CHAPTER 1 The meetup
The dark is their power and the rain is their enemy, the red moon makes them powerless, and they are the most powerful creatures on earth.
This creature had been on earth for 1000 years before humans discovered them.
They are called ibori, and they are in Nigeria, they live far away from humans and hate anything to do with humans.
They have an animal body but a human head.
They went to market with others disguised, they turn to fully human and bought varieties of things.
They like to dress extravagantly, and Gold is their favorite.
To cut the long story short, hmmmmm
Ajaka is the king of this creature ruthless and brutal he has a daughter called Kari she is an angry bird she hates anything human but unfortunately, one day,
She went to the market without taking the idabobo to turn back to animals, they are always weak in the human body during the rain.
She is in the market when rain wants to start. She noticed that she didn't take her idabobo. She runs but as the rain is approaching as her power is reducing she disappears but reappears.
She saw one hut and hid, unfortunately the slave hunters were around the place, and they saw her.
She tried to disappear, and she reappeared, she has weakened and has no energy again.
The slave hunters approached her and grabbed her and took her.
There is a hunter in the Bush is the prince of papala village, his name is prince Adele.
He saw Karl and the slave hunters, and he fought them and rescued her.
The rain is still falling heavily.
Kari cannot stand up again.
Adele covered her up with some leaves and made a fire.
A few minutes later, the rain stopped and Kari woke up and disappeared without saying a word.
KAri arrived at her village. The king and the people are worried about her and have been looking for her everywhere.
They asked her what happened and told them she forgot her idabobo and said she was saved by a human.
They are all murmuring and couldn't believe a human could save one of them.
The king warned all to be careful not to forget their idabobo because the rain will continue to fall till the gods of the rain go away.
All the village people replied to the king and warned each other not to be careless.
The messenger of king Ajaka of ibori land arrived at the palace to report that the humans are extending their farmland towards their territory.
King Ajaka said I will give them this last chance, let's move away from this place and move all our people to the deep forest.
The papala villagers extended their farmland and discovered that there were some people living inside their extended farmland before they extended it.
The farmers report this to the king of papala and the king sends his prince Adele to the forest to review what is going on.
King Ajaka of the ibori sent his people to burn down any traces that they can trace to them.
The princess kari led them to carry out the task given by his father before they arrived at the village. The papala people were already there.
The princess did not know what to do.
The king has warned them not to reveal themselves to humans.
The princess asked her people to stand on guard and allow her to go to the village.
She goes inside the village to confuse the people of papala.
And Prince Adele saw her and greeted her.
She couldn't recognize Adele at first, but with her power of smell she quickly remembered and thanked him for saving her life.
She said she is the owner of all the things they saw inside the hut that whenever she came to the market with her family from her village which is very far, that they stayed there,
And more also she would like to park all her belongings and go far away because she would not want to disturb their farmland and will find another place to stayed whenever they come on market day.
She packed her things and about to leave.
Prince Adele replied to her and said, you are not a human, you are an animal.
The moment her people that stand on guard heard that, they attack them, and hurt all those inside their abandoned village.
The papala farmers also use their charm and cutlass to fight them
But the princess and the prince couldn't control the situation again, and they needed to protect their people.
Kari Joined his people in fighting and also Adele.
The ibori people wanted to use a knife to kill prince Adele but kari saved him and she was hurt .
They stop the fight and try to help kari. But she said she is fine.
Adele thanks her for saving his life but Kari told him that is the way she will paid off her debt
That he should consider her debt paid and not to cross part with her again unless he will die.
And more also she said that they might be an animal but they are happy to be animal than human whose there heart is full of lies,hatred, betrayal, greed and selfishness,
They kill each other in any given opportunity.
I preferred to be an animal rather than a human, She said.
Adele tried to talk to her but she left with her people without hearing what Adele tried to say.
Kari and his people arrived at their village.
The king has heard the news that their identity has been revealed.
The king took the cutlass and wanted to kill the messenger sent with the princess for their failed task.
Kari told the king she is the one that failed his people, she explained all what happened and told them it is all her fault.
If you wanted to slay anyone is me you should slayI failed you and I failed my people she said.
Ajaka said ooooooooooooooooo we have been protecting our Identity not to be known since all this time and you just threw that away just for one day. You should have returned home.
Why did you have to fight with them? You should have left them with curiosity.
Kari ooooooooooo.
He hit his cutlass behind the princess hair and injured her small.
He said this is the last warning anybody that tried to reveal our identity again will be killed on the spot.
I forbid all of you to go to the market for now , only the guard will go and don't forget the gods of rain are around and any mistake now will lead to our disadvantage.
You have to keep a low profile every one.
Yes king. All of them answered.
They all left and went to their various places.
Kari's friend Ama is with her discussing what really happened and Ama said he didn't believe kari can make such a mistake of talking to humans or explaining things to them.
He asked kari if it is because gods of rain are around that she looks so weak both inside and outside.
Kari nodded her head and kept on thinking why she made such a mistake by explaining so much and revealing herself.