Ophidia

CHAPTER SIX ( The healer. )

    When Mupo woke up, his leg was covered in bandages. To his left laid the girl who he was with, she

was still unconscious and on his right was a girl seated, who had on a long black skirt with a white

sleeveless top. She looked about 20 years old with brown skin and long curly hair that was tied back

with a Bango. She had glass jar of a blue glowing liquid that she was pouring into a cup. She looked at

Mupo.

    "Ohh good you're awake, here drink this.",she said while handing the cup to him. Mupo just looked at

her. "If you want to get better you should drink this."

    "Who are you and where am I?",Mupo asked the girl.

    "Ohh I'm sorry my name is Jenka Vunga and you're in the Mamba temple"

    "Mamba temple?" Mupo realised that he was in a temple and it looked really clean, considering

that no black Mamba has had access to it in a thousand years. The temple was beautiful it had

black marble pillars with a black marble floor and roof. It had a fountain at it's center, with water

flowing into a pond filled with black water. He was surprised that it was still a intact. He had never

been to the Mamba temple but from the books he's read it was far from the cyto forest, but closer

to skalia ,he immediately tried to get up, but his leg hurt very much. He was worried about reaching

skalia. But luckily the Mamba temple was was a day's journey away from skalia. "How long was I

asleep?",He asked.

    "One whole day",said a voice that Mupo heard come from behind him. It was the man who saved him

at the cliff.

    "Who are you?" Mupo asked.

    "Ohh I'm Benga Muumbo", he said.

    "What is going on here?"

    "I knocked you out with my club by accident when you were with your lady- "

    "She is not my lady."

    "So I felt guilty and brought you here for treatment. But I saved you from getting eaten by a

bunch of crawlers"

    "So you're a healer?"

    "No Jenka is, I'm just her helper, you never told us your name by the way."

    "I'm Mupo kimba"

    "And your lady?"

    "She's not my... I don't know what her name is."

    "Why not?" Jenka asked.

    "Look I don't mean to be rude,but I don't even know you people",Mupo said. "I'm supposed to be

going to Skalia to see the choosing of the Njoka. And it's all her fault I'm in this stupid mess."

    "My name is Wolani Jima",said the girl who he was with. She said it as she was waking up.

    "Nice to know", Mupo said to her." Thanks for almost having me killed. Now if you'll excuse me..." he

tried to get up and he succeeded. "Ahh! ",He cried as his leg hurt when he put pressure on it.

    "You need some more rest",Jenka said.

    "No! I'm going back to cyto for my Zebra and then I'm going home. This trip was a big mistake." He

continued limping as he walked to the exit.

    "Mupo, I'm -", Wolani tried to speak,but she fainted again. The poison from the crawler really

messed her up. Mupo just looked at her unconcious body and said.

    "Keep your eye on this one. She'll steal all your things once she's kicking."

    "Wait ",said Jenka. "You'll need to take your medicine if you want to get better."

She got the medicine,put it in a vile and rolled it over to Mupo. Mupo just looked at it as he was limping

away.

    "At least just try it ", Jenka said as she was walking to pick it up, when she stood up she revealed her

tiny stature of 155cm. "It'll be hard for you to make it in your condition. But this will help you a whole

lot."

    "I told you I'm fine",Mupo kept limping but his leg hurt so badly that he fell to the ground. Benga

and Jenka rushed to help him, but when they tried to help him he just refused their help again. Then

he got up again, but you could see the pain in his eyes. He struggled really hard to make it to the front

door. When he was approaching the front door, Jenka rushed to open the door for him." I don't need

your help."

    "I know, I do this for all my visitors and patients." She said with a smile on her face. Mupo just

continued limping as he made it through the door. Then when he passed the staircase, he stopped ,

turned around and said

    "Thank you for everything you've-" A flash of light cut him off. It was so bright that Benga

was temporarily blinded. Jenka closed her eyes immediately she saw the flash emerge. But when the

light dimmed out, There was no one there, it was as if Mupo had disappeared. She tried searching the

surrounding area, but there was no sign of him. She walked into the temple and sat beside Wolani and

Benga.

    "JENKA! I CAN'T SEE!" Yelled Benga." AM I BLIND"

    "Let me have a look at your eyes. No but you've been blinded temporarily. It will wear off in about

four minutes." Then Wolani's temperature rose really fast and she started turning pale. "Benga, can

you see?"

    "Yes but not very clearly."

    "I need you to get me the Zunka elixir . It's bright pink, you will not be able to miss it"

    "Okay" he rushed to the medicine room and looked around his vision was blurred but he was able to

tell colour apart. He couldn't find it anywhere, so he went back to Jenka. "I couldn't find anything "

    "Are you sure?"

