise what it did to the humans at the outer yard. Their screams were everything one could only imagine and soon everything died down. There was silence and quiet and when I didn’t hear anything for quite some time, I sent the foot soldiers with me to see what was happening. They didn’t come back as I heard lightening and then agonizing screams.


The gordands stetched to cover me as we awaited the hunter and he came with a very beautiful woman. I wonder why he brought the woman but I was even more surprised when I saw Nyasa behind him. How was she still alive? If he was truly out for vengeance, why would he spare the woman that hung his wife?
He was with a sword as he knew he couldn’t fight the gordands with Magic. He moved back and then I felt his aura change, he was about to perform a spell and somehow I was able to know that he wanted to shake the ground. I stopped the spell by doing the same thing he was about to do, the ground didn’t shake and same thing happened to the spell of the wind. He was frustrated and so decided to use his sword, two of the gordands went after him but he took care of them easily. Another set charged towards and he slit their throats like they were sheep on the slaughter table. I was enraged by what he just did but also astonished at his clinical moves. This was a hunter not a swordsman and even if he was the latter, most cannot match one of the gordands but he put down four without doing much.


The remaining two were wise to remain with me and Nyasa who was nearly blinded by the man joined me. I applauded his effort but I had enough of the killings, it was time to put an end to all of this. I decided against using magic against him but instead watch him waste valuable energy. He was fighting through his rage and despite all of what he has displayed; he was still yet to be one with his gift. The only way to defeat him was to focus our attacks on the woman with him, which will distract him and allow the gordands put their rage on him. I began by sending both the cursed flames and ordinary fire towards the woman. Immediately, I did, Nyasa charged towards him. He stood in front of the woman and soon as the flames touched him, they were extinguished. He left her to fight off Nyasa but before he could counter her attack, I sent lightening towards her. This was a lightening, simple witches such the woman with him couldn’t stop and he knew and once again went in front of her. That distraction was enough for Nyasa, the best fighter among the gordands to strike him across his lower abdomen. He countered back by striking her forehead with the hilt of his sword but the damage had been done as he was already bleeding.


The cut was deep as he staggered back to his feet after hitting Nyasa. I call forth Lightening from the underworld and hurled it towards the woman, and this time the rest of the gordands followed. He stopped the lightening from killing the woman and opened himself to another strike from Nyasa, who was already on her feet. She struck her knife across the arm that held his sword and that enabled the other two to attack him without any hindrance. Celine struck at his cock to bring him down while Cara gave me a kick to his bleeding stomach which brought him to his knees in grunts and pains. He should never have brought a child to the arena where men battled. Nyasa smiled and went after the powerless woman but the hunter reacted quickest and rose to his feet to pull Nyasa back by dragging her hair. She screamed in pain but the other two came to her rescue by drawing their knives across his back and thighs. He quickly released the woman but somehow when Nyasa went towards the woman, she couldn’t seem to touch the woman. Magic doesn’t work on them so why would a shield made of magic prevent Nyasa from doing what she wanted with the woman?


I left the woman and focused on the weak hunter who was now at my mercy. His rage wasn’t enough to give him his vengeance. I moved closer to him as Celine held a knife across his throat and Cara kept playing with the deep cut on his arm with her knife.


“You failed to save your family and once again you failed to get them vengeance, what a failure of a man. A man as yourself shouldn’t be alive.” I said as I gazed into his eyes but instead of frowning, he smiled. He spat out blood and then suddenly I realized why he sent a shield so powerful it surpassed the spell on the gordands, he was about to release his light. I wasn’t fast enough to erect a shield before he release his gift in the form of a light so powerful, no lightening could be compared to it. The foundations of my palace were shaken and then I felt something move through me which made me fall to the ground.

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I woke up later to pains all over my body, I tried to get up but I couldn’t as some powerful force held me down. I saw candles lit around me which made realize I was in some sort of circle. I heard footsteps approach and then a familiar face was staring right into my eyes.


“It’s time to take back what was rightfully mine, young king.” The king of the North said. Where exactly am I, I asked myself.

Oladim001:
@solomonbrown64, please you need to tell us when to expect the next update. Before it was once a day, now its very confusing. I hope you get better. Expecting more updates...

... .... I will update tomorrow... Am sorry for not doing so today... Thanks for the wishes...

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ANNA
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I should have known, I should have known. Oh dear spirits, I have failed in my duty as mother guardian. I have watched anarchy and chaos slowly build up under my nose and now, they are now in the flesh. How blind could I have been to the glaring signs the good spirits deemed fit to show me but I never saw them. Rachel was the seed planted by that king whom I know isn’t truly who he claims to be. How Nero died now seems clearer, he was killed by the one he betrayed.


There were rumours that they were both working on necromancy but I thought it to be just hearsay as the abilities to carry out such things were no longer in the living. But now, I wished I had given more thoughts to such ‘hearsay.’ Nero and the king were not just working together through his proxy; Melfisius, to break the hold on the ungifted, they were also working on bringing back the spirit of one of those who had both sides of the gift from centuries ago. Now, the spell was complicated and almost impossible to carry out, but the question I keep asking myself is why something like that could cross any of their minds, except if they had the perfect vessel to put that spirit. A reincarnation would have sufficed but what if the original body of that spirit never actually died; what if we have been fooled all this time that they were working on some spell when what was actually going on was putting back what should remain separated for good reasons?


Nero must have found out about this and saw the enormous power the king of the North will possess and smartly deposited the spirit in his unborn child for safe keeping. Of course, the spirit wasn’t meant for his vessel and he won’t be able to access the full powers of the spirit. Which explains why his gift isn’t balanced and why he has been trying ever since to even the scale. Now, if that were to be true, then Kieran’s balanced gifts will suggest that the spirit and his vessel are one. It will suggest that Kieran has walked this earth before in the time of the golden generation. This means that the good spirits sent Kieran to stop the original owner of the vessel which is the King of the North as he is said to be ungifted. He wasn’t sent to stop Lucien and him fighting the mad king will pave the path for the original vessel to come take what’s rightfully is. Oh dear, how blind have I truly been?


