POWER OVERLOAD

POWER OVERLOAD

written by: Olusegun Ayomide Shedrach 

From:  The Prime Insane Universe 

© 2019, piu 

Introduction 

Lightning struck, followed by a chilled breeze that suited Akinyemi so well, he wished more of it would happen, he laid his hand on his dog, June and stroke it gently humming a song to it, his staff laying on the ground beside him and a cutlass, he watched as his flock of sheep, laid peacefully. 

June whimpered and stood up at alert, looking at the sky, Akinyemi Alis followed suit and noticed a blue ball like object falling from the sky, his eyes followed the direction, where the object fell. 

"June, wait here, let me check what that is" He said and took his cutlass. 

Akinyemi hurried into the bush in search for the object, hoping to find it soon, not long had he gone in search of it, he saw the blue ball standing meters away, he walked slowly with caution at it and used the tip of his cutlass to touch it. 

The ball gradually shrinked and turned into a bead. 

"Wierd" Akinyemi said and picked the bead up. 

"Harmless, I wonder what this is" he said and dipped the bead into his pocket. 

Chapter One 

Akinyemi gave a funny face, as he opened his eyes from the deep sleep, seeing June licking his face, he jumped up and felt exhausted 

"Wow" he said and slowly turned to his right. 

Seeing the huge lifeless bear beside him, he took three steps backward and wondered how. 

"June, who brought that here "

June stood looking at him, and ran to and fro

"You mean I did " .

June barked and happily turned around 

"The bead, where is the bead? "

Akinyemi opened his palm and stared at the blue glowing spiral which had formed around his palm and wrist. He watched as the spiral line illuminated his arm brightly 

"Let's get out of here " Akinyemi

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.Akinyemi hid himself beside a statue and his wolf ears twitched, picking up movements around. He stood alert and remained calm as a guard walked pass him slowly, Akinyemi quickly kicked the knee joint of the guard and snapped his neck. 

"Wait, did we just kill him, I've never killed a human in my life" Akinyemi said calmly, and began losing connection with Mantis. 

"Calm, these ones were dead already, concentrate " Mantis said from within. 

A guard suddenly grabbed Akinyemi by the back and slammed him against a statue, breaking it into pieces, the second guard heard the noise and dashed towards the direction, leaping from one statue to another. 

The first guard, raised the head of the broken statue and slammed it on Akinyemi's back. 

"Do something " Akinyemi shouted in pain and rolled on the ground. 

"You're not giving me access"

The first guard smiled wickedly and summoned out a red glowing sword from the spiral in his hand. 

Akinyemi stretched his blue hand to the guard and suddenly laser blasted out from his hand, through the spiral, and hit the guard turning him into dust. 

"Great" Mantis said from within, already in control, he did a flip and stood firmly on the ground. 

The last guard jumped from top of the statur behind Akinyemi. Quickly Akinyemi turned around and grabbed him by the neck and slammed him to the ground, picked him up again and blew his face. 

"By the power in me, I command you to state your mission" Akinyemi said and placed his palm on the chest of the guard. 

"King Jire sent us, to kill the boy and then others to look for the true king and end him also " 

"And where can we find the king"

"At Liberty, report has it he works there as a black Smith " The guard said and suddenly went into shock then died. 

"Things just got complicated " Mantis said and jumped out. 

"Somehow, so let's get going, I hope I don't die in an adventure, for someone else" Akinyemi said and picked up his staff. 

"What about your sheeps "

"June, my dog will take care of them "

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Three guards entered into the palace, each having a red glowing spiral on their hands and knelt before the king 

Seated beside the King was the Princess, having a deadly look on her face, her sharp glowing sword laying before her. 

"Did you kill him? " She asked with a stern tone. 

"Your Highness, somehow the boy managed to escape " the guard in the middle said calmly, trying not to annoy either the king or the Princess 

"He killed my best soldiers " The King muttered and stood up from his throne. 

"What about the other boy? "

"We are prepared, our source told us he is in Liberty Town " another guard replied. 

"Get out from my face"

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Akinyemi alighted his horse, standing on the mountain top, he squinted his eyes and sighed at the overview of Liberty Village and climbed back on his horse. 

"How do we find him, this city is large" Akinyemi asked and geared his horse forward. 

"I don't know, let's get there first, I'm hungry" Mantis said and growled softly within Akinyemi. 

"Do gods eat? " 

"Not necessary, but we won't be able to function well in a fight " Mantis said and jumped out. 

"Are you leaving me? "

"No, I can't hunt without my host " Mantis said and stood in front of the horse. 

"No not Duru ".

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Entering into Liberty Village, Akinyemi sighted a familiar face, someone from the palace guards, quickly he made his way through the crowd, trailing the guard from distance, so as not to raise any suspicion. 

"The guards are here, seems they know who we are after" Akinyemi said to Mantis, who was already fast asleep within him. 

Akinyemi grabbed his staff, holding it tightly, as he watched the guard enter into a hut. 

