DEBORAH THE WARRIOR PRINCESS

Chapter 8: An evil dream

There was the possibility of betrayal from Prince, and I did not want to leave any chances of betrayal to him, so I did something outrageous! Though, the motive was to deter anyone from destroying my country, but it was still a crazy strategy. I altered some components of the project in a very careful manner to ensure the destruction of the whole continent of Europe alone (i.e. If it detonates anywhere in Europe). My motive was, if you want me to go down, then we all sink together! My motive was due to a crazy kind of ideology that was in my mind, but I have discarded that kind of thinking, all thanks to a blossoming relationship with Christ.
Finally, we finished the project in Calisthenes. And as soon as the project was done, an unwelcome visitor showed up — his father! I wanted to hide, because I snuck into the country (i.e. I was an illegal immigrant! Don’t blame me, blame my uncle and Mr. Benjamin for opposing each other.) Prince helped me find a hiding place in the midst of the dimly-lit laboratory. Prince and his father spoke to each other for few minutes in low tones and left the laboratory together. Few minutes after they left, I dashed out of my hiding place and saw an unwanted wonder! (I don’t want to call it magic!) The NUFAME project was gone! I journeyed back to Sosthenes with one prayer that wouldn’t leave my mind, “God don’t allow Prince to try anything funny on that project!”
On that fateful night, while I was sleeping fitfully in my bedroom, I had a horrible dream!
The NUFAME project destroyed Europe! And there were only few survivors, not up to an hundred people, the list includes; I and Prince. Interestingly enough, the mystical forest at the boundaries of Europe (the one my uncle and Prince’s father were fighting each other for) was untouched by the explosion.
Prince looked so pitiable, he explained what had happened.
“We should never have worked on the NUFAME project.” Prince said sympathetically.
“Yeah! We made a costly mistake.”  I responded dejectedly.
The few survivors and I were entering into the dimly-lit areas of the forest at this point.
“The project wiped out my dad and killed so many people, your escape still remains a wonder to me…” He paused for a while, and continued, “The bunkers was our place of refuge in Calisthenes.”
“Same here.” I responded.
“We have to find food for the few survivors from this forest.” Prince said thoughtfully.
Prince turned to all the people behind him and gave out instructions to the already dejected and forlorn survivors of the explosion.
“Though our people have perished, but we cannot give up and we become carcass for the beasts to feed upon! We need to find food for ourselves, and will do it together as a team.” Prince paused and gave me a quick glance, then continued, “We will be splitting ourselves into groups of two, I will be with Deborah, we will all collectively try to find food from this jaded forest! Let us do this as we grieve our losses.”
And everyone cooperated with each other, we split into groups and went our separate ways, I and Prince were together. As we went deep into the forest, we encountered a chimera.
The chimera looked like a humanoid gorilla, I and Prince have heard of this mysterious creature before, it was a crazy invention of jobless scientists that were sponsored by my uncle and Mr. Benjamin, and at least that was what the rumors said. Now, the both of us knew that the rumors were not just facts, but real and raw information! This beast was not smiling, it was hungry, and it looked like we would make a good meal for a feast. Prince tried to scare the animal away, but we ended up in a corner due to the animal. It was the corner of a cliff!
The only way out was to jump into the unknown or be devoured! But the crazy part of me did something that was not so funny, I ran out of the corner and used myself to bait the animal to the top of the cliff, (I can be that crazy in the real world, I mean… stupidly bold), the beast took off in anger at my taunts and flew off the cliff! The good part was, the angry beast was not able to grab me, because the ground under me gave way, here comes the bad news! I was clinging to life by a line strand, because my hand was holding tight to a loose part of the rock, but the moment Prince got close to me in a bid to help me, the rock broke off, and I sank into the midst of nowhere! I actually sank into a waterfall.
In the next moment! I saw myself in a cave, covered in a blanket sitting near a very handsome young man, who calmly introduced himself to me.
“Hey! Sleeping beauty, you are finally awake!” He said excitedly.
“Who are you?” I responded.
“My name is Jordan.” He replied calmly, then continued, “I saw you drowning in the water of the Green hills… the beast is now dead.” He calmly stated.
His mention of the beast awakened me the more. He provided me food and shelter. Suddenly, I found myself playing chase with him in the forest parts that were close to the cave, and as the fun was becoming more exciting, Prince showed up, right in front of the both of us.
“Thank God, you are alive!” Prince said with great relief.
I looked like I did not want to leave Jordan, because I frowned at Prince when he tried to take my hands, then Jordan came in-between both of us.
“Who are you?” Jordan asked him sternly.
“I warn you, stay away from me!” Prince responded sharply.
I was visibly shocked at Prince's response to Jordan’s question, and what followed Prince’s response was the most unexpected thing ever! He began to brawl with Jordan, and they both killed themselves in the fight. I was appalled in every sense of the word. I began to weep over their dead bodies, and as I wept, the survivors gathered around me, they were visibly annoyed for a reason I did not seem to decipher, and they wanted to kill me, then I woke up!
Then, a still small voice spoke to me, it said, “This is what will happen, if you don’t change.” I was filled with remorse after hearing that verdict from God, I knew I needed to have a change of heart, so I prayed a little prayer, it was a simple one, “God, please help me. I am sorry, Lord.” And during the moment I uttered those words, I instantly knew the solution I needed to take, the heavens were opened upon my mind, I had to put an end to the NUFAME project by destroying it without destroying the lives of others.