Naagin (rise of the serpent)

Chapter Twenty-seven: Learning spells and magic.

I took one last look at Umuguor community. It's so wonderful. It was just two days ago that I found myself in Umuguor forest and now, I'm really looking at Umuguor community for the first time. Or so.

Seeing the wonderful sunset, would make one so intrigued in watching it all day long. The sunset's golden aura was just the same with my snake skin color. It's so warming to watch the sunset.

The old lady was also staring at Umuguor community. Behind us was the Umuguor forest. A insane darkness slowly crept into the forest casting the forest in errie darkness. Despite the light made by the sunset,it wasn't enough to brighten the forest.

"Naagin, who's Praise?" The old lady asked cutting through my line of thoughts.

A hint of smoke could be seen in the distance, maybe probably because of the old lady's tail. Her tail of fire must have been the one that had caused the smoke.

"A friend of Ovie and my classmate" I answered moving my attention to her.

A deep frown could be seen on her face.

"He seems to know Huck" she said taking few steps towards me.

"His father is a merchant from Aiden city while his mother is from Agbejor community..."

"So there's a high possibility,both Praise and Huck know each other" the old lady said cutting me off.

"Yeah, especially since Praise deals on drugs" I looked into her eyes.

"Don't look into my eyes like that, it's bewitching" she warned with a chuckle.

"Emm.... sorry" I chuckled also.

"It seems they are both in the same drug group. Isn't it?" She said as she strokes my hair.

I felt safe around her stroking my hair.

"Yeah, you are right..... Praise joined the drug group after he escaped. He tried to kill Ovie once cause he was jealous of Ovie" I said with my mind trailing off.

"Ovie did tell me that" she removed her hand from my hair, looking into the distance she gave a sigh.

"What kind of drugs does Huck deals with?" I asked the old lady as I tried to find a spot to sit.

The old lady sat close to me. She arranged herself trying to get used to the tree stump. After making sure she was okay she turned to look at me, giving me a smile.

"He deals on cocaine" she said going straight to the point. "But it's a fake cocaine"

"Wait.. what? .... what do you mean by saying it's a fake cocaine?" I asked, my eyes filled with curiosity.

"The cocaine is not a real one. It's meant to take the soul essence of a human" the old lady plainly said.

"I don't get it. What is a soul essence?" I asked.

"A person's soul" the old lady said, getting a confused look from me."every living thing has a soul essence, including you and me"

"What does he want with the soul essence of humans?"

"He uses them to make himself more powerful" old lady Papirus said as she stood up.

She looked down at me but I gave her my ever confused look. She growled loudly before sitting down back again.

"What he does is to manufacture the cocaine with his sorcery powers then he sells it. The special cocaine, once taken into a human being,it kills that individual making their soul essence vulnerable to Huck's reach" the old lady explained making me able to comprehend everything.

"So, he uses his special cocaine in getting the soul essence of those that take in his cocaine product,in order to empower himself" I emphasized.

"Yeah"

"That's clever. No wonder a lone sorcerer like him can attain such power" I stood up taking a look at the distance again.

"And he keeps getting stronger, day by day as a lot of people from the imperial city of Swagbucks love his product" the old lady also stood up.

Since, Huck uses a fake cocaine in attaining the soul essence of people he gets more and more stronger. The worst part of it all is that he knows that I am the chosen one. I never knew Praise joined the same drug group in which Huck is in.

"Now that Huck knows you are the chosen one, through Praise. It only means you will have to be stuck here" the old lady said as she sighed.

"What does that mean?" I asked.

"It means,if Huck gets to you, there's a high possibility that he is going to get the jewel" the old lady patted my shoulders.

"Maybe that's why I need to know how to use magic or spells or maybe even activate the Jewel" I said with desperation being a part of my voice.

"Don't worry, you will activate the jewel but not now" old lady Papirus says as she transforms into her full snake form. "We better be going it's sunset and I hope Ovie didn't leave the hut" I could hear her saying in my mind.

She was right. Just hope that, that lover boy idiot didn't leave the hut I don't want any spirits getting his soul essence.

I quickly transformed into my snake form and we both headed into the forest. I don't really know why the old lady decided to transform but I had no choice than to transform as well.

Old lady Papirus had not showed me how to activate the jewel. I really need to activate the jewel and get it's powers cause if the jewel falls into Huck's hands, there's no stopping him.

Old lady Papirus actually told me what Huck needed the Jewel for. Huck needs the jewel to become the most powerful immortal ever. Huck is just like a mortal with powerful sorcery which he attains from the soul essence of those that make use of his cocaine.

Even as a mortal, he holds unimaginable powers even powerful than old lady Papirus. If the jewel gets into his hands and he becomes an immortal, he is definitely going to be the most powerful immortal ever.

And that is what I am trying to avoid. If it happens that Huck captures both me and the old lady, there's no way he wouldn't get to activate the powers of the jewel through me.

But what if I learn some magic and spells,at least before I would activate the jewel I already got powers of my own. Just like old lady Papirus.

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We both got to the hut by nightfall to meet Ovie sleeping soundly on the sofa. I gave a sigh of relief seeing how cute and innocent he looked while sleeping. His clothes were very dirty and that is very strange. Ovie is the cleanest person I know so what could he have done that had resulted him being this dirty.

"He left the hill" old lady Papirus commented interrupting my thoughts.

"How are you sure he left the hill?" I asked her as I slumped on the sofa.

"You can see how dirty he is and we met the front door open" old lady Papirus said trying to convince me.

"But that doesn't justify that he left the hill" I pressed on.

"Oh, when he wakes up,we can ask him" the old lady said headed for her room.

Taking one look at Ovie, I stood up and left the sitting room. I strode to our room and opened the door. The room was quite tidy. I entered the room and sat on the bed. My hands traced the bed feeling it's softness. Then something clicked into my mind.

I need to find out how to use magic just like the old lady.

I took my shower and got a change of clothes which old lady Papirus lended me. When I was done with arranging the bed and the whole room, I stepped out of the room.

I headed for the kitchen where I met old lady Papirus. It seems she was preparing dinner and I offered to help her.

"Let me help you out with the cooking" I offered trying to collect the pot of green beans.

"No, you don't have to worry. Go wake up that sleepy head so he could have a bath. He sleeps so comfortably like he did something tiring while we were away" the old lady said as she held the pot firmly.

I nodded and left her to prepare dinner. Getting to the sitting room, Ovie was still deep asleep. A mischievous thought immediately crossed my mind. He had tricked me before and he is going to pay for it.

"Hey, wake up motherfucker. The house is on fire" I shouted feigning a scared voice.

I couldn't hold my chuckle when Ovie woke up running around like a madman. He kept shouting...

"Fire,fire,fire,fire"

Like the hut was really on fire. I burst into laughter as Ovie looked at me stunned by my sudden change of character. He was even more stunned seeing my presence which made me laugh the more.

"What..... What... What's happening" Ovie seemed to be stammering or something,cool.

"I just pulled a trick on you like you did to me" I gave a hard laugh seeing his frown.

"It was all a trick,you scared the hell out of me. I almost had a heart attack" a frown still plastered on his face.

"But you didn't have any heart attack. Besides, you were the first to start it, remember?" I gave a mischievous grin.

"But mine wasn't as serious as this, I really thought the hut was on fire" Ovie growled.

"Well it's not my fault" I said folding my arms.

The old lady immediately entered the sitting room. A frown was on her face. I flashed her a smile.

"Old lady Papirus, you are back. That's good, hope you didn't encounter any difficulty on your way" Ovie says as he also flashed old lady Papirus a handsome smile.

"Go take a shower, you stink. Then you can come and tell me what you have been doing ever since we left" old lady Papirus said to which Ovie nodded.

I swore I could have caught a glimpse of guilt in Ovie's face until I brushed. But I came to realize that the guilt was actually a real guilt.

Ovie took a shower and walked into the sitting room as requested of the old lady. I could feel that there were a lot of things going through his mind. He calmed himself immediately and sat close to old lady Papirus.

"So, can you tell me what you have been doing all the time we left" the old lady's voice came like a command.

Ovie cleared his throat.

"Old lady Papirus, I'm sorry but I got to tell you this" Ovie said and paused.

"Gone on" I said with a mischievous grin as ever.

Ovie flashed me a pretended frown but it was temporary.

"I left the hill and I met someone".