The papers on missing prince reaches Shabulaza kingdom , and when the king read about it, he was terrified to see that the young man they have kept in their kingdom as a commoner is actually a prince of Yashilan, the most feared and powerful kingdom.
Without wasting time, he summoned the chief of Bulawayo village to question him if he knew about Gabby being a prince. The man was blank as the king was, so Yosef who introduced brought them in had to tell tell the king and the village chief about, who Gabriel really is. He agreed to have known about his true identity a week ago. The king ordered an immediate transportation that will have to take the prince and Brianna, back to Yashilan, instead of them to wait for the public Ship which they do not know when it will come.
Three days before their departure, five missionaries came in the kingdom, from the United Kingdom and was given permission by the king to see their crusade in Bulawayo village, to preach their gospel.
It is a group of two women and three men. One lady looks 30 and the other one in early 20s. Two where old men in their late 50s and one young man of about 27 to 30. They set a crusade on youth football ground with permission from the king.
The crusade is to run for three days of which the Bulawayo people are expected to attend everyday. Each day that they attended seem to affect them in a positive way. The local Youths participated and helped with ashering and singing in which their music they liked.
Now that is the last day of the crusade, Brianna too advantage of the day to bless this beautiful kingdom with beautiful people with a song as a way to bid them a farewell, now that they will be leaving anytime soon.
Two months have passed since Brianna and Gabby came to Bulawayo, now is the time to go back home. It isn't really a good time for everyone in Bulawayo who has encountered with them, no one even want to think about a day they will be leaving.
Brianna, walked up on stage these missionaries made and a mic is handed over to her. Everyone was attentive to hear what she's about to say.
"I would like to dedicate this song to Bulawayo village and a kingdom at large for everything the've gone through in the hands of those slave, colonial masters. It's a song sung by a Nigerian gospel singer, 'Mercy Chinwo' . The song is entitled, 'No More Pain. Together we will remember those great men and women who lost their lives In fighting for peace, love and harmony."
All where quiet when she called the praise team to join her on stage and they did. She took two steps in front, away from the rest of the team, closing her eyes, as she wait for the instruments to reach where she's suppose to enter the song from. On the right note, she begin the song. Whenever the song writer mentioned their country Nigeria, she changed and put in Bulawayo.
The song need rose their long time forgotten memories, such that they all break in to mourning for their loved ones they lost. She was able to make the king, the chiefs to shade tears in public.
After she walked down the stage, the king had to remove a royal bracelet from his wrist and put it on her, "You are indeed a blessing to us. It's very sad that you will be leaving us this soon. May this bracelet, always protect and keep you from every evil eye." Then he kissed her on the forehead, while shading tears, and so did the queen, and the chief of Bulawayo village.
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Now is the day for departure, the boat is already waiting for them. Almost the entire Bulawayo people escorted them to the river. They all gathered around them, biding farewell.
It was a sad moment for The Bulawayo people tear was all that was speaking their sorrows.
"Oh Brianna, I will miss you personally." Beatrice hold hands with her as she speaks. "You were like a sister to me, you know." She begin to shed tears.
Oh, please don't make me cry too. I am as sad as you all are." She is trying to be strong not to shed a tear, but she couldn't hold them back than they fell down.
The prince came by when he saw her crying. "All of you stop crying. You are making my dearest princess to cry."He draw her close to his side with an embrace. They all burst into laughing and crying.
"I promise to Invite you all to Yashilan one of the days." Promised, the prince.
Everyone was amused by his words. Who wouldn't want to visit Yashilan and see it's riches?
The ship Captain blow a whistle, it's time to go. They all wave at them as they entered the ship. They cried as they watched it sailing away. The waving continued until the ship could be seen as more.
The ship sail the water for five good hours. Two assistance ship captains from the ship recognized their faces and thought about the pay for those who find them. She made a call to one of Manoah's boys who promised him to give double the amount the princess was offering, if he could find them on time.
Manoah is very sensitive with matters, so he asked the men to ask the ship master to capture a photo of them and send it to him as proof. So, he took a photo of them from a distance, while they where holding each other so close as people in love and sent it to him.
The pic he received, really made him angry to the extent of him wanting to burst out . He ordered the man to make up a story that will make the ship to drop them by Yashilan forest, near the boarder that seperates Yashilan from king Edmond's kingdom.
