Godenzonen - sons of the gods

Godenzonen- sons of the gods (Episode 6)

“Do you swear with your lives to serve the supreme king, King Sochi, king of all Omira and Lord of all that lives, moves and breathes within it? Do you!” roared the menacing black warrior even as the blood of over a hundred men was still fresh on the sickle blades at either end of his rod.

The only response Dike got from those three black captains was their adoption of a fighting stance as they moved away from their prized hostage towards what seemed a likely death. Dike noticed the captains were wearing protective Kineros cowrie beads too and this further enraged him. He swore to himself that after killing them he would strip them of those beads and trace their source.

If the beads had come from Ndi-Isi in any city loyal to King Sochi, he would kill that magician with his bare hands. What followed next stunned me as Dike pulled out one of those circular discs packed with Terrenos energy, placed it in-between his teeth and then crouched to the ground like a tiger set to spring upon its prey.

In one swift movement, he seemed to strike his head with force upon the ground even with the Terrenos disc still in his mouth with its jagged razor sharp edges, Rather than sustain a nasty self-inflicted injury, Dike amazingly passed through the rocky ground head-first in a manner so fluid it seemed as if the ground were actually quicksand rather than the rocky earth which it was.

The three captains were left confused as Dike vanished before their eyes by entering into the ground. Despite being veterans of many years in combat, they had never seen a fighter like Dike before and had also never experienced the kind of scenario they now found themselves in. As they looked around themselves in bewilderment, their hostage stealthily crept away hoping to escape from his captors whilst they were in a state of wonder.

They were not left in wonderment for long, as the rocky earth beneath them suddenly sucked all three of them in at once, up to necks, so that only their heads remained above ground. Out of the ground then rose Dike, towering over his conquered adversaries like an angel of death. The look on his face, one of morbid disenchantment.

“In the name of the king...” Dike started to mouth the traditional words spoken to invoke the king’s authority by proxy for executing a person; particularly one of high standing. He was supposed to go on and mention the name of the king, in this instance, King Sochi- the black king of Omira; however Dike did not mention Sochi’s name in his invocation of the king’s authority... instead he deliberately mentioned his own name.

The Red book showed me that this act, of replacing the king’s name with his own, was a glimpse into the heart of the warrior who desired above anything else in existence; to be king of Omira.
“... Aham bu Dike (I am Dike)!” This exclamation was the last thing those three captains heard in the land of the living before Dike’s sickle blade took their heads off their shoulders in one fell swoop.

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The crown Prince who had been held hostage but managed to escape under the cover of death’s chaos, had gotten to the point in the pass where the walls had caved in to block the frontal advance of the now deceased troop of warriors. He was trying, desperately, to climb the fallen rocks when Dike (who had temporarily ignored his flight in order to retrieve the Kineros cowrie beads which those three captains were wearing) caught up with him.

Crown Prince Amor of the lower kingdom was a non-black (his father was one of a few non-black monarchs in Omira) and the look on his face when Dike grabbed him was that of one who had been caught stealing from an angel of death. Dike growled at the crown Prince, a non-black whose privilege of birth had necessitated the killing of three brave black warriors. He thought to slit the throat of Prince Amor for this, especially as there were two hundred other suspects who could be blamed for his murder, but the Prince opened his mouth to reveal a deep secret to Dike in exchange for his life.

Crown Prince Amor had been taught by his father that there was no shame in whatsoever a person did to avert death’s gaze when the gaze of death falls on a person. The secret which he revealed to Dike was the most precious piece of knowledge he possessed but it would have been exceedingly useless to him in the grave.

Even then, in revealing his great secret, he took a huge risk in hoping that it would represent a thing of sufficient importance to Dike to make the warrior spare his life in that moment when death through him was already tugging at the Prince’s soul.

It was a risk that paid off profitably as Dike having received the enlightenment of the Crown Prince’s secret, slung Prince Amor over his left shoulder and in two Kineros-powered leaps scaled the great height that separated him from his flyer. His first leap put him atop the rocks that had blocked off the advance of the troops, while the second took him to the top of the elevation several hundred feet above ground.

There was a wonderful looking machine waiting for him there that was like nothing I had seen upon the earth in my own time. The people of Omira called them flyers and they came in diverse shapes and sizes, the commonality among them being that they were powered by Kineros energy. These machines were used for flying through the air, sometimes at quite remarkable speeds.

The one Dike used to convey Prince Amor and himself was shaped like a bird’s feather and was designed by the military as a conveyance for stealth and speed. It could carry only two persons and was engineered for vertical take-off.

Its irregular shape made me doubt its ability but once it was air-borne, the portion of the machine that represented the feather’s quill became super-charged with Kineros energy and the machine flew at astonishing speed right before my hitherto doubtful eyes.

This was the life Dike lived before he became Godenzonen. As Godenzonen even though he was subordinate to the supreme king of Omira- King Meze, Dike’s comportment was largely that of one who was subject to no other's authority. His Alaye, a magnificent breed of half-human that he affectionately named Pado(meaning great friend), was in the eyes of many the greatest ever half-human created using the authority of ‘ala’.

Pado was as one of Godenzonen. He had great powers and his control over them was masterful in expression. Many Godenzonen secretly envied Pado for his breath-taking abilities but none dared to allow their envy translate into open or even subtle negativity towards Pado as there was always the spectre of his closest friend Dike looming not far away.

The two were almost inseparable and if in seeing one it were as if one was seeing the other, it was because they mirrored each other so well. Many Godenzonen tried secretly to replicate what Dike had done in creating an Alaye that was so powerful and commanded respect like Pado but they failed woefully. They could not comprehend the reason behind their failure to emulate their fellow Godenzonen but the truth was they failed not for lack of effort or creativity but for a lack of selflessness .

When Dike created his Alaye- Pado, he emptied himself in the process, holding nothing back whatsoever from his creation. He did not seek to create something he was greater than, he sought to create something greater than himself. This was the secret behind the extraordinary Pado.

I saw from the Red book that Godenzonen were gathered together one day along with the rest of Na’ari who they counted as their peers. They were gathered under a pavilion that was shaped somewhat like a snail's shell.

Now the snail shell pavilion had Kineros energy controlling its air-conditioning as a light gust of wind was retained within the shell using Kineros, which carried the coolness from two large balls of clean water hanging above the pavilion’s elite audience either side of the pavilion. Balls of water which were held up in the air without a vessel by Aquamos energy, the energy of water.

In an open space outside the pavilion, a spectacle was unfolding which I presumed was for the entertainment of Na’ari who were there gathered.

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