Ophidia

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN ( Did this i***t leave his sword behind? )

    Jackandi lingered around the area because he had forgotten what he was supposed to be doing.

After wondering the Oasis for an hour, he finally came across Mupo's sword, unsheathed and a

scrunched up peace of paper."Did this i***t leave his sword behind? What's the matter with him?" He

then picked up the sword and next to it he saw the paper. "What's this?" He said as he picked up the

paper.

    He realised that it was a map that had a circle drawn on it and pointing at the circle was a lable

that read 'Wolani's home'.

"What's wrong with this guy he wouldn't just leave this important stuff like this lying around. Would

he?" He looked to his side and a few meters away and saw some blood on the ground and a Python

rope print on that stain.

    "This is Python rope without question and the huntress is a Python. Python rope does not work on

Pythons so there must be something wrong here." He said while rubbing his chin. "Could it be possible

that he was bested in battle?" He also saw that the blood had a trail it looked like he was being

dragged somewhere. Jackandi followed the trail, but it stopped without fading. "His fast healing must

have kicked in right here. If she wanted him dead she would have killed him when she met him. I should

know because she would have killed me if I weren't immortal. So what did she want with him and where

did she take him or atleast if she did manage to capture him." He picked up the sword and the map.

The sword caught fire again which started Jackandi and caused him to drop it. He wondered why it

ignited he thought it would only do that for the Njoka. He picked it up again and it burst into flames.

But the flames settled down and reduced rapidly and it left tiny sparks that formed an arrow along

the flat of the blade.

    "What's this?" When he moved the sword the arrow remained pointing in the same direction. "Ohh

this must lead to Mupo." He said. "I need to see the others first. Maybe I might need to go with Benga

or Nima." He then started running to Wolani's hut. "Busy making me run." He mumbled as he was

running. "In the middle of the night....and it's so cold."

    Meanwhile Jenka was still treating Wolani's mother inside the hut with Wolani seated close by and

the others were waiting outside. Nima didn't have trouble staying up in the night. Benga on the other

hand was extremely tired " I am so tired." He complained to Nima.

    "So sleep." She replied.

    "There's no where to sleep."

    "Then don't sleep." Benga then sighed.

    "Where did Wolani's brother go of to ?"

    "Somewhere."

    "How aren't you tired?"

    "I'm just not." Benga sighed again.

    "I'm going for a walk." He got up and walked into the cold desert. Right after that Wolani walked

out of the hut and saw Nima seated on a pile of hay outside.

    "Hey." She said as she stood by the entrance.

    "Hey."

    "Aren't you cold? I can bring you a blanket if you like?"

    "No I'm okay."

    "Hey....can I ask you a question?"

    "Yes."

    "Have you ever been in love with someone?" Nima started looking uncomfortable.

    "No."

    "Are you sure?"

    "Yes."

    "Has anyone ever been in love with you?"

    "I wouldn't know."

    "Okay umm.... I'm going to check on my mother. If you get tired you can sleep in my room. "

    "Okay." She walked back in.

    "She really isn't a people person." She thought as she sat down. Jenka said not to talk to her while she

was trying to figure out what she was suffering from, so she just sat there quietly worried about her

mother. Jenka was the twenty first healer to try and treat her, so she put all her faith in her.

She thought about how she resorted to theft because the healers that tried to treat her were of

low cost, but she couldn't steal from her own people. Skalia was the quickest way to collect enough

money to pay a decent healer. But she started to regret every resorting to theft with those two

bandits, whose faces she never wanted to see again. However she wondered why she didn't regret

trying to steal from Mupo. "Even though I stole from him and did put him through all that trouble he

saved my life and he had still forgiven me. " she thought.

    "What are you thinking about ?" Jenka said to her.

    "Umm nothing." Jenka then sat next her.

    "She'll be fine...okay." she said to her." I just discovered that she got poisoned by a creature similar

to a mountain crawler and I cured you didn't I?" She said while playfully punching her shoulder. "She

will be fine. Besides she's a Taipan. Poison is the last thing that'll kill you guys." Wolani then looked at

Jenka and hugged her.

    "Thank you for everything." She said.

    "The pleasure is all mine. What kind of healer can't treat poison?" Wolani smiled again.

    "Hey....can I ask you a question?"

    "Sure."

    "How did you know that Jackandi was the one ?"

    "Well at first he used to make me angry and irritated me because he would always do dangerous

stuff and I hated that. He also used to jump into my bedroom window without asking first. Then

one day when we were seventeen years old and I was getting water from the forest. I came across

a Gowka and he was in the forest too, playing on his own. When he saw that the Gowka wanted to

attack me he started throwing rocks at it. The beasts attention was drawn to him and he ran as fast

as his little legs could carry him. I went back home scared I didn't even tell my parents about what

happened. I was crying in my blankets worried about him. Then that same day he jumped in through

my window with a scar on his cheek. 'Are you okay?' He asked. 'Sorry I know you hate when I come in

through your window, just wanted to make sure you were okay.' He then jumped out the window. All of

a sudden every time I would see him I wasn't able to look him in the eye. Everytime he'd talk to me I'd

feel scared yet happy at the same time. He was the only boy who I thought about day and night. He

still wouldn't listen to me every time I told him not to enter through the window. when I asked him why

he saved me from the Gowka, he said ' because I didn't want to see the Woman I love die before me. If

you don't love me it's fine but I'll never stop loving you. ' he said. I knew anyone who would give their

life in order to save mine was worth it."

    "Wow." Wolani's eyes widened with awe.

    "Don't worry I'm sure Mupo likes you back." She said while smiling making Wolani blush.

    "What? No it's not that I was just wondering about you and Jackandi."

    "Okay..... I know rejection is scary but if you never try, you won't know. " Jackandi then walked into

the house with his clothes covered in blood.

    "s**t! I forgot why I'm here!"