Ophidia

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX (Two fights and a reunion.)

    "Why do you want me dead?" Mupo asked the huntress.

    "I never said that I wanted you dead." She replied. "But believe me....it would be way easier to kill

you."

    "If you don't want to kill me there why are you attacking me?"

    "I'm just delivering you to someone....what he wants with you is his business."

    "Who sent you?"

    "A man who goes by the name Naxis."

    "Naxis? "He thought "Isn't that one of Jackandi's friends? " the thousand of him wanting the

Njoka was so surprising that he got distracted and the huntress charged at him. He didn't have time

to swing his sword but he dodged her attack. He then set his sword ablaze. "I see you don't fight with

honour." He said while grasping his sword with both hands.

    "Honour gets you killed...you need to learn to fight strong and do whatever you can. That's a neat

trick by the way, maybe you're not so useless after all." She then swung her axe at him trying to

knock him out with the flat of the blade. He intercepted the attack with his flaming sword. She then

tried to punch him with her other hand, Mupo had no choice but to block the attack and dodge her

punch. She then gave him a kick to the gut causing him to tumble backwards.

    Meanwhile Jackandi and the bounty huntress had crossed blades. She tried to push him back, but

he wouldn't budge he then pushed her backwards and she fell to the ground. She tried to trip him

while she was on the ground,but he avoided her attack by moving backwards. She then threw one of

her dual curved blades at him and it landed in his arm. "Ahh." He yelled. She then grabbed her other

one and threw it at his neck. Which pierced his neck and caused him to fall to the ground with blood

spewing from his throat.

    "The great Scourge, taken down so easily." She said while smiling. She then covered his body with a

cloth and went to get a larger blade to cut off his head.

Whilst that was happening Mupo got back up from the kick. It hurt really bad,but it stopped hurting

after some time. Immediately he got up she tried to knock him out again with her axe but she missed.

Mupo then punched her in the gut causing her to stumble backwards but did not fall.

    Mupo then swung his sword at her aiming for her neck, but she blocked it with her axe. He tried

to overpower her but she was too strong. He pushed her axe away with his sword. It wasn't enough to

make her fall but it was enough to buy him some time for another hit. He kicked her in the gut one

more time and this time she fell. Mupo then swung his sword at her head but whilst on the ground

she blocked it with her axe. She then started getting up while still in the blocking position which was

throwing Mupo off a little bit. She then stood up straight and flung Mupo's sword out of his hands

and out of reach. He then took out the map scrunched it up and threw it at his sword. She gave him a

small slice on the arm to distract him. She then hit him in the face multiple times causing him to pass

out. "The Njoka my ass." She said. "I wish I could kill him though." She then whacked him in the head

one more time to be sure and tied up his legs, his arms and his hands with extra strong Python rope.

Thirty minutes later the bounty huntress came back with a larger blade, ready to cut off his head.

    She walked to where she had covered Jackandi with some cloth. But when she uncovered the cloth she

just found a pile of rocks on top of the blood. "How did this happen?" She said." I could have sword I-"

a curved blade then pierced her in the eye. "Ahhhh!" She screamed as she plucked it out of her eye.

When she looked up with her good eye, she saw another curved blade flying straight at her eye. She

ducked and the blade pierced the ground.

She then looked up once more and saw Jackandi seated on one of the buildings, looking angry

as ever. You could see the confusion written all over her face." I thought I killed you." She said in

confusion.

    "You didn't kill me." He said angrily." You only made a mistake." He then jumped down from the

building. She tried to throw another blade at him but he tucked rolled and dodged it. She threw

another one at him, but he caught it in his hand and threw it ant her leg. She screamed in pain when

he jammed it into her leg even deeper. He used his foot to jam it into her leg. He then gave her a slap

from hell and pushed her to the ground. He looked at the blade which she was going to use to slice his

head and grabbed it from her. He then dragged her to the wall and pinned her hand onto it, using the

blade.

    She wailed in pain. "Please don't kill me. " she said to him. "I'll give you anything you want. "

"I don't kill women." He said. "And I'm done killing in general." He swung the blade back and forth

towards her face, taunting her and causing her to flinch every time it got nearer. He then aimed the

flat of the blade at her forehead and knocked her out with one swing. "I wasn't planning on killing

you. You just pissed me off. No one spills blood on my new clothing."

    Meanwhile, the rest of the team, were approaching Wolani's home and it was starting to get cold.

It was a small grass hut with stone walls and a wooden door and was about a kilometer away from

the Oasis. They had just made it out of the Oasis and they were really tired. "Now I'll introduce you to

her. But I'll need you two to leave the weapons outside and out of site."

    "Why?" Nima asked.

    "Because I don't want her thinking I brought maniacs home with me." She then opened the door

and laying on a mat, with her body covered and drenched in sweat was her mother, she had long

dreadlocks just like her daughter and looked young considering that she had a daughter as old as

Wolani. Seated by her side was a young man also with long dreadlocks looked about twenty five years

old and was clean shaven. He then looked up and saw Wolani.

    "Hello." He said. "Did you manage to find any help?"

    "Yes I did....Wanji, this is Nima, Jenka and Benga" she said pointing at them. "Guys, this is my older

brother Wanji."

    "Hello." He waved at them.

    "Jenka is a healer, she'll be trying to heal Mama."

    "Can you heal her?" He asked her.

    "I'll try my best." Jenka replied. He then got up and he was towering over everyone except Benga

and walked to Jenka. He then put his hand on her shoulder.

    "I need you to put in all your effort. She's on the verge of death and she needs better than best."

He said as his eyes watered up. "Please." He then left the house. Jenka immediately started working on

her and she didn't waste her time.

    "Mama." Wolani said while holding her hand. "Everything is going to be just fine."