It was night, yet the body of the dying man out in the sun has not yet been found. It has disappeared like the escaping gorilla warriors.
If the body had been eaten by jackals or wolves or any likely beast, remnants of it will be evident in the vicinity.
Tomorrow men will scavenge the whole surrounding areas to confirm the where about of the missing body of Kogna.
"How many gorilla men do you have locked away in the cell with the hybrid?"
"Ten men alive. All shackled in a seprate cell from the hybrid."
"I did see the look in your eyes when we were nailing the man to the floor," kanka probed with a grin, that's how I got to know your emnity towards the man goes deep.
"You need not say it father. yes, I am ruined by my envy of the man by virtue of being destine for the same woman. And yes, I don't want him to live. A man like him and me can't exist in the same world."
"I wish I had a resolve like that, when I was your age. I doubt myself though; that I might've been able to commit that resolve to just one woman."
"Not just any woman father, a Makilla, one you never had in you time."
"You want my permission to kill the man? my answer is don't even try, Rygna. We're handling this by the book. After what happened in that cell today, I want to find how he did it. I want to know the extend of his power."
"What are doing about Lord Nka?" Rygna asked his father about his uncle who was shackled in the adjoining cell to that of the Alpha's.
"There is nothing you two can do about me," Nka merge into peripheral apparition of his captors bewildering them.
Rygna reached out for his 9mm, but Kanka placed a hand on his shoulder, shaking his head. Tick, tick... don't waste your bullet son.
"Listen to your father, you little dumb head. I will forgive you for this little nuisance against me, either way you've made yourself a marked man in my third eye. Marked men don't last long in my apparition." Nka Whispered in the dark....
"Enough of your threats Nka, and just so you know, the vedict aways you, if you break from the cell doesn't mean you are free from the incarceration."
Nka sat on the next chair close by and poured himself wine, and lights a cigar.
"And what prove do you have that I poisoned anybody? I am out to get one man, Kuga the Alpha. I don't care about whatever means I shall employ to get him. You all know how dangerous the man is to the panther clan, yet you are doing nothing about it, now you dare stand in my way? What? What if a few maidens die for the greater good of the entire clan. If you want to kill the man, poison the well of immortality he drinks from, it's that simple."
"You are rotten, and far perverted that I thought Nka. So you poisoned the maidens to kill Kuga. well, the man is no where close to dieing ." kanka said to the now hysterical laughing Nka.
"Where are you keeping the hybrid?" Nka asked.
"A place you can't find him. That's a privilege you don't have, Nka."
"Okay, I think it's about time you dummies know who is in charge here, I sensed the hybrid close enough, brother." Nka spat.
Snarling black panthers gleams their wild yellow eyes in the shadows. Nka was using the kanka's own panther legions against him.
"What? you think you captured me? no I came to you at my free will, Kanka. I came for the prisoner. You both know you can't control or contained what he is. I have a special cell for him at Ballkass. Where I shall drain him off his power before killing him."
"You mean to take his essence for yourself. I can never let that happen. My mission as an enforcer is to protect our people and not let vices sprout among us. I can't let anyone have access to any kind of Alpha dominants. Handing the man to you is like trading one monster for another. Perhaps a more rancorous one," Kanka replied curtly.
Nka laughed uproariously; "you don't have the resources to protect yourself from him. You could feel it. The wave he ignited in calling those apes to him in that cell. Well, it was powerful enough to wake me up from the ether shot you gave me. and I had used that same power to my advantage to escape from all your shackles and locked cell."
"Crucifying the man to the ground wouldn't kill him either. Do you really think, you've arrested me? I came here at my own accord, after I got to know you killed Nebulous. I know you will be coming for me. You can choose to play the protected and do goody all you want. You can hide behind the mask of your enforcer crap to wreak vengeance, whatever, I don't care, just get out of my way, my dear little brother…."
"Take the shot" Kanka said, pressing his left ear, his fixated on Nka. Nka saw the red dot on his chest and try to duck away but it caught him on the shoulders, throwing him back.
"Another one to the chest! now!" Kanka shouted.
Another snipper slug drills its way into Nka's chest and he lay there jerking as though shock by a high voltage electric cable on a stormy night.
The panther men we instantly release from the telepathic pull Nka was having on them.
Once again Rygna, appreciated the shrewdness of his father. The man was simply too logical. Nothing fancy, or extra ordinary like using his energies like the other Panther' lords. He could have use his powers a panther, but opt for technology and the military gadgetry available to him.
"Put the man away down in the dungeon, and shackled him beneath the soil in a grave. Make sure he can't escape this time. I will attend to him myself later." Kanka sniggered wickedly at the paralysed figure of his powerful brother, the most feared panther lord among the five panther' clans.