Ophidia

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE ( I want his head.)

    Four weeks before they made it to the Taipan desert. The chief's death angered the commander.

Immediately Jackandi escaped, he rushed to the Skalia forest to try and stop him before he could get

to the chief. He knew that the current was too strong for him to swim against but he knew that he'd

be able to find him in the forest because the current reduces when it reaches the cyto river and that

is where the river starts before it heads to the cyto forest.

    He rode on his Zebra without stopping for any meal. He knew if he had to beat the current he

had to move fast and if he wanted to catch Jackandi he had to move fast. Jackandi once out ran

the commander whilst he was chasing him on a Zebra." The current gave him a head start." The

commander thought." Which is not good on my part. "

    The more he thought about it the faster he rode the Zebra. The Zebra would start to get tired or

hungry but he wouldn't let it rest or eat until they reached. If he wasn't going to stop then neither

was his Zebra.

    He finally reached the forest but he wasn't quick enough, he knew Jackandi had already started

off because he saw his footprints in the mud that faded into the grass and near his footprints was

the corpse of the guard who questioned his orders.

The chief threw his helmet into the river in frustration jumped onto his Zebra after it finally ate

something. He then rushed to the palace. Hi only filled up his canteen with water. He figured that was

enough to sustain him for the time being.

    "That was close." Jackandi sighed after emerging from the bushes. "I almost had to waste my

time with that guy. He's really improved his speed huh?" He then used a blade that he found with the

guard's corpse and trimmed his hair. He then used a shortcut that he usually used and only started

running when he reached the middle of the forest.

    Meanwhile the commander was moving faster than ever, worry about Jackandi killing yet again

another chief. He was frustrated at how easily he managed to get the keys to his freedom. This

made him want to kill Jackandi even more.

    His pursuit was disturbed by two small arrows piercing the Zebras legs. After this happened the

Zebra tumbled downwards and threw the commander onto the ground. Then as the commander

started getting up, he saw two men with their faces covered and eyes exposed aiming crossbows at

him. It was the men who Wolani was with.

    "Do you think he killed Wolani?" One of them said.

    "No I told you she fell off a cliff I found something blood on a ledge, the crawlers must have

gotten to her." Said another. They then started walking towards him. "Give us your money old man!"

The commander then rose with his 188cm frame towering over their 172 and 173 cm frames, which

scared them a little bit, but they thought he might just be tall.

    "I don't have time for this." He said and then he passed them leaving his Zebra behind. One of

them fired an arrow which grazed his leg.

    "Give us your money old man." He said sounding more serious than before. The commander then

stopped walking.

    "If you leave me alone, I'll let you walk away with your worthless lives." He said to both of them.

One of them fired another arrow at his neck. He deflected the arrow with his blade, while still facing

the other direction. "Last chance! " two arrows came flying at his back. He deflected both of them

and turned around. He then swung his sword and whacked one crossbow out of one's hand and sliced

the other one's crossbow into two.

    They drew their swords and tried to attack him they were really scared, they kind of regretted

firing arrows at him. He then sliced their arms off and slashed their throats. He wiped their blood

on their corpses and walked away even angrier than before." That actually made me feel better....I

needed something to hit or atleast kill."

    He walked to the palace knowing that he would not make it in time. When he reached he was surely

to late. He found the chief dead with surrounded by dead guards and his last words written in blood.

He asked around to know what happened, but no one saw him. The only information he could obtain

was from a servant who claimed that she saw a young man with short hair and a small goatee holding

another man dressed in white with dreadlocks.

The information wasn't very precise but he had no doubt that it was him. He knew that he wasn't

going to catch him on his own so he sent letters to the best bounty hunters in Ophidia in each tribe.

Including the best slitherane bounty hunter. The letter said that they should only kill him. This time he

only wanted him dead.

    The letters he sent said that he would add to the pay from his own money in addition to the money

on the bounty. He made sure to use messenger water snakes to each land and for the Pythons he sent

mountain and water snakes. He did not want to let Jackandi walk away alive.

    He ordered the guards in Skalia to search all over for him and not to come back to him unless they

found him or his whereabouts. He told every head guard including the ones in the other prisons To

abandon their posts and find him. He also asked them to send serpents to the other tribe's security to

find him and bring his head.

    " Find him damn it." He said to one of the head guards who was sending out the letters. He had so

much anger in his eyes. "I want scourge to suffer! I want his head."