Naagin (rise of the serpent)

Chapter Nineteen: That Night 2

"Lady Papirus, those are the clothes I left on the floor during my shower" a pretended smile crept on my face hoping to appease her.

But it did not.

"Young lady, don't lie to me. I gave you this clothes earlier after you had your shower" her Stern eyes piercing into my body.

But she didn't give up.

"Also, Ovie's clothes are all over the bed"

"I went to the bathroom again and Ovie's clothes on the bed are his old clothes he wore before" I said with an innocent smile.

The smile worked. She sighed and turned around, about leaving the room. She mumbled some words which I could hear clearly.

"Two teenage children being rescued by me are having sex in my own house" she mumbled, stressing the word "sex".

Eventually, she left the room giving a loud hiss and banging the door. Ovie chuckled when she had left the room. He removed the blanket and gave me a raised eyebrow.

"Moaning in a sleep? Me?" Ovie's voice penetrated the silent room left behind by old lady Papirus.

"Thought you were sleeping" I joked giving him a smirk.

"I was only pretending to be sleeping and that stuff of me moaning in my sleep, you were the one that did all the moaning"

"At least, I saved our butts. I didn't know you were so good at sex" I placed a kiss on his forehead.

"I didn't know I was even good at it. I just followed the vibe you gave to me" he said as he picked up his clothes.

I jumped out of the 🛏️ bed and picked up my clothes. I didn't want to wear the whole clothes,so I only wore the panties and bra. Ovie chuckled seeing the outfit I wanted to wear to sleep.

"What?" I asked raising both my hands.

Ovie smiled and faked a cough.

"It's your outfit. Wearing panties and a bra to bed with a male, don't you think you are too exposed?"he explained, as he positioned his head on the pillow.

I nodded.

"Yeah, maybe you are right" I said.

I wore my clothes back and made sure I covered my cleavages. I jumped back on the bed making the bed to bounce.

"Hey,be careful! Don't break the bed" he said as he dragged me into his bosom.

I laughed and held his two hands over my stomach. He held me tightly while breathing into my scent. It was pleasant.

"Want to go another round?" Ovie's voice tickled my ears as he said those words.

"Ovie, it's better we go to sleep so that we won't get caught by lady Papirus. She must have forgiven us the first time but we will be ungrateful to her if we go another. We must allow her have a good night sleep" I said in a low voice.

"Okay, if that's so. But we will do this another time" he said not letting out.

I chuckled softly.

"Just close those eyes of yours and go to sleep" I said, turned around and placed a peck on his cheek.

Ovie smiled and closed his eyes. I closed mine and allowed sleep to take over but sleep didn't want to take over. Looking at the clock on the wall time was around 9:35. Time was not that far and it was still early.

A lot of things went through my mind. My destiny of freeing the people of Umuguor community from their captives. Telling Ovie of me being a snake seemed to be the hardest of all my worries. If I told him that I was a snake, he would immediately hate me and never have anything to do with me. I didn't want to break his heart of him having a lover who is a snake,who is from Umuguor community and who has supernatural powers that no normal human being ever has.

I love Ovie so much that I didn't want to break his heart. But maybe he would never know. I'll make sure he doesn't know about who I really am. And all those stuff of me being an orphan, I find it hard to believe that I am an orphan.

Another question among my zillion questions is who is HIJIRAR. Also who the heck is Mr Huck. There are a lot of things which I really don't know.

"Ovie!" I called out immediately I opened my eyes.

"What is it, Naagin?" Ovie asked.

His hands romanced my stomach. I smiled.

Another silence followed.

"Ovie, can I say something" my little crooked voice spoke out again.

"Say anything you want and I will do it" his voice echoed after mine.

I smiled even more. The dark room gave me a sweet feeling. That's odd!

"If in the future, you learn something about me. Something bad about me, would you still love me. Peradventure, you learn about some of my secrets would you still love me" my lonely voice echoed loudly in the dark room.

Silence!

"I would still love, despite finding out any of your secrets" he said "but I won't handle it if I find out you love someone else maybe Praise"

I let out a soft laugh. I made sure it wasn't that loud to wake up the old lady.

"Why are you laughing?" Ovie's confused voice echoed again.