"Mantis wake up"

"I'm always awake, just a quick nap" Mantis said in a whispering voice. 

Akinyemi stood in hiding about thirty minutes, patiently waiting for what next. 

A man in black hood came out from the tent, followed by the guards, just that they dressed in normal attire. 

"Who is that? " Mantis asked calmly 

"How am I to know,  we have to follow" 

The guards walked into another hut, about twenty minutes trek from the former one. 

A guard stood before the boy zipped to a chair, bleeding hard from his face. 

"We found him, I await your orders to kill him and be done with him" the guard said and rolled his machete in the air. 

The man in the hood, pulled it off and smiled wickedly at the boy. 

"The face of the lineage that sent me into exile" the man said and summoned out an axe from his left hand. 

"Let me have this one last pleasure if killing him" The man said and let out a wicked grin. 

Chapter Two

Akinyemi suddenly ran into the hut and suddenly from his hand cane out a big wavy blue hand, which smacked the man on hood on the jaw,sending him crashing out from the hut through the roof. 

The wolf jumped out from Akinyemi and hit the guard on the right on the chest, shattering him into pieces, and quickly jumped into him back. 

Akinyemi tilted in the air and punched the guard coming at him on the chest, sending him hard against the wall. 

The boy on the chair kicked the guard before him on the knee joint joint, making him go forcefully on his knees and quickly broke his neck with his leg. 

"Grab the boy" Mantis shouted. 

Akinyemi ran up to the boy and broke the chair from the back and helped the boy up

"Thanks, and who are you? "

"Your grandfather " Akinyemi said and pushed the boy on the back, urging him to run out of the hut. 

They both ran out and few meters from them a loud blast came, looking back 

The man in hood, was in mid air, with an axe on his left hand and a green fireball on his right hand 

"Let's end this" Akinyemi said and also summoned out a sword from his left hand.

The man landed and dashed at Akinyemi, with quick reflex he banged Akinyemi on the jaw,and immediately Mantis retreated, the blue wavy lines immediately died down. 

"Akin run" Mantis said and boosted back and took control of Akinyemi's body and dashed off followed by the boy who was already way ahead of Akinyemi 

"A Cheetah soul"  Mantis said as Akinyemi struggled to keep up with the boy. 

After finding themselves a safe spot, Akinyemi looked at the boy and noticed he was different, he somehow looked girlish. 

"Who are you? " 

Akinyemi scoffed, and paid close attention to the voice. 

"You sound more of a girl" Akinyemi said and peeped out from the door of the hut. 

"Kidnapping me with sweet words " the boy said and attempted going out. 

Akinyemi grabbed his right hand and next was a hard scratch on his face, which sent him straight to the floor. 

Akinyemi growled angrily, feeling the pain on every part of his body, his face illuminated brightly and gradually he began to transform into a full alpha wolf. 

Akinyemi howled loudly and with swift reflex he turned around and smacked the boy on the hips, which immediately made a cracking noise. 

Seeing what he did, he knelt down beside the boy, who was wriggling in pain

The alpha wolf, had a remorseful look on its face and knelt beside the boy. 

"You're right, I'm a girl" he said and unhooked the hem of the cloth, revealing her normal curves and unrolled her hairs, which would be touching her feet if she were to be standing. 

Akinyemi turned into his normal form, already having a permanent scracth claw mark on his face. 

"You should be healing " Akinyemi said and knelt beside her. 

"We came to return you to the throne and make things right" Akinyemi said. 

"When wounded by an alpha you heal normally" Mantis said within Akinyemi calmly. 

"Sitting on the throne does not mean anything, the gods of our fathers are already corrupt and they need thorough cleaning, but who are we mere humans to stop the gods " the girl said faintly. 

"Stop talking, let's treat you, come here" Akinyemi said and lifted her up. 

The man who Akinyemi had faced earlier, smiled and sighed loudly and closed his eyes, reechoing the alpha howl Akinyemi made. 

"My day just keeps getting better, now the alpha bead is within my reach finally".

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Akinyemi returned with herbs in his hand and quickly bent down beside the girl and chew the herbs in his mouth and,  made a funny and irritated face as he chewed, he removed the content from his mouth and placed it gently on the girls hip from the cut on her cloth.

Akinyemi watched as She heated up with high fever and placed his hand on her sweaty face 

Mantis came out from Akinyemi and sniffed he air and turned around to face Akinyemi. 

"We have to get out now " He said and jumped back into him. 

Akinyemi carefully carried the girl on his shoulder and hurried out of the hut. 

Immediately the hut have a loud blast, which made the bricks scatter furiously into different direction. 

Akinyemi winced and ran as fast as his legs could carry him. With the girl on his shoulder, even making it harder for him to keep up pace. 

Another blast came beside him, making him miss a step and tumblr hard to the ground, and also loosing grip of the girl.

The hooded man walked out of the dust and giggled wickedly as he approached Akinyemi. 

