ACT TWO: SCENE TWO

In the village, where Osondu was exiled to, his new shrine was never dried of people patronizing him, they come in and go out as others are also coming in.

A fake pastor whose charms were now weak came to meet Osondu.

OSONDU:����� Young man, what brings you here?

FAKE PASTOR:������� I came all the way from Idam town, where I pastor a very large congregation. At Idam, wise one your power to do anything is known and so I came to tap from that your power. I was known all over the town for my ability to heal people but 5 months ago, my power for healing people weakened and my congregation declined in population. so I came to you to be strengthened again since the baba who gave me this charm is late now.

OSONDU:����� (laughing wildly, beating his gong loudly) So even you so-called pastors come to us for charms, that means we are very strong, especially I alusi ndu, this charm I will give you will be so powerful, it will not only heal, it will make wealth, real hot wealth and will also last long, as long as three years, you shall come for renewal every three years. (changing mood suddenly and looking serious) Now, for the sacrifices, I need 2 cows, 8 goats, 12 bottles of champagne, 30 litres of palm wine and 4 human heads, heads of children not more than 3 years old.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (shocked to the marrow at the mention of human heads) Alusi ndu, this is too heavy for me to bear, 4 human heads! No�.. Where will I� even get them from?

OSONDU:����� (laughing wildly and stroking his beard) What do you mean, why are you so surprised? You pastor a church where parents bring their children along to church, why don�t you organize a form of children�s party, thereby you can get the heads�. Even the motherless babies home is not left out, just adopt four children immediately and let go off their heads. Moreover your position as a pastor will make everything easy and smooth�.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (heaving a sigh of relief) (muttering a few words) That�s ok. I�ll see what I can do. How much will the cows and goats cost?

OSONDU:����� (stroking his beard) About a million naira.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (surprised) A million naira!

OSONDU:����� (expecting to hear worse comments) Is that much? You know what you�ve come for and ��..

FAKE PASTOR:������� (cuts in immediately) No wise one I didn�t complain it was too much for me now, it�s just that I did not expect it would be huge regarding my present condition. But no problem, I will give you some money right away in my car but the requirements, the cows and others will be provided tomorrow evening. Yes, I better buy them myself in order not to inconvenience you. (All smiling)

OSONDU:����� That is no problem. Let me call my boy, Ezendu to help you with the bag. Take this (giving a locket to the fake pastor) This will ensure your safe journey.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Wise one, I� am really grateful, it�s a pleasure meeting you today.

OSONDU:����� Ezendu, please help my friend with a bag he will give to you.

 

Minutes later

OSONDU:����� (smiling wildly) This is good, too good! Four hundred thousand naira cash!

FAKE PASTOR:������� This is just the beginning, when I return, maybe next year I shall do more.

 

 

 

ACT TWO: SCENE THREE

OSONDU:����� (Pacing the length and breadth of his shrine, smelling the air) Air of trouble, there is trouble near me. Who dares touch the hair of life of Alusi ndu. (picking up his magic mirror, he saw Ezendu in it, Ezendu was talking to himself:

EZENDU:������� Hmm! Osondu will soon be so rich, so rich that he will forget and abandon me, I must do something fast to make sure I eliminate him, his hair of life he keeps talking about will be cut.

OSONDU:����� (pours a black liquid on the mirror and lets a hen excrete on it) (laughing wildly) Small boy, when I called you Judas you pretended not to understand, ha ha ha I am the eyes that sees the invincible, you cannot touch, talk more of cutting down the hair of life of Alusi ndu. (striking the mirror lightly) Take what you deserve!! Die, I want you dead my brother, Ezendu you betrayed me, die and let your blood be on my head. Ha ha ha ha

�Immediately Ezendu dried up in the mirror and also in the physical. Passers-by kept commenting on the horrible incident�..

1^st PASSER-BY:����� I heard that he was exiled from one village not too far away from ours, but Idam village never accepts this kind of people.

3^rd PASSER-BY:I also heard that it was his brother, Alusi ndu that killed Ezendu, I fear that Alusi ndu I never go through that his way to the farm.

2^nd PASSER-BY:������ Our Chief must do something before it gets out of hand, he might also starting drying us up too.

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������������������������������� Back in Osondu�s shrine

OSONDU:����� (talking to Ezendu�s image in the magic mirror) That serves you right.

 

����������������������� Immediately the fake pastor, Michael arrives the shrine

FAKE PASTOR:������� Wise one, I am back with all that you asked me to get (pointing outside the shrine) the 2 cows, 8 goats and with me here (pointing to a large sack on the floor) are the 12 bottles of champagne, 30 litres of palm wine and 4 human heads.