This was what I was assigned to stop but I have let happen. It’s too late to stop Kieran now as he must be in the south already. The king of the North must have been planning this for a long time now and must have used the prophecy to guide himself till this point. I should have seen through his request to have one of his gifted ones trained by us. He actually sent her to carry out his evil plans.


I heard someone enter my Chambers and turned to see Claudia locking the doors behind her.


“Mother, why did you allow him leave?” she asked.


“All that is happening is beyond just the thirst for vengeance. What is happening now has been foretold a long time ago. Two of the golden destinies from time past live amidst us as we speak.”

“Yes, we have two golden ones in the persons of Lucien and Kieran, but…………”


“No, there is another who has been alive long before Kieran and Lucien were born.”


“Another? Why haven’t we heard of him or sense his gift all this time?”


“That’s because his gift was taken from him but now he will have it back from the one that shouldn’t have housed it in the first place.”
She looked confused after what I said,


“Lucien’s gift was unlocked after whatever his father did to him; therefore the gift in him is his and his alone. How can his gift be for another?”


“You are wrong in what you just said. No one born in this generation will ever have his or her ungifted spirit ever unlocked by any spell or ritual. It’s impossible, I know that because the gift in Kieran is that of a spirit; the spirit from his previous life on this earth. The king of the North is something else as he has somehow managed to keep himself alive all these years waiting for one who has the special abilities of Necrocmacy to walk this Earth again. He found that person in Nero and he got him to do the work of bringing his locked spirit from the Underworld, which Nero was able to do. But instead of putting the powerful spirit in the right vessel, Nero kept it in his unborn son, which account for the unbalanced gift in Lucien.”


“You mean the king of the North is immortal?”


“He probably is, we can’t be certain.” “So, what does this all means?” she asked. This was the reason why I preferred discussing such things with Ellen, she is far more intelligent than any guardian here, except probably Rachel.


“It simply means I failed to see the unseen game that couldn’t be killed. I failed in my duty to prevent another tyrant from continuing from where Nero and his son stopped. Kieran was sent to stop this man and not Lucien. This man is actually the flesh of prophecy and not Kieran. There are actually two reincarnations in him and Kieran; one knows already but the other doesn’t. I thought Kieran was the broken destiny but now I know he is not; the king is the broken destiny while Kieran is the sword of vengeance. Kieran is a vengeful soul from the good spirits but the mystery question is who this broken man is from?”

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NYASA
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From the day that witch took Kieran and prevented me from having my way with him; he has been quite distant from me. His visits have become less and less, now he barely looks at me when we meet. Most times, I see him at the garden but I couldn’t be there with him as he is always in a foul mood at that time of the day. He smiles and laughs when he is with either of those witches but when it is night, he becomes something else. Nevertheless, his avoidance didn’t stop me from watching him grow in both power and rage. I could feel his aura from afar and it was beautiful as it usually makes the air crackle. He was becoming too close to the other witch and most times, I see them in each other’s arms. They looked more like lovers than teacher and student. I was angry that another took my man right under my nose but my rage soon changed to fear as I knew that the woman knows of how Kieran’s family were murdered. I feared that she might tell him and that would cause him to hate me forever and even kill me. She could do that to erase me as a rival for her lover that’s if she sees me as one. She is beautiful but I am too, though she might be taller with more flesh around her hips but I have more flesh on my chest than hers. There is something about me that just makes men want me and Kieran was no exception, I was positive he would return to me but that didn’t happen as my fears came to pass.


The moment I felt the change in aura, I knew that she must have told him how I made sure his wife was hung from a tree. How I watched as two of Lucien’s men fvcked the life out of his wife. How I watched as Lucien took the light out of his daughter after her horrifying screams and agonies. I heard the voices of the other witches, I didn’t want to come out for fear that I was the cause of this change in him but when I didn’t hear anything again, I changed my mind. I left my room for the space down of the quarters when I saw him arguing with that witch. He was close to a horse and his bags were on it, was he leaving without me? I walked through the other witches who have decided to watch the hunter and his lover trade words back and forth. As I got closer to him, his rage seemed to go closer to its release like a dried wood expecting the tiny lights from the strike of two stones. I knew there and then that I was the cause of the rage and I was certain after the wood caught one of the lights and it caught flames.


Lightening like nothing I have seen or felt before descended on me the moment he set his eyes on me. If I wasn’t a gordand, I would have been roasted before I could bring up a shield. The strike didn’t hurt me but it was viscous enough to sweep off my feet. I fell back into the guardians’ close by who quickly let go off me as soon as they could. It was really strange that the lightening didn’t harm anyone of them but just focused on me. That just showed how much Kieran wants me in the underworld. He left after I didn’t die from the strike and the witch followed him. I know he hates me now more than Lucien but I still have a duty to do, I must protect my master as I was certain that’s where he was headed. I rushed to the stables and followed the witch before the huge gate closes as I had no magic to open it.


Kieran rode all day and barely had a rest in the night, he was so eager to avenge the death of his family; he cared less about his own safety. He looked at me with malicious intents but he couldn’t kill me, not with magic. The witch tried really hard to convince to change his mind but it didn’t work. She slept later on but I couldn’t as I knew what would happen if I did. He stared into the fire after he took his gaze from me and I saw few tears drop from his eyes. I hated myself that moment and I knew he would feel the same way towards himself as he now knows that he fvcked the woman who killed his wife.


He went back to the path that leads to the south and by afternoon, he stopped his charge because right in front of us was an army of steel and magic. Elphisius was leading them and he promptly told Kieran to turn back and return the way he came. Kieran did after a little resistance but I knew it was just a move from him to make the men feel calm and relaxed. The man I saw crying with a lot of rage burning in him will rather die than return without the head of Lucien in his arms. Elphisius and his men were fooled by what Kieran did and unsurprisingly, he turned back and did what I have never seen done before, not even Lucien has done such. He made the ground shake without stretching out his arms or reciting any spells like other wizards do. The men on foot fell but those on horses were able to hold on. Elphisius sent the cursed flames towards Kieran and my sisters immediately surrounded him to protect him from the hunter’s next attacks which took place immediately. Kieran returned the flames to its creator and almost immediately, another lightening strike similar to the one he summoned on me followed the flames.


