AVA - CHAPTER 5&6
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(★* Revelation and departure*★)
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Eighteen years later,Ava has grown into a young matured lady.
She was very strong now and her powers are taking it toils and be coming visible.
An unexplainable and surprising incident happened during her final year in high school.
At that time,the student were preparing to write their final exam,so all the lecturers were given the student extra tutors as they won’t want them to fail their course.
This fateful day,they were having biology class and the class was boring.
Ava decided to rest her head a little bit as she suddenly felt a pang of headache.
The lecturer saw this and walked to her tabke to wake her up.
Unknowingly to him there was a truck whose brake has failed coming to the lecturers room at high speed.
The student saw this and ran out screaming.
The lecturer looked sideways to know why the student were shouting only for him to see the truck a few meters away.
There was no help for him,even of he ran away,the truck will crash into the room and ki|| him.
He screamed out terribly,so that the scream woke up sleeping Ava.
In a twinkle of an eye,she got herself and the lecturer out of the room before it came crashing down.
Everyone kept asking her about her superman speed but she herself was surprised as she does not understand what happen.
The Headline on the news and paper was:
FINAL YEAR SUPERWOMAN SAVED HERSELF AND LECTURER FROM A CRUMBLING BUILDING.
During the dinner her parent asked her about it.
“Destiny,explain.what happened in school today” Gabriel asked
“Dad,sincerely I don’t know what happen,I just found myself doing it” Ava said the words she has been telling other people.
“What do you mean by you don’t know what happened? “Emily asked.
“Mum,I don’t know,I just found myself doing things am not supposed to do,and just look at now am the topic of discussion on everyone’s lips,am sick and tired” Ava said dropping her fork on the plate,she gulped down some water and left the table.
“Ava love,you don’t have to think about it,we believe you” Gabriel yelled.
“Do you think she knows or has she found out about her origin” Emily asked worriedly.
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Ava went inside and sat down on her bed,she inhaled and exhaled until her nerves calmed down.
She thought about the incident that happened in school today.
She knows about her was becoming strange like she possess one kind of supernatural powers.
She knows Gabriel and Emily were not her biological parents,they told her when she was young but had refrained from asking them numerous questions related to her birth,country and adoption.
“What if they are hiding something from me,does all this have to do or connected to me in anyway” she asked herself.
She stood up and went out and met her parent at the dinning room still eating and quietly talking.
“Mom,Dad,is there anything you are not telling me?” Ava asked searching her parenta face for the slightest expression.
They stared at each other and sighed.
“Ava you are about writing your final exams,so you should think about getring into college,making friends and maybe even having a boyfriend” Gabriel said trying to change the topic.
“Dad don’t try to change the discussion,just answer my damned question,Who am I?” Ava said visibly angry.
Gabriel sighed and looked at Emily and nodded.
Its high time they told her about her birth.
Emily cleared her throat and spoke.
“Ava your biological parents are African. They made us adopt you because they were trying to protect you from some bad people who wanted to sacrifice you to their gods” Emily paused looking at ava for any expression but there was none.
“we should have told you long time ago but we were scared you will h@?? us” Emily said apologetically.
“So am African,no wonder all these traits” Ava said in tears. She got up and ran to her room.
“Ava you don’t have to feel bad about it,we too are Africans and its the best thing that has ever happened to us” Gabriel said after her.
“Do you think we did the right thing” Emily asked, Gabriel squeezed her hands lovingly and kisses it.
“She will come around,trust me”
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Destiny stopped crying as soon as she got into her room.
She began pacing up and down with different thought running through her head.
“So am actually African but what do they mean by my parents saved me from being sacrificed to a gods,what gods are they talking bout’? who are thses people? How do they look like?” She asked herself.
Even though of recently she has been dreaming of a woman who claims to be her mother urging her to come back and save her people.
She kept on thinking about it until she feel asleep not knowing all questions would be answered.
She woke up and found herself in a dark room,she was tied with big strong ropes.
She looked around the room to find a means of escape but the only means was the door and it was locked.
She could hear voices speaking outside the room and wondered how she came here,from the language thy spoke outside,she knew she was far away but she wondered how she wandered far away from home without her parents.
She searched around for any sharp objects to at least free herself before the people who tied her came inside.
She couldn’t see anything as the source of light in the room was the moonlight which peeped in through the crack in the wall.
The voices soon approached the room and she became petrified.
She was scared of dying in an unknown country without her parents.
The door burst open and three heavy built men came and carried her out.
she struggled forcefully with them but all to no avail.
The giants carried her to a large gathering of people who started shouting immediately they saw her.
She glanced around for any familiar person when her eyes stumbled on an idol at a corner.
She guessed immediately that she was to be sacrificed to the gods but why would they do so?
The silence died down and all eyes were fixed on someone.
She turned around to see an old man with machete.
He looked weird and ugly and horrible. She guessed he was the man that wants to sacrifice her.
The old man looked at her and his look alone sent shivers down her spine.
He came forward to the people and spoke.
“Greetings my people,today is the gods and goddess are going to release us from the bondage of the forest of death. We are going to experience freedom. Today is a day of joy and no one will take it away from us. Today is our day of laughter and no one will ever make us cry”. He paused and the people screamed happily. From their scream,Ava knew they supported him.
The old man was satisfied with their scream and smiled devilishly.
He gave the giants a sign and they carried their captive and placed her on a carved stone.
A woman immediately opposed his decision and she was beheaded instantly.
She recognized her as the woman she kept seeing in her dream who claimed to be her mother.
The old man walked to her and lifted the well sharpened machete to cut off her head when a voice brought her back.
“Ava,I know what we did was wrong but you have to come out,you can’t stay in there forever” Emily said.
“I am coming mum” Ava said. She heaved a sigh of relief, so it was all a dream all this while.
She was sure the people who wanted to sacrifice her were her people her parents mentioned but why would they want to sacrifice her?
She rushed to the bathroom to take her bath and brushed her teeth. She came out and met her parents waiting for her at the doorsteps.
“Ava,we are sorry, I and your dad discussed all through the night and had come up with a beautiful decision”
“Okay,mum,where’s dad?” She asked.
“Right behind you,let’s go to the dinning room” Gabriel said.
They walked to the dinning table and sat down while Emily served the breakfast.
They ate in silence until Ava cleared her throat.
“Mum,Dad, I know you both want to tell me something, so just spill it out and stop staring at each other, its making me feel uncomfortable”Ava said.
“Yes we wanted to tell you something. I and your mom planned on sending you to an Academy for supernatural,people with extra ordinary powers, so you could master your powers properly” Gabriel said.
“Why do I have to go to an academy of supernatural? What powers am I mastering?” Ava asked confused.
“Ava the reason why your parent made us adopt you was because the god eyes wanted to sacrifice you to the gods. But your destiny is to grow up with your people, master your powers and save your people from the forest of death,so in order to prepare you for the future, we have decides to send you to an Academy where people with extraordinary powers are trained to master their powers and abilities” Emily fully explained.
“Ohh! I understand now,so when am I going?”
“Very soon,we just have to fix something’s before you leave” Gabriel said.
“OK mom and dad am not angry at you both. Any parents in your shoes will do the same thing you have done and I want to tell you that am lucky to have people like you as my parents. I am so sorry I over reacted yesterday night” Ava apologized.
“Its okay,we understand. We love you that’s why we did everything we had done and we won’t want you to go astray” Gabriel said.
She nodded and cleared the table while her parents went to process her trip to the academy.