Agbaja is still struggling with the big python,it has circled him, About to stretch him but seems a bit delay. There's no much chance for the python to stretch to it's full length.
The gun shot was getting closer and closer and this time ,the hand behind the trigger can be seen and Amelia stopped screaming.
Agbaja tried all he can to free himself from the python but his hands can't do anything. The python has its sting and it's teeth. More armoured than he is. He wondered how's he's going to die. The kind of death that even the dead will reject. When the whole bones in your body will break into pieces,and the ones that managed to survive will become an elastic metal. And your whole body will stretch and never to bend again. And you can't be buried rather you stay deep into the python's belly till you digest and liquidize and the monster defecates you as a urethra. Wicked world. He remembered how the big Leopard which was just three meters long was stretched to about seven meters,the way the whole body was swallowed deep into the python's belly. He's going to die like that. Worse than her father's death,whom was murdered before his very eyes. And who he noticed from his hideout that they were slicing his throat slowly. And whom his head couldn't decay with his body because they made away with them. The devils,I wonder what they will do to those. That's what they do, cutting off all the soul that had moved with me. My mother whom they raped before my very eyes. And my father was tyed down and he watched the whole scenario and could do nought. And each of the seven men entered her with their troubles and venoms and each one that's done,he will use his hands. And it all happened and I saw it. Wicked world. All I can see now is a man of favour, death. For he is Passionate and kind. He makes the eyes that has seen misery to see no more,the troubled heart;to be troubled no more , the tortured life to be free, and the sleepless man to sleep undisturbed for ever. for he is Passionate.
Agbaja has already been circled by the python and this time he's only struggling to free his head and shoulder. He felt his legs entering the python's mouth slowly and the liquid there in he felted also. He already knew that it's all over.
He thought of Amelia. what had happened to her. He hadn't hear no noise from her. That soft voice that only screams better was mute all this while,why? Maybe they have raped her like the did to his mother. Maybe they had decapitated her like they did to his father. That's all the world offers. penury. Cutting off all hands that had held mine. If the Passionate one come,I will accept him with my full shoulder. But before then,I have to fight with my last blood.
"Hey Agbaja,Can you hear me"
Agbaja heard the voice but it wasn't so clear to him, yes it's Amelia's voice but it seems like a trance. She called him again and this time it was clearer but he couldn't utter a word. It only remain his shoulder up to his head for his entire body to rest in the python's belly. She called again and that was the seventh time and he can hear her crys and this time,he have to do something,he threw his body and role on the cave and freed his mouth to speak and he shouted 'here!!' "I'm down here!!". He heard Amelia discussing with some people but he couldn't here what they were saying. He heard the 'tyon' sound of a sharp object , it's getting down the cave and man's voice came,
"Take this sword and protect yourself"
The sword fall with it's sharp end and struck his knee and blood gushed out like waterfall. Through the pain, he raised the sword and started slicing the python's mouth from beneath his shoulder. The python struggled for survival and had hitted him in the hole Conner of the hole, and blood was all over him. He sliced it's mouth with his last drop and pulled it down as it tored from the wound ,leaving only the salivas on his body and the python started turning and throwing him around again and again. Trying to pull of it's mouth from his body. He started striking it at the back and the python raised it's venom to sting but Agbaja cut it off and this time,the python is only pulling off it's mouth from his body. He strikes the sword harder on the Python's backbone and it pulled of it's mouth forcefully and Agbaja was frees. He looked at the top of the hole. They're many people watching him with Amelia and she saw her smiling at him. They threw down a rope,he held the rope,tried to stand on his fit but can't, he pulled to the rope forceful and fall back and he had fainted.