Opening his eyes, panting, getting up with a stiff body. Gurudza struggles, travelling around a strange place where he has never been. Getting out of the luxurious looking hut, nicely thatched. He gets into a crowd that stares at him like he is something inhuman, following him with curious eyes. Last thing he remembers is when he was fighting Gwanhoya and she …… his brain becomes blank, unable to remember what happened before he got here. He was not alone at the battle field, his face, careworn immediately, he prepares to run and a familiar voice calls to him.“Gurudza!” he hears the female voice calling him.He quickly turns, his eyes come in contacting with a smiling Mukura wearing a white gown with golden bangles and a neckless. She gets closer to him, place her right hand on his left cheek. It is finally over now. her tears flow down her cheeks. They do not say anything to each other, but just show their relief with their tearing eyes. The darkest hour they face has by passed them
Gwanhoya has been caught after months of terrorizing the village of Domboguru. She is caught by the efforts of the village’s Chief Chikanda and two of the high-ranking villages magicians and now standing trial in front of the whole village of Domboguru.“You have been found guilty of the charges of murder and witch craft, therefore the penance for these crimes is death by fire!” Chikanda discloses all her crimes and the penalty in front of the village.Gwanhoya looks at them all with a devious smile and says nothing while both magicians nod in agreement.The crowd starts chanting words to show they are in agreement with what had just been said by the chief. Each of the saying that she should be killed for the crimes she had committed for she had killed a lot of people during her rampage.“Do you have anything to say for yourself?” Chie
Centuries have passed and Gwanhoya had fallen into myths, folktales and legends, to only a few still remembering her. Mukura one of her descendants who does not know about Gwanhoya and is hated by her family members for unknown reasons to her. Her older sister Monalisa is the only one who has always been her shoulder to lean on. This is her 17th birthday and her family members got her working tirelessly doing chores alone in the house while the others rest. Genteel towards her family that mistreats her and alienates her.The sadness in her eyes visible even though she tries to suppress it with a gaily look.“Oh, you still haven’t finished cleaning! What am I going to do with and your laziness,” her mother comes into the kitchen her face looks annoyed by just looking at Mukura.“Good morning mother!” Mukura greets her, “I am about to round up my cleaning!”“Just do it fast!” she does not respond to the greeting and leaves the
It is early in the morning and Mukura wakes up, sweating and everything around her levitating and almost screams but holds her mouth. Fascinated by everything she was doing in her sleep she continues to move the things in the air. Monalisa knocks on the door and she lose control and the floating objects fall on the ground.“What is going on in there?” she shrieked trying to break the door down.She jumps off the bed, looks around there are things everywhere and there is no time to clean up. And Monalisa is still trying to bring down the door.Opens the door, “You are up early!” Mukura says with only her head out the door.“And you are up late, that is unusual. Are you doing okay in there? Thought I heard a noise,” she tries to look inside to see but there is nothing there on the floor anymore, “What happened in here? Sounded like something fell and made a disaster!&rdq
A better day it was yesterday and this day, is the day she gets the answers to what she wants to know. She gets up early to do chores early but to her surprise, everything was already done. She returns back to her room to prepare for an early departure.Finished her preparations but still no one is awake. She writes a note, slides it down Monalisa’s door and gets out of the house. Pulls out the lumps of darkness, confused on which will work she so she tries the first one and settle the other one down.“Take me to the heart of everything!”And a road for her to follow is mapped out on the ground, “Ohh, guess I am handling the road one right now!” she begins following it.BACK HOMETakada wakes up and for the first time goes to check on Mukura and find her not there. Seeing wax on the floor she begins searching through her things. She stumbles upon a paper which looks like a list of things and she reads them out slowly.“Candles, a black mirror and an
Gwanhoya returns back to her cave with the body of Taruziva and Mukura, places them both side by side and continues into the deeper parts alone. Illuminates the cave with fire, kneels and begins to chant. Red smoke, emanate from the ground, and in front of her appears a demon, like a shadow image, showing no face but the shape of horns, wings, arms and legs. She bows her head.“Have you made yourself useful on earth yet and made any progress on preparing for my arrival?”“Not yet my load!” she replies lifting her head up.“Hmmmm, what is the reason behind this delay?”“Unforeseen circumstances arose, the current chief and the descendant of my executioner Chikanda intervened!”“I see, so even after having your status being upgraded from witch to demon, a mere human still managed to defeat you?”“My lord, my body still has not evolved mu………?”“Silence!” enraged by the excuses being put out by Gwanhoya he shou
‘The early bird catches the worm’ is how the saying goes! Gurudza wakes up early and heads straight to Takada’s home. After yesterday, the need to learn how to control his magic and learn more magic feel greater inside him. Knocks on the door and Takada rushes to see who it is through the window. Being chary after the everything that occurred the day before.She opens the door after, “Good morning!”“Good morning, I see the baleful decoration here! I am wondering why you closed the door with such an opening on your walls!”“Ohh that! I was married to a magic maestro for a long time! I picked up a few spells along the way including simple magic barriers.”“That is good! Now let us get down to business!” he slides into the house, “Where are the books!”“In the storage room let me take you there and show you the books.”“That would be great, thank you!” he follows her to the storage room.“If I may ask, how powerful was your husband? I mea
Magical Anchorage“You seem to have advanced faster than I thought in a matter of hours!” Takada sounds delighted at this point with Gurudza’s advancement.Gurudza just turns to look at her and continues to practice using magic. Everything seems to be going well in gaining control but Takada is not much help in training to use it in combat and to him at this point it is frustrating. But even so, there is nothing to do except train on his own to control the elements.Takada rises from where she is seated and gets closer to Gurudza with her hands behind her back.“I know I am not much or even of any help but I think I can assist you with a few techniques my husband used to fight using, for example, the lightning spirit spear! Whereby he created a lightning spear from the lightning magic and since that is your main attribute, you should be able to do a much stronger one!”“Really?”“Yes, and it caused him a lot of physical stress!”“Okay, how do I do that