Agbaja moved behind a tree and peeped at his right corner. And a huge pointed , and enlogated being circled itself from the root to the canopy of an Obeche tree few meters away. Now death has surrounded him. This time ,he only have to chose which way to die, not whether he will die or not. What a dilemma.
He stood only with the little bravery that held him strong from childhood,which is enough to held his feet on the ground and fight till the last blood gush down.
A gunshot was heard and the Leopard gave a loud "hwooooo!!" the second time. A blood can be seen dripping from the Leopard's ear and she cruched on her four legs and rested with his eyes wide in red.
Agbaja,lucky enough to at least see a narrow vent to crawl,dashed in the part which the noise is heading to this time and that happens to be the only safe place. He ran for sometimes and had heard the leopard scream louder , and louder. What a terrific scenario.
The python crawled down from the Obeche it had been and had circled on the leopard and had stretched to it's full length which is not less than 20 meters. leaving the bones of the Leopard in smaller particles. His mind left him but his bravery kept him still. The python tried so hard to swallow the Leopard all to know avail. it's too big for it's mouth. Agbaja still stands to watch the whole scenario and the girls noise has faded out. it seems like she escaped.
The python stretched the Leopard again, and this time, the Leopard became so narrow and long and it's body permanently stretched like a drawn cheetah. Then it's already a prey to the python and it retained Agbaja's spirit a bit. That one of his death has been eliminated. He believes that in this world,there are many death. And if you fight against then, sometimes you will win but you will only lose once and when you lose, you can't fight ever again and you can't see anymore of that. And that's how it's in the world full of heroes. In this past days,he has been ten times braver than he was and he received a harder training,harder than what a soldier can teach.
He had fought a two meter length Chimpanzee, at the first night, when they had slaughtered his dad , and had decapitated him and made away with his head. He hided under a short tick tree that you can hardly see anything under it. And that's why today he's moving with his head. But not sure of tomorrow,only now that one enemy is down and if he defeat the other one,he will be as free as a God, in his sky.
He's glad as only the Leopard's waist and tail were the remaining part of it's body that is yet to enter the python's belly. A thought became to round his head on how he can eliminate the python.
"No where to go, there are more deaths in my whole land than here. Here I only see one death,and if I eliminate it,I may survive without no death, but in my whole land, it's not so, there are many deaths. Even deaths that claims to give life.
He glared at the Python,the whole Leopard had already rested in it's belly and now she's lying like a dead being, but maybe because of satisfaction. And this is widening his gap to eliminate the last death. He thought of a plan for some while then, he saw a huge log of wood,heavy enough to kill a hen, at least,ten hit can do much harm to a Python. He big up his chest and had decided to take his chance, he waved his head,his usual way when he wants to take risk. He tried to take a step felt a tap on his back. His soul left him. He glared back slowly and behold a gun on his head. His eyes caught with that of a man with bushy beard and an intimidating height wearing a jacket and a baggy red trouser with a cigarette in his mouth while he's trying to spark light from his lighter. This time, there's no gap between him and the death. The man had smoked and puffed the smokes on his face and thundered in a deep base voice.
"Move!"