FOR PART ONE CLICK HERE. PART TWO HERE. PART THREE HERE. PART FOUR HERE. PART FIVE HERE. PART SIX HERE. PART SEVEN HERE. PART EIGHT HERE. PART NINE HERE. PART TEN HERE.
PART ELEVEN – Back at the home of his unfit uncle King Temugedege, Ozidi took Odogu’s Wife to bed with him that night. Though she seemed to willingly leave Odogu’s home, and in fact had led Ozidi by the hand as they fled, it became clear that the woman was playing a game of her own.
She and the eager Ozidi would kiss and cuddle and a bit more, but when our main character tried to enter her, Odogu’s Wife would go all coy again and try to get Ozidi to tell her the secret of his strength and his supernatural weapons. Our hero stubbornly refused.
So it went the next night, too, with Odogu’s Wife also inquiring about the magic powers of Ozidi’s sorceress grandmother Oreame. Over the next few nights, Ozidi, much shrewder than he had been before, pretended to go and get an object which would reveal all his and Oreame’s secrets to Odogu’s Wife.
But each time he would return and claim he had changed his mind and say he would not reveal secrets to the woman until they had sex. Eventually, Odogu’s Wife was so anxious that she had sex with Ozidi all night and part of the next day. Yet still he refused to reveal anything to the woman.
Back at the home of Odogu, the hulk of a man with the malformed face that had eyes on the top of the head, he had taken to complaining to his sorceress mother Agonodi. He was sick of waiting for his wife to surreptitiously obtain Ozidi’s secrets and was asking Agonodi if he should just storm King Temugedege’s home and attack Ozidi.
Agonodi advised Odogu to be patient, but in her anger she mystically called out to Ozidi’s grandmother Oreame “Oh, Oreame! We both learned our magic from Akarakarabiri (see Part Two)! Whichever one of us tires first in fighting on behalf of our kin will die!”
That night, Odogu’s Wife again pleaded with Ozidi to reveal his secrets to her or she would accuse him of carrying her away and taking her in bed by force. Our main character, fully realizing the lengths of deceit that Odogu’s Wife was willing to go to, drew his sword made out of lightning from his mouth and cut her in two.
Oreame rushed to their room, saw the dead body of Odogu’s Wife and knew that Agonodi and her son Odogu would force a final confrontation. She gathered up her implements of magic, spread her wings and – carrying the two parts of Odogu’s Wife’s corpse – flew to Odogu’s home. Once there she cried for Agonodi and her son to come out.
Blinking sleep from their eyes, the pair did so. On seeing the remains of his wife, Odogu was furious and fetched his fighting sticks, then confronted Oreame. The old woman told Odogu that her battle was to be woman to woman, herself against his sorceress mother Agonodi.
Agonodi put on her head her flaming crown which burned like a stove. She used the crown to heat her and her son’s slain foes so they could eat their remains. Oreame eyed Agonodi and Odogu and summoned her grandson Ozidi to come face Odugu while she fought the other sorceress.
Ozidi hastened to Oreame’s side, wielding his lightning-sword and accompanied by his musicians, his monkey and his lizard. Ozidi and Odogu clashed, with the battle going first Odogu’s way, then Ozidi’s way.
Meanwhile, Oreame and Agonodi pitted their sorcery against each other. Both battles were waged until night fell once again. The fighting continued until daybreak, by which time Ozidi and Odogu had grown so exhausted and had wounded each other so badly that they fell as one to the ground.
Both Agonodi and Oreame knew of a certain herb which could immediately revive an exhausted warrior but only one, no more. They each flew off into the jungle to obtain that herb.
Agonodi reached the herb first, plucked it out by the root and flew back to Orua with Oreame close behind her. Right at the site where Ozidi and Odogu both lie exhausted, Oreame grappled with Agonodi.
At length, Oreame emerged with the herb and touched it to Ozidi’s prone body. Immediately, he sprang to his feet, lightning-sword at the ready. In a rage, he wielded his sword all around him, withstanding any magic that Agonodi tried using against him.
After this flurry of whirlwind activity, Ozidi settled down and beheld the aftermath. Odogu lay dead, his body cut up into several pieces. Agonodi lay dead, her head cut off and her flaming crown now reduced to mere smoking.
Then, to the horror of Ozidi and his entire retinue, they saw Oreame lay dead, accidentally slain by her grandson in his battle rage!
THERE ARE STILL A FEW MORE PARTS IN THIS EPIC, AND I’LL CONTINUE WITH THEM NEXT TIME.