OSONDU:����� You are welcome alusi ne�je uka. That�s good, so my turn, everything job left now is on my own part, that reminds me I�m sure these heads are that of children not more than 3 years old.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Yes, I knew what I needed though it was not easy getting the heads but I did as you directed me, but Wise one, Wise one there is a problem, it keeps disturbing me every time of day and night.

OSONDU:����� Pastor, what is it that keeps disturbing you.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Children cries keep disturbing me, everywhere; even on the streets I see them following me, whenever I close my eyes all I see are children, little children moving towards me, crying. Worse still, this morning, in the church, I was preaching, then suddenly a small boy with a cutlass in his hand was moving slowing towards me I was running all around the church. No one except me was seeing this boy. Infact I�m afraid I�m going insane, I cannot even lead the church well again. I�m ashamed of myself.

OSONDU:����� Pastor, calm down, now, you are a real alusi ne�je uka. I will give you a charm to protect you from the harm of the spirits of the babies you killed whenever they come to you again.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Wise one, you mean there is nothing that can be done to keep them away from me forever. I don�t want to see them again, no, never again, no�..

OSONDU:����� Yes! That is how this sacrifice goes, you asked for it and you got it, though as I have said you will be protected by my charm.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (biting his finger and putting his hands on his head, leaving his mouth wide open) I�m finished, see what I�ve done to myself. Oh I�ve killed my self.

OSONDU:����� (laughing wildly and continuously)

 

ACT THREE: SCENE ONE

Three months later

FAKE PASTOR:������� (jubilating in his car on his way to Osondu�s shrine) (talking to himself) Yes I�m so rich, richer than I ever thought, Osondu, is a real magic man, when I reach his shrine, I will tell alusi ndu that there are no more babies after me again. What a happy man I am afterall.

 

Minutes later�..

OSONDU:����� (coming out of his shrine alongside the fake pastor) (over-joyous) So even after giving me this four hundred and fifty thousand naira, you are also giving me this Mercedes Benz, alusi ne�je uka I�m so grateful for these, for remembering me mostly, thank you very much.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Yes, at least I should not forget my promises too quickly, I also bought these clothes for your messenger, Ezendu. I�m sure he will like them.

OSONDU:����� (slows in speech) Ezendu is not my messenger, but my brother, though he works as a messenger in the shrine, moreover he is not here (turning his face away from the pastor and putting on a stern look) I sent him to Lagos to learn a trade that is because he is not so needed here.��

FAKE PASTOR:������� I see (putting back the clothes into a bag)

 

Someone brings palm wine for the fake pastor and Osondu to drink, The fake pastor and Osondu discusses along as they sit down to drink.

 

ACT THREE: SCENE ONE

OSONDU:����� (looking at his magic mirror, suddenly dropping the mirror, thereby breaking it) This is serious, no I must do something fast!!! (after a few steps, looked up and saw about a hundred spirits around him) You are dead, you! (talking to one spirit in particular) What do you want from me go and meet Sam not me (talking to yet another spirit) (spirits now approaching him) (stumbles on a chair, getting to his feet, talking to a small child) You too, I killed you long ago, yes, I�m sure you are already dead,

 

Spirits now approaching Osondu nearer than ever

Your father asked me to kill you in order to get wealth, so go and meet him not me. (stumbles again)

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Osondu kicks a chair unaware. This time Osondu stumbled, the spirits were all over him, all of them were trying to tear his beard.

(Struggling with the spirits over his beard they were still dragging) Please torture me but don�t touch the hair of life, please I beg of you.

 

The spirits were speechless but still dragging his beard. When Osondu saw a small space through the exit, he squeezed his way through and escaped.

 

 

ACT THREE: SCENE TWO

Osondu roams the village everyday, when it was hot he sits under any tree, but Osondu keeps seeing spirits chasing everywhere, he now walks like a mad man, on one of the times the spirit chased �..

WATER GIRL 1:�������� (Talking to fellow water girls) (pointing towards Osondu) Wonders shall never cease to end, is this not the native doctor who calls himself alusi ndu, ho come he��

WATER GIRL 2:�������� (cuts in quickly) (Talking to fellow water girls) He walks like a mad man, I see him talking to himself on the road, I bet all his evils have come against him.

WATER GIRL 3:�������� (Talking to fellow water girls) Come, my sisters look closely, it seems someone is chasing him, oh my! There is no one after him, but it seems he�s seeing things.

WATER GIRL 1:�������� (Talking to fellow water girls) This man is in for the trouble of his life, aah! He is running towards us, eewoo..! (Scampering for safety)

 

Immediately Osondu, ran in a drunk manner towards the water girls, the three girls ran as fast as their legs could carry them thereby breaking their water pots.

