KISHANA

The glorious overthrow

Impatient with his men’s delay on invading Onak, King Shukana ordered the captains in charge to be called. They were interrogated as to why they had delayed the attack and they told the king that they were having some rest from the attacks already done to neighboring villages. But he ordered their rest stopped at once and match to Onak for invasion to be effected immediately. They all swung into action as they marched towards Onak as commanded.

On the day of the attack against Onak, the king was about going out of the palace when Lyndia rushed towards him with a kitchen knife. She almost stabbed him on the neck when a guard, three centimeter away from the king blocked the knife with the helmet on his head. The king fell to the ground and other guards seized her. She was determined to die and kept struggling with the guards but she was over powered by them. The king ordered her to be locked up in the prison till he returned to declare her fate.

The soldiers of Zuka kept marching forward till they came three kilometers to Onak. They sent some messengers to the elders of the land to surrender themselves willingly to the king as his slaves. The elders refused and commanded the messengers to leave the village at once or they would be beheaded. They brought the tidings to the king and he was furious. In his rage, he commanded his men to attack. The first set and were sent were two hundred soldiers. They rushed to Onak for an attack. Two hundred meters to the village, they could not believe what their eyes were seeing raining down from the sky, multitudes of arrows! But alas, it was too late and every man began to look for a hiding place from the arrows. They struggled in vain as the arrows took many of them down. Some of them died instantly while others were terribly wounded. But being a man of war and experienced, Shukana strategized anew. He ordered his archers to move forward each accompanied by a soldier holding a shield a bit above his head against the arrows. With this, they were able to come close to the village and a war ensued and they were able to penetrate into the village.

The battle was sore between the Onakians and the Zukans. They fought hard against one another but due to the Zukans’ number, they prevailed over Onak. Onak was captured and were tied up to be taken to Zuka as slaves. As they were tying up Onakians, they suddenly were dismayed as arrows from nowhere began to land on them. Four among the soldiers protecting the king suddenly fell down dead. Before they could realize more skillfully fired arrows kept landing on them and were confused. Unknown to Kala, the leader of Onak military force and the Onakians, his son, Kishana and some number of teenagers were not in the village when the battle had been on. Kishana had planned a day before the day of battle with these teenagers who had become loyal to him to leave the village in order to be a back up for the village; therefore, the battle came back to live as the vibrant teenagers under the directives of Kishana skillfully fought the Zukans. Kishana made a way and rescued his wounded father while he released the people who were already tied up by King Shukana’s men. King Shukana quickly too his horse and began to flee but being skillful with ropes and trees in the area, Kishana swung from tree to tree in pursuit of the king. Before he could get out of the village’s forest, Kishana landed in front of the king and dragged him down with a long rope. Confused and unbalanced, he was taken over by the young warrior and was struck to his shoulder with a sword which made him weak to fight back. He was dragged by Kishana back to the village square. On seeing their king in mess, all the Zukans dropped their weapons, knelt down and bowed their heads to the hero. Kishana ordered all the Zukans to be tied up and they were all moved to the Kingdom of Zuka. As all the Zukans saw their king captured, they all bowed to Kishana. All King Shukana’s prisoners were released including Lyndia. The King of Zuka was locked up in a prison in his kingdom at the order of Kishana. Lyndia narrated her story to Kishana and demand her to be the one to assassinate King Shukana but he refused and wondered why a beautiful young lady would be so bold to shed blood. She was pleaded with by Kishana to leave the justice to him.

Following the rules of the kingdom of Zuka, Kishana was made the King of Zuka. He ordered the former king to be brought and was tied to a large stone and drowned in a river. Kishana later changed the rules in the kingdom including killing of a king and taking over the throne. His new rules were made more effective because he brought the Onakians to live in Zuka and also put the elders and some of Onak soldiers in the palace as guards.

The kingdom of Zuka was changed to Onak. The former Onak was still inhabited by some Onakians and some Zukans were sent to live there, while the land of Zuka became the headquarters of Onak. The four neighboring villages formerly destroyed by King Shukana were also called Onak because the remnant of the people of the lands requested Kishana to rule over them; thus the young Kishana became the King of six lands and became very famous. All the injured people including his father were catered for and his family stayed permanently with him in the palace headquarters formerly called Zuka. The whole six lands under King Kishana’s rule became formidable, peaceful and flourished in wealth all through his life. And the people in the whole kingdom rejoiced greatly which brought the dream of Hanani, Kishana’s far ancestor to perfection in respect to perfect peace and tranquility.