Sally Island 17

He most certainly wasn't, as it turned out to him that the whole family were Mutubus, their grandmother was able to hold them back because she had more powers than they both had. Rinie and Sook although grown as humans were baby Mutubus. His heels were set off as he took to it, he would have smiled, she would have gone for an embrace, he would have changed  his mind if he didn't see what he saw, it wasn't easy as he took to his heels. Rinie and Sook were Mutubus, he wasn't sure about his feelings anymore, overwhelmed with surprise as adrenaline pumped through his veins, he still managed to look back a bit more to make sure he saw right. It was definitely certain what he saw, Mutubus! Rinie's grandmother held her and her sister to a firm leash causing them to transform back to humans. All through the forest, Ike dabbled, not on his mind this time. He struggled through the woods with his wounded mind, he hadn't experienced a violent Mutubu before, he wasn't at the beach party when a Mutubu attacked the Island youths. He had only heard the tales. Through the sharp grasses and the wild, Ike ran into the Cabin, hoping to find the crew, but nobody was there. 

He saw the unusual state the cabin was in. He walked in, sat in the ruins of the scattered cabin trying to figure what had happened, he wasn't sure of what to allow his mind wallow in, either his experience or what had happened to the crew. Still in his thoughts he found a bottle of rum and appeased his troubled mind to sleep. Months later we still couldn't figure out what happened to James, but it was assumed that he was among the many kidnapped by the slave traders. Months were enough to forget a missing friend especially when it was rumoured that the plantation Mutubu was spotted again in the Island. I've been interested in the gossip, and it was said that she walked the market like a human, only that she walks almost naked unlike sane citizens of the Island, and some men that don't figure she is a Mutubu try to tease her. With the description I heard, she matched exactly what Omin described he encountered in the plantation, I quickly assumed it was Eve and was determined to find her. 

Meanwhile, off the coast of our island, off our world, James found himself on another island called the Mafaa Island. This is where slave ships berthed before they were sold to the buyers from the New world by the dealers from the Old World, consisting of about three hundred thousand sailors who were involved in the Mafaa business of slave trade. Together with James many were taken not just from Sally Island, but from many other lands and were taken to Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras and Guatemala. Some to South Carolina, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Florida Virginia, Montserrat, and Belize. James and other slaves were said to be indentured servants and would be freed after serving in farms or mines for a period of time, producing sugar, harvesting coffee, cotton or processing tobacco while others mined. James found himself in a Market of slavery, where he was being priced and sold to a Mafaa boss they called Uncle Sam. 

Uncle Sam owned huge businesses and an empire of people working under him, with a string of other oyibos working for him, mostly sailors who go to get slaves leaving their wives and children in the care of Uncle Sam. Mafaa island was a small evil community Uncle Sam's grandfather invaded. Uncle Sam's grandfather Brother Jonathan was a brutal sailor and navigator with a vast legend and name who with his army of invaders murdered the natives of the island to take over their land, the indies, some ran far away from Brother Jonathan's settlement and settled in a little village on the island away from the settlement of Brother Jonathan's territory to stay alive. He managed to send them away from their lands bringing his own people to the land using his inventions and weapon which was strange to the natives and more powerful than their own weapons, this was what they did in Sally island, only that they were accepted more in Sally Island than Mafaa Island. Uncle Sam's role model was his grandfather and he wanted to be like him, so he started being as ruthless  as his grandfather was. He murdered and raped the natives of the land they settled in, Uncle Sam enjoyed murdering slaves that didn't obey him and raping the slave girls. You see, the slaves girls had different body structure from the Oyibo girls. The slave girls had curves and fleshy waist unlike the Oyibo girls who were mostly straight and without curves. Uncle Sam loved the body of the slave girls more than he loved his own, but he wouldn't treat them right, he would rape them instead and murder any slave that stood in his way. James didn't know this, he was just a new slave on the Mafaa Island. But Sheba knew this, she had been on the island for years, she knew everybody on the island and knew how to avoid their trouble, he served her bosses so well they almost started treating her like she wasn't a slave anymore. She was allowed to wear good clothes and go shopping for her owners. She also knew Uncle Sam had an eye on her. 

Almost naked, James sat by the wall of the house, legs chained heavily, he rested his back on the walls very lost in thoughts, he didn't even pay attention to the naked slaves lurking around him. Back in Sally Island, he would make a good kill off the ladies letting their breast out. He didn't only love sex stories, he loved living it too, but six months on a slave ship changed his mind totally to a new state. He often wondered if he will ever see home again. He didn't even get the chance to say good bye to his family and the crew, from waiting for Ike to come back to the cabin with good tales to a fight he thought was brief. He found him self chained to a thousand strangers lying down where he could hardly move. They defecated and urinated on themselves and many died from strange diseases, others from hunger. At some point he wished he was dead too, at least he won't be in this strange land where he got whipped every minute he didn't understand the language. Most of the times he got frustrated, he sang. He sang one of the beautiful songs his mom sang for him when he was little, his mom will always sing that song when she was bathing him and whenever he cried. The song usually comforted him. He missed his mom and Sally Island and he would sing. As he sang, Sheba was walking by from the market trying to avoid Uncle Sam's stalking when she heard the song, she heard the song and sang along. 

Story: Nnagoziem TheVyrus Udensi 

Illustrations: Joseph Kenedy and Chevelin Pierre