My New Neighbor

Episode 13

The Lion’s head was as big as a basin and the crown hairs that was surrounding his head was so much that it made his bigger. His claws alone can rip my bones apart and his roars were enough to make me pass out.

The Tiger was a little bit different from the Lion, he appeared more dangerous and ferocious his claws was a bit longer than that of the Lion.

It seems like the two wild animals have been expecting me and from the way they were sticking out their tongues, I could see that they are so hungry and they might even have been starved for days or weeks.

I started regretting and blaming myself for taking the man’s advice and I knew that I can only survive from the hands of those two animals with God’s grace. I wasn’t even sure if the spirit I have in me can save me from their claws and sharp teeth.

I started coming up with crazy ideas of how and what I can use the knives I had with me to do. But all these ideas would earn me nothing but death becaus I couldn’t obviously go against those two wild animals, I thought to myself.

I stopped pondering when I noticed that the Lion has taken his first step towards me and he was now moving towards me slowly. He kept on moving his feet around and at some point, he turned back. The Tiger was just watching us like a movie whilst standing at a distance.

A little butterfly started moving around in my tummy after the Lion changed his direction. I thought that God has finally answered my prayer and the Lion has now decided to go back. He kept on moving away from me majestically.

I started retreating back too while thanking God for changing the direction of the Lion and saving my skin in the process.

I was still thanking God silently when the Lion changed his direction towards me suddenly like a bolt of lightning and it started running towards me with God’s speed. The Tiger took off immediately the Lion changed his direction and both of them were now running towards me in order to kill me.

My happiness turned to sadness immediately and fresh tears started dropping from my eyes. I was already seeing my soft fresh flesh in their mouth. I could see them brawling over my flesh.

Their movement was followed by different imaginations from me and all I could do was to run towards the river.

I was running fast, but the Lion and the Tiger were running faster. I kept on running as if my life depended on it, and literally, my life really depends on it.

The Lion was just about to catch up with me, grab me and tear me apart when an unusual and unexpected thing happened.

The Tiger attacked the Lion when it noticed that the Lion was about to pounce on me. It was so fast and unreal. I didn’t even know they were fighting until I turned back.

I kept on running towards water and I hid myself in the water by lying low inside it. The position I lying on enabled me to witness the power tussle between the two fierce animals.

It was so obvious that the Lion was angered by what the Tiger did and he kept on biting an kicking the Tiger. The Tiger wouldn’t budge either and he kept on attacking and defending himself from the Lion’s blows.

They fought for over 30 minutes and by this time, they both have bloods on their body and the blood was coming out from different wounds on their body.

They have sustained a massive amount of injuries and after fighting for another 30 minutes, the Lion triumphed and he able to kill the tiger, claiming his throne back.

I guess the Lion has forgotten about me and what he was now just concerned about his pride and throne, and he was quite elated after killing the Tiger. He limped away shortly after. Seems like the Tiger dealt a massive blow on him too.

I waited for over an hour for the Lion to walk away before I stood up. I wouldn’t want him to see me again afterall, that will be sure ticket to heaven, or perhaps hell for me.

The only thing that was on my mind at that moment was to trace the path back to the man’s hut and kill him for giving me the wrong direction.

I picked my knives up. I still have them with me and I started running towards the path like the Tiger that got killed earlier.

I have a little amount of energy in me now due to the meal I had earlier and it kept me moving.

I got to the man’s hut after two hours of intense race and the fire was still on. I started tip toeing like a petty thief towards his hut.

I tip toed to the rear entrance of the hut and peeped into it check what he was busy with.

The man was on call and he was also eating at the same time. He was calling someone I couldn’t decipher and he was so excited with the person he was calling. There was a big bowl of pounded yam before him too with another bowl of soup. It seems like he was enjoying his meal.

“That’ll be your last meal”, I said to myself.

I watched him drop his phone and resumed with his food. I tip toed behind him silently and I stabbed him hard with one of the knives I was holding. The knife went right into his head.

His eyeball protruded and the morsel he was holding fell of his hands. He made no sound or struggles and he died immediately.

I licked a little out of the blood that was coming out of his head and it tasted a bit different. I didn’t like it, so I spat it out. The blood I licked added to my energy.

I was just about to go out through the main entrance of the hut and trace my way back to the main road when I saw them. A group of 15 men, they were about 15 men or so.

It was Fred and his boys and they were blocking the entrance. Fred tightened his fist when he saw me and he became more determined to kill me after witnessing the death of his two comrades.

Apparently, the man I killed earlier has called them to inform them that I visited his place, hence their visit to the hut.