Chapter 10
Author: Obieze Martinz
last update Last Updated: 2023-04-16 00:48:32

"Sex?" Princess Damina wasn't pleased with that request from the woman seated before her inside her hut. She got up and walked towards the small pot seated on fire and brought it down. She was preparing some eatable leafs and Aromo wondered if that was all she got. 

"I mean what I said; I saw handsome and tall young men as I toured the market of this land and I can tell I long to have one of those men slid himself in-between my thighs" Aromo was saying, while demonstrating with her hands. Princess Damina turned to her and angrily spoke to her.

"You Sisters of Magic in the land where we come from are good at that, one of the evil things you are good at. Now you want to have a man here just recently you arrived and tell me again, what it is your kind are good at doing to men when they have sex with them, trap them, take their will away from them and turn them into your slaves?"

"You speak as if your mother in-law isn't one of us?" said Aromo and those words got Damina irritated. She moved against Aromo but Aromo's hand which was filled with smoke went off her hand and entered the nostrils of Damina and she felt dizzy, staggered back and fainted at her feet. Aromo sighed. "I didn't want to do this to you but you have forced my hands. You will have to sleep while I look for a man to make me happy" she stepped out of the hut.

*****

In the land of Akozo, war already broke out but the King of Akozo, King Zakiza knew that this was one war he wasn't going to win for he could see that the dragon which his step mother Samata was riding was spitting fire and destroying hundreds of his soldiers who already stepped out of the palace to face the angry beast. The King held the shoulders of his scared wife and spoke, "I need you to move from here now and head straight to the Strong Room!" Just then the Chief Gaurd rushed towards them.

"I have been looking for you everywhere my lord. I need to escort you and the Queen to the Strong Room" he was panting.

"It's good you are here, take your Queen and keep her safe. As for me" he drew his sword, "I am going for battle. My kingdom will not be lost to me this day" The Queen tried to stop him but he wasn't going to listen to her. He broke free from her and the Chief Guard held her as she struggled firecly, kicking and calling the name of her husband. 

The battle raged on. Where the real army of the land of Akozo were they had received the information of the attack in the palace of Akozo and just then the commander of the army called for urgent advance to the palace to face the enemy and the army left the camp immediately. 

The King of Akozo was pleased when he sighted the army from the camp trooping into the palace. Akiza seeing this large army of enemies while he seated on his horse drew his sword. Being the leader of the army of Dodo he commanded them to match against the enemy. The commander of the army of Akozo having seen the army in the palace who hadn't engaged in the battle but had let the dragon and Samata who was riding it to do justice to the palace, commanded the army of Akozo to advance and attack. Akiza commanded the same thing and the battle ground became a river of blood.

Inside the Strong Room where the Queen Lume was hiding and the Chief Guard was standing outside the door she could hear footsteps approaching and she began to call on the Chief Guard to know those coming up the stairs but she did not get any response. She suddenly began to hear clashes of sword and screaming. Then it downed on her that the enemy had climbed up the stairs and were fighting with the Chief Guard. She did not know what else to do but wanted to ensure that if the Chief Guard lost she would atleast defend herself with a weapon of course before she would be either killed or abducted and so she picked a club on the floor of the room and got herself readied for the worst. Shortly she stopped hearing sounds and so she waited, with her heart beating faster than before. She heard footsteps approaching the door of the room where she was hiding and she blinked her eyes severally and waited. The person knocked twice on the door and she refused to say a word. She then heard a voice, a familiar voice and recognized the voice to be that of the Chief Guard yet she did not want to go close to the door for she felt the Chief Guard could be under the captivity of the enemies that had walked up the stairs.

"You can open the door now Mam. It is me" said the Chief Guard. She walked slowly and  carefully towards the door and when she was there she held the door handle and began to move it slowly, with the club in her right hand, ready to hit anyone that would attack her once she opened the door but when she opened she then saw the Chief Guard standing there and holding his left shoulder with and panting. She could see that he was bleeding and she did not know what to say. He risked his life to save his. 

"You have to come inside" she said.

"I can't stay your majesty in the same room. It is a taboo. I would rather remain outside" he said and groaned painfully. The Queen did not know what else to do and in her confusion she spoke, "Let us leave this particular place then and find my husband..."

