The Eight Vision (III):

"How was I reincarnated into a fool, a coward and a worthless gnat"…" this is unacceptable for my body to be trashed around by an insignificant avatar"…" I can't believe this how much ifa thought of me"…

Tunde kept hearing a voice that was his speaking these words but he was sure he was not the one speaking them. He looked around and a river of red blood silk fabric flowed around him with nothing and no one in sight. "Look at yourself you worthless fool, look how far you have fallen". Tunde turned to look around again but was confronted this time by himself. He was wearing a flowing red agbada that seemed to have a life of its own. All the fabric for miles seemed to originate from the agbada. His other reflection seemed angry without direction and raged at him

"you lost your family and let Funto run mad because of your refusal to accept your destiny, coward!. Now you will allow Adigun and Ekun-Okun to die for you. I refuse to allow this!. Not in front of mine eyes!!. Ajala, my slumber is over!!"

Olufemi watched as Tunde's visage suddenly changed, a crack appeared in the spell of stillness as the entire visage of stillness shattered and everything went back into motion. Adigun came out of reverie ad saw what Olufemi had become and saw that he was about to be killed. Olugbemi thundered "it is impossible, it is not possible. There is none in creation that can unlock what Ifa has locked, what is happening??!!!".

Olufemi and Adigun looked at Tunde and they noticed his eyes were an unnatural shade of glowing red, he was snarling at Olufemi and his clothes had completely changed to an agbada of living red that kept morphing around Tunde and speaking with many tongues, Tunde looked up and spoke with a voice of a thousand voices. His voice alone caused shockwaves that knocked everything back from him. He spoke clearly and with authority:

"*Oxossi dictates that If Agbe crows in the forest. All Agbe's colleagues would echo the crowing of Agbe. If Aluko crows in the dale. All the Aluko's colleagues would echo its crowing. Olugboun (Natural Echo), Echo my voice."

The sonics boom that emanated from Tunde's voice proceeded towards Olufemi in waves obliterating and dismantling every part of the cyclops' body. Olufemi kept crying "*baba mi, Ifa!!, Baba mi ifa!!!", if Tunde noticed Olufemi's total powerlessness, he seemed not to care. Tunde's agbada cried out "*Agbara (*Powerof )Oxossi!!!" And the waves of sound rose up into the sky for a split second and then came down obliterating everything within the earshot of the shrine. Adigun screamed at the onslaught "Tunde! Tunde!, wake up!!, this isn't my son!". But at the last second of impact, Tunde's agbada elongated and wrapped itself around Adigun and the unconscious wounded Ekun-Okun shielding them from the explosion.

After the sound of debris falling from the sky had stopped, Adigun looked up, and Tunde was crumpled in a corner with the red living agbada gone and there was no trace of Olufemi or the hut. There were trees everywhere uprooted from their roots. Adigun carried Tunde and spoke "Ekun-Okun go before me". Immediately, the red leopard woke up and turned into streaks of red fire and hail burning and clearing all the debris around them to make an escape route for them. Adigun…felt fear…for his grandson and from his grandson.