story written by Royver… If you missed part SEVEN yesterday read it HERE!!!
The conversation.
“We need to talk.”
“What?” he asked, not looking down.
Chuks the stronger held me by the hand as he
flew effortlessly back towards what I could only
fathom would be my head. When he said “Let’s
go”, I had thought I would suddenly wake up
sane,but apparently things weren’t going to
work out that way. He had simply held me by
the hand and with a mighty jump, we were
headed back the way I had fallen. I watched
him and marveled at his confidence, even
though he looked like a six year old I knew that
spirit wise he was probably much older and
more skilled than I was. He was me in my
simplest, purest form,undiluted,unspoilt by the
logic that was the world. It was exhilarating to
see this my other self, so full of confidence,so
sure of himself. But watching him, watching the
way he headed back to consciousness with
glee, I suddenly felt worried.
“Who will I be?”
“Eh?” Chuks said, still not looking down, the
force of his upward acceleration seemed to be
making it difficult for him to hear me, like trying
to strike a conversation with someone riding a
bike swiftly against the wind.
“Wait, STOP!” I shouted. And he did. Chuks the
stronger put on the brakes mid air and stood
standing on nothing,
looking at me. I still hung from his hand and
struggled about.
“Why don’t you stand?” said chuks the
stronger.
“Where?!” I gasped, looking round.
“Anywhere!!” Said chuks. “It’s your mind, after
all.”
I still struggled about a bit, not understanding
how chuks was standing mid air. “I don’t get
it!” I said, “how do you stand on…”
“Just stand!” chuks said.
And I did. I looked into his eyes and became
calm. I imagined my feet on solid ground and
hey presto! I was standing. I didn’t look down
though.
Chuks the younger was looking up at me with
scorn, if such a thing was possible. I ignored
him and looked around me for a while. “So this
is inside my body,huh?” I asked.
“Its just your imagination” Chuks replied.”if I
were to pinpoint our exact location it would
most likely be our brain. We’ll be at our
consciousness very soon.
“Yeah…I wanted to talk to you about that.” I
said. “Who will I be?”
“I don’t understand…” Chuks said
“Will I be me or you?” I asked. “When we regain
consciousness, who will be in charge?”
Chuks grinned again. “I will.” He said, and
laughed when he saw the look on my face.”I am
you! A lost part of you. I’m definitely not going
to take over. We are one, you and I. it will be
like waking up from a dream and remembering
something you had long forgotten, although…”
and here he eyed me pointedly, “ it seems as if
you have forgotten a lot. What happened to
you?”
“Nothing!” I said defensively. “I remember most
of my childhood, I do. Okay, maybe I stopped
using my gift a lot during the time I was
growing up and I lost a lot of, er… skills in the
process, but I did it so we…so I…could appear
normal. You don’t understand the way they
looked at me the first time I came to school,
how I was constantly bullied for being weird or
put at the back of the class for saying things
that weren’t there! I had to…adjust. And
besides father says the reason I couldn’t
remember you or rather your gift is because I
did something, removed something from him
and mum and-”
“I extracted a lust creature, yes I know. I was
there remember? I was too young physically at
the time and the energy I expended was too
much for my little body, but now I am a man!
Think of the things I could do! I can really rock
and roll when I get back!”
“Rock and roll? Who says… never mind. What I
want to know is how did I remove that demon
and how do I handle this one? ”
Chuks sighed. For a young boy, he exhibited a
lot of adult mannerisms. And I noticed that
somehow he was getting older. The more we
talked the more he seemed to age; right now
he looked more like a teenager. I wasn’t sure if
he was aware of this but decided to keep mute
about it. He grabbed me by the hand suddenly
and we were off again.
“You see creatures not of this realm right?” he
said. “do you talk to them?”
“only the people.” I replied trying to hold on.
“Well, have you tried talking to a creature
before?”
“I try not to.” I said, “I don’t want to get
involved in too much stuff. Trying to stay n….”
“Normal, yeah, I get it.” He said. “Well you have
five senses don’t you? You see, smell, taste,
hear and feel. Have you ever considered doing
that in the spiritual realm as well?”
I hadn’t thought of it. Of course I had made
contact with one or two manifestations, my
previous landlady, a small greed demon I had
chased out of my bosses room so I could submit
an assignment in peace, Pachios himself…but I
had never really delved into interacting so
much.
“Well, not really, it makes me uncomfortable.” I
said.
“No chuks” chuks replied. “it makes you afraid.