The wall of my sisters protecting the old wizard prevented him from being killed and when the attacks returned to Kieran after they couldn’t go through the magical barrier, he turned them towards the men who were foolishly charging towards him. Kieran was ruthless and brutal and he showed a glimpse of what he might do to me after he must have been through with Lucien by causing the ground to shake once more and sending forth a powerful wind that brought down my sisters to the ground. He charged towards Elphisius but instead he lingered on the gordands and I knew he was looking for the rest of us who were there when his family was killed. They weren’t there and soon he turned his rage towards the old wizard but the witch saved the man’s life. He turned away from the wizard and rode through the army who knew better than to do anything stupid. He didn’t stop and got into the kingdom and reached the palace just after the sun left for the moon. The guards who were at the gate received the wrath of the hunter. He got down from his horse to see another army of both steel and magic waiting for him. These men looked more determined than the men with Elphisius and were ready to die for their king. Lucien must have sensed the aura of the hunter to have this people waiting for him.


“Kieran, don’t do this. These men know nothing about the tragedy that befell your family. If you do this, then you are no different from the man you seek to kill.” Ellen said but as usual, Kieran ignored her and continued with his onslaught. He moved back a little and for the first time, he used his hands to initiate some kind of spell. He down to his knees and picked a handful of sands and then robbed them all over his hands and then he blew the remaining into the wind.


Instantly, the ground shook more violently then I remembered and a wind so powerful, it cut through the huge walls of the palace like it was made of wood ran through the men. It cut them in all forms and after a while, what once stood as a host of men became nothing but blood and flesh. He walked through them and blasted anyone he saw heading his way with a weapon in hand with lightening. He walked through the palace and when he got close to where Lucien was, he took a sword from one of the dead soldiers and waited for the witch before charging through the shields that prevents anyone without the consent of the King from passing through. I walked through it as magic doesn’t affect me. I saw him stop and stared at the wall of gordands around Lucien. Two of my sisters who were there with him that day were with Lucien. His rage rose to a whole new level when he saw them and immediately, he tried the trick he has been doing by shaking the ground and summoning winds but it didn’t work as it seemed Lucien countered it with something else. Kieran gave that up and charged with his sword towards the women, I tried to stop him this time but he gave me an elbow to my right eye that almost blinded me.


Two of the women came after him but it wasn’t the ones he was after. He countered the first attack from the gordand with his sword and kicked the lower stomach of the other one, making her stop in her stride. The one he countered came at him with her knife once more but he countered once again with much more force, pushing her knife to her body rather than his and quickly sliced her throat with another knife that I didn’t see with him earlier. He ran through the other one with his sword after she seemed to find it difficult to stand after that kick from Kieran. He must have broken some of her ribs. Two others left their master’s side and screamed, charging rather foolishly towards Kieran after seeing two of their own killed. Kieran watched them come and when they were close he disappeared and then appeared almost immediately in their middle, slicing their throat at the same time. Foolish of them to come charging at him at the same time. The two he wanted stayed with their master and I joined them too. We were the four who remained of the six who murdered his family.

Lucien stood up from where he had been sitting on his throne all this time and clapped for Kieran, I suppose.


"Well, playtime is over; it’s time to do what I should have done a long time ago.” He said.

Kieran smiled and stretched his left hand out for the witch to join him.


“Let me be your sword of vengeance.” I heard him say to her before facing Lucien. It was time to see who would win but as it stands, Kieran had the disadvantage.


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CHAPTER 12
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ELFISIUS
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Trying to steer a mule to the right track can be very tedious but when the necessary force is applied, it goes where it is commanded. In my own case, I tried to show Lucien the way but his stubbornness is nothing compared to that of a mule. He refused to listen to my pleas of diplomacy rather than brute force. I know it’s been a while since he got involved in a battle and his gift must be probably yearning for one, but trying to burn down a kingdom just because of that is not the way to go. He has always wanted to take control of the North just as his father but that greed brought a man so powerful to the grave and I don’t why he thinks his case will be different. How Nero died exactly is still a mystery as many said that someone whom we do not know for certain turned one of his spells against him. Lucien believes that strange person is no other than Melfisius; a man who could be called Nero’s flesh and blood. Lucien believes his father was betrayed by one he called brother and has vowed to get him any chance he got. He has one now and he has dedicated a few of the gordands to bring him back in chains.


If he has just the intention of getting just the wizard then he should carry that out quietly rather than kill so many innocents because of a single man. My words weren’t deem worthy of listening to and so he ordered for the men of steel and quite a number of the gifted ones. I expected him to lead the charge after all of his words of rage and all but instead he decided to stay in his palace and ordered my old bones to carry out his evil plans. I was surprised at his decision to stay in the palace, why doesn’t he want to lead the charge? Why stay behind if he was so eager to taste blood again or is he trying to avoid what happened to his father? If that is the case, then it’s a wise choice from him. I decided to put the young king and his strange decisions aside and carry out the task at hand.


It took nearly a day for the legions of steel to get ready with their commanders taking charge of their divisions. I summoned the best of the gifted ones available as some didn’t see any sense in wrecking havoc on a little kingdom because a child said so. Of course, they wouldn’t say such in the presence of the ‘child’ as a single stare from him will make them change their minds but I allowed them stay and went with the ones who wanted to go. We left the next morning matching towards the North and by nightfall, we should be working to pulling down the high walls of the kingdom. I wasn’t comfortable with what I was about to do but then the foolish king didn’t help himself by going after the one man that could end Lucien. it was an unnecessary move and at the end, it didn’t work out as he thought it would and now his subjects will pay for his stupidity. A party to plead on his behalf should have been sent but Lucien would have demanded for the head of Melfisius, something the king might be hesitant to give. I wish I could help here but this was beyond me and I am bound to obey my king.


