I Bleed For You

Chapter 11

In the land of Abumu, Aromo who had left the hut where she had induced Princess Damina to sleep headed straight to the same bar where Damina had been and was nearly molested by one of the bandits that terrorised the town of Abumu. when she had gotten there she took her seat and waited for a bit. She no longer had any money with her and this made her really sad. She had never thought for a second that a day would come when it would appear that Samata would be the reason why she looses everything. That day had come and she had to accept the reality, the reality which implied she was no longer worth a dime and that she would have to start life afresh, meanwhile one thing she was not ready to do was to adapt and identify with her current condition. she was not sure she was ready to become a beggar. She waited for the waiter and suddenly someone hit his hands infront of her and she slowly raised her head up to look at his face. She didn't know the person but that was the same ugly man that tried to molest Princess Damina. He saw Aromo from a distance where he and his men were having a drink and decided to approach her, having seen that she bore the same tribal mark with the Princess of Dodo. 

"You know me?" He asked and Aromo looked around, finding out that she had entered into the wrong place. She looked at the man thoroughly and then shook her head.

"I saw your sister, met with her right here and she did an unspeakable thing. You can't deny you know her. She bears your mark and it is not every time we see people from Dodo come here. Now tell me, are you not from that land? I heard the King there is dead, what a shame" the man was bringing his face closer to Aromo's face as he mocked her. Aromo made a face and the man wondered if she was implying he was smelling and reached out with his hand to touch her face but Aromo withdrew her face further away from his hand. 

"You really don't want to do that. Not everyone who touches my face gets to stay away from me at the end" she said. The bandit chuckled.

"I like that. I hate forcing women and so what are you worth?" He smiled, showing his dirty teeth. Aromo looked at his face once again and hated him.

"I am not a whore" she just said but the bandit chuckled again. "very well then, if you can handle me then go ahead" She stood up and the bandit who loved the bold and raw woman standing before him looked towards the waiter and beckoned on him. The waiter approached them. 

"Get me a room" he said under his breath. The waiter nodded and before long both of them were panting like lizards that fell from ontop a tree. The bandit smiled and didn't want to end it yet. Aromo wasn't resisting and she knew exactly what she was doing. The man climbed on her once again, riding harder and making funny sounds that didn't resonate with Aromo. Aromo allowed him as he did his best and then fell back on the bed like a piece of cloth. He remained like that for some seconds and then suddenly he gasped, opened his eyes widely and then sat up. He looked gloomy. Aromo got off the bed and walked towards the window, opening the curtains slightly and asked the bandit without turning to look at him, "What is your name, what do you do and who are those men with you inside the barroom?

"My name is Ralf, I'm the leader of a group of bandits and some of them are those in the barroom" Ralf answered these questions without looking up at her, still staring down at the bed where be was seated on, wondering what was wrong with his medulla oblongata. He sighed heavily and hit his forehead with the lower part of his left palm, attempting to help himself regain his sanity and this time he wanted a situation whereby he would get off the bed and of the room at once but the more he thought of the things he would like to do the more he found himself desiring to know what Aromo would like him to do and gradually he lost his own will and could no longer think of himself. He got off the bed and walked up to her while she was standing near the window still holding onto the silk curtains. He held her her waist from the bed, bare chested and bringing his face close to her temple. She could feel his breath and the thickness of his beards. Ralf was a handsome man and even though Aromo knew the consequences of what she had done, taking control of a man's will was a thing of joy yet which attracts heavy consequences at the end. This reminded her of Akiza and what she had with him. She knew that Princess Damina would be most shocked to learn that she had had an affair with the man the Princess had wanted to marry. Even though their marriage was no longer possible the Princess would be shocked at the knowledge of the affair. Aromo remained standing there, half naked and full of thoughts. He thought of Akiza and what might become of him. Could it be his mother, her friend had made a way to restore the sanity of her son, if yes how could she must have achieved it, definitely the only way to regain the sanity of someone who has intercourse with any of the Sisters Of Magic in Dodo is to introduce the person to another sister to bed, hence the person will be free from the spell of the previous sister only to get spelled by the new sister. Could it be the mother of Akiza slept with her own son? Aromo thought aloud.

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In the palace of Akozo, the King of Akozo, holding his side as it dripped blood ran towards the palace building and entered it. He had to escape from the battlefield for Akiza cheated in their One on One fight; when Akiza realized the fight with his step brother wasn't getting any easier and if he didn't find another means to distract the fight he was going to end up a looser he withdrew a bit, charged again but just when Zakiza thought he was going to come at him once again Akiza called out to his men who were fighting near him and they came to aid him, each man wielding two swords in each hand. At the look of this Zakiza needed to invite help too but Akiza didn't give him that chance, he commanded his men to pounce on him and when they did the King of Akozo felt the heat to this cheat and he fell on his back many times, helped himself up many times, got wounded many times and when it was too much for him to bear he then helped himself out of the heat of the battle. He staggered and while he made his way out Akiza commanded the few men that came to his rescue to stand down and then went after the King by himself. He wanted to be the only one who finishes him and then take the glory all to himself.

