WHAT THEY TOOK FROM ME

SHE TRUSTS HER INSTINCTS

Tash’s POV

When we woke up in the morning, the wolves were still around here and we all got scared again. “This time, there is no way out because we are surrounded in all areas. Be ready to embrace death.” Ryan said.

“That sure is a better way to solve this matter on ground.” I mocked him.

“What? I just said the obvious.” Ryan defended himself. We all gave him a dissatisfying look and he smiled.

“Really? Ryan really? You know you are not helping right?” Tiwa said more of like made a rhetorical question. Ryan just shook his head and continued smiling.

“Guys see, I don’t think the wolves are trying to eat us because if they were, they would have done that a long time ago.” Ope said. And we all looked to the direction where his face.

“Oh Saints.” I exclaimed.

“The woods burnt out hours ago.” Tiwa said in awe.

“Who was supposed to be on guard at the time the woods was burning out?” I the drama queen started. In answer to my question all of us looked at Tiwa.

“Are you guys selling me out?” Tiwa gave a dissatisfying look of being betrayed to Ryan and Ope.

“Seriously! What if the wolves had attacked us?...................” I started to scold her.

“Exactly, shouldn’t we be glad we are alive? Moreover we should be worried.” She stated the obvious.

“Worried about what?” I yelled at her while the others gave the look of what I yelled.

“We were happy and were discussing totally forgetting the reason we are alive and arguing. Shouldn’t we be worried about why the wolves didn’t eat us because if they didn’t, that means they had another mission which we are not aware of.” She said bringing us back to the issue on ground.

Not so long after she made that statement, a wolf I guess will be the pack leader started making approaches and in a less frightening manner. She is scared but her legs obviously weren’t because she started taking slow strips towards the wolf too. There was something in it that kept drawing her towards it and I could swear I saw her eyes turn gold.

“What are you doing Tiwa?” All three of us whispered yell.

When she got to where the wolf was, it bit a part of her cloth and started pulling her towards a direction totally different from where we are supposed to go to.

“Tiwa, we are supposed to be heading to the north and not the south.” Ryan whispered behind her.

She stopped and looked back giving us a cue to follow her.

“Trust me.” She said and by the time she looked back, the wolves started running towards the direction of the south and we were giving her a look that says are we going to trust the wolves.

“Please trust and follow me.” She begged us and started running behind the wolves. We didn’t have any other choice other than to follow behind her. We ran and ran. I must say we got tired but we continued to run and by the time we got out of the bush, the wolves disappeared.

“Where are the wolves?” I asked scared. And we all except Tiwa started arguing and fighting while Tiwa looked around and she saw the six stones which originally was supposed to be seven. It is the seventh stone that can unite the whole magical kingdom and separate the evil from the good. The pillars is on the map and we were supposed to see the pillars

“Guys.” she called for our attention.

“What?” I yelled at her. I agree I am being much of a drama queen.

“Look.” She said and pointed to the direction of the six stones and we all looked.

“The great six pillars!” Ryan exclaimed. Hearing about it is something and seeing it life and direct is another thing because you get different feelings.

Talc- red

Sapphire- blue

Amber- yellow

Amethyst- purple

Coral- white

Diamond- watery colour

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The stones which are in a pyramid shape are in the pillars which symbolises the pillars of life. Each stones have a meaning to life which I am not sure I know. We are in the middle of the pillars and the seventh pillar was there waiting for its stone to be recovered. It is said that no one has ever seen the seventh stone so even if we are going to look for it, it is not going to be easy.

“So the map was wrong?” Ope is asking for the umpteenth time.

“Yes.” Tiwa, Ryan and I all yelled at him.

“Okay!!! I just wanted to be sure I heard you right.” Ope said.

“What would have happened if we followed the other side?” Ope asked then I remembered what the old man said.

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Flashback

“Don’t take the wrong direction. Let love and nature lead you to where is right. You will get to a very confusing part so just follow your heart and you will never be lost.” The old man said to Tiwa.

“What happens if we take the wrong route.” She asked.

“You will face the consequences.” He replied her.

“What are the consequences.” She asked him again though it is not like she is going to change her mind.