We were just one town away from the little kingdom when I suddenly felt the powerful aura of a gifted one as I couldn’t say for certain if he was a wizard or a sorcerer but I could tell it was from a man. The aura was all about rage, in its purest form. A rage that couldn’t be compared to that of all the gifted ones with me which includes myself. I heard murmuring among the gifted with me; they must have felt the aura too. Even the gordands looked worried; whoever was coming had no joy in him.
I calmed the nerves of the gifted with me and ordered them to hold their tongue in order not to unsettle the soldiers. I urged us to continue our march towards the North, the wizards and sorcerers didn’t look convinced but they obeyed me anyway. The aura kept coming closer and closer and finally it revealed itself to be the other golden destiny who managed to escape from me. I was surprised to see him and stopped my horse and the others followed my lead. What was he after that led him towards our way? Was he going after Lucien? I waited for him to stop his charge and he did. There was a woman behind him and then another woman too was with him. The last woman was Nyasa, Lucien’s favorite gordand.


“Where are you headed, young man.” I asked the enraged man.
“Kieran, please don’t do this. Let’s go back; I don’t want to lose you too.” The strange woman with him said but he ignored what she said and answered my question.


“I am here for Lucien, where is he?” he asked.


“What arrogance! I will pretend I didn’t see you. Do as the young woman said and return from whence you came.” I replied him


“Leave my way, old man. I won’t say it again.” He told me. I laughed and repeated what I earlier said and he did as I said. He turned his horse around and then rode back where he came. I thought he had gone until he suddenly turned around and charged towards me and my men. I stood my ground and my men did the same. When he was close to me, I felt the ground rumble and the sky darkened. The sudden rumble of the ground knocked the soldiers off their feet but those on horses managed to hold on. I wondered how he was able to do it, but I will find the answer to that later. I sent forth some men towards him but a lightning strike went through them and turned them to burnt flesh. This man had every intention to do as he said. The gifted ones among me were scared to attack which forced me to respond with the cursed flames. Immediately, I did that, the gordands with me surrounded me with their horses to protect me from the attacks of the man. The hunter stopped my cursed flames and hurled it back towards me and then added a powerful lightening strike to it. I didn’t see the lightening coming as my focus was on the flames. If it hadn’t been for the gordands, I would have been dead.


His attacks went back towards him as they couldn’t seem to penetrate the gordands. He once again sent them towards my men who were charging towards him. Their screams of agony pierced my heart as the unfortunate ones hit by the flames burned to the ground. His strange ability to redirect attacks made it impossible for me to think of anything to use to harm him. I had to think of something quickly before he finds a way to get to me but nothing came to my head. Facing him was just like facing Lucien only that he had so much rage burning in him. How long before he manages to get the women away from me. My answer was given quickly as he once again caused the ground to shake and then a wind came from the north and swept us off our feet. He charged towards me after that and then stopped when he got to me. He looked at the gordands with me for a while. He didn’t seem to find what he was looking for and then turned his attention to me.


“That’s enough, Kieran. You have your passage way now, there is no need for any more killings.” The strange woman said again. He stared at me for a while before continuing on his journey towards the south. I thought of getting up to follow him but I knew that I wouldn’t last long with him. Lucien can take care of himself as he has an army of both steel and magic and the walls of the gordands to protect him from this mad man. Moreover, they both carried the same powers, the match was balanced.

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“Melfisius, it’s time to carry out the final part of the plan. Ask Rachel to lead our attacks towards the men from the north. You and I need to follow the hunter to the palace of the mad king. It’s time to take get what was stolens from me centuries ago.”

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ELLEN
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Mother felt what I told her had no meaning just as it didn’t to me. Kieran’s gift made no sense and after trying the past few days to make meaning out of it and failed, I had to pass it to one more experienced than I was but she was just as confused as I was too. Well, I have carried out the assignment given to me and I felt it was time I looked into what was going between me and the hunter. Since the day he made love to me, we have strangely become closer. I now long for his teaching sessions and when with my other children, all I can think of is Kieran. My dreams have centered on our love making sessions. The warmth of his mouth; the movement of his tongue, the tingling sensation I get whenever his hands dance over my skin, the look in his eyes as he goes in and out of me, the connection I feel whenever I am on top of him and the yearn for more whenever we are both done, has gone a long way in making forget my past and tortures. I sleep now as I should and most times, he sleeps in my room. Our sessions have become less of teaching and more of silent moans and groans.


Each time we fvck, I try to know him better through his gift but it’s seems the more I go deeper into him, the more his gift moves away from me. I have only being able to see his gift from a distance and it is in him but it is trying to fuse itself with Kieran. So, if it is not one with the hunter, why is so easy for Kieran to use it or call it forth as he tends to describe it? I have never met someone so deep and difficult to understand like Kieran, he was just so strange. One moment, you think you understand a part of him, the next moment, you realize you doubt what you previously know. I feel his rage each time he is inside me but it’s like his gift was the one actually building it up and not Kieran. Which means that it was waiting for Kieran to finally see the need to unleash his rage but that itself was strange. No gift has a mind of its own, as a gift is more a part of one’s mind and body, which is why when it is forcefully removed from its original owner, it is instant death for the owner. If Kieran’s gift has a mind of its own, it will explain why he says he calls out to it which makes him Imagine what he wants to carry out rather than use spells and words to manipulate his gift in carrying out his wishes. It means his gift wasn’t something born with him as it is still not part of him but one of another deposited in him by the good spirits. It’s why he is never really interested in the teachings on spells he is being taught but rather picks up interest when it is teachings on being one with his gift. This is the reason he has been here all along; to learn how to be one with this being inside him and also to find the right motivation to get his vengeance. Kieran is possessed by another being and I hope that being is out for good and not evil.


