THE ROD OF COMMAND

THE ONLY HOPE

THE ONLY HOPE

That is why, having a male child is so important to us, we view a male child as a blessing from the sea gods. Anyone of us who got pregnant and gave birth to a male child will be considered as the mother of their future hope.

But the humans appeared from no where and invaded our world, they took our mothers away and our treasures to the human world. At that time all our fathers were not around and our mothers had little strength to fight the humans, so they were all captured”.

The little Ebres asked, “what now happen after the merman returned?”.

She answered, “they combined their powers through the pool of fate and brought as much as they can bring back from our mothers through the help of the leaders of our fathers but he was killed by the humans and he never returned back to us, also our fathers who entered the pool of fate never came out till this very day”.

“But how does the human find your island?” asked the little Ebres.

“That is what we found difficult to understand at the time, later we noticed someone so powerful lead them here and open the invisible gate, no ordinary humans dare see or open the invisible gate to our island. Only strong powerful humans can open it by going near the sea, drawing any big gate, but can only open through a Dragonfish. Places besides the gate drawdown, the Dragonfish is the key to open the invisible gate to our island”.

So they finally arrived at the mermaids home, as the chief mermaid saw the little Ebres, she smiles again just as she smiled when she saw Evelyn, “you must have been here to take your friend away little human, please come closer to me because you are already here to save our world”.

So the little Ebres instead of moving closer as the chief mermaid ordered, she moved closer to Evelyn to hug her but she could not hold her, neither could Evelyn hold her.

The chief mermaid seeing everything that was going on she knew the little Ebres was not in her complete body, so she said “go back the little human and lead our savior back here in your real form, I have heard about him and I have been expecting him for so long”.

Then Evelyn asked, “what do you mean old woman, who is he that will save your world?” .

“His name is Delmar the prince of Shashiah, the son of powerful Queen Sisiana of the underworld. He is our only hope to restore our world”.

Evelyn does not understand the reason Delmar at times acts strange, and why he had a lot of secrets, she said in her heart, now I can understand, why am I so naive not to know for so long”.

Later after hearing everything the little Ebres spirit returned back to her body, after more than six hours, she opened her eyes to the real world, the human world. She looked tired and she wanted to lose consciousness, but Delmar grabbed her back to her feet and positioned her to where to sit down, relaxed and regained her strength.

But after some seconds, she fainted again, that time Delmar carried her and placed her in a bed to regain her consciousness.

After some hours, the little Ebres was still in the bed, not regaining her consciousness yet. Delmar received a call from Helena who has been suspecting him to be the Hero Angel. He can not pick the call but asked Dehina to pickup the call since he can not let go of the little Ebres hands, as Dehina pick up the call, she heard the voice of Helena calling, “Delmer turn on the TV, there was a suicide terrorist attack at the hair Port, people have been taking as hostages”.

Helena purposely called to know the reaction of Delmar even though she was not sure if Delmar was the Hero Angel, after her words, she was waiting for Delmar to reply to her but the voice she heard was Dehina's voice.

“Helena, Delmar is not with his phone right now, may I ask why you are calling him for that, or are you still suspicious of Delmar being the Hero Angel?”

She answered, “hmm, I just want to know where he is,” she did not know the answer to give Dehina so she hung up the call immediately.

Delmar knew Helena has been suspecting him, so he asked Dehina to go and disguised herself as the Hero Angel, and released the hostages from the hands of the suicide terrorist.

When Dehina got there, everyone thought she was the Hero Angel because she was good at disguising herself to anybody or anything she wanted, she even disguised herself to Delmar's form, his shape, his height, his white dress and his long hair, so everyone called her the Hero Angel.

When she appeared at the front of the building, the journalist and the reporters tried to do what they do the most, what they love doing as they rushed to take her picture thinking it would make the headline of their newspapers, and TV, but she disappeared again to the middle of the hostages.

Since the hostages were too many and Dehina could hide herself at the middle of the hostages, only three to five of the people taking has hostages among the rest could noticed someone had joined them, seeing her dress, they thought she was the one and they summon up their courage because their saviour has come who will free them from the hands of the suicide terrorist.

In their hearts they said “now we have the hope to live,” as she noticed one of them was getting too overly confident, she whispered to him and gave the rest a sign to keep silent.

One of the suicide terrorist who saw Dehina as the the Hero Angel when she arrived immediately called his boss saying, “boss the Hero Angel is here, I saw him but suddenly he vanished”.

Then the boss of the suicide terrorist shouted, “be at your guard, he can not stop our mission, we just have five more minutes to blow up this building, I know you are here, but we are not afraid of who you are because I must tell you that we have signed to die here and this people will all perish with us.

