Chapter 3 Adike

The Guardian of the five portals – The Ànjanu, watchers. Chained the cloud over the five portals to hell, which is unfortunately under Nigeria, well not literally under since the hells is another realm altogether but Nigeria has the 5 portals that lead to the ell where the most dangerous demon lives and the demon king holds Court.

Well, it's not all the Ànjanu that chained it, most of the Ànjanu are just farmers with blue, yellow, or blue blood. The watchers, the ones that know and use the arts of the elements, have magic in their blood – which is very advantageous when fighting a demon. The watcher's lord combined their power to bind I, to keep something that had nothing doing in the human world prison. For how long, nobody knows. But what is known is that it won't be enough. They need the fifth watch lord.

Since the Ànjanu– The watchers also live in another realm they made outposts that protects the portals from their different realm.

Adike was thinking of this and more as she moved smoothly between the students – her true form hidden by the glamour that all watchers can conjure, heading for the main gate where her team is waiting for her. Thunder rumbles in the cloudy skies and she reacts without thinking, making the human around her shiver with a coldness that comes and disappears just as quickly, she pitted and envy them sometimes, the human, they looked so venerable, weak and sometimes she looked at them and feel envy for their independence, their ignorance.

She passed the main gate and moves to a tinted black car across the street from the college gate, where her team of two guards had been waiting – her best friend and partner Bukola; who graduated from the watch Tower last month and the captain of her guard.

"You should have permitted me to come with you, my lady."Her guard, Yina said in a disapproving tone, though his face betrayed nothing.

"Relax captain, the princess's not about to get abducted."Ola said, rolling her eyes. " besides, you know that no demon will get within ten feet of the west Princess."

Ola liked to annoy the captain, which didn't impress or seem to provoke anything out of him.

Adike gave Ola a warning look which she returns with an innocent smile.

"Speaking of Princess."She said casually, opening the back seat and getting in.

"Well?" Ola scans the road before getting into the front seat with Yina who will drive, even though she liked to teases, Alike knows her best friend takes the job of guarding her seriously. " don't put us in suspense! Who do you see?" Yina didn't say anything just continue to drive, the only reason she knows he's listening is the slight narrowing of his eyes.

"Who do you think am talking about?" She said dryly, " the Prince of the Ànjanu of course."

She was pleased by the silent surprise that falls in the car, even Yina looked surprised, which is not an easy task to accomplish.

"So soon," Ola said, breaking the silence. " I thought it'll take some weeks to see him".

"He ran into me."

Ola cleared her throat and Alike knew the question that's coming next by the serious expression on her friend's face. She wished she could stop it. From the back seat, she saw Yina's hand tightened on the wheel.

"How did he look?."

She loosed a breath she didn't know she'd held, maybe she should give her friend more credit. She saw Yina's hand relaxed. She's not the only one who misjudged her friend's question.

" He looked...." How do you describe how a supposed Prince looks like? She thought. " human, he looked like a human."

Ola gave her a weird look, raising her eyebrows. "Human? That's all."

She raised her shoulder in a shrug.

"What of his power?". Yina's harsh voice breaks the silence, he cleared his throat. "Do you think he'll be able to tame the wild lighting?. "Ola glanced at the sky at the mention of the wild lighting.

Alike thought about his questions, what of his power? , she shuddered because looking back she hadn't felt any ripple or echo of power from him, the only power she felt was that of the Twin guard who was with him – his power had echo deep, she didn't know both of his elements but she can bet that fire's one of them, his heated glare is enough to melt a sloppy ice spear.

" I hope." She said. Yina gives her a long unreadable look from the rear mirror, the three of them not saying the obvious– that hope will not be

enough.

"We have to get to the nearest outpost to tell my father he'd been found. And that it seems central has already claimed him." She broke the uneasy silence that has fallen.

"And quite easily at that," Ola muttered. "Shouldn't the Twin watcher make sure he wasn't found easily, or at all?"

She had thought the same thing, but then her father had told her of his "spies" who are in the human realm and had been looking for him and his mother since his father take him off the radar of any watcher, even the North watchers, who are known ally of the dead prince.

She didn't know what to think of the Prince, she had thought she would feel anger or deep hatred after all his father had been the reason her mother died, and the reason she woke up sometimes with frozen sweat on her, caught in a helpless nightmare of her mother's death and what she did.

Instead, she felt pity, this boy who thought his life was ordinary and simple is about to get his feet knocked off under him. Who would like to know that the saving of the world may depend on them? On their ability to master a gift they did not even know they possess.