Ophidia

CHAPTER THIRTY (No more talking to birds.)

    It had been about six days on the water and the rope in his mouth was finally wearing out. She

constantly gave him food to eat because Naxis said that he wanted him in good condition. Although

whenever she gave him something to munch on, she would have a knife aimed at his throat, to prevent

him from trying anything to escape.

    She had kept a close watch on him every night. Mupo thought of escaping when she slept,but she

didn't even go to sleep. This assured Mupo that she was insane. She would just sit there keeping an eye

on him while he slept.

    Mupo felt very uncomfortable too,of the six nights he only slept for four. The rope was

uncomfortable and he had to try his best not break free or the rope would squeeze him till he pops.

He didn't mind being restrained he just wished that they would have shackled him or something more

comfortable.

    Whenever the rope was in his mouth he would graze it with his teeth to try and wear it out. It was

very close to snapping and the huntress didn't even notice. Mupo's plan was to shout out the sea

serpent's name Immediately his mouth was freed.

    There was one hindrance to his plan however. He wasn't able to remember it's name. "Lokona.....no

that can't be it. " he thought. "Lukima....no that's not it either. Why is it so difficult to remember? " a

flock of Hawks then started to approach them from afar. The huntress' eyes were filled with relief.

"Finally." She said with joy. "What took them so long?" Mupo started panicking and started grazing

the rope even faster. "Hey Njoka....get ready for another ride. No tricks this time." He grazed the

rope as fast as his teeth could. The hawks got so close that he ran out of hope and just tried to speak

with the rope almost about to snap.

    "LUKANDA!!!" He shouted and the rope moved down to his chin and back in his mouth. Nothing

happened and Mupo thought that he didn't hear him. So he tried shouting again" LUKANDA!!!" And

the rope moved back into his mouth. He started to wonder if it was going to work, because he wasn't

sure if he had even said the correct name.

    "What....what are you doing now you fool?" She said as she started getting worried. Then she

quickly grabbed the rope to attach to the hawks. The birds moved closer and closer ,But before she

could throw the ropes to them, a large amount of water splashed onto her face and hands causing her

to drop the ropes out of her hands and clear her eyes . Then emerging from the water was the sea

serpent, looking majestic as ever. It must have been swimming nearby and to Mupo's joy. It's emerging

from the water almost caused the boat to end up capsized. It stood way above the water as if ready

to hear instructions.

    Mupo then grazed his teeth harder until the rope snapped. He then shouted immediately. "Take

us away from these hawks to-" she knocked him out again. The sea serpent heard his incomplete

command and moved under the boat,causing the boat to shake a lot, started to rise a little from the

water and started carrying it away from the eagles in the opposite direction.

    The birds chased after the serpent as fast as they could but it was no use, the serpent was just

too fast especially in the water. The huntress was so upset that she wanted to kill him. She tried

striking the serpent with her axe, but it kept swimming until the hawks were out of site.

    It then stopped swimming as Mupo's unfinished orders were to take them away from the hawks and

descended into the water. The huntress had no choice but to wait for the hawks to reach them and

the sea serpent really swam far,considering it had to move faster than hawks.

    It took almost two hours but they finally came back to the boat. They also probably had a hard

time finding the boat. The huntress tied the hawks to the boat and they took off.

    When Mupo woke up again he didn't have a rope covering his mouth, yet he was still untied."I don't

understand did she forget to cover my mouth?" He looked at her and she was standing in her usual

position,facing the other direction as usual. "Hey hawks! I command you to stop flying and untie me."

The huntress didn't even flinch. "Hawks the Njoka commands you to untie him. Hawks haw-"

    "Shut up! Your being a pest."

    "What in Ophidia is going on right now?" She didn't say anything, she just kept standing with elbow

on her knee while holding her cheek. She picked up the whip and whipped the eagles and they started

going faster." Why didn't they listen to me? What is happening? "

    Then blood that came from above dropped onto his right thigh."huh? Where did this come from? "

when he looked at one of the birds he saw that it had two holding on either side of it's head with blood

oozing out of the hole. Mupo's eyes then widened with shock,disgust and hatred. "Did he remove their

ear holes? That guy is sick! What kind of monster would do such a thing?"

    "This man wants the Njoka for something." He thought. "If she's taking me to the cave of serpents

then it's obvious what he wants. The perfect question to ask is why does he want it. What in Ophidia

does he want with a fruit that kills people within twenty four hours." When he thought about it he had

no recollection of reading anything about the poison fruit. "It must be another advantage of being

Njoka....but nevermind that....I need to come up with another plan quick." Mupo got extremely worried,

time was running out and he needed to escape.