"Is he the legendary master we all trained to be like?!," Chiko wondered thoughtfully.
"Save it! You have to live! You have to fight for your life!," he encouraged himself.
There was a legend in Mitete, that way back before the ancestors that started the village, there lived a being, strong and dangerous that used to live in the place where the town now is. This creature was feeding and on human blood and to inhabit the place was suicidal.
When the ancestors wanted to establish themselves, they made a deal with the creature and they have to offer a man or a virgin to it as a peace offering and coexist with it. After sometime, everyone became a threat one to another, as they could betray each other.
As time moved, the elders of the town decide to call for a secret training in martial arts to defend themselves from it. As they learned martial arts, one of them betrayed and went and spilled the beans to the creature.
He told it all their plan and the creature decided to become one with the betrayer.
"Go and and train hard and be better than them all. Be with them in all their plan!," the creature told the betrayer.
The betrayer went and trained together with the people of Mitete. They developed in martial arts and the betrayer graduated to the level of a master. Many other people trained, causing the town erupt with spiritual energy.
The time came and the elders had to offer a peace offering to the creature. But by then, they had no one to offer. Men had given their virgin girls, the weak were at a disadvantage and were always the victims. But the town had become so strong that they couldn't just give anyone due to the development in the fighting prowess of the individuals.
They then decided to make an ambush it and end its life and live free from its grip. In all their planning, one of the people they trusted to lead them was the very 'master', the betrayer.
But the night because their attack, the betrayer went before them and told it all their plan, and about the ambush.
"That's good," the creature said to the betrayer. "What do you mean by 'good'?," asked the betrayer.
"Come, I want to show you something," the creature called him. The two moved out of the cave where it lived, and it showed him a vision of the attacks that it has stood to stop during the time they have settled in Mitete. By then, it was still a small village, Mitete village.
"I have been the protector of this village for so long but I have also come to see the grief and pain i have caused your people. Maybe they are right, i should be terminated," the creature said, sitting down on a huge rock.
"What! I thought you told me to train hard, so that we can eliminate these people or even enslave them," the betrayer asked, puzzled.
"I wanted you to train, so that you can be cone the next protector of the land," it said to him.
"What! No! I can't do that!," he protested, but it was too late!
The creature held a firm grip of his hand and started chanting and casting magical spells. It then released him but he was a little too weak to stand.
Then t placed it's right palm on his forehead, and released it's genuine essence into him. His whole body was lifted off the ground, and he seemed suspended in middle air. Then with a heaven shaking cry, the creature let out its golden souls — which are the inner stores of its essence. They were seven of them, and it let out all seven into him.
One by one, they entered him. His whole body was covered in very bright golden light, and his head in blinding white light.
The elders of the village heard the cry of the creature and were left speechless by what they saw at a distance.
With one final cry, the creature let out it spirit. It was a shimmering golden figure in the semblance of the creature. It was its true life. Without it, it couldn't live, but with that intact, no matter how much wounded it would get, it could easily regenerate its tissues and live perfectly again. Its spirit stood separate from the body and the suspended man was then let down carefully in a standing posture.
But as he stood, something shocking was sighted; his body merged together with the creature's spirit and the two became one.
The elders of the Land and the whole village witnessed it. Then the body of the creature suddenly fell down and lay lifeless. After a short while, its body also started to age — so rapidly that it was literally visible to the naked eye. Then it started evaporating, like it was steam. The whole body became a current of energy and vanished steam into the air.
The whole village stood in awe of the sight, no able to make out what they had just seen. Before any of them spoke a word, their shock was amplified what followed next. The young man who had betrayed them, though they didn't know that he had, stood tall and still glittering with the golden light, his figure started to transform and his physique changed from his normal, and expanded by a few significant measurements.
"Is he still human?!," someone from the village asked exclamatorily. But he received no answer. All eyes were at the young man who the elders had no idea what he had become.
"Never hurt an innocent person!," the voice rang in his ears, so loud that he thought he had lost his hearing.
"Do you understand?," the voice asked. He shook his head in affirmation.
It was the voice of the dead creature, that had merged with him.
"You're now the master of the land. My spirit will always find a body to dwell to keep and protect these people. They sacrificed a lot for me. That's what I can give them in return. I am counting on your determination," the voice continued.
"Why me?," the young man mustered the courage to ask the it.
"You're different. The rest feared me but you got the bravery to come and make a deal with me. You're brave indeed. Don't forget to train, else you will drink human blood for survival! But never betray your people again. Stand with them!," it said.
The young man lowered his head in shame for what he had initially intended to do. He then turned and faced the village. He realized everyone was looking at him — and by that, they owed him an explanation.
He sloped down from the stony cave, and went to meet with the village people.
"You're so brave!," one aelder complimented. "You're now our leader! You're the bravest and the most skilled in martial arts. We are all your subordinates now," he continued.
But an old man, who happened to be the village chief by then, looked thoughtfully and asked him, "what was the story?"
"Chief, save it for tomorrow morning," the young man replied, before leaving the group.
On the morrow, he told the whole village how everything had played out from the beginning to the time of impartation. Some were pissed by what he had intended to do while others were sorry for what they were planning to do to the creature that had surrendered its life for their well-being and peace.
Then legend was narrated from generation to generation. And as time went by, the story was changed from being chosen to training hard for impartation.
"Is that your true form? Are the legends true?!," he asked in curiosity.
"Are you afraid of me?, Minteh responded, questionably.