 

Osondu still roaming the streets of the village, met the fake pastor�����

FAKE PASTOR:������� Alusi ndu. You don�t see to recognize me again. I am the pastor.

OSONDU:����� (walking like someone that has just got off drunk a little) Aaah pastor, thank you, everything you gave to me all the money vanished�� spirits chase me everyday, I cannot think fine again, I am too weak and hungry, no food for 6 days.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Alusi ndu, it�s ok. I understand, don�t work yourself up, come into the car, I will help you just as you have helped me rise to great fame.

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Osondu entered the car and they zoomed off to the fake pastor�s house.

 

ACT THREE: SCENE THREE

������������������������������� Osondu and the fake pastor entering a large room with beautiful decors and a large cross at the door post.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (talking to Osondu) From now on, you will not be called alusi ndu, or other implicative names, henceforth, you are now Pastor John. You will pastor the members in this auditorium, wow, we will make money, your charms will create wealth for us, members will fill the brim of this auditorium, see Pastor, you know your charm is greater than mine, which means that this branch may soon turn out to be the headquarters�.

OSONDU:����� (smiling) Pastor Michael, I am very grateful for everything, you are so kind, I hope I will adapt quickly to the new name, Pastor John. Yes, I am Pastor John. Also, we must be very careful.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (talking to Osondu) Please be careful not to call me alusi ne�je uka, though that is what we are?

������������������������������� Fake pastor, Michael and Osondu, Pastor John laughed heartily.

Fake pastor, Michael, continues talking

(talking to Osondu) Pastor John, please try to shave off this your long beard, it might scare the members.

OSONDU:����� (smiling lightly) I understand, Michael but shaving this beard is as good as committing suicide.

FAKE PASTOR:������� What do you mean by suicide?

OSONDU:����� (still smiling though looking serious) It�s my life, this is the hair of life, the hair of life of alusi ndu, oh sorry! I meant to say John, this beard has never been shaved since birth. It has spiritual connection,� anyone who wants to kill me, cannot kill me with a gun, matchet, arrow or anything but just simply cutting off this hair (touching and singled out one of the many hairs) this hair in particular is the hair of life, though touching other hairs around this hair of life will make me sick, nobody knows about this secret even the closest person to me,� except witches and wizards who knew this and tried to kill but they could not for my super spiritual power. I have just told you the secret, this is because I trust you much.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (opened his mouth in astonishment, heaving a sigh of relief) I now know why you have left this beard grow so long and so long a time. (hugging and patting Osondu on the back) It�s a secret never to be exposed.�

 

����������� ACT FOUR: SCENE ONE

������������������������������� 2 Years Later

������������������������������� Osondu and the fake pastor discussing after church meeting

FAKE PASTOR:������� (talking to Osondu) (drinking champagne and smoking a cigarette)� Pastor John, you have been so good , so great since these 2� years, everywhere and everybody on the street keeps talking about Pastor John, wealthy men, the lame and crippled walk, blind see, even on the satellite, the local television stations, news men never cease from the church auditorium after church meetings just to catch a glimpse of you, interview you, because you are always the news of the day, it is either the papers carry the news of how you healed a person with an amputated arm and a new arm came or someone who lost his eye in a motor accident have just gotten another new eye to replace the damaged one. The radio stations both local and international, never for a day stop talking about Pastor John�s goodness and power to heal and make wealth. You are indeed a gift to this community.

OSONDU:����� (smiling lightly) (drinking from a thin gold glass) Please, do not flatter me.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Pastor John, you know I�m saying the truth not flattering you, you have even seen things for yourself.

OSONDU:����� (paused for a minute) (putting his palm under his chin) Pastor Michael, there is a problem. A small personality is posing a problem to us.

FAKE PASTOR:������� Pastor John, who is the small personality you are talking about. (moves up his sofa) (drops his champagne)

OSONDU:����� (pouring drink into his glass) Michael, a so-called pastor in the most rugged part of this town whose member I�m not sure are even upto 17, thinks he is so powerful, he has done so much harm to my body, (opens his shirt to reveal a light fire burn on his chest) with a fire he keeps praying for to burn me everytime. That small Pastor is a disturbance to us, he weakens my powers daily. I have suffered a lot from him.

