Anjiala

Anjiala episode 12

ANJIÁLA – Episode 12
 
 
 
© Bunmi B Gabriel
 
 
 
Ariana**
 
 
 
I sang, tapping my chin thoughtlessly, it was boring been alone left to ponder on nothing. Abbie went out with Zino and Daniel came out of nowhere and dragged Anji away, he literally dragged her away. It had been nine days since we found the other gem, Anji really like stressing herself, all she did was train and train and train and think and think and think and meditate then train some more. She barely ate and we knew she was using it as an excuse to get her mind off her mother
 
 
 
‘What am I going to do now?’ The channels were miserably boring. ‘Matt!’ I shrieked and brought out my phone, my fingers quickly went through my call log but I stopped
 
 
 
What are you doing Ariana? He has a girlfriend
 
 
 
My angelic mind voiced out
 
 
 
and so what? You like him right? Arie always get what she wants and you want him
 
 
 
My devilish mind countered
 
 
 
and that makes you the same with your sisters and mother, you ought to prove you are different from them, that you ain’t a wh-re and boyfriend stealer like them
 
 
 
she is who she is and no one can change that. Arie, why not go for him, he’s pretty cute
 
 
 
Siobhan did nothing to you to, why steal her boyfriend? she never really attacked you until you went close to him
 
 
 
and so what?!
 
 
 
Ariana don’t be your mother and leave him alone
 
 
 
don’t leave him alone, he likes you a lot
 
 
 
even though he does, don’t do it
 
 
 
‘Aaaaaaaaah! Stop arguing!!!’ I yelled pulling my hair
 
 
 
‘You know when things like this happen, I think the person is running mad’ Anji said jokingly, I turned and smiled weakly at her, she chuckled and came to sit beside me. ‘What’s wrong?’
 
 
 
‘When did you get back?’
 
 
 
‘Ten minutes ago but I sat at the porch thinking, Daniel k-ssed me’
 
 
 
‘Whoa! He did! You like it?’ I asked with feign enthusiasm
 
 
 
‘No, I didn’t feel a thing because I don’t like him that way’ she tilted her head. ‘Don’t think you can distract me from my question, now reverting to it?’
 
 
 
‘It just that I’m confuse’ I admitted
 
 
 
‘Let me guess, Matt?’ She asked knowingly leaning on the headrest.
 
 
 
‘Is it obvious?’
 
 
 
‘Not really, I’m just good at observing so?’
 
 
 
‘I don’t know, I think I like him now but I don’t want to get him because I don’t want to hurt Siobhan, even if I don’t know her, I don’t want to. It will make me feel like my mother and sisters, my mom snatched my dad from her best friend and my sisters find if fun to do the same to others, I don’t want to be like them’ I sobbed
 
 
 
 
‘Then don’t be’ she said calmly, she turned and sat on her left leg, she clasped our hands together and looked into my eyes. ‘Arie, you are not like them and you will never be, I know you feel sad and want him but don’t, if he’s really meant to be in your life, it will happen on it own’
 
 
 
‘You think so?’
 
 
 
‘I know so, now stop crying’ she smiled and mopped my face clear with the sleeve of her hoody
 
 
 
‘Thanks Anji. Now will you tell me what’s really going on with you? Other than your mother?’
 
 
 
‘Yeah, I’ve been seeing a guy in my dreams, cautioning and advising me. He comes every night, he speaks every night. I’ve never seen his face or his front or side view but I strangely feel connected to him, like I’ve known him all my life, like he’s someone I’m meant to be with….’ She explained evasively
 
 
 
‘Come out clean Anjiála’ I said jokingly
 
 
 
‘I’m falling in love with him Arie, I don’t know why, I don’t know how, I just find myself falling for someone I don’t know and have never seen’ she sobbed. ‘Ariana, it’s killing me because it’s not possible, it’s not right. What if he doesn’t exist, what if he’s just an illusion created to put me straig….’ She burst into tears. ‘I have so much in my head right now Arie, my mother who explicitly chose a guy over me after all we’ve been through together. This wh0le mission, I’m the leader and it’s my duty to make sure we don’t fail, to make sure I bring back the King but I fear I might not and now I’m falling for a guy I don’t know’
 
 
 
‘Have you thought for once that maybe that guy is the king? The one we are set to free?’ I asked reasonably, she gasped and blinked more tears down. ‘Describe him’
 
 
 
 
‘He’s tall with white long hair….’
 
