THE UNION novel Chapter 24

"It worked, we're here." Abayo says as he, Ngozi and Gboyega suddenly appear in front of a big of a big gate inside the building is a huge red shrine.

"So what do we do?" Gboyega asked eager to save Tolu.

"You guys wait here, they won't allow you guys enter without access from The Trials and their receptionist. So I have to find a way to get a order from my father." Abayo says swiftly, hides his head ban in a pocket and takes off inside. Gboyega steps back a bit from Ngozi.

"Did I say anything wrong?" Ngozi asked confused about why he was moving away from her.

"Nothing, I'll just like to maintain my distance." Gboyega says boldly, this leads to a argument between both of them as Ngozi complains about his recent attitude towards her.

A lady wearing a glasses leads a group of people towards the shrine.

"We're almost there." She says happily. "Too bad were missing the two other special couples, Fai'zah really wanted to help them." The lady say sad about the incident, she had read about their issues and about how they argue a lot, she suddenly spots Ngozi and Gboyega yelling at each other.

"There they are." The lady says and runs toward them.

"I just don't understand you most times, you're so complicated." Ngozi says loudly.

"See who's calling who complicated." Gboyega laughs out loud.

"Your problems are solved!" The lady yells as she runs towards them.

"Who are you?" Gboyega says disgusted.

"I'm Erica, the receptionist of the shrine. I was scared when I didn't see both of you with the other couples. Fai'zah mentioned that you both somehow have powers so you probably got here by yourself." Erica says delighted, the two quickly played along.

"Of course, my amulet contains some few powers so we just went from home to here." Ngozi quickly responds.

"Let's go." Erica leads both of them with the other couples to a black gate, the door of the gate opens by it self and a balls of eyes and mouth pop out of the gate.

"Welcome, I hope you find answers to your problems." The voice of the gate sounds manly, everyone waved to the gate except Gboyega and Ngozi who were shocked about it, the other couples seemed to have been there multiple times.

"What is going on?" Ngozi whispers to Gboyega.

"I have no idea, let's just play along." He whispers back to her

Inside the shrine are different crearures from different realms, rooms for different purposes.

"I need to make him fall in love with me." A lady complains to a witch in one of the rooms.

In another room, the witches who faced Gboyega seek therapy from a wizard.

"That beam of light we saw, it was so traumatizing." One of the witches say as they all cry.

"And thats how you create your own creatures." Odi says to a group of students in another room as he teaches them the acts of magic.

In a chamber, a certain beast bangs the door wanting to escape. Abayo passes the chamber door and waves to the beast.

"Hi." Abayo waves to the beast, they've been friends for quite sometimes now, Abayo walks down a hallway and enters a office.

"Dad." Abayo says and bows down to greet Oloogun who was meditating.

"How did you get here?" Oloogun asked, he knew his son hadn't learn the teleportation spell perfectly.

"Well, after I used up all the kola nuts you gave me to transport to other world, I couldn't stay with those people and wanted to come back home......... So I summouned all my powers and I found myself here." Abayo says.

"You used the teleportation spell without me helping you, that's amazing." Oloogun gets up and hugs his son happy that he is finally becoming the wizard he wants him to be.

"You have to show your skills to the students at your class." Oloogun says exicted, he had waited for this moment to show off about his son to Odi and so many others.

"I hope you guys get back together." Erica says as she leads Ngozi and Gboyega to Fai'zah office, Fai'zah is floating in the air she has been waiting for the couples. "Good luck." Erica says and shuts the door.

"Normally I don't do this but since both of you are related to the witches council I have to." Fai'zah says as she slowly lay her legs on the ground. "I'm listening, what happened?" Fai'zah asked, Ngozi couldn't say anything but Gboyega quickly thought that this was the perfect opportunity to express how he felt.

"She's a bad person, she's self centered and really rude." Gboyega says and gently sits on a chair.

"I'm a bad person? You've been acting strange since we've moved together, you barely talk to me and yet say we're all family." Ngozi talks loudly.

"Well, maybe if you actually stopped hiding in your room every good day and start asking people how they feel you might know." Gboyega says aggressively, the argument was getting heated and Fai'zah was enjoying it.

"I'm not like every other person that does that, I genuinely care about you." Ngozi says and sits on a chair.

"If you did, you wouldn't have called me monster!" Gboyega says firmly ending the conversation, they both turn away from each other waiting to hear from Fai'zah.

"Well done." Fai'zah says, she applauds and chuckles. "You think I'll have a couple counsel and I won't know how the people I want to counsel look like?" Fai'zah says, the two try to run away but Fai'zah waves her hand around and they both float in the air.

"Now, where is Papa?" Fai'zah says menacingly.

Oloogun leads Ayo to his class and walks inside happy, Odi wondered what was going on he hated seeing Oloogun happy.

"The students are learning Oloogun, today is a very important day for them cause I'm teaching." Odi says boldly.

"I know but their fellow mate will like to perform the teleportation spell without any help." Oloogun says proudly, the whole class gasp the spell was really hard and wasn't in their level yet.

"Make me proud son." Oloogun says and he pushes Abayo to the center of the class.

"Hi." Abayo says awkwardly.

"Where is Papa?!" Fai'zah shouts at the top of her voice, she tightens her hold on them and they both scream in pain especially Gboyega.

"We don't know anything." Ngozi cries out, Fai'zah slowly moves toward Ngozi and stares at her amulet.

"Your amulet! One of a kind, too bad you're holding yourself down and you can't access your full power." Fai'zah says fascinated that a young girl like Ngozi could have such rare magical artifact. "If you tell me where Papa is, I can teach you how to use your amulet and be a master just like me." Fai'zah says, she was already getting desperate.

"I'm sorry but I can handle it just fine." Ngozi says, Tina suddenly appears behind Fai'zah.

"Let's play bitch." Tina says as she jumps toward Fai'zah.

"We're waiting boy." Odi says, the whole class have been waiting for Abayo to cast the spell.

"Ki...... Ma....... Su........" Abayo tries saying the incantation, he stutters and sweats heavily, Odi quickly burst into laughter.