Act Of Faith - Season 1 - Episode 26

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Act Of Faith - Season 1 - Episode 26

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I swam out of the sea and found my way to the bushy area of the port, I took cover among the bushes as I created a small opening among the bushes to enable me see through, to my surprise, I saw the guards approaching me. I quickly brought out my gun and prepared to fire, but something was strange. There weren’t looking towards my direction, they were actually heading towards the sea. ” He is dead” I heard one of them say as he brought out the swelled body of a policeman, ” She killed him” he added turning to the others. ” Where is she?” another asked , ” She might probably be some where inside the water” Came the reply from another. I knew the she they were referring to was Morgana, she must have probably looked for an escape means and dived into the sea, that’s how mischievous she could be. I notice some guards come out of the ship, they came out with the dead bodies of the two scientist and the guard I had a fight with, their coming out drew the attentions of the others as they rushed towards them and started conversing, I couldn’t hear what they were talking about, I only saw them drop the bodies into the sea. ”

The ship is free, Move them in!!!” One of the guards who had just come out of the ship shouted to the others and immediately, they started rushing those to be trafficked into the ship. ” I must do something” I said to myself as I made to crawl toward the water again, but something stopped me. I felt my hand touch something fresh, like a human body. I looked closely at the body and it was Morgana in only a bomb short and a bra, I checked her pulse and it was fine, she had only fainted. ” I pray I get this” I said silently as I gave her the mouth to mouth respiration which I had never done before, soon she coughed back to life. ” who are you” She asked silently as i was with a mask. ” Thank God you are back” I said also smiling as I opened my mask for her to see my face and wore it back immediately. I gave her my jacket to cover herself but her chained hands prevented her from wearing them so I took it back. ” Were you kissing me?” She asked with a frown face and she put on the jacket. “No time for the for joke, the fight is still on, stay here and keep guide and watch this, am going to the ship” I said silently to her as dropped the bag containing the skulls and chemicals and made to crawl away but she drew me back. ” Am coming with you” She said smiling as she picked up a gun from the floor with her chained hands. ” No, you can’t.. ” she interrupted me ” You know you can’t stop me, you have to back me along” she said still smiling as climbed my back. I had no other option that to go with her, I crawled silently into the sea, I then swam to the lab window where I had come out from. ” Go in” I said to her as she struggled with her chained hands and went into the lab, I followed suite. ” You look horrible” I said to her as I slept on the floor of the lab after coming out from the sea. ” Those guys are heartless” She said , ” How do I take this chain off?” She asked while I stared blankly at her, ” I dont have the keys” I replied awkwardly, ” I know you dont have the keys, any alternative means?” She asked again while I shook my head, ” You have to go that way” I told her and dropped the bag containing the Skulls and chemical. With my gun gripped by my both hands and raised slightly above my head, I turned to her ” Let’s Go” I said as I moved sideways towards the door, she followed me slowly due to the restriction of her free movement by her chained hands. ” please stop staring at me, you are making me ashamed, see am almost naked” she said looking down at herself, ” Hey am not thinking of that ” I replied still staring at her, the gun was still balanced on my both hands. I removed my jacket, I removed some knives from it and placed them in my trouser ” I dont need it” I said dropping the jacket on the table. ” You want your white stained with blood?” Morgana asked smiling. Wails and cries could now be clearly heard from above, that was a sign that they were already being shipped into the ship. I opened the door slowly and peeped outside, it was free” Let’s go” I said to Morgana and walked sideways outside, she followed behind. We were lucky as there was a small saw beside the ladder like stairs which lead up, with it we were able to cut off the chain from Morgana hand. ” How good it feels to be free again” She said stretching her hand happily. ” What do we do now?” I asked her after the chain had been cut off her hand, ” Let’s go up there” She suggested. ” That would be dangerous, they migh…” She interrupted. ” They won’t get us, we will just stay up here the stairs, we won’t go out fully, the door leading to the up will be our guide. ”