 
 
‘Don’t care, just know that maybe it’s him’ I smiled, she smiled too with new determination flashing in her eyes
 
 
 
‘Then I won’t stop until I find this king and see for myself, maybe, just maybe it him. Lumina won’t tell me his name but I will try anyways, thanks Arie, you’re the best’ she hugged me and I hugged her back
 
 
 
‘We helped each other’
 
 
 
‘I know’ she pulled away and stood up. ‘I have to ponder h-rder and get the location of the next clue’ she ran off to her room, I smiled and sighed
 
 
 
 
#Two_days_later
 
 
 
The school took us on a trip to an ancient museum, Matt and Siobhan held hands through out but I ignored it and focused on listening to Anji sing. We walked into the museum and gathered for the teacher to talk
 
 
 
‘The instructions are simple, find your partners and go around looking for the most ancient artifact here, make a doc-mentary about it and report back to me. The one with the highest and most interesting result gets an A+++’
 
 
 
‘That’s not a grade’ a boy scoffed
 
 
 
‘Too bad I’m giving it, now get lost you imps’ the teacher snapped, he’s a gruesome looking and grumpy man.
 
 
 
‘We’re together’ Anji said irrevocably
 
 
 
‘But I promised Zino I would be his partner’ Abbie protested
 
 
 
‘You’ve been glued to him all week, for weeks that is. This is our time, I know the next clue is here so I need you to focus’
 
 
 
‘But….’
 
 
 
‘Abbie shut up and come’ I snapped
 
 
 
‘Whatever’
 
 
 
‘We split up, look for something under the sunlight and call the others once found, okay?’ Anji instructed, I nodded and walked off. I wandered around for minutes before I saw the statue of a queen
 
 
 
She sat on a throne with legs crossed and head up high, it was like she was staring at me, searching my soul. The sunlight reflected on her intense gaze and her eyes turned red, her stone l-ips curled into a devilish smirk. I gasped and ran away to get the others.
 
 
 
‘Anjiála!!!!! Abbiana!!!’ I shouted nudging people out of my way. A strange power was in the atmosphere, everyone froze and the walls started withering away. The museum was destroying, the ground beneath my feet shattered and I fell down with scre-m, I was still falling and scre-ming when a white portal opened at my left. Abbie flashed out and pushed me into the one on my right, we both fell and rolled on the floor
 
 
 
‘Are you okay Arie?’ Anji asked worriedly pulling me up, I nodded and looked around. ‘We’re in another dimension, an illusion world for the next gem’
 
 
 
‘How did you know I was in danger?’
 
 
 
‘We’re connected’ Abbie replied standing up. ‘What did you see?’
 
 
 
‘A queen’
 
 
 
‘Come on’ Anji said with a straight face, she catwalked to the black hall fearlessly, we followed her, the hall slowly w¡dened and took a C – curve, we stopped at a throne room.
 
 
 
‘Welcome to my world’ the woman on the throne said evilly. ‘It’s been a while I got guest’
 
 
 
‘We’re here for something’ Anji said coldly
 
 
 
‘Oh, I know and you’re dying here’
 
 
 
‘How so?’
 
 
 
‘This so….’ She scre-med, the gargoyles statues around the upper parts of the room came to live and flew down
 
 
 
‘Abbie!!!’ Anji shouted, earth was her call. Abbie’s eyes glowed, the gargoyles couldn’t get any closer. The lady gro-ned
 
 
 
‘So you think your petty earth powers can save you, no’ she hissed and stood up, I watched in awe as she grew taller to fifteen feet, she was made of stone by the way. She opened her mouth and a spiralling ray of sky blue something was heading to us
 
 
 
‘Arie run’ Anji shouted, we ran out of the way. The Queen’s eyes turned red again, she wh¡pped her hand and a sticky blue thing dashed at me, I jumped out of the way, it hit the wall
 
 
 
Web!
 