The evening was approaching when they reached Yashilan river boarder. From there, they had to wait for road transport .
One of Manoah's men approached them, pretending to be one of the villagers around this place. "Greetings. I guess you are not familiar with this place, may I help?"
"Are you from this place?" Asked Gabriel.
"Yes."
"Tell us, how long does it take for buses to pick people from this place?" He asked.
"The station was shifted to Manila village. You have to pass the forest to reach the other side to our station. You need to hurry up before it's dark. The forest is really dangerous when it's night."
How long will it take to reach the station?" Brianna asked.
"An hour. Come with me, I will take you there. He offered to help.
They hesitated, but they had no choice but to follow him, believing he is telling the truth. They walked a half way when Brianna become weary and thirsty. The man saw that as an opportunity to catch the prince and act as an hero to Brianna.
He called the other men to follow the prince to the stream, where he has gone to fetch water for his Princess, but he decides to remain back, watching over her as the prince left to a stream just behind the bushes.
They waited for 5 minutes for him to come back, but he was nowhere to be seen. After another five minutes, they heard a heavy fall and a man's scream in in pain is heard.
Brianna's heart jumped out from her chest, "Gabriel!" She arose suddenly, running to the direction of the sound. He hold her back, "what are you doing, woman? I told you both before that the forest isn't really safe at evenings."
"I don't care! My Gabriel is here!" She screamed and pushed him away then run as fast as she could towards the stream.
By the time she reached there, the men had already carried the unconscious body of prince Gabriel with them to unknown place. From there, only a shirt, stained with blood she found, lying beside the stream.
Brianna was now confused, she grabbed his lying stained shirt, looking around and screaming like a mad dog.
"Gabby, please, please please my love, take me with you, I'm begging you!" She screamed from the top of her voice and then fell on her knees, weeping, holding his shirt very tighter and close to her heart.
The stranger offered his arm as her shoulder to cry on. She accepted it and cried her sorrows from it.
"We need to get out of here, my lady. The forest is becoming more dangerous."
"I can not go and leave Gabriel alone. Please help me find him."
"Listen, you need to survive in order to help him. Let me take you home, from there you can report what happened to the police who will help us find him."
"But it will be too late, please!" She cried out to him.
"Believe me, it won't be too late if we hurry.
Brianna agreed with him and they left the forest. In less than 10 minutes, they where at the station. The white van stop by which gave them a lift. The van didn't really give them a lift from nowhere, it was sent by Manoah and the driver was one of his men.
In an hour, the car stopped by Brianna's house without her realizing it She looked and found that the've actually brought her back home and not to the palace as she instructed.
"Why did you bring me home, instead of the castle? And how did you know my place?" She raise suspicion about who these men where.
"Come on miss, you are more than known in this kingdom than no one else." He defended his actions, despite of not knowing who she really was, except by Manoah's direction.
"Miss, let me be the one to tell this to the king, you need to rest, you've come a long way." The man she was with in the forest said.
"I can't, I won't rest, knowing that my Gabriel is in danger!" She yelled that people heard the scream from the house. The men looked at each other upon hearing her, calling him, her Gabby. Now they knew for sure that there was something going on between them.
Daniel came out to check on who screamed like her sister only to find her dropping from a car. Daniel didn't believe what his eyes could see. He tried to clean them that maybe he couldn't see clearly. Then she saw her approaching slowly, he swallowed hard in disbelief.
"Is this really you, Brianna?" He begin to take steps towards her.
She nod, "yes, my dear brother, it's really me, your sister Brianna."
They fell in each other's arms and weep. They pulled from each other's arms and their tears turned into tears of joy.
"Come on in, you need to rest for our tomorrow's talk." He wiped tears from her eyes. She looked back to tell something to the men, but she found the've already gone.
They got inside the house which seemed so quiet and boring. She found little Vanessa lying asleep on a couch. Quietly she sat beside her, then bend and give her a peck on the cheek.
"She's been crying all day. I've just managed to make her sleep." He said.
"What about mother?"
He took a deep breath then made himself sit beside her. "Mum has been admitted in hospital for two weeks now. She collapsed after seeing the Jeep that you where taken in, in blood. She lost all hope, thinking you died."
Brianna sobbed over hearing this.
"Get some rest, we will go there tomorrow." He hugged her so happy.