Fear is a barrier to so many things beyond the
veil. It makes you second guess yourself, it
makes you have friends you don’t need and
enemies you can’t afford. Our FATHER from
before the veil made us Dominators,
Conquerors. But as soon as we pass through
the veil we are distracted by the noise of this
little earth and by the shiny things man has
made for his pleasure, and we forget it all. I
came through with my memories of the other
side as a baby. I didn’t come through with only
my sight. And yet even I that have been in
slumber for so many years, even I have
forgotten so much. But I am still a child, and a
child does not think of fear or impossibilities.
Things only become impossible when you stop
to think about them. “
I was quiet. I felt him now more than ever, like I
was the one talking and holding him by the
hand instead of the other way around.
“We are nearly there.” He said and looked down
at me. He was smiling. I smiled back and
suddenly we were in another room. Just like
that, no door, no entrance, nothing. But this
room didn’t feel peaceful like the one I had
found him sleeping in. it felt tumultuous,
frenzied, and I heard whispers, whispers which
grew into babbling, incoherent, continuous
babbling. I looked for the source and when I
couldn’t see it I asked chuks the stronger
“Where is it?”
“Where do you want it to be?” he replied and
he looked ahead. I did too and sure enough I
saw it. Seated on a golden stool, making a
terrible mess of the place with oozing green
liquid and screeching horribly was the cross-
eyed, monkey-bat like creature I had seen
earlier in the cave. It bared its fangs and gave
off a fearful howl. I took a step back.
Chuks the stronger looked at me, puzzled. “No,”
he said, “You did not just step back did you?
Are you afraid? Look at what you did.”
I looked and right there and then the creature
grew bigger. It expanded its wings which had
nasty looking talons and it became twice its
size. It shrieked again even louder and I took
another step back. Chuks the stronger slapped
me at the back of my head, hard.
“OW!” I said. “Hey, that hurt!”
“Better you feel pain than to feel fear,” he said.
“What’s wrong with you? This fella is sitting in
your head like it owns the place and you are
here doing a backslide? Show it whose boss!”
I stared at the creature again. It had grown to
four times its size and was now massive. It
flapped its wings, spewing green stuff
everywhere and screeched loud-
“AWWWW SHUT IT!!!” Chukwudi the stronger
yelled loudly and the creature closed its mouth
immediately. He gazed at it with fire in his eyes
and it shrank back to twice its normal size. He
walked a few feet then turned, backing the
creature and facing me.
“Fear is like a spiders web. The more you
struggle in it, the more it will hold you down.
Ignore the fear! That thing is seating on your
seat!”
I looked at the creature again and indeed it
seemed out of place on that golden stool. In
fact, it seemed very out of place in this clean
room, messing up everywhere, making a nasty
ruckus. And I got mad. I got really angry. And I
walked past Chukwudi the stronger and
approached the creature confidently. It
watched me coming with apprehension in its
eyes, and then I saw, it was afraid!
“Get the hell outta here!” I shouted getting
closer now and noticing the creature shrink
even more until it was almost its original size. “I
own this place, this is my domain!Get out!”
I was close to it now. It raised one disgusting
wing and made to swipe at me and I grabbed
that wing midair with my right hand. With my
left hand and with a loud yell I pounded the
creature on the head with a mighty blow. It
wasn’t as strong as I had imagined and I felt its
skull crack and it collapsed, still on the stool. It
tried rising again and I went all out for it,
shouting, yelling and tearing; I broke its wings
and snapped its neck, then I hurled the carcass
off the golden stool and unto the floor where it
remained still for a while and then disappeared.
I could feel my hands and face covered in
gooey smelly stuff but I felt great! I shouted in
exhilaration! I had done it! I picked up the
golden stool, cleaned it as much as I could and
sat down on it proudly. Then I saw the look of
shock on Chukwudi the stronger’s face.
“What?!” I said.
“That was very violent and messy,” he said
shaking his head. “I mean, you could have just
commanded it off when it had shrunk back to
its normal size then chased it out or used the
sword to finish it off. That’s what I would have
done…”
I looked beside me and saw a sword on the
floor.
“Wait,”I said trembling, “there was a sword
there the whole time? The whole time?!
Chukwudi the stronger laughed and came up
and shook my shoulder. “The point is, you got
the job done! Congratulations! You see, you
could have done that by yourself all along! Now
we can regain consciousness with our sanity
intact. But first, abeg, let’s find a way to clean
you up.
