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A long time ago, the people of the Kugama kingdom suffered attacks from stronger cities around them for several years, then came the advent of King Bajju the Sixth who decided to put an end to the misery of his people.
He dared to venture into the evil forest (Saro) to seek the help of the spirit wisperers also known as the Izagi and he got a solution but not without giving them something in return.
In answer to his problem, two beautiful daughters bestowed with the power of music (Etsako) were given to him.
The people of the kingdom were also given the power of music from generation to generation but they are not as powerful as the princesses. Their powers were controlled by the magical lamps of their ancestors. 
A power that no force or even the strongest of armies could stand against was given to the two princesses. At a hit of their first and tiniest musical notes, they destroy their enemies. 
One of the twin princesses was the most powerful because her musical notes were not controlled by the magical lamp (Dendi), this made her one of the Chosen (Oron) while the other was controlled by the magical lamp. Her powers were in a honeycomb-like design lamp in the middle of the sacred shrine (Tangale shrine) where their lamps were kept safe.
The lamps rarely go off but if eventually a lamp goes off, that means the owner of the lamp is gone to the world beyond, and as soon as a new life is born the lamp comes on.
When the two daughters turned into women, As per tradition, the king decided to coronate the chosen one believing that she would be able to protect their kingdom more.
But on her coronation, her father the king saw her get angry with one of the guards and she suddenly struck him dead with a musical note.
When the king confronted his daughter, she didn't seem to be regretful and so right before her, he coronated his other daughter.
Infuriated, she tried to attack her sister, the queen and in her attempt, she murdered her father who tried to protect his other daughter.
She was arrested and banished from the kingdom. As she left she vowed to come back and take what rightfully belonged to her.
Several years later, the Queen had a daughter and was happy that she had a successor, someone to leave the throne to after she was gone.
But as the princess grew up, she didn't have a voice, a magical singing voice. 
A MAGIC WITHIN was lacking in her, although she grew up faster than the other children in the kingdom and her eyes would always glow beautifully in the strange night, she was not showing any signs of the powers she was supposed to have as the firstborn.
The queen worried and did all she could in her power to bring back her daughter's voice.
Meanwhile, far far away. The banished princess was ruling her kingdom, she had her army and was swiftly taking over the strongest kingdoms there was in the world with her amazing powers.
She was still determined to come back and take what rightly belonged to her.
To find out if the new princess will have a voice, what her glowing eyes mean if the banished princess will take back what belongs to her, and if the new princess will be able to fulfill her mother's wish of becoming a successor after her departure, then please read to the very end...

A MAGIC WITHIN

Father!!!!!! Princess Memma yelled as she saw this. She got up and ran towards him but was grabbed by the guards after they heard the order 'Arrest her' from Princess Nenma.


"How dare you?" Princess Memma roared at her.


"Let me go near my father this instant." She roared again.


"Exile her from this kingdom at once." Princess Nenma ordered and the guards started dragging Princess Memma away.


Princess Memma kept shouting and crying as she was being taken away.


"Princess Memma is hereby banished from this kingdom and never to return." Declared king Nenma after she was crowned in front of her father's corpse.


Princess Memma left the kingdom with a heavy heart while Princess Nenma had a small feast for her coronation.


"I wasn't even allowed to bury my father. And look how confidently she chased me out because father made her king before his death." Princess Memma kept murmuring to herself as she wandered through the thick forest. 


Her legs were hurting and her tender body was all bruised and wounded by strong shrubs and bushes.


"But one thing that she doesn't know is that I won't allow her to be on that throne for long because I will come back and take over my place once again. It was mine to begin with and I will take it back." Her eyes glowed as she said these words.


After Princess Memma vouched to return and take what is rightfully hers. The kingdom waited for six days before they decided to bury the late king.


"Today marks the sixth day after the painful and agonizing death of our dear beloved king, King Bajju the sixth of the Kugama kingdom. We have waited for six days according to the number of the generation of kings on which he ascended the throne of his father, today just as his father King Jaja the Fifth was buried on the fifth day, he will be buried today, which is the sixth day, so let us prepare. The town crier went around the large kingdom to inform every household of this.


In the evening, the whole palace yard was packed full of people in their white mourning clothes weeping bitterly as the corpse of King Bajju was carried out, he was dressed in the Royal gold clothing of his ancestors, and gold jewelry and even emerald gemstones were adorned to him. 


He was being carried to the palace graveyard where only royalties are buried. His pale face was uncovered, his hair as dead as his body rested on his head.


CHAPTER THIRTEEN (MOURNING)