She said surveying the area and looking up. Also looking up, I understood what she was trying to point out, we would just climb up to the last part of the stairs and won’t go out fully, we will use the door leading upwards as our cover and we can attack from there. “Okay” I said as I climbed up the ladder like stairs, she followed behind. I got to the extreme top and peeped through by pushing the door slightly up, two guards were inside while the rest were outside. ” They are two” I told her as I cocked my gun, ” Be careful not to misfire and kill those innocent children” She said also peeping through, ” Or maybe I should take it? ” she asked, she was better than I am in using a gun. ” Okay then, be careful” I said creating space for her, the next thing that followed was the gunshot and she turned to me smiling. ” They are down” She said as she alighted down the stairs, I jumped down and hid behind a thin wooden pillar, she stood beside me. Soon we could both hear the up door open and someone climbing down the stairs, I peeped and it was another man in suit. He finally alighted from the stairs and looked around carefully and came in our direction, he stopped some metres before getting to us. ” I know you are there, come out.

Your shadow has betrayed you” he said , we looked down and truly our shadows were standing just as we were standing but only mine was visible to him from where he was standing.” Do you really want me to come out?” I asked trying to be brave , ” You can save yourself the promised land if you can surrender yourself” he said and shot at the wooden pillar. I held tight to my gun as I took a deep breath, ” Stay here” I whispered to Morgana and she nodded. I dived on the floor in the direction of the lab and shot at him, he quickly took cover behind another Pillar while I took cover by the door of the lab. ” I can see you like this the hard way, there is no way you can escape here , why dont we talk as men?” He asked. ” Then drop your gun” I said after an afterthought. ” Okay” he said and threw his gun on the floor, I also dropped mine and communicated using my hands with Morgana who was still standing by the pillar, she understood what I had said and she nodded. ”

Am out now” I said coming out of my hiding, he also came out with another pistol and pointed it at me. ” Guess what?” He said pointing the gun at me, I rose my hands up slowly. ” I dont keep to my words” he said and cocked the gun, ” And guess what?” I also said, ” What?” He asked smiling, I dropped down my hand and smiled back. ” Unlike you, am not a one man army” I replied him. immediately, Morgana came out from her hiding and shot him dead. ” Sweet” she said adjusting her bra. ” Please stop staring” she said while I took my eyes off her. ” I think we should..” I was about saying when the up door opened again, we quickly took cover beside the stairs.



They were about five in numbers, I think they were the last set of guards in the ship. “He is dead” One said as he felt the pulse of the dead guard on the floor. ” They are still somewhere here” Another one added and with that they surrounded the whole space. ” There is no escaping for them now” another said, he was right, there was no escape for us, we were well surrounded. We remained where we were without moving an inch so as not to end our existence. Suddenly, the up door opened and gunshot could be heard everywhere , I closed my eyes as I held tight to Morgana. The gunshot stopped almost immediately as it as started and everywhere became calm. I opened my eyes and peeped , the whole guards were dead, there was only someone with black short and a thick black singlet, he was backing us as he didn’t know we were there. He was holding a gun and also putting on a black canvas. ” Thank you” Morgana said from behind, the guy turned to us immediately , lo and behold, it was Israel. ” You guys are alive?” He asked smiling as he ran to us.

AS NARRATED BY ADANNA
” Please dont harm me” I said as I dragged myself on the floor, Shaking his head and twisting his sword, he replied” Dont worry, If I kill you, Gabriel will avenge your death” he had said. ” please I dont want to die now” I begged gesturing with my hands, my breast wrapper has loosened but I wasn’t bothered as this man in black didn’t look like he was interested in my breast. ” Wow, I know see why Gabriel really want you” he said, he was now staring at my breast. ” Anyways, I am here to do my Job” he continued as he brought the sword to my waist level, ” Let me tell you this, by tomorrow, Eze Ani the chief priest of Ani will say you were killed by the gods, dont say its me o” he added, he seem to be smiling this time as his mask widened. I felt the sword touch me, I felt a little pain, and suddenly there was a rustling in the bush. He stopped and turned towards where the noise had come from but saw no one. ” I think the birds are playing pranks” He said again as he made to continue. Like a flash, another man in black appeared from no where, he gave a swinging kick to the guy who was trying to kill me, the guy fell down, he was obviously taken by surprise. The new guy was wearing a short tight knicker, a black top and also a mask. He was with a sword like the one in the killer’s hand .