THE END
The conversation.
“We need to talk.”
“What?” he asked, not looking down.
Chuks the stronger held me by the hand as he
flew effortlessly back towards what I could only
fathom would be my head. When he said “Let’s
go”, I had thought I would suddenly wake up
sane,but apparently things weren’t going to
work out that way. He had simply held me by
the hand and with a mighty jump, we were
headed back the way I had fallen. I watched
him and marveled at his confidence, even
though he looked like a six year old I knew that
spirit wise he was probably much older and
more skilled than I was. He was me in my
simplest, purest form,undiluted,unspoilt by the
logic that was the world. It was exhilarating to
see this my other self, so full of confidence,so
sure of himself. But watching him, watching the
way he headed back to consciousness with
glee, I suddenly felt worried.
“Who will I be?”
“Eh?” Chuks said, still not looking down, the
force of his upward acceleration seemed to be
making it difficult for him to hear me, like trying
to strike a conversation with someone riding a
bike swiftly against the wind.
“Wait, STOP!” I shouted. And he did. Chuks the
stronger put on the brakes mid air and stood
standing on nothing,
looking at me. I still hung from his hand and
struggled about.
“Why don’t you stand?” said chuks the
stronger.
“Where?!” I gasped, looking round.
“Anywhere!!” Said chuks. “It’s your mind, after
all.”
I still struggled about a bit, not understanding
how chuks was standing mid air. “I don’t get
it!” I said, “how do you stand on…”
“Just stand!” chuks said.
And I did. I looked into his eyes and became
calm. I imagined my feet on solid ground and
hey presto! I was standing. I didn’t look down
though.
Chuks the younger was looking up at me with
scorn, if such a thing was possible. I ignored
him and looked around me for a while. “So this
is inside my body,huh?” I asked.
“Its just your imagination” Chuks replied.”if I
were to pinpoint our exact location it would
most likely be our brain. We’ll be at our
consciousness very soon.
“Yeah…I wanted to talk to you about that.” I
said. “Who will I be?”
“I don’t understand…” Chuks said
“Will I be me or you?” I asked. “When we regain
consciousness, who will be in charge?”
Chuks grinned again. “I will.” He said, and
laughed when he saw the look on my face.”I am
you! A lost part of you. I’m definitely not going
to take over. We are one, you and I. it will be
like waking up from a dream and remembering
something you had long forgotten, although…”
and here he eyed me pointedly, “ it seems as if
you have forgotten a lot. What happened to
you?”
“Nothing!” I said defensively. “I remember most
of my childhood, I do. Okay, maybe I stopped
using my gift a lot during the time I was
growing up and I lost a lot of, er… skills in the
process, but I did it so we…so I…could appear
normal. You don’t understand the way they
looked at me the first time I came to school,
how I was constantly bullied for being weird or
put at the back of the class for saying things
that weren’t there! I had to…adjust. And
besides father says the reason I couldn’t
remember you or rather your gift is because I
did something, removed something from him
and mum and-”
“I extracted a lust creature, yes I know. I was
there remember? I was too young physically at
the time and the energy I expended was too
much for my little body, but now I am a man!
Think of the things I could do! I can really rock
and roll when I get back!”
“Rock and roll? Who says… never mind. What I
want to know is how did I remove that demon
and how do I handle this one? ”
Chuks sighed. For a young boy, he exhibited a
lot of adult mannerisms. And I noticed that
somehow he was getting older. The more we
talked the more he seemed to age; right now
he looked more like a teenager. I wasn’t sure if
he was aware of this but decided to keep mute
about it. He grabbed me by the hand suddenly
and we were off again.
“You see creatures not of this realm right?” he
said. “do you talk to them?”
“only the people.” I replied trying to hold on.
“Well, have you tried talking to a creature
before?”
“I try not to.” I said, “I don’t want to get
involved in too much stuff. Trying to stay n….”
“Normal, yeah, I get it.” He said. “Well you have
five senses don’t you? You see, smell, taste,
hear and feel. Have you ever considered doing
that in the spiritual realm as well?”
I hadn’t thought of it. Of course I had made
contact with one or two manifestations, my
previous landlady, a small greed demon I had
chased out of my bosses room so I could submit
an assignment in peace, Pachios himself…but I
had never really delved into interacting so
much.
“Well, not really, it makes me uncomfortable.” I
said.
“No chuks” chuks replied. “it makes you afraid.
