DETHRONED
Episode 27
By AMAH’S HEART
” What cråzy ideas are on your mind Rana..? What exactly are you going to do to my husband…?” Nene kept whining with her face snorted in ánger
I scoffed unmoved by her whines. My stomach as well as my míscarriage still húrts me badly but I mustered all the strength and courage I needed to keep my påin and emotions in check.
” I was a quiet and peace loving maiden but you two decided to bring out the worst in me. Your husband Eze called me a vulnerable weakling simply because I expressed my humanity by falling in love with him. As for you Nene, you called me a lovestruck and then a foolish Priestess…” I said to Nene as I put on a smiling facade on my face
” So…? Why are you feeling so pained Rana? tell me isn’t that what you are…?” Nene asked looking at me daringly
” You’re right Nene… that’s the reason I want to show you two what the weakling lovestruck Priestess is capable of doing” I said flippantly as I hissed loudly
” What is that statement suppose to mean…? Let me tell you Rana that you can not do more than a déâd rat!”
I erupted in laughter as I heard what Nene said to me.
Indeed she is underestimating the ánger of a scorned woman who had just lost a child in a pāinful manner.
After a few seconds, I stopped laughing and quietly kept my eyes fixated on Nene.
There’s obvious sadness in my eyes which is later replaced by a renewed råge and revénge bubbling in my heart.
” Nene you touched my tail even when all I ever wanted was a peaceful life. You took my innocent baby away from me and for that I’m sorry but you will have to pay the price for your actions!” I said whilst shrugging my shoulders
Using my powers, I caused an invisible hand to land hot slaps on Nene’s cheeks and Nene’s screams filled the air at the impact of the slaps on her face.
I stood there smiling in satisfaction but as an emotional and compassionate person, I begun feeling pity for her.
Inasmuch as I tried to ignore her screams of pain, I still couldn’t help feeling so much compassion in my heart after seeing that Nene’s face was getting very reddish and scarred.
Unable to endure the sight anymore, I clicked my fingers which abruptly ended the tørments on Nene.
Immediately the slaps stopped and Nene was set free from the pains, she looked at me with bloodshot angry eyes
” How dare you Rana!!! You’ve just dug a gråve for yourself by letting me go .. you honestly think I will let you win so easily…? Hëll no Priestess Rana!” Nene thundered burning in rage
Nene’s face slowly changed in a dëvilishly smirk which got me wondering what was going on in that dark mind of hers.
I also noticed that her eyes flashed a black light and then moments later, the dust around me begun rising.
It was blowing so extremely fast in such a way that I could barely see anything that was going on in my environment.
The dust rose in large quantities and as though compelled by an unseen force, it moved and afterwards circled round me
Before I could recover, bricks from nowhere came and were hitting me from different unknown directions. It kept hitting me persistently which made me feel like my flesh was peeling off.
I was breathing hard and at the same time shouting aloud in misery. I know I need to plead with Nene or I quickly do something to remedy the situation before I will dïe here.
” Please let me go… stop this Nene… Please stop…” I was whimpering but it all fell on deaf ears
As the pain from the bricks intensified, I concluded within me that it is about time I made Nene understand that there will always be powers distinction between a Priestess and anyone else.
Nene surely needs to learn her lessons and if necessary, she would join my innocent child in the Land of the dëäd where wícked people like Eze and her deserves to be!
I quit lamenting and instead whispered a few words of incantation.
As I did that, the bricks stopped falling and the dust minimized its torments on me until it completely vanished.
I placed my hands on my braids and stroked it whilst uttering inaudible words.
Instantaneously, the cloudy atmosphere changed to be very gloomy and thick with darkness.
Nobody could see anything including myself who commanded it.
The reason is that, this is actually the first time I am igniting my powers in full force so I am not yet accustomed to how to use some of my top powers without being the victim myself.
” What is going on…? What’s happening..?” I heard Nene whining with an evidently weak voice
I had intentionally commanded the darkness because I know that dark powers are mostly unfriendly with extreme darkness.
What it does is that it will render the recipients of those dark powers powerless and unable to temporarily access their powers.
” I will deal with you Rana!… I command you right this instance to restore the light back or else…” Nene threatened
I angrily blurted out cutting off her words midway
” Or else what Nene…? What is the worst you can do that you haven’t done already… Quit throwing empty threats!”
