THE LEGEND OF KIWAKAAZI

Deila opened her eyes first. She turned her head to her right and there he was — her savior lying there. His eyes closed and his breathing as loud as ever. He was smiling even in his sleep. Deila smiled too, and whispered, “Thank you, Kay.”

Before Deila opened her eyes; before she expressed her profound gratitude to the man she has come to admire so much, she was trapped in a world within her. After being touched by Kaki, Deila appeared in the meadows. She neither knew how she got out of the cottage nor did she know the way to her real body. She was in a pinch. She looked right. She looked left. She kept turning and looking; looking for a way out but all she could see was vast land covered with grass. She felt a presence behind her and turned. She saw a man and then, two men joined this first man. She knew all three men by face but not by name. I will help her. The first man to appear was Edua and his two companions were Kundu and Anantie. “Take my hand and you will find peace,” suggested Edua with his right arm outstretched. Deila simply shook her head and run in the opposite direction.

Anantie whispered, “Wrong choice.” He stretched his right hand and a white chain caught and bound Deila’s right leg. She fell down on her chest. Kundu also stretched out his left and bound Deila’s feet with a golden chain. The chains pulled Deila towards perhaps three of the strongest men to ever grace Nomposuro. The chains dragged Deila through the grass like an animal. She grabbed and quickly let go of grass. She dug her nails into the earth and could not stop moving on her chest. She ate dirt; she ate grass and she got dragged fast on the ground and through grass. Suddenly, she stopped. She was being dragged so fast that she thought, “I am sorry Kay. I tried and failed.”

Elsewhere in Kaki’s cottage, Zibaru changed into a rahasi (guardian of hell) and Kaki changed into the white shadow of hell. He disappeared and attacked Kaki from behind. The kafunde (demon mummifier) was attacking Kaki from above. Kaki’s tail straightened above her and when the kafunde struck it, it bounced off and Zibaru landed a few meters behind Kaki. Kaki started singing; a beautiful song indeed. Zibaru was hypnotized and stood still. Kaki’s tail attacked him. Zibaru’s chest was drilled by the end of Kaki’s tail modified into a cone. Zibaru disappeared and after about a minute, he reappeared.

“You...?” remarked Edua. “How did you get here?” questioned Anantie. “It is really you, Sivanti (the savior),” noted Kundu. “Have we met?” asked a voice. ‘Kay, you came all the way here to save me?’ realized Deila. Deila turned and sat up. It was really him. It was Kiwakaazi. ‘How did he come here?’ wondered Deila. Kiwakaazi’s feet; his left foot only had stopped the chains from dragging her any further. He turned, smiled and asked, “Are you okay?” She did not answer. She frowned and asked angrily, “What are you doing here?! How did you get here?”

So, Kiwakaazi came to her rescue. Together, they found a way out of Deila’s world like they had in the past. It was now Kiwakaazi’s turn to open his eyes. He opened his eyes slowly and saw a woman. He saw her in a distance. She was dripping wet. He saw her face. It was Deila’s face and she was wet. He was still faint and closed his eyes. He opened his eyes again and saw her neck. Her neck like her face was covered with drops of water. He thought, ‘Am I dreaming?’ She spoke. It sounded very far away. “Kay… Kay… Open your eyes.” He had still not recovered fully. Then, he saw her breasts and opened his eyes wide.

In Deila’s dream world, Kiwakaazi’s foot on the chains broke the chains around Deila’s feet and freed her. He answered Deila’s question. It was not the answer she expected. “I did not have a choice. The only way to kill the dwarf was to become the ultimate guardian of hell — the Uhurusa Rahasi. It seems the ultimate guardian has many powers.” Deila looked at Kiwakaazi’s feet and noticed they had become red. It was as if he was burning. She warned, “Kay, your feet…?” Kiwakaazi answered, “Oh that, I think I am changing into a rahasi and this time it may be permanent.” “How can you stop this change?” asked Deila with real concern. “Well… I simply must change back to human before my entire body becomes red. That will stop the transformation.”

“Then you must leave at once Kay!” suggested Deila. Kiwakaazi answered, “This is not a democracy, Deila. I am getting you out of here whether you like it or not.” Then Kiwakaazi asked, “Anyway, how do we get out of here?” Deila responded, “Return to your body and take me to the walanuntso (river of cleansing).” Kiwakaazi answered, “That is not going to work. I won’t make it in time. They will take you away before I get to the walanuntso.” Deila said, “I don’t know of any other way.” Kiwakaazi suggested, “Go to Kaki. This is her world too. She may know the way out. I will hold these men off.” Deila agreed, “Fine, I will, but please don’t get yourself killed. These three men are perhaps the strongest three men to die inside Nomposuro.” “Don’t worry about me Deila. Just hurry before I permanently become Uhurusa Rahasi (Ultimate guardian of hell).” Kaki’s cottage was not near. All Deila could see was the largest and most beautiful flower garden she had ever seen. She wondered, ‘How do I locate Kaki’s cottage?’

