Baaba: Chapter 15
Baaba: Chapter 15
by safohenShe let off an arrow but it was smacked into her leg. As she yanked it out, she noticed a bone white kakai glaring at her. Machetes drawn, It lunged at her again and again but Baaba yanked out her own machetes and they both swung ferociously at each other even as the clashes heated the air around them.
Simultaneously, they drew out their akofenas and clashed again, discarding their broken machetes. The sparks from the clash nearly blinded Baaba, forcing her to draw backwards, even as it slashed her hat, the kakai blade inches away from her scalp. Baaba used her left akodze to stop the blade from spliiting her head and the right akodze to slash the kakai’s hands.
It gritted its teeth and the pamo marks on its hands stopped forming halfway. It spun to her left swinging its akofena which twisted and then extended into an afowatsena and angled towards her left shoulders. Baaba suddenly reached out and caught the akodze bare handed with her left hand and her right thrust an akofena at its throat.
It blocked the thrust as she loosened her grip on the akofena, drew out her machetes and slashed the kakai on both sides. It stumbled backwards,then suddenly darted to her right. Baaba blocked a swing from her right, then reading her fighting patterns, advanced forward, machetes blocking attacks aimed at her sides.
For each swing from the kakai, Baaba weaved and bobbed, dodging it’s attacks and dealing out her own blows, blocking with her machetes when she had to. Each slash was repaid in kind, but Baaba moved quickly from low swings to an onslaught of fast and powerful slashes both high and low until she slashed through its blades, and swung onwards to its abdomen slashing it.
The kakai’s breath became labored, an unfamiliar weakness quickly spreading to all its joints. Enraged, it lunged towards Baaba with its spear but Baaba was faster, as she sped towards the kakai, slashing through its spear with her akofena. The broken pieces clattered on the ground.
Baaba slashed from left to right and from top to bottom and sped off, even as the kakai was banished, raising a gust of wind and dust. Baaba reached the foot of the hill , joined moments later by other asafo when suddenly Sum and three others leapt down, landing in the middle of the ten companies.
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