From Enemies to Couple.

Episode 7

in the home of the chief of Okwu land Lalah and his men stood before the chief who sat on his throne and wondered why the fisherman had to bring them to him at that particular time. He had heard about the men that came to the land of Okwu to cause trouble but he never knew that the fisherman, the same fisherman that was said to be attacked by the men was the one brining them to him.

"I know that you are not comfortable or maybe wondering why I have to be the one who brings them to you but I decided to do so because it was I who accepted the one they came looking for into my hut. I have come so that it won't look like I snubbed you. I will start from thanking you and your wife, our Lolo for allowing me entry into your mighty home. It is with pleasure that i say the things I say. I am so sorry for having to accept someone into our land without brining him to you but I felt you would have done the same thing I did; helping someone who needed my help because he was being hunted by some people. Initially when I welcomed him into my hut he wanted to come to you but it was I who stopped him. As we speak he is still in my hut but he is not whom I thought he was. He is something more, something interesting. These men you see here with me makes me understand through their actions, for I find it almost impossible to understand what they say, that the man I accepted into my hut is a very important man and must have come from a place where there is riches and power. I have brought them here following the development which occurred in our land between them and myself. They had hit me which led to me being unconscious for a while but now that I regained my consciousness I want to plead on their behave to allow them stay since they feel they can not go back to the land they came from due to the problems they encountered in their land with heir leader. Dear leader of our land of Okwu I have brought these men to you so that you can permit them to live amongst us" bowed the fisherman.

The Chief of Okwu sighed and then told the fisherman that he had made a mistake by wanting the strange men to remain in his land.

"Do you not know or have you failed to remember what happened in our land many years ago? How a member of this land went on to bring some strangers he said he met in a forest where he was setting his trap and his reasons were because the men he met complained they did not have a home they called their own. You know of this story which I speak of fisherman. The men came into our land as spies and we never knew of it. They then began the m******e that saw most of our people run away and to the mountains of Okwu where they nested for safety for five days with no food and water. The kids they carried with them, some of them, being one month old died on that mountain. You heard this story and what happened later. When the men our people welcomed into our land had to sneak out early in the morning to go and inform those that wanted our heads we were fast asleep with trust in our hearts. You brought the man you said you brought out of trust and you brought these men to me out of the same trust. I am not going to allow any of this interfer with our policy, our culture and tradition. This is why you have to go away with these men. You have to take them back to wherever you picked them from and then they can go their way without delay" the chief stood up and left them as well as the wife of the chief. After they had left the fisherman with the patrol teams decided to return to the village of Okwu where the fisherman planned to tell Prince Sando that the meeting did not walk and that it was time for those who had come to take him with them either go without him or go with him. They left the home of the Chief of Okwu.

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In the hut where Prince Sando was discussing with the fisherman's daughter he made it clear that he was not going to speak more than he had already spoken after the maiden had asked him for long to tell her everything about him. Sando still could not understand why and when the lady took so much interest in him and wanted to know everything about him.

"Must you know everything about me lady? I am Sando as I have told you and I am from an important family from where I come from. Asking me more questions will not solve any issues" he got up and Mazuri got up as well and left the room before he could tell her just tired he was with her and her questions.

Shortly the fisherman returned with Lalah and the rest. Lalah had to stop the man just before he could enter his hut and asked, "I do not know how to make you understand my language but I heard you speaking at length with your Chief and I could see that you were not smiling. It shows he was not pleased with your request and as such did no welcome he idea of us staying with the people of Okwu"

The man used his hands to demonstrate to him what the Chief said and Lalah's shoulders dropped in dejection. He was still like that when Prince Sando came out of the hut, greeted the fisherman who did not return his greetings and then walked up to Lalah and stood before him.

"Why is your face dull. What was the outcome of the visitation to the royal home of the Chief of Okwu land?" asked the prince but Lalah did not answer him just immediately, instead he let those others with him to explain to the prince. After the man was done explaining to the prince Lalah then said to the prince, "Now you can see that without you we are doomed. Without you we have nothing else to do. if we must leave here then it means we have nothing to live for again. My prince, I must tell you, we can not leave here" Lalah sat on the ground and the rest joined him in sitting on the ground.

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Princess of Amor had traveled for a long time and needed to have a rest in a lonley hut which she saw. When she went inside the hut she sat down and saw the carcass of a wild animal and sighed. It meant she would not be sleeping to avoid sudden attack from wild animals in the forest. She then made herself to lean on the wall of the hut and then her mind went to before the war between Gaa and Amor kingdoms took place. On that faithful night, two days before the war her father had been so worried that he could not sleep. She had seen him leave the palace that night through the window of her room. The king left with some of his men and the princess needed to hear from her mother of where the king was headed that night. She opened her door to go to her mother's room but saw her standing and about to knock on her door. She opened the door very well to accommodate her entry. The Queen entered and closed the door behind her. She then went and sat on the bed. The daughter went to the window and saw that the soldiers at the gate had closed the gates behind her father. She then turned her face to her mother and had to ask, "What is happening to you mother. You look depressed"

"Why won't I be depressed my daughter. You father has made life unbearable for me. I have told him many a times that it is no good trying to battle with the king of Gaa. The king of Gaa is known to always have his way and why the attempt to fight him when we know that it is not going to be favourable to us. Now he is stubborn and bent on consulting his Chief Priest whom he believes in so much more than he believes in me. I am sure that we are going to loose this battle and the reason I came here daughter is to beg you to help me talk to your father when he returns from the shrine of the Chief Priest. You must tell him that you had a terrible dream and in that dream the kingdom of Amor lost in a battle. That way he will understand and he will listen to you. He will then do as I have begged him to. He will not go to war with the Gaa"

"Mother, are you scared of the Gaaians or is there something else that I need to understand?" asked the princess.

"Yes, there is something more you need to understand and that is that there is no fear in me other than the fear of having your father meet in his decided doom if he is to fight with the Gaaians. The Gaaians are known to have conquered every tribe and every kingdom they had had a battle or war with. I am not afraid of them having understood this fact but I'm afraid of what your father's destiny is. His destiny is not to engage in wars. There are ways he will need to adopt if he must show his enemies that he is not going to become their slave and the gods who have destined him will then fight his battle for him. Your father who happens to be my husband is not the only one whom I have told these things and they come to pass. In the past I had told my own father and after he ignored me he saw the result of it which was disastrous" The queen sounded so serious and this captivated the attention of her daughter.