The Conqueror Series

Warriors 13

   Prince Davi and Gizza buried the Queen of Arika. Davi stood beside the grave while Gizza was inside the hut collecting their belongings. She came out and walked up to Davi. Standing beside him she said, "My Prince. I don't deserve to be alive. I want to make things right as much as you do. Please don't hate me. Please" she was now about to cry. Davi slowly turned and held her shoulders saying, "Well, I don't need a child beside me now do I? I need Gizza. I need your strength. So could you stop crying already and pull yourself together?" He was getting upset. Gizza cleaned her tears and said, "I can never forgive myself for all the things I have done. I want you to know it" she started walking away. Davi paid his last respect to his mother and walked away too.

Inside the camp at the site, some of the female warriors were returning from Northern palaces abandoned by kings with gold and more gold. They were living comfortably and built more camps. The army was growing every second and their camps grew larger too. Sea food was special and Nabel fed on them. She was named Queen of the North. 

One afternoon some of her generals walked into her throne room and knelt. One of them said, "the North is not enough. We should own the world. In the East, West and South, men still rule. Let us expand our dominance across the earth. We have wealth bigger than any kingdom in this world. My Queen. We have the advantage"

Nabel stood and paced. She was still not sure what they were aiming at. The army had grown too large and most of them would stand against Nabel if she proposed a quit. They wouldn't stop even if Nabel wanted to stop now. One of the generals stood and said, "there is a rumour in the camps already; treasonous whisper; that you are not Gizza but an imposter. We pay little or no attention to them too"

"No. You must pay attention to it. Those who whisper behind my back are our enemies" said Nabel.

"We can't kill our own. We can't kill each other" said one of the generals.

"I'm your Queen! Shouted Nabel, " I decide who dies and who lives. Is that clear" Nabel shouted and the generals bowed. "I want every woman whispering behind my back to be silently killed and dumped in the sea. Each and every woman in this camp is under my protection and they swore allegiance to me. Will you obey my orders" asked Nabel.

"We will obey your orders". Said the generals in unison. Nabel declared they would be heading West to destroy the lands.

The army of slave women left the site and sailed away in the biggest ships the West had ever witnessed and when the West heard about what was coming they got prepared. Nabel and her savages were indeed favoured by the gods for the West trembled already at the sight of blood thirsty women screaming for war. The remaining Western kingdoms joined their forces on a last stand. The battle took place in the capital of the West. Hundreds of thousands of men died. Women who chose to protect their husbands or lovers were bound and forced onto the ships by the slave women. The men of the West didn't possess the kind of weapons Nabel and her armies possessed. The war lasted for days and at the end Nabel and her armies emerged victorious against the West. This defeat shook the whole of South and the East as they knew that Nabel was coming for them next. Men were going down every day. Women were finally dominating every region of the earth.

Nabel walked up the tower of the capital of the West to meet face to face with the prophetesses that guided the West spiritually. She stood looking at the old ladies.

"You all are free now" said Nabel. But the women looked at one another and one of them asked, "were we ever in a b*****e?"

"Men in the West were your b*****e. I'm here to release you from their hatred. I have done that. Now you are free. Join the ships heading back to North"_Nabel was about to go when one of the prophetesses started laughing. Nabel turned to look at her. The prophetess began;

"You have killed babies today; innocent male babies. You are not a freedom fighter. You have been consumed by your own mistakes and it started right here in this West; in Arika, right there in the dark cell where you and Gizza were kept after being brought from Mobi kingdom" 

"What are you not telling me?" Asked Nabel but the prophetess said nothing as they started going down to join the ships. Nabel was still standing there in confusion. One of the prophetesses returned and held her hand, saying, "most of us prophetesses don't believe in your cause while some of us do. I do. There is a way to make sure you actualise your dream; Gizza is still alive and so is Prince Davi. As we speak they are heading to the East. There you must go, for Gizza will have a vision this night. You must stop her. You must stop her!" the prophetess let go of her hand and joined the rest of the women being shipped off to the North by the slave women.

Nabel who was shocked, moved and confused at the same time announced that the next part to attack was the East and it was going to be that night.

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In the evening, In a deserted hut, along the road heading to the kingdom of Akaz; one of the great kingdoms of the East, was Nabel, resting while Davi was hunting for meat in a bush near the hut. Suddenly Gizza opened her eyes. She was sweating from the dream she just had. In the dream, the little boy she killed in the palace of Arika appeared and told her to make love with the Prince. "When you do you both will be possessed with the strength to stitch the wound you have inflicted upon the earth" the little boy had told her. Gizza ran out of the hut and started calling on Davi. Davi heard her voice from afar and thought something bad had happened. He ran out of the bush and held Gizza's shoulders, eager to know what happened. Instead, Gizza started kissing him. This aggravated Davi as he pushed her to the ground, saying, "I'm still mourning my mother! Never try it again!"