Urenma (The River Goddess) - Episode 25

 

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Back in their hut he woke Olachi from sleep and told her of his suspicion that something might be wrong “So what do you want us to do now obi?” “I think we should use the bush path behind our house and rush down to the market square; mama did not go that way for nothing. I think the plot Ntani revealed to mama may have begun; the gods are up to some mischief again” “Aren’t we acting too paranoid here, after all papa went to the land of the spirits and beat them . I think we should put our faith in papa and mama to fix whatever this might be” “Ola, you haven’t been listening, have you? We are talking about Ojadili here! A man whom even the gods dread, Ntani told mama the gods have designs to wake him to fight papa, and believe me when I say this; the gods have woken him, or about to I feel it strongly. If he is the one mama want after then we should not be here expecting our parents to do just fine against them” Ola yelled “Aaaah! Ojadili is famous only because he hasn’t met us in a fight!” Groping in the dark she found her two blades and shot out of their hut like lightening. Obiakor had to race very fast to keep up with her

At the market square, Obinze holding his machete firmly crouched in the bush as he inched closer to the spot where Urenma stood

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. Above her a swarm of glowing insects illuminated the market place. The fire insects were no ordinary insects, they were from the spirits world and had come to perform a ritual at the market pace. Their presence meant that a heinous ritual was being performed in the river world. She knew exactly what the ritual was about-Ojaidli was being reincarnated.

With her hands akimbo and her face furrowed with rage, she starred at the congregation monster insects from the underworld. She knew she had to stop the insects, the gods had gone too far in their bid to return her to the river world and to save face from what Obinze did to them when he came fighting for her return to the land of men. Scooping some sand from the ground she blew her breath on it & the grains of sand shot into the air like an array of arrows shot from many bows. The insects hit the ground burning with flames. Urenma spat over them & said, “Go back to the gods and tell them that the princess of the gods herself stopped the ritual. Tell them I am waiting for them and their Ojadili” She turned to leave only ro see her husband, standing with his machete firmly grasped.

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. The muscles of his arms and thighs contracted and pulsated. The look in his face clearly told of his disdain for the gods who sent the insects “Obi m calm down, not even a thousand Ojadili can stop this love which we have found, not in a million years. The gods have broken their pact with you and have drummed the beats of war; I hope for their sakes, they are ready to dance it”

While the words were still in her mouth, Obiakor and Olachi stormed out of the woods, their blades gleaming in the light of the moon as their eyes darted about for enemies to hack down. Obinze was so filled with anger over the treachery of the gods that he spared not a word for his two children. Ola went to her mother & asked, “Where is the god-forsaken Ojadili?” “He comes, and soon he shall arrive”
“Then we shall wait for him” Ola replied her mother stoically. The family returned home not saying one word to each other on their way back

THE RESSURECTION

Deep within the dark caverns of the river world, Nshaa and the gods he led worked their fingers sore to bring to life their gruesome scheme “If the snake fails to show its venom, the little children will use it to tie firewood! This day we bring to an end all legendary tales of men coming to our world to take out kind with their filthy heroics” Nshaa’s voice could be heard resonating through the walls of the caverns were they performed the ritual which was to bring to life the dead remains of Ojadili. Standing over Ojadili’s carcass was Atari, a ruthless god who for his wickedness was chained at the deep ends of the caverns by the council of the gods. In his blind hatred for love. Nshaa would break the vows of the gods and unleash Atari into Ojadili body to go destroy Obinze and all who would dare to stop his scheme to have Urenma returned to the river world as a princess of the gods.

As the elder gods themselves made atrocious incantations with veiled faces, summoning the forbidden and dammed powers of the river world, Atari began to dissolve into the remains of Ojadili.

NTANI’S RAGE

When Ntani heard word of what the evil gods were bent on, she squealed all she was told to the disgruntled princesses of the river world and in their native rage, they elected to revolt and made a march to the elder gods from bringing Ojadili back to life. When Ntani and the princesses got to the caverns, they got far more than the welcome they expected. Nshaa was not only on the cusp of bringing Ojadili back to life in an evil god body he also had unleashed an army of dammed spirits chained for million’s years.