Power of liquor

A few gang members, at the hearing of the screaming, instantly arouse from their deep sleep to fight back, but they were soon slaughtered by the overwhelming mobs that soon descended into their midst.
As for the zombies, they were awaiting the command from any of their two masters, and when not forthcoming, they all stood and glared with unblinking eyes like dead bodies, and then smirked as they were all put to death.
The men plundered their camp and set fire to it, then they sing the song of victories and marched out of the warring zone.
When they left, the eerie dancing flame was carried off by winds to the nearby dried grasses and the whole environment caught up in a great inferno with smells of burnt flesh.
As usual, only three people escaped the great onslaught.
The man who was always waked up by his countless nightmares and the twins with their unfathomable power and magic.
Augur ran as fast as his legs could carry him as he was pursued by the raging fire on his back.
He dived left, paused, and raced back, no way there. When another option popped up, Augur left with no choice raced towards the cliff far off, and the raging fire followed.
The more he ran, the more the scorching fire at his back pursued, the heat soon melt his clothing at back, and he can smell the burning of the flesh on his neck.
Luckily, the steps toward the cliff were downward, so Augur dived, plummeted forward, and landed with a crash, sprang up again, then dived into the river below and fainted when he landed inside.
But the twins appeared inside the shrine in Olumo town, they were seen marching off into their room to rest. And the gossip of their mysterious appearance awoke before them.
So the whole inhabitants waited patiently to prove those who claimed to see them, to be wrong. But the critics instantly kept their mouths shut when Kira and Akira emerged the following morning and ordered the gathering of all the able men within the two towns to choose the warrior to accompany them in pursuit of the scepter.
"We need a leader among you all." Akira cried out.
"Someone stronger with leadership attributes," Kira added.
Almost half of the men instantly raised their hands to volunteer for the post.
"I will be leading your gang." A feminine voice shrieked from the back, and the men instantly make way for the speaker, and when she emerged, the silence that engulfed the whole environment, soon gave way to an uproar.
"Men are asked for." One man cried out with a mocking voice.
"And not the weaker sex." Another man replied.
"Let the stronger sex come out and face me in combat."
The lady answered back, draw her sword from its scabbard, and whirled it around her head.
"Who are you?" Akira asked with a stunning look.
"Dija." The lady replied. "I was an assassin before the knockdown."
When the grumbling men heard Dija's last statement, most among them hushed their crying but some obstinate ones still cried out to the young lady with a burning glare to disappear off their front.
"I was the president before the knockdown." One young rogue with a long spear roared back and walked out to meet Dija.
He looked at his opponent and shouted at the top of his voice.
"Now fight and stop babbling." Then lunged his long spear at her.
Dija somersaulted backward twice, landed on her feet, dropped her sword, and raced up to meet the rogue with a spear.
"You will be murdered instantly for -" the words from the mouth of one of the men in that gathering froze in his mouth when Dija lunged at the man who poised with his spear.
A few feet away, she shoot her right hand forward and push off the hedge of the coming weapon with her fingertips, then rolled as he swirls passed her.
The whole crowd instantly erupted into an uproar when the rogue with the spear suddenly paused his movement and slumped, then his head rolled off his shoulder.
Dija displayed an iron string in her hand and promptly tied it around her wrist.
"Next." She cried out.
The speed she had removed the rogue's head with just an iron thread surprised the whole men and they instantly cowered out with fear.
"Since no man is strong enough to face her, I hereby appointed you as our gang leader, and you are answerable only to me and my twin sisters," Akira announced.
And her announcement was accepted with a cry out from the whole men.
"Arrange hundred strong men to accompany us in pursuit of the scepter," Akira ordered.
"We marched out in an hour," Kira added.
An hour later, the scepter gang marched out of their fenced wall in search of the scepter that was needed by the twins for their ritual of perfection.
At that moment, another column of humans and aliens was seen searching inside a grassland for an object.
"Am sure I threw it down here," Maria announced to the humans and aliens walking beside her.
"We have already searched here," Bobby growl back.
"Stop that," Brenda screamed at him. "She just save our life."
"And lost the scepter," Bobby replied.
"Over here." Apollon777 who walked in front shouted at them, and the whole column instantly raced forward.
Footprints of men were seen on the wetted grassland.
"Some people now have the scepter," Apollon777 said after showing the people who just arrived his proof.
Brenda instantly signaled the men in uniform at her back to gallop closer and she announced when they are within earshot.
"We need to go in search of the scepter that was taken by some people whose footprints we can see here."
"Let's move." The leader of the men ordered, and lead his team forward immediately.
"One more problem," Zuri announced.
"What is that?" Brenda asked as she veered around at him.
"Our ship is attached with a tracking device and my clan will soon track it down here," Zuri explained.
"What's the solution to that?" Bobby asked.
"I have no idea," Zuri replied.
"I have an idea," Apollon777 said, looked at Maria beside him, and resumed his speech.
"She can help to ditch the spaceship somewhere far from us."
"Who... Me?" Maria asked with an unblinking gaze. She looked at Apollon777 beside her, blink her eyes, and announced.
