I heard my name from afar, I looked up, saw my mother running towards me. "I had just returned from a military campaign in Africa (Nigeria), wars come and go but friends are lost, I lost Julius in war, but that was the cost of serving my country.
I ran to my mother and lifted her with joy, we came back to house, where I had already prepared dinner, she smiled and said, thought you said you will stop cooking. I smiled.
Later that night I heard a loud scream, the scream of my mother, I ran to her and she kept on saying lizard man with this words I passed out.
I woke up from my slumber surrounded by people I knew, Dr. Martins; the towns physician, Lucy a girl I was in love with, my mother, Reverend Bart and Tiny Louie the town's …show more content…
Martins came over to check on me and I overheard him telling Ma and Lucy that a sighting was made of the lizard like man and that it had killed Becky(the town’s whore). That day passed and that was the last I dreamt of the lizard man.
It was until one summer night I dreamt of the lizard man, this time the dream was more vivid than ever, I dreamt the lizard man was out hunting, it visited the town’s square it fought with a stranger…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I blacked out.
One day as I was out visiting the town’s square I met a very interesting man, a travelling magician, he approached me and said he wanted to be like me, I was puzzled, I asked why, he said he knew what I was, when I asked, he whispered the name “SURWINDE”, I thought he was a clown, so I dismissed him. I returned home ,surprisingly I met this same man, he had filled my mom on what he thought I was, that I was a SURWINDE and he was an hunter, hunting for MAL, a woman who appears during war with her handmade GIN TO FOOL soldiers and curse them, and that I was a victim, out of curiosity I listened and cause I was scared, I asked if I could be cured, he nodded yes and that we must go to the forbidden mountain in TIBET and climb the thousand steps and capture Gin, when we capture her, she take us to MAL, I hated the idea of travelling and I said he was deluded until he told me my dreams and longing for blood, I denied saying …show more content…
We were in a trance, we were heading for the ledge, and it was Lucy who saved us, HOW? I did not ask but I was grateful, we were all grateful, we continued our journey as we got closer there was a storm a heavy storm, we forged ahead and continued till we got to the last step and found a bridge, as we crossed the bridge it snapped, unfortunately Tiny fell into the abyss. We successfully crossed but at the loss of a friend, we continued it was nightfall, we had to camp, we stayed together, by morning everywhere was different it was as if we where at the foot of the mountain, GIN was playing her tricks and slowing us down, Jason blew the powder that the shaman gave us, we saw a door but a circular door as we approached it the started changing shape, by the time we got to the door we were divided and the door was just a