#2 Chapter 5 (the cooking giants)

Not too long after the giant dwarf left the kids to themselves, Shade had broken an imaginary rule which although was not echoed, but should have been taken into consideration as a first timer. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Shade left the room to the external domains of the now felt gigantic and enormous building that her own neck could feel itself sliding over its bones. Heniola and Segun could say nothing to the arrogant and over confident girl and just left her be. “Why is that gurl acting too stupid?” Segun asked Heniola “Why…don’t you go ask her, boy” Heniola replied. “huh” Segun muttered. “You just feel bad that you can’t boss her, right?” “I’m trying to fill in for her sister, Grace” “Come on, you are a guy…it’s not going to be possible.” Heniola teased. “And by the way, where did she dissappear to?” “I don’t think i have that answer. Besides, she’s a big gurl and can take care of herself.” “Really? I have a bad feeling about this her ‘taking a break’ stuff”. “Why do you even bother about such feelings, the girl’s got Kingsley, Grey Pigeon and Clumsy Cobra for heaven’s sake girl”. He said. “We should even be more worried about our Travelling team leader, Dik-El.” he added. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ These three and the rest of the world are not aware of the war between Grace, Grey, Cobra and the Efik tribe, and Dark Knight Ajagun and crew. (TJB ch.198-210). Their group leader, Dik-El had mysteriously dissappeared leaving no trace at all (TJB ch.100), although the second in command had been doing well to keep the team together, Dark Flamingo, Sa.** ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Shade on the other hand walks along the wide hallway and a mighty door caught her attention plus something else. Only something that could stimulate her Medulla oblongata could ever draw her undivided attention. She approached the door and it was locked. She tried knocking, but her knock was rather insignificant to hear or notice. Taking a brief look/overview of the hallway down to its beautiful picture frames spacelly arranged on the walls of hallway down and up to the gold paint the wall seemed to extract its plushiness and radiate it beauty. And suddenly, there was a thunderous and loud noise which caught the attention of every living being on Giant Land. “She has done it” Segun smiled in frustration. “I am taking a liking in this girl. She’s a terrorist” Heniola added. Rushing to the direction of the sound, they meet Shade standing over the slammed down door which lay helplessly on the ground. “Now, this is a dream come true” Right across the door was the Giants’ kitchen and there were giant cooks staring at the liliputs that took down their down. It was like an ant taking down my room door. How possible? ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Ofcourse, the aroma of the food drew Shade’s attention and made her act this way. No obstacle stands between Shade and a good bowl of food. The cooking giants were not even surprised and carried on with their cooking. “You must be hungry Miss. Ant?” one of the giants asked, noticing the glare on her face. “uhuh” she replied The others were dead scared and couldn’t mutter a word. “Care for a bowl or a pot?” he inquired. “A pot, please…” Shade was served and so were Heniola and Segun. “good for us, the whole travelling team aint here to shorten my ration of the food.” Segun said in delight. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ The cooking giants soon met their match and they started a competition they could not finish. They cooked and cooked and cooked and served drinks upon drinks to Segun and Shade who excercised the mouth muscles claiming that their efforts were just appetizers. Heniola was not very much surprised at Shade’s height of gluttony as she had been with the Ademola girls since 3rd grade. But, Segun’s own was different. Scared when it comes to a fight and gallant in terms of food. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Gradually and one at a time, the giants started fainting from cooking stress until they gave up and let them have the bet award. That’s between them. Finally, the giant boss summoned them and they had to leave the kitchen. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

#2 Chapter 4 (Grace's love letter)