"Your husband, the King commanded me to stay out of battle and ensure your safety" he groaned once more.

"To hell with whatever he commanded you. I'm leaving here to look for my husband" She stepped out and was about moving away when the Chief Guard held her back but she struggled with him. He tried to pin her back inside the room but she hit him on the same shoulder where he had already received wound and he let go of her and screamed. She ran off, headed downstairs in an attempt to locate her husband. With his shoulder still bleeding the Chief Guard went after her, to ensure her safety.

The battle outside the palace building raged on and it was clear that the army of Akozo was loosing the battle while Akiza and the army he was leading were triumphing. The dragon flew up once again and headed towards the tallest tower of the palace in order to bring it down. He continued to spit fire as he flew up and at that moment the King who was now on the ground looked up to see the destruction of his palace. He witnessed the falling of the tall tower and the bricks came crashing on the ground, killing some of his men and some of the enemies as well. At that moment he knew that he had lost the battle. He saw too that his men were now retreating back to the camp as they were dying in their hundreds and in their thousands. He then decided that it was better he looked for his wife before the whole building fell. He ran towards the palace building, cutting the enemies down. The Queen was also looking for him and the Chief Guard was looking for Queen. From the battle field the one called Akiza, step brother to Zakiza King of the land of Akozo saw when the King of Akozo ran towards the building and so he kicked his horse and galloped towards the entrance of the main building of the Palace. The King looked back and seeing he was being followed by a strange face stopped and turned. Akiza dismounted his horse and there was lightning, followed by a heavy thunder before rain started falling heavily. Akiza then spoke, "You want to fight me? You must be worthy enough to face a King in a battlefield!" 

"I am more worthy, worthier than a King. My mother rides the dragon and I lead the great army of Dodo. I have achieved things Kings have not been able to achieve" It was then that it downed on Zakiza that he was speaking with his step brother, the one whose mother killed his late father, their late father. He became mad with fury, motivated by the desire to avenge the death of his father.

"Akiza!!!?" he called out.

"That's my name Zakiza. What are you gonna do about it?!!!" Akiza shouted back.

"I'm gonna kill you, you who aided your mother in the death of our father!!!" The King then moved against him and Akiza also moved against him. Both clashed and their fight began. 

The Queen in a bid to find her husband was met accidentally by two men who followed Akiza and she stopped abruptly. Both men having recognised who she might be through the attire she was putting on walked towards her, both smiling wickedly while the Queen began to withdraw from them by taking steps backward. They were almost upon her when the Chief Guard who had seen them from afar ran with great speed and soon pounced on them and they faced him with their own swords. The Chief Guard being more experienced overpowered the both of them but not after he received another cut on the same shoulder. He fell to the ground and the Queen with tears in her eyes spoke to him. "Why do you want to die for me. Why not save yourself and save your wife who lives in this palace or do you not know you should be protecting her?"

"My duty is by you first then my wife. Unless I am sure you are safe I cannot leave your side. The King gave an order, an order that must be obeyed and so I must obey" He rose from the floor, blood gushing from his arm.

The Queen would know it would be so inhumane of her to leave him again or abandon him once again in that condition, the condition that had worsened. She then helped him by placing her arm across her shoulders and then helping him out of that spot. When they entered the main hall of the palace the Chief Guard whisperer that he had regained himself and could now walk by himself. The Queen let him alone and then spoke, "I must find my husband" 

"It is too late. Did you not see it? if you did not see it I saw it; your husband is fighting with his step brother as I speak to you right now and there is no need stepping out there to die with him" 

"Are you giving up on my husband your King already?" the Queen was disappointed.

"You don't need to sound like that my Queen but we both know that if the King succeeds in overpowering his step brother he isn't gonna leave that spot alive for there were many, many of the men belonging to his step brother, men that decided to abandon their King in the land of Dodo and now follow Akiza. Akiza is desperate and the sound you hear on the rooftops are the sound of fire, fire from the breath of that creature of death, that ancient evil. You don't have to die, you don't have to die with the King" 

The Queen fell on her kneels and tears streamed down her eyes. She covered her face with both hands and the Chief Guard allowed her to express her feelings while he tore a piece of cloth from his armour cloth and used it to tie his shoulder from his armpit to stop the blood from coming out.

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