Day One

After the day of dethronement was postponed, a miraculous incident happened in the family of an elder named Joseph.

Joseph was one of the elders who goes to meeting with others chiefs in the palace.

He had a son who stays out of Eastender to study journalism. His name is George.

George decided too surprised his father by moving all the from England to Eastender without him to be aware of his coming. It's been two years since he visited his father.

George was totally unaware of what's going on in his village cause his father never mentioned such thing to him whenever they both have a conversation on the phone he bought for him. He bought the phone for his dad so that he could video call him whenever he's less busy. But throughout their conversation, Joseph never mentioned any such thing as "The Devil". Maybe he did not want anything to disturb his studies.

On his way to Eastender, he bought a car to use as a means of transportation after landing at the airport. He bought so many food stuff and vegetables for his dad and stored then in the vehicle.

Luckily to him, the journey was a peaceful one. As he arrived at the Eastender's entrance gate. Everywhere was dark and free like a cemetery, no human nor animal was sighted on his way . He was so confused when moving freely to his father's house because when he was still staying in Eastender with his father, the street is always filled up with every form of living creature both in the day and at midnight even when it's not the day of Christmas.

After all his long journey, he got to his destination in peace. As his car light was flashing through Mr Joseph's window, he stood up immediately to see what or who it was. He got afraid and struggled to find where he kept his sword. He hit his head on the wall on the wall twice because of fear. He peeped through the window to see who it was but unfortunately to him, there person was already at the entrance of his door.

He became frightened ,scared and confused at that moment because no one dare to move around at night at that hour talk less of riding a vehicle around. As he heard the bang on the door ,he quickly heed himself under his bed. Under his bed, he saw the sword that he was searching for. He held on to it and stayed alert.

He heard the bang on the door the second time, this made him to shiver with fear. He then asked .."who's there?".George then replied "It's me George, your son".

This made Joseph eyes to be wide open like someone in an interesting dream. His voice alone showed a vivid identification that it's his son that's at the door. He pushed down to the door without giving a second thought of who it was. As he opened the door, he saw his son standing firm without any stain on him. His handsome face alone reflects how healthy he is. The moment he saw his son standing with a complete body and spirit,he shouted and screamed with the highest tone of his voice. Saying

"He's alive...My son is alive. Come and see miraculous wonder."

George was so confused when he heard his dad shouting and chanting that he's alive. His soul wasn't at rest cause he was thinking if the whole villagers thought that he was dead. He grabbed his father on his shoulder and tried tostop him but it was already too late. The whole villagers had opened up their doors and windows with a great surprise. They all gathered at the front of his house to listen to how his journey went. After they all heard the whole story of his peaceful journey, they all decided to celebrate with him till the next morning.

The king of Eastender felt so paralyzed when he heard the severe condition that the soldier was battling with at his youth age.

Imagine someone without a tongue to speak to his or her colleges,that will be a life of silence for such person.

The king then brought out a piece of book and pen for him to write out all what happened and all what he could remember about that night. But unfortunately,all he could remember was only when he woke up from coma . The king then said

 "Do you mean he can't remember anything that happened that night?, why did you bring him here? , but no one could answer. A deep voice produced by the king's brother then said ..

 "I will keep him with me until he regains his memory ". We must know who the devil is". Everyone agreed with his opinion not knowing that that was the last day they will see the soldier alive.

As the king's maid walked down to the injured soldier's room with some set of drinks and oats, she saw the soldier's corpse lying on the ground in cold blood.

 She screamed down to the king, crying and speaking with broken tone " My Lord... My Lord..".

 What's the problem? The king asked.

"The soldier is dead !" She replied, rubbing her self on the ground.

 What!, A dead body in my palace?, no..no..no, this can't be ".

As the king wanted to take a step to go see the corpse, the queen dragged him back and said. Have you forgotten that the king of Eastender must not see a dead body". A king looking at a dead body in Eastender is forbidden. It's an abomination to the gods of Eastender.

 He couldn't go close to the dead body more or less of sighting it. Then the king told his brother to go and look at what's going on. When he got there, he saw him completely dead on the ground with a pen on his right hand. Blood was all over his body. The position he saw the soldier shows that he stabbed himself with a pen on his chest to death.On the other hand of his corpse he found a book on the table,filled with some written word.He then picked it up and gave it to the King.The king collected it and read

"Long live the King,I wish I could live longer than this but I have no other choice but to free myself from this pains I'm passing through.The devil might might break into the palace all because of me and that would put you all in a serious danger.All I could remember from that night was when the devil slashed all the soldiers and sons of the chief with sword and hook,I was unable to see what he looks like because of the darkness,I was not even able to shoot an arrow because of the fear in my soul. Long Live the King"

"What sort of a living creature will kill himself as a sacrifice for a flesh like him not to get killed"the king said.He then left their presence with anger and sat on his throne, thinking about the crisis and calamity going on in his forefathers city.Almost all the families in the Eastender city has relocated and found their way out of the city saying "What if the devil gets tired of killing in the night and switch his evil works to the daytime when people are supposed to buy and sell to survive"

The king was so preoccupied at that moment. His son walked up to him and said"Dad,My Lord let's stop finding solutions and let's leave this city before we die young in this palace"

The king was so sad and shattered when he heard that word from the prince. His one and only son who's supposed to take over the throne in peace and harmony is wishing to be absent in the kingdom.

The king then said to him " my prince, don't be afraid, you will surely sit on this throne and rule the people of Eastender just as our ancient prince did. There's nothing that goes up and never comes down, why?, because, it's all made from the ground itself. They all belongs to the ground not the sky. I will bring down the devil with all my strength,breaths, sweat and the power of our most high God who rules this town with our ancestors, go to bed,you don't need to run nor tarry" okay?.

The prince then walked back to his room with a little piece of mind and assurance that all what his father said will surely come to pass. The princess was also mute and bothered after seeing her father's condition.

The king had a son and a daughter , the prince was named prince Bryan while the princess name was princess Victoria. The prince was about 15 years old when this critical crisis was going on while the princess was 18 years old. She was a young beautiful girl filled with wisdom and endowed with beauty of a goddess. She then went straight to her father to console him with the high level of her kindness by holding on to his left hand and placing the other on top of his right hand like a brave boy covering a fly with his bare hands. She looked at him and said "Dad, everything will be alright".

This word from the princess made the king to burst out in tears like a baby. As the queen saw him shedding tears, she shaked her head and said " Shameless king".