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In the days of the Kehita Kingdom.
Chapter1: Surprise attack

# IN THE DAYS OF THE KEHITA KINGDOM

A few soldiers of the Kehita Kingdom about ( 500) men were carrying some valuy goods on a good morning which was on a Saturday.
They were passing the thick forest of Albed and were going to deliver the goods to another Kingdom named Arnon which was a 2- day journey from the Kehita Kingdom.The goods were to be given to the King of Arnon named Zulux so as to enter a business treaty with him.Before then,king Zulux had written a letter to King Rulx of the Kehita Kingdom about the goods which he promised to send for him and also begged King Rulx that he will pay back for it later.King Rulx replied to him in another letter telling him that the goods will be sent soon, And that he should not worry about the money, That he can pay anytime he wants.ALthough, the price of the goods ( weapons) were more than 500 shekels of gold.When King Zulux received and read the letter,he was very happy.
But Unfortunately, for the Soldiers that morning in the thick forest OF Albed,they Were attacked by ambushed raiders by surprise.The ambushed raiders were only (25) young men of valor who killed every single soldier that raised his sword but only one of the soldiers escaped.One of the raiders tried to catch the soldier but the soldier outran him.The name od the raidee was henry.Kahu was the ring leader of the group ( raiders).He was average height, fair in complexion,he was good looking,had flexible skills and he was also good with the sword too.He was in his late 20's and also have a good body structure.Henry came back after chasing the escaped soldier looking angrily.One of kahu's men asked him " Did you get him?"And henry replied "No". Then kahu said" it's ok. That soldier was lucky but he won't be lucky next time, when we will meet him again".He continued "let's take these goods because it'S ours!!." His men shouted yeah!!! and they took the goods which were weapons of war and went back to where they came from which was located in the thick forest.A hidden small village named Tridan which was on top of a mountain called Obeb.There was much joy when kahu's people saw that they came back alive and that they brought goods which were weapons of war to use and teach their young men how to fight in a battle.These people were the Trianda clan but had hidden themselves on the mountain for a very long time and they were numerous and mighty.The Head leader of the clan was Elder Karz who was kahu's uncle.When he and the other (7) elders of the clan saw them and the goods which they brought back, they were amazed and he said " Iam so happy because our young men are getting stronger and my son Kahu is getting smarter too.The strategy he used to defeat the Kehita soldiers was a brilliant one! welcome back! Once again mighty sons!!of the Trianda clan.They all bowed and knelt down to show their respect and appreciation.And the people of Trianda were still jubilating for their return.
- Elder karz was a former knight of the Kehita Kingdom.He was in his Late 50's, good looking, fair in complexion, have a good body structure, skillful with the sword,tall and revengeful. Meanwhile, the lucky soldier named quinn who escaped the massacre reached the Kingdom and told the King saying" Your majesty!! your worthy soldiers were attacked by unknown men in the thick forest and were all brutally murdered. And they also took the valuable goods and i alone escaped to tell you this!!." King Rulx who was in his late 50's,was good looking,he was fair in complexion, have a good body structure and was also skillful too with the sword and he was average height.He was zealous to get whatever thing he wanted without anyone stopping him.He stood up in rage and shouted" What! who could have done this!!? could this be the handwork of King Zulux! But the wife who was sitting next to him,whose name was queen Miriam,a beautiful lady in her late 40's said "Your majesty,my adorable husband!! I don't think it could be him,why would he want to do this to us. I still doubt it your majesty please look into it carefully".The king listened to her,he calmed himself and sat down and told the soldier who escaped the incident saying "Summon the elders at once" And the soldier replied" Yes your majesty i will at once" and he left.
- Kehita kingdom had the biggest palace which was made of gold and silver.After an hour, the whole elders (14) of them were at the palace and were all shocked of what happened and one of them said " Your Majesty this has never happened before since when we use to trade with other neighbouring kingdoms but this one is strange.Could there be anyone or person out there that is not happy with this kingdom". Another elder said " We have been in peace with other kingdoms for some years now so what could be the reason for such attack". Some elders came to the conclusion that it could not be King Zulux doing since their King Rulx was in good terms with him. Then one of the elders said "I suspect the Trianda clan".There was quietness for sometime then the king said" it has been (27) years since i have heard of that clan. I disagree with you Elder Noclem but on the second thought you might be right but if they are out there why can't they show themselves?. But if i ever see or catch anyone of them,i will kill them!!". The King continued "But how did the information leak? that i was going to send my goods to king Zulux because, i only told all of you here and no other person".He looked at the elders with a mean face and they were all surprised and told the king that they didn't leak the information about the goods talk more of telling anyone.The king was Surprised and asked himself saying "who could have done this?".But it also Surprised the elders too.
Chapter 2: Half Truth