“What are you doing?!” barked Kiwakaazi. So after Kiwakaazi saved Deila, she opened her eyes first. She was still weak but perhaps Kiwakaazi almost turning into uhurusa rahasi weakened him more. Deila dragged him to the walanuntso. She rested his back against a tree and decided to take a swim and the Deila we know enjoy swimming in her birthday suit. She buried her entire body including her head under the walanuntso and when she pushed her head out, Kiwakaazi was waking. Seeing her beautiful breasts woke him up completely. Deila answered, “Stop acting like a child, Kay. It is just my body and my breasts. I have fully recovered. I can even use Kaki’s powers again. It is now your turn to swim Kay. The third budu is the strongest and if we are going to get past it, we will have to be at our very best.”

Deila walked for a while and then ran. She looked in almost every direction possible and there was no cottage. “I wish this cottage was near,” wished Deila. What do you know? The cottage was in fact near. She was standing at the entrance. Amazing! “How do I get past Zibaru?” questioned Deila.

Inside the cottage, Zibaru attacked Kaki’s left side with the kafunde and Kaki caught the kafunde. She opened her mouth and this time used her first sound. Zibaru’s body vibrated violently and by the time the vibration stopped, Kaki had snapped Zibaru’s neck. Zibaru once again disappeared. Deila touched the door and made up her mind. She is going in. But before she did, she turned and thought, ‘I hope you are alright, Kay.’

“Hain mpem mpem (a thousand rays of light)!” shouted Kundu. Bright light blinded Kundu’s two companions and Kiwakaazi. With Kiwakaazi’s sense of sight temporarily impaired, Edua changed into a rahasi, his unique version, screamed and attacked Kiwakaazi. Kiwakaazi stopped Edua’s kafunde with a weapon neither Kundu nor Anantie saw. However, the two weapons clashing dispersed the light energy. Immediately, the light energy was dispersed, Kiwakaazi planted a golden sword in his right into the earth. Edua was sitting up and disappeared instantly to avoid being killed by Kiwakaazi.

Kundu now used his unique eyes. He whispered, “Aniwa hain (light eyes).” When the glowing of his eyes stopped, he told his new best friends, Anantie and Edua who were standing on either side of his body, that Kiwakaazi was going to be almost impossible to defeat. Anantie was on Kundu’s right. He smiled and looked up. The sky above them darkened. Light shaped like a serpent run through the dark clouds and the loud sound of thunder followed. Kiwakaazi raised his head to greet the next attack on him — wen-la (lightning).

After Kiwakaazi saved Deila, he and his beautiful friend now arrived a few meters from the bridge. Kiwakaazi asked Deila, “So what do you know about sobudu (triple headed serpent)?” Deila did not have to answer. The budu ducked out of the water. Its three heads dancing on top of its long and slender black body. The three heads had different colors; blue, black and red in that exact order from left to right. Something stretched out on its back. It was wings — a pair of white wings. It flapped once and disappeared into the sky of Nomposuro. Kiwakaazi and Deila hid their faces not exactly sure what was going to happen after the serpent flapped its wings. They looked in the direction where the serpent had appeared and it was gone. They heard sound — a scratching sound from the sky. They looked up and from the sky it was raining eggs — over a thousand eggs. The eggs hatched mid-air. The hatchlings were tiny blue, red or black serpents that were growing abnormally even while falling. The mother serpent dived into the black river and disappeared.

Kiwakaazi dug his left fingernails into his right palm and pulled out the kafunde. He lifted the kafunde and had already changed into a rahasi (guardian of hell) with about fifty golden swords dancing around his body. “Here I come filthy serpents,” whispered Kiwakaazi.

Deila changed into Kaki. She too flapped her wings once and flew to meet her falling opponents. She moved her lips. She opened her mouth. “Prepare to vibrate and explode,” whispered Kaki.

Before Deila was saved, she pushed open the door to the cottage. She entered. Only Kaki was inside. She looked angry and surprised to see Deila return to the cottage. She too asked angrily, “What are you doing back here?” Deila hurried inside and answered, “I need your help. Kiwakaazi is here and he is fighting three very strong men who died inside Nomposuro outside. He believes you can help me find a way out of here.” Kaki could not believe her ears. She thought, “If he is here, then he is an uhurusa rahasi (ultimate guardian of hell). This boy truly is something else.” Kaki kept pacing and looking round. The time it takes for Zibaru to reappear increases each time he dies. It started with a minute and after killing him two more times, she was expecting him to appear again after between five to six minutes. She stopped and remarked excitedly, “There might be a way.”

Elsewhere inside Deila’s spirit world where Kaki was resident, Kiwakaazi adjusted his body. He raised his right hand and showed the lightning his right palm. The lightning attack sat on his palm. Kiwakaazi wrapped his fingers around the lightning. He held it like a whip and swung it from right to left attacking all three great heroes of Nomposuro at once. Edua is most likely to be the first casualty.