One day a street boy went into a deep forest to look for fruits. He climbed trees and
gathered the best fruits he could and when he was almost through, a very heavy
thunderstorm started.It rained as if
it was raining upon the sinful mystic dogs and cats in a jerrican of Mombasa.The poor street
boy decided to look for cover before the thunderstorm could stop so that he
could walk back to the city 10 kilometers away safely with his hard earned
supper.Fortunately for
the boy, he found a warm isolated cave just beneath a rock where the rain water
couldn’t flow into.He opticated
inside to see what was inside but there was nothing. Just warm red volcanic soil with smooth
terraces on it as if someone usually plays a game of pulling a sack full of
cereals on that ground.He decided to
choose the warmest corner of the cave and coil up himself and maybe take a nap.
As he napped, flashlights from the sky could draw rays of lights at the
backdrop of his retina each minute as thunder struck outside each minute
burning the trees severely. He was so
afraid of the thunder as he saw a gazelle running outside the cave and being super
electrocuted by the voltages from the pouring heavens. What if something came
into the cave to attack him? That was a question for later or maybe just fantasy
but for now, little street boy had to focus on his little nap and wait for the
thunderstorm to halt.As fate and
coincidence would coin it, the rain continued to dazzle and pour like
waterfalls from heaven were running for gravity. Suddenly, trees
just above the cave started to rattle. The sound wasn’t that of thunder. It was
a unique sound as if a bulldozer was rolling on top of the cave. The noise got
louder and louder as the dry soil above the little boys head in the cave
started dropping dustily.Little boy knew
something was coming into the cave. But he couldn’t run out because the flowing
waters would grab him immediately.Before he could
think of what to do, the lights from the sky that lit the cave a few seconds
ago dimmed gradually as the rolling sound outside cam towards the mouth of the
cave. His heart started to thump and his breath accelerated like the fan of a
new computer.A sparkling
multi-coloured skin of a huge reptile appeared at the mouth of the cave gliding
slowly and blocking the caves mouth so our little fried couldn’t run out. In short,
he was security coded without a password because it was a very big python
seeking shelter from the rain just like our little hopeless friend.Little poor
friend couldn’t shout because he would arouse the reptile. All he did was coil
himself even smaller in order to occupy a quarter GB of the cave’s space that
he was occupying temporarily since the owner of the house had just arrived. Little
boy had never battled even a lizard but today, he was facing the mother of
snakes.The python
slithered halfway with the boy already trembling like poplar tree. The python opened
its mouth wide as if to yawn first before swallowing the little boy. Then it
closed its mouth and rested its head on the ground. The boy was so scared as he
knew that the reptile was just saying a prayer to the father in heaven for
providing it with its daily bread.The python
remained that way for the next 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4
hours, 8 hours 12 hours then 24 hours while blocking the mouth of the cave with
the boy fearing to walk out because he might step on the praying python.Suddenly, he
saw a thin sickly and very old hyena near the mouth of the cave chewing
something. His fears reached 103% because, a hyena had added up itself on the
python’s little menu.Alas! The hyena
was eating the python. The python was dead all this long. It wasn’t praying. When
it opened its mouth wide, it was letting out the last cry to death. Yes, it had
been struck by thunder and lightning and it was dead.The boy couldn’t
fear an old sickly hyena so he shouted from inside the silent cave and the
hyena ran away for its dear life thinking that another python was out to
revenge. Of course our
little boy ran out, picked his fruits just outside the cave in his polythene
bag and ran towards the city 10 kilometers away. (END)
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