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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

"Powers? What powers? I don't have powers, I am as useless as Bonu, the old turtle that lays under the olive tree outside Kugama's gate day and night doing nothing." Hanra said after she chuckled at what Agu said. 


"You are stupid. I had expected you to be smart since I gave powers from mine but you are not. You just look like King Bajju but you are nothing like him." 


"My grandfather. Do you know my grandfather?" Hanra asked. 


"Know? I loved your grandfather, if only it was right for an Izagi to be in love with a mere mortal then maybe, I would have been your grandmother." Agu said and laughed at her own words. 


"Even in a trance, I am a joker," Agu said and they both laughed. 


"Can you please tell me about my grandfather?" Hanra pleaded with Agu and was finally convinced after what seemed like ages. Agu told her the story of King Bajju and even told her about what she saw in him that made her fall for him. 


"King Bajju of Kugama was a great man who was willing to do just anything for his people but you, I am not so sure if you can do the same for your people."


"How do I do that with no magic from within me?" Hanra said in a sad tone and looked away. 


"Every Kugama child,  male or female has a magic within. They just have to find it and yours does not need to be found, it just needs to be embraced." Agu said and pointed at a bright night coming close with great intensity. 


"Embrace your magic or embrace your death as well as that of everyone in Kugama."


The light came and Hanra was hit by a musical note. She fell backward and quickly got up again, Holding the hand of her dead mother, she screamed. 


Slowly her scream turned into a melody and a beautiful song was heard. She started raising her voice and Nenma also started raising hers as well, they kept sending musical notes like swords at each other but Hanra was shielding herself while Nenma was being hit by every musical note fired at her.


CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN (A MEETING WITH AGU)