"THE ECHO "

It's deafening, I can't take it any longer,

let me be! ahh! ah!!!, I screamed.

I don't belong to you! I yelled, half asleep and half awake..

Then, mum taps on my back, woke me up. Her voice soothing; "Calvin, not again!"

"Child, prepare yourself, we need to visit Lord Zurek Damon. You can't continue like this."

I hugged her, tightly. The dreams are so real and threatening. The echos piercing my ears. Literally destroying my ear drums.

"He said I'm the chosen one, the last of my lineage."

"He'd come to take me."

Mum isn't letting this be. The same Echo had taken five from my Dad's lineage.

Dad gave his life to appease them, yet they came for me - her last hope and the only one left on this planet Earth.

You see why she isn't letting go? We must visit Lord Zurek Damon.

Apart from dreams, they sometimes come physical. Sometimes when I'm walking with peers, I'll close my ears with both hands and scream so loud. This makes my peers run. Some are actually fascinated. They give me all sorts of spiritual names.

I know I definitely don't belong here. The conviction is so much. How can you define someone who has such powers?

Someone who travels just by blinking eyelids.....?

I haven't unleashed one inch of my powers, for the fear it may destroy the people I care for. I wish my mum knew half my capabilities. I hope she knows.

I was given the name "Maris Danga", though not originally from birth. But mum still calls me Calvin cos she believes I don't belong.

Dad found out that I belonged and gave his life so I can be left. That process brought about the change of my name.

For everything has to change so that my energy can be tamed, yet now the energy I exude is capable of bringing the doom they feared.

I've been to India and most parts of the world, yet haven't travelled out of Africa physically.

Who even needs physical travel? Who needs the stress of sitting in an airplane for hours, when you can get to where you want by just closing your eyes.

"Mum, he said, I should be ready for initiations in three days time."

I don't want to lose you. That place is fucking scary!

Did you drink the wine? Mum enquired..

Nope, that was why I yelled out. The echo of his voice made me scared and the glass broke from my hands..

"Then we need to visit Lord Zurek Damon tomorrow". We'll be gone before dusk. 'Poor child, come and sleep on my lap.

They will loose out this time. Enough of sacrifices from our lineage. Enough of blood sheds. Whatever it will take, I'm in for it", mum concluded.

She began gathering the items for our travel; a white lizard, a green cobra, four legged cock and digging my father's grave, she brought out his skull.

All Items were carefully tied inside a nylon bag. Then the journey begins!.

Indeed, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. For we walked through the caves, down the deep thick rainforest of Nedxzaga. The journey that began like a joke, soon turned into twists.

We fought the forest bats, the dark eagles and even the ugly vultures of Mendala. We are supposed to get to our destination before the "Echo" comes in three day's time. So, this knowledge increased our intensity to fight. Least we may be caught in the thick forest and may not reach our destination.

At last, there we are! At the temple of Lord Zurek Damon! He announced his presence, with such aura; the scent of incense that fills the air, even from distance.