We have been deprived of our rights, we have nothing to worry about because they took everything away from us, we have no families now so what can we regret about? There are ten people we want to take down from this building who belong to the sons and daughters of the people who put our lives in this mess, but what can we do? The rest are so unlucky and they will also meet their deaths”.

Dehina never replied the man even as the man was throwing tantrums so that Dehina who they thought she was the one, but instead she became invisible and take down the suicide terrorist one after the other, as soon as the boss of the suicide terrorist saw that his men were all taken down, he took one of the hostages to buy out more time for the last terrorist who was yet to complete the setting of the explosive device.

“I know you do not want anyone to die here but I will assure you of the death of the man I was holding now if you refuse to stop, give up now because you and the rest can not escape the explosion soon to happen from now”. Said the boss of the suicide terrorist.

To show that her power is incomparable to the humans, Dehina became visible to everyone in the form of the Hero Angel and with just the command of her eyes, the gun at the hand of the suicide terrorist man who holds one of the man as hostage to buy out more time, became so hot and burn his palm hands.

Immediately he threw the gun away with a heavy scream, and after that his hands began to turn as if the hand was shifting away from the normal position, then the man knelt down and was bound with a black rope.

After that, Dehina runs to meet the last suicide terrorist who was setting the explosive device, and caught him. She took the explosive device and disappeared to the middle of the sea and threw it there, after some minutes, it exploded but it of course did no harm even to the fish. They were all driven to a safe place by Dehina because she can communicate with the fish, telling them to move far far away.

Later the suicide terrorist were all arrested by the police and the hostages were all saved by Dehina, the hostages keep testifying what they experienced.

Helena was watching the news about him in her Mercedes Benz car.

Rushing home to wait for Delmar to catch him red handed as the one. When she got home, she saw Delmar taking care of the little Ebres, though she was not surprised because she already sent her friend to check if Delmar was inside and her friend called her that Delmar was taking care of a young girl who seemed to be sick to her.

Though the little Ebres is not sick but loose conscious as she travels away from the human world to the Mermaids island, she saw as Delmar was holding her hands, so she thought she was sick.

That was during the news of the Hero Angel.

But Helena still can not accept that Delmar was not special or different from them. As she saw Delmar, she asked, “what happened to her, is she having a fever?”

Delmar replied, “she will be fine”.

Helena tried to calculate the time Delmar had spent inside to the time of the news of him, so she asked in a cunning way, “how long has Ebres been having fever?”

Delmar answered, “it started more than four hours ago, but she will be okay”.

“Oh really i am so sorry Ebres, get well soon my dear hmm,” Helena replied and she went directly to her room thinking suspiciously.

When Dehina returned from saving the hostages from the hands of the suicide terrorist, she saw the little Ebres sitting down after regaining her strength again after she fainted. She has returned back from the Mermaids island, after her search for Evelyn. Then she quickly sat beside her, holding her hands, then placing her right hand on the forehead of the little Ebres to feel if the fever was totally gone, or how she was, maybe she was totally alright.

Then she asked, “Are you totally feeling fine, is your body totally okay?”

“Yes Dehina, I am fine now,” the little Ebres answered. And she hugged Dehina with her wet eyes, “thank you Dehina for everything, you are my mother, my father, my friend, you are everything to me because I do not know what could have happened to me without you in my life”.

Dehina separates herself from the hug and she smiles with wet eyes too feeling a great joy she never has felt.

“Before I never knew what love is, the joy of having a family, but you changed my whole life to a happy one, I never have feelings for anyone because I do not know what it means. Can you believe I was so happy today because I saved a lot of people? I now feel the joy of doing good things.

No wonder the good people always feel happy, we are family now Ebres, and I will protect you”.

After their discussion, Delmar asked them to join him at the dining table, and Helena join them too, “wow this is delicious, Helena said, Delmar was thinking Helena wanted to bring up the news of the Hero Angel, so he asked, “really, is it really delicious, am not good in cooking?”

Dehina was monitoring Her eyes and tried to know what Helena was after, but she continued eating, looking at Delmar briefly. Later in the night, when everyone has gone to bed, Delmar, Dehina and the little Ebres never sleep because they are waiting for Helena to finally sleep, so the three of them meet to discuss what the little Ebres searched out, since Delmar never got the chance to asked the little Ebres because she was too weak when she came back from the mermaid island.

The little Ebres was happy to tell Delmar that Evelyn is safe and she is healthy at the mermaid home saying, “I saw Evelyn, she is saved and healthy, she was at the mermaid island, not from this world”.

Delmar asked, “not from this world, you mean the mermaid island is not on this world?”

The little Ebres answered, “yes, the mermaid island is from another world”. Dehina asked “how can we go there since it is not in this world, no I will go there instead of you Ebres”.