# # IN THE DAYS OF THE KEHITA KINGDOM

Back on the mountain called Obeb,in a small town called Trianda.The valuable goods were opened and the things in it were swords,spears, arrows, shields etc.These were used to train their young men.Kahu asked
his uncle saying " Dad why should we take hold of the Kehita Kingdom?" Mr Karz replied " My son i think it's time, that you know the truth and also, to know where you are from ". Kahu was astonished and said " Iam listening dad".Mr Karz smiled and said " Kahu am not your dad and i lied that i was your dad".Kahu was still surprised,he continued " Your father is the King of Kehita.
Something happened 27 years ago . Your father and i were best of friends but he had an interest in your mother who was my sister and a maiden in the palace.Then, I was a knight for the Kingdom and the royal family, the Sawat clan. I told my sister whose name was Miranda about the Prince who was ( Prince Rulx) your father and she told me she liked him too because he was handsome.He slept with your mother and then she became pregnant for him.She told him about it but he insisted that she should abort it.Then she told me but i disagreed and i went to meet him. He deceived me saying" That he would marry my sister only if she would abort the child".He continued by saying" That he didn't want to be a father for now till MARRIAGE". He then, gave me a liquid medicine that she would drink so that the baby would flush out but i disagreed and i left.After some time, some soldiers came to my place and arrested me for false accusation of an attempt to kill the prince.The king then,whose name was King Celou, Prince Rulx father and also your grand father believed him when the prince made his statement in the king's court with the elders there. I tried telling the king about the affair the prince had with my sister and about him lying that i want to kill him but all to no avail.The King declared a judgement by banishing us the Trianda clan from the kingdom. The elders of the Trianda clan, who were present at the King's court then, also begged for mercy but the king said" My judgement is final!!.Our kindred, the Trianda clan was banished and we were told never to come back to the kingdom again.And i vowed that i will return to the kingdom and take revenge.
Our clan was not rich enough to take care of each other but thanks to King Mesil of Mesilia Kingdom who accomodated us in his Kingdom until we were fit and rich enough to stay on our own.The reason why i chose to stay on the mountain is because it is more secured and safe." Kahu asked his uncle saying" What happened to your sister my mother?" Mr Karz replied" Your mother died when she gave birth to you.She couldn't bear the heartbreak the Prince gave to her.She always thought the Prince loved her.She named you Kahu after our dad.We were orphans before you were born.Our dad, your grandfather died during the war as he fought for Kehita as a Knight.Our mother by name Mrs Sofia died of heart attack when she heard the news of his death.Kahu bursts into tears and his uncle brought him close and hugged him saying" There is no need for you to cry but Kahu kept on crying".His uncle continued" Iam still here and am not going anywhere.We will surely get our revenge on the Kehita kingdom but especially on the royal family, (the Sawat clan). Well, the town here is good ( His uncle removed his body from his, that is he stopped hugging him and cleaned the tears of Kahu with his hands and continued talking)" and the lands on this mountain is a fertile land.Kahu asked his uncle saying" Why is it that the clan (Trianda clan) was not on it's own?". His uncle
replied" The Kehita Kingdom was made up of two clans which were the Sawat clan and the Iril clan.The Sawat clan represented the royal family,king makers,elders and the military.While the Iril clan were the peasant people, blacksmith, farmers, elders and also the military too.Altogether, they were called the Kehita Kingdom.The two clans are brothers.The eldest clan was (the Sawat clan) while the youngest clan was the (Iril clan).
The Kehita troops were strong men of valor.In the past, the Kehita troops saved us from a fiery dragon which burned our food crops when it was time for harvest and left us starving.It also killed many of us at that time.We were Peasant farmers and our military force was not that strong to kill the dragon or defend us.We tried many strategies in other to kill the dragon, but many of those strategies failed.The Kehita troops killed the dragon by setting brilliant traps that led to the deathe of the dragon.That is why we vowed that we would serve them with our lives". This words made Kahu angry and he supported his uncle with the revenge but his uncle didn't really tell him everything.
So his uncle asked him how he knew about the goods? So Kahu replied " I pretended to be or behave like a mad man in the Kehita kingdom and over heard some palace guards talking about when the goods will move and what the goods contains and where the goods will be moved too".Then his uncle said " You have really done a good and neat job keep it up!! And
he hugged and kissed Kahu on his cheek and said "Your mom will be so proud of you anywhere she is right now and Kahu smiled.Then his uncle continued " Let us go and see how our men are coping with the training.And so they hurriedly went to check on them.

