AYENIRETI (**story submitted by Olusegun Shedrach**)Ancient times before now, Ayenireti had always had one hero or the other that faithfully sacrificed their lives for the peace of its people, fought countless battles, plundered countless lands, claimed countless spoils. But it's now different, the enemies has found the only way to conquer unity: TREACHERY, and another ungodly deadly sin: GOSSIP.Emi entered into the Kings personal chamber, and prostrated flat before him, a means of homage, a tradition that had been passed down from one generation to another and has been held in high esteem.The only source of light in the chamber was a little window directly above the King’s bed, barely enough to allow a child pass through."You sent for me" Emi said still prostrated flat on the floorThe King's room, was decorated with historical ancient paintings, beads hanged on the wall and neatly arranged traditional attires and animal skins that prove

After the ritual of breaking the marriage seal, the King felt happy and relieved, apart from his daughter having a normal life, now nothing could threaten to take her away from him. Although he had great doubt they could defeat a god from the second circle, only if he had known that a greater danger was lurking around the Kingdom, a danger that knows the Kingdom so well, a danger that was born and breaded in the Kingdom.Emi found it hard to knock on Ajanaku’s door, nevertheless he summoned the courage of doing that, some seconds after the third knock, Ajanaku came out to meet him.“Can we at least go inside?”Ajanaku only nodded his head sideways, signifying to Emi that it wasn’t possible“I know how upset you are with me, but trust me, I have no interest in marring thePrincess” Emi said, trying to be as open as possible, the maiden contest was the next day, how would he try to make the King understand him.

 FALL OF EMI, IRETI IS DEADEmi felt his hands tightly bounded. Too weak to move, his hands we chained which made him float in mid-air, he tried for a little but every attempt only drained more of his strength. It was a spell bound chain that sucked every strength one gathered.Someone splashed water on his face, and threw the bucket on the floor.HAAAHHIIII!Emi groaned feeling exhausted, he looked down at Ajanaku, with heavy eyes."Wake up""You should have killed me when you had the chance" Emi said and spat to the ground."Killing you will be too much of mercy, I want to break you" Ajanaku said walking round the guard room"Why, why does it have to come to this?"Ajanaku felt remorseful, his spirit weakened by the question, he knew there was a better a way resolve, but what can they do about the deadly sin called Envy."Rest, I will need you to hear the wailin

RISE OF A GRAND GODAfter 9months living in NIRETI cave, they decided to go back to their land and begin a new life. But it was only calculated for Adeshewa to put to bed before noon the next day.Emi made sure every concoction the Chief priest gave him was used the right way, so as to make her birth easy. The King made sure the mistake he did during his own time won't be repeated, taking and pointing Emi through safety measures and preventing him from panicking over little issues, like when Adeshewa would suddenly cry in pain, holding tight to her stomach."The water line is broken" Adeshewa said and clinched her hands on Emi's hand.He wasted no time in lifting her on his hands and headed straight to where the mid wives were"Leave her and go" They said pushing him out of the cave where they dwelled"I thought it was supposed to be tomorrow evening" Emi said feeling worried.The midwives said no further words as the expression on t

40Years AgoThe mantle of kingship fell solely on the family of Ajagunmasa, history has it, they had taken the brave step of leading a revolt during their time in slavery, so as a reward for bravery, they became leaders, and started a new life. Down the line many generations came and went, now it was the era of Iretiade, the father of King Iretilana (Present King).Iretiade ruled the land with an iron fist, he made them work to the bone. The one that took after him was Iretiola (Son of Iretiade's brother) he always like the fierce way, trampled on the lower class, times were really hard for Ayenireti. Then something tragic happened. Iretilana put an end to his father's reign. He stabbed the King in his sleep, nobody knew how it happened. Only Iretiola was a living witness, but he said nothing, it was not his father, He thought the King in line was him, then the gods chooses a murderer, this event forced him to leave the town and swore to come back when he knows the cas