I couldn’t sleep all through the night as who Kieran is finally made meaning to me. I couldn’t wait for the morning so that I could tell mother but I had to put my mind off that as I felt my skin tingle in a very painful sensation from the aura of a wizard. I have never felt so much power flowing from a single person before, it felt like the air was about to crackle and burst into flames. This aura was pure, violent rage, and if let loosed will bring about so much destruction. I got up from my bed and quickly opened my door to find where this aura was coming from and I wasn’t surprised to see other guardians in the passage way. They must have felt the negative energy and were speaking in low voices with a few pointing towards Kieran’s room. I closed my door and decided to check what was wrong with him. I was about to enter his room when he opened his door; his eyes were swollen from probably crying but that wasn’t what scared me. It was the look in them; they were colder than I last remembered and had this stormy look in them. His rage was trying to come out but he was doing his best to save it for the right person, but who was this person?


I moved back after I saw the look in his eyes, he looked away from me and locked his door. He carried his bag and moved towards the entrance of the quarters, where was he heading to at this time of the morning? I followed and called out to him but he refused to answer. He came out of the building with me and other guardians behind him. He saw one of the men patrolling the compound and ordered the man to get down from his horse. The man obeyed without putting up any resistance. He was about to mount his horse when I held to his trousers.

"Let me go, woman.” He ordered but I didn’t heed to his request. He repeated the same thing and when he saw I wasn’t ready to obey, he pushed me back with quite some force. The owner of the horse held me from falling else I might have injured myself from the push. I was angry at what he just did and dragged him down with everything in me after walking to the horse again.

“I won’t let you leave until you tell me where you are going.” He looked even more furious after what I had just done. He was about to answer me when he raised his head and as soon as he did, I felt the air burst into flames. Lightening so powerful and bright descended on something. I turned around to see who and was surprised it was on the gordand. But the lightening turned back towards Kieran after it couldn’t harm the beautiful woman and somehow he was able to send it back to the skies from whence it came. I couldn’t believe that a lightening so powerful couldn’t even tear a fabric in the woman’s clothing but was only able to knock her off her feet. His rage was finally let loosed and from what he just did, it was plain clear that he intends to go for Lucien and his men. He turned back and mounted his horse heading for the huge gate. I turned to look at the guardians and found mother among them, a single look from her confirmed what I had in mind. I was to follow the hunter and protect him. I asked for a horse and it was quickly given to me. I mounted it and left the forgotten lands without clothes or food but was heading to the unsafe world to get back my lover.

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ANNA
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Using both women as my eyes didn’t feel morally right but I had to do what was necessary just to quench the fears I might have of the hunter. He feels closer to Claudia probably because they were together all through their struggles to get here but still she has been unable to give me anything meaningful. She was always complaining about this mask he puts on whenever he was with anyone. She was right in what she said but he acts the way towards me whenever he is with me. I needed to use some other way to get to him and Ellen seemed more interested in the man than she should be. I took notice of the way and manner he looks at her; clearly there was an attraction between the both of them.


I told her of her new duty of being more than just a teacher and she was more than eager to carry out my instructions. She kept telling me what I already knew about the man but just a few days ago she told what I should known before now. No man of flesh and blood could have both sides of the gift within them anymore after the wizards of old; empowered by the good spirits saw to it that no one would. I should have known that his gift was never unlocked; he was still an ungifted just as those before him. The riddle his little daughter spoke of was the path the good spirits tried to use to tell me. Kieran is possessed by a spirit of one of those gifted wizards of old and the same might be true for Lucien. The riddle of the little can well be interpreted as;
The hand that pulls the string must be referring to the role of the good spirits in all of this of which I am not certain of yet as I do not know all of the persons involved. The arrow that kills the game has to be Kieran and his unusual gift. It can’t be Lucien as he has done more than good with his gift. The mystery is the game that can’t be seen. What is the role of the good spirits and the strange form of the gift in Kieran? What is it they are trying so hard to prevent from happening?


I was still deep in my thoughts when I heard noises from the space in the huge compound and then I saw lightening descend in an unusual manner but returned to the skies from whence it came. What was happening?

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Why would Ellen lie? It was quite unnecessary for her to. I never knew she met Eric and Kieran has no relationship with him, so why use such a person to gain anything? What was it she was trying to do, bring Kieran and me closer or try to bring out something in Kieran? I tried hard to answer these questions but my mind wasn’t really focused on that, it was more interested in why Kieran did what he just did – wash me as my husband or mother would. The past few days I locked myself in has been more of a reflection as I mourned not just for Eric but for everyone who had hope in Kieran being our savior.


The man is despicable; how can he keep doing what he keeps on doing – insulting the memories of his daughter and wife. This is a man whom we have waited for years to deliver us from the tyranny of the mad king and even when this man went against his family, he still doesn’t feel the need to fulfill his destiny. He is more interested in sleeping with every beautiful woman that comes his way. He keeps going after the people he is warned to stay away from. I hated this man but now I don’t what I feel for him exactly after the kind gesture he just showed me. He washed my body and wore me my clothes. He saw my unclothedness; something Eric saw a handful of times before he left me. I should have fought him and prevented him from seeing what only Eric had seen but I couldn’t. I have always felt weak in his presence and when he moved his hands across my skin, deep within me, I wanted it to continue. I thought Kieran was irrational and behaved like a dog but the way and manner he washed and clothed me without getting a stir in his c.ock proved me wrong. He was a man after something and he will do anything to what it is that he is after.


I couldn’t answer his questions on Ellen and he left after he saw I was slowly falling asleep. He carried me and kept me on the bed before covering me with a blanket. He stared at me till I closed my eyes but I wish he could kiss me and he did. He kissed my forehead and whispered for me to dream of my Eric.


