Part 9 (6)
Two moons had already passed by and only one was remaining for Babida the lumberjack and his crush the young maiden Suzie to be united for life.
The morning started joyfully. The birds over the sky of Okunde sang the most mesmerizing melodies ever sung, for the most beautiful young miss of the Batang empire was going soon to tie the knot with the second mightiest man in the land, the killer of the Monster of the forbidden mountain, Babida.
Though the latter was thinking about the big moment, he managed the best he could to fulfill his stateman's duties.
Governor Babida had risen from his bed before dawn and rushed to his office to deal with some hot paperwork.
In the complete silence of his bureau, he was trying to find a solution against a looming danger upon the empire. His predecessor, the late Governor Kola Il, had started to study the case and made it a top defense topic.
The idea was certainly great, there was an issue though. A piece of the document was missing and Governor Babida couldn't find it anywhere, nor could he ask anyone about it.
For the serenity of the population and the troop, no one had to even suspect that such a thing existed.
However, since he had looked at the village from every part and wasn't detecting any apparent threat, the lumberjack supposed and hoped that his deceased predecessor, His Highness Kola Il, had somehow solved the problem.
So he decided, at least for the time of his wedding with the young maiden Suzie, to cease bothering about a danger he didn't know and couldn't see.
There were at the moment more important things to focus on, that was to say, his forever alliance with the beautiful Suzie.
And hopefully, in the upcoming night, the third moon was going to appear so he would marry the next day in the afternoon by the riverside.
Therefore, just before sunset, the lumberjack stopped his long day of work and went to his room.
Tired, he took nap until...
"Your Highness! Your Highness! You may come quick." A panicking voice invited him to hastily wake up.
Governor Babida blenched and got off his bed.
"What's going on?" He asked with a scolding voice to the imperial sentinel who came to disturb his rest.
"Your Highness...we are attacked. You may come fast." The imperial guard insisted with more intensity.
Then...
Nooooooooooooo
Someone suddenly screamed outside of the administrative headquarters. Babida rushed to his room's window and noticed a vast moment of the troop and civilians running frantically in all directions.
The woodsman measured right away the gravity of the situation. So he grabbed his axe and commanded the imperial sentinel to come with him outside.
And as they moved out, they withnessed the other imperial sentinels of the administrative headquarters in total panic.
However, the moment was not appropriate to ask them questions about what was going on. The situation was dramatic and it was essential to react fast.
And moreover the logger preferred to go himself assess the situation outside, and hence make sure that he would come up with the most suitable counteraction.
He continued his way and went down the stairs, then speedily crossed the hall and stepped outside, followed by the imperial sentinel who came to inform him about the chaos.
As he set his foot on the yard, he saw people that were propelled in the air before landing dead on the ground.
There was a powerful tornado that behaved as if it has a spirit in it, surely a bad one, and was running consciously and indiscriminately behind civilians and imperial soldiers, killing the weakest, the unluckiest, and the unwisely defiant.
"Oh my goodness! What is this again, declared Babida the lumberjack as Okunde village was turning into shambles.
TO BE CONTINUED...