Somewhere in the thick of the Ajala evil forest, Kotonu, Grace is seen composing a letter to her beloved Roméo, Kingsley. She had not much time as she was dieing from the wounds she got from the war(TJB ch.203). Her time in this world was limited and she been all alone in the evil forest, having no one to talk to but the grey pigeon with a broken wing. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ There was no way out for her as her death came creeping whilst taking its time. When she was done, she wrapped it and gave it to the pigeon and mustered up the remains of her healing abilities to heal Grey Pigeon whispering to it in words only both of them could understand. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ With this, she spirited herself away into the shadows and Grey Pigeon was healed. Grey Pigeon flew towards the Northern proctectorate where Kingsley now resided. On getting to the Northern proctectorate, it saw what its eyes would never have imagined. Kingsley leading Grace’s enemy’s troops, Dark Knight Ajagun. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Knowing how much Grace fought so hard for his sake, Kingsley did an ungrateful deed. What made the second Journey Book Possessor join with the evil aliance, Grey Pigeon had no idea. Unfortunately, Grey Pigeon was shot down by Hot shot Oyani, while trying to run away. Oyani was the best shooter the world could ever find, he could shoot and aim accurately using any projectile weapon or any projectable weapon/object. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Oyani was a one time Journey Book holder and a legendary Gandonian knight. It seemed Dark knight Ajagun had lots of good, popular, famous, strong and intelligent personalities in his team. Hot shot Oyani delivered Grey Pigeon who suddenly went back to his normal shape, a human, to Dark knight’s fourth in command, General Odia, the Diving musician, plays all instruments of music with his mind and controls the very minds of those who hear him play. Aside this technique, he had other tremendous gifts, that which promoted him to 4th in command to General Martin the Lousy Saint. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ They had him searched and found Grace’s letter to Kingsley. Kingsley was immediately summoned and he was made to read the letter aloud to their hearing since they could barely read her handwriting. Kingsley was shaking with fear, but he had to prove his loyalty to the man who killed his parents and fiance. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ He read, “To my dear beautiful king. I wish our love remain stronger than ever even in death. The lord over my heart, i pray thee a swift and enduring life… The amazing glint of light that explodes within my heart chambers, please live for me. I wish to live yet this minute for you, but, in the form i shall now take, I’ll protect you till the end of time. My promise of love to you my sole possessor. Grace” ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ “Aw!” they all muttered in disbelief. “Can you imagine that? A girl writing a love letter to a guy” they mocked ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ “That’s none of your business Odia, its called love” Grey Pigeon said. “You lousy bird being! How dare you?” Oyani’s temper flared up sending a slap and another to Grey’s face. “You call that love?” Odia asked. “That is just insane.” Grey tried arguing with Odia but he was imprisoned along side Kingsley. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Kingsley waited in prison without shedding no tears. It was as though he didn’t care anymore about Grace or about this life. With this hope of proving himself a subject to Dark knight Ajagun, he closed his eyes and faded into the darkness of the cell. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

#2 Chapter 3 (the Dwarf in Giant land)

The three are in a rather unexpected scenerio and felt rather comfy than captured. Heniola who woke up first soon realized that the three of them were on a lovely soft delicate comfy mattrass known as bed only with a few exception. “Where are we?” asked Heniola as she surveyed the large room with her eyes. She immediately wakes the others and they too joined in the survey. They even left their beds to survey the entire room which had enough space and height. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Just then, they heard steps approaching the room and the thudding sound that accompanied the steps were gigantic. They were yet again scared and the huge door leading to the room opened. Their eyes were closed as they were expecting death in no time. Even Segun began shedding tears and soiling his pants at the same time. Shade who was standing facing the opposite direction of the door only eyed the door sideways although from her position, it would be impossible to see behind her. And Heniola, her eyes were close and her protective stance was shivering at her limb region and she was damn unstable. “Room service!” called a small and light male voice from the door. “Eh!” Heniola muttered while Segun in disbelief, doubting what his ears heard, replayed the words in giant roar in his head. But he had never heard one roar before. Shade only dimmed her eyebrows and tried hard not to be surprised. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ They all looked at the door as high as the could and behold, there was no one up. “huh?” they muttered. By this time, the three where now standing together in disbelief. “was it a ghost?” they thought. They looked around to find the voice which came from the door in its opposite directions. “look down, brats” the voice said from the door’s direction. Again the three looked up and then down a bit with immaginations of a kid dwarf running in their heads. But no one was there. “lower brats”. They were now looking at the midpoint of the door’s height and even lower to their own height. There was no one there. This was incredibly unbelievable. “Look down!” the voice yelled in annoyance and a hard push struck Heniola’s knee that she was forced to look down. And behold! The three seeing this sight were shocked… It was a 1/2foot 5inch man with a skinny body and well dressed. He had a cap which had a long top, that completed the 5inch. Their eyes could not comfirm what they were seeing. And their surprise rendered them speechless, except Shade who smiled. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ “The Dwarf in the Giant world. I like this.” “What?!” the two yelled at Shade who just her own share of Giant world’s assessement. “What would you like me to do for you?” asked the dwarf. “Nothing” Heniola and Segun replied immediately. “Actually, we’d like to meet with the lords of the Giants” Shade responded. “What?!” Segun retorted. “We shouldn’t have brought the over confident chick” “No…” the dwarf muttered. “Please tell her, dear dwarf” Heniola said “…problem” the dwarf continued. “what?!” Heniola retorted “Yes problem, dwarf” “he’ll see you brats in 5minutes” he said and left the room. “seeing the demon giant himself. So doomed” Heniola said and fainted. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