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I was forced to wake up after I felt something extremely powerful magic. The strange aura seemed to stop me from breathing, I looked around to see if someone was in my room but there was no one. I heard noises outside and looked through my window to find Kieran arguing furiously with Ellen. He was visibly enraged and I wasn’t surprised the aura was from him. His rage was about to be let loosed but on who? This time, there was an answer to my question. Kieran pushed Ellen away from him and then tried to mount his horse but Ellen wouldn’t let him. Then, I saw Mother run out, something that rarely happens and some other guardians. Kieran was leaving but to where? Vanessa came out of her room too and the moment Kieran saw her; I felt it. I felt the keys break and the cage open. Kieran released himself to his rage; he had finally become one with his gift.
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RACHEL
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I blended in seamlessly among the guardians and it did not take long for me to get used to every corner and bend in the forgotten lands. The quarters were where the more experienced guardians stayed and a few of the wizards. They were few wizards and a handful of witches as sorcery seemed to be the dominant gift among the gifted here. I was told I was a witch the moment Melfisius set eyes on me and the mother guardian confirmed the same thing on the day of our recognition as guardians. I loved my home and harnessing and discovering more depths in my gift was my greatest loss the moment I stepped into this land.


We were told not to show any of our gifts nor what we have been taught over the years in the stone palace of the king but should act like complete novices. We were presumed to be unable to tell what side of the gift we carried within us and the mother witch did the telling for us. We were assigned to different guardians and witches like me had just about two of these teachers. Miss Ellen Marcus was one of the two; which made the plans of what was to come very easy for me. She liked me and cared a lot for me as I was a fellow witch like her and was one of her findings. She taught me the foundations of magic in my first few months there before she moved to the complex ones. Her love for me grew every day and when she kisses me as a way of greeting, I began to wonder why she was so kind. The other teacher wasn’t so kind and didn’t care if I learnt whatever she taught me but she never missed a session despite her uncaring attitude.


I went along with girls of my age and drowned myself in what was common among the young and restless – uncontrollable lust and pleasure. I slept with a different man twice a month but soon I discovered after my second year here that there was no new face to stare into and no new c.ock to walk me on the path of pleasure; I had slept with every man in the town. There was no new discovery to be made. I stayed back in my room and decided to read or watch one of my teachers as I have been instructed to by my king. In all my time fvcking and jumping on one c.ock to another, I never saw even the shadow of the beautiful Ellen at such places. The old, middle-aged and the young had one point in time behaved like I did but not my teacher. Could the rumours about her be true? Does she feel attracted to her kind; after all she kisses me most time like she would a lover. But it had never gone beyond our mouth; she kisses and then goes back to why she was with me in the first place. I haven’t seen the lust or want for my body in her eyes; it was just the look of love a mother would give her child. Something must have happened to her for her to look at men with so much indifference was my conclusion.


I decided to find out what and another time she kissed after she ended one of our classes. I held on to her lips and refused to pull away; my action made her open her eyes and immediately, I entered her soul through them. I saw her pain and bitterness; her tortures at the hands of her uncle and cousins. Her losses and how she lost a dear friend at the hands of the gordands; the loss which brought her here to wait for the same man I was here for and ultimately get the vengeance we both wanted. I fell in love with her that day and whenever we kissed, I tend to linger a little bit hoping she might get my message but she never did.


The man I was sent to watch finally came and what an entrance he made that day; calling forth lightening so powerful, it destroyed the stone floor of the huge compound. I was fascinated by what he did and when I saw from my teacher’s mind he was still yet to understand his gift, my joy knew no bounds. As the weeks passed, I followed very instruction from my king after he told me the man was unique just like I was and I must be careful around him. I made my teacher swallow my saliva one time she kissed and that enabled my eyes follow her wherever she went. She reported to mother about the progress of the man but they were taking the wrong path. The man doesn’t need emotions to call forth his gift; he was just like me and just wills it out whenever he wanted. I twisted the story of the man bestowed to Claudia, another guardian in order for the hunter to have more reasons to kill the mad king and my plan worked. His rage grew steadily but when I discovered he trusted Claudia more than my teacher, I treaded carefully as the man was quietly brilliant.


The night he slept with my teacher was the night I realized how much power was in this man. While my teacher searched hard to find out more about the man’s strange gift, he was busy trying hard to find out who was watching him through the beautiful woman he was sleeping with. I fought really hard to keep him from seeing me but he was relentless and if it wasn’t for his release, I would have been caught. I cleaned off the sweat on my face and warned myself to be more careful next time.


My master summoned me a few days later and asked me to do reveal the truth, the truth that would change the tidings of the forthcoming war. I waited till when the sun hid behind the clouds and went into the quarters to find the hunter. He was at the gardens watching the beautiful plants; I got close to him and asked for the whereabouts of my teacher. He turned to me and smiled and the moment he locked eyes with me; I went into his mind. I planted the vision I intended to and walked towards the direction he said I would find her. I walked towards the route and turned back to see if he was still watching me but he wasn’t as he took more interest in the flowers; I had completed my work. It was time to rest as I took a left turn and walked towards town to get my hole filled up again.

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Claudia kept avoiding me whenever she sees me and during her time of teachings, she would stare at the burning wood and then leave as soon as her session was over. I couldn’t tell what was wrong because I didn’t know what caused her to change her attitude towards me. I ignored her and tried my best to see through the wall in Ellen’s mind but no matter how hard I tried, I was unable to see through. We got closer and our teaching session became more than just practice of magic but of the flesh too. I saw less and less of Vanessa but I knew her eyes were on me. After our practice of flesh magic, I went to the gardens to look at the flowers where I tend to clear my mind. A young woman approached me seeking for Ellen; I pointed to the quarters where she was likely to be. She thanked me and left. She was beautiful with fair skin and unusual dark green eyes; I turned my gaze from her and returned my eyes to the flowers. After some time, I hard this urge to sleep and promptly found my way to my room. I was asleep even before my body hit my bed.


