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The Dare!

Episode six

“ Sir, we beg you , we are still small sir, they sent us here sir. The chiefs said if gun cant penetrate through you, cutlasss will kill you. Please we beg you sir, don’t kill us, we have not married sir please. They told us you only made undue noises, that you cannot fight at all, they said you are a small boy that if we scare you, you will collapse. We beg you, your highness, forgive us please”. The two palace guards chorused together still on the same spot. “ you this boys are stupid, the chiefs told you that I, BASHORUN ADEWALE is not powerful and you believed that. Don’t you know who I am? If I am not powerful, how do think I enforce law and order in the whole kingdom? If to say I am not powerful, how will I be able to do all these that I am doing in the whole kingdom? You are so stupid for not seeing that”. The Bashorun replied them. 

“ sir, we just got into the palace some days ago, we’ve learnt our lesson, we won’t be stupid anymore, please forgive us”. The two pleaded for mercy. The Bashorun looked at them disdainfully, “this will serve as a lesson to fools like you who will want to try this kind of thing you did. Today, we are making history again, Sapengo, where are you” “ I am here, my lord” “you and Salake will……” “ what is that your highness? We will get it done for you in a jiffy!”. Bashorun ordered them to get him a big cutlass and told them to take the two guard from the palace to his own private execution ground which is at the front of his house. They were also ordered to get a bowl ready fo the execution of the two guards. The two guards were tied to a V-shaped stick, the Bashorun off his cloth remaining his trouser on him, one could see his heavily built body as he off his cloth. Indeed, Bashorun Adewale is a built man! 

He raised the cutlass up saying, 

“Ogun, these are lambs that I want to behead

I am about to spill their blood

Accept their blood as a sacrifice

Let it serve as a lesson to other fools in the world!

Ogun, you are to be praised!”.

Fiammmm, he beheads them! He cut their heads at the same time. Immediately, he carried their heads one after the other and he drank the blood naturally as it comes out of the head. Blood filled his mouth as he took the head and placed it on his hands. To be candid, such a thing has never happened in the whole kingdom. He looked fiercer. It was indeed history in the making, THE ONLY MAN ON EARTH THT HAS EVER DRINK THE BLOOD OF A HUMAN BEING FROM THE SAME PERSON’S HEAD. All his servants looked at him and shouted

“LONG LIVE THE KING

LONG LIVE THE GREAT BASHORUN

LONG LIVE THE LION

LONG LIVE ADEWALE

YOU WILL SURELY OVERCOME YOUR ENEMIES

YOU ARE GREAT AND YOU WILL BECOME MORE GREATER THAN THIS

HAIL THE GREAT BASHORUN ADEWALE!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The Bashorun looked at them fuming with blood, here in here out, everyone looked at him with more fears added to their existing fears. He dropped the cutlass and find his way back into his charm room. As he got to his charm room, he placed the heads there and made some incantations on it before going back to his inner chamber to take a rest 

The guards packed the remaining lifeless body and take it to the g***a evil forest to be eaten off by wild animals, they also pack the other materials left and take them to their various places. The people who were watching from afar all exclaimed and find their way to the market squares to disseminate the news over there. 

“ Bashorun Adewale, that man, is a wicked being…………” a slim man is seen talking with his fat friend in the market before the latter broke in. “what’s happened to him?” the fat man asked. “ don’t you heard of what happened at his house yesterday?”. “ I do, but I don’t want to be the one to break that kind of news that is why I didn’t bother to say anything about it here”. The fat man replied. This issue was the main trend that keeps circulating round the whole kingdom. Everyone is seen talking with his/her partner about the execution of the two palace guards that took place at the Bashorun’s house, the issue is going out of hands as the matter keeps going hard and harder. Everybody is feeling sad and unhappy for this kind of attitude done by the great Bashorun of the land, most people weren’t happy for this kind of behaviour. They all looked forward for a day when he will stop all these unruly act of his. “ Bashorun, Bashorun Bashorun!” one of his guards rushed in like a mad man that is being chased away from the street. The guard is said to have visited the market and was being stoned by the market people when they noticed that he is one of the guards to Bashorun. He was able to get information from the reaction of people towards him that they were all against the behaviour exhibited by the Bashorun at his house the day before. The people were cursing him as well as the Bashorun himself. The guard narrowly escaped death by reading some of the incantation used for disappearing in case of danger, all guards have this as they were taught by the Bashorun. 

 “Who is that? Is that not you, Sapengo? What happened to you? Why are you panting like a dog who is loosed?”. The Bashorun entered asking his guards rhetorical questions. “Baba, the people in the market are raining curses on you, your highness. They grouped themselves in twos discussing all what transpired here yesterday. Even on the street that’s the trending issue going on in the kingdom. Please your highness; find solution to this before it goes worst. Or do you want us to go there and bring their heads here for you?”. “ what are you waiting for waiting for? Get up and swing to action! Get your co – guards and open fire on them all. Don’t spare any of them both old and young let them feel the power of a great man. Be fast! Don’t be a coward! Get ready for the clarion call.”. The Bashorun ordered immediately. “your wish is my command your highness”. Sapengo replied and he jumped outside. He called his other guards and inform them of the order they asked to carry out. The other guards called themselves together and off they went to the market square. The four major guards set off for the awesome journey to the market square, with Sapengo and Salake taking the lead! They take with them guns and cutlasses. 

Those who met them on the way started running helter shelter due to the fact that they were aware that they are meant for making another trouble as they were armed with dangerous armour. To be candid with everyone reading this story, Bashorun Adewale is indeed feared by his foes through his servants! They got to the market square after minutes of trekking, they disbursed themselves in various angles and corner of the market square. One person in the north, one in the west, one in the south and the last one in the east. “ Bashorun Adewale is a crazy being, that stupid man, he killed those two innocent palace guards like they were dogs. Hell will be the abode of Bashorun Adewale!”. One fat woman lamented. “this woman talks too much, what a lousy woman she is! I will make sure I target her mouth and she will go straight to hell! Let me cork my gun very well”. Sapengo said this and he made a firing shot and gave the signal to others. He made his first shot and it hit the woman exactly where he targeted, the mouth! The other guards started the firing and the whole market went into pandemonium! Everyone leaves his/her stalls, scattering all over the market. The greedy ones among them who were busy packing their food stuffs were hit on the leg. There’s one who was hit, he shouted, “oro o’’ everything now seems like there is war going on between two communities. 

 “ah ah ah, I know my boys will surely do it, ah ah, Sapengo, that’s my boy, see how this goats(human beings are being personified as goats by the Bashorun) are running and shouting. Oh, see this woman, she’s not even putting on anything to cover her nakedness! Ohh see this beautiful damsel! Wow what a beauty! I will make sure I marry this girl. She will bore me the child I will use for next year’s ritual for this great magic box I’m using to view the whole kingdom! Sapengo, I command thee and your fellow guards to seize fire and come back home!”. The Bashorun said looking at his magic box. HE commanded them through his magic box. They all stop the shooting and of they go back to the house. It was another bad moment recorded in the kingdom. 

 As they got back home, Bashorun decided to reward them for the work they did for him. He ordered four female maids to sleep in each of the guards room for the night. They were very happy at the king gesture the Bashorun showed to them. It was indeed a night to be remembered by the guards as they enjoyed themselves to the fullest with a girl each in their room. What an opportunity for them to relax their body!