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Chapter 11 - Chapter 11 "feast and fury"

CHIKA'S MANSION – KITCHEN – 10:13 P.M.

David sits at the marble counter, plate mountain before him.

Jollof (spicy, glistening).

Pounded yam (steaming, wrapped in moi-moi).

Egusi (thick, fragrant).

Suya (charred, dripping).

The silver spoon hovers, refilling his cup with zobo.

"More fish, Master David ?"

David shovels a wrap of pounded yam, cheeks full.

"Mmmph—keep it coming!"

His stomach bulges—full, happy, oblivious.

ABUJA – SKYSCRAPER ROOFTOP – 10:14 P.M.

THIRD HENCHMAN: SKORN.

Towering.

Anti-matter aura—black-red, devouring light.

Eyes: twin voids.

Gabriel (Taurus) charges—earth spikes.

Skorn waves—spikes dissolve into dust.

Ojo (Aries) slashes—flame blades.

Skorn counters—anti-matter shield, blades shatter.

Prince (Leo) roars—solar lion punch.

Skorn absorbs—flames invert, vanish.

Favour (Cancer) summons tidal wave.

Skorn flicks—water turns to steam, then nothing.

Emmanuella (Pisces) heals—mist rises.

Skorn inhales—mist sucked into void.

Tijani (Sagittarius) fires storm arrows.

Skorn snaps fingers—arrows reverse, explode mid-air.

Paul & Peter (Gemini) mirror-attack—eight copies.

Skorn spins—anti-matter vortex, copies erased.

All eight warriors kneel, bruised, powers nullified.

Skorn's voice—like grinding galaxies:

"Kahos sends regards."

CHIKA DESCENDS.

Staff blazing white.

Star runes orbit like angry moons.

Skorn turns.

"Hmm, a wizard."

Chika plants staff.

"You picked the wrong city."

COSMIC BARRAGE.

Starlight spears rain.

Skorn raises hand—anti-matter dome.

Spears collide—annihilate in silence.

Chika's eyes narrow.

"So you counter magic…"

He leaps, staff spinning.

PHYSICAL STRIKE.

Staff cracks Skorn's jaw.

Skorn staggers—first hit lands.

Chika grins.

"…but not fists."

Skorn roars.

Anti-matter tendrils lash.

Chika dodges, staff glowing brighter.

STARFALL PUNCH.

Skorn towers.

Anti-matter waves pulse—black-red devouring air.

Chika charges.

Staff spins—starlight shield.

Wave hits—shield shatters.

Chika flies back, crashing through concrete.

Ojo shouts: "CHIKA!"

Skorn advances.

Void tendrils coil.

Chika rises, blood on lip, staff cracked.

He plants it.

Eyes blaze white.

"CELESTIAL VOID."

Hands flash—five fingers splayed, four twisted in arcane lock.

SILENCE.

The world rips.

Green light floods.

Chika and Skorn vanish.

THE DOMAIN – EMERALD VOID

EVERYTHING IS GREEN.

Grass breathes.

Mountains pulse like hearts.

Sky swirls with living auroras.

Ground hums—alive, aware.

Skorn staggers, anti-matter flickering.

"Where… have you taken me?"

**Chika stands atop a floating jade spire, staff whole, robes flowing.

"My domain. Here, I am in control."

Skorn snarls.

Anti-matter erupts—void blade forms.

Chika raises hand.

SKY TEARS.

Hundreds of GIGANTIC POISONOUS SPIKES—emerald, dripping venom—rain down.

Skorn dodges—spikes crater ground, poison hissing.

One grazes—armor melts.

Chika descends, voice calm.

"No counter here."

Skorn roars.

Anti-matter sphere—grows.

Chika snaps.

Spikes converge—cage of venom.

Skorn trapped.

Poison seeps.

Chika walks forward.

"Tell Kahos—next time, send someone who can bleed."

Skorn's cage trembles.

Venom spikes crack.

ANTI-MATTER SURGES.

Black-red veins explode across his body.

"AAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAASGHRAAAAAAGH!"

CRACK.

Cage SHATTERS.

Poison evaporates into green mist.

Skorn's form EXPANDS.

Muscles bulge.

Height triples.

Void armor reforms—jagged, crowned in black flame.

He towers—30 feet.

Eyes: twin singularities.

Skorn lunges.

Massive fist descends.

Chika stands unmoved.

No fear.

PURE WHITE LIGHT ERUPTS.

Chika's body IGNITES.

Hair turns silver.

Robes dissolve into starfire armor.

Staff morphs into dual celestial blades.MAGICAL TATTOOS blaze across his skin—every constellation, pulsing.

LATENT POTENTIAL: UNLOCKED.

Chika grows—matching Skorn's height.

Wings of light unfold.

Aura: blinding.

Skorn's fist meets Chika's palm.

BOOM.

Shockwave flattens mountains.

Green ground ripples like water.

Chika's voice—cosmic, layered:

"You wanted a god?"

He PUNCHES.

White starfire fist.

Skorn's chest CRATERS.

Skorn staggers.

Anti-matter leaks.

Chika spins blades.

"CELESTIAL CROSS."

Twin arcs of light slash.

Skorn's arms SEVERED.

Void blood sprays.

Skorn roars—regenerates.

Chika charges.

AND------

CHAOS.

Mountains crumble.

Green sky fractures.

Skorn—titanic, void-crowned—slams anti-matter fists.

Chika—white-starfire titan—blocks, blades singing.

BOOM.

Shockwaves carve canyons.

Poison spikes rain—Skorn shatters them.

Starfire arcs—Skorn counters with void shields.

Both roar.

Fists collide—WHITE vs. BLACK.

Reality screams.

ABUJA – IDC ROOFTOP RUINS – 10:20 P.M.

Favour (Cancer) staggers to her feet.

Blood streaks her tidal armor.

Smoking crater where the atrium once stood.

She taps earbud.

"Superior One—GREEN DOME in the sky!"

SUPERIOR ONE (STATIC):

"Chika's fighting a very strong and powerful demon Skorn one of kahos's henchmen."

Favour:

"I ..... think we're losing!"

SUPERIOR ONE:

"Find Scorpio we believe Chika as been training him. Find him in chika's mansion. NOW."

Favour:

"Why me?"

SUPERIOR ONE:

" Just do it. He can end this. GO."

Favour:

"Ok...…..Understood."

She limps to the teleport pad—half-melted.

Blue flash.

IDC ABUJA – GROUND ZERO

Favour materializes in hell.

Walls collapsed.

Bodies strewn—agents, eyes hollow, souls gone.

Plasma burns.

Void scars.

Favour kneels beside a fallen Gemini copy