prince chara ran to the highest chamber in the palace made from rocks and mud as he watch his great grand mother disappeared into the cold white dew from the jungle, while King peka is soaked in fear while seating on the arms of his royal chair with his head up, what's troubling you my king, queen kuchel asked while approaching the king in her brown attire and a crown of white eagle on her oblong head, the king kept mute for a while then asked his servant to fetch the leaders of all the 11 kingdoms, the servant bowed to the king and queen and stepped out,
Grand mother is hear with warning and parables, I think we have gone too far this time and it's all your idea,he told the queen but she replied in calmness while touching his broad shoulders saying fear not, we are the gods now and everyone and everything walking on this land will worship us, while looking at his beautiful tall dark queen speaking, he immediately gained courage, stood up from the arm of his chair kiss his wife on her forehead then sat down properly on his royal chair with his crown made from elephant skin with a black tusk pointing up,
Rumor of the witch mother visitation raise great tension in the villages, the people of agar village are scared of going fishing which is their main occupation because of the great flood that took away fishermen after the last visit of the witch mother a decade ago. While contemplating whether to go fishing or not they heard a royal drum and sound of horses shoe suddenly appeared a straight line of royal horses matching towards the palace with soldier matching behind, as they approached the palace prince chara saw them from windows of his room and ran to his father in the palace hall shouting:father father we have visitors on horses, are we in trouble he asked, then his father smiled at him saying am a great king I can never be in trouble, the queen immediately took prince chara away as the king winked at her.
King peka welcome the leaders of the 11 villages, lead them into a big dining hall filled with varieties of food and drinks on a round table of 13 chairs, before the king could speak of why he invited them, Golo leader of the dwarve village of Gamga stood up with his bow and arrow and a feather at the back of his ear asked the king in anger I AM NOT HEAR TO EAT NOR TO DRINK, TELL US WHY YOU SUMMONED US,
how there you talk to the king in such manner says the queen while stepping in the the hall, the 11 leaders bow to the queen, let's eat, for the earth and the waters has blessed us with food she said, with tension in their faces they sat and began to eat, the queen and the king sat close to each other as she whispered into her husband ear while looking at the dwarf leader not eating, the king stood up in anger pointing golo while speaking of the abominable act golo had committed from refusing to eat and drink with him, ordered his guard to lock golo in his dungeon, golo was taken away and the remaining leaders kept mute as they listen to the kings speaking:
THE WITCH MOTHER IS HERE THIS MORNING WITH WARNINGS, AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED DURING HER LAST VISIT, WHAT SHALL WE DO? he asked while standing, a few minute of silence past and a brave leader stood up saying : WHAT WAS HER WARNING? The king looked at his queen in dissapointment and said: OUR OLD WAYS HAS BEEN ABANDONED and before he could finish speaking they were murmuring in the hall and the queen shouted with anger "SILENCE" and there was a great silence,
what shall we do now asked the king, most elderly leader of them stood up with a cup of wine in his hand saying : we all know what she meant, we truely has abondoned the ways of our ancestors, we even destroyed the temple of the gods and brought down the statue of our gods, we should visit the witch mother in her mountain to plead with her and also reconsider our old ways, then he sat down while the hall is still silent, Any objections asked the king but everyone kept quiet, then then the most elderly leader pleaded with the king to allow golo go with them.
They all stepped out of the palace while it was raining and they entered into the royal boat, as the soldiers wait at the river bank. The river begins to bubbles as they noticed a shadow in the waters approaching the boat, the soldiers jump into the waters to protect the king and the village leaders with their spears made from wood, the water turn red as a giant crocodile with one eye attacked and killed all the soldiers in the water, dragged the boat to the other side of the river,
Villagers began to run while the remaining soldiers at the river bank began to throw their spears at the crocodile, distracting the beast, the boat rider managed to escape towards the mountain of the witches, golo In anger blamed the king for the dead of their soldiers but the king was grieving and said nothing.
Back in agar, the queen addresses the villagers and promised them that her husband the king will come back with a solution but the people are furious as they listen to the servant of the gods blaming the king and queen for the dead of their people, he added that more plague will befall their villages, The queen ordered her soldiers to arrest the servant of the gods but the villagers fought the soldiers, took the servant of the gods to safety, While other villagers are trying to attack the queen and her guards,
The boat continue sailing towards the mountain of the witches, golo the dwarf stood alone at the top of the boat roof with his shot spear while the king and others were sleeping, darkness was upon them and golo insisted they camp at the shallow waters.
The king was bathing in the waters as he saw a giant with one eye looking at him from the highest mountain of Tonga, the king watched the giant closely as he began to descend to agar, the king shouted and behold it was a nightmare.
My king what's wrong they asked in fear but the king says nothing as he took his spear and stand at the front of the boat.
They reached the mountain of the witches after they continued their journey at first light, they climbed up the mountain through a narrow part with skull of different animals hung on a pole, as they approached the mountain top they heard sound of drums and voices, out of curiosity they rushed to the top of the mountain, maidens dressed with black feathers singing and dancing round a beautiful woman sitting on a log of wood, the woman is dressed in white feathers and she welcome them, music stop and the maiden knelt down, the king asked to see his grand mother, am here said the young woman on white feathers, hows is this possible with his mouth wide open, you know nothing of me son, you're a disappointment to our ancestors.
You look young and beautiful grand mother, what's going on here, but his grand mother smiled and asked what brought you to my palace, the king still in surprise couldn't remember what took him to the mountain of the witch, Golo the dwarf leader salute the witch mother and narrate their experience with the one eyed crocodile, how he killed many soldiers, Sukisu the witch mother stood up in surprise saying: WHAT I FEAR THE MOST IS UPON US, She looked up, take two step backward, one step forward then turn around while speaking in strange tongue, she hurried to her hut made from green bamboo sticks with animals skin hung around the door.
She jump out of her hut with set of black stone and bones, she brought out a very thick skin like that of an elephant and cast the bone and black stones on it, she looked closely at the stones and bone then raised her head up looking at the king with great bitterness, YOU HAVE BROUGHT WAR TO YOUR PEOPLE, YOU HAVE DESTROY US ALL, THE ONE EYE BEAST THAT ATTACK YOU AND YOUR SOLDIERS IS THE PET OF THE gods, NO WEAPON CAN KILL IT, she cried with a strange voice, LETS GO TO AGAR TO CHASE THAT THING, Sukisu jump into her hut and stepped out with a brown skin bag, her apprentice collect the back from her as she lead the way down the mountain,
The king was devastated and began to follow his grandmother like a child, while they were busy following Sukisu they all observed that she grow older by every step she took down the mountain, she pick some items from her bag like dried leaves and pour it on the bank of the river, and on the boat and asked all of them to jump in. Golo went to his usual spot on the roof of the boat as they start their journey back to agar.