"You are funny! Why would I fall in love with someone else and the worst part of it is that you picked the wrong person that I would never ever fall in love with" I said still giggling.

Why am I so happy? Maybe it's because of Ovie's answer. That means, even though Ovie finds out about my secret in the future he would still love me. Maybe that's the reason I'm happy.

And as for me falling in love with Praise, that would never ever happen. Never ever!

"Go to sleep, Naagin. We have a full day tomorrow" Ovie whispered.

I nodded, closed my eyes and allowed sleep to set in.

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A crackling sound brought me back from the world of the dream. I woke up from my beautiful sleep. The crackling sound wasn't that loud but I could hear it vividly. I rubbed sleep off my eyes and I got out of the bed. The crackling sound seems to be coming out of the entrance door that led out of the hut. Someone was leaving the hut. Could it be a robber?

I opened the door slowly and tiptoe to the sitting room. Opening the entrance door, I look left and right. Strange voices could be heard from old lady Papirus's flower garden. I stepped out of the hut and tiptoed to the flower garden. Getting close to the flower garden, I saw old lady Papirus kneeling down with a staff in her left hand. The staff had the shape of a Cobra snake. She was holding a bead necklace in her right hand.

Fear crept into me, seeing old lady Papirus talking to a huge dark shadow. The dark shadow had a black hat on it. I couldn't see it's face and it seemed like the shadow his from the 🌕 Moon. I could comfortably hear their conversation. That's eavesdropping.

"She has arrived just as you had said, my Lord" lady Papirus said bowing her head."she knows a lot of things and also asks too many questions"

"She only has the power of transformation. She needs more power especially since she is against a powerful foe like HUCK. He is too powerful especially since he holds the people of Umuguor community captured" the dark shadow spoke.

His voice can be likened to that of thunder.

"But it's her destiny my Lord. She has to free the captured people of Umuguor. You promised to bring us back to our state of glory" old lady Papirus said, her voice was that of a pleading child.

"But you know how powerful HUCK is. Even you could not defeat him, so I'm not sure Naagin can"the dark shadow says and let out a sigh.

"But you promised...."

The dark shadow raised it's hand and old lady Papirus kept quiet.

"I did promised to bring Umuguor community back to it's state of glory and that's what I will do. Naagin will defeat HUCK and rescue the captured citizens of Umuguor and that's what will happen" the dark shadow says and drops it's hand.

A smile crept on old lady Papirus face as she bowed In worship.

"Thank you Lord HIJIRAR, for not failing your promise. The people of Umuguor community and grateful to serve you" old lady Papirus said.

The dark shadow immediately fades away.

Old lady Papirus let out a sigh of relief. She breathed loudly as she stood up from her kneeling position. I turned around about going back into the hut until I heard my name.

"Come out, Naagin. I know you are there" old lady Papirus's voice hulted me in my steps. I came out of my hiding place, looking like a thief that had been caught. I entered the flower garden and stood face to face with old lady Papirus.

"You had been there ever since my conversation,am I right?" She asked squinting her eyes.

This time the snake- like staff was not in her hand and also the bead necklace. She took my hands in hers and led me to a comfortable place to sit. The time should be around 3am in the morning, so it was dark. It still early in the morning.

We sat in a comfortable place in the flower garden.

"Have you told him?" Her question cut me short

"Told who what?" I asked back.

"You know what I'm talking about" she said,her voice not fading.

I knew what she was talking about. About telling Ovie of me being from Umuguor community, being the chosen one and being a snake. I really wanted to tell Ovie, but I don't know how he would handle it. But he said even if he finds out about my secrets, he could handle it, so I'm safe.

"I haven't told him yet. But I'm safe" I said staring into the oblivious.

"How are you sure he would not hate you when he finds out that you are a snake?" She asked the question.

"He made a promise that he would still love me even though he finds out that I am a snake" I said, confidently.

"Okay"

Silence!

"Go inside, let me continue with my divination" she said.

"But I have some questions to ask"

"Which I will answer tomorrow" she said without emotions in her words.

I let out a sigh and left her. I went back into the hut and seeing Ovie sleeping soundly gave me a reason to smile. I jumped back on the bed trying to think.

I figured out that the dark shadow should be Hijirar. And it's because of his jewel that caused the war. But there are a lot of things I really need to know.