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shock, gazing at the golden necklace around her neck
ornamented with many keys.
    “Otheris!”
shouted Thakina.
    The men sighted
Thakina lying on the ground with her hands tied together across on
the other side, surrounded by twelve Serpents.
    “Aww! Isn’t
this romantic? Hey Princess…your knight in shining armour is here
to save you!” the witch mocked, “while the world burns and needs
saving, you young lads rushed in like fools to come save just
one…lady in distress!?” She laughed, “Oh! Otheris my hero, you’ve
come to save me!” mimicked in Thakina’s voice.
    “Melnourat? The
great witch of Moughdug?” Zuka asked.
    “Yes! Oh Yes!
It is I, in the flesh you sons of wretched whores!” she managed to
stand on her shaky feet stack naked with a huge black serpent
hanging in between her thighs.
    “Whoa! Whoa!”
Zuka screamed as they all took some steps backward.
    “How come?”
asked Otheris, “I killed you! I cut your head off!”
    “Yes you did
Otheris, indeed you had killed that body…and saved me from that old
sacking bag that fateful night!” she uttered with such great pride,
“you see, the body is just a vessel, son of Delial, you can channel
the substance anywhere anytime, and you did to me a great favour
that night!” she mocked, “how do I look now, huh?” laughed and
raised her hands up like a peacock’s tail, as the black serpent
between her thighs made a fierce hissing sound.
    “It’s
impossible!” said Otheris.
    “Yes! Yes! Oh
yes! It is…impossible son of Delial! But considering the fact that
you have whom you worship and we have whom we bow to as well! Ha!
Ha! Ha!” bragged the witch, “You see, you did destroy a body that
night. Oh yes, but then it is only a body, as long as I am willing
to serve and sacrifice as much to darkness the blood it seeks then
having another body is as easy as milking a lactating cow! When you
take this path son of Delial, you’d find that even the dark lord
provides for his own!”
    The black
serpent between her thighs swung its head up with half of its body
still stuck inside of her. The sight terrified the men, they began
to look around for a way out.
    “The only way
out is up gents,” said the witch, “there is no escaping this
Otheris! There-is-no escaping Melnourat the great witch of
Moughdug…tonight!” she yelled, “You and these poor devils have had
your fill of self-glorification and the gates of Hades await your
ill-scented souls…all you wretched beings, I shall devour you!” she
prided herself on being the most vicious of them all, “after that
fateful night I knew that old wilt of a king would gather the
grunts to come hunting for my offspring so I await his army yet he
sent you-imbeciles and as I waited patiently, I smelled the essence
of Delial. That foolish king directed his best warriors and you
Otheris right into my snare!”
    The serpent
that hung between her thighs raised its head and hissed at
Otheris.
    “Your time has
come Otheris! I had told you once and will tell you again…no one
shall burn me tonight! I shall devour you and once done with you
and this worthless daughter of your king, my babies and I will walk
through your little villages and wipe out all your people!” added
the old witch, “come out my babies!” Thousands of snakes of many
colours began to make their way slowly out of rocks that surrounded
them, and from the pool behind the men “you think you know me.
Well, you’re dead wrong!”
    Zuka signalled
Otheris to take on the old witch as he and the rest of the two men
quickly sprang into action to attack the twelve serpents of
Qhudrus.
    “Such pitiful
waste of bootless effort, don’t you think Otheris?" said the old
witch, “your lives have come face to face with the portal that
leads to its doom!”
    Otheris raised
his sword, “Hey you listen to me old witch, you let Thakina go and
we…I mean I’ll let you live to see the sunrise!” a bit
frightened.
    The old witch
laughed so hard then