"A boy, a girl and an alpha bead, all just for me" the man said and from his hand cane a sword and a fireball on the other hand. 

Akinyemi looked at the spiral on his hand, as it died down, which made him felt weak than he should be. 

An arrow suddenly came from nowhere and pierced the man's chest. He grunted and turned around, and saw the Princess from Akinyemi's village standing before him, with a shiny arrow on her hand. 

"That's a warning, the boy and the girl are mine" She said and pulled the string of her bow. 

"I'll kill you first, then get back to them " the man said and dashed angrily at the Princess. 

Akinyemi seeing this, crawled up to the girl, picked her up and ran off, while the princess and the man were engaged in a furious duel 

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The Princess pulled the man by the hood of his shirt, dragging him on the palace ground before the King, who had a wicked grin on his face.

"Eru (Dust), so finally we met again, " The king said calmly and rised up from his throne, holding firm to an axe on his right hand. 

"You See the irony of life, then I couldn't defeat you, but here defeated by my daughter, very odd " The king said and knelt down before the man. 

"Funny, and who told you she defeated me, I heard she is the daughter to the demon " He said and suddenly, the Princess was laying flat on the ground, picked tightly by Eru, who summoned out his sword, and raised it up, the sharp edge pointing directly at the princess. 

"Stop, we can come to a deal, the boy, you want him, I want him, I'll make a deal with you" The king said trying to be convincing enough so as to spare his daughter, considering how dangerous Eru was. 

"But we want the same thing, so it won't work" Eru said and drove his sword straight into the heart of the princess and instantly a purple glowing bead, came out from her left palm and bolted out of the palace. 

The King eyes widened in disbelief seeing his daughter laying lifeless on the ground, out of rage and slashed his axe at Eru who instantly did a flip backward, narrowly dodging the attack. 

"I told you, Jire, I'll break you" Eru said and ran out of the palace. 

Akinyemi received the rag from June and dipped it into the steamy water before him and was about placing it on the girl's head, just then she opened her eyes and smiled weakly. 

"Hey" She said calmly and held Akinyemi's hand. 

"You're awake, how are you feeling? " 

"Weak and better" She replied and supported herself up with Akinyemi's shoulder. 

"So seems I'm back where I started " She said and held Akinyemi as they both went out of the tent. 

"Something like that, at least, you can't be on the run forever, you have to claim what rightfully yours " He replied and helped her sit on a rock. 

"Your sheeps? "

"Yes, I take them grazing and you know, my little means of survival"

"So what's the plan? "

Akinyemi heaved and summoned out Mantis, like the question was meant for him. 

"Nothing, we only fight and hope to win, and we are facing multiple opponents, the gods and the king and the hood man" Mantis replied. 

"We shouldn't let them come to us, we should go to them" Akinyemi suggested 

"Where do we go first " Mantis asked 

"The hood"

"Here I'm, no need looking for me" A familiar voice said behind them. 

Chapter Three 

Akinyemi felt cold down his spine and looked at the girl who was also staring at him. 

The hood stood with a wicked grin on his face and suddenly it disappeared, and turned into a look of fear. 

Akinyemi noticed it and watched as the hood took steps backward and attempted to retreat

"Why is he scared? "

Looking back was Kokou wielding his battle axe and his power shield, Akinyemi felt Mantis rage within him. 

"Only cowards run away in battle " The hood said and put up courage making the red spiral on his hand glow brightly

"Step aside boy" Kokou said and used his shoulder to brush Akinyemi off, walking boldly to confront the hood. 

"Why you here! " this time it was Mantis speaking 

"Saving your head" Kokou replied rudely and dashed at the hood 

"And you, Dada lets finally end this, you and I, god to Demi god"

Kokou dived forward, swiftly holding Dada by the shoulder and flip above him, before touching ground, Kokou raised Dada into the air and slammed him to the ground, boring a deep hole into the ground. 

Dada grunted and dodged Kokou's incoming punch which came at his face and quickly retaliated by smashing Kokou on the jaw, sending him meters away, quickly almost with the speed of light, he ran after Kokou, and still in the air, he gave him a power punch. 

"You're no match for me" Dada said and kicked Kokou in the stomach. 

Thunder storm clashed in the sky, and right at Kokou came a straight thunderbolt. 

"Kokou already overloaded himself" Mantis said when he saw the thunder clash. 

The thunderbolt struck Kokou and instantly his body became charged, without wasting any moment, he grabbed Dada by the leg and pulled him down, placing a feet on Dada's chest, he summoned out his axe and cut off Dada's head. 

"That was quick" Kokou said and turned around. 

"You might be right after all Mantis, the gods are corrupt and we have to clean them, but the time is not now " 

Akinyemi looked confused and spoke. 

"Meaning? "

"The gods are coming for us, but somehow they can't get past the third realm, I am lucky to be here" Kokou said calmly. 

"What about her " 

"She can't claim the throne yet, all corrupt and powerful god's are behind the King "

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