Mystery of the Olko beads
Tsote has grown up in Marakusha under the care of Thalko the village chief and commander of the king’s armies.
Thousands of years ago the Yakunko seized the Tonyam throne from its rightful rulers unleashing an era of unrest among their sister clans. With the help of an extra-ordinary black stone known as the Inka seed, the Yakunko Transformed into a monstrous form known as the Krota feared and dreaded by all non-Yakunko clans.
At the age of ten, the krota is expected to manifest in every male Yakunko but in three days, Tsote will turn fifteen without having felt his Krota. The Krota defined a Yakunko male a true warrior but the same Krota was the root cause of the differences amongst the Yakunko and their sister clans, which he wished he could change, had he the opportunity and ability to.
The lack of his Krota attracted him despise and bullies from the best trainees leaving him just one friend, Makita! When he learns he is a Yakunko Prince raised far away from the magnificent King’s palace in Sambura city, and that his father is the said-to-be-mad king suffering from the haunt of a legendary ghost Krota, something inside him changes.
Having been raised Tsote in secret; he too turns to secretly breaking several of the rules given to him from birth by Thalko his caretaker. From Mama Elsa, a blind storyteller, he learns that his mother left him an inheritance of Magical Olko beads with a promise that the beads will guide him to all the answers, he needed.
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Chapter: *** Prologue ***Wheel of the People.Story by KUTEESA FRANKPROLOGUEThe police siren sounded startling Absalom from a deep sleep! He spent the night asleep in a hair but how and what exactly! He sat facing a high glass window with an early morning glow of day light. The window’s curtains were half-drawn revealing down-flow of raindrops outside the glass and moisture on the inside. Not far on his right, there was a curved office table. Everything around him was fuzzy and wavy. His head was humming and hurting. Why he was not seeing clearly and feeling unusual caused him panic!When struggled to balance on hi
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Chapter: 34 - Discovery of selfChapter 34 (Discovery of self.)Olkai flies them back down and beyond river Ulewo. They had not returned from the top of the hill close to three days. Makita is so surprised but nothing was new to Tsote. To their dismay, Marakusha was lain to waste and the Yakunko were at war with new comers.It was coming to midday and the village was in total waste. Bodies were scattered across the homesteads and the fields of Dankwa. Kurotandi boys were dead. The owl swooped through the village to Thalko’s shelter, which was demolished and smoking with dark smoke like so many other homesteads shelters.Marakusha homesteads were organized in a twinning movement the likes of a snail’s shell. Following this movement Olkai glided twenty feet above the streets with his wings spread out wide! They could not see anyone moving below! When Olkai finally rose from Thalko’s shelter, Makita glanced northeast alon
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Chapter: 33 - HealingChapter 33. (Healing.)Tsote sat up from the altar and looked around.The whole time Naruba struggled with Oladiya, trying to ensure that she did not lose her beads to him, Tsote’s Kurota sprouted. Not until the Oladiya took, back both his eyes! Besides, Makita watched Tsote struggling as if he was experiencing a bad dream. All of a sudden, the sun’s ray cut through the fog in the east. Its rays touched Tsote’s flesh. It did not take long before Tsote gained consciousness.The Owl watched from the side of his feet.“Makita?”“Tsote… you are alive.”“What happened?” Tsote inquired confusedly turning to look at Olkai whose mane looked so beautiful in the morning sun light. The sun was rising from the east and the fog was melting out of the way slowly. The tr
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Chapter: 32 - Fall of the obeliskChapter 32 (Fall of the Obelisk)She took one last glance back at the Olko hill, a place that’s been his home for the past few years. She looked down at her flesh and the plague was fading. She felt new. Clean and fresh. The Basha dog raced through the night following the fog across the Yudok Marshes, past the caves of the hyena people, along the dark lake’s shores and faster North East.She smiled slightly as the Basha dog entered the Lekosha jungle. Basha dogs sprinted out of her way. She held her arm out to the sides and the river in ahead solidified making the water to rise into flying birds made of water splashes and sand. They became many and started out through the fog with her. She however did not ride outside the winding fog route.The fog stretched across the land like a great ancient snake with clouds hanging low above it. She star
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Chapter: 31 - Exquisite loyaltyChapter 31 (Exquisite loyalty.)Makita released the first arrow from her bow, which the ghost Kurota waved aside and majestically land on the ground. Makita panicked for the second shot but her fingers were shivering. As she inserted the second, the creature lunged forwards at them! Tsote pushed Makita out of the way. The creature crushed into an old tree splintering it to pieces. The Basha dog saw what was happening and after having bonded with the beads, it found some sort of loyalty to its riders. It rushed in to help diving from this tree to the other to confuse the Kurota before it attacked on the third jump!The ghost Kurota saw the Basha dog. It tore the tree stump out from the earth nearby and with all the dirt and moss, hurled it at the dog! The Basha dog clashed with the tree stump and bounced aside into some rock. It landed heavily with its feet well and running along the rock’s sides targeted the sha
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Chapter: 30 - Race to the Olko hillChapter 30. (Race to the Olko hill.)“But… but mother said it was a made up story…”“Renso….” He began wondering if it was right to let her know this. “He was hurt by the monster and its pursuing me and the beads…”“I don’t believe you… am going with you up there. To see the wise owl. You said you would take me if I helped you…”“Makita?”“You lied!” She barked at him. At this point Thalko’s men were near and they were spreading out….“No I did not lie. Nevertheless, the beads. These beads have known so many things. They know what…”“No, I’m coming along…!” She barked and took hold of the sides of the chains. She started up but he did not let her up. The guards heard the Makita’s voic
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