The red vulture episode 5 – 8
THE RED VULTURE
Episode 5
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Elder okeke: this is getting serious day by day
king : hmmm…. young man, am really sorry for what happened to your crops, but for now, you will go home, I will do something about it, I was still discussing with my cabinets concerning the issue before ebele and you c@m£, don’t worry, the two of you should go, let me and my cabinets talk about finding solution to end all this calamity happening in our land (he said, so the young man and ebele left)
Queen : plea-se you people should find solution to end all this things happening (she said and also left for her chamber)
king : my elders, what are we going to do now concerning the things happening in our kingdom? because we can’t continue to keep quiet anymore, we nee-d to find solution to all this things, so what are we going to do?
Elder Akumo: I think the best thing to do is to summon mmiri the great native doctor of our land
Elder mba: yes I agree with Akumo, to summon mmiri, I think he will find solution to our problem
king : (sighed) you have all spoken well my elders, and I think is a good idea, so in that case I shall summon mmiri in two days Time, is it okay by you?
Elder okeke: yes your highness, two days is okay (he said and the others agreed )
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Two days later, the king summoned mmiri the native doctor to tell them the cause of their problem and solution to it, after mmiri did some incantation, he told the king and the elders that the gods is silent and refused to reveal to him the cause of the calamity happening in the land, so they discharged him and summon another native doctor, but still the native doctor they summoned couldn’t find the cause and the solution to their problem.
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As all this was going on, the villagers continue to die and terrible things continue to happen in the land.
Some months later, the queen bec@m£ pregnant again, and when it was time to deliver the baby, she delivered it successfully and after some minutes, the baby later died, this continue and continue, anytime the queen deliver her baby, the baby will end up and die, this began to troubled the king and the queen alot.
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One day the queen was in her chamber crying because of what have been happening to her.
Queen: (crying)gods of our land, this is too much for me to bear, how can I carried a child in my wo-mb for nine months, at the end of it when I deliver it, the child will end up dying, for how long will I continue like this, or have I committed any crime that is killing all my children, I have giving birth to eight children, but at the end of it, they ended up dying, does it mean that non of my children will stay alive for me? and I and my husband the king are not getting any younger, plea-se gods of our land bless us with a child that will stay alive for us, even though is one we will appreciate it (as the queen was still lamenting, the king c@m£ in,side her chamber)
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THE RED VULTURE
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Episode 6
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King : my queen, are you still crying? plea-se st©p crying, is only the gods that knows why our children are dying, he gives and he takes, so plea-se st©p crying my wife
Queen: but my husband, the dying of our children is too much, does it mean that the gods don’t want us to have any children?
king : don’t talk like that my queen, it also hurt me too but we can not question the gods of our land, just look at what is happening in our kingdom, people are dying everyday, the starvation is becoming too much, strange things are happening without we knowing the cause of it, and you think is ordinary, and is still that same thing happening in our land that is affecting us too which I strongly believe.
queen: no my king, I don’t think to that the things happening in our land have something to do with our children who have been dying, plea-se my husband, you have to do something to our predic@m£nt Because if I deliver another baby and the baby die again, I will kill myself (she said and cried the more, while the king console her)
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*Some days later*
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Two maidens were going to the stream to fetch water, as they were going they were talking, not too long they got to the stream, on getting there, they went to fill their pots with water, as they bend with their pots to collect water, immediately the stream turned to blood and swallowed the two maidens, when another maiden who was coming to the stream to fetch water saw this, she s¢ræmed throwing her pot away, and she ran to the palace to tell the king what she saw.
The king was with the queen at that moment, when the maiden rushed in with tears and at the same time she was panicking.
King : young maiden, what is the problem?
maiden: (panicking) your highness, something terrible have happened again
king : something terrible? what is it, speak up
maiden: m…..my king, I was going to the stream to fetch water, right before my eyes, I saw the stream turned into blood and swallowed two of our maidens who are fetching water from the stream
Queen: oh no, not again
king : this is getting out of hand, I can’t take this anymore, enough is enough, I nee-d to do something about this because if we continue to keep quiet, we will all perish, Oliseh! Oliseh!! (he called one of his guard)
Oliseh: yes your highness, you called me
king : yes I called you, I want you to take two more guards with you, three of you should go to my cabinets and tell them that there is a urgent meeting in the palace, that They should come right away (he ordered)
Oliseh: ok your highness I will do just as you said ( and he left with the other guards to the cabinets houses to inform them of what the king said)
king : my daughter you can go, I have heard what you said don’t worry, I and my cabinets will look into the matter (he said and the maiden left, not too long the king’s cabinets all c@m£ to the palace)
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Episode 7
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Elder okeke: (bowing) igwe…….. may you live long
Elder mba: your highness, you s£nd for us, I hope all is well?
