EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO IN LAGOS CITY:
"Ahhhh" a woman in child bearing labor screamed in pains. Her husband rushed into the room in confusion. "Is the baby coming?" he asked in desperation; "Yes the baby is coming" she answered in a voice full of pains. The man ran back to the living room to call someone on the telephone;
"Hello Doctor.."
"Hello Mr Dangjia"
"My wife is in labor.. I think the baby is coming"
"Oh! I will be there in a jiffy.. Just tell her to hang on"
"Thank you Doctor, please hurry"
After the telephone call, the man ran back to his wife, only to found that she had already fainted out of pains and weakness. The water had already broken, but the baby did not come out. With a broken heart the man rushed to check on his wife, "Darling wake up please, the doctor is on his way" the man cried.
An hour later.. A very handsome dark skinned man in doctors attire, held a very beautiful bouncing baby boy in his arms, he looked at the baby in the eyes and smiled.. "At least we saved the baby" he said, "And am so sorry I couldn't save your wife" he sympathized. Mr. Dangjia couldn't raise his head to look at the doctor, the death of his wife broke his heart into pieces of atoms. He could barely respond to the doctors sympathy, his eyes were already swollen with agony, his body shivered in despair.
The doctor walked closer to Mr. Dangjia who has been leaning on one of the walls of his living room crying hopelessly. He felt sorry for the man who lost his wife in child bearing but also felt especially sorry for something else. The doctor asked Mr. Dangjia, "This baby of yours, you think he is really as mysteriously special as you said he would be?" but before Mr. Dangjia could think of an answer the doctor promptly asked again, "Do you think he killed his mother, your wife?" Before Mr. Dangjia could answer the second question the doctor interrupted again.. "Think of what would have happened if this baby wasn't born" he said.. "Your wife would have been alive."
The doctors questions and remarks made Mr. Dangjia to get lost in his mind. From deep inside he started developing hatred for the little child wrapped in the doctors arms, still, the doctor did not give up his sinister plans, he continued.. "Don't you feel bad that your wife is gone?" Mr. Dangjia shouted; "I do feel bad.. but what are you trying to do to me?" "I am trying to make you see things clearly" the doctor said.. "What things?" Dangjia asked. In a very sinister voice the doctor leaned closer to Dangjia ears and whispered: "You don't deserve this Special baby.. He came from the cosmos, he is too much for you.. hahaha." Dangjia eyes constricted, his mind suddenly grabbed what the doctor was doing since. "He killed my wife?" Dangjia thought.. "And now he is infiltrating my mind with style to take the child?" After making some conclusions in his mind, Mr Dangjia raised his head to look at the doctor in the eyes and in a painful tone he said: "You used my words against me. I must confess I was a fool for telling you about the vision i saw about my child, about his cosmic origin, about who he truly is. I trusted you as my doctor but you betrayed me. You deliberately let my wife to die out of pains, you have been planning this for long, you are truly evil. What do you intent to get out of this?"
The doctor smiled devilishly and praised Dangjia for being smart enough to decode his infiltration. "I must say Dangjia that you were a fool to think you would tell me about a special child as this and still trust that I would do nothing about it. Well, I can't wait to see what packages this baby came along with. Very soon, I won't have to treat people scientifically again, but magically and much more.. With this baby in my hand, I trust I will be stupendously rich. I guess you didn't think about all these when you came running your mouth into my inching ears.. Huh."
The doctors words infuriate Dangjia.. His blood started burning hot, his heart started racing and galloping like a racing horse on track. His eyes turned even blood red, his hands began to shiver like someone with Parkinson disease. If looks could kill, the doctor would have died within seconds. Immense darkness rose uncontrollably from inside him, flashes of his wife's face appeared right in front of him, her beautiful smiles, her beautiful figure, and the very moment he saw her dying and sucking in her own blood. The anger inside of him became more and more intense until it transformed into a terrifying darkness which further transformed Dangjia's soul into a murderous soul.
