Tiit For Tat - S02 E03

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Tiit For Tat - S02 E03

Read Story: SEASON 2 EPISODE 3

Tabuki!!!!

One good Turn Deserves Another.

[Mike’s Point Of View ]

I was going home to continue how to strategize to combat Zolabin. The driver was about to negotiate a curve when a young man stepped on the road.He put his foot on the brake but it was late. The car knocked out the young man. After screeching to a halt,I got out to ascertain the degree of harm done to him only to realise the young man was……….”Tabuki.

Tabuki was the servant of the Malam that had forewarned about that my friend Forson Adeyemi that he had brought me to be used as a sacrifice to the goddess “Sasakumala.”

The car had not hit him that hard so he stood up unharmed but shaken a bit.

“Tabuki !!!!!” What are you doing here?” I exclaimed.

He looked at me with mixed emotions and said , “it’s a long

story.”

“Well, you can cut it short. I was close to Al-Bravo Restaurant so I took him there. I ordered some food for him and during the course of eating he began narrating what happened to him.

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He said to me,” after you escaped from my Boss, the Malam, the killers came looking for you but didn’t find you. The Malam was angry and dispatched a team of men to search for you. They searched everywhere in the great forest but you are gone.”

“Malam Eadiq then decided to consult the gods to find out your whereabout.

Quite strangely,the gods didn’t give him any answer. He become angry and threatened to quit if the gods didn’t give him any answer by the end of the week.

By the end of the week , no answer was given to him. He packed all that he had and prepared to leave.” During the course of leaving, he set fire onto the shrine. Then rain began to fall and quenched the fire. He then set the fire to the shrine. The rain quenched the fire again.

Malam Eadiq taunted the gods saying, “I thought you have lost your powers. “Where is the boy brought to me for the sacrifice?”

Still the gods didn’t answer. He was about to insult the gods when he was strucked down by thunder.

I was hiding behind a tall tree when the thunder struck him down.”

His body was carried and placed in the forbidden section of the forest.

“On the third day, your friend Forson Adeyemi came. He said he was looking for the Malam. I told him the Malam had travelled. He asked when he would be back and I told him I was not aware of that. He then asked me If the “lamb” he brought had been sacrificed and I nodded in the affirmative. He left with joy.”

“After the Demise of the Chief Priest, I realised the council of elders were planning to install me as the next chief priest. They argued that I have learnt the crafts of voodoism from my master and thus qualified to be the next Chief Priest.”

“I don’t want to be the next Chief Priest. In any case I was Compelled to become a servant of the Chief Priest because my brother committed a sacrilege against the king by sleeping with the his daughter.”

“In order to appease the gods, he was banished and I was made to compensate for his crime.

I was 12 years old when I went to that shrine. I was supposed to serve for 10 years. My service time was over but I knew they wanted to install me as the Chief Priest.”

I escaped in the night through the beastly forest. Passing through that forest really required a lot of courage, not only because of the wild animals but more because you could encounter wild spirits.

When I was passing through the deadly forest, My heart pounded. Sweat dripped off my forehead, I used my arm to wipe it off. It was rather too dark for my liking.”

“The whole forest had been swallowed into the womb of the night.

The only sounds that penetrated the silence was the rustling of leaves and the occasional screech of strange animal.”

” I kept running chanting some incantations, following animals’ trail. The trees towered above me, their branches thick with abundance of leaves, not allowing even a glimmer of moonlit. I was quite familiar with the forest. We got most of our herbs from it to provide medicine for the sick. It was rather amazing when I escaped that night, the whole forest looked totally strange to me, as If I was taken from Earth and placed on Jupiter. I met strange people in the forest. I knew they were spirits. I met certain wild animals too but I conquered them .By 4.45 a.m the next day I realised I was almost out of the forest. The vegetation began to thin out so I knew I was closed to human settlement. Then I came to a perfectly round clearing. I rested there for a few minutes.”

When I woke up, I found myself in a village. The villagers took me to their chief priest .He was about to perform some rituals on me when I woke up.”

“Without wasting much time, I escaped from that village too and came across a bus station. Because I dressed weirdly, I was denied entry into the car. I later bought some clothes from a bend-down boutique with monies a kind hearted man gave me.I used the rest of the money to board a bus and come to Lagos.”

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I was stunned by Tabuki’s Story. I asked , ” when did you come to Lagos?”

“Three days ago, ” He answered.

“Join my gang You will be my spiritual consultant, will you?”

“Yes, I Will,” he answered.

That was how I met Tabuki in the city and recruit him into my organisation.

No man is born a criminal. It is society that makes man a Criminal. I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth but now I am a leader of a gang instead of being the CEO of Skynet company which my father’s friends forceful stole from me.

Having Tabuki as my spiritual consultant,I was confident we would make our mark in the gang world but it was going to be a tall order considering the fact that other notorious gang were already in existence like the X-Men,The Night Sweepers,Finders of Justice,The Angel of Death and off course the Black Cobra which had obliterated some of the notorious gangs.

The Black Cobra was the most organised and sophisticated gang .They operated with so much precision that the police were unable to track them down for decades. Even if they do, they couldn’t arrest them because their love for money was greater than their love for country. I was determined to compete with them and stamp my authority in the criminal fraternity.”

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How far will Mike go?

Watch out for EPISODE 4….