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Mermaids Pots of Death Part 1

                                                  Mermaids Pots of Death

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Lisa, the stream goddess watched the activities of what was happening outside in the human's communities around her territory through the magic window in her underwater chambers.

Lisa knew about the plan of some slave hunters' agenda to attack Odogbagede community in order to enslave some of the people. And she was ready to checkmate the attack with a surprise that would be waiting for the armed slave hunters.

When the chief priest of Odogbagede came to her with a message from the high chief of Odogbagede; she had a watertight plan ready by which she could protect her territory from the slave hunters; and she told the chief priest about her plan of how to defeat the armed men.

The chief priest left the stream goddess with a confused expression on his face; and the goddess laughed at his receding back through her magic window under the water as the man walked back to the Community; the chief priest was full of sorrow.

The priest went straight to the brick-built Palace of the village head, and as he stepped into the royal court, he noticed that other chiefs were already seated waiting for his arrival.

The priest felt very important because all the chiefs were waiting for him, he bowed his head towards the high chief first as the head of the Community and then waved his staff of office in greetings to the rest of the chiefs.

"Take your seat," the high chief pointed to a vacant seat on his right hand. "How did it go with the goddess?" The high chief asked the priest. "Well, I don't know if there is a solution yet," the priest said, without looking at any of the chiefs, but he cast his eyes on his staff of office which was on his right hand; and that was a sign of uncertainty.

All the chiefs were shocked, one of the chiefs asked; "What do you mean priest of the stream?" "Say it in a plain language to us, Lisa's priest," another chief said, looking very scared. The priest opened up; "Lisa, the stream goddess said her daughters will defend us, and that is what is disturbing my mind now."

However, the high chief knew what the goddess meant because of his personal encounter with the goddess and her mermaid daughters in the past, the high chief knew that Lisa's mermaid could transform themselves into anything under the sun. And the high chief decided not to reveal what he knew about the mermaids to his chiefs.

And the high chief then asked; "How can fishes fight and defend a human community?"

All the chiefs were looking at themselves, waiting for others to speak. "This is becoming complicated and scary," one of the chiefs finally said to no one in particular. "We should not have gone to the goddess in the first instance, but you the priest suggested it," the high chief said, out of frustration.

"Yes, I suggested it because you cannot take any important decision without consulting the goddess first. Moreover, the goddess told me many times that she will not allow any tribal war to destroy our village as long as we pay her homage in our annual festival and offer sacrifices to her," the chief priest replied, in defense of himself.

The high chief resisted the temptation of revealing what he knew about those mermaids, but how can mermaids defend his community? He asked himself.

"But my question is, how is Lisa going to defend us with her daughters? I mean; we all know that the goddess' daughters are mere fishes in the stream," the high chief further said, helplessly looking at the faces of other chiefs in his palace.