Ancient Prophetess

Ancient Prophetess Chapter 12

The Queen, who happened to be the real Prophetess was prepared to attack the camp of the king of Oguma who happened to be her father. She stood like a devil in the vast forest and behind her back were the over hundred thousand trolls with their axes and scary faces. The seven giants stood beside her as her generals. The young general was standing next to her. He went closer and held her hand.

"I think I shouldn't hold onto your hand like this anymore" he said.

"Why?" The Queen asked.

"You became more powerful than any King of the earth overnight. I'm scared of what you are about to do and I think it is wrong too. I should leave you. This is your choice not mine" his voice was breaking.

The Queen looked into his eyes and said, "I need you. I need you beside me. Don't go. Akadibe?" She tried to hold the hand he used to hold hers with her other hand but he withdrew his and started to walk away. The Queen broke down in tears and called on to him. "You brought me this far. I need you!" She cried.

"No. You need your army of trolls. That is what you need" the young general said and disappeared through the rocks. The Queen sighed heavily as she wiped her face quickly.

"Should we bring him back to you my Prophetess?" One of the giant trolls asked the Queen but she shook her head. "Let him go. He can never love me. He can never love a woman who has slept with her own father. He should tell me to my face that he is leaving me because I'm dirty with my father's crimes. He should tell me that he can never love me!" She cried and knelt. The giant trolls looked at each other and the leader helped her up. " the gods sent us to you my Prophetess. You don't need him now. You need us to set the slaves of Oguma free and restore the glory of Ideje, Oguma and all the kingdoms of the earth. We will stand beside you as you do this"

The Queen stood up and wiped her tears again before saying, "without him I feel empty. Without him my heart is lost and a flesh without a heart is a violent one. Therefore I want you to charge the army towards South, raid the camp of my father, the King of Oguma, s*******r the tens of thousands of the soldiers he brought with him, capture him alive for I would want a word with him before I destroy him"

The trolls bowed and turned to the great army behind them and gave the signal. The army began to match South and their war songs rang the air.

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Unfortunately while the young general was wondering out of the forest he was surrounded by the King of Oguma and twenty of his best soldiers whom he brought out of his camp in search of his daughter in the forest. The general raised his hands up in surrender.

"I left my camp in search of my daughter...my Queen. Whom you invaded my palace to abduct. Where is she?" Asked the King.

The young general shook his head slowly.

The young general brought his hands down and said, "I'm not safe. You are not safe. Nobody is safe anymore. Listen carefully. What do you hear?

The King listened and could hear the war song the battalion of trolls were singing. He looked at the young general, got down from his horse, rushed and grabbed him by the neck. ," Do you mean to play games with me?"

"It is not a game. Your daughter whom you shamelessly have been sleeping with in the name of your Queen has found out that you are her real father and she is coming for war" said the general.

The King released his neck and asked after a long pause, "how did she know that? And who gave her an army?"

"No need to ask. Those are not soldiers but trolls from the tunnels of the forests. They worship her now. She is their prophetess who has seen all there is to see. She is coming for you. She is coming for your likes as well. While you stand here doubting what I say she matches with over hundred thousand deadly trolls to your camp" revealed the general.

"You lie" said the king.

"I don't. Go up the hills and see for yourself" said the general. The king mounted his horse and his soldiers galloped with him as they made up to the hills of the forest and looked down the wide path leading to their camp and to their greatest surprise saw the trolls in their thousands matching towards the camp. They galloped back to where the general was standing and the king said, "get on the horse. We are riding back to the camp!"

"That will be a foolish move. She is already in your camp. Let your generals face her. We need to ride West!" Said the general with a loud voice.

"I will not abandon my soldiers and escape!" Screamed the King. "Get on the horse!!!

Just then strange bees from nowhere came descending on them. The king fell off his horse and the horse ran off. The rest of the soldiers that came with the king struggled for their lives but died in the spot. The king beat off the bees as he ran into a cave. The bees followed him into the cave. The young general stood there transfixed. He still couldn't believe that the bees ignored him.

He looked up and saw the same boy he saw in his dream coming down from the hills. He wanted to draw his sword but the boy stopped and said. " you are running away from your responsibility. You are the water that will quench her fire. Return to your duties" the boy disappeared.

The general knew he had to stop the Queen from hitting the camp of her father, the king of Oguma. He ran off immediately after the boy disappeared. He was making his way to the camp. He climbed the rocks and sighted the battle already commencing. He was panting heavily as he sighted the Queen standing on a mountain just before the camp with the seven giant trolls standing right beside her with their heavy axes. In the camp, the trolls were destroying the tents and the soldiers of Oguma with them.

The young general made his way to the mountains as he continued to pant. The camp of the King of Oguma was set on fire and the smoke drew the attention of the king of Ideje who was inside his tent in his camp with his daughter and the Prophetess. He ran outside and the two women followed him outside. One of his soldiers ran to him and said, "my King, the camp of the King of Oguma is on fire. It appears trolls are at war with the humans"

The King's jaw dropped, "trolls?! He asked.

" yes my King" answered the soldier.

The King turned to face the prophetess saying, "Who commands trolls in this world?"

"Only a powerful prophet or prophetess could summorn the trolls from their caves. If this is true then another powerful person has emerged. I must tell you now that the King of Oguma is the father of my daughter. I don't want him dead and I don't want my daughter dead either. Summorn your men" said the Prophetess.

"And do what with my men?! No one has won a war against the people of the Sea let alone the trolls. I won't take my men to their graves. We will abandon this camp and retire to Ideje and properly send a message to the Ruler of the people of the sea to come to our rescue" immediately after the King finished, some of the watchers on the hills came fallen to pieces on the ground. The King could see their hearts pierced with arrows. The soldiers in the camp sounded the bell and all men got ready. The King could not believe his eyes. The trolls were descending on them in thousands. The prophetess mounted her horse.

"Are you leaving me and my men?" The king of Ideje screamed.

"I have led men to war against men but not men against trolls. This war you cannot win and I need to find my daughter" said the Prophetess before she rode off. Shortly after, the trolls descended on them.

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In the camp of the King of Oguma, it was all ruins. The smoke filled the air and the Queen still stood on the mountains. The young general was tired of running. He wasn't able to reach the mountain before he fell and fainted.

"When the trolls are done here they should join hands with the ones already at the camp of the King of Ideje, destroy them and get ready to match to the land of the People of the Sea" the Queen gave her orders and the giant trolls bowed.

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The prophetess was riding in the forest when he saw the King of Oguma sitting and dying in front of a cave. She stopped the horse, looked at the king carefully and

couldn't believe what the mysterious bees did to his flesh.