Naagin (rise of the serpent)

Chapter Twenty: Umuguor Community

"Rise and shine, mother fucker!!" That sweet voice echoed in the room, jolting out of sleep.

I opened my eyes, rubbing sleep out of them only to see Ovie's annoying face poking into mine.

"Get your face off me" I shouted at him.

He withdrew himself immediately with a smirk. I sat up still rubbing sleep out of my eyes.

"The last time I checked young lady, you woke up extremely late" Ovie said, his attention on the wall clock by the corner.

"What is the time?" I asked.

"11:30"

"11:30?!!!!!"

"Yep, it's 11:30. Which is almost noon" I jumped out of the bed at his sayings.

I had no other thing to do than to have a shower,a change of clothes and to prepare breakfast. I couldn't believe that I had woken up so late. Old lady Papirus would definitely skin me alive.

"Old lady Papirus called for you five times. She must have been very furious that you are still sleeping at this time" Ovie's voice stopped me in my tracks as I was about to get a towel.

"When did you wake up?" I turned around and asked.

"8am"

"Then why didn't you wake me up?" I asked advancing to him furiously.

Ovie chuckled seeing my angry state. It irritated me so much that he even started laughing. Why was he laughing? The last time I checked, he should have woken me up seeing that I was still sleeping at the odd time.

"And for what reason are you laughing?" I asked.

I simply ignored him. I picked up my towel and headed quickly to the bathroom.

"Hey! It's a prank" I stopped in my tracks hearing.

"What is a prank?" I asked not even minding my question.

"It's not yet 11:30. I just played a prank on you. Old lady Papirus isn't even awake yet" he chuckled again. I closed my eyes trying to cool down my boiling blood. Why would Ovie prank me like that? It's so annoying.

"You should have looked at the wall clock before falling into some cheap prank" he says while arranging the 🛏️ bed.

Actually, Ovie had a point there. I should have looked at the wall clock before believing his hideous prank. I swear I was going to rip off his throat on him. Maybe I could teach him a lesson not to play nonsense games with me.

I dropped the towel I was holding and before Ovie could even say a word, I jumped on him. Using the pillow in hitting him with all I actually had. He took the other pillow and used it in defending him. It was a lot of fun teaching Ovie a lesson.

We played like that till we were tired. I checked the time,it was just 8:35. Pew!!! If not, lady Papirus would really skin me alive.

I jumped out of the bed allowing Ovie to rest after all that teaching him a lesson. I hurried off into the shower and came out clean. Ovie was shirtless and on boxers.

Wow! Good packs

I stepped out of the room and went into old lady Papirus's room. I knocked on the door and her voice told me to come in. She wasn't sleeping, infact, she was fully awake.

"Good morning, lady Papirus" I greeted taking my feet down.

"Good morning, my dear. How was your night?" She turned around to look at me from the clothes she was wearing.

"Fine ma"

"You guys didn't let me sleep properly with all the moaning and kissing and whatever" she said in a most disgusting way.

"I'm sorry ma for our stupid act" I said with my head bowed.

"It's okay, I give you permission to do every night" she said, advancing towards me.

We burst out laughing at her remark. We left her room and immediately headed to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

"What would we be eating as breakfast, lady Papirus?" I asked when we got to the kitchen.

"Anything of your choice" was her answer." Anyways, I will be visiting the old ruins of Umuguor community today. Want to come along"

"I would love to visit Umuguor community even though I have not been there" I said with a smile.

"Okay,we better get ready because we have a long way to go" she passed me a bowl of 🌽 corn."let's make corn beef along with rice and some green beans"

"Hmm, that would be delicious"

"Maybe along our journey, I could answer some of those terrible questions you keep asking me" I smiled and muttered

"Thanks".

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We all had breakfast and lady Papirus disclosed her intention of going to the old ruins of Umuguor community. Ovie had opted to go but old lady Papirus refused, giving a Stern look.

"If you are going then why are you taking Naagin if you can't take me" Ovie complained.

"It's none of your business cry baby" I mocked him non-stop.

I knew Ovie was the stubborn type so he would want to go with us. But I didn't know old lady Papirus had a backup plan.

We left the hut as I and lady Papirus descended the hill. Umuguor community was northwest side of the woods. Getting to Umuguor community would be let me say a great journey. The whole region of Umuguor community including it's forest occupys a large expanse of land.

"You asked about who Hijirar is and why the snake god gave us his jewel" lady Papirus started a conversation not long when we descended the hill.

"Yeah"

"To tell you the truth Naagin, many people infact majority of the country of Casablanca do not know the name of the god they serve" she says as she sighed.

"Even I do not know the name of the snake god, my Grandmother didn't tell me his name" I voiced out.

"The name of the snake god is.... Is known as.... HIJIRAR" she said as her words came like a shock to me.

"HIJIRAR is the name of the snake god?"I asked

"Yes, but most people don't know his name"

I bent my head down as a lot of thought ran through my mind . If Hijirar is the snake god and he chose me to the chosen one to save the people of Umuguor community,then which only means the snake god is that dark shadow that spoke to old lady Papirus.

"So who the hell is Mr Huck?" The question slipped out of my mouth.

"Like I said,a lone sorcerer with unimaginable powers that took over power in Agbejor community. He killed the priest of Agbejor community making the whole people of Agbejor community obey his commands. Though he is a citizen of Agbejor community" she explained as we kept going." How far have you gone in your powers?" She asked.

"According to the black Cobra snake, I only have the power of transformation" I told her.

"Black Cobra snake?" She asked turning to look at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, black Cobra snake" I answered.

A smile crept crazily into her lips even turning into a chuckle.

"What more did it say to you?" She asked.

"Just some random things about me being the chosen one. It was even the one that helped me to transform" I replied back.

She chuckled loudly.

"As the chosen one, do I have the power to activate the powers of HIJIRAR'S Jewel?" I asked.

"Yes, but not now. We will get to that point" she said.

As we passed through trees and bushes,it felt like I could hear some voices speaking. The unknown voices spoke loudly making me to turn around.

"Don't listen to those voices. They are just spirits that can not take the form of mortals" lady Papirus said and dragged me along.

As time went on, the voices came to an abrupt stop. Thank goodness! We were getting close to Umuguor community. I could feel it. I can't wait to get to Umuguor community and see a lot of wonders.

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We got to a river at late noon. At the other side of the river was the magnificent Umuguor community. Most of it's buildings and awesome structures were in ruins. Looking over the river it seems we had to cross it. Easy peasy!

Since I was a snake that makes me able to swim.

"Think you can swim" old lady Papirus's voice jolted me out my thoughts.

"Yeah" I muttered not knowing what she had in mind.

To my shock, old lady Papirus bent down and transformed into a large Cobra. Her skin color was that of red with black dots. She wasn't that huge as I was. I transformed into my snake form and luckily I could talk to her even though in my snake form.

"Surprised that I can also transform" she said.

"Yes" I answered while hissing loudly.

Lady Papirus thrust her head forward at me.

"As a priestess of Hijirar, you must know that I was blessed with powers" she said and immediately crawled into the water. I followed suit, crawling into the water.

I swam side by side with lady Papirus in her snake form. She wasn't that bad at swimming and as we crossed through the river, she told me a lot of things about her especially about her life.

Though I can't wait to feel the air and breath in it. I couldn't wait to breath in the air of my motherland. I couldn't wait to step my feet in where I was born. Well I couldn't wait any longer.

We crossed the river and transformed back to our human form. I took In the air around. Breathing into the air of Umuguor community.

I can't wait to go into Umuguor community and see what it is like.