FAKE PASTOR:������� John, ok I know the small personality you are talking about, His name is Godswill, Pastor Godswill, they call him, he is a dwarf, and the name of his church is Fire Hill Church, that man is a real threat to our kind, he has done real harm and left many of my friends, I mean pastor friends dead. I don�t even go to my church activities whenever he�s around in his own church, this is because there is something he knows how to do more and that is to send down fire, real spiritual hot fire, really hot and it burns me most times. But why should you, the mighty alusi ndu, you, the great one, you the wise one suffer from the torment and torrent of a nobody. No, you have to silent that man, just a spray of that your wonderful powder on him spiritually will keep him forever silent and he will finally rest six feet under the ground, giving him more time means trouble, unless you want him to burn us to death.

OSONDU:������ (furious) (dropping down his gold glass) Never, why should I suffer from him, (boasting and beating his chest) he is a nobody. I must silence him. Infact tomorrow, you will get results, let me go and consult my oracle.

 

����������� ACT FOUR: SCENE TWO

������������������������������� 3 Weeks Later

������������������������������� Osondu, Pastor John and the fake pastor, discussing in their residential apartment

OSONDU:������ (groaning) (talking to Fake pastor) That Godswill, that small person, is physically small, but he is mighty really spiritually, but I won�t relent I must fight to finish, I must kill him before tomorrow, I swear that man would not see daylight, (pulling off all his clothes: shirt and trousers) Just take a look at my body.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (putting his hand over his nose, then over his mouth) Serious! Where you involved in a motor accident, did the vehicle catch fire. Just ��.

OSONDU:����� (cuts in immediately) Not at all, accident is a small matter, I was not involved in any. But this is the act of that same dwarf, he rained fire on me. (Putting on his clothes) I tried everything on him, my magic powder, arrows, pots but all to no avail, I made sure he died but no way! I tried him with women, I mean women he knows, he did not fall, I also tried him with money and gifts from even his members, he did not fall, I also tried him with the latest ride in town, a new Hummer Jeep he also did not fall. That man, infact I don�t know��. He has a real eyesight, I mean a powerful spiritual visual sight. He saw that my life lies in this hair. (touching a hair among his beard) �He wanted to cut the hair, but I managed toe scape with my life. I know the war is not over yet, and he must loose it or die. But I wonder the kind of power this Godswill is using? (pauses for a few seconds) If only I know the pow�r he is using, I will destroy it.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (putting down his hand) Pastor John, I was mean to know that he is using Jesus power���.

 

When the fake pastor, Michael mentioned Jesus, Osondu, pastor John and the fake pastor were both striked down by thunderand lightening, they both fell to the ground with a great thud as someone shocked by an electric transformer, they laid still as if they were dead for about 5 minutes, foam-like substances was finding its exit out of their mouth, there was thunder and lightening in the inner room where Osondu�s oracle was.

 

 

 

ACT FOUR: SCENE THREE

������������������������������� Osondu, Pastor John and the fake pastor, in their residential apartment

Osondu was holding the shirt of the Fake pastor as if he were a thief thereby forcing the fake pastor�s eye to bulge.

OSONDU:����� (shouting loudly) I have warned you times without number not to mention that name again, and you mentioned it again. Now, I am so weak, for that name weakened me so much. All the materials in my oracle have been brandished. You must pay dearly for this; I will use your head as a replacement for this damage. The oracle, is asking me to repair the damage that name has caused, if I don�t make repairs it means my life is at stake, I must not die for nothing instead I replace your head for mine. (dropping his hand from fake pastor�s neck)

FAKE PASTOR:������� (putting his tie in place and clears his throat) Let me explain, I�m sure you will understand.

OSONDU:����� (shouting) Understand what!!

FAKE PASTOR:������� (heaved a sigh of relief) You know, Michael, it was not my fault, I did not even know when I mentioned that name, I was even thrown to the floor by the same thunder and lightening that threw you to the floor. I am sure the oracle will understand my plea; you know I cannot intentionally do anything that will harm the both of us.

OSONDU:����� (sits quietly on the sofa�s arm) I now understand its not your fault, I�ll do my best and believe that the oracle will also understand your plea. But that stupid dwarf is just the cause of everything that is going wrong, and everything that is going out of place, the members are now depreciating, last time in church service, a blind man was brought up to me for healing but I could not heal his eyes, I tried everything possible, the handkerchief, the water, even the red locket, what did I not use, everything! But nothing worked, I felt ashamed of myself, I felt like sinking into the earth, but I must bring back my reputation, I must never put my name and all I have worked for, for 3 years in mess. Its either that dwarf�s life go for this or I destroy whatsoever power he is using.

 

Suddenly, there was a handwriting on the wall, which caused a

great light that made the fake pastor and Osondu not to see clearly,

thereby making them close their eyes lightly with their arms

OSONDU:����� (putting his arm over his eyes) (chanting incantations) What�s the meaning of this?

