Chapter 174 - Damsel In Distress

It was brief but just as it started, the whole hazy sensation cleared off from the head of Aderonke. She m.o.a.n.e.d out softly holding her head with both hands, her upper torso bending down low till it almost touched with her lower limbs. 

She shook her head now and then raised up from the pose she had been in. Was this why she had woken up suddenly then, Aderonke wondered as she squinted. 

That person, she did not know what to make of him. 

The white bands on his arm. He was definitely not from here, at least, he was not like the humans that she had encountered who could at least do even more than she could do in terms of power.  The only person she had actually seen that surpassed her greatly was none other then the person who had helped to set her up, after she had once gone berserk., the mysterious Story Teller in his always white apparel. 

But that had been a rare circ.u.mstance. She had almost never seen him like ever again. He had only appeared to help her out and that was it. But then again, he was pretty much human and there was just no way she could place the two of them together no matter how she was going to compare them. 

yes, the two seemed to have some great amount of  power but then, she sensed that the one with the white band, his own situation had been like he had some sort of untapped power that was still budding. And the gigantic wolf that had been trying to subdue him too. She shook her head now, again, smiling and then heaving out a sigh. 

"Nah! none of this makes any sense, to be honest. You are telling me that I had to wake up because I was going to see a vision about some guy with white bands of light on his arm and legs. Meh!" She muttered to herself  and then shrugged, putting  her hands in her pocket once more. 

Now that that had happened, the memory of the event hat made her pause there was almost negligible. Or rather, she did not even remember it as she just walked on, as if there had been nothing suspicious that she had felt up ahead now. 

Just behind her, as she walked on, there at the container, just at the table that was in font of it were demons and their grotesque forms. And the way it looked, they seemed to be having some sort of meting among themselves. 

This was not something strange to her. She had come across many of them but then again, she had also come to realize that coming across demons did not often end well. Demons were malicious creatures and the slightest thing could just irk them off. 

"Keep moving. Keep moving. Keep moving." Aderonke chanted softly to herself, her face turning pale. 

It was to like she was that scared of them but these were not the regular breed she had come to know. Neither were these ones looking so easy. The fact that they were only about, how many of them did not mean that they would be softer than the imps that she was used to. 

In fact, she did not have the slightest d.e.s.i.r.e to find out. Her heart beat fast, almost trying to pop out of her mouth and cold sweat broke out on her skin, despite the occasional breeze that wafted past.

The demons were slim but had taut muscles. Each of the five that she had sighted had on their heads, spiky hairs of white in different styles, one even had the hair dropping down in form of braids. They each had on their sea blue, almost transparent bodies, clothing that had a V styled parting over at the necks, going own to the belts that were made of pouches here and there at their h.i.p.s. She did not see much because she tried to keep her face ahead, trying so hard not to agitate them but from what she had seen, she was pretty sure the demons were really tall. 

Tall and huge, and if she had to guess about their height, she would place them each at 7ft and beyond. Placing them at 6 feet seemed to be be an understatement i relation to the demons. After all, they had had to bend their bodies just so they could all be contained under the roof of the shed which was erected just before the container. 

But as she moved on, walking past the junction which was directly before the container, her heart missed a beat, She remembered something just as the shuffling of steps began to draw nearer and sound even louder. 

It was simple. 

And the ones who naturally piqued their interest the most were all humans who were Sages. 

Aderonke was a sage. 

And by default, they would come after her. 

But then, she began to panic, these ones were not anything close to what she had known before. At the moment, she began to regret why she had to venture this far already. 

This was what her mother had been trying to push against, That was why she had asked her what was going on, then. But, she had been so desperate to come out and so, here she was. 

She was not a kid like before. She had grown exponentially. And in one of those things that she had grown in, she had come to realize a battle she could not win.

Unless a miracle happened, then the demons who were trailing her would overtake her. And the whole incident would repeat itself. Except that in this case, they would not be the sudden appearance of the Story Teller who happened to be just close by then. 

Now, unless a proper miracle that was not in the form of the story teller, Aderonke sighed, she would not know how to go about it then. 

She pulled out her hands from her pocket now, looking up straight as her mind went overtime. She could just go out with her power but then how long was she going to last against the demons she had see? Those ones were definitely not on he level and eventually, she would be out and exhausted before they would even start their torment of her. 

The argument  of that had been that it would take off her sense of being away from the malicious auras of the demons. In this way, they could all live in their house without having demon visiting just because she was a Sage. 

And it had been effective. 

Now, if only she could work her way back to the  house, then, maybe these demons would not follow. 

She scanned her surrounding just then, looking up ahead, 

to her left, after she crossed the junction was just bushes that had overgrown from the gutter. It was rather ironic being that just across that place was a hospital, a maternity hospital however and yet the gutter at the opposite of them was not being considered to be taken care of. 

There was a long wall which fenced out a sort of villa from the street, the gates that gave entrance to the compound only existing at the side of the walls that faced the express road. 

The hospital was to her left, it had two gates both of which were shut at the moment, but the light from the security bulbs placed on the gate post did well in illuminating the street for some meters.

"Nothing!" Aderonke frowned. 

there was really nothing she could use to make her escape from the demons who were trailing her. Absolutely nothing. For a moment or two, anger welled in her c.h.e.s.t but then it was quickly replaced by irrationality and she screamed, jerking her hands left  and right as her limbs fired out in speed.

But instead of them catching up with her, what she heard was laughter. Multiple bursts of laughter and screeches and with that, the swishing of ropes in the air and the cluttering of limbs on the ground after her. 

Aderonke turned, her yes widening. 

"Imps?"