Angel Of Death

Chapter Five

Arva was taken to the path that led out of the city of Sepha and was left there almost naked. She was only covering herself with the remaining pieces of cloth that was left out of the tearing the people of Sepha did to it. She was weak and she was getting sick took. She prayed that the gods would come and save her from her own life by taking her life. She was totally feeling down. She decided to go to a village called Jimma. Jimma was a small town abandoned many years ago and those that decided to occupy there were the same people that caused the desertion. These people were known to be dangerous and they were comprised of sorcerers and magicians. They had once waged war on a kingdom but because the gods of that kingdom were not to be messed with the sorcerers and magicians of Jimma went home defeated. The king of the said land that they attacked had since then paid a visit to the king of Sepha to know what next to do in the line of fighting sorcery and magic. The king of Sepha had told him that to fight them they had to go the mystery behind the whole thing. "The cave. Yes, we have all heard terrible things about the cave and about the woman that lives there. We have all been told these stories by our forefathers and they had also been told by their forefathers. What then is in that cave and if Asa still remains in the cave then she has a question to answer to us" The king of Sepha had said to that king and the king even though was ready to fight evil was not ready to be a party to anything that had to do with the cave where the ancient evil resides. He went home and never visited the king of Sepha again.

But now the king of Sepha had told the high priest of Sepha of what he intended doing and he was bent that no one will stop him. He was bent on sending some men from the city of Sepha who would go to know if truly Asa resides there and if that story of Asa happened not to be true they should bring the treasures the world had spoke of several times and when these treasures are brought it will enable him to have enough capacity to fight the sorcerers of the earth.

As he sat back on his throne he kept saying it, "I said it, if magic can corrupt some one like Ayva then it is no good. We have to understand that magic and sorcery are not ways of life but of death. When good things comes good people take advantage of it and leave their positive footprints on earth and when bad things happen bad people make use of the opportunity to do bad things. Some of those who saw Asa unleashing terror on the people of the world thousands of years ago and still had the effrontery to steal powers from Asa were the worst people on earth" The king had said and shrugged. The prime minister of Sepha did not know what to answer the king but he was not in support of what just happened to Ayva and the king knew he was not comfortable with it. The king had been observing him for quite some times and so he decided to ask. "You look calm and thinking. Do you have something that you would like to say to me?" asked the king.

The prime minister forced a smile and adjusted himself on the seat. "You are a great king and the world respects you. There are no people who would not respect you. Today I witnessed someone banished and I begin to wonder, banishing someone who did or whom we believe did something wrong should not be the right thing to do for you are exposing the person to more evil. We should at least try and find out, if the person truly did what she was accused of, to know how and what he or she used to do it and that way we will be steps closer to getting ourselves rid of the evil that has crept onto the door step of every single person of Sepha. This evil we speak of existed many years ago and we believe that some people still make use of the powers from the cloth of Asa which fell off as and they picked them. Those that picked them gave to others and it circulated. The people of Jimma are still there and there is no single person there who is not a sorcerer. What we should be thinking of right now is how to make sure that we right the wrong by asking someone whom we feel is guilty of using magic how she or he did it. We need to find the source" said the prime minister.

"You see, my minister you speak very well only that during speaking you already answered yourself some of the questions you raised. Firstly the source is no longer hidden. We all know now that Asa is the source and those people in Jimma are only making use of the magic they took from her thousands of years ago. They had handed this magic down to their children and their children to their children and that had continued until today. I am not saying that we have to attack Jimma, just like you said we need to find the root of the problem and harvest the problem. That is exactly what I intend to do, I want to harvest the problem and I want you to stand by me while I do it. The high priest have spoke and I have also spoken. I have decided to send some men to that cave, to make sure that what ever is inside there is brought out for all to see. I am not going to do anything without making the people of Sepha know. They will know about my decision and I bet since they have seen the consequences of sorcery they will stand by me while I do what I decide to do" The king said and rose from his seat, calling onto the army leader and he ran forward and knelt before the king. The king sat back on his throne and continued, "I want you to gather twenty men, fearless ones and that is why I am going to make you understand that these people I speak of must be volunteers and not scared soldiers. These volunteers alongside you who will lead them will have to go to the cave of Asa and there you must see what is inside it and bring it here. If you see the Asa and it is possible ask her of what needs to be done in order to be free from her and her troubles. If she needs appeasement then let her tell us how but if she is not there and it happens that the story of Asa is not true then gather the golds and diamonds that are said to be there and bring them home, with it we will have enough to fight the evil in the land. I want you to make sure that those you will be taking with you are volunteers, those who are ready and wiling to serve the kingdom with their lives. There are still soldiers who would not want to miss their wives or those they are planning to marry. I do not want soldiers who are newly married or those that are planning to marry. I need soldiers who have had their wives killed by the sorcery of these sorcerers, those who have been in one way or the other dealt with by the magicians of this land. We should all remember that to serve me is to serve the kingdom and to serve the kingdom is to serve the nations and to serve the nations is to serve humanity. You must do this with the desire and the passion which I have seen you exhibit many a times. I want you to know that as many as those who would volunteer to embark on this journey with you will receive a lifetime compensation and they will never smell poverty again. I want our soldiers to be encouraged " After the king was done the leader of the army of Sepha was pleased and he knew that the task ahead was not a childish one and he was bent and ready to carry the cross even if it meant death for him and for the men that would be volunteering themselves to embark on this journey. He rose after he had assured the king of success and returned to the base. The king looked at the prime minister and the prime minister having nothing to say remained silent and waiting for whatever next.

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Aryva was seen making her way to Jimma. She plans to nest there and probably find healers who would attend to her. She staggered to a nearby bush and fell down there, facing the sky and praying to the gods of Sepha, to rescue her from the grip of death and give her another reason to live. She knew that the people of Sepha had concluded in their hearts that she was a sorcerer and that there was no two ways about it and they would have by now gone to her house and put it on fire. They would not spare anything and that was actually what the people of Sepha did. They went to the house of Ayva and began to pull it to the ground. They first chased sympathizers out of the house, those who had come to talk about how loving Ayva was and how impossible it was that she would do whatever would taint her image or whatever that could kill someone. Some believed that Saya had something she needed to tell the people. They believed that she was the real witch behind the whole thing and that she actually gave Ayva the portion that destroyed her. They were still discussing about it when the men from the palace of Sepha arrived with fire and sticks and began to demolish the whole house. They set it all on fire and the sympathisers all ran away.