The killer guy advance towards him with the sword and rose it up to strike him but my saviour guided with his own sword above his head and one knee on the ground. He immediately did a sweeping kick and swept the killer man off the ground, he made to strike him on the stomach but the killer man rolled on the floor and sprang up, before we knew it, the killer man had gone. My saviour took my chest wrapper and tied it across my breast and then carried me to a safe place, he cut some herbs and rubbed it on the bleeding area of my waist where the killer guy had started cutting. ” Who are you?” I asked shivering. ” Will you just shut up?” He asked in a thick voice, ” Thank you ” I said to him but he didn’t reply as cleaned up my wound. ” You can go home now” he said after he was done, ” Can’t I know who you are?” I asked as I tried removing his mask, ” No, dont try it” he said and pushed my hand away, he had a very thick and sorrowful voice. He turned and started walking away, he had a good and fast walking steps. ” Let me at least know your name” I shouted and he stopped , turned to me and waved his hands, ” Call me JASON” he shouted back and then he was out of sight.


Rubbing the sq££zed leaves on Morgana face, Mama took a breath and turned to I and Israel ” Your friend is fine” Mama told us as Morgana la!d on the bed in Mama small room. Mama was the same woman who had treated me when I was shot. ” Thank you mama” Israel said to the old woman. ” What kind of work do you guys do that warrant you getting almost all the times, why are the both of you dressed in black?” Mama asked turning to myself and Israel, ” We are..” Israel stammered as he thought of what to say, ” We are spies Mama” I chipped in while israel turned to me in shock, ” We shouldn’t lie to the old woman” I whispered to him. “What a dangerous job, now I understand” She had said to us and left the room. ” What the hell did you just do?” israel asked immediately mama had left, ” Nothing ” I simply replied sitting on the bed side with Morgana who we had brought here some hours ago after she had passed out again, I tried the mouth to mouth respiration, it didn’t revive her. I didn’t believe we could have made it alive from the port some few hours ago, the unexpected had actually happened. We had tried losing the captives when two vans arrived at the port, they were filled with guards, more men in suits. They were about fifty and the three of us didn’t stand a chance against them, we had to jump into the sea and find a way of escaping, it was in the course of this escape that Morgana had passed out and I had to bring her to mama, the old local nurse. ” That was a mess” I turned to Israel who was still standing at a corner of the room. Looking up the ceiling, ” Big mess” Israel replied. ” what is there to do now?” I asked him, “Nothing, Sir Jude might probably know about this and escape” Israel replied. ” Well, we had mess up this miss…” Israel interrupted, ” I wonder want Sir Ajan will do about this”he said , ” We didn’t inform the rest” I added as I placed my hands on my head. I felt Morgana stir, I turned to her and she was already awake. ” What happened to me?”

She asked placing her left palm on her head and looking from me to israel. ” You passed out again” I simply replied, ” Oh!! now I remember ” She said still holding her head. ”

Matt is behind this” she added while we turned to her, ” Matt behind what?” I and Israel asked in union, ” He had been working with Sir Jude all this while, he had been blackmailing us”

Morgana added while I bursted into laughter, ” You saw that in your dream right?” I asked still laughing but she shook her head. ” Nope, that night I went to the club, Sir Jude showed me the mark on my wrist and told me he knew I was a spy, he said he got connections everywhere and that Matt is one of his boys” Morgana explained. ” Why will he tell you about Mark, isn’t it meant to be a secret?” israel asked, ” He told me because , he thought I won’t live again, they had plan shipping me so he thought telling me would weaken me as I won’t be able to do anything.” I can’t believe this, Matt can’t do such” I said turning to israel, ” I believe this” israel added silently. ” You believe it?” I asked him, ” Yeah, Matt have been behaving strange lately, always night walking, he is full of secrets” Israel explained, ” Then let’s deal with him” Morgana added looking angry, I shook my head in disapproval. ” We have no tangible evidence that Matt is behind this, we have to watch him” I said, ” Let’s report this to Daniel” I suggested, ” I haven’t even heard from Daniel” Morgana said lying on the bed again, ”

