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their
guard up, and as they gathered in one place forming a circle, a
wild wind blew its way through and swept them all off their feet. A
huge golden scaled serpent made its way and stood tall before them
with its head spread like that of a mad cobra. Otheris quickly
moved backwards in search of a weapon good enough to attack the
serpent but could not find, he then saw his sword lying on the
ground near the ashes from the fire and made an attempt to pick it,
unknown to him a huge serpent same colour as the earth was lying
close to it. The serpent expelled venom from its fangs and aimed
directly at Otheris’ eyes, Otheris used his left hand and covered
his eyes as fast as his eyelids could.
    The serpent
continued to disgorge its venoms until it drenched Otheris’ entire
clothe as though his entire body was immersed in a slimed
substance. He realised that the closer he moved towards the sword
the more venom the serpent spewed.
    While its
attention was on Otheris, the serpent sensed Karim approaching from
behind so it turned fast and like lightning struck Karim on the
chest, his sword fell off his hand on one side, his body on the
other.
    Otheris lowered
his hand and went straight for his sword, picked it and attacked
the serpent but his attempt was futile.
    Thakina got
scared and turned to flee, the serpent hit her with its tail
sending her into the air as it charged towards her, she fainted on
landing as six more huge serpents came and surrounded her. The
serpents began hissing and a great dark smoke arose and swallowed
Thakina and all the serpents away into the woods.
    “No! No!
Thakina!” yelled Otheris as the men ran after the smoke but it
disappeared leaving an evil laughter that echoed through the
surroundings.
    “I thought
princess Thakina is supposed to use her powers to repel these blood
suckers!” said Otheris.
    “She’s only a
dreamer! She dream dreams and the king mistook her for an oracle,”
said Zuka, “and now it is your power that we are yet to see young
Otheris!”
    “I do not have
any powers!” Otheris answered, “I only have faith in someone,
that’s all!”
    “You’ve got
lucky Otheris, that serpent wanted to blind you,” said Fakal.
    “Faith? Hmm!”
exclaimed Zuka, “You should have put your faith into good use when
they appeared and not land us in this fate. Faith! We’ll see about
that! Let’s go save your princess Otheris, they couldn’t have gone
far!”
    “Let me check
on Karim!” said Fakal as he turned to move.
    “He’s dead!
Let’s forge ahead before we lose their trail!” Zuka yelled.
    The men walked
through the woods that same night and arrived at an old house up on
the mountain that looked haunted; the house looked like it stood
the test of time through centuries. They approached carefully and
broke their way in through its mighty doors, and because it had no
light in it, they lit their way with torches. Thick cobwebs were
everywhere, it seemed no one had lived there in a long while.
    The men looked
around carefully and with great caution. The wooden stair cases
cracked and squeaked as they go up searching for signs of life in
there. The entire house was old and cold, and it felt as though it
watches them through its many hidden eyes on the walls.
    “Thakina!”
whispered Otheris.
    “I don’t like
this place!” Fakal said, he drew a second sword as they walked
gently up the stairs.
    They pushed
themselves deep into the creepy old house but could not find the
serpents nor anyone, instead, they came across cages made of steel
filled with many starved children; when the children saw them they
all stood up stretching their hands, “Help us!” the children said
in a weak voice, they all looked sapless.
    Otheris
approached one of the cages, bent on his knees and looked around
for a way to open the cage as the little girl stared at him.
    “Please give me
water to drink!” said the little girl.
    Otheris tried
to open the locks.
    “You can’t open
it without the