The red vulture episode 1 – 4
THE RED VULTURE
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Episode 1
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An Epic Story Written By Chichi Tonia
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Once upon a time, there was a village named Ejime, Ejime is the land of fertile and also is the largest among the other village. But one thing about them was that they forbid stranger entering their village, because according to them is a taboo.
Any stranger they see in their land will be stone to death because that have always been their custom right from Time. everything was going well for the people of Ejime village, not until one day the unexpected began to happen in their kingdom.
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One afternoon, the king’s son who was just 2yrs old, was pla-ying in the palace, when all of a sudden he fell down and started convulsing, before the king and the queen could do anything to save their son nnamdi, it was alre-ady too late because the boy have died.
Queen: (crying) nnamdi! plea-se wake up don’t leave me
king : nnamdi! nnamdi!!!! (he sobbe-d shaking his son who was dead)
Queen: gods of our land, you can’t do this to me by taking my only child from me, plea-se bring him back to me (she said crying bitterly because nnamdi was their only child, After everything, the king buried his little son nnamdi and the villagers mourned for him, but still the king didn’t know the cause of his son’s death)
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Some months later, the queen bec@m£ pregnant and the king was very happy that his wife the queen is pregnant, at least that one will give him hope again of been a father, the elders of the village all c@m£ to the palace to congratulate the king of his wife been pregnant.
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As all this was going on, nine months later, the queen went into labor, and the king summoned the mid wife to come and help her deliver her baby, when the mid wife c@m£, she took the queen to her chamber and told her to push her baby because the baby was coming forth, so the queen used her strength and pushed the baby and it c@m£ out, lo and behold it was a baby boy.
Mid wife: (smiling) my queen, is a baby boy and I know the king will be very happy if hears this
Queen: thanks be to gods of our for giving me another son to replace the dead one (the queen said with tears of joy)
Midwife : let me go outside to inform the king (the midwife ran outside excitedly to tell the king who was pacing around waiting to hear the news)
King :has she giving birth?
midwife: yes your highness, our queen have given birth to a bouncing baby boy (she said and the king jumped up for joy)
king: (excited) this is a good news, I can’t wait to see my son and my beautiful wife, I hope she’s okay?
midwife: yes your highness, she and the baby are doing fine, come and see them (she said and the king excitedly followed her to the queen’s chamber, when they got to the chamber, the king went to where the queen was lying and k!$$£d her forehead and the queen smiled)
King :Thank you my beautiful wife for giving me this precious gift as a son
Queen :may the gods of our land be praise for giving us this gift to replace the dead one
king : thanks to gods of our land, anyway I can’t wait to carry my son, the new prince of this kingdom (he happily said and went to where the baby was lying and wanted to carry him but found out that the baby’s b©dy was very cold and also he noticed that the baby was no longer breathing)
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THE RED VULTURE
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Episode 2
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King : what is happening?
midwife: (confused) How your highness?
king : is like this baby is no more breathing
Queen : No that can’t be possible, The baby was okay before, no I don’t want to believe that something have happened to my baby (she said with her heart beating fast)
Midwife: that can’t be possible, let me check him ( so the midwife stood up and go to check the baby, but on getting to where the baby lie, she found out that was dead, when the queen also saw this, she fell down instantly and coll@pse)
midwife: (shaking the queen) my queen! my queen
King : my queen! don’t do this to me, plea-se wake up (he s¢ræmed and was shaking the queen, but she wasn’t responding, so s£nd three of his guards to go and summon the village native doctor which they did, in no time the native doctor c@m£ and after that he did some incantation and splash some liquid something on the Queen’s face, not too long she was revived and after that she started crying for the death of her baby and the king and midwife were consoling her, while the native doctor left, after everything the king later buried his child that same day)
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The next day morning, the elders of the village c@m£ to the palace to sympathize with the king because they heard the news of what happened to their baby.
Elder Akumo: my king, am very sorry for your loss, plea-se accept my sympathy
Elder mba : I was very shocked when I heard the news of the death of your new baby, but what baffles me most was that I heard that the baby was healthy when they delivered him, not too long after that he died, this is really strange
Elder okeke : really strange indeed, what can could actually be the cause of his death
king : hmm….. we don’t really know what happened to the baby, he just died like that and is still surprised me what really happened to him
Elder Anene : am suspecting that something is wrong somewhere because things is beginning to happen in this village, was it not yesterday the son of Adamma the widow died just like that without any illness
Elder Akumo : And even this morning, we heard that ojemba the palm wine tapper fell from the palm tree and died (he said and shake his head)
king : (shock) what!! you mean ojemba is dead, why didn’t you people tell me this on time
Elder mba: your highness, you know you just lost your new baby, that was why we don’t want to tell you yet because we know that you are going throu-gh a lot now and besides we just heard the news of ojemba’s death this morning (he said and the king shake his head in pity)
Elder Anene: my king, so how is the queen, how is she cop……… (he have not finish his statement when they started hearing cries outside)
Elder Akumo: what is that cry all about, are you people hearing what am hearing?
