💯 SHEBA 💯
Episode 2 (Unedited)
Sheba’s POV
“Have you talk to her about it? She might re consider”
I hissed, ignoring the oldest priestess suggestion.
So she thought I wouldn’t have gone on my kneels in front of that wicked Laiza to plead for freedom?
I was so nervous, I didn’t know what she would do to me if I refused to pas-s the right message this year.
The priestess left the room when I wasn’t responding to her questions.
I sat on the wooden stool pondering about my life and how to escape Laiza.
I couldn’t marry Edward, he didn’t even attra-ct me one bit. Laiza must be insane, she was up to something.
The year’s processing has begun, it was almost time for me to climb the mountain again, I was in the spiritual house getting re-ady for the festival in seven days.
She truly gave me everything but I couldn’t give her the first thing she ever demanded from me. My marriage to the Prince should be by choice and not by f0rç£.
What becomes of me if I were to deliver her actual message? Start preparing to marry a spoilt prince? Then start birthing rotten kids too?
“What are you thinking?” I heard her feminine sweet voice in the room.
I turned, she wasn’t there with me, all I heard was her voice.
“Show me your face, are you serious about this madness? You would allow me marry him? Watch me suffer?” I cried out.
“Marry him first and see if you would experience any of those things you mentioned” Her voice echoed.
I sat back on the stool, heart ha-rd ened and grieving.
“I will” I said drawing something on the Sandy earth.
I heard her laugh hysterically, that was the last.
I didn’t feel her pres£nce, she vanished totally.
7 days later.
I did the rituals, sometimes I really don’t know how it happens, I feel fire burning inside of me, I feel too powerful to even walk, something pushes me from inside, I take more than one step at a time. Power, spiritual powers.
My eyes met with Edward’s, he stood in between his parents, his sister Maya stood next to the king. I gro-an ed, wishing that I could just strike him dead.
I was walk-running past the village square.
Everyone gave way, I shook like dried leaf, enmiting fire from my nostrils.
White men c@m£ from far and near, taking pictures and marvelling at the amount of magic I did unconsciously.
Finally, I rose up to the t©p of the mountain, I did just what she wanted.
“Greetings people of the earth, mother of all said peace, peace she wish you” I paused, my heart accelerated.
I staggered as a result of power.
“The goddess has taken it upon herself to chose a wife for the prince of this land” I looked down at the crowd, as little as ants.
“She chose I, Sheba Alexander as his bride” I ended.
Tears gushed down my eyes.
I took off the red belt that signifies who I was, every Eswa wears that.
There was uproar, I looked down at them, they look all alike and I couldn’t say who was who.
Maybe confusion or celebr@tion, I don’t know. I only saw a disorganized crowd.
“I haven’t given you freedom, wear your band” I heard her voice.
“Witch” I spat angrily.
I threw the belt to the earth, the drum and drum stick flowed.
She roared in anger.
I felt her unseen hand gr-abbing my n£¢k ti-ghtly, trying to choke life out of me.
“Behave or I teach you manner, down!”
She flung me to the earth, just like she did the other time.
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Maya’s POV
I thought maybe I didn’t hear her clearly, that message was for my family, my bad as-s brother.
Prince Edward to marry an Eswa? A known powerful vir-gin? Capable of hiding the earth un-der her foot?
Edward jumped in excitement, hvgging everyone that wanted to hvg him.
That was strange, Edward doesn’t believe in traditions, he said it was useless and mere superstitions.
Edward is arrogant, call him pompous, you are right.
Shoulders high and head up.
“My father rules the riche-st kingdom” His br@gging words.
To see him hvgging everyone gave me more reasons to think. Strange, really strange.
I was still frowning and trying to an-alyze Laiza’s message when the spiritual drum c@m£ ban-ging on the earth.
Everyone looked up at Sheba, she was struggling for breath, she held her n£¢k choking.
The next minute, she flung in the air like a paper, crashing straight into the earth and next to the drum.
Edward threw his royal staff to the floor, flinging his cap towards my face, he rushed at her helping her to sit up.
Really?
Edward?
Oh no, what’s going on? He haven’t been seeing Sheba secretly have him? Maybe yes, because he was always gallivanting around, ra-ping teenagers and Laiza haven’t done evil to him all the while.
