Survival Of The Cursed

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 17: 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝕱𝖔𝖚𝖗

The Giant's hall was cold and silent. Nobody could say a thing or mutter a word due to sadness. The enormous beasts at the door just roamed, encircling their long, reptilian bodies to find a way in. With more hunger, yet, more patience.

Asa looked at the golden ring in her hand. It was just like yesterday, she remembered Iya Aduke. The woman who raised her like her very own. A woman of courage and strength. Even though she was blind and criticized for being a childless witch, that didn't bring her down. Asa closed her eyes and heard the voice of Iya Aduke calling to her.

'Aduke...my child.' She'd always called her Aduke as her middle name. Even though her family died just after her birth, Asa heard stories and held up to them because they were real. And those stories made her who she was. A fighter. For truth and freedom.

A survivor.

Asa held the ring tight in her hand while she let the tears flow freely down her cheeks. Atata too was heartbroken. It looked as if the gods were against him. The look on his face carried a question... Why?
Todun secretly smiled, as if watching them in sadness fueled him up. Atata woke up from his thought abruptly and checked himself. Something felt amiss. Checking the brown leather bag in his hands, he felt the emptiness and quickly checked inside.

"It's missing!" He jerked off the ground at once. "It's missing!" Nobody could understand him.

"Who took it?"

"I think the twin golden eggs are missing!" Sanmi muttered in puzzlement.

The old chief smirked at Asa while she noticed something strange in his eyes. He looked proud, all of a sudden.

"Where is your naked friend?" She raised an eyebrow.

The chief looked around innocently as if he had no clue.

"Grrrrrr! Gggrrrrr!" The sound came up again.

The roar from the lying beasts showed that they were up to something. The naked man was already in front of the Ninki Nanka. As their leader raised to him, the naked man trembled like a baby chick who had spent the night under an icy storm.

Shade quickly climbed the chair to check the window. As she stretched her sight, she saw the naked man's butt. He faced the beasts with a bag in hand.

"Who the heck told him to get out there? What is he doing alone out there?" She stormed.

Todun squeezed his mouth like something sour was in it and burst into a jittery laugh.

"What have you done, traitor? Who the heck are you, huh?" Shade jumped down the chair and pushed Todun on the chest. "It's your doing, right?"

"Take your hands off me, miss! You're not to boss me around!" He snapped at her.

Pissed, Shade balled her fist and gave him a hard blow. It smatched against his rectangular jaw while he rubbed his fingers against his jawline. Shade is a quiet lady but doesn't accept any form of immorality. As if the people that had died weren't enough.

"Hahahaha!" Todun neighed like a horse. Instead of pain, he cried out into laughter. He choked on the joy that filled his greedy eyes.

"You bastard! Who are you? An evil spirit?" The chief trumped and struck down his standing nose.

Todun fell and stood up, with blood dripping from one nostril.

"Maybe." He proclaimed proudly with no regret in his teary eyes.

"I'm serious here, jerk! You've killed us all!" Sanmi grabbed him by the top of his agbada.

The naked man's trembling hands raised the bag and the leader of the Ninki Nanka grabbed him with its mouth.