Still cuddling the brand new baby in his arms, the doctor continued to taunt Dangjia, he continued to spill out his plans for the baby after he is done with the father like he did the mother. The sheer thought of the brighter future and victory made the doctor to get lost in his fantasy, hence laid down his guard which was exactly the chance Dangjia was waiting for. Observing that no weapon was hanging or laying around them, Dangjia swiftly rushed the doctor, he fell upon the doctors throat with his teeth. In a blink of time, the doctor's laughter and happiness vanished, his eyes turned red blood, his heartbeat tripled it speed, his blood boiled hotter than volcano. While the excruciating pains that comes from the unmerciful bite of Dangjia devastated his entire being until fragments of his life began to flash right before him. The doctor's cuddling arms involuntarily let the baby for a free fall to the ground, hot black blood gushed out of his mouth as Dangjia feasted on his blood, sucking the very life force of the doctor.
Ten minutes later, Dangjia sat on his arms chair with his eyes focused on the now blood-sucked lifeless body of the doctor. A terrifying sinister smile graced Dangjia's face and he said: "Thank you for running your mouth doctor, just like I ran mine when I thought I could trust you. Thank you for letting me know what I can do with this child, the fortune I can make. Now that your life-force is inside of me, I feel your intelligence running through my veins, I will make sure I fulfill your dreams but only for myself. Hahaha!" The entire house echoed with his sinister laughter.
Twelve years later, the boy grew up to be one of the must notorious thieves in his city. If he was stealing money or people's goods and properties, it would have been so much better, but he was not raised to be that kind of thief, he was raise to be a thief of the life-force of humans and animals, in the cult built by his father Dangjia, they called the life-force.. 'Nwu', the same way the Chinese would call it 'Chi'.
After Dangjia sucked off the life-force of the doctor, he became extra intelligent by harnessing the power of the doctors brain through his blood. That discovery pushed Dangjia to form one of the must notoriously dangerous cult of all time. He named the cult.. 'Nefon Nwu' meaning, Takers of Life-force.
Dangjia son's cosmic soul brought with him immense knowledge of magic and sorcery. The boy at the age of three could cast small spells and could shift object with his mind. At the age seven, he was able to write his own Magic spell book, the same book Dangjia used as the foundation of his cult. Through the boy, Dangjia learned to steal life-forces not necessarily by sucking his victims blood like he did the doctor and like he did his neighbors cats and dogs, but simply by using a special talisman he created for that purpose. Because they are not a group of vampires, sucking blood out of their victims was never enjoyable. They sucked blood because of the life-force but never for the blood itself, so they had to find ways to suck life-forces without having to suck blood.
Dangjia and his son were worshiped and revered thoroughly by their cult subjects but were drastically feared by the citizens of the entire country. Whomever spoke against them would have his life-force taken. Whomever told them the truth ended up death. Dangjia's young son caused the heart of men to fail in fear. They would vanish at the slightest sight of the young boy, they would rain curses on him but to no luck. The boy seemed invincible, nothing could harm him, nothing could scare him.. for he was never an ordinary boy, his nature is cosmic and he knew it from infant.
Everything was moving great with the Nefon Nwu cult until the prophesy of someone great flashed by Dangjia in a vision. The arrival of a great warrior, amerced in the cosmic powers of a sentient weapon. He became terribly impatience, insecure and envious, he could never imagine someone who could become more powerful than him, his son and his cult. He could only imagine what it would feel like if only he would be able to suck off the life-force of this great warrior. His impatience turned to desperation and his desperation formed a bigger monster in him. He began to coarse the boy to keep track of this new warrior that would soon come. He needed his son to alert him, the moment this new warrior is born, or made. The boy had no choice but to do the bidden of his father even after discovering his father's selfish intentions.
Now a twenty one year old, tall and chiseled, thick shining melanin skinned, with beautiful dreadlocks on his head.. Leon stood in front of a mirror in his room, staring at the mirror, thinking about what his master commanded him. "But she is beautiful" Leon thought, "I can't imagine giving her up to be sucked." He moved slowly to his bed, laid on his back, closed his eyes, sighed heavily and continued in his thought: "The new Melimandu was never suppose to be discovered by us or anyone.. That was suppose to is be for a certain people, the Melimandu is the greatest warrior of a particular nation not the whole world, just like the black panther is for Wakanda, which means she is suppose to be a secret. But the fact that my father already saw her in a vision even before she was born, he saw her just like he saw my arrival on earth. He won't stop until he had sucked the life-force of the New Melimandu. I perhaps don't know much but the little I discovered opened my eyes to something sinister my father is planning. His desperation has become quit alarming. Nevertheless, I will carry out this task and corner the girl to him. This is my final decision"