I saw myself back at my cabin; I looked around and saw three women in tight, black, leather cloth. Behind them were two soldiers dressed in the attire of those from the south and in their midst was a tall man in a cloak. The women broke the door into my cabin and brought out my daughter. I saw them drop her roughly on the ground; my wife came out pleading for them to leave the poor child but she got a vicious kick from one of the women which sealed her mouth. The women dragged my wife away from her little daughter and the men came forward and held my shivering daughter in place. The man in the cloak came forward and put his hands on Mellissa’s chest and immediately she started screaming. Her screams tore through my heart and I wished I could help her but I couldn’t. My wife tried to help our daughter but she kept on receiving hits upon hits from the gordands. After a while, her screaming stopped; the man in cloak stood to his full height and motioned for the women to follow him. The soldiers walked up to my wife and pulled her away from her still daughter. One of them held her down while the other ripped open her trouser around her hole and slid his c.ock in. My rage kept rising and rising seeing these men rape destroy my family while I was away hunting. The second soldier took the place of the other and put his dirty c.ock into my wife’s c.unt too. All this time, the man in the cloak watched while the gordands kept laughing and chuckling to the screams of my wife. When the soldiers were done with my wife; they walked to a cart and brought out tar. They poured it all over my cabin and threw my daughter inside. A simple flame from the man in the cloak set the wooden house in flames. My wife crawled with the little strength she had to try and get our daughter but stopped when the house went up in flames. The man in cloak removed his covering and it was no other than Lucien himself.


The soldiers dragged my wife to a tree as they planned to hang her but two of the gordands said they would do it instead. The flames made me see the faces of the people who killed my family but I became weak when I realized that one of the two women who kept my wife beneath a tree was Vanessa. I opened my eyes to discover it was morning already; I was filled with both rage and disgust. I had slept with my wife’s killer; how my wife will hate me now in the underworld. Claudia was right; I should be ashamed of myself. I turned on the bed and faced the wall as I wept uncontrollably.

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.. .Guess, this update has cleared everything but there is something missing in the storyline.... Would like someone to tell me....

Oladim001:
I thought it was Anna not the unknown king na.

.. .... Lol...you still don't get it,... Not to worry though, tomorrow's update will clear everything....

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RACHEL
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I shivered along with my parents in our little hiding place just behind my bedroom, not because of the cold but due to the agonizing screams of the unfortunate ones who tasted the blood thirsty steel of Nero’s men. The sound of steel cutting through flesh and putting out the lights in such beings made me continue to wrap my hands firmly around my father’s chest. My mother kept on praying to the good spirits but that day; they didn’t heed to her prayers because soon, the evil men came into my room and my father forced my mother to hold her tongue. They searched every place in the room and found nothing but still they refused to leave which made us uneasy.


“I can sense the presence of people in this room, keep on searching. No one must survive this day.” I heard a deep resonant voice say. Apparently, there were not only soldiers but wizards among these men. How long would it take before we were found?


It didn’t take long; the wizard moved along the hidden wall where we hid and stayed for too long. We tried our best to conceal ourselves and even held our breath at some point but that didn’t hide us from the eyes of this wizard. The moment we heard men trying to find the way into the hidden place, we knew it was over. The good spirits must have been unable to hear us due to where we were praying from, or it was because my mother stopped praying and so they turned their eyes from us. They found the seal and pulled the door to reveal us. The smiles on the faces of the men whom were about six showed how much the orders of their king meant to them. They went quickly for my father and both I and my mother held firmly to him but we were no match for these men. They yanked him from us and while we watched, they slit his throat very slowly and bent his head to a particular side to allow his blood pour out like that of a sheep. I didn’t cry the way my mother did and when they were done with my father, they turned to my mother. I thought they would carry out the same treatment on my mother but they had no such thing in mind. While the battle raged outside our house, something else was going on in my little bedroom.


They ripped open my mother’s gown and forced her to go down like a beast. I turned away as I had an idea of what was going to happen next as I was eight then but one of the men held my head and made me watch as the wizard brought out his long c.ock and pushed it into my mother’s c.unt. Her screams from that one move broke my heart and I didn’t know when I broke from the man’s hold and pushed my weight against the man’s moving cock. He fell sideways as he was on his knees when I hit him. My mother held herself but the man couldn’t and his fall made his c.ock go limp and he suddenly started screaming from pains even his men couldn’t comprehend. How could a little push from a little girl cause a wizard so much pain? But their surprise didn’t stay for long because after one of them asked the wizard for the cause of his pains and as the man pointed at me; the rest of the men turned towards me with rage in their eyes. The closest one to me grabbed me by my long red hair and while my mother tried to hold on to me; she received a strong palm to her face that almost separated her head from her body.


That singular action made me mad and I didn’t when I faced the man who held me; I looked into his blue eyes and commanded him from within to kill his fellow men save me and my mother. He nodded and dropped me gently to the floor and pulled his sword from his sheath before running his it through the man closest to him. The move shocked the rest of the men and before the decided if they were going to attack their fellow comrade or not, the man swung his sword and it met the neck of one of them. The remaining three decided that this man was no longer their own and came after him. All this time, the wizard was on the floor screaming in pains. While the men from the south fought themselves; my mother regained herself and took a knife which must have fallen from one of the men and crawled to the foot of the wizard. She used his calf to pull her up to him and before the man could figure out my mother’s intentions, his c.ock had been cut off from his body and my mother held the thing in her hands. The wizard soon bled to death and the bodies of the other men lay on the ground. The man I commanded had finished what I asked him to do. He set his sword on the floor and turned to face as he expected his next orders from me.


My mother watched me in some fascination as I beckoned for the man to go on his knees and told him to get some food and clothes for us. He nodded and left to get what I asked for. I crawled over to my father’s still body and closed his eyes. I didn’t cry but I vowed within me to get my vengeance that day.


The soldier from the south became our protector and provider throughout the time of the war. When he had served his use, I allowed him back to his town. That was the first time I used my special kind of gift. I joined the house of the king when I turned ten as one of the few with the gift in the kingdom. The great wizard Melfisius who was rumoured to have been one of the men to have killed the wind of evil – Nero became my teacher. He took special interest in me and taught me on how to use my gift in even more unique ways. I shared in the deep hatred for the North and soon I became one of the few the king held in high esteem. One night, just after I turned twenty years of age, the king sent for me.


