The great castle walls separated the people from reaching mebsuta and the elders. It stood sixteen feet high. It was built on hills and there is a lagoon far away from it.
The walls has been built many times because their enemy brings it down but this present one will not be easy to break.
It went around the castle, surrounding it and keeping unwelcome visitors out. It is built with great stone and sharp granite rock with a huge watchtower.
There was a great uproar amongst the people. Angry faces and curse words.
We have not a king to lead us,no defender to keep us. You elders do nothing about this. You keep yourself safe beyond this walls and leave us as food to the vampires". A voice from the crowd said.
"Do you not consider the people". Another voice said.
"They do not care about us. Our adversaries have outnumber us and we diminish daily. They come to us and drain our blood to their satisfaction. The first voice said.
"We have practice sorcery and magic yet our enemies overtake us. Enough is enough. We would not watch you rule over us and destroy us".A female voice said.
"We have had sex with many women hoping to reproduce and enlarge our people but again nothing, nothing worked". A voice said.
The people of aztekin are very pressed and angry. They all have something to say. They are all wary and distressed.
The crowd complained and cursed loudly. They surround the entire wall of the castle. They elders watched them from above.
"Deliver in our hands mebsuta for she does not understand her gift anymore. She sees wrong and her words does not save us anymore.We will find another seer for ourselves. Give her up now and let us kill her". They said in fury.
"Who shall save us for those who oppress us are more than us". They cried out loud.
Mebsuta is advanced in age now. She proceeded forward to address the people but malcolm stopped her.
"The people are angry,do not go and address them. Stay inside and let their spirit calm down before you say anything to them". Malcolm said.
"Not so malcolm. I will go and address them now. These people are our people, there are in pain and sorrow. Do you think they say this things out of joy. Please let me go". She said.
He left her hand without uttering a word.
She walked forward to face the people.
"Why do you complain so much? She asked them. All your problems we have find solutions to,so why now do you say you want to kill mebsuta ". Mebsuta said calmly.
"Your solutions do not last long,it does not serve us well. The first voice said again. He stood as the spokesman of the people. "Why you not foresee what we want". He asked.
"I do not choose to see what I see. I see what is shown me. And nothing is shown me until now. She heard voices. She recognized one. Hoshe'athe's.
"What do you see". The first voice asked.
She laughed aloud. The whole crowd watched her in confusion.
"Fear not... She said. "Alejandra, the defender of the people. The new defender of aztekin.
The clouds color changed,it was blacken with rain now. Heavy wind blew and the weather shifted from sunny and hot to rainy and cold. Mebsuta hung up in the air. Her feet far away from the ground. They watched her float in the air with her hair scattered and flowing with the wind. Her eyes partly closed and her mouth moving and chanting. She spoke in a strange language.
Everybody watched her quietly.
They have never seen mebsuta like this, which kind of vision is this, perhaps we have provoke the doers of good to do us evil. The second voice muttered.
Malcolm and malchijah watched her too. They were very surprised. Mebsuta has never been like this in a vision before.
She went on for a while and then finally she opened her eyes. Bright hope in her eyes.
Her body slowly went down. She landed gently on her feet like a feather. Gentle and light.
"There is hope for us. She announced. The defender is in our world now but she is still in her mother's womb. There is deliverance for you all. We shall await her. I shall tell you when she is born so that we may come together and welcome her.
"There is deliverance for us?? The first voice repeated. The crowd cheered as they hear the words from mebsuta. They would have considered it lie or a make-believe but what just happened in their presence cannot be a lie. Although mebsuta is a seer is cannot control the weather too. So they believed strongly again.
"We shall come back in nine months,she should be born then". Said mebsuta.
"Who is pregnant with the new defender". The first voice asked.
"I do not know who she is,I did not see that but as soon as she is born I will know".
The people rejoice on hearing this goodnews. The women and their children sang as they walked back to their various homes.
*
Dunagan was among the gathering. he listened to the words of mebsuta,infact he saw how the prophecy came. "The prophecy is true. He smiled. Mojeti dream is true and real. The defender will come from her womb. Oh praise ye the heavens. He muttered.
Mojeti did not come out and join the gathering. She stayed back at home to protect her baby and hide her pregnancy.
*
Jahzerah did not join the assembly. She stayed inside her room in the castle.
"Who shall save us'... Their voice echoed continuously in her head. Her heart sank as she is unable to save them,to defend them and to deliver them.
"My time is over. A new defender will be born". She thought.
"Alejandra,the defender of the people my foot ". She screamed.
No!
It used to be me.
A prophecy came about me like this, people cheered and were excited to see me,they awaited me. They worshipped me.
They will all forget me as soon as they new defender is born.
She goes through the past to calm her spirit. She goes through the past to see how she was worshipped and adorned but everything has expired now. Her powers is not enough to save aztekinas again.
"Oh,if I know who carries this child,I will remove the fetus and carry the defender in my womb. So I may be praised as the mother of the powerful defender. Jahzerah bore alejandra. She said.
Jahzerah has the power to do so. She is the sorceress defender. She brought magic into aztekin but her powers cannot save them anymore. She taught them sorcery and how to cast spells. She invented some tools like the todeh to make their work faster and easier.
They will praise me for this child. They will worship me again. She thought. Perhaps mebsuta denied that she does not know who carries the child.
Mebsuta will not lie to the people. She thought. She has no reason to lie.
Jahzerah longed to see the good old days again,and again she laid on her bed and closed her eyes to visit the past.
She laid there unconscious and beautiful.
Jahzerah always had huge amount of gold on her. Her hair beautiful black hair and the long skirt on her waist. Everywhere gold..she was beautifully adorned and dressed. She craves to be the top defender and most powerful defender forever.
And of course she will do anything in her power to make her fantasy and desire come to life.