Ancient Prophetess

Ancient Prophetess Chapter 13

The Queen got down from the mountains as the giant trolls walked beside her. She mounted her horse and watched as the army of trolls finished off the remaining soldiers of Oguma in the camp. The Queen said to one of the giants, "this is liberation not murder. I want a thousand trolls in the city palace of Oguma. They should strick off chains from the hands of every slave from Ideje and other kingdoms whom my father kept as prisoners" She said this and rode off with some of the giants.

The remaining two giants controlled the trolls and gave the orders. Thousands of trolls made their way to the camp of the king of Ideje while a thousand trolls swept through the city of Oguma. They first entered the markets and killed soldiers suppressing the marketers, the stall owners and traders. The people rejoiced as this happened. The trolls regrouped and headed to the palace. Some soldiers left in the palace of Oguma were terrified at the sight. They fought but lost.

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The Prophetess in the forest got down from her horse and approached the king of Oguma where he helplessly sat. "My lord" she called him but the King couldn't open his eyes. "I'm sorry for everything. You are a good woman but power and fame deceived me. I have committed terrible things against you but know it that my last mission was to find our daughter and keep her safe but things are no longer the same" he coughed and continued. "Your daughter controls the trolls that will conquer the world. I may not be there to stop her but I know you can" he held her hand and the prophetess was filled with tears. "Hold your heart great woman" he continued, "you are the best" he said while about giving up the ghost. The Prophetess cried bitterly as she held his head and said, "I still love you. My love for you has always been true and pure. Don't leave now. I forgive you Ameba" she called him by his name and he opened his eyes with a weak smile on his lips, "yes. That is my name. I love you" he died. And the Prophetess wailed.

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When the young general woke up from where he fainted, the two giant trolls the Queen left behind to control her army were standing before him. One of them pulled him up so high that his feet hung in the air. "You came back you little man" the giant said.

"Put me down. I have to see your prophetess" the young general was choking.

"She doesn't want to see you" the giant released him and he fell. "Now off you go!" He shouted at him. The young general looked around and saw a horse and without a word rushed to the horse, mounted on it and kicked it hard. The giants watched as he galloped away.

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In the forest where the prophetess was still knelling and crying beside the corpse of the king of Oguma, the Queen was riding towards them with her giant trolls.

The prophetess stood up on sighting her daughter riding towards her and the dead King of Oguma. She waited for her with anger on her face. When the Queen reached where her mother was she got down from her horse and matched angrily to where the King of Oguma laid. Her mother held her hand with confrontation but she pushed her and she fell. She bent down and held the dead king by the neck. "You evil father. Don't die yet. You need to suffer before you die"

"Stop it!!!" Shouted the prophetess but the Queen shouted back, "keep quite and out of this mother!!!" He hurt me. He hurt you. He needs to tell me to my face why he did all that he did. He shouldn't die like this. He should die painfully!!! " cried the Queen.

"He died suffering and I loved him!!!" Screamed the Prophetess where she sat on the ground.

The Queen was shocked as she turned to look at her. "You did what. You loved him? Because of him the only man I will ever love will not look at me again because I'm a daughter whose father violated several times. Because of him I will leave with pains in my heart till the day I die for the man that nurtured you during pregnacy he killed with poison" the Queen said and stood up. "Mother I will not let it end this way. The King of Ideje whom you briefly served deserves death. He killed the mother to the man whom my heart lost to and I will take revenge on his behalf" this the Queen added before speeding off with her giants, leaving the prophetess seated and crying on the ground.

The young general reached where the prophetess was seated inside the forest and came down from his horse, went straight to look at the dead king and shook his head, turned to face the prophetess. "A lot has happened" he said.

"I know. And my own daughter is now a prophetess and she carries pain in her heart which has turned her a savage. She speaks of love and a man who will never love her because of who she is and what her father made her pass through. Are you the man she spoke of?" Asked the Prophetess.

The young general nodded before saying, "we fell for each other while we escaped from the King of Ideje. I wanted to keep my promise to you by bringing her back to you" said the young general.

"Which you did. And now she thinks her love for you can never die and even though you do not respond to her love she will avenge the death of your mother for you. She rides to the camp of the king of Ideje which is on fire as we speak to eliminate him on your behalf. Do you think she will stop after that?" Asked the Prophetess.

"No she will not. Only me can stop her. After this she plans to attack the Sea people with her army of trolls. She plans to conquer the world. Get on the horse. We must ride to the camp of the King of Ideje and put an end to this" the prophetess hesitated before mounting on his horse. They sped off though the thick forest with the prophetess looking back at the corpse of the King of Oguma with tears in her eyes.