Urenma episode 15 – 16

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Chapter 15

Obinze took two sharp blades from his
collection and gave one to his wife and they left for the village square where a mammoth crowd had gathered. Obinze and Urenma did not walk like lovers into the square. No, they ran like warriors; and when they entered the village square they raised a battle cry. Ogidi
and his army were expecting a frightened
man and his beautiful wife, but what met
him was way beyond all he had witnessed in all the lands he had conquered. Some of Ogidi’s warriors who stood at the entrance to the village square were the first to taste the venom of the couple. Obinze and Urenma took their heads with some swift movement of their blades never seen before. When Obinze ran into the square he raised one of the heads he had chopped off and yelled,
“War!!!!!!!!!” and made for Ogidi. There was no negotiation to it or pleading; Ogidi had brought war to Ukeh, a man and his wife would make sure he got exactly that. It was two against an army of seasoned warriors, but one of the two was a pure goddess and the other one an adopted god. Ogidi’s war men rallied around him to form a shield; but
Obinze moved like the wind. Men saw heads falling off but did not see who was beheading them. Urenma had since gone into her spiritual nature, machetes were moving everywhere but no one saw her. Only her cry for blood was heard. In the light of what they saw, the men and women of Ukeh took arms and joined the battle. When those who were hiding in the forests and bushes heard of what was happening at the village square, they took arms and ran into the
battle. Even men in neighbouring towns
joined the battle when they heard Obinze and his army was prevailing.
Even though Ogidi was overwhelmed by what he saw and was losing his men rapidly to a growing army of men and women led by a local hunter and his wife, he made a stand.

He summoned the gods that had been his
back in all his battles, but it was then Ogidi knew what he was up against. Urenma left her spirit nature and appeared in the flesh and took stand by her husband and made a grand stand against Ogidi and the twelve gods he head summoned. When the battle was over Urenma had the twelve gods bound
in chains and dragged them to Nwangele
River and sunk them into it as a gift to the chief gods who had their kingdom in the river.

Ogidi on his part was no match for Obinze.
Obinze killed him in the most gruesome
manner, taking off his arms and legs until all that was left was his trunk and head, and
finally he lumped it off with a shout of
victory.

After he had killed Ogidi he ran to meet
Urenma at the river. He was afraid that
perhaps the river gods had made good their threat and afflicted her with a curse.

Thankfully she was fine. Obinze and
Urenma’s fame went far to lands they would never get to know. They became living legends and men called on Obinze to become the ruler of Ukeh and the other lands around having defended them in their time of great distress.

Chapter 16

It also became common knowledge that
Urenma was a child of the gods. Men
quickly contrived stories that Nwangele River had refused to take her back when she was born because the gods knew she would stand by her husband to defend the land. No one had remembered the curse of the gods against the children of the gods who defile the call of the gods to return home.

Obinze and his wife everyday waited for the worst to happen. They knew Urenma had broken her deal with the gods and so would be punished. When the wait for the wrath of the gods to unleashed became interminable, Urenma and Obinze carried on with their lives. Once again, Obinze began to prosper, though Urenma did not use her power again to their advantage. He did not know what to put his prosperity to; people did not just
bless him with gifts, his land began to
produce abundantly again and his cows,
goats, sheep and chickens began to
increase. Then after Obinze had accepted to become the chief of Ukeh and the lands around it, Urenma woke up one morning feeling sick. Obinze feared for the worst, he knew something was wrong, a goodess should not be sick.

Quickly Obinze began to look for help
amongst medince men. All the portions they were given failed and Urenma’s condition worsened. One day when a medince man arrived to administer treatment to her she became overwhelmed with the urge to kill and tore the medince man apart; like a beast
of the field she ripped him to pieces. Though she regained herself after that, Obinze felt he had lost his wife and began to cry morning, night and day. With time Urenma began to grow furs like a wild beast and her nails began to transform to talons. She still
spoke like a human being and went about
her domestic chores, but she feared that
someday, she might turn on her family
members and devour them. So she called
Obinze and asked him to behead her and
take it to Nwangele River, but the problem was that Obinze could not do it. He still had hope that the gods would have mercy and reverse the curse.

One night Urenma was overcome by a desire to devour human flesh, so she attacked Obinze. Obinze survived only because he still had the flock of her hair in him. While
Obinze held her down and was bleeding all over from her attack, she pleaded with him to take off her head.
Seeing there was no other way to help her,

Obinze drew his machete and with a heart
wrenching cry beheaded her. That night he
took her head down to Nwangele River and
ended her misery. Urenma’s body was given
a celebratory burial. After her burial, having
lost his grandmother over the years, Obinze
took his two children to Urenma’s parents,
and set out to find a strong medince man
that would help him cross over into the River
world to demand that the River gods should
return his wife to him; or he will fight them to get her back.
To Be Continued…….