 
 
‘We need to find the gem and get out of here’ Anji shouted as we avoided the ray that could turn us to ash. ‘According to the clue, we are looking for a twilight and her ray will be used to destroy it but we need to find it first, Arie go find it’
 
 
 
‘What about you two?’
 
 
 
‘We’ll hold her off for a few minutes to give you a head start’ Abbie replied and disappeared into the floor, vines sprout out of the floor, tied the woman and some gargoyles, Anji raised her hand
 
 
 
‘Go!!!’ I ran towards the other hall beside the throne, it was painted red. My footsteps echoed in the hall as I walked looking around carefully. My heart was beating very fast, I felt like I was being watched. I scre-med as a weird thing jumped out of nowhere and pinned me down, it was like a bulldog with armadillo body and fox tail
 
 
 
‘Get off me!!!’ I yelled, he barked and growled and made to rip my head off, a long block of ice bashed him to a wall, I stood up and moved away. Anji faced the dog thing
 
 
 
‘She’s coming!!!’ Abbie shouted running to us, Anji jumped out of the way, the woman’s blue ray hit the dog. ‘Run!!!’ We ran into the other hall and that was where I saw the twilight symbol
 
 
 
‘I have an idea’ I said excitedly
 
 
 
‘We need to make her more angry’
 
 
 
‘How?’ Abbie asked breathlessly
 
 
 
‘Leave that to me and hide’ they ran and hid behind a statue. Heavy feet echoed and she came soon
 
 
 
‘You will not touch my twilight, I will take your powers and add it to mine, that way I will be free of this prison’ she said confidently
 
 
 
‘Have anyone ever told you how ugly you are?’
 
 
 
‘What?’
 
 
 
‘All stone and no flesh, you s-ck. A rat is prettier than you’ her eyes became more redder. ‘I mean why do you think you can be free? You can’t even kill me’
 
 
 
‘Rude brat!!!’ She thundered. ‘You dare insult a Royal!!!’ Her mouth opened and the ray came out, I ran but the ray followed me, I ran in a circle barely escaping it. I led her to the twilight and she blast it. ‘Nooooo!’
 
 
 
‘Yessssss!’ I shrieked
 
 
 
‘You’ll pay for this!!!’
 
 
 
‘Time to go’ Abbie said and dashed to the gem to get it, she tried to touch it but it shocked her. ‘Okay, Arie’ she ran back to me and carried me to it, I picked it up. We didn’t see it coming, the web hit and pinned us to the wall. Anji excluded. ‘We’re doomed’
 
 
 
Her mouth opened again, the ray spun as it dashed to us, I thought we were going to die but Anji jumped into the way and said something like. “By the strength of Aramis…” Something like that, she captured the ray with her hands, twirled on one feet seven times before redirecting the ray back to the giant Queen. It hit her on the chest
 
 
 
‘Aaaaaaaaah’ she scre-med, I was shocked on how Anji pulled that off. The woman screeched in pain, her body slowly broke to pieces. Anji slumped unconsciously on the floor
 
 
 
‘Ariana, teleport them out of there’ Astra said in my head
 
 
 
‘But I can’t’
 
 
 
‘Just hold them and imagine where you need to be and see yourself there’ I did as told and imagined myself back in the museum, I found us there immediately. Anji was still unconscious and the people frozen
 
 
 
‘Wow! Teleportation’ Abbie shrieked. ‘The next clue’ I checked my arm
 
‘What you seek is right “before” you’ I read, that was the yet most confusing one. I checked the other arm. ‘To move fast, be at may places at once, to alert with your cry, the banshee’s wail’
 
‘We’ll figure it out later, let’s get Anji out of here’ Abbie carried her and ran off. See the cool thing, I’m faster than her now. I teleported back to Anji’s room and waited for her. The only question ringing in my head was who is Aramis?
 
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