Khampolo has just returned from military service with evidence attires to justify himself as a once military man, as our community usually opine that a retired soldier without his uniform or boot is simply a camouflaging soldier. There was so much joy and jubilation in the town, that the coldblood war between people of Bendel and Gbaramatu has ended. though from our own angle, our jubilation was basically on the fact that our brother who joined the military during the war came back safely. It was a big occasion in the land, some were shouting untop of their voice, while some were singing and dancing. As part of the events a lot of families were crying because of their lost loved ones.
Many seasons has come and gone, and khampolo has now settled well as one of the community's able bodied men. Life has not been fair to khampolo since he came back from military service. He started life afresh in the community as a farmer. Been a young man so vibrant and full of blood, he worked tireless during this period to make life better through faming but all his hard effort comes to nothing in the short-run.
Being frustrated so much in the cause of faming, khampolo started considering faming as an affrontd to his personality as a retired soldier and a well respected young man in the community, expectations was very high, many were looking up to him to be great but to the contrary, he was gradually becoming a forgotten story since wealth has refused to be loyal to him since returning from military service.
Khampolo was becoming weary and one day, he decide to pay a visit to one of the elders Mr Robert by name in the community. After narrating his life misery to him, Mr Robert advise him to seek help from a spiritualist because from the look of things, it was obvious that his predicaments is not an ordinary one, he was made to believe that there is an evil forces that is behind his setbacks.
After so much discussions, khampolo was confused and restif, as they say that when a man is desperately in need of wealth, that the source always matters nothing to him. At this point, khampolo was wholly convinced and ready to do anything for surviver. A day was fixed between him and Mr Robert to visit a spiritualist shrine.
Life is nothing but an empty dreams but it is only few that gives hearing ears to that life philosophy. The dee day has come and everyone is ready to set off, the journey to the spiritualist shrine was not an easy one, had it not been that the spirit of gallant soldier was still with khampolo, he would have opted to give up at some point when the journey was becoming scary. He had an unusual shocks and unfriendly head swollens as a result of some unpleasant and crazy sounds that was emanating from the bush part as they walk down through the tiny forest road.
With the unusual scaring sounds, one can actually affirm that spirits do carry out their own business transactions inside the evil forest, within a short period as they walk through the forest road, a very scaring voice echoed from a very close distance;
Welcome to the land of wealth!
Welcome to the land of wealth!!
Welcome my sons!!!,
The blood is our treasures and the wealth is our rewards, give us blood let's drink and be happy and we will give you wealth to go and rule the world..!
hahahaha...!
Hahahaha...!!
Hahahaha....!!!
At this point the spirit of gallant soldier has left khampolo, he was shaken and sweating, he thought of running back but it seemed that the strange voice encompasses the whole forest and beside running back would have been of no meaning because the forest at that point seems as if it was rotating, both the trees and grasses seemed as if it was changing direction.
To khampolo greatest surprise, he will point at a tree and before a second look, the tree has already moved to another direction. As an adage use to say that when the going get tough, the toughers keeps going, to Robert, he was not surprised because he has being coming there.
He wraps khampolo's head in his armpit, and at this point, they were standing in one place and all of a sudden, smokes start coming out from the ground, slow and steady till it forms a triangular shape. As they were standing, a voice echoed again from the back, "You can now come in". As they match towards that triangular shape, it became obvious that they were inside a large compound, now the smokes has all disappeared and khampolo is now standing erect beside Robert. In that large compound was an old and ulgly looking man sitting in the middle of the compound surrounded by snakes of different colours, he waved at them which represent a signal to sit down. Robert sat before khampolo untop of a large sculpture that resembles snake's head.
As the journey has gotten to the last bus-stop, solution to khampolo's predicaments was what was wriggling in his mind, as khampolo was waiting for the spiritualist to ask him to narrate his story or to ask him his name, to his surprise a very big scaring snake with three eyes rosed from the ground at the back of the already sitting spiritualist, the snake grows very tall just within seconds. As khampolo was looking at the snake with amazement, the snake called his name and immediately started narrating his (Khampolo) life miseries to him. Khampolo was told that he has soiled hands in so many blood during the coldblood war, and the blood of those people that he killed during the war had stained his fortune so severely, but having come this far in search of solution, that the solution is in-between his legs. You quest for wealth and riches will be granted on the bases that you shall bring a virgin girl for her blood to be used to cleanse your stained fortune.
As khampolo was still listening, the snake disappeared and all of the suddenly a strange voice echoed again and this time around, it was coming from the direction of the ugly looking spiritualist sitting right in front of them.
Youuuu.......! Have heard the vampire of wealth and riches spoke, the solution has been given and the choice is yours, bring the blood of a virgin girl to cleanse your stained fortune or do otherwise to continue your woes at the apex
Hahahaha....! Blood
Hahahaha...! Blood
Hahahaha...! Blood
The service has ended, and church has been dismissed. Khampolo stud up together with Mr.Robert still in the shrine of the spiritualist, khampolo was still shocked and quivering, the thought of killing again became another chronic headache to him,though he was very much ready to kill, after all killing human being was not a new thing to him as someone that was once a soldier, but to kill a virgin girl just for wealth was a very big worry to him. Considering the fact that it was an abomination to kill an innocent person in their community, khampolo was left to make a very hard decision.
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