Queen Lume decided to put herself together and then she stood up, walked straight to inside the room next after the hall where she was with the Chief Guard and when she stepped out she was holding the same sword that her husband cherished. She was going to look for her husband whether he was dead of alive. The Chief Guard seeing the sword in her hand knew he wasn't gonna be able to stop her, not this time. She was filled with the spirit that guards the sword and all the Chief Guard must do was lead the way or walk behind her. 

The King of Akozo could run no longer as he comfortably lay beside the steps to the throne room and there he waited for his death. It was then that the dragon focused his attention towards the main building of the palace and then began to rain fire on it. The King could almost feel the blocks falling on him as he remained where he was. The roofs of the throne room was now open and he could see the dragon flying around and killing more soldiers that came from the camp of Akozo to assist the palace. It was over. Just then the Queen of Akozo sighted her husband lying lifelessly on the ground. The palace officials, five of them who were in the palace when the attack from Samata and her son came were initially hiding inside a seperate room but when they saw that the dragon was getting rid of all the buildings in the palace they decided to come out, not paying attention to the advise given by some of the palace generals who decided to sheild them from flying arrows and sharpened swords of the enemy. They were running out of the palace when they noticed the King lying near falling bricks. They rushed to him and saw that his wife was also arriving at the scene at the same time. They stood with tears in their eyes while the wife went down on her kneels near the husband who was so badly bruised all over. The Chief Guard did not know what to do so he stood with the palace officials as they waited for the final words of the King who refused to be helped up from where he was lying down.

"Please do not leave me, not now, please, I don't want to be a widow" Lume cried her eyes out while holding onto the cheeks of her husband in her palms but the King of Akozo was dying and he wanted his Queen to run, yes, to run for her life for the Witch and her dragon were approaching and it wouldn't be long until she caught up with her and the rest. The Witch's quest was to destroy and her dragon was helping her achieve that while raining fire in the land of Akozo. 

"I want you to tell the story of this day to our child whom you carry in your womb. Don't give him your tears, give him your story, that story is what he will need to motivate him to do what needs to be done. You can't tell him of what happened here today if you will not be alive to do so, so go and follow the officials, go now. I'm already a dead man"

"Why would she do this to us?!" cried Lume.

The newly married Queen, Lume sobbingly removed her lips from his mouth the moment King Zakiza breathed his last with tears in his eyes while lying amongst piles of rocks with fire raining from the shattered roofs of the palace building.

"My Queen, the king is dead, we must escape now" 

Queen Lume was not sure who spoke amongst the palace officials standing behind her but she knew that whoever spoke was right. The king's younger step brother had succeeded in usurping the throne of his step elder brother with the help of her Witch mother and her dragon. It was time for Queen Lume to escape if she hoped to return for a revenge.

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The Prophetess of Dodo was inside her shrine but wasn't feeling sorry for the people of Dodo or what had become of them these past few years. She warned the King of Dodo but he valued what was inbetween the legs of a woman more than his kingdom hence why he lost not just his kingdom but his life. When it was clear that she wasn't going to be left alone by some of the villagers of Dodo who had come to inquire of what the gods were saying concerning the destiny of their land she stepped out and sighed deeply while looking at their sad faces.

"You all have to go back home. It would be a taboo if the Queen of this land comes back from taking over the land of Akozo and realizes that you came here to ask that I inquire of the gods what will become of this land. It is not in your position to make such inquiry but I answer only to the Queen of this land. Go home" 

"We cannot leave just like that" began one of the able bodied young men in the midst of the small crowd that came to the shrine of the Prophetess. He continued, "You are the Prophetess that we know, the leader after our late King. We know no one else. Dodo may have a Queen but that Queen is not acceptable by all of us. We who are here left our homes and our wives and have decided to come to you, to ask you to inquire of the gods and if the gods stand with us then we..."

"Then you will what. You will fight against your Queen? Go home now and take care of your families. I will not inquire of any gods. I chose my path and my path lies with the Queen" The Prophetess repeated herself and walked back into her shrine. She could hear the same young man speaking to her in a loud voice, assuring her that as long as they remained alive they weren't going to accept what had become of the kingdom of Dodo and they would be back. She sighed heavily and then looked at the gods.

*****

In the land of Abumu and inside the hut where Princess Damina was lying down she woke up from a deep slumber and held her head. Her head ached. She then stood up and staggered a little, held herself together and looked around, noticing that Aromo was no longer inside the hut. She swore to retaliate if she met her again.

*****

Inside one of the rooms of the bar where Aromo was with Ralf she could tell that Ralf had finally lost all his senses to her and that she could do anything with him. She turned to face him and asked politely, "You want more of me?"

"If you want my Mistress" he responded. Aromo remembered he was now about what she wanted no longer what he wanted. She then walked back to the bed, spread herself on the bed and asked him to rejoin her and he did, moving as she instructed him and this new him wasn't pleasing to Aromo who felt she preferred when he was with his senses but then she knew better not to allow him retain his senses for that would mean she doesn't get to get what she wanted; a group of deadly people to run errands for her in Abumu, that way she would regain all that she had lost in the past and in Dodo. The leader of the bandits of Abumu was now in her palms. She allowed him have her as he wanted and he moaned all through that night.