When Zane was on his way back to look for the princess, he saw two of the king’s guards coming his way and he hit. He waited for them and heard them talk about how they could not believe it was a Naga woman who was killing the Merpeople. They spoke about how they could not wait to see what the king was going to do to the treacherous slave.Zane was angry but he knew that he could not help the princess alone, he needed help and fast. He waited for the guards to leave before he swam away going to look for the slave camp, he heard the previous ones talking about. When they met him, they asked him what he was doing that side of the territory and why he left the slave camp.Zane knew they didn’t recognise him as the former king’s personal guard. He fought them and killed them before going to look for the princess and now hearing of her capture. He could only think of one place that was horrible enough for the king to put the Naga people. The one place in their territory with no fish to eat
General Fisher could not stop thinking about what he saw no matter how hard he tried to get it out of his mind. He was in a gloomy mood when he arrived back home and didn’t even meet with his council as he intended. He didn’t even notice they were there until he was told about it, and he ordered them to leave. He said he will call them the following day to discuss things.On the other hand, Caleb was in a sullen mood, when he saw Nazima’s black and blue body because of all the torture she endured, he was not happy at all. It was he who ordered her to be tortured but now seeing her like that he didn’t like it. He delicately laid her down on his own bed then went out to get healing seaweeds then wrapped her whole body with them.When he was done, he left her to rest, but he kept going back to check on her and when he found that she was still unconscious he would be disappointed, and his mood turned even more sullen. No one dared to approach him when he was like that. When he went to che
“I think we should back the princess, she is our only hope at a better life. Remember how prosperous we all were under her father’s ruling? The Naga king never wanted anything from us, all he demanded was peace and we can have all that if she becomes the queen.” The Crab general said talking to his council.“The Naga clan is the most peaceful of all the species, but I heard and saw how mercilessly she killed those merpeople. The princess has changed, and we must expect that she might be exactly like the Mer king, then what?” one of his council members voiced his concerns. All of them saw the bodies of the merpeople and the sight wasn’t pretty.“How did you expect her to take back the throne? By talking to them? did you forget how the merpeople slaughtered the Naga people and the king? That girl lost everything at a very tender age and in the hands of the merpeople. She fled to the gods know where to save her life, did you expect her to come back and negotiate peacefully with the Mer k
The seers were the first to arrive at the slave camp when they got the message of the princess’s return, they always knew she was alive but were never shown where she was exactly until a few days ago and when the Naga’s arrived and told them about her return. They were more than willing to go and see for themselves and assist her in the way the god instructed them.“By the gods, I cannot believe it. You are here.” One seer said when they saw Nazima. They last saw her a year before the war between her kind and the Merpeople. “I am sure you do not remember us princess, but we are the seers, we advised your father when he was king, and we are here for you.” Nazima looked at the three women in front of her.“If you are advisors of kings then why are you not advising king Caleb?” she asked, when she escaped Caleb, she went to her people where she found Zane and he told her about the plan. Her people were happy to see her, but some were disappointed that she did not have the trident of king
“You really are a freak, you even have a demon, and you think the likes of you would lead our kind?” said one of the king’s guards, their appearance made Nazima and Zane feel anxious. They both knew that Nazima needed to merge with her demon now before it is too late. “If you want to keep your lives then hand him over,” Zane warned but the two guards sneered.They hated the Naga people and Zane was no different. They thought he was one of the males in the slave camp and saw no threat when they looked at him. When they found and captured Nazima, she was alone, and they did not think she came with someone. “You are a slave, and you know better than to talk to us like that. Or do you want us to teach you a lesson?” they asked but Nazima had no time to entertain them.Now that she was close to her demon, she could feel how he was slowly slipping away. She needed to merge with him, and she needed to do that now. Without thinking, she swung her snake tail and wrapped it around the Alligator
Caleb was restless after hearing what the guard said. “Everyone, leave us!” he commanded, and the other guards left in a hurry. They could not help but fear for their colleague’s life. When their king was like that it was wise to leave him alone, give him space to think and calm down but now that he asked their brother to stay behind. They could not help but send a prayer to the gods on his behalf.To accept his soul and forgive him for his sins for they believed that their king was going to kill him for the way he behaved earlier. “How can Roger do that? He knows how the king is like and he went and shouted at him all in the name of the monster?” his friends and colleagues could not understand how Roger could be so stupid.“Did you see how he looked? he was like someone who has seen a devil, I mean we have all seen the sea monsters and we all know how they behave. Why did Roger behave the way he did? Now he is going to lose his life over a useless monster.” One said, he could not wra
