Born of ashes and suffering, it establishes wisdom, peace and prosperity, but all this does not belong to a single person but to a community from where the kingdom of Adjeya, King Ahmed was waging a war without release on all sides of the kingdom which acted under the command of the enemy of his father died during the war, two months before, he promised him then that he was going to avenge him whatever the price he was going to pay
- My son…. All passion is suicide, don't let revenge eat away at your heart….
- Dad …. It was not you who was targeted by this attack why did you take this arrow in my place?
- My son, the day you will have a child, you will know that a father and a mother are ready to make all the sacrifices in the world if the life of their child is threatened, even if it means dying. From today you become the new king as I would have liked to see you sit on the throne but promise me one thing and make sure you keep that promise no matter what the price.
- Tell me father what should I do?
- Make sure to make the village flourish and not sink into darkness because if that should happen, getting out of this path will prove to be a really difficult and demanding mission.
- …… I will honor this promise even if for that I would have to sacrifice my own father life.
And after that his father breathed his last, Ahmed inherited his father's throne, and despite the words of the late king, he plunged his soul and his kingdom into the sweet waves of revenge, Palem, the Minister of Finance lives there an opportunity to fill their pockets and began to bribe the other ministers and by common agreement they increased the tax which fell to the villagers and the hunters. Months passed and the tax did not cease to increase without the king realizing what the Minister of Finance and his acolytes were planning, during this period the villagers turned to the soothsayer to implore his compassion and ask help with him, he promised to intervene on their behalf with the king, days passed and the big diviner did not seem to lift a finger for the population, but one day during an audience with the king, the grand diviner posed his problem without mincing his words and the king from whom all this had been hiding preferred to say nothing and asked that an investigation be carried out on this problem. Palem felt that everything he had spawned was falling apart and decided to save his own skin. To do this, he first tried to bribe the king's envoys, but the latter did not seem to want to cooperate, he no longer knew what he was going to do with this situation and the more days passed the more his situation became critical meanwhile, he sought to raise a large sum and try to make the trunk as soon as he had the opportunity and without saying anything to the other ministers, he began his project and after two months, he deserted the village taking with him a colossal sum leaving behind his family and loved ones. After his departure, the king understood the situation but he could not go up the slope all by himself so the city very quickly became a dead city, the peasants could no longer eat their fillings due to its taxes which did not stop increasing over the months, King Ahmed, who was only interested in one thing, the war, tried as best he could to put his kingdom back on the right track, but he realized that only he had no chance of achieve it, so he decided to appeal to the gods asking for their help, the gods who saw the situation decided to help him. The grand diviner then told him that the gods had granted him their favors and that within two months he was going to have children, twins whose vocation was to save the kingdom, their births were marked by the roar of the lion that the king had raised from a young age and the lion only roared if the king was absent for a long time, but this day the king was in the throne room awaiting news about his wife who awaited the arrival of the announced twins by the predictions of the gods. The midwives came to announce to the king that the birth had taken place without complications and that his wife and the children were well and that he would soon be able to see them but that his wife needed rest after this childbirth, the king remained in the room to contemplate his wife and the children that the gods had given him before setting out again in the throne room to announce the news to his town crier, who was going to announce it in his turn to the four corners of the kingdom. A short time later, the queen came out of her sleep and asked the king for her favorite servant, who ran up and hastened to carry out the order of her mistress, she left the royal room, a pretty room vast decorated with patterns of lion in white color which contrasted with the red color of the earth, the king had arranged two stools carved in a very original wood, the sculptor who produced the patterns took almost two months before finishing the motifs engraved on these stools and affixed the royal seal, the servant walked a corridor filled with sculpture and vases just as old as each other, these sculptures represented both the past of the kingdom and its most immediate future, when the servant brought the news to the ears of the king, the latter running in the royal room, he found his wife nursing their children, after having attended this scene, the king and the queen gave a name to the children Ramdane for the boy and Ramatoulaye for the girl.