    "No not really."

    "Uhh Benga!"

    "I'm just being honest" she went to the room to look for it herself, she forgot what she went check

for. She walked back to where benga was. "Did you find it?" Benga asked.

    "Find what?"

    "The vile?"

    "What vile....ohh that's right."

She rushed back but couldn't find it. Then she saw the vile which it was in and it was empty. She

rushed back to the room which they were in.

    "Benga get the Zebra and the carriage ready, you need to get her to Skalia soon or else she's

going to die. Here's a list, look for this person and give her this list of things. Now go,hurry!"

After he left,she wanted to lie down on her bed. She laid on her bed for a long time, but this was

normal for her. She'd always had trouble sleeping.

    "It's been soo long. When is he coming back?" She thought. "Is he coming back?" She said under

her breath. Then an old memory resurfaced.

She was being pursued in a forest by a group of three Cobras with fiery arrows, ready to kill her.

She was really scared. She was waiting for someone to show up, but he never did. The Cobras had

interrupted her wait. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her. But she couldn't run for much

longer. She was still recovering from a sickness which she contracted, when studying to be a healer.

She was finally ready to cave in when just as one of the Cobras were about to catch her, a dagger

came swinging from in front of her. It flew right passed her and penetrated the soldier's forehead.

    He tumbled to the ground, knocking over the ones behind him, causing them to split their heads on

the hard rocks. "What took you so long?" She asked him. The man who threw the dagger grabbed her

wrist, gave her a kiss and carried her. "Where are we going?" She asked him. But he just looked at her

and smiled. "Why are you being so mysterious all of a sudden?" He carried her to the Mamba temple.

    As soon as they entered. A large group of Cobras surrounded were coming to block the entrance to

make sure no one would enter. The temple had plenty of food so they were not starving any time soon.

The Cobras stood there for one month. A woman would bring them food every week so they wouldn't

starve. Then the Cobras left when another guard came and told them.

    "It is done, thank you for your help. The chief would like to thank you with a gift." The guards left the

palace and walked with the one who came. When Jenka and the man were in the palace , they didn't

know that the guards were gone. So they still remained put. They were lying on a bed in one of the

rooms, when things got steamy. They started kissing and undressing each other. One thing led to

another and they made love to each other, the whole night. When they finished, after a few minutes,

a blast of darkness appeared in the room they were in. When the darkness disintegrated. A man and

woman wearing cloaks appeared in the room. The man grabbed his dagger and tried to throw it at

the man in a cloak. But the man in the cloak caught it and put it in his cloak. The 'cloaked man' then

walked to the man and lifted him by his throat.

    "Punishment for the flagrant act you just committed?" The cloaked man said, in a chilling voice.

    "Eternal life unless otherwise. You shall also never set foot in this place." The 'cloaked woman'

grabbed Jenka's arm.

    "You shall never leave this place, in addition to eternal life." the cloaked woman said, also in a

chilling voice.

    "You shall never see each other....... again ! ",they said in unison.

The 'cloaked people' then dissapeared. Then Jenka, shaking in her clothes, looked to her left where the

man was. But he wasn't there anymore. She covered her mouth and started weeping. Then she heard

banging at the entrance of the temple. She rushed to the entrance, but when she got there she saw

nothing. There was some sort of barrier that was preventing the man from entering.

The barrier made Jenka invisible to the man and the man invisible to Jenka. No matter how hard he

struck it. He failed to break it. He was never able to enter the mamba temple again. Jenka sat by the

entrance, crying her lungs out. But the man didn't hear a peep. He sat by the temple sobbing with his

head down.

    He came to the palace every day for two hundred years. But he always ended up finding nothing. He

used to pass food through the entrance of the temple everyday just incase she would still be there.

He did research for another hundred years, until he found out the only way to see her again was with

one of the Serpent emeralds.

Unfortunately the books did not say where the emeralds were located, but they did say how they

looked. They were large and green but they emitted light . So went ahead and tried to pursue them.

The man tried looking around Ophidia, but that did not work. He asking every researcher in Ophidia

but they all denied the existence of the emeralds. He became so frustrated that he resorted to

theft. He stole gold to sustain him and checked every treasure volt in Ophidia.

    Alas all he'd find was gold and other treasures. He did recently manage to find a man with one of

them, but he wasn't going to get them that easily. Jenka wasn't able to leave the palace. She would

heal people who would be injured or fall sick near the palace. When they'd get better, she'd ask for

food and books in return. She'd been healing people in the palace for a eight hundred years. She's

also one of the two survivors of the Mamba m******e.