Bound by love episode 22 & 23

Bound by love

EPISODE 22
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After about some minutes of driving, Mr Edwards and the General arrived the forest and within of an eye, they had re-moved their guns from their boots.
“You all should wait behind,” the General said to the hillux drivers as he walked to one of the hillux and re-moved an Ak-47, then turned and followed Mr Edwards who was alre-ady running inside the forest.
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INSIDE THE FOREST
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It was alre-ady getting dark as they were fully inside the forest. They didn’t mind but kept running dee-per and dee-per as if they were running on a thorn free path.
Soon they reached where the other ten soldiers were guarding Jeffrey, Joy, the two guys and Felix dead b©dy.
“Where’s my son?, did you find him?” Mr Edwards asked as looked from Joy to Jeffrey, then the soldiers.
“He left with the rescue team sir,” One of the soldiers said.
“What?” the General shouted. “Why did you allow him go?” he asked.
“Sorry sir,” the soldiers apologised in unison.
“That’s alright,” Mr Edwards said. “Five men should step out and switch on their torchlights, while five will wait behind,” he ordered.
The soldiers obeyed immediately and did as they were asked to do.
“Good, I’ll lead,” the General said and turned to leave but a voice st©pped him.
“plea-se wait,” Mr Daniels called out as he ran towards them. “Let me come with you, the girl might just be my daughter,” he pleaded as he st©pped infront of them breathing heavily.
Inspite of himself, Mr Edwards felt pity for him as he totally forgot about their quarrels at that moment, so he walked to him and placed a hand on his right shoulder, “Don’t worry, this battle is for only soldiers,” he smiled.
“plea-se, I can fight,” Mr Daniels pleaded further.
Mr Edwards smiled broadly, “Yes but you are not as strong as a soldier, I promise you your daughter will be safe,” he patted his shoulder and turned to the five choos£n soldiers and the General, “Let’s go,” he said and ran foward while the soldiers and the General followed suite.
“Oh God!” Mr Daniels cried in despair as he stared after them. “Bring them back safe and sound,” he prayed and sat on the gras-s while the remaining five soldiers switched on their torchlights thus ma-king that area flood with light…
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BATTLE FIELD
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Gold had been untied from the sacrifice table she was tied to before the soldiers c@m£ to her rescue and was asked to wait at a distance away from the battle field.
Though where they were was a thick and big forest, the ritual ground had been cleared up and turned to a dry ground and at one corner, was a small thatched house.
Gold’s eyes had wi-de-ned in shock when Nath had arrived with the soldiers earlier and joined in the battle. Though the battle looked tough and fierce with three soldiers alre-ady lying dead in cold blood and five ritualist also lying dead, She had great faith and trust in God that the soldiers were going to win.
As she stood shivering in fear, her eyes wi-de-ned more in shock as Nath’s dad, the Army General and five soldiers ran past her into the battle field chanting war songs. But unfortunately, a spear was thrown towards the direction Nath’s dad and his entourage had emerged but as Nath’s dad quic-kly bent to dodge it, the spear ran straight into one of the soldiers che-st, ma-king him shout and fall in pains as blood gushed from his che-st.
Mr Edwards immediately rushed back to the soldier the spear had hit, bent over him and pu-ll-ed out a dagger from his pocket and ran into the battle field.
Sounds of gr-unts and gro-an s could be heard as the battle got fiercer and tougher. Some soldiers who had circled round just to shoot soon c@m£ running back as they fought, kicked and stabbe-d.
“Son! Watch out,” Mr Edwards called out to Nath as one of the ritualist was behind him with a dagger re-ady to stab him at the back but Nath immediately turned round and with the swiftness of an eagle, chopped off his head and he fell.
“Yeiii!” the Army General yield as one of the ritualist hit his head with a matchet handle. He quic-kly turned round, pu-ll-ed out his dagger and stabbe-d him on the stomach, then threw a sidewards kick at the one who stood by his side thus s£nding him crashing down on the ground. After killing both men, he ran into the middle of the battle field, where five soldiers were finding it difficult to kill the leader to the ritual group.
Then suddenly, Gold began shivering again in fear, worse than before as a ritualist ran towards her with a long dagger that was curved like a snake and was about stabbing her but Nath who had been glancing at her from time to time, quic-kly speed up from where he stood and ran inbetween the ritualist dagger and Gold, and within a twi-nkle of an eye, the dagger drove straight into his right upper shoulder ma-king him scream and fall down…
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Bound by love

