Grand Adventures of the Witch King

Clash 1

The crowd stretched their necks forward to look at the still body of the young man who had laid face-first on the ground, as none of them said a thing since he crashed, due to both shock and fear.

“Ugh!” An inhuman-like groan came from the downed youth, it was very loud and frightening, especially during this silent and still atmosphere.

“He’s alive!” Screamed one of the villagers. Making the crowd scream in fright as they hastily moved back, the little children nearby were also whisked away as everyone wanted to be further away from the platform at this moment. 

The chief furrowed his brows as he turned towards the protectors to demand an answer for this phenomenon, “This occurrence has never been recorded to have happened before. Explain this to me!” 

But before any of them could answer their chief, calm and sultry feminine voice called out from behind the elders and the chief.

"It means he is a very powerful Buburu host even if it has not yet manifested itself and when it does there will be nothing left of us, perhaps at that time it will be as strong as a Greater beast if not higher. This only means that we must strike it down now!" 

The owner of this voice was a beautiful woman that looked to be in her thirties, she had a light tan complexion with a very voluptuous figure with a massive bust that seemed to defy gravity in a white robe and thick long legs that could be seen as she placed her leg over the other. She had dark blue hair falling down her back, and large silver earrings, and a brown necklace that sat above her large bust, as much as she tried to look conservative, it just gave her a different yet alluring appeal. 

Though normally when people looked at her, one could see looks of fear and apprehension in their eyes, not even the men gave her looks of lust for this woman was the infamous 1st wife of the chief and the mother of Yuje, a devious and cunning woman that would even devour babies to achieve her goals.

Yet there was no denying that the young men, felt heavy attraction towards her.

Her amber-colored eyes that Yuje also inherited from her glowed with a sinister light as she gazed at the downed form of Ullo. However, this disappeared as soon as she turned back to her clansmen.

"He must be fed the Imularada, only then will we be able to drive the evil being from his body!" She said in a calm voice filled with concern that made the people believe her easily at this time. 

The Imularada is a special type of concoction made from a special ancient type of plant named the Imula, it was like poison as it would destroy the trained and cultivated power of regular humans crippling them forever. Due to this it was kept in the custody of the protectors, and ordinarily, it was used against criminals, something agreed by the villages of the outer rim of this forest. 

However, according to legend, back in the ancient time, it could be used on a possessed host, said host will lose their powers and strength as well, but could recover in a month or so, for one it weakens is the Buburu, thus letting the people remove it with the gem or other artifacts depending on the village.

When the villagers heard this they all readily agreed to this, as the young maidens began to fantasies about them helping and protecting the weakened Ullo once he was freed, and maybe then would he notice them, as they now all believed he only ignored them because he was a host all this time.

The chief too thought of this and immediately nodded. The protectors looked at each other as one of them took out a black and white palm-sized horn from within his robe that had a brown seal made from an unknown beast’s hide.

He deftly leaped off the stage and within a few swift steps he was next to Ullo who was still on the ground unmoving even after his groan, but one could see he was alive as his chest moved slowly. 

Reaching the young man, he flipped him over. But as he was about to unseal the concoction and feed him, he saw Ullo's eyes snap open, after that everything was a blur which was followed by intense pain in his chest and back.

BOOM!

With another loud crash, everyone saw the protector slam his back against the edge of the platform as he puked a stream of blood that was probably mixed with pieces of torn internal organs. 

He then slumped to the ground with a heavy thud as he fainted from the pain while foaming in the mouth.

Once again there was a heavy silence. 

But it was followed by a spine-chilling voice.

"I should have known that it was this Esu woman from the start! Today you die like the wicked being you are!” They all looked towards the voice with deep fear, it was Ullo who was up on one knee with nothing more than a slightly dusty face and a bloody nose. 

Wiping his nose with the back of his hand, he gazed at this woman who was a beast in human skin with a chilling gaze.

He was sure that if they put her on that gem she would definitely be identified as the very thing they accused him of! 

"Evil creature, surrender yourself immediately!” She cried righteously but immediately added, “Let us hold him down sisters so that our husband and the elders can remove this being that will soon plague us if left unhindered!" With a seriously frightened voice at the threat Ullo gave alongside his killing intent that licked her very skin with promises of a painful death, she stood up and called forth her three co-wives as well as the rest of the women that belonged to the elders.

They all stood up with her with serious faces on as they nodded, he was but a young boy, and together they could take him on even if he was a host.

"You are the evil creature!" Ullo roared in anger even if he was calm he was a hot-blooded youth in the end and so he launched himself towards her, his feet cracking the hard ground slightly.

there was no doubt that he was very pissed!

Someone had done something to that stone, and in his mind, it was definitely this woman is the culprit! As for why? He didn’t care! For all that mattered now was that her life was going to end here and now by his hands!