He went to Lokoja to see his Mom, she is Sick” Israel told us. ” I see” I simply said as I looked at the possibility of Matt being a betrayal, ” Matt, I never see this coming ” I thought to myself as I placed my both hands on my head.



AS NARRATED BY ADANNA
” Hmm Eze Ani, the chief priest of Ani should hear of this ” My father said the money after I had narrated my ordeals at the stream the previous night to him. My mom sitting beside me on my bed and thanking Chukwu for keeping me alive. ” Dad, I dont think Eze Ani should be told about this” I said to my dad who was thinking deeply with his walking sticks clutched to his hands. ” Why my daughter?” He asked me twisting his mouth like I use to do, I actually learnt that from him. ” Because I think Eze Ani knows about this, maybe he just deceive the people with the stories of the gods” o replied him ” Tufia!!” He shouted, ” Dont say such of Eze Ani, the chief priest of Ani ever again” he rebuked why I nodded my head, ” But Nnayi, I think she is right, Eze Ani shouldn’t be bothered about this ” My mom talked for the first time, my dad didn’t reply as he only hit his walking stick on the floor and Stood up. ” If you don’t want me to tell Eze Ani about this, then so be it. But I hope there is nothing you are hiding from me? ” he asked, he had already gotten to the door. ” Papa, there is nothing ” I replied him as I rested my head on my iron bed. ” Sorry my daughter ” My mom consoled as she touched the injured spot slightly with her hands. ”
Sorry” she said again.

° My mind kept drifting back to that guy, my saviour as I would call him. I wish I had seen his face, he was tall, muscular and by my instincts, he might also be very handsome. His voice was thick and sorrowful like he was suffering from something, he had this tone of revenge when he spoke. That my killer must have been a coward , he couldn’t stand Jason so he had to run away. Hmmm, now to Eze Ani, what should I say about him? I can’t say he is a liar as he is the priest of the gods, but the killer had made it clear the previous day that he would kill and Eze Ani will say its the gods, how do I explain that? Anyways, Eze Ani is the chief priest of Ani, and the Chief priest of Ani isn’t a liar.

” Adanna” I heard my name from the outside if the compound, I knew whose voice it was, it was Alvana’s voice. I got up slowly and walked outside my hut, he was standing at the entrance if the compound, he was just with his cutlass and hoe. ” Alvana, good morning” I greeted from a distance as I walked slowly to him,” Adanna, what happened to you?” He asked as he came into the compound, he was staring at my wound and he looked really concerned. ” I was attacked” I told him as I rested my back on the wall, ” I was almost killed ” I said again, he had the expression of shock written all over his face, ” Who will want you dead? ” he asked, ” He was dressed in all black, he was also with a mask so I couldn’t see him” I explained further, Alvana had already dropped his how and cutlass.” He was with a sword and tried killing me” I said as tears started dropping off my eyes. ” Dont cry, at least you are alive, let’s thank God” Alvana consoled and I wiped my face. ” How did you escape?” He asked in after a while, ” Another guy with a Mask came to rescue me, he told me his name Is JASON” I told Alvana. ” Jason? Jason? Hmm, Jason? Okay, we thank God you are alive” he said to he smiling while I nodded, ” I was heading to the farm so I decided to stop by and greet you” Alvana said smiling again and I nodded. ” you said his name was Jason right?” Alvana asked again as he made to exit the compound , I nodded again and walked in slowly. ” Thank you Jason” I said silently as I walked into the hut ” You are welcome” I heard someone say behind me, I turned back and saw no one, Oh, it was a mere illusion.

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