Chapter 3: The Search party and plan





# # IN THE DAYS OF THE KEHITA KINGDOM

In the early morning,king Rulx wrote a letter to King Zulux telling him of what happened, and sent it . After two days, the messenger who King Rulx send to deliver the letter came back with few soldiers about a thousand (1000) and gave the King a letter which King Zulux wrote to him saying " I have sent you , some of my men to help you search for the traitors who stole your goods.But you need to come up with a better strategy on how to send another goods to me.My soldiers really need those weapons for training. Other kingdoms that i have gone to do business with did not respond positively to me. You are my ony hope".
After reading the letter,King Rulx summoned the two commanders of his military and of the Kehita kingdom, and the both of them came.He told them of his strategy which he said," I want the both of you to dispatch your men to go in search of these rebels why King Zulux's men, will take the goods to their land. And also, a back up team for King Zulux's men is that clear!!" They both responded "Yes your majesty!!". King Rulx continued "find those rebels ( traitors)!! and kill every one of them". Each commander dispatched ( 250,000) soldiers each which were altogether ( 500,000) soldiers to search for and kill the rebels while 50,000 soldiers altogether, backed up King zulux's troops who were with the goods ( weapons of war) to arnon.
Kahu and his teammates ( who were about four), were busy hunting to get either three or two antelopes (animals) until, when they heard foot steps like that of soldiers going for war in the thick forest. One of them climbed a big half baked rock to know what was coming and to his greatest surprise, he told kahu and the others that they should start running thay the Kehita troops were coming. They started running and when they had reached their destination,they started climbing the mountain and reached the town.The Trianda clan were up to a million but their men of valor ( military men) were only ( 50,000) soldy.Kahu and the other four men started shouting run! run! run!! The Kehita troops are coming!!! The Kehita troops followed the trail or foot marks of the young men and started to climb the mountain.Meanwhile, everyone( both old and young, men and women) started running helter,skelter. Majority of them started climbing down the mountain from the other side and many of them escaped and hid under a big rock which was dark and not noticeable.When the Soldiers ( Kehita Troops) entered the town, they encountered 200 men of valor out of 50,000 ( soldiers) who were of the Trianda clan and they fought with them. The 200 men killed most of the Kehita troops and delayed the troops in finding the rest of the Trianda clan. Later, the 200 men of valor were killed but they did their best in delaying the Kehita troops, in finding the rest of the Trianda clan since they did not find them in the Trianda town. Then, the Kehita troops climbed down the mountain from the other side and searched thoroughly through out the thick forest but they could not find anyone.Then they withdrew or retrieved back to the Kingdom.
The remaining Trianda clan mourned for the death of their brothers and promised to take revenge on the Kehita Kingdom.King Zulux wrote a letter to King Rulx thanking him for the goods and safety of his soldiers too. King Zulux also paid for the goods too.King Rulx was well pleased and satisfied after receiving the amount paid which was 500 shekels of gold, and after reading the letter that was sent to him by King Zulux.Then, he said "Finally i have made a business treaty with King Zulux". But he was angry with the Kehita troops for not finding the rest of the Trianda clan since they did not find them in the Tridan town. So the commanders of the Kehita troops apologized by saying "We are sorry your majesty, is just that they had known earlier that we were coming and they were prepared.Many of them ran away before we got there". King Rulx replied" it's ok no matter where they are they can't run forever".
- Somewhere, very deep in the thick forest is where the remaining Trianda clan hid while others hid under a big rock that is dark and not noticeable.Kahu and his teammates came back that evening to tell his uncle and the rest of the Trianda clan ( Including the elders) that the Kehita troops had gone back to their kingdom. Then they were all glad.Then Mr Karz said" We will journey back to Mesilia Kingdom because, here in the thick forest is not safe for any one of us. The remaining Trianda clan obeyed the command of their head leader to journey back to Mesilia Kingdom to stay there for the mean time.King Mesil of the Mesilia Kingdom welcomed the Trianda clan greatly and accomodated them once more again.Kahu's uncle, told the king all that happened and the King asked him saying" What are your plans now on how to take your revenge".Mr Karz said" I will use my nephew Kahu.He will be an insider for us in the King's palace him and his fellow team mates. King Mesil's palace was the second biggest palace after the Kehita Kingdom and was also made of gold and silver.King Mesil said" That's a good plan but if it doesn't work i Will wage war with the Kehita for the bad treatment they had done to your clan in the the past".Mr Karz smiled and said" No need to worry your majesty it will work out i know it will and i believe so much in my nephew". And Karz continued" Thank you for all your kindness your majesty what can i give you to show my appreciation, may the god's of my ancestors reward you". The King replied " it's nothing my friend.You and your clan are like a family to this great kingdom.Then, Mr. Karz bowed in respect.Then the king said "it's ok you can get up now i want to tell you something".Mr Karz replied " what is it your majesty? The great one!!".He continued " King Rulx Twins birthday is forth coming.You know he has A son and a daughter and the both are celebrating their birthdays on the same day Mr Karz replied " ohh!! i see!!".
King mesil continued " So i think we will be sending them a gift a special gift and both of them laughed hahahaha!!!





























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