“That is not the point, since many of you have changed sides and have left us outnumbered. I will request a meeting with the Naga princess and make her see reason.” The king said but what he said shocked the generals, the Caleb they knew did not negotiate with anyone and now he wanted to negotiate with the Nagas?“My king, the Nagas are no match for us, even with the support of all those other clans they are still nothing compared to us. The Merpeople alone can take on the Nagas and win. Why must we negotiate?” asked general Fisher, negotiating with the Nagas was something he was not willing to do. All that was needed was for them to kill all those Nagas and get this over and done with.“If it were twelve years ago, I would have agreed with you general, but things have changed now. I was told that the Naga princess has a demon whom she has already merged with, making her the most powerful and dangerous being in the water. She also has the support of the seers.” General Fisher could no
No one saw what came next when the warriors attacked Nazima, one moment they were charging towards her while their king was still stunned by the change of events and the next moment the was only blood. The water was just stained with blood, no bones, no body, nothing. Just blood. Nazima glared at Caleb. “You will never change and the next time we meet, you better have my trident, or you will end up like your warriors, you have a day.” Nazima threatened then swam away in anger.Caleb only came back to his senses when Nazima was long gone. He charged to general Fisher and had him by the throat choking him. “Bloody bastard! Do you know what you have done?” questioned Caleb as he tightened the hold on the general’s neck. “You made us lose the only chance we had in ending this peacefully, what were you thinking!” Caleb roared in anger.He wanted to snap the general’s neck right there and then. The man was impulsive and now the Naga princess will never trust them again. All because general
The diving pot was seen by the scouts the moment it got to their territory and the queen was informed. By the time Brandon and his team got to the spot. Nazima, Zane, and Caleb were there wating for them.“These humans must have a death wish coming here again after everything.” Zane was fuming with anger as he said those words. “I told you that they will be waiting for us this time around.” Said Seun fear settling at the bottom of his stomach.“And I said I did not care, if they don’t give me what I want then they will all die.” Brandon said with a threatening voice. “Open the door.” Brandon instructed. The men shared a look.Peter nodded at Seun, and he opened the door. Both sides looked fearless. Brandon was determined and prepared to die if it meant he would see her again. Nazima on the other hand was thinking of ways to kill him slowly and painfully.“Well, well, well, I never thought I would see you again.” Said Nazima with a smirk on her face. Brandon showed no emotions, the man
They say pain makes you stronger and heartbreak makes you wiser. But Brandon’s heart break made him stupid, he still stayed on that beach on his knees with his heart bleeding every time he took a breath.But he stayed, with the hope that the woman he loved would return to him. The tide changed and the sunset. It got colder and the water kept hitting on him, but he stayed.He knew when he fell for her that he was being stupid. He fell for a woman whose heart belonged to another. All the effort he put into the relationship was like trying to fill a bucket full of holes with water.No matter how much you try the bucket will never be full as every time you tried to fill it the water escapes from the holes. That was Victoria and Brandon’s love. It hurt to admit that he was not as important to Victoria as he thought he was.He thought they had something, all these months he thought they were happy and in love. But the truth is that he was in love alone and that the woman’s heart was somewhe
Brandon was so preoccupied by the investors and people wanting to know more about the drug and how it worked that he forgot that Victoria was not back.When he realised that his woman was not by his side it was already twenty minutes later. He scanned the room for her but could not find her. he excused himself and went looking for her.He could not get into the ladies’ room and all he could do was to ask a woman who was going inside. “Miss, could you please help me?” the woman stopped and looked her him.She then smiled seductively when she noticed him. “Sure, anything for you handsome” Brandon could not careless for her flirting, all he wanted to do was to find Victoria.He fished his phone out of his pocket then showed the woman a picture of Victoria. “Can you please check if this woman is in there?” the woman frowned. She thought he wanted her number or something.“Fine, I will check.” She walked away leaving Brandon outside feeling anxious. She did not look for her, instead she di