” You are yet to see my worst Rana… I will so deal with you in such a way that you would forget the day you came to this earth!”
Nene’s words got me laughing uncontrollably. Her threats amuses me.
Oh the gods! I bet Nene still doesn’t know whom she’s toiling with and she keeps playing with a fire that will burn her into unimaginable bits.
” I’ll love to see you try!” I said as I shut my eyes close for a second time.
In my heart I had wished to be standing in front of Nene.
I opened them afterwards and from the shadow I saw, I knew that I was standing directly facing Nene.
Right there in the darkness, I grabbed her neck so tight making it hard for her to actually breath properly. I simply wanted Nene to feel the exact pains I felt when Eze strångled me earlier.
” How does it feel to be strangled like your husband did to me earlier… I suppose that it is sweetly fun right…?” I asked mockingly and I continued tightening my grip on Nene’s neck.
Nene kept shouting helplessly and was at the verge of completely loosing consciousness when unexpectedly;
a strong power lifted me off the ground thereby putting an abrupt end to the strangling plan I had in store for Nene.
I floated in the air for a while before the force from the unknown power threw me to the ground and I fell with a thud.
Before I could recover from the impact of the fall, I saw the once gloomy sky slowly clearing and shortly afterwards brightness returned to the village.
I looked around me wondering whose power it could be that is responsible for all this happenings but I found nobody.
Then I started hearing loud giggles beside me and with anxiety I turned towards the direction of the giggles.
I startled in shock as a shout escaped my lips before I could actually stop myself.
” Whatttttttttt!!!!!!!!!! Yo..you.. ho.. how…”
I uttered amidst continuous stammering and the complete words I initially had in mind to say got stuck in my throat.
DETHRONED
Episode 28
By AMAH’S HEART
” Amarachi don’t tell me you have a hand in this too…? Why..? Well I’m no longer surprised at anything anymore!” I uttered as I stood up and gently wiped away the dust on my wrapper.
To be sincere, I am actually not surprised to see Amarachi here.
Infact I expected it sooner or later since I was already suspecting her to be amongst the eye witnesses.
And inasmuch as I try to be strong for what’s ahead of me, it still húrts to find out that all the people I had loved with the whole of my heart actually hāted me and also wanted my dethronement.
” Are you okay Priestess Rana…? Hope the fall wasn’t too fatal on you…?” Amarachi asked with her voice laced with utmost concern and worry.
Amarachi’s question disrupted my thoughts and honestly threw me off balance as it got me wondering if this was a trap too.
” You join my enëmíes to fight against me and then you are asking after my wellbeing…? What are you hoping to achieve by doing this…?” I asked firmly whilst looking at Amarachi in amusement and bewilderment.
” I’m not working with your enëmíes my Priestess. I have been sent by the gods to pass you a message following your earlier pleas for help” Amarachi said and I scoffed unmoved by her words.
It felt like she was only lying so as to pull at my heartstrings and then rùin me.
” Oh! quit with the lies Amarachi! So you know everything has been exposed already about Nene and Eze. I also know you are likely among them… infact I have a strong feeling in my heart that you were the eyewitness who reported Eze to the youths on the night he visited my room” I said unapologetically.
Honestly I no longer trust anyone. I mean if Eze and Nene could actually plot my downfall within close range then anything is surely possible.
” I’m like your guardian angel Priestess Rana… I am the spirit lady who is assigned by the gods to guide and protect you here on earth. So make it easier for me to carry out my assignment, I had to stay by your side as a servant maiden” Amarachi explained sincerely but I wasn’t convinced at all.
Everything that Amarachi is explaining seems genuine and surprising to me.
It still didn’t change the fact that I am in doubt and feeling suspicious of what her true motives are.
who in my shoes wouldn’t be..?
” I’m sorry but I find it so hard to actually believe you Amarachi… If all that you’ve said is actually true then why didn’t you tell me all this sooner…?”
Amarachi sighed heavily knowing that it is going to be hard to request trust from a wounded woman like me
Already she feels sad merely looking at me but sadly she couldn’t stop the inevitable from happening because it was i who had sadly, yet unknowingly chosen that path.