The birth of the king's children was an opportunity for the latter to withdraw from the corrupt ministers their title of nobility in order to set an example and restore peace to the kingdom, he restored the old taxes and asked that a big party be organized in honor of the princes and also to celebrate the return of peace to the kingdom, the feast took place seven moons later because of the harvest which had taken place just a week after the birth of the princes, this harvest was more than what the locals could hope for, the corn and millet fields stretched as far as the eye could see, the vegetable fields were packed and the harvest already announced a harvest festival which would have taken place at the same time as the festival of the princes which announced the rejoicings which will last seven moon, the great diviner withdrew and shut himself up in the room of worship to pray to the gods so that they watch over the kingdom and that the rejoicings take place without hindrance and to do this , l he gods asked for sacrifices: goats, chicken and even human sacrifices were made so that the feast in honor of the princes took place in the best possible setting, and for two moons everyone was busy with the preparations, the women and the girls took care of the decorations and the men of all that would be necessary for this day, whether meat, fish or even wood that will be used for cooking, meanwhile, the king sent his messengers to the four corners of the kingdom loaded with the good news, soon, all the heads of provinces had their presents brought to the king, bottles of wine, loincloths, gold jewelry etc ... in order to have the graces of the king, when the long-awaited day arrived, all the villagers of the kingdom rushed through the streets of the capital. The tams-tams played in every corner of the capital during this time at the castle, the king and the queen were preparing each of their, the king put on his most beautiful loincloths and jewelry for the occasion, the maids responsible for escorting the queen quickly created a closed circle around the queen preventing anyone from seeing the queen only those who were initiated had this privilege. The royal procession arrived just at the level of the royal court, all the players of instrument began to play it in a frantic way. The nurses stayed behind the king and the queen taking care of the king's children, the king looked at the crowd and the musicians stopped playing leaving a silence hovering in the courtyard, the king ordered the priest of the Fâ to read the future of the children, when the latter arrived, he made sacrifices and asked the Fâ, and had a vision announcing a bright future but which was only of very short duration, he saw a young silhouette surrounded by dark forces, they tried so well that bad to see the face of this person but it did not arrive there then he made the report to the king who asked the priest if there was a way to reverse the situation so that the kingdom emerges unscathed, but the priest was very clear , telling him that this destiny can only be changed if the gods bring their help but at the same time he says that all this will happen when the gods will make their choices. The king found himself in a delicate position and did not know if he would have the strength to announce it to his people, and especially after all that he had just gone through, he then asked the priest to ask the Fâ, when is -was this prophecy supposed to come true, the latter threw his cowries and recited his invocations and announced to the king that the prophecy would come true during the 18th year of his children and that there was no way to cancel the prophecy. The king acted as if nothing had happened and announced to the people that the gods were satisfied with them without announcing the prediction of the priest to his subjects, but one of the servants had heard all the conversation, as soon as the presentation ceremony was finished. finish, the king made her ask in his room and imposed silence on him by assigning him the maintenance of his room of worship, the priest asked long after to do the necessary rituals, and especially make him swear before the protective fetishes of the king that she would never try to harm the king and that she would defend the secrets of the king at the cost of her own life after that, she took leave in her room leaving the king and the priest in the room. No one could have predicted that the fate of this servant and that of the twins were closely linked. Years passed and the kingdom of Adjeya regained all its splendor, the harvests were abundant, hunting and fishing gave a rather high yield which made the city more and more prosperous, Ramdane and Ramatoulaye were praised and respected throughout town. During their fifteenth years, the grand diviner asked an audience with the king to announce to him what the gods finally decided, the king already apprehended this hypothesis since the day when the priest had announced this news to him concerning the fate of his children, he then asked that he be left alone with the priest. The latter announced to him that the gods required tests to be able to designate their receptacle and that these tests will take place when the two people concerned will have reached the age of reason, the king took this news with apprehension, he left the room leaving the priest alone, he paced the kingdom up and down in search of a track that could prevent a catastrophe from hitting the kingdom, but he could not find even a shadow of a solution . The king eventually went to his apartments, lay down and wanted to asleep, but he couldn't, just thinking about the problem he was going to face soon. Hours passed, and the king still wandered his apartments in search of a solution before falling into a deep sleep.