“Most people never comes back when they take the wrong direction and the worst that can happen aside death is to come back with madness in you which will make your own kind kill you because it is a virus that can spread. Madness in the human world is different from the one here in the magical world.” the old man said.

She met with the us and told us but Ope was still sleeping so he wasn’t with us.

End of flashback

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“Death is the worst that can happen to us.” Tiwa replied Ope’s question.

“Are you crazy? What if the only God knows wolves didn’t come to our rescue we would be dead by now.” He exclaimed. After a short silence among us all Tiwa broke it.

“No. I have a mission and no matter what happens I will not die until I complete or fail the mission.” She said quietly like she was saying it only for her ears but we all heard anyways.

“Why not continue the story about how you came here.” I asked for Tiwa to continue the story of what happened when she came and was still a newbie sensing the mood in the air and she continued.

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“She is the Overlord, she deserves some respect.” I heard some voices half asleep and half awake. I don’t seem to figure out what this is all about.

“Yes, exactly she is the Overlord and she should take responsibilities for her actions. It is a rule and there should be no exemptions.” A lady in her 20s replied whoever she was talking to.

Oh goodness, my head aches a lot. I didn’t drink any alcohol because I am still underage so what happened to me? I opened my eyes slowly because of the ray of sunlight. Treasure might have been here to disturb me.

“Treasure please close the window. I will wake up soon anyways.” I said.

“Look, she’s starting to wake. When she’s up, tell her there are consequences for action taken.” I heard muffles.

“Arrrrggghhhhh!!! Why does my head hurts this much?” I winced in pain.

Not long after, I felt some hands shaking me to wake up. I was going to wake up but with the ray of light, I couldn’t open my eyes. When the shaking won’t stop, I decided to open my eyes. I couldn’t help but open it slowly and everything seems blurry. After some seconds, my eyes finally adjusted to the light. And when I saw everything clearly, I couldn’t recognise those in my room. Hell, this aint my room.

“what the f**k is happening? Who are you people? Why am I here? f**k what the hell am I doing here?” I questioned anyone who cares to answer rapidly.

“You don’t remember?” Leslie asked Tiwa. I thought harder and remembered everything up to the scene where I was about to be eaten by some demon.

“f**k. All of this is real?” I asked a rhetorical question.

“You wouldn’t be here if it was not real.” Leslie reply sounds a lil bit mocking.

“What later happened to that lil demon?” I asked.

“You opened the gate for them sweetie. Don’t you remember at all? Lives were lost because of you. I warned you to listen didn’t i? just so you know, there are consequences for every action taken even if you are the Overlord.” Leslie said.

I didn’t know what to say to her anymore. Yeah, my mom taught me to take responsibility for all of my actions and aint saying am not gonna do that but, haven’t they got any respect for the Overlord?

“I am the Overlord aint i? I mean, aint y’all supposed to respect me? One time you gave me a respectful bow and another time, you scold me like I am your child.” I said with a childish look.

“Everyone out.” Leslie ordered all of them out. While leaving, they all muttered under their breathe on how I must take responsibility of my action and some were saying they aint even sure I am the Overlord.

“If you guys aint sure I am the Overlord, then what am I doing here?” I yelled after them.

“It is true, we are not sure you are the Overlord. I mean different things make us doubt the fact that you are the Overlord. Maybe Raj made a mistake.” Leslie said.

I know I have been wanting nothing but to go back to my normal self and my normal lifestyle but giving it a second thought, maybe God gave me another chance to live my life right and again, I am beginning to like this magical world idea. I mean even if I don’t accept and the whole world perishes, it can be tagged as the end of the world only that God gave the world more time through me. Moreover, I don’t have anyone to go back to out there in that cruel world. I can as well live my life here trying to save the world from the so called impending doom. But hearing I might not be the Overlord, one part of me is happy but a larger part of me is sad.

“Different things like what?” I questioned Leslie with a sad voice.

“You are born of a normal being, you don’t have powers, you’re young…… and so many other things.” Leslie said with a disappointed look.

“Then make me manifest my powers.” I said absentmindedly but I sounded desperate.