Fear is a barrier to so many things beyond the
veil. It makes you second guess yourself, it
makes you have friends you don’t need and
enemies you can’t afford. Our FATHER from
before the veil made us Dominators,
Conquerors. But as soon as we pass through
the veil we are distracted by the noise of this
little earth and by the shiny things man has
made for his pleasure, and we forget it all. I
came through with my memories of the other
side as a baby. I didn’t come through with only
my sight. And yet even I that have been in
slumber for so many years, even I have
forgotten so much. But I am still a child, and a
child does not think of fear or impossibilities.
Things only become impossible when you stop
to think about them. “
I was quiet. I felt him now more than ever, like I
was the one talking and holding him by the
hand instead of the other way around.
“We are nearly there.” He said and looked down
at me. He was smiling. I smiled back and
suddenly we were in another room. Just like
that, no door, no entrance, nothing. But this
room didn’t feel peaceful like the one I had
found him sleeping in. it felt tumultuous,
frenzied, and I heard whispers, whispers which
grew into babbling, incoherent, continuous
babbling. I looked for the source and when I
couldn’t see it I asked chuks the stronger
“Where is it?”
“Where do you want it to be?” he replied and
he looked ahead. I did too and sure enough I
saw it. Seated on a golden stool, making a
terrible mess of the place with oozing green
liquid and screeching horribly was the cross-
eyed, monkey-bat like creature I had seen
earlier in the cave. It bared its fangs and gave
off a fearful howl. I took a step back.
Chuks the stronger looked at me, puzzled. “No,”
he said, “You did not just step back did you?
Are you afraid? Look at what you did.”
I looked and right there and then the creature
grew bigger. It expanded its wings which had
nasty looking talons and it became twice its
size. It shrieked again even louder and I took
another step back. Chuks the stronger slapped
me at the back of my head, hard.
“OW!” I said. “Hey, that hurt!”
“Better you feel pain than to feel fear,” he said.
“What’s wrong with you? This fella is sitting in
your head like it owns the place and you are
here doing a backslide? Show it whose boss!”
I stared at the creature again. It had grown to
four times its size and was now massive. It
flapped its wings, spewing green stuff
everywhere and screeched loud-
“AWWWW SHUT IT!!!” Chukwudi the stronger
yelled loudly and the creature closed its mouth
immediately. He gazed at it with fire in his eyes
and it shrank back to twice its normal size. He
walked a few feet then turned, backing the
creature and facing me.
“Fear is like a spiders web. The more you
struggle in it, the more it will hold you down.
Ignore the fear! That thing is seating on your
seat!”
I looked at the creature again and indeed it
seemed out of place on that golden stool. In
fact, it seemed very out of place in this clean
room, messing up everywhere, making a nasty
ruckus. And I got mad. I got really angry. And I
walked past Chukwudi the stronger and
approached the creature confidently. It
watched me coming with apprehension in its
eyes, and then I saw, it was afraid!
“Get the hell outta here!” I shouted getting
closer now and noticing the creature shrink
even more until it was almost its original size. “I
own this place, this is my domain!Get out!”
I was close to it now. It raised one disgusting
wing and made to swipe at me and I grabbed
that wing midair with my right hand. With my
left hand and with a loud yell I pounded the
creature on the head with a mighty blow. It
wasn’t as strong as I had imagined and I felt its
skull crack and it collapsed, still on the stool. It
tried rising again and I went all out for it,
shouting, yelling and tearing; I broke its wings
and snapped its neck, then I hurled the carcass
off the golden stool and unto the floor where it
remained still for a while and then disappeared.
I could feel my hands and face covered in
gooey smelly stuff but I felt great! I shouted in
exhilaration! I had done it! I picked up the
golden stool, cleaned it as much as I could and
sat down on it proudly. Then I saw the look of
shock on Chukwudi the stronger’s face.
“What?!” I said.
“That was very violent and messy,” he said
shaking his head. “I mean, you could have just
commanded it off when it had shrunk back to
its normal size then chased it out or used the
sword to finish it off. That’s what I would have
done…”
I looked beside me and saw a sword on the
floor.
“Wait,”I said trembling, “there was a sword
there the whole time? The whole time?!
Chukwudi the stronger laughed and came up
and shook my shoulder. “The point is, you got
the job done! Congratulations! You see, you
could have done that by yourself all along! Now
we can regain consciousness with our sanity
intact. But first, abeg, let’s find a way to clean
you up.
THE END
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