Ancient City

Saturday ; 1:00 pm

The group had set out early in the morning continuing thier journey in search of only heaven knows what. Soon the group arrived in the middle of Plutino. Right there in the heart of Plutino stood an ancient abandoned city. It was situated ontop of a hill .it was built in a Sudano-Sahelian Architecture style with a fractal setting built with stone and large rocks.

The group took a large lump of breath seeing the structures.

"Spectacular…"

"Efficient"

"..."

Different form of exclamation where heard or used to describe their personal view of the city.

" So what now ?" Asked Saviour

" I think seeing this city is an headstart and we need to go into the city in order to know what next to do" replied Akpan still staring intently at the city like he had found a precious jewel . Well to him it was a precious jewel as nothing was more precious apart from discovering and studying ancient history and culture { well except Kate} he thought.

Saturday

2:00 Pm

( Aso Rock meeting house)

A knock was heard from the door and then the door was open.

" Sir, the minister for foreign affairs is here for you" informed a young nicely dressed lady to a middle aged man sitting on the other side of the room. This man held the lives of over 195.9 million Nigerian in his hands. He was the President of the Greatest and strongest West African country often said to be the Giant of Africa . The president of Nigeria.

The man looked up from the document he was going through and replied

"Oh… is he? Please send him in immediately"

The lady gave a reply to the affirmative and went out to bring in the visitor. The president dropped the document sitting relaxedly waiting for the visitor to come in. As if on cue a knock was heard from the door and then an old man came in through the door.

"Good afternoon mr. President" the old man greeted.

" Good afternoon minister Chris…" the president replied.".. please you may take a sit…" The old man Dr.Chris sat down at the offered chair and waited for the president to express why he was summoned. The president removed his lenses from his eyes an attitude which all serving ministers knew he was fun of doing especially when he wanted to speak to anyone.

".. so I heard the president of Ghana and the other west African countries has arrived?.." he inquired from the minister.

"Yes sir except well the Vice president of Sierra Leone has not yet arrived as well as the representative from Cameroun."

" Oh…" the president merely said. Then he continued "... Has Abdulsalam said anything as regards the event on Monday?" He inquired again

"No sir, nothing has been said but we are hopeful that nothing would go wrong"

" Hopefull you say. I do not like the idea of hope. I need actions and results. This is the president of different countries coming to our home soil. I do not want anything unpleasant to occur. If anything unpleasant occur, it will smirch our reputation as the big brother of this country to the mud and we will be the laughing stock of the world. All eyes are on us"

" Yes sir, everything will be done to prevent the world from turning us into a laughing stock" the minister replied

" So do you have any special report for me?" The president inquired

"...."

Plutino

2:30 pm.

The group had successfully climbed up the hill arriving at the ancient city. When the group arrived here a feeling of chill and absolute silence surrounded the group.

"We go in " Saviour Said without care to the fear on the faces of the group. The whole group blenched and started cursing out.

"Are you crazy?"

"We didn't sign up to die for shit sake"

" This place has been abandoned for shit long"

"...."

Saviour smiled and ignored the group. He took a step forward and the group grudgingly followed him cursing at their luck at the shit luck they had accepting this shitty job. Curses where silently rendered from their mouth unceasingly.

As the group went closer to the city, ,a large swathe of skeleton where soon littered on the ground as if the city was an ancient catacomb. Everyone became more scared looking round with full concentration.

The Silence was broken when Ebele cursed out

" f**k me ..is this an ancient city or an ancient grave.. it' is so suffocating here".

Everyone looked at him with annoyance thinking within themselve {.like who hasn't noticed the bizzarnes of this place . You just want to jinx it} Everyone glared at him unnervingly.

The group silently troded the path leading to the gate of the city with fear. The group arrived at the city gate which was closed. Two Mercanaries where told to go open the gate. As soo. As they tried pushing the gate open a whirling soun was heard comming from the back. The whole group turned their back to see an avalanche water rushing towards them.

" Quickly open the gate! " Saviour screamed at the two Mercanaries.

" We can't it's locked" the unlucky gate opening mercenaries replied.

"Then shoot it down"

" Gragagaga"

"Gragagaga"

Shooting sound was heard comming from the mercenaries but yet the gate wouldn't budge and just remain locked.

Everyone lost hope a look of despair evident on their face. One mercenary screamed in anger and ran to the quickly approaching water hoping to swim out of it before the water submerged the walkpath. Immediately he stepped his feet into the water screams where heard comming from his mouth

" Ouch haaaaaaaaaaaaa.. someone help me . It's burning me"

They was a smell of burning flesh and cloth and the screaming stopped.

"Quick shift from the edges of the water it laced with some kind of acid or something…"

"Some mercenaries begain wailing in horror

"We shouldn't have come here"

". We have woken up the iffot"

"The demon wouldn't let us go"

"Oh God forgive us"

" Great iffot please let me go and I'll serve you without stopping"

"..."

Many weird things where said and done