Last year, I c@m£ here to cry to Laiza, Edward is giving our father heart problems, he had ruined the King’s name beyond repairs and he wasn’t even remorseful.
I had come to beg Laiza to do something, still there was no response.
Everything go on now was a surprise, Edward has questions to answer.
My brother that I know doesn’t love.
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Edward’s POV
She fainted, I carried her in my arms like a bride, the traditional worsh!ppers led us back to the spiritual house.
There, I watched her lie on her back as she was administered some leaves throu-gh the nostrils.
What really happened?
That this year’s message was for me? I am marrying the most beautiful woman in the land? The woman I have been secretly crushing on?
I smiled.
Edward is getting married, married to a powerful woman.
She sneezed.
I fli-pped.
Quietly and slowly, she slid her lids ap@rt.
I was the first person she saw, it was just us in the room.
I smiled at her.
She sat up in a rush, shaking her head and b©dy at a time.
“Out!” She roared.
“Hey, I mean no ……”
She stood on her feet before I could say whatever I had to say.
Swinging forth and backward, she transformed.
A bloody monster 👹 with long snags re-ady to tear human flesh into shreds.
I jumped out of the hut screaming.
The traditional worsh!ppers ran into the room to see what the problem was, I didn’t wait, I kept running until I reached the palace.
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“Eddy, what?” Maya and I collided at the stairs leading to the hall way.
I was p@n-ting, bending over and holding both kneels.
“Sheba, she….. She….” I breathed, wiping the sweat on my forehead off.
“She what?” Maya held my shoulders raising me to stand upright.
“She transformed, into a monster, very ugly one” I narrated.
Maya exhaled.
“Eddy, what’s it you aren’t telling me?” She asked searching my eyes.
I frowned.
“As in?”
“Were you seeing that Sheba of a lady before? I mean you were d@t!ngher before this message c@m£?”
I hissed at her question, what has that got to do with the pres£nt situation?
“Would you advice I ask a woman who bleeds blood from the eyes and emit fore from the nostrils out?” I asked, she shook her head negatively.
“But, you heard her at the mountain?”
“Yes, I did” I said not knowing what mood to put up.
What I saw scared the hell out of me.
“Are you going to take that? I mean you would marry her?” She asked providing her long royal laced scarf for me to wipe my face.
“Of course, he will” I heard my father’s voice.
I and Maya took side by side position looking in the direction of our parents who were just returning from the festival.
“Mom, dad, is the festival done for the year?” Maya asked.
“Done with a wonderful news for us, now let’s start printing invitation cards, we would be welcoming our wife in four months”
King Bright Mogana of Ogon town announced.
I and Maya exchanged glance “In for months?” We chorused.
“Is there a nee-d for delay? She must be married before the next festival since Laiza have freed her” My mom, Queen Victoria Mogana.
“What……what if I don’t want to marry her?” I asked with a shaking voice.
My parents laughed boisterously.
“Try it first, useless son” King Mogana spat.
He held his wife’s hand in his armpit as they pushed us off the way and went upstairs.
“What now?” Maya faced me.
“I seriously don’t know” I breathed holding both sides of my w@!st.
She k!$$£d my cheeks.
“Eddy, you would be just fine” She flashed me a heart felt smile.
I returned it.
She knows how to bring me into the best mood.
Maya isn’t just a sister, she’s a mother, a wife, a girlfriend, a gist mate, chef and everything.
“Come, we nee-d to talk you know?” She said beckoning on me to come with her to the family sitting room.
Sitting side by side, she ordered a maid to get us a cartoon jui-ce.
“What do you think?” She asked.
I dropped my head in my palms.
“I sincerely like her, she’s beautiful and I have been crushing secretly” I revealed.
She smiled.
“So? Marriage?”
I really don’t know, what if one day she kills me? It doesn’t look like she wants to get married to me.
“She’s too powerful, I never knew her powers were that much, what if she turns me into a rat someday?” I said.
She chuckled covering her mouth slightly.
“What do you feel for her? Forget the powers and her flaws, be sincere with yourself”
I ask de-ep into the couch.
“Love.
Something like that, I am not sure but I feel strange about her” I confessed.
I never had a girl, all I had was one night stands and the rest so I really can’t say what love feels like.
“Marry her Eddy, you can’t even say no, you know who chose her for you? You don’t want to be strike dead do you? Just comply” Maya warned.
TBC