King : yes am hearing it, I think we should go outside to know what is going on (he said and then he and his cabinets all went outside to know what is going on, as they got outside the palace, they were surprised to see two maidens lying dead, with some of the villagers crying)
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THE RED VULTURE
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Episode 3
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king : what is going on here, and what happened to these maidens
woman: (crying) igwe….. am finished, they are my daughters, we were all eating when all of a sudden, a heavy thun-der b!ow and they fell down and started vomiting blood, before I could do anything to save them, they are alre-ady dead, igwe plea-se help me, they are my only children and am a widow, plea-se ooo igwe help me, help me, I can’t loose them just like that (she fell on the ground rolling herself)
Elder Akumo: Aruooo… (abomination) the worst has happened
king: plea-se woman, take it easy on yourself, I know how you feel by losing your two children at the same time, and am sorry for that, but don’t worry I will look into the matter, for now go and bury them, in case if you nee-d anything, don’t hesitate to let me kno………. (the king have not finish his statement when obato the hunter c@m£ crying)
king: our great hunter, what is the problem? (he asked but obato refused to talk, because he was still crying)
Elder okeke: obato, st©p crying like a woman and tell us what the problem is?
obato: (sobbing) igwe….. my only son
king : you mean nnamdi your son?
obato: yes ooooo igwe (he fell on the ground still sobbing)
king : what happen to nnamdi?
elder mba : (curious) obato what happen to your son?
obato: igwe…… my so…… my son nnamdi is dead ooo…. ( he said and the king and the elders where very shocked on what he said, and likewise the villagers who was there, were also shocked)
king : no it can’t be, how come, when did this happened? (he asked surprisedly)
Elder Anene: Aru ozo (another abomination)
king : obato! how did it happened?
obato : (still sobbing) my king, I was in the farm searching for animals, after searching but couldn’t find any, so I decided to go home since I didn’t see any animal to hunt, as I turned to leave, suddenly I saw a bush meat from afar, so I took out my gun and sh0t at it, I was very happy that I killed a Bush meat, so when I got closer to get the Bush meat I sh0t, I was surprised that it was my only son nnamdi that I sh0t and not a Bush meat, but what surprise me most was that I saw the bush meat before shooting on it, but how it changed to my son I don’t know, igwe plea-se do something, nnamdi is my only child and you know my wife is now old and can not give birth to another child, plea-se igwe do something ooooo ( he sobbe-d the more, the king and the elders shake their heads in pity)
king :(sighed) obato plea-se take heart, I know how you feel and am really confused on what is happening, but don’t worry, I and the elders will look into this matter because this is getting out of hand, but for now you people should go and bury your dead ones (he said and obata, the woman, and the villagers all left to bury their dead ones)
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THE RED VULTURE
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Episode 4
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An Epic Story By Chichi Tonia
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The next day at the palace
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The king was seen talking to his cabinets.
King : (worried tone) Am not happy the way things are going on in this village, and the worst p@rt is that we don’t know the cause of what is happening, am not really happy at all
Elder okeke: even we the elders of this land are not happy too of what is happening in this our kingdom, people are dying everyday, and sickness everywhere, without we knowing the cause of it
Elder Akumo: And the worst p@rt is our crops are no longer producing food like before that was why the kingdom is suffering from starvation
Elder Anene: plea-se your highness, we have to do something about this before it gets out of hand
king :(sighed heavily) my elders, am really confus……… (he have not finish his statement before the queen rushed in,side interrupting their discussion)
king : my queen, what is the matter and why are you running as if you are been chased by a ghost?
Queen: (breathing heavily) my king, something terrible just happened now, my eyes have seen the worst
Elder mba: our queen, what happened? plea-se tell us
King: my queen plea-se tell us what happen?
Queen: (still breathing heavily) my king, I went to the kitchen to cook, as I got there, I took one yam which I will cook, as I wanted to peel it, suddenly the yam turned into a stone, as if that was not enough, the knife I was holding also disappeared, plea-se my husband this is getting out of hand, you have to do something to st©p all this calamity happening…..( as the queen was still talking, one of the village maiden rushed in crying)
king : who are you young maiden and why are crying? (he asked but the maiden refused to talk as she was busy crying)
Elder okeke: our king is asking you and you are not talking, young maiden tell us what the problem is because this cry you are crying now will not solve the problem, so open up and tell us what the problem is?
Ebele : (crying) igwe…. my name is ebele, and iam the daughter of late oforna
king :ok ebele, what is the matter and why are you crying?
Ebele: (still crying) igwe…. I and my mother was going to farm, as we are going along the road, an unknown arrow hit her on the che-st and she fell down and turned into ashes
King : what!!!
Elder Anene: Aru ooo (abomination)
Elder okeke: chai….. the worst have happened in this kingdom
Queen: my husband you have to find solution to all this because this is getting out of hand
king :hmmmmm…… ebele, I have heard all what you said and am sorry for what happened to your mother, but don’t worry I wi………. (he have not finish talking when a young man rushed in sobbing, when the king saw him, he knew that something again have happened)
king :young man what is the matter?
young man: (sobbing) my king am finished, am finished ooo
Elder Akumo: young man st©p crying like a woman and tell us what the problem is?
young man: (still sobbing) I was on my farm watering my crops, as I was watering them, right before my eyes the all crops all dried up, plea-se your highness, that is where I feed on, you nee-d to do something about this
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TBC