Ayao went back to the house. Oya got Osain to treat Eve's wounds. Ayao tells her sister about Eve's attacker.
"I believe we need to leave this place right now." Said Ayao.
"But it is in the middle of the night." Said Oya. "Where will we go to?"
"I know a palace but I will have to make a call first." Said Osain.
Osain leaves to make a call on his smartphone. Meanwhile, Oya and Ayao her sister is discoursing. After some time, Osain came back to them.
"I made a call to Eshu. He said we can come over. So we cannot go to where we once wanted to go."
Ayao gives a sad and disappointed face.
"Ayao, we can not stay on this island forever...we can't even have a peaceful life here. We need to help the people of this island and get rid of Iku. The city itself is going down to the ground."
Ayao agrees with him. So, everyone got up and went to the garage where Ayao's car was parked.
"What is this small engine?" Asked a curious Oya.
"Oh... I forgot to tell you. I know you have only been exposed to mostly carriage, trains, and boats, this is what they call a car."
Oya opens her mouth in awe.
"Also, I am the first to drive a car. Now it is a trend for the women here to drive."
Osain tells them to cut their talk short as both girls help Eve into the car. Ayao gives Oya a book on modern technology and lifestyle. They all got in and drove off.
"Hey, Oya?" Called Ayao. "Could You please burn the house down?"
"Why?"
"I am wanted for a crime ... It was an accident at first... Please just help me burn it. I don't want any evidence left of me behind."
"Sure."
Oya turns her head to face the building. Dark clouds gathered around the house, the sound of thunder booms through the clouds, and a flash of lightning strikes the building setting it a blaze.
"Thanks." Said her Sister.
They head to a place called BivilIku. There, they meet up with Eshu. He wears a brown jester's hat on his golden locks while wearing a dark brown outfit that only covers only half of his chest to his calves, he is wearing cowries around his neck and a bunch of iron keys on the right side of his pocket. Everyone comes down from the car and walks up to Eshu. Eshu gives them his mischievous smile but what Oya and her sister was giving him was a look you do not what to see in your dreams.
"Now why such faces?" Said Eshu mockingly.
They do not answer him and just greeted each other. Eshu leads them to the miserable building in front of them. As they walk into the building, Eshu looks at Eve who has already fallen asleep on Oya's back.
"You carry a white person. Why?" He asked.
"... The past is the past, Forget it. Also, she saved my life twice. I owe her."
"You've changed. Just like the world is..." Eshu hesitates to talk but then. "Just between me and you... Eh... Please do not tell him when you see him... About that day."
"Tell who and what day?!"
As they got to a large room filled with abandoned furniture and a lit-up fire place, a handsome dark-skinned man dressed in expensive gold jewelry and a green and white luxurious outfit, he has thick facial hair that is well groomed and had long black locks. What eve makes his beauty stand out is his eyes, they could make Eve melt if she was awake. They are yellow unlike Eshu whose eyes are gold. When he stood to greet the guest that had arrived she was surprised to see him just as he was.
"Oya...?" Said the man.
"Orunmila...?" Said Oya
(‾ʖ̫‾)
"Orunmila...?"
"... It's been a while. "
"Yeah!" Exclaimed Eshu breaking the awkward moment. "The only two mighty and smart asses that defeated Iku are in one place!"
The two ignored him, Oya continues their talk as they all have a sit and Eshu gets them some drinks.
"To be honest I thought Iku would have killed you...but after what I heard I was relieved."
"Same goes for you..."
Orunmila turned his head to where they had placed Eve. She sleeps on a soft foam on the floor next to the fireplace. He then looks at Oya.
"I see you brought a friend. But why this one?"
Oya speaks as Eshu brings them water. "She is not like the others..." She states. "I have stayed with her in her home town and they were welcoming to me. I learned to forgive them. I also felt bad for the wrong I did."
"What's that?" Asked Eshu interrupting.
"For having so much hate towards them. I wanted to kill them by flooding their homes and towns for five days straight so that her people could die. Then, I was still enraged by the evil they did but I see now that not everyone is evil."
"...True." Said Orunmila. "I also see that she is a lesbian. I very much forbid and I do not support..."
"I know tried to talk her out of it."
"Did she listen?"
"I guess. It is her choice anyway."
