Kiya's Home
Kiya sat opposite her mother on the dinning table humming a song and completely concentrating on her mobile phone. Her mother could not understand what is taking Kiya's attention in the phone so much that her daughter could not even eat breakfast, she had to ask..
"My dear! What are you doing with that phone that even breakfast seem useless to you?"
(Startled) "Oh.. sorry, I am just chatting with.. am chatting with Alisha"
"The Youth Corp member.. eh?" Zahra asked.
"Yes, I was sharing the good news with her. Today is Saturday, we won't meet, I could not wait to tell her about the scholarship win so I had to chat her up about it. I hope no problem?"
Zahra frowned.. "Just for how long have you known this lady that you are already sharing personal stuffs like that? I told you to always be careful with people.. you really don't know who is who, your enemy can pretend to be a friend."
"I get it Mom. I wonder why you African parents are always skeptical about friends and strange people in general. I am always careful, moreover, I am a big girl now remember.."
"Tell that to your father when he comes back.. that we Africans parents are ridiculous right?" a pissed Zahra blurted.
"Haha.. Mom chill, sorry ok I was only joking about the skeptic thing, I know you are only always looking out for me and I really am grateful for that.. by the way why did Dad left so early today? The dinning table and I are really missing him right now."
"He needed to catch up with a client. And Kiya on a serious note, you really need to be careful with that Alisha of yours, do you hear me?"
Kiya nodded in agreement and answered.. "Hmm! I will Mom, i promise."
After breakfast, Kiya packed the plates and washed them. She went to her room, sat on her computer desk and started using the computer. She logged in the scholarship website in an attempt to fill an online form with the scholarship company's requirement. After she is done with the form, she started browsing the internet to find ideas on how to take care of a garden. Three weeks before her birthday, she planted a new garden not far from her room, she could see the garden directly from her room through the window. It a mini garden, yet it not so small, it a beautiful garden with varieties of flowers, and of course her father helped her with the garden. Kiya loves flowers, plants, anything that can be grown in a farm or garden, she had proven that by asking her father to grow a small garden just for her as a gift for her sixteenth birthday and it was done for her to her amazement.
It been three hours since Kiya went into her room from the dinning. She successfully spent those three hours on the computer but only one hour was for her research, the remaining two hours, she spent in the dream world. She did not sleep early last night so she became a debtor of sleep and had to pay back.
Kiya woke up with a startle, like someone who had been catapulted from the dream world to the living world by a hulk.. "I slept off, oh no.." she thought, she gasped when she realized that she dosed off for three hours.. she scratched her head and thought out laud, "I sat on this chair somewhat 8 something AM and now it 11.20am? Did i time travelled? And what the heck was i doing fighting a hulk in my dream..huh?" Kiya paused for a minute and as if amused by her own dream she scuffed, "hulk? Hmm, ppff".. "too much movies is bad for you babe, you are a scientist, a real one, not a fictional movie monger, you got to focus and it time to go gardening" she said to herself.
Girls High School Jos, Corp members Lodge:
Miss. Jagma, better known as Alisha by Kiya, sat on her bed staring straight at a beautiful picture on the wall of her apartment. That picture is her mother's picture, she goes everywhere with it. In her apartment it hangs on her wall, in her mobile phone it serves as her wallpaper, she even have the picture in a locket hanging around her neck.
This weekend was supposed to be an awesome weekend but she woke up all moody, she could not even understand what was making her feel dizzy, she felt too lazy to leave her bed so she just sat right there staring.
It a ritual for her, every weekend she reserve 20 to 30 minutes to kneel before her mother's picture in veneration. She would spend all the reserve time talking to the picture as if a living being. Alisha would tell the picture representing her mother, how much she missed her and how much she wished to have her around. She would cry and laugh and released all burdens on her shoulders to that picture while kneeling, but today she feel sick and could not do the ritual, so she just stares at the picture. She sighed, she gently forced herself up, slowly walked up close to the wall, she raised her eyes to look into the eyes of her mother, the picture hanging on the wall.. she spoke, "She look just like you Mom, maybe that is why the connection is too strong, she is young but pretty smart, her mind is too mature for her age i guess, she smile just like you, and her melanin skin drives me crazy, i feel an energy around her that takes me back to those days when we hugged each other tightly, when we talk and play and do pretty much every normal thing together, (Tears rolls out from her eyes) I don't know what the future holds, but i know that fate sent her to me, to keep the feelings i have for you well alive and I am going to take very good care of her. Being your daughter is the best thing that ever happened to me and I still so wish you are here, meanwhile, she will keep me company,. her name is Kiya, even though she is like a little sister to me, I made her my best friend. Oh one more thing, am sorry i could not do the ritual as usual, I am not really feeling good and I don't even know why because am not even feeling sick but I just feel somehow.I love you Mom."
