Part 10 (3)

As they were walking to the hot beverages sector, the senior henchman Polo whispered to his young collaborator Baba: "Governor Babida went to consult the top secret document regarding that new monster, isn't it?"

"Yes, that's what I think, My Commander! He has been working on it all these past few days. Though he didn't involve anyone and worked alone on the case, I was able to check the document indeliberately when he forgot to put it away and had asked me to look for another one on his desk." The interim aide-de-camp Baba revealed.

"You know, I worked on this topic with late Governor Kola Il and we had prepared a plan to reduce to zero the threat, among which the construction of this magical cave. But there's a top secret winning strike against the walking tornado that had been drafted by the former Governor and hid somewhere maybe in the office or...I don't know..." told the senior henchman Polo.

The youngster Baba was thereupon pensive as they reached the drinking spot.

"Please, three hot Chai, comrade!" asked the henchman Baba to an imperial warrior who volunteered to serve the tea to the refugees.

"Right away, My Commander!" The waiter of particular circumstances replied.

The two henchmen carried the drinks and walked up back to the position of the young maiden Suzie who was drowsy and hadn't slept since her escape along with the other refugees from the walking tornado last night.

"Sorry, young Miss! You may drink this beverage and then lie on the mattress to get some sleep." The aide-de-camp Polo told Suzie.

"Thank you, My Commander! You have been very helpful since the passing of my uncle. Only the sky can reward you for your good deeds. I will make a prayer for you to the ancestors." said the young maiden Suzie to the senior henchman who was very pleased by her kind words.

"Young Miss, you can always count on me," Polo answered back to her.

"On me too!" exclaimed the youngster Baba after clearing his throat.

The three refugees of the magical cave thereafter silently drank the hot Chai.

The heat of the sun was finally declining as Babida the lumberjack woke up from his nap.

"Ouf! At last, the weather is mild now. I can thus resume my way forward to the office. I need to find the missing piece of the top-secret document about that calamity. I know that it surely contains vital intelligence on how to handle this damned walking tornado." The woodsman told himself.

On these words, the Governor of Okunde Babida rose and continued his march ahead to the administrative headquarters from where the new monster had launched its savage attack on the village.

In his solitary walk, the logger got lost in his thoughts. He wondered how he could defeat an enemy that was constituted of wind and had no bones, no flesh, and no blood.

Governor Babida interrogated himself about how he could dominate an adversary that had no emotion, no feelings, and queried himself about how he could hence inflict pain on it as he did to the old and newborn Monsters of the forbidden mountain, as well as to the terrifying bats.

However, he boosted himself to take up the challenge.

"We shall see. We shall see." Babida the lumberjack repeated to himself as he could now perceive from a distance the administrative headquarters if one could call it again so, for the building was in shambles.

"Oh my goodness!" cried out the Governor of Okunde at the sight of the completely demolished edifice.

The walking tornado had gone away but had left its footprint. The monster had shown no mercy to anything that was standing in his path. The center of the village was in total ruin and bodies of imperial soldiers and civilians that could not make it to the magical cave or another shelter, were lying on the soil.

The dismay of the woodsman was so great that his heart began to beat like a drum and threatened to pierce his chest and come out.

Governor Babida let the Herculean steel axe that he was holding in his left hand go on the ground, and then kneeled before looking at the heavens and asking the ancestors: "My forefathers, why? Why? Why?"

The chance to find the top secret document that contained a winning strike against the new phenomenon: the walking tornado, was maybe lost forever under the rubbles of the administrative headquarters.

The predecessor of Governor Babida, the late Governor Kola Il, had worked on the case before his passing, classified it as a State affair, and hid a part of the document somewhere, probably in his office.

The lumberjack had discovered the other piece of it but it was incomplete and key information was missing or written in a non-straightforward language that required to be initiated before one could understand what it was all about.

With the recent events, the woodsman connected the attack of the walking tornado with the warning of looming aggression by a new creature of evil that was mentioned in the piece of the top-secret document that he found on the day he took office as Governor of Okunde.

"What am going to do now?" said Governor Babida as he stood up.

"It was already difficult to find the missing piece of the top secret document when the building was still up. Now that it has been pulled down by that cursed walking tornado, how tougher is it going to be to get it?" The lumberjack questioned himself.

"Anyway, I have no choice but to clear the debris. No matter how long it's going to take, I will turn all stones until I am certain it wasn't safeguarded within the office or any other rooms of the administrative headquarters." Babida committed.

He then picked up his axe and courageously advanced toward the rumbles before like a one-man army beginning to clear the wreckage.

The lumberjack as if his might had tripled, with a strike of his Herculean steel axe made the stones fly as he freed the way to the position where his office was before the calamity put everything upside down.

The logger's determination was total and ultimately paid back. He reached the side where used to be his bureau and saw hundreds of documents covered by dust.

He commenced to assemble them one after another until he randomly laid his hand on a rectangular box with a lock on it.

"Oh, oh! Look what we have here!" Governor Babida said to himself.

He then sat on a stone to try to open the container but the lock was sturdy. So he took his axe and brutally knocked the box and it fragmented into several chunks.

However, a rolled papyrus tied in the middle with a red wire emerged from the receptacle.

"Hmmm, what is this?" uttered Babida, delighted by his discovery as he picked it up and contemplated it as if it was a treasure.

The woodsman thereafter slowly unfolded the sheet and was amazed by the "TOP SECRET" notice on the letterhead.

He then began to silently explore the content and suddenly shouted: "Yes!" as he was done perusing it.

Governor Babida retrieved his weapon and took the way back to the magical cave.