#2 Chapter 1&2 (the lands of the giants) & (the summit of drunks)

There in the land far away, Heniola was dragged into a commisural fantasia, a land she had never dreamt of entering. This land was indeed a land of plenty and a land of beauty. It had everything Heniola would dare to imagine, but, it was all BIG. She was as tiny as an ant before the crawling insects that crawled past her that instant. Her eyes and feelings of euphoria turned into a scared and frightened one. She had no clue as to where she was. She then picked up her journey book and checked out the details of the land she was in… Behold, “the land so green, the land within, the land only seen, in dreams so keen. Land bigger than lands, creature taken in hands, are bigger than lands. THE LAND OF GIANTS!”. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ She had suddenly reached the lands of the giants rumored in her place, Ife, as the land of monsterous beings with the hearts of wild beasts. Her fright increases, her sweating like pool of water rushing steadily down a cushy drain, her eyes dimmed and her heart gave in. She was alas unconscious. Just then, Segun and Shade, her co-adventurers popped in from the travelling machine and meet Heniola unconscious. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ They try to revive her, but suddenly, the sky above them casted a dark huge shade above them as the sound of the wind was lost within the nick of time. They looked up to see the source of the darkness, only to find a gigantic 18ft.20inch bearded being above them. “A GIANT?!” Shade and Segun yelled and screamed and shouted… as the giant bends to pick them up. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤Chapter 2 THE SUMMIT OF DRUNKS. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Back at Heniola’s hometown, a meeting is been organised by the Elders and Balés of Ife. The reason for this emergency meeting was still unknown to the citizens who wondered as the convoys of each Balés passed by. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ At the meeting which took 20hours to finally come to a conclusion, they came out with a verdict. Some sort of plan geared towards the restoration of the Green Wind which the Foxy demon, Sinflare, stole from the village’s guardian god, Orunmilla. This was a serious matter as the Green Wind was responsible for their rich sowing and bountiful harvest. It was the village’s life source. Unknown to the Elders and Balés and the villagers, a summit was summoned and it involved the meeting of all 10 sage lords, headed by Sage Soyinka W. amongst others. They had on the polygonal table a crystal ball which had connecting lines and rays towards the sages. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ They bore several insignias; mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Blood Literature, and so on. They were talking about the recent dissappearance of their adventurers, Heniola, Segun and Shade. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ They had to plunge on a rescue mission, but the majority stood against Sage Soyinka’s suggestion. They had neglected the adventurers who delivered them from the great purge and a second time helped them with the Sinflare case for 12months. They were left to fend for themselves and this made Sage Adenuga mad and left the meeting “…this is a damn meeting of ungrateful beasts. I take no part in this Summit of Drunks! I’m out”. He retorted. How will the three fend for themselves plus they need all their powers focused on Sinflare and the Green Wind… ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ What next?