70 Jade Eagles Power (2/2)

”I am brother, thank you.” Ochieng' nodded as he was helped up by Ratong'.

”This is not good brother. The more you let them live the more people will die. Unless you want others to be like them, you must destroy them.” Ratong' advised.

”I cannot help it brother. I also want to destroy them but it seems I am unable to. I really don't know what to do.” Ochieng' cried.

It may seem long but it had only taken about ten seconds for Ratong' to save Ochieng' and have a little talk with him. Ratong' wanted to continue persuading this brother of his when he heard Ontoko's anxious voice,

”They are increasing in number. We are soon going to be helpless before them. Ochieng', I know you have some feelings for them but right now they are no longer human beings but puppets made to destroy humans. The longer you take the more they kill. As an Ordainer you cannot afford to be distracted in your course.”

What Ontoko said seemed to have enlightened Ochieng'. The latter stood up once more and viciously killed the puppets. With every swing of his glowing sword those creatures fell. Ratong' also took Ochieng's usual sword and was angrily destroying these creatures. It took only fifteen minutes to destroy them. Being strong, they did not feel exhausted at all after finishing. In fact, they were beaming with energy.

”This is just a handful, there are several of them out there. What do we do?” Ontoko asked.

Out of nowhere, something appeared in the space above them. It was something that looked like a large sheet of paper and had an appearance like that of water. The three were trying to comprehend what that sheet could be when a familiar fellow appeared on that sheet.

”It's her” Ratong' called out.

”I told you to leave my clan but you ended up destroying my toys. It was out of kindness that I gave you that chance but since my gesture is not appreciated, there is no need of holding back!”

The furious voice of the old woman who had just appeared resounded. Immediately she finished speaking, she was seen grabbing a young man clad in jade colored skin by the neck. In a jiffy, she took a dagger and sent it through the young man's forehead. When making his last kicks, the man turned into a jade feathered bird. The bird flew up in the sky tearing the air at a lightning speed leaving behind it's feathers that beautified wherever it left.

The bird disappeared in the sky before appearing as an extremely large bird. The dagger that was formerly in its head was now tightly held on its sharp claws. The old woman stared at it with mouth agape, fear apparent in her eyes. It hollowed loudly making the sheet shake intensity before it was tone into several pieces and dissipating altogether.

Ochieng' and the other two were left looking at each other thunderstruck. The women who had struggled to fit Ontoko's 'manyatta' had walked out and were staring above astonishingly.

Boom!

The sound of an explosion reverberated. Ochieng' and the others turned their heads to the direction of the explosion. It was over six hundred meters away but they could see clouds of dust rising combined with blood mist clearly.

”Look! These monsters are changing!”

One woman's voice echoed. Everyone turned their heads to the corpses and just like the woman had said, they were changing. The so called vacuous bravos were changing to their original human forms. Within a second, all of them were normal human beings but dead ones.

A large bird then appeared above them roaring, ”Brother Ochieng' and Ratong, let us go.”

It was Jade Eagle. It was the jadefeathered eagle Ochieng' and Ratong' knew. It had no mark on it and it was like it had never been hurt at all. The two were still hesitating when the bird descended urging them to climb its back. It flew away with the confused two as soon as they were on its back.

”A bird can talk”

Those who were left behind were still shocked at what they had seen. It took a long time for them to recover. Ontoko shook his head helplessly looking at the direction the bird flew to. He then gave a satisfactory smile before walking into his 'manyatta' as the others dispersed not forgetting about what they saw today.

Not far away from here, a group of Sobu people were packed together under a large tree in the Sobu sub tribe's shrine. From their quick breaths, its was clear they had run for a long distance to get there and were too exhausted to move. It was over three hundred of them and they were trembling in fear. A few meters from where they were, a pack of those lifeless humans was moving at a slower pace.

When the lifeless humans were just thirty meters away from them, they dropped en bloc and changed into normal human corpses.

”What is happening?” The three hundred and so people were tongue tied.