In a blink of an eye was upon her, but all he could see was a calm look of disdain in her venomous eyes as his fist came hurling towards her, even though she and her group didn't have time to cast anything as his speed didn’t give them time to react.

Bang!

But just as he was about to send her to her ancestors, a large bolt-like shadow flew towards him quickly and they collided in a fierce and thunderous crash!

Yet it slid back a few meters, while Ullo only took a single step back.

"Hmm?! You are this strong? Humph! I admit I underestimated you there. This means you really are a Buburu host." The shadow revealed to be the chief who came to rescue his wives from being killed, but now he was clearly in great shock at the fact that this young lad had pushed him, of course, this confirmed the suspicion of the case, he really was a host.

But how did they not notice this all this time?

Sure he used half of his strength but this just meant that this boy was going to become a monstrosity that would wipe out their entire village and the others after that. For at that time he might even become stronger when the Buburu manifested itself.

With this thought, he tensed his muscles and threw himself with an even greater force at the youth who didn’t say a word but also decided to answer by meeting his now-former chief in the middle with an equally driven force!

Bang! Boom!

Dust and small rocks were hurled into the air as a mighty battle between the young and older man broke out like two savage beasts trying to rip and tear at the other’s throats in a contest of strength, speed, and skill.

Whoosh! Bang!

The crowd of the villagers all watched with wide eyes of horror at this, they just couldn’t believe this for they could barely see anything at all other than their blurry figures!

Immediately the fight reached ten rounds!

Boom! 

A figure was soon sent flying, and it was revealed to be none other than their mighty chief who was thrown back and crashed on the ground and they could see that he was also bleeding from his mouth!

"What!? He actually managed to push and injure the chief?!"

“Such strength!"

“We are going to die!”

This made the villagers distraught, to them, the chief was the strongest and fiercest warrior ever, even amongst the other villages he stood undefeated as number 1, yet now he was being outclassed by a young boy that had not even passed his coming of age ceremony, which was in 3 months’ time and if things went like this they might not even see that day!

“The Buburu are really frightening, legends spoke about their strength and mystical powers yet experiencing one truly does show that the legends are true.” The chief said as he stood up slowly and spat the blood on the ground, even as he was at full strength in this form of his, he was still bested and he knew that his opponent was not even going all out as well.

"And just imagine if it manifested itself while everyone was asleep and decided to slaughter everyone!" The chief's 1st wife second his words and makes the villagers tremble greatly at this.

To Ullo’s ears, this woman’s voice was akin scrapping a metal board with a knife, he wanted to rip her mouth off her face and see if she would still sound the same!

For some like Yuje who knew the truth, this was scary. To think all this time, Ullo was this powerful, perhaps he really might be a host even if they had just falsely accused him, the thought of actually capturing the real deal after using false evidence was really humorous. But he was really shaken to the core at the realization that Ullo could have easily snapped his neck at any time all this while. 

And he hated it! He thought as he clenched his teeth and fists, next to the similarly tensed Assini.

The villagers’ eyes burned with fire as they decided to support their chief, for this was their lives at stake here!

"Purge and remove the wicked spirit in him our glorious chief!"

"Yes! Don't let it go. Or it will be the end of us all!"

They hollered and shouted like crazed fanatics, in their hearts they wished they had the strength to go forward and purge the Buburu themselves, ridding them of this fiendish spirit.

Hearing the cries of his people, the chief was filled with the passion of purpose, to defend his people! The thought of the duty that he had been charged with since the day he took this position made him rise in momentum.

"Well done boy or should I address you as a host now? Well, let's get serious, today I end you here for my people!" With a grave and righteous voice, the chief clenched his fists and stood stretched arms out from his body, and let out a deep beastly growl.

He got bigger, bones began to crack from within him as his body started expanding and inflating at an alarming rate as his clothes stretched and tore. 

His arms and hands got larger and thicker with pulsing muscles intertwining and growing, red thick hair started to grow on his skin and soon enough they spread all over his entire body, sharp black claws started to spurt out from his fingers. His jaws and teeth shifted and grew. A savage and beastly aura started to permeate in the air from the chief, followed by a great tide of bloodlust that washed off him towards Ullo.

Within Ullo’s sight now standing in the place of the chief was a monstrous beast. 9'6'' feet tall with nothing but a large torn cloth around its waist, arms and legs as thick as pillars all covered in the red spine like short fur flexed with untamed power. Glowing yellow deadly eyes leered at him as a mouth full of fangs grinned, and four large teeth that stuck out from both his upper and lower jaws glittered wickedly in the sun.

The on-looking villagers went wild at this, for they knew this marked the end of the Buburu and hollered in excitement at the large beast that stood there before them.

Then a growling deep voice from the red beast taunted, “Come then host, show me the legendary strength you are known for!”