Chapter 1: Hoshe'athe's message

The forest was a bit shady with huge trees that encompassed the whole area. One could hardly see the sun. Mojeti stood clueless and unsure of what to do.

The smell of nature and the smell of the river was appealing to her lungs. She stood there, barefooted with her beautiful diamond anklets. She studied the area.

The strange figure was dressed in a dark raiment,his cloak went all the way to his feet.

He watched her from afar. The river, separating him from her,he stood on the other side of the river. His face,she could not recognize. She searched her memory to remember his face if she had seen him before. The figure struggled to speak.

Mojeti noticed it. She noticed his struggles.

"What's going on with him?" She thought.

She looked around her. Trees. Big trees.

"How did I get here?" She asked herself.

Her eyes, wide open as she scanned the forest. It was a thick forest with huge trees,animals and a river. An endless river it seems.

The animals were sounding almost at the same time. Very loud and strange.

The birds,the monkeys,the snakes,all sounding in her ears at the same time and this strange man that struggled to speak.

"Why?

Several thought ran through her mind.

"Am I dead?"

"Could this be the afterlife?" She asked herself. All this questions ran through her mind.

"Mojeti!. Finally the figure spoke.

Mojeti stood there in shock.

"How is it that you know my name?" She asked him.

"Because i have been sent to you".

"By who?"

"The doers of good". Hoshe'athe answered. Their message goes thus: Aztekinas have suffered much, even now that your pain and sorrow increase which result to your practicing magic and sorcery. We understand your loss and grief,as I have come now to deliver the people. You're pregnant with twins, not identical twins.

One is the defender and the other has come to prepare the way of the defender. She listened attentively. "You will recognize the defender with her long black hair and a touch of white at the tip and her jade eye color.

This is her unique features and some you may get to know yourself. As for the other twin,the way preparer,she will hide the defender's Identity. Mojeti,do not let people know that you carry twins even do the midwives. Do not expect joy after this prophecy for alejandra is more than them. Do all you must to protect her, as she grows in you,so shall your powers grow too".

She believed him. All that he said.

"I will protect the two of them with every drop of my blood and even till my last breath. My gratitude for picking me to be the vessel. I feel honored". Her eyes beamed with gladness.

"Be careful... He said almost in a whisper. He vanished like a thin smoke in the air.

*

Mojeti opened her eyes slowly." It was a dream. She muttered.

She sat up on her bed and felt her belly with her hand.

"Am I pregnant?" She asked herself.

The night was dark and cold.

"Love!... She tapped him. "Love! She called again. "Dunagan!" She screamed.

Her voice jerked him from his sleep.

He rubbed his eyes to see clearly.

"What is it love?"... Dunagan asked as he reached for the glass of water placed on the short stool beside the bed.

"Do you want some water?" He asked.

"Yes I do. She streched forth her hand to collect the glass of water from him. "Thank you".

"I did not wake you up for the water love,it's something else".

"What is it then?"

"I think I'm pregnant.

"Why do you think so?" He asked her.

"I had a dream that a man told me I am pregnant".

"A dream. He repeated. "Are you sure?"

"Yes I am. There was a weird man dressed in a black cloth ,he said I am pregnant with twins and I should not let people know and one is a defender and stuff... I really don't understand.

"He said you should not let people know,then why do you tell me this things".

"You are my husband dunagan. You should know*.

"Okay, okay,we will have the midwives here tomorrow morning and they will check you .

He said I should be careful too. Infact that was his last word. Love,at this point we can't trust anyone. She said

"Okay,I will bring the midwife that helped my mother deliver me, she's quite old and wise i think we can trust her.... Dunagan said as he stared into her eyes with love and care.

"If you say so, then it's fine. She can come".

"Will you go back to sleep now or should I stay up with you". He asked.

"No,I think I should go back to sleep, perhaps he may come back.

"Okay then.... He placed a light kiss on her lips. Sleep tight.

She managed a smile and went back to sleep.

He watched her for awhile and went back to sleep too.

*

They ran after him with determination in their eyes.

Countless arrows they fired at him. The kyar arrow. Only one is enough to make him drop dead. Their big foot trod on the delicate grass on the ground.

The expression on their faces,very scary and dreadful.

Malchijah was right behind him.

Dunagan ran like a man chased by a starved lion. He could hardly breathe. His heart was beating mad fast,his blood pounding fast in his ears.

He heard an object coming towards him. The arrows travelled fast like a flash of lightning. He dodged the arrow and it went straight into a tree.

"The kyar arrow!" He gasped when he saw it.

"Give up the child ". Malchijah screamed.

"Never". Dunagan replied.

He woke up gasping for breath. He was breathing heavily. His heart almost fell out.

He reached for the glass of water on the table beside the bed.

Dunagan tried to be calm even though he was not. He did not want his wife to wake up.

Many thoughts and questions clouded his mind.

"Give up the child"... malchijah voice echoed in his head.

Malchijah was after my baby in the dream.

"But why?"

"My child can never be a curse but a blessing". He said.

The dream is a warning. He thought.

The future will be tough,so many people will seek the defender. Some to worship her and some to end her.

It does not matter their motives, they will be after her.

"Why give us children that will cease our peace, doers of good". He muttered.

"Have you now give up on doing good and what is right".

"I cannot reveal this dream to mojeti for she may be scared to death".

She had actually desired a powerful and extra ordinary child and this is the same one in her stomach. Powerful enough to cease our peace.

My goodness.

"So many sacrifice will be made.

"I will have extra ordinary children".

But this dream troubled him alot. The strongest man in aztekin after his child,what is about this child that malchijah will be determined to take at all cost. There is more to this dream.He was up for hours and finally his eyes closed. He fell asleep.