She slowly turned around, walked back to her bed and threw herself flat, sighed in relieve before closing her eyes to give herself up to sleep.
Somewhere in a deep forest
A man sat under a gigantic tree, he sat in a lotus shape siting position, he was meditating with his eyes tightly closed. Completely lost in his meditation, completely oblivion of any external stimuli. Suddenly, he opened his mouth and whispered, "It has been found, glory to the ancestors." he could barely contain his joy, he slowly stood up and walked toward a cave.
Kiya's Home:
Dressed in a blue overall, hand gloves shoved in both hands, bare footed and ear buds plugged in both of her ears. Kiya hummed a song as she worked in her garden. She was so focused in her work that she did not realize that the sky is turning from blue to black, gradually and gently the brightness of the sun faded away. It was until then that Kiya had a glimpse of what was going on, "What is going on?" she asked herself. She quickly stood to look at the sky but a heavy clapping of thunder stroke her with the kind of fear she had never felt before, Gboom! Gboom!.. powerful lightening illuminated the dark sky. Kiya was dumb-stroked, she needed to run away but her limbs betrayed her, they could not move an inch, "What the hell is going on?" she shouted. She didn't know if she should cry for help or just give herself up to the darkness, the thunder and the lightning striking her soul with intense fear. No one seem to be around, it was like the whole world is on fire but no one seem to be running but Kiya, she wished she could run away. In her fear she thought of her Mom sleeping in the bedroom and her Dad who came back from work just ten minutes ago. The sky remained dark, sounds of thunder still clapping and lightning kept gracing the dark sky with light, Kiya closed her eyes tight, tears rolled out of her eyes and just when her fear began to grow to the point of despair, her limbs moved, the imposing aura of the dark sky suddenly disappeared along with the terrifying thunder and lightning. Kiya felt light, like an imposing energy just took off and left her alone. "What just happened?" she whispered to herself, the thoughts of her parents suddenly rushed into her mind, looking toward the direction of the house close by the garden, she shouted, "Mom! Dad!"
Kiya gathered all the energy in her body, she used that energy to start with a speed like a hungry cheetah running after a buffalo. She reached the main door of their house in seconds, kicked it open, with tears she ran inside the sitting room but no one was there, even her Dad seem to be missing. Kiya could not make sense of all the happenings, she decided to go to her room to try to calm herself. On reaching the door of her room, Kiya paused.. with a shaky voice she asked herself, "What the hell is going on here for God's sake?"
A flicked door, a strange atmosphere, a very imposing aura, burning flames and blue lightnings all gathered waiting for Kiya. She could not move an inch into the room, it was like the whole strange phenomenon that happened outside while she was in the garden which suddenly stopped didn't actually stopped but transferred into her room.
Kiya unsure of what to do thought of running back to the outside, as she was about to turn the side of her eyes slightly sighted something laying on her bed, something even stranger. Kiya stayed back, she needed to have a closer look on whatever it is that is laying on her bed. Unfortunately for her, the strange activities going on in her room would not let her have a clear vision, she needed to think of a way of getting into the room if she really need a clear vision.
Kiya gathered all the Will left in her, she started to force her way in regardless of the flames, smokes, lightning and all. Kiya observed that upon everything going on in the room, nothing there seem to be damaged or consumed. The flames were not consuming even the must flammables in the room, the lightning not electrocuting anything, Kiya could not help but ask herself; "With all this fire, why is nothing burning. Is this thing actually happening or it all a dream?" Kiya continue to try to push herself in but the strong force there would not let her in, she cast her gaze on the thing laying on her bed, what she discovered shocked her, "What?.. this is unbelievable, so all these strange phenomenon is coming out of this thing laying on my bed?" she thought.
Kiya could not give up on trying to push in, luckily, her will is no joke, when her will matched with the superpower force stopping her from coming inside the room, there was a clash of will-powers. When the force discovered that Kiya's will is strong and could break in, the heat coming from the flames began to scotch her gently and tenderly, till she began to feel the pain being inflicted on her. She decided she did not want to continue pushing but something else freaked her. It turned out that the more Kiya gazed at the object laying on her bed the more she wanted to touch it. Apparently, three forces were at play at that very moment.. the force stopping her from getting inside, the force enticing her to touch the object on her bed and the force coming from her willpower. Which one should Kiya succum to?
Meanwhile in Jos mini market, Alisha joyfully walks around pricing and purchasing a few food stuffs. All of a sudden she felt her heart zapped her like electricity, she tripped and nearly fell but she quickly found her balance and stood firm. She held her chest very tight, she started panting heavily as if an athlete who just completed a hundred meters race. She whispered.. "Kiya...!" she quickly reached for her mobile phone to give Kiya a phone call, she dialed Kiya's number and hit on the call button but instead of the phone to start sending call signals the phone started vibrating hard which caused the phone's screen to start cracking nonstop, before Alisha could understand what was going on, blue sparks sprouted out of the phone's screen, earpiece, mouth peice, charging point and pretty much every opening on the phone, the process of which damaged the phone completely. Out of fear and amazement, as if in the speed of light, Alisha dropped the phone in an instance. She raised her head up to the sky like someone who heard a call from heaven and she simply whispered.. "Kiya...!" before she turned around and left in a blink.