"Except my master agreed to go with me."
All eyes immediately set on Apollon777 as he fidgeted with his closed palms for a while.
"Okay... Okay, it's a deal."
"Thank you," Brenda replied.
"How will you find us?" Zuri asked immediately Apollon777 hopped into the spaceship and ignited the engine.
"I have my means of tracking Hoorays, and-" the noise of the engine soon muffled the remaining of Apollon777's speech.
As soon as the spaceship went out of sight, Brenda veered her horses around and galloped after the men in uniform who by now were out of sight, and she was quickly followed by Bobby who cursed louder at his whinny horse.
It was a group of hungry men and women who saw the scepter laying on the grass and they picked it up and resumed their hunting.
Several hours later, they had caught some rodents and birds and decided to return to their home to prepare their sumptuous meal.
What else can a man ask for?
The gods have blessed them with their daily Grube, and there are still lots of liquors remaining from their earlier plunders of shops.
The group soon emerged in their abandoned village and sat around the fire to roast their prey while their leader, a big man with cross eyes gaped at the scepter in his hand.
"This makes me look like a royal king." The man holding the scepter announced and his followers jointly agreed.
"What are we going to do with it?" One among the men sitting around the fire and roasting a big rodent asked.
"It's adorned with gold and pearls and will be worth some bags of rice." One among the three females in the group proposed.
"We will save it for the raining day." Their leader replied back and quickly hide the scepter inside his flowing gown, then cried out for a drink.
A bottle was instantly flung to him and he grabbed it, uncorked, and drank it all in a gulp, then coughed loudly.
"You need to reduce your intake of alcohol because of your health." A woman who may be his wife because of her concerned outlook advised.
"I can take care of myself, and I will stop when the stock is finished." The man replied and an uproar of laughter instantly erupted among the group.
"You are wise with your decision as wines and alcohol will soon be costlier than food." One among the men let out.
"What about drugs?" The first woman to speak asked.
"What about drugs?" The man with the scepter mimicked back.
"My child is sick with fever and is dying." The woman replied. She veered to her right side and touched a sickly child that remain invisible either because of her thinness or the mass amount of clothes used to wrap her.
"I have advised you to look for bitter leaf and moringa leave, boil it and give to her, and she will be cured shortly." The man replied.
"I have cooked all your prescription but none is working." The woman cried back.
"I need more liquor." One man groaned out. "Before all gods, my throat is dried." He added after.
"Shh... You are drunk." The lady shouted back.
"No am not," the man replied.
"You will all die if you keep drinking liquor like this." The silent lady with a shower cap said.
"Are you God to make such proclamation?" The gang leader answered back, gulped down another liquor, and soon coughed out.
"The meal is done." One among the men roasting the rodent announced.
"I am your leader." The man with the scepter shouted out and dashed towards one of the roasted rodents.
"And so you must have the lion's share." The woman concluded.
The man lunged forward, staggered, and fell close to the fire, then remain stilled in sudden sleep.
"You are a man, and can take care of yourself." The woman scorned and another uproar of laughter arose among the drunk humans.
The whole column was drunk and in deep sleep when some men galloped closer, ransacked their places, and removed the scepter from the flowing robes of their leader.
Their leader snore out loudly when Brenda picked the sick girl up and injected a drug into her to treat her fever.
And none of them woke when their visitors galloped away after several minutes of undisclosed visiting.
That is the power of liquor, it knocked you out and make you ask yourself how you spend your drunken moment.
Maria and Apollon777 galloped close to each other as they traced their route back to Brenda and the rest of the crew.
"Have you ever learned piloting before?" Apollon cried out to the lady before her.
"You don't use to forget things quickly, am surprised you don't remember teaching me how to," Maria replied back
Apollon777 paused for a minute, then looked grimly as the effects of her words sank into him. This poor lady galloping close to her still believes she is Ruana, his dead lover.
"I remembered." Apollon777 played along.
What's the point in arguing with her when she possessed all the memory of who she claimed to be.
"Thank you for saving my life." He added after.
"You are my mate, and I have no life without you!" The lady exclaimed. "There is no point in thanking me for saving our lives." She concluded her exclamation.
Apollon777 felt dumbfounded at her exclamation. How to go ahead with convincing Maria that she wasn't who she claimed to be, seem an enormous task beyond his scope.
"When are we going back to our planet?" Maria asked after some moment of silence galloping.
"You are human and earth is your only home." Apollon777 moaned inside but said instead. "We will when we will.
"I'm tired and need to rest, besides it's been a long time since you kissed and touched me."
Maria cried out at the sight of a deserted bungalow along the way.
"Let's go inside for a nap."
Apollon777 stunned at her crying out, instantly alighted off his horse and hold its ropes, then dragged it along, after the strange lady who sauntered majestically, as if she owns the whole world.
"I can't kiss you and degraded my memory of Ruana."
Apollon777 murmured out, but deep inside, he knew only a miracle can save him from the ravaging look of Maria since she woke up as Ruana.