FAKE PASTOR:������� I too cannot see, (moving backwards a little) ok, I can see a little better now.

OSONDU:����� (looking at the fake pastor, Michael) What do you see?

FAKE PASTOR:������� (Looking at the handwriting curiously) I�m trying to read it.

OSONDU:����� Please, try as much as possible to read the handwriting, because not getting the message spells doom.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (Looking at the handwriting more curiously than ever) It says, All power in heaven and on earth have been given to me and in the name of ��. (paused) No, I can�t say this. You would not like to hear, the word is danger�.

OSONDU:����� Please tell me everything both the danger word, so I can know what to do, to avert the possible danger!

FAKE PASTOR:������� (Still looking at the handwriting)� I hope you don�t get angry with me.

OSONDU:����� Yes, please tell me everything.

FAKE PASTOR:������� (puts on the face of someone who wants to cry)� I hope I�m not trying to kill myself.

OSONDU:����� Hey, come on. Or do you want me to strike you dead, myself.

FAKE PASTOR:������� ok, please, I will. All power in heaven and on earth have been given to me and in the name of (paused again but continued)�Jesus, every knee must bow.

 

At the mention of Jesus, this time, only Osondu fell, he was moved around by a powerful breeze before he was brought to the ground, with his body thoroughly burnt.

 

FAKE PASTOR:������� (opens� his mouth in awe)

 

ACT FIVE: SCENE ONE

Osondu tied the Fake pastor, Michael to a chair�.

FAKE PASTOR:������� But I told you the name was a danger name, and then you asked me to say it.

OSONDU:����� You don�t know what you are saying, right now your neck is in the hanging balance. You could not even notify me of the danger name. Now I am going for a revenge mission to kill that dwarf before he turns out to kill me, I will lock you up here, if I return from this deadly mission then you will be free, but if not you will die in here, understand!

FAKE PASTOR:������� But, please alusi ndu, don�t have to do this to me.

 

 

ACT FIVE: SCENE ONE

That same night in a dream, God revealed to Pastor Godswill through an angel

ANGEL:��������� (talking to Pastor Godswill) Godswill, do not be afraid, our Father, the God of Heaven asked me to alert you and make sure you have the strength and readiness for a spiritual battle tonight, he also told me to assure you that He is always with you all through the battle and you have no cause to worry.

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����������������������� Meanwhile, Osondu was using his mirror

OSONDU:����� (shouting at the top of his voice, and pouring fire from his mouth onto the mirror with all his strength) Godswill, I command you appear in this mirror. Appear! Appear!! (paused for several seconds, chanting incantations, gazed at the mirror, removes his face, gazes again and removes his face, gazes again, immediately he holds his throat slowly, coughing fire onto the mirror, removes his face from the mirror and gazes at it again)

 

����������������������� This time, Pastor Godswill appeared on the mirror

Hahaha (talking to the image of Pastor Godswill) Now, I want you dead now!!

 

����������������������� At the mention of die, nothing happened to Pastor Godswill, this angered Osondu

OSONDU:����� Godswill, you are mere man, with strange powers, I know but I want to let you know this day, today is not the other day, but today I will also let you know that my powers are stronger than yours. I command you once more die! Die!! Die!!! Aaah, so you are still alive, hahaha, you think you are above my destruction ok then I will let you know that there are many ways to kill a rat. (drops the mirror and heads for a dark pot covered with red cloth) (at the spot he shakes suddenly, -puts his hand over his ear as if he heard something, suddenly his body began to stretch and the walls of the building began to quake, sand from the top of the house began to stream in like water,� he falls to the ground)

 

Meanwhile, in the dream

PAS.GODSWILL:����� (gasping in astonishment) An Angel! Oh, God, my Father, Thank you.

ANGEL:��������� (simultaneously giving Godswill the armour, the shield, the helmet, the golden sword and the princely horse).

Take these; armour, shield, helmet, the golden sword and this princely horse, all these will ensure your victory against the evil perpetrator of the Kingdom of God. Listen to this and Listen carefully! In this battle, Do not listen to any stranger. I repeat, Do not listen to any stranger!!!

PAS.GODSWILL:����� (astonished) Yes! I will keep to all the instructions (examining the horse and other things the Angel gave to him)

 

 

 

The Angel disappeared.

PAS.GODSWILL:����� (still touching the horse and other things the Angel gave to him) Yes, I am sure going to be victorious.

 

����������������������� Immediately, Osondu appeared as a woman to Pastor Godswill in his dream

OSONDU:����� Pastor, what a nice horse we got here, oh I like this horse, can I use� it for my journey I will return the horse to you as soon as I return, I promise it will not hurt its foot, I will be very careful.

 

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