The sun rose over the kingdom of Adjeya, and the king rose despite himself after his hectic night, the queen noticed him as soon as she saw him leaving his apartments but she made no comment to him, the day followed its course, King Ahmed sat on the throne and a short time later the advisers appeared, each of them had a request to make, the Minister of Agriculture, who like the other ministers did not feel their places when they found themselves in the same room as King Ahmed, the latter having noticed them granted them the little esteem they deserved by saying that basically they had no bad intentions but they put hand over all the goods they had acquired when Palem the deserter was still finance minister only two ministers had been changed because too involved, the first adviser of the king and the treasurer of the court. The prince and princess spent more time outside the palace than any person belonging to the royal family, which earned them the name of the children of Adjeya, normally attributed to the children of the inhabitants of the kingdom, despite their origins and social ranks, the prince and the princess devoted themselves to the activities of the other inhabitants of the kingdom, the prince plowed the fields like all the other farmer of the area and liked to help the others, hunting and fishing was for him true passion, he especially loved hunting in the tall grass in the savannah, her sister the princess she excelled in all areas of women already at her thirteen years old she had a sublime body, attractive forms, pointed breasts which make anyone who looks at them dizzy ebony color that suited him. She had the same features as her mother the queen, she knew how to handle all the kitchen utensils and sewing was her area of expertise, she was going to look for herself the one which would be used to her to make her toilet, the kingdom advanced in an era of prosperity, but all of this was just the tip of the iceberg. During the ceremony of their 17th year, the king gathered their people as well as the prince and the princess so that the priest of Fâ announces the decision of the gods to them, the villagers impatiently awaited the arrival of the priest of Fâ, this one entered and took his place near the king his initiates brought him what he needed before retiring from the room, he threw his cowries and scrutinized them for a moment before telling the king that the gods wanted the prince and the princess go on an expedition in the forest of the blood lake which was famous for its high level of spirituality but also because the evil resided there since the dawn of time. According to legend, this lake was cursed by one of the seven most powerful witches in the village because her only daughter was raped and killed by young people from wealthy families in her quest for justice, she curses the woods so that the lake and the trees of the forest eliminate the perpetrators to the last, since that the lake takes on a red tint each time one of the authors dares to enter it. The king asked that she cancel the spell she had cast but she flatly refused since this place was feared by all wealthy families, until the gods made it a place of confrontation. When they heard the news, Ramdane and Ramatoulaye each got ready. Ramdane began to practice fighting techniques and feints, and they began to travel very long distances in order to be a little faster, as for Ramatoulaye, it only strengthened spiritually in addition to learn certain attack and defense techniques. And for days, weeks, and months these two people trained tirelessly. The day of their birthdays was fast approaching and the two young people did not skimp on their training in addition to their daily tasks, the inhabitants of the village went about their business but each of them had an idea of the person who would come out victorious of this ordeal. The long awaited day arrived, it was in a beautiful morning that the high priest came to announce to the king that the two elected potential was expected in the forest, the latter ordered that the tams-tams announce the exit of the young elected and that they take the direction the gods have traced for them. Throughout most of the journey, the silence became more and more heavy, the prince and the princess not even talking to each other, who were usually very accomplices. They arrived at the edge of the forest accompanied by the king, the priest and some initiates, just before the prince and the princess entered the forest, the initiates made them a cleansing toilet so that it would be recognized by the protective spirits of the forest, the toilet finishes the prince and the princess entered the forest, always in the silence looking everywhere around them and they arrived at a mouth giving on two very different ways one went to the left and the other to right. The princess looked at the prince and without saying a word took the right path, the prince took the left path, the princess met three people who were arguing, she came closer and asked the reason why these three people arguing, they noticed while she was dealing with three blind who were arguing for food, she looked around and saw two mango trees whose fruits were accessible she returned to the three blind and guided two of them them towards the two other surrounding mango trees and handed them a mango to each while telling them that there were other mangoes just above them, the three blind thanked her by giving her a stone as clear as the water and told her the way she should follow, the prince found him facing a dilemma, he was offered a black stone and a white stone, if he took the black stone he would be the target of thirty arrow but that if he took the white stone his life will be taken away from him, he had thought and returned the question in every possible way he saw only one possibility that to take the stone and just when he s 'was about to take it he remembered a word his father had told him when he was still young and changed his mind by taking the white stone.
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