"She's okay. I like her energy."
"We got to do something before people will die in the hands of Iku."
"Yeah," Ayao responds. "A horrible, horrific and unstoppable death...it is going to be so bad..."
"Stop." Said Eshu putting his hand on her mouth, she then licks his hand making him remove his hand from her mouth.
"How are you going to find Iku before it is too late."
"That will be discussed tomorrow." Said Orunmila. "I have an idea of where that dumb shit is... For now, we should get some rest."
***
*KABOOM*
The next day a large explosion shook the ground of the whole Island. Eve had been watching and waiting for Oya and Orunmila to come back.
"What was that?" Asked Eve who was in shock to see and hear a large explosion.
"It was Oya." Said Eshu eating bean cake with Ayao. "I think she worn.
Eve was speechless. Such a loud and big explosion can be caused by her new friend.
'If Oya is capable of such a thing when fighting. What can she do when it comes to war?' Eve says in her mind.
"We are back."
It was Orunmila and Oya. Both of them look okay like the fight was no big deal but in Oya's hand was a pale and skeletal figured man crying.
"What is that?!" Asked Eve.
"This is Iku." Said Oya. "He won't be causing any trouble anytime soon."
"Please... Just give me back my death book..." Said Iku between sobs.
"Don't worry. You'll have it when I am done with you." Said Eshu taking him away from Oya.
"Go easy on him." Said Oya.
Everyone watches as Eshu takes Iku to a brightly lit room.
"He won't go easy on him." Said Ayao as she gives Oya a box.
"He has rage issues." Said Oya. "What is this?"
"It is a smartphone. I bought it for you so you can reach us anytime anywhere."
"I'll miss you."
"We are always together. Just call my name and I will answer. Okay."
She hits her on the shoulder softly and they both hug.
"I can't believe you were 'married' to that ... Eshu once before."
Eve's eyes were wide as a tennis ball when she heard that.
"Yeah I know, right? He is such an ass for even sleeping with the one whore I disliked when I was with my man."
"Why did she sleep with him anyway?"
"I heard that it was because she wanted to learn how to predict the future from Obatala. Obatala's clothes were stolen from Eshu. That whore made a deal to get it back and then made a deal with Eshu... By having sex with him in exchange for the clothes."
"Waw!" Exclaimed Eve and Ayao.
After that, Osain comes back from his work.
"I have booked a ship for Oya and her friend Eve. In three days, you will have to be there by 6:40 am."
"I guess it is three more days to spend time with you!" Said Oya with joy. The two sisters spend lots of time together.
[SOME OF THE CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN THIS STORY A BASED ON REAL GODS AND GODDESSES (even real people), their RULES, WHAT THEY LIKE AND DISLIKE, AND THEIR ROLE AND SUPERNATURAL POWERS. TO THIS DAY THEY ARE STILL WORSHIPPED IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA. NOT EVERY THING WILL BE TRUE AND I GOT THEM FROM SOME WEBSITES I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER THEM.]
Later that night...
Eshu opens the door of Oya's room. He taps her and she wakes up.
"Dear gods...what do you want?"
"I have something important to tell you it is about your friend."
"What happened to her?" Asked Oya as she worries.
"I can tell you here. You have to follow me."
Oya gets up and follows him to the river side. Oya looks around to see where Eve was but she realised that she feel for Eshu's trick to lure her to a remote and quiet place. She turns to Eshu to yell at him.
"What the fuck! Eshu!"
Eshu had already striped himself naked, smiling with a cocky smile as he flesk his muscles.
"Do you like what you see?"
"No!"
"Come on." He says as he approaches her and hugs her. "I know you like it. Remember when we use to be as one, and the man you once fell for is gone so I'm still available. Also, you were just a concubine not his real wife."
Oya did not notice that he had removed her night top, leaving her bare from her chest down to her hip. Eshu then touches her hip that's when she realised.
"Lovely waist beads ..."
Before he could finish his statement, Oya blasts him with water. Pushing him to a tree close by. If it wasn't for the fact that he too was a demigod he would have been dead. Oya leaves him on the floor and heads back to the building.
"Try that shit with me next time I'll strike you with lightning."
Eshu laughs. "Sexy as always. Men! She's my baddie."