DREAMLAND PART 1

By Riungu Jnr Ikiugu

They had successfully executed the mission. We were all caught off guard  as we headed home from our day to day errands. There were gun shot sounds all over. Everyone and everything moving around, whether in a car or on foot, was stopped and guns loaded with bullets forcefully handed over to them. I was given a machine gun and by the time I knew what was happening, I was receiving orders from all over. It was a coup d'état.

I have never held a gun before. I struggled with the machine gun to the beds of River Ruiru. I can remember killing tens of military men and thousands of civilians royal to Jakim, leader of the opposition. I raised my head to spot the presence of any enemy and a bullet struck my left limb. I was in pain.

Immediately the bullet hit my left limb, I felt a stream of hot blood meander down my waist, through my thighs to the toes. I held the bullet wound with my palm to restrain blood that was now oozing out profusely.

I leaned on the banks of River Ruiru holding the machine gun with my left arm. Bullets were flying from all corners of Ruiru town. I knew I was dead. I crawled into the stony river cave to seek refuge. Panic grasped me as I fired a few more bullets. I heard three thunder falls and knew that I must have aimlessly shot down three huge men.

The pain from the bullet wound was now becoming unbearable. I got unconscious and dropped the machine gun into the River. I struggled to kneel down and say my last prayer. I knew I was dying. I looked up into the stony cave and said, "Lord don't take my life now. Allow me to see my daughter Sasha, and son Blair grow into adults. Don't take my young soul before I see my unborn son Austin Kenya". Immediately I finished saying the prayers, a huge black python entered the cave. I was sweating and gasping for breadth.

The black python slowly crawled into the cave with its sensory V-shaped tongue smelling around for the presence of any foreign stranger. At that juncture, I knew the serpents pangs would be the cause of my demise. I wondered whether my partner, my kids or anyone would ever find my skeleton if this python was lucky to have me as its prey.

The pain from the bullet wound had significantly reduced, the bleeding stopped and a huge clot of blood developed around the wound. I knew I needed to act immediately as the python started its approach towards me. I had the machine gun but it was of no use since it was lying deep under the waters of River Ruiru. My heart pumped both vertically, sideways, and diagonally like the dangerous missile pumps of North Korea. Donald Trump can tell better the magnitude of fear that was in me.

I stepped on the slippery walls of the cave with the python directly lying below my freezing testicles. It was cold and my scrotum had shrunk to keep my manly ball at room temperature. In a lightening speed and in a combination of my black belt karate skills, I horizontally jumped through the cave opening and fell deep into the bottom of the river. "Ooh Jesus", I exclaimed in agony and at the same with joy knowing that I had twice escaped, right from the enemies death net; from Jakim loyalists and the deadly serpent.

With the thunderous fall that I had, the wound had started to bleed again. The moon was now shining brightly and I could see the slowly flowing waters of River Ruiru turn bloody red. I thought I had crossed red sea on my way to Canaan just to come back to my senses to realize that Canaan was just a myth; a myth that only existed in the minds of Jakim's political loyalists.

I stretched my hand deep into the waters, held the machine gun but unfortunately I couldn't lift it up. I was weak and weary. With the dying energy, I crawled to the leafy river bed and lay on my back facing the road to my home. I was groaning in pain from the wound. I could tell from the silence that calmness had now returned. From the road side, I saw some bright light and sensed it was a car. I started groaning harder and letting out the screams of help. Help! Help!. The screams reminded me the first time I had sex during my teenage years. The sweetness I had felt back then during my first encounter with sex were relatively similar to the help screams I was letting out.

The car stopped and a relatively tall, light skinned beautiful lady in her early 30s stepped out. I let out another scream of help. "Help!" Fast forward, with the help of the pretty lady, I struggled to enter into the ladies car a midst her shouts of, "Try to be quick. I know you hurt but the situation is still not safe". She drove into her house, forced myself out of her car and walked into her bungalow. The ambience brought me back to the real world. We conversed while the lady did some quick first aid. She dropped my pants down, slightly below my groin to wipe the blood clots. All this time, my eyes kept glued into her shiny, smooth, sexy beautiful thighs. I had suddenly forgotten about Jakim's  political attack and the black python that almost killed me. The power of a woman.

"Take a rest on the bed", she humbly said to me. She quickly grabbed her towel and within no time, she walked back with the white towel around her waist, switched off the main bedroom lights, lit the dim head bed lights, threw off her towel and dived into the bed. I gently placed my left hand on her paw paw shaped boobs while she slowly ran her soft tender palm and fingers down through my groin. I was hot, she was hotter. I suddenly woke up just to realize that it was a dream.