Elder Akumo: this one you said that we have an urgent meeting, I hope there is no problem my king
king : (feeling sad) first of all, you are all welcome my cabinets, yes I s£nd for you because we have an urgent meeting, there is a very big problem in the land and if we continue to keep quiet without doing something, we might all perish one day, we just lost two maidens not too long, and I think is high time we find solution to all this happening in our land
Elder Anene: but the question now is, what do we do to end all this calamity, remember we have summoned mmiri the great native doctor of our land, but he didn’t tell us the cause and solution to our problem, we also summoned abani the great native doctor of isieke village but still he was unable to find the cause and solution to all this, even though we still summon another native doctor, is still the same thing they will say
Elder mba: so does it mean we should fold our hands without finding solution to our problem? that mmiri and abani failed us doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try other ones, if we keep quiet we might all die in a twi-nkle of an eye, nob©dy knows who is next to die, it might be me or you (he said pointing himself and the other elders)
king : it might even be me, nob©dy knows who will be the next to die, so the question now is what do we do to end all this calamity happening in our kingdom?
Elder Akumo: Am really confuse because I don’t know what to say
king : you have to say something, that was why I called for this meeting
Elder okeke: hmmmm…….. I think I remember something
king : And what is it okeke?
Elder okeke: I think we should summon priestess Adaeze
Elder mba: priestess Adaeze? and who is she because I haven’t heard of that name in my entire life before
king : (confuse) okeke! who is this priestess Adaeze you are talking about?
Elder okeke: she is the great priestess of the seven seas, she sees the future and she live in,side a cave, she is an old goddess not less than 140yrs, but main looking at her you will think that she is just a girl of 15yrs, she never get old physical but in spiritual realm she is an old goddess, and she had been like that ever since I know her and also she is visible and invisible
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Episode 8
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Elder mba: Hmmm….. this is serious, I have never heard about this before
King : but okeke, how come you know about this priestess
Elder okeke: I know her right from when my grandfather was alive, I was very little then, she was the one that treated my grandmother when she was very ill and almost point of death, and after the treatment, my grandmother was okay
king : hmm….. she seems to be a very powerful priestess
Elder okeke: Ah……. she is very powerful my king
King : but do you think that she can find solution to all this our problem?
Elder okeke: yes my king, I think so because priestess Adaeze doesn’t fail
Elder mba: if that is the case, I think we should summon her
King : Okeke! I think we will summon her tomorrow, at least let’s try her (he said and the cabinets nod their heads in agreement)
Elder okeke: yes is a good idea to summon her my king, but the problem is, it will not be easy to summon her because she’s not an ordinary person, to summon her nee-d a requirements
King : (confused) requirements? what requirements are you talking about okeke plea-se clearify us
Elder okeke: (sighed) the priestess repres£nt the seven seas, and all her requirements will be seven, which include seven white she goats, seven white hen, seven white female gr@ss cutter, and seven white Calabash
Elder mba :Ah…. The requirements is too much, and besides how are we going to know a female gr@ss cutter, not just a female but a white one for that matter
King : (shake head) this is very serious
Elder okeke: we can see all this requirements in the market, but although it will be very h@rd to see them, and secondly the journey to her cave will take up to five days
king: five what!!!
Elder okeke: five days my king
king : won’t the whole villagers perish before that five days?
Elder okeke: your highness, the most important thing is to get the requirements and take it to the cave for the priestess
Elder Anene: (sighed heavily) So when do we get all this requirement because the more we are wasting time is the more terrible things continue to happen
king : yes Anene is right, the more we are delaying is the more things continue to happen in our land, and as for the requirements we will try and get it tomorrow or so and you my cabinets will take it to the priestess, I hope I have spoken well?
Elders : yes your highness, you have spoken well (they choroused at the same time, after that the elders left the palace and went to their various home)
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That same day, four people died in the village with an unknown illness, and later again two children died in their sleep.
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TBC