EPISODE 23
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STILL THE BATTLE FIELD
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Immediately Nath fell to the ground, the Army General and his father who had st©pped to see where he was running to quic-kly rushed to him as if a hero had fallen, just at the same time Gold also rushed and pu-ll-ed out the dagger from Nath’s shoulder, then with great speed chopped off the ritualist head therefore ma-king the blood splatter on her face and some on Nath’s b©dy. Gold stood with the dagger in her right hand, breathing heavily as she watched the ritualist’s head roll like a ball and then st©p at a little distance.
“Oh no, Nath!” Mr Edwards cried as he knelt beside him and shook him vigorously but Nath didn’t stir a bit.
From the way Mr Edwards knelt beside his son with his arm bleeding from the injury he had sustained, the General knew that he didn’t really care about the battle anymore as his son’s life was now his number one priority and looking up, it seems the ritualists kept increasing in number. So he stood up and shouted out loud to the soldiers who were still fighting without knowing what had happened, “USE THE DEFENSE DEVICE,” then pu-ll-ed Mr Edwards up, carried Nath’s b©dy and turned to Gold who still held the dagger with a confused expression, “Follow me immediately,” he said and ran inside the forest.
As soon as the soldiers heard that order, they all un-derstood and quic-kly brou-ght out their devices, litted it and ran out of the open field into the forest where they stood to watch the device explode…
Minutes later, the Army General ran past where Mr Daniels, the five soldiers, Joy, Jeffrey and the two guys were left behind, and headed out of the forest. Gold and Mr Edwards also joined him seconds later.
“My daughter!” Mr Daniels called out immediately he saw Gold also run past them but she was too far from hearing him so he also ran after them…
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OUTSIDE THE FOREST
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Nath was given first aid treatment by the General but it wasn’t working, so he carried him up again, opened the door to his father’s car and placed him inside while Gold also entered the car and closed the door ignoring her father who kept shouting her name as he also c@m£ out of the forest.
“Thank you, plea-se handle the rest let me rush him to the hospital, I’ll be back after he has been admitted,” Mr Edwards said as he emerged from the forest and without waiting for another second, he walked and opened the front door, then entered and zoomed off.
“plea-se get your arm treared as well,” The Army General called after Mr Edwards even though he knew it was just a fruitless effort coz the retired General he knew would never treat his wounds after a war except all wounded others had been treated as well. Then he turned to Mr Daniels who stood, still staring after the car that was out of sight. “You can join them sir, they’ll be at the General hospital,” he said. “Excuse me plea-se, I’ve got some things to tidy up before Mr Edwards get back,” he smiled and walked back into the forest.
“My wife!” Mr Daniels thought aloud, then quic-kly rushed to his car, opened and entered, then zoomed off too…
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
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Nath was being take care of inside the ward while his father and Gold sat on the settee in the reception and waited.
“When and how did you enter my car without my knowing?” Mr Edwards asked Gold who had her head bent down.
Gold raised her head and looked up at him, “I entered before you c@m£ out of the forest,” she replied.
Mr Edwards sighed, “Good, so why did you follow me?” he asked again.
“Nath risked his life to save me sir and this happens to be the fourth time,” Gold said and f0rç£d out a smile.
“Impressive!” Mr Edwards exclaimed and nodded, “Is that the only reason why you followed me?”
“No sir, I love Nath, I love him so much that I get hurt when he’s hurt,” Gold answered boldly.
“You love…”
“Excuse me sir,” the doctor walked in and said, ma-king Mr Edwards st©p his statement midway. “I’ll like to see you in my office,” he added and walked out of the reception.
Mr Edwards stood up, “Wait here for me,” he said to Gold and left for the doctor’s office…
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INSIDE THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE
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“Doctor plea-se, how is my son?” Mr Edwards asked as soon as he entered without caring to sit down.
“plea-se sit down,” the doctor said.
“No, how is my son?” Mr Edwards snapped.
The doctor sighed de-eply. “I’m sorry sir, the blade of the dagger is a poisonous one and he lost so much blood, we tried all we could to save him but…” the doctor paused.
“But what?” Mr Edwards asked impatiently…
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To be continued