Venom

6

All the leaders followed him ,as he walk with confidence .Truth be told the 6 of them were handsome well build ,as they pass the hallway they received a lot of blushes , and whispers .

Some maids were brave enough to even wink at them as they passed them .

The place was already packed with kings from other kingdoms already there. Sizwe stood strong as his big figure made it through the door followed by his leaders . The man at door announced their arrival with everyone in the hall stood up and bow to them , only the kings stood erected . Sizwe looked at the arrogant kings as he smirked.

" ANNOUNCING HIS MAJESTY KING Sizwe ,king ..king ..king Thabo ,faraji ,Baraka , Aziz , and zawadi ." the man wiped some sweat as he was nervous about forgetting some names. The names . Nobody could blame him considering that the names were in their language.

Sizwe and all the leaders didn't bow at all ,and watch everyone as if they were the masters and rest was the slave .

" that arrogant little ...." king of Desire kingdom king Walter whispered a little . As he felt a little annoyed . King Tobias of Mingos Kingdom ,smiled while watching at Sizwe ,he really admire him . Despite being in a foreign kingdom ,he still maintain his stand as king of all his people.

Some people complained about how Sizwe didn't bow to their kings ,while some just shut their mouth .

"let the feast begin " a loud announcement was made everyone sit down .Only sounds of utensils could be heard .

Food was obviously made special for other kings but not them . Despite that they didn't even comment on anything . King Tobias frowned seeing this .

wasn't this an insult on them ? He was starting to suspect the real reason why they wanted peace peace because since the Kesi people arrived it was obviously they weren't accepted.

After eating they moved to the council chamber ,they were there yesterday at their arrival .

The room turned into a deep silence ,until king Charles broke the silence .

" we all know why we are here . We are here for the peace oder between us and the Kesi people . We know we've been at odds since the beginning of time . Few months ago we decided to send a letter there to discuss about the peace order . Gladly they accepted our offer . " He took a sip of the wine on the table.

" we came to a conclusion of that we will offer a bride to one of the kings from kesi tribe . That's what we offer ,the bride will come from my people . One one of dear daughter will be given to the kesi as their queen ."

" we knew the kesi might feel uncomfortable engaging in any of this . Or they might feel uncomfortable giving their females to us . We heard you don't practice polygamy but your mwami yangu Sizwe is not married so we were asking if he could be the one to take the wife." King Samuel from Matribute kingdom said as he watched all of their reactions .

They knew well ,talk about manipulating .

" if our terms are agreed ,the wedding will be hosted a 2 days from today " .

Sizwe was the calmest of them all

" We agree to your terms ,our mwani yangu will take the princess as a wife . " that was Faraji who said it .

Baraka shoot him a menacing gaze as he watched Sizwe . He was surprised to see him calm and not even stopping Faraji .

" we also have something to offer we couldn't come empty handed to the trip , Chipo " Sizwe shouted for one of the warriors .A female warrior came ,as she walked towards Sizwe with a bag in her hands , she was handling it nicely .she first went on one knee .

" mwami yangu " as she bowed her head ,while protecting the bag .

She put the bag on the table , Sizwe carefully unwrapped it , with every eyes in him . He took out a bottle containing a purple liquid . The liquid was shinning a little .

All the kings' eyes went wide . Some looked at the liquid with awe,malice ,greed . All kind of stares were throw at the bottle.

With his long finger he gently pushed the bottle to the center of the table .

" we encounter a Manticore,on our way here . I thought we can't come here empty handed ,so we took it's poison before it rot and preserved it to bring here " his voice was casual as if he's discussing the task of the day.

All the kings looked at the bottle with so much desire . Who wouldn't want it ? even diamond couldn't buy it .

On short the Manticore venom was extremely valuable.

King Charles wanted to snatch it from everyone but they all have to maintain a serene expression.

" That means you agree to our offer " king Charles asked unsure.

Sizwe chuckled while sipping the wine " we see no harm in trying " .

Only Faraji and Zawadi's expressions remained the same ,the rest were looking at Sizwe like he was a monster.

Thabo wanted to jump and ask where our chief .

They all rejoiced at Sizwe's agreement .

" if i might ask ,is there anymore Manticore venom" king walter with his greedy eyes looked at Sizwe .