Baaba: Chapter 5

It was a dark, stormy night. At the Supi's request, Baaba had joined the night patrol since the beatdown she had delivered that afternoon had not gone unnoticed. After hours of running, they came face to face with the kakai, who were heading towards their village!

These ones were more humanlike, only that some were completely pitch black and others bone white. They all carried afowatsenas, matchetes and plain akofenas. Even their elbows had blades. Suddenly 12 arrow length steel needles flew towards her face, forcing her to leap to her right at the last minute. Her eyes widened in shock as she realised that there were 12 of them all attacking at once!

Baaba drew out her matchetes and blocked a slash by one kakai from both sides. She slashed at it but the complete kakai dodged and thrusted an akofena at her throat, which she blocked. It exerted pressure on it's blade, its eyes expressionless. Baaba struggled to keep its blade and her own from reaching her throat.

Suddenly it released its grip and slashed upwards at her abdomen with it's steel clawed feet. Baaba leapt back, drew two arrows and released them at it. The kakai took one in the chest and turned its head to dodge the other. It then let out a barrage of its steel needles. Baaba leapt back, twirling her spear to deflect the attack and sped towards it from the right.

It attempted to block her attacks but she kept on attacking and dodging its slashes. From the corner of her eye, she observed that the rest of the companies were engaged in similar one on one battles. The kakai slashed at her twice but she dodged them and finally pierced it in the shoulder with her akofena first before slashing the kakai diagonally across its chest.

Seconds later,another kakai leapt at her, its slashes forcing her back as it sidestepped most of her slashes. It slashed her right arm, drawing blood. She responded with five slashes of her own as she fell back. It raised a palm to raise steel needles but she slashed at it again, causing both of its arms to be covered in pamo spirals.

She swung her machetes at its abdomen but it spun to its right and kicked against her drawn machetes, sending her backwards. It slashed at her wildly and as she slashed at it after blocking several times. As the blade arched towards it, it suddenly caught the left machete in its teeth and snapped it by biting on it!

Slightly shaken, Baaba blocked its subsequent attacks with a machete and an akofena. As it moved even closer to her, she noticed its attack pattern and sidestepped its next attack.

As soon as it was banished, Baaba noticed a serrated spear fast approaching from her left. She dodged by rolling to her left as the spear landed on the spot she had stood at seconds ago. Baaba righted herself and spun to dodge a kakai's steel needles and she threw a spear at the kakai, impaling it. She let off two arrows at its retreating form, banishing it completely.

Nearby, Efua stabbed a kakai and drove it into a tree with her spear, shaking off its leaves. She drew out an akorena and stabbed it in the head. Two kakai rushed at her from the side but suddenly, took two arrows in the head, then in the necks and another two in their backs.
Kuukua sighed in relief that she had hit the kakai attacking Efua but suddenly spun backwards in time to prevent a forward slash from a kakai's akofena from beheading her.

She smashed through its blades and slashed its chest thrice, then noticed another kakai leaping towards her. She flung a spear at it, sending it back in midair. She blocked several blows from two kakai who attacked her together. The Supi slashed at them with her machetes. Before a third kakai could move away, she slashed it continuously, banishing it. She then rushed towards the kakai attacking in multiple directions with her spear. She stabbed one and dodged the remainder's synchronised attacks before banishing them as well, with her machetes.

Baaba literally walked past the remaining kakai , slashing and banishing the kakai with a lone matchete. A kakai rushed in from the side but without pausing , she slashed at it from head to toe, then deflected a steel needle barrage from the sides with both of her spears, before hitting the attacking kakai with them. A kakai spun towards her, letting off steel needles at point blank range, but she deflected at it.

As it staggered backwards, it grabbed her hand and in that moment, Baaba had a vision. A vision of a land with three moons, beneath which kakai numbering in the thousands chanted: 'Sum! Sum! Sum! before a tall, muscular kakai, wielding an ekumapraban.

Suddenly, the kakai growled, 'Kill the one they call Baaba'