” The ways of the spirit are entirely different from the human way of thinking. Priestess Rana…you already know that it is forbidden for a messenger of the gods to reveal his or her assignment of purpose to earthlings.” Amarachi said as she paused to inhale and exhale deeply
Surprisingly, all this while we were conversing Nene was just standing and staring at us without uttering a word. Eze on the other hand, kept roaming about unable to see his way.
” Priestess Rana I love you beyond how a servant would love her mistress… that’s why if I was actually permitted to tell you about the future… then I would have surely revealed to you all of Eze’s evïl schemes as well as the path you had blindly chosen to trail.
Hearing that, I was so puzzled!
” Are you telling me that you knew about all about Eze and Nene’s schemes against me and yet you stayed quiet…?” I asked quite shocked by the revelation
” Yes Priestess Rana… I knew all about it but like I said earlier I am not permitted to tell or forewarn you about the future.. and for that I’m sincerely very sorry” Amarachi said inaudibly and I could vividly see the sincerity in her eyes.
” Then why were you standing with Jack on that fateful day…? Tell me the truth Amarachi because I never believed that story you told me about it been for directions sake” I asked with my eyes suspiciously fixed on Amarachi. I needed to be fully convinced.
” You’re right my Priestess… it wasn’t for directions sake. That day I had to bribe Jack over to my side so he could divulge all he knew about Nene and her plans” Amarachi said to me and before I could reply, Nene cut in fuming all over
” That backbiter of a man! Now I understand why he was behaving so strange after the night we both witnessed your verdict on my husband!” Nene blurted out before she could stop herself.
From what she uttered earlier, I now know the answer to one of my puzzling questions. Oh! so it was actually Jack and not Amarachi like I had assumed..?
” Look who is calling another person a backbiter. Nene is it not the same you who had the audacity to report your own husband..? you exposed the verdict I placed upon him despite knowing how that would endanger him” I said aloud whilst rolling my eyes in annoyance
Nene smirked before she scornfully begun divulging more shocking revelations probably to get back at me
” Well it was actually a set up which as a weakling you woefully fell for! With the way you were so in love with my husband I know you would do anything to set him free from dying…” Nene uttered smirking and I nodded in agreement because she is right indeed!
” You’re right Nene and that is one of my greatest mistake and regrets… it was trusting too easily and loving blindly… No wonder sëx was the driving force of my relationship with Eze” I said with an emotional tone.
” Of course it’s simply because my husband loves making love to me and me alone. And you know what Rana…? from the very start, we had presumed that your virginity was the source of your powers and I had to plead with Eze to lure you into having sex with him… I was so disappointed when it afterwards turned out to be untrue…” Nene told me
“…we also thought it could be the dreadlocks on your head but after Eze cut off some part while you were resting in his arms after a long sëx night, it happens that your power didn’t actually lie on your hair..” Nene added.
As Nene said all of this, I turned to look at Eze roaming about.
I feel pãinéd as I remembered how he sexually brutalized me those nights.
Nene continued regardless of my obviously sour mood
” …anyways that’s now past tense Rana.. I’m glad that I still got to know the source of your powers and I have even disposed of it… and as for that Jack I will so deal with him after I’m out of here”
As Nene said all of this, renewed anger overwhelmed me again.
I begun feeling so foolish for being so blinded by my love for Eze.
I feel so pained for allowing my emotions deprive me of so many things; my heart, my virginity, my powers, my child and soon it will be my crown alongside the liberty to live in the village I’ve grown up in for all my life on earth.
As I thought of all my lost glory, I was unconsciously raging hot in ánger and my eyes flashed terribly reddish which signifies intense dānger.
” You need to calm down Priestess Rana. The message I was sent to deliver to you is that you are not permitted to harm them just yet… that’s why I had to stop you earlier from making a big mistake” Amarachi said in an attempt to calm me down but I was already out of control
” Why! hasn’t the gods seen all they made me go through..? I refuse to listen to them this time… after all they watched me lose my child amidst all my pleas to the…!” I thundered but Amarachi’s next words interrupted my words midway
” Well you can go ahead and do what your mind tells you but bear in mind Priestess Rana that every disobedience comes with a price!” Amarachi concluded and then she disappeared.
Only the gods knows what the price would likely be..? but what more do I even have to lose again when I have practically lost everything already…?
I am now left in a crossroad of succumbing to my justifiable anger or letting it all go.
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