Zane dried her tears with his thumbs then cupped her cheeks and looked tenderly in her eyes. “It’s okay to be sad and cry my darling. It is also okay to look out for yourself and happiness.” He sighed looking at the poor girl.She was young but carried the burden of the whole kingdom on her shoulders. He wished he could step in for her so that she can be a young woman in love without the burden of a kingdom.“Nazima you are young and my wish for you is love and happiness. It doesn’t matter where or from whom or what form it comes in. I just want you to have it. I want you to make mistakes and not worry about the consequences.”Zane teared up, Nazima never got to be a child and live life like one. She was on the run at the age of thirteen and had been taught how to be responsible as she was to become queen.She never got to be a normal teenager and do what children her age did. When she came back home her goal was to take back the crown and save her people. She did all that and now th
It has been a rough couple of months for everyone close to Nazima especially Caleb and Zane. Nazima kept her distance from Caleb and focused on the kingdom. Things in the kingdom improved a lot over the past months.Nazima managed to get things sorted for all clan, borders dividing the clans visiting and giving support to those who needed it. all this she did will the help of the council but the travelling she did alone accompanied by the guards.She refused Caleb’s offer to go with and chose guards for herself which she also trained whenever she got a chance. She was lonely and distant to everyone, hardly ever smiled. She was like a robot with no feelings at all.Having enough of it all Zane and Caleb decided to ambush her so that they could talk to her alone since she was not giving them the time of day to talk to her outside of the meeting hall.They went to her chambers early that morning hoping to catch her before the meeting start and before she could disappear again. The guards
At the penthouse facing the beach, a blond woman sat on the balcony watching the sunset. Her long legs stretched onto another chair as she laid back watching the view before here.The breeze kept caressing her fair and pale looking cheeks making her close her eyes enjoying the moment. A man in shorts and a vest sat next to her with a glass or red wine in his hand.His eyes were fixed on the woman as she kept closing her eyes. She was the most beautiful being he had ever seen. He kept taking small sips of his wine wetting his lips then running his tongue across them imagining her lips against his.The woman sighed as she thought of her home, how things might be now that she was found out. If her father was all right. Oh, her poor father, he had nothing to do with what she did and she was worried that he might face a certain death because of her.The man saw how troubled she looked and places a hand on her thigh and she slowly opened her eyes and looked at him. He was handsome and made
Zane and Caleb shared a look, and they knew that something had changed within their queen. That she was no longer the same woman she was before she was taken. They lifted their heads and looked at her.She did not say a word and she did not have to. “My queen, it was our mistake, we did not know who the guardians were and at the time Victoria was acting like a victim and we wouldn’t have suspected her.” Zane tried to explain.“Also, it was already the third day and they only came forward now to tell us they knew where you were. What took them so long?” Caleb said and Nazima glared at him.“Is it not your job as my trusted advisers to make sure that I as your queen is always safe and protected all the time? Why are you now blaming the guardians for your incompetence?” she was angry, and they could all see it.“The guardian’s job is to guide and advise me of matters regarding the kingdom not to protect me, that is your job and you failed at it!” nazima exploded. She was tired, hungry an
Nazima didn’t say a word as they left. She heard everything that Kendra said and felt that she was right. Caleb was also to blame for what Victoria did. It was her obsession with him which he did nothing to stop that led to all this.Caleb kept stealing glances at Nazima waiting for her to say something but the queen said nothing. She has been through enough all because of Caleb and she wanted some space from him.She needed time to be alone and figure out what she wanted to do with her life. She thought that there could be something between Caleb and herself but after all this, she was not sure.By the time they got to shore, there were many people there swimming and some just enjoying the sun. Nazima turned to look at everyone. “We need to go that side so that the humans don’t see us.” She pointed at a quitter spot, and everyone agreed.The looks they were getting from people were too much for Nazima and Kendra. Especially Kendra. When she got there, she was unconscious and did not
The two chiefs sung and dodged. Hid from foreign weapons of humans as they moved forward. They held no fear in their hearts as their hearts were no longer with them but with their queen.The one brought them peace, tranquillity and hope. They could not let her down again, they had already let her down when the humans took her from right under their noses.But now they had come to get her back and were willing to lay waste to the human kind if need be. The humans did not expert an ambush like that, therefore, they were not prepared and had no extra magazines to reload their powerful weapons.Gun shots were getting lesser and lesser as they ran out of ammunition. Some had long retreated when they saw how hopeless the situation was. If only they knew that they were not fighting ordinary men but gods.Beads of sweat covered Caleb and Zane’s bodies as they fought. Caleb was ecstatic, he had never had a battle like this before and he had never fought humans.He had to admit that they were w