“I can’t do that. You have 3 days to prove you are the Overlord. After 3days the Lightbringer will wipe your memories and take you back in time to when you were about to fall from the building.” The look on Leslie while she made the statement said a lot.

“What should my powers be?” I asked. If at all I am the Overlord, with the way they all said things and with the way I observed things, all the past Overlords have the same powers.

“TIME that is what your main power should be.” She answered me and left the room.

Time? She should have said more than that. I mean, if I have 3 days which ain’t enough to manifest whatever power I pray I have, I will need more details to be able to manifest this power on my own.

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It’s been four good hours and I haven’t come up with a good plan to manifest my powers or so I thought I had.

“s**t! How the f**k did they expect me to do this in 3 f*****g days on my own with absolutely no help, this is frustrating.” I cursed out loud. Yeah it is indeed frustrating, I so badly want to be the overlord. I don’t wanna go back to that hell where everyone is not trustworthy. I trusted my friends and they broke me. They betrayed me, all because of a guy. Is it my fault they chose me over them?

“Arrrggghhhh. Can my life get more worse?” I questioned nobody but myself. I was at the verge of crying before a guy came into the room. What’s with all of them coming into the room without knocking and I am guessing this is my room being that I was allowed to sleep here.

“cant you knock? I mean that’s a simple curtsey.” I said to the handsome dude and all he did was give me a confused look like he doesn’t know what I am talking about.

“Knocking before entering into someone else’s room.” I said the obvious to him. Is he a p*****t? What is he trying to prove? Fine I know I haven’t been crowned as the Overlord as of yet but they all should have respect for me as their guest I at least deserved that.

“umm…….” He tried saying something. By his expression I can guess he is maybe trying to get my name.

“Tiwa” I said but he gave me a questioning look that says ‘I don’t get what ya saying’

“That’s my name, Tiwalade. I am from Nigeria, the Yoruba tribe.” I said answering his unsaid questions

“Okay” he nodded in a way saying he gets my name now. “You are in my room.” He said and started to go around doing some things in the room and I stood there waiting for an explanation on how I got into his room.

“Do you need something?” he asked me

“Obviously I do. An explanation.” I said rudely

“I was asked to lend my room to you as of yesterday. I don’t know that if you’ve been told but the whole city doubts you are the Overlord so as of now you are being denied access to the Overlord chamber. The other witch’s room is not cleaned up and they were looking for an urgent place to lay your head on. No other witches or wizards were volunteering so I volunteered.” He replied me.

I was about leaving the room when I got an idea about something.

“can you do me a favour?” I asked him

“that depends on the kind of favour.” He said casually

“can you help me train to get my powers?” I asked. I mean since he is the only one that can still accommodate me then I can take advantage of that.

“I don’t know about that cause I am not the PT.” he replied me.

“what is the meaning of PT moreover we both know nobody will be willing to help me and that includes the PT.” I said. He sighs and then looked for a while. Is he thinking about it? Please let him say yes.

“how about we go to the training ground tomorrow and we see if they will let you train.” He suggested to me. Well he is right. Jumping to the conclusion that no one will accept me or nobody likes me is not something I like doing. I give people chance to prove themselves.

“okay that’s good.” I was walking towards the door when I remembered I don’t even know his name so I stopped. “what’s your name by the way?”

“Ryan.” He said.

“Ryan” I repeated after him. Ryan it is. “see you tomorrow Ryan.”

I wandered around the place for a while. You can say I took a tour. Everyone were glaring at me. If glares could kill, I would be six feet under by now. I ignored them and continued with my tour. The day went by fast and it was late in the night. New update, I got a room not so far from the horses stable. The room is not quite good but what can I do? I need a place to put my head to after all. I just pray I am the Overlord because I don’t want to go back to my former life. I couldn’t sleep so I did the pros and cons of me not being the Overlord and it turns out I really want it. Ryan will help me so I anticipated tomorrow

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We talked and laughed also made jest of how Ryan and Tiwa first met. I must agree it is hilarious but I love it. It is unique. Tiwa was exhausted so she decided to put a stop to the story and continue some other day.

“I am tired. Lets stop here and continue later.” she suggested and we all agreed with her. Not long after she excused herself.

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