Angel Of Death

Chapter 8

After Ayva's mother's death there was this new self Ayva found and she became even closer with her father. They continued to be very close until the father died. The father's death had pushed Ayva to become productive and aspired to become the best medicine woman the land of Sepha had ever had. She went from home to home and having been blessed with this gifts by the gods of Sepha had made a lot of efforts in ensuring that the people of Sepha partook in her healing. The healing that made her very popular and actually attracted the attention of Saya was the man that was bitten by a dambo snake. The dambo snake was said to be very deadly and those whom it had beaten in the past died mysteriously. Most of them died while vomiting blood while others began to run mad and had to fall into the ocean of Sepha. These terrible fates of those the dambo snake had bitten in the past had made the people of Sepha to be very much scared of it. The people of Sepha began to burn the bushes and to clear every hidden place around their homes and began to consult the gods to know if they could be given the power to protect themselves but the gods told them that such snakes were not ordinary and to fight it they need to find someone who had the same origin as the snake. When the people tried to understand what the gods meant by that they were told that they had to leave whatever they were doing and sacrifice to the gods for twenty days and when they people were through the same thing continued. Mothers lost their children to the snakes and fathers lost their first born sons to the venom of the snakes. When the people had had enough they began to ask who has the same origin as the dambo snakes. They sent messenger to consult the oracle once again and the oracle them that the person they are looking for was already in their midst and that the person was a healer. At that point too the people went back home and continued to wait for the day the gods would send them the person they spoke about. When Ayva healed a person bitten by a dambo snake it was long forgotten that there was anything like that because the snakes stopped operating. Ayva healed the young girl and ever since then her prowess grew. She became famous but the most difficult part of how she healed the young girl was that she could not teach it to any other healer, not that she did not know how to but because even when she did teach them they would not understand what she meant.

After the healing of the young girl the people of Sepha recognised Ayva as a true healer and brought as many sick people as possible to her and she was pleased that the gods were using her to do what needed to be done.

As Ayva thought about this she staggered out of the bar and the men kept laughing at her. She went over through a bush path and found herself nearing a mountain. The mountain was called the blue mountain but she did not have any idea why it was called the blue mountains. She believed that if the mountain was to be what it was the people would have no need calling it the blue mountain or else they would call it so because of the green grass. She thought too that green was green and had nothing to do with blue color. She moved over to the mountain and while seated there she kept on thinking why the world chose to reject her. It was not that she did not know what right thing to do nor that she did not do what she was supposed to do but because the world failed to recognise the good person she was. She smiled mischievously and looked around the mountain. As she sat there she thought about the tale of Asa and what the people said the story of Asa was. That story still made her believe that people would do anything to have whatever they wanted even if it meant their own death. She wondered why some people would be stealing the powers that fell off the cloth of the witch Asa as she moved and inflicted death upon the ancient people of Gazaa which had become Sepha. She knew that the power of healing came from the gods and the power to do evil, the power of sorcery and magic came from Asa but one thing she could not have herself to believe was the fact that Asa could not be defeated by the gods instead the god would warn their people to desist from nearing the cave of Asa. She also understood that the king of Sepha was bent on sending some men to the cave, to either find Asa and get some information from her or to go to and get the treasures that were believed to be there. According to the king of Sepha if the men he was sending were to gather the golds and diamonds they would be used to make sure that the kingdoms of the earth use them to fight the evil people of the world but Ayva in her heart knew that the king of Sepha was going for what he would have for himself and that what he wanted to do had nothing to benefit the people of Sepha. If the king of Sepha could take her father's land from him and beat her and him all together then he was not to be trusted with the things he said he would do. She did not trust that he would use the golds to fight the evil he claimed were in the world. Ayva had also thought about her condition and how long she would continue roaming about and in the world that had bluntly rejected her. She stood up to walk down and realised that she had become hungry more than she expected. She was not shivering and she knew that soon it would start to rain. She rose on her feet again after she had fallen after training to do so at first. She moved one step after another in an attempt to come down from the mountain. Ayva was too a woman of emotions. Her emotions ran so deep that everything got at her easily. She always thought it was unfair for good people to suffer more than the bad people. If good people kept on suffering then it would be disastrous in the world she had found herself. She began to develop this hatred for those that put her in that condition. Most importantly she began to develop anger for Saya who lied against her and had purposely put her in that condition. She believed that Saya needed to pay for what she had done and she was going to make her pay. If Jimma was the the place she decided to go to after making her life miserable that she would take her revenge on her in Jimma when the time would be right. As these words filled her head she kept on moving.

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The king of Sepha finally sent out some men to the cave of Asa, to find gold or to find answers to their questions. When the men left the king of Sepha sat back and smiled. He was bent on making sure that when the gold and all the treasures the men he had sent had come back with them he would first of all buy more lands to expand his dominion and then he would go further to make sure that people won't have anything to complain and then he had a bigger plan of having a mighty fence, taller and stronger than any fence in the world and use this fence to protect the land of Sepha from any external enemies. As he thought about this those that had gathered to witness the men the king was sending to the cave of Asa began to disperse one of after the other.

The men the king of Sepha sent had barely reached the border between Abeme kingdom and Sepha kingdom when they all began to feel headache at the same time.

"This is a bad omen," Said one of them as he sat on the ground and held his head with both hands. The rest also sat and did not know what to say. One of them decided to tell the rest that it was better they continued with their journey and not sit and cry over the headache. He made them to understand that the witch must have seen them coming and must have caused them the headache in order to hinder them from reaching the cave. The rest of the men nodded and they got up and continued their journey to the cave. When they had reached the mouth of the cave they could see that there were fallen vultures in the entrance of the cave and the vultures were all alive. They were not dead and the men the king had sent did not know what exactly to do. "This is really a place of evil" said one of them and the rest nodded in agreement. They kept on thinking of what next to do but some of them had already begun to change their mind about entering the cave of Asa. "These vultures represent death and if we do not leave now we might meet our end" said one of them and the one that appeared like the leader held him by the throat and shook him hard, threatening to dispatch him to the afterlife if he showed any signs of fear again. The man kept mute and still waited to see what their plan was. The one that appeared like the leader told the rest that if they stood and watched the cave from now tomorrow the cave will not ask them by itself to enter it. He told them that they had to enter the cave without thinking twice about it. The rest agreed and they all began to walk into the cave of Asa one after the other. The last one to enter was the one that had told them they should go back.