“Do you desire justice for what was taken from you?” The king asked after he asked me to be on my feet from my former position of greeting.


“Yes, my lord. It’s the one desire I have nurtured within since childhood.”


“Good, then you will do what I want to be done.” I nodded and he continued.


“You will go with one of the guardians who will be coming in the three days to take a few of you lots to the forgotten lands. I want you there because the old wizard has seen in the stars that a man who will destroy the works of the mad king will make that place his home for a while. I want you there to watch him when he comes and report back to me. That man will be the beginning of our restoration to glory. Will you do this?” The king asked.


I answered his question with a smile and returned to get my things ready. Melfisius taught me the spell of the demon’s walk which has been what I and king have used in speaking to ourselves. Just as he said, the guardian came and she was a very beautiful one.


“You are Rachel, are you not?” The fair woman asked.


“Yes I am, I am honored to have been selected to come with you.” She smiled and said,

"I am Ellen Marcus, call me Ellen. Alright, we will be leaving as soon as the sun is out. Go and say your farewells to your families as you won’t be seeing them for a long time.” She said to the three of us. That day was the beginning of what I was about to finish now; the restoration of the glory of my kingdom and the unleashing of the true sword of vengeance. The prophecy was about to be fulfilled as I headed for the hunter’s room.

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..... Alright, did I hear someone say I have not been descriptive enough in this story, I guess that handsome fellow might wanna rewrite that statement.. Lol... I see you Elprokez,
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CHAPTER 11
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A HASTY TURN
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THE UNKNOWN
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“My lord, there is a plague coming.” Ian, the general of my army said while trying to catch his breath.

“What parable do you speak of, Ian?”

“The full might of the south are heading towards this direction. We can’t stop those men; the numbers are not in our favor.”

“Do not speak on what we can and cannot do, that is for me to decide. Who leads this great army?”

“It’s the old wizard, Elphisius.”

“Alright, go and gather your men. No one leaves or enters the city. The walls must not be breached, defend it with your lives. Now, go.” The weak general left in a hurry.

The young king has finally decided to make his plans open. He wanted this and provoked me to get it. He has come to finish what his father started but what he is yet to know is that; this battle was his father’s last and it will ultimately be his last too. I left the courts and moved to my chambers as soldiers were busy gathering the able men they could find among the few in the land. The people might not have been preparing for a battle but I have always wanted this for a long time now. I dismissed the guards and closed my doors as I sought to summon one of my trusted few – Rachel.

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“Lucien, do not do this. Think over this thoroughly; do not start this war.” The old wizard pleaded.

“Do not start now, old man. I should have destroyed those ungrateful animals a long time ago. How could that waste of a king come after my subjects, not just any but the one who has gifts that rivals mine? That singular act of his has clearly stated his intentions; he wants my throne. I have been negligent enough to even allow such thoughts survive a day, I won’t watch him create another path to end my reign. He and his subjects will receive my full wrath. Get the legions ready, I want that kingdom and everything within it burnt to the ground. No one moves against me and lives, no one.” I screamed and the old man quickly got to work.


I have tolerated so much nonsense from him; I won’t listen to another of his warnings as they never hold water. My father might have died fighting this kingdom but that happened because he decided to put his trust in the wrong hands. The foolish old wizard, Melfisius is once again involved and now I know for certain he had a hand in the death of my father. I won’t let this bold move of his to end me go unpunished, I will makes sure he joins my father in the underworld. The wizard is the backbone of that old swine and killing him will break down his master’s resolve.

“Send for the gordands.” I ordered one of the guards in the court. They soon arrived in their usual dress.

“What does my king want of us?” Tasha, the leader of the deadly women asked.

“I have called for the legions to head north with Elphisius leading them. The men of steel and magic will destroy and plunder whatever they deem fit but I need four of you to go after the wizard, Melfisius. I want him in chains right here in my palace. I want to see his treacherous face again before I lead him through the path of pain. The remaining five of you will remain here. Pick among yourselves who will go after the wizard and who will stay. Do that quickly, time is of the essence.”

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I called out to the darkness with a spell created by Melfisius, after covering every space light could enter the chambers. I waited patiently in the darkness I created for my summoning to be answered and it happened. I heard her voice behind me but I didn’t turn, I decided to go ahead with the discussion without turning back.


“The situation must be dire for you to have summoned me through this path. What is it, my king?”


“We have to move quickly, I didn’t expect the young king to send more than half of his army. I am at the disadvantage in all things save for you and our work. Melfisius is presently useless but he might yet be useful as time goes on but for now, we must hurry.”


“So, what do you propose?” “You know it already, I need a diversion. Something that will halt the bringers of death to my kingdom and the only way is whom I have asked you to watch. Have you planted the seed of discord within them?”


“Yes, I have. The mother guardian is focused on what has no bearings while the man is torn between trusts and words.”

“Good, very good; It’s therefore time for you to make that seed a tree and allow the broken man fulfill the prophecy. Reveal the truth to him this time and I will take it from there. You have to be quick about it; we have only until night fall tomorrow. Do not fail me now, my dear.”


“I will die in service to my king, I won’t fail you.”
With that, she left through the darkness she came while I walked to the windows and pulled the curtains aside for the light to chase away it’ss eternal enemy. I watched as the soldiers guided the people to a safe tower but that won’t save them from the might and wrath of the young king. Only one man has the power to stop this; the one with the broken destiny.

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...... Sorry about yesterday guys, something came up. I will update today again if I get the chance.
Anyway, I just noticed that it's been two months since I started this story and it feels as if I am still introducing everything. Well, that stops now. I will speed up updates and that should see the story end in about two weeks from now.
.. The last wolf: the path of discovery publication is around the corner, I hope you are all ready to do the 'needful' lol... Enjoy this update though...