ANJIÁLA – Episode 4

ANJIÁLA – Episode 4

© Bunmi B Gabriel

I sighed and turned, voices were echoing in my head and screams. I peeled my eyes opened a little and looked around. The pain was hard to resist. I stayed there for three hours before mom walked in

I closed my eyes back

‘Hey baby, it’s me, mom again’ she said tearily. She can overreact. ‘Hope you’re feeling better now? My day was great today, it was really really great. Remember the great man I met last month, the nice and cool one that I like? He asked me out on a date I don’t know, I like him but aren’t I too old for this love thing again? I mean, what if I mess up? What if I f**k up? What if I….what if he leaves me too? I’m so confuse baby and I need your help. I also feel like I’m abandoning you. I’m going around liking and being all lovey dovey with a man and my only jewel is laying helplessly on a hospital bed. I feel bad and…’

‘Mom’ I whispered. She gasped and I felt her hold her hand. I opened my eyes and she squealed as silently

‘My baby, you’re okay. I’ll get the doctor’ she ran out. I pushed myself up feeling a strong urge to walk. I removed the drips and walked around, I felt heavy. ‘Baby? You can walk now?’ I smiled at her. The doctor did the checkup and announced that I was fine, super fine and healthy. ‘You don’t know how much I’ve missed you’ she cried hugging me tight

‘How long have I been out? Two days or what?’

‘Two days!’ She snorted. ‘Did you just say two days? You’ve been out for two whole years!’ I blinked

‘Huh?’

‘You were found at the bottom of some place called the falling mountain with two other girls who were also badly hurt. It’s a miracle you all survived the incident. According to what I heard, the girls woke up last week and I was hoping you will too. Thank God you did’

Then it all came running back, the weird adventure but maybe that was a dream

‘Sorry mom, for making you cry but you were talking about a guy?’ I asked wiggling my brows. Her cheeks turned red. ‘Awwwn, she’s shy’

‘Shut up’

I laughed and looked away, deciding not to tease her yet

FOUR DAYS LATER

I sat down in the living room tapping the air with my foot. I clicked my tongue as I searched through Facebook for the gurls. I kept hearing the weird voices and it wasn’t funny so I had to check if the gurls were really in existence so I’ll know I’m not running mad.

I looked at myself in the TV screen which had my reflection. I was beautiful, more beautiful than I ever was. I wasn’t ugly before but compared to my mother, I was a no go area. Maybe because I was fourteen then or maybe it was really just me. The point was, I was gorgeous and sexy, too mature for my age but okay

I thought hard and tapped my index finger on my cheek

‘Arie is a psycho if I’m correct, she will never put her real name. Abbie is normal so….’ I searched for Abbiana Axel and found few names before I found her. I smiled and sent her a friend request. I went through her profile and found Arie tagged as her sister

Guess what her name is

Candy Princess Lollipop

She’s foolish

I sent her a friend request too and not less than three minutes, she accepted it and messaged me

Her : OMG! I knew it! I wasn’t crazy!

Me : Hi Arie, right? My memory isn’t straight

Her : like it’s a dream?

Me : yeah. How’s Abbie?

Her : she’s fine. She’s here right now. Give me your number so we can video chat.

Me : sure.

Her : can I ask why there’s a signature apple in your chat?

Me : I love apples

I sent her my number and logged out. Few minutes later, I received a group chat invitation. Friend group, sparkle princesses. I rolled my eyes and accepted it

Arie: Wow! It’s so shiny in here!

Abbie: shut up French fries

Arie: you take that back!

Me: hey gurls, did you just create this?’

Arie: only three minutes ago. What’s up?

Me: it’s so nice to know that it’s not a dream. So you guys remember the dream, right?

Abbie: it’s not a dream. I’m sure. Since I woke up almost two weeks ago, weird things have been happening to me

Arie: same thing here. I keep hearing voices, screams, seeing images, and battles. Blood, death, dead bodies…. It’s horrible

Me: same here. What do you think it means? If I’ve spent my entire life wasting on movies, I know that we are being summon to help someone

Arie: but who?

Abbie: we need to find out. Maybe we are being possessed by evil spirit

Me: I don’t think so

Arie: how do we meet? I’m in Canada

Abbie: same

Me: what were you both doing here then? All the way to San Francisco?