In Kiya's room, the strange phenomenon persisted and shew no sign of stopping. Flames, smoke, blue lightnings erupting from a mysterious object laying on her bed. Still gazing on the strange object, regardless of the gentle scotching of the heat and the blinding blue lightning, Kiya kept pressing forward. The imposing power of her will turned out useful as Kiya began to feel her weak body and mind being strengthened by a force she knew not about. Kiya felt like she was filled with the strength of one hundred men, the force that was stopping her from reaching the object on her bed began to weaken and with the new strength she possesses, she moved swiftly in the speed of the blink of an eye, and before she could even think of what was going she saw herself standing toe to toe with the object on her bed. Without any waste of time, and disregarding any more harm that could fall upon her, Kiya stretched her right hand to grab the strange object gushing with powerful flames and sparks.
Kiya fostered all the strength in her just to reach the object with her hand. At that point, even if Kiya wanted to change her mind on reaching the object, it was too late. The drawing force coming from the object was too enticing, no, it was too powerful for Kiya to resist, her mind, body and soul only wanted one thing and that was to hold that object in her hand. Her strong will granted her the power to touch the object, the moment she did, something even stranger than the whole strange phenomenon happened to Kiya.. First her whole body immediately became numb, she could not feel especially her right hand which serves as the connector between Kiya and the object, powerful sparks of blue light gushed into her from the object, her eyes, hair and all the orifices of her body sprouted with blue sparks, it was like her entire body has become new host to the strange phenomenon. In that very moment, a powerful force forced Kiya to heavily drop on her knees, the object still stuck in her right hand, Kiya could not help herself up. She could not bring herself to think of anything, her mind was at a brink of collapsing when all of a sudden, everything stood still, it was like time itself stopped. The whole pains being inflicted on her body ceased, total silence broke except for faint footsteps Kiya could hear. The faint steps gradually became louder, and standing right in front of a dumbstroked Kiya was a man, very strong tall black man, who held in his right hand a weapon that looks like a little white horn, and from the horn came out little blue sparks of lightning. In his left hand was a powerful spear, the head of which was crafted with diamond, he had very long thick locks of hair on his head, his eyes brightened by blue light. He wore some kind of ancient African war amour, strong and mighty he stood, competently devoid of fear. Kiya could see him, she could feel his imposing presence, his powerful aura which forced her to kneel unwillingly. Her eyes still filled with bright blue light and sparks, apparently, she was not using her physical eyes to see the strange man who carries in his hand the same object stucked in her own right hand.
The powerful strange man slowly and gently walked to her, the fear in her began to transpose to a higher frequency, but Kiya tried to calm herself, for that was a terrible moment but also a time to be strong. She used her mind to speak, she asked in a shaky voice..
"Who are you?"
In an echoeing voice the strange man answered.. "I am the first and the must powerful."
"What do you mean by that?"Kiya curiously asked.
The strange man leaned closer to her face.. "Young Kiya, you have been chosen to wield the must powerful weapon in the cosmos." He replied.
"W-what weapon? What do you mean?"
"Do not be afraid, be strong and the ancestors will guide you into victory." He said.
Full of rage and confusion Kiya shouted.. "What the hell are you saying? Tell me something I can understand please."
"The power will try to consume you, but I know that you are strong just like me, I can feel it from your powerful aura and even your type of totem speaks loud of your being. Stay strong Young Kiya."
(Strange man gradually faded away)
Even more confused, Kiya asked the fading man, "What is a totem? Wait! Don't go please..".
The moment the strange man faded away, everything relaxed and back to normal, the entire phenomenon disappeared, as if it never happened. Kiya saw herself still kneeling down, she began to doubt her senses, "was i dreaming?" she asked herself. She would have concluded everything was a dream if not for the little white horn she saw laying on the bed. Pure and innocent, no blue lights, no lightning, no flames, just an ordinary horn. Kiya cleared her eyes to make sure what her eyes are seeing is actually there, she shouted "Oh my gosh, it was not a dream." realizing that all was not a dream, the first thought that rushed into her mind was her parents, she neglected the horn and immediately rushed downstairs only to see her Father siting quietly watching news on the television. She was confused, she asked her father.. "Dad are you ok?" He quickly turned to look at her and answered, "Yes i am ok, is anything the problem?" "No i am fine" she answered. The father looked at her for a second and said, "Your mother is still sleeping, I think she took some sleeping pills due to her health, maybe you should start cooking dinner before she wakes up to join you in the kitchen, how about that baby?" "ye.. yes" she stammered.