Kailua

The Ewori Forest - 1.1

    A long long time ago, in the heart of Zelx, there was a fight. First in colour of skin-
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"Colour of skin papo?"
" Yes. People of Adama's colour, as dark as the bark of weyo trees and people of Chima's colour as light as the golden sand on the shores of the stream. "
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It all went downhill, when our chief died with no heir. And among the noble men, had to be chosen a new chief. 

        It was between Fabion, Yeri, Mechani,

Fabion was a rich nobleman with a good heart and leadership spirit and the same about Mechani except, Fabion was fair skinned and Mechani was dark skinned. So naturally, both of them were rejected by opposite teams.

But then came Yeri,  rich man with chocolate skin neither dark or fair. Of course people said this would be justice. When the oracle, Achiemo said against it, she was thrown into the dungeon. But as she had said, Yeri was a very very evil man.

He gave us no food, made us work morning to night, just to make money for him. Our only hope was in the oracle. But she was locked up for good. We were hopeless. Little did we know the dungeon guards forced themselves on Achiemo producing a bastard child.

All bastard children were to be shunned and thrown into the ewori forest. But as she was left there, a blacksmith felt great compassion for her and brought her out and raised her under the name Kailua.

So there Kailua grew. In beauty and grace. She was never really paid attention to, as she was just the daughter of a lowly blacksmith. She had visions and told her father, they always came to pass, but her father made her vow not to tell anyone as if the chief hears of it, she would be executed.

It was a chilly night like this and she had a vision. She saw the whole of Zelx covered by vulture birds and decayed bodies. The beauty of the land was no more as it was surrounded with withered and blackened plants.

The sun had turned dark and there was Yeri, on top of it all with a big evil grin on his face with the chief 's cap made of gold shining as the sun during the dusty harmattan season.

As she woke up, her body shook with terror. She wasn't going to let this happen to her people. She had to do something. She pondered over it for a while. Pacing back and forth in the tiny hut. She then came to a decision.

This was what she was going to do....
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"What was she going to do?! What is it?" A tiny boy I recognized as Akolo said.
" Benī dake! He was already going to say it. "
"Let me tell you...
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She decided, that she needed to challenge Yeri for the chief's hat. It was never known of. A woman? To challenge the present chief? Impossible!!

She was very smart and knew she could be discarded easily, so she had to go to the depths of the ewori forest... something no one dared to do and get the power of Mais Wori.

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