Abbie: I really don’t know

Arie: I’m still wondering. I’ll tell my mother the girl that saved me from being too hurt and bringing me back to Abbie is okay. I’ll be there in few days, send me the address

Me: got it

A WEEK LATER

I squealed and hugged the girls, very very tight. They were so much better than we last met. Mom being her mommy self made a lot of food and made us shove it down our throat. We later went to our room and sat down to talk

‘So? What do we do now?’ Arie asked popping a gum in her mouth. I sighed and licked my lips.

‘Mom is out on a date now, I’ll lock the doors’ I stood up and ran around the house and locked everything including the windows. Then we sat in a circle and crossed our legs after lighting color and blossom candles

‘What are we even doing?’ Abbie asked confusedly. I made us hold hands and closed our eyes

‘Shut every sound out, every noise and just think of the dream, the dream that hunts us. Do not fret, do not cower, listen and let it all play’ I whispered. ‘I’m not sure but we can try’

We kept shut, the dream came back like it did every time I closed my eyes.

The image of a happy little boy jumping and running around, him training, him running and next a heated argument between men and then wars. Lot of wars, killing, blood, cries, tears. My heart was beating fast at the falling of heads and ripping of pretend women’s stomach. Then I saw three ladies, all in white fly through the bloody land and everyone turned to stone

The dream stopped and we disengaged our hands sweating badly

‘I’m impressed’ someone said. We screamed and turned around to see three ladies

‘You! From the trance?’

‘Yes. We need to explain what is going on’ we moved back. ‘I’m sorry about what we have to put you all through, what you will have to endure’ the first one with blonde hair said calmly. She was beautiful

‘My name is Lumina, lady under the crest of the moon. I am the second lady’

‘Eh?’

‘Take it easy on them Lumi, they are confuse’ the blonde said calmly. They sat down and crossed their legs. ‘My name is Solaria, lady of the sun. This is Lumina, Lady of the moon and Astra, lady of the star. The ladies are servants under the Almighty one, the peace bearer….’

‘Lady, please try to start allover’ Abbie sighed

‘We come from a world, divided from this world. It is called Nephaledia’

‘What does that mean?’

‘Nothing. It means nothing but the combination of the names of the three founder of the world. They we’re nice, great, powerful, best friends. The building went well, each men ruled the massive world in on throne. Peace’ Solaria explained. She looked at Lumina

‘Then it changed at the fourth generation, the children wanted to rule separately, allies were made, votes were casted, and blood were spilled. The three generations separated but the war never end, for the next five generations, all they did was fight and fight and fight and fight and more and more fighting’

‘The council of balance, the universe and it powers got tired and sent the first ladies of the crests to them. They forged the light and made the first peace bearer, one with all powers and grace, all sufficient and wisdom. She stopped the war and since then the peace bearer ruled and each ladies we’re born to take care of him or her’ Lumina explained

‘A hundred years ago, The most powerful was born, he was so bright and intelligent, so full of light. The son of all. He trained, he was the perfect king not until the day of the greeting. Each ten years, the king went around and greeted the whole now twenty six regions but he disappeared and then the war began again. One blamed the other and then the other and the other and the war was too much. We had to turn the entire Nephaledia to stone before we had enough time to search and found him here, in this world, thirty three years ago and we had to do something’

‘We put down our powers and a little of his so anyone of this world would find and help us for we can’t. We have no right to interfere with this world. You came, you all came. The gems chose you all and here we are, begging….’ They went on their knees and bowed flat

‘Please, we plead that you help us, er have no hope, we have no one to help us. Please, you must free our king. He’s trapped here, as a young boy of ten, he was attacked and he had to protect himself but the spell went wrong. You must save our master, save our Lord’ they cried. ‘Save Nephaledia, help us’

We looked at each other and shrugged

‘I’m in, what do you guys think?’ I asked calmly

‘Will I die?’

‘Maybe’ Solaria replied

‘I’m in’ Arie chirped

‘Too dangerous!’ Abbie cried. ‘I didn’t plan any dangerous activities in my life until I turn twenty so no’

‘Abbie’

‘Yeah?’

‘Shut up’ Arie scoffed. ‘You’re joining and that’s it’

‘So that’s it?’ She asked incredulously

‘Yes’ we chorused. They smiled and wiped their tears and sat up.

‘I’m your guardian since you bear my powers’ Solaria said to Abbie standing up

‘And I’m yours’ Astra said to Arie

‘And you’re mine’ I smiled. Lumina smiled back

‘Take my hands and accept the task’ I easily took her hands and sighed. The girls did too. ‘You must all go to Spain, to a particular school for that is where all the clues are’

‘Okay’ we murmured. They started saying a strange language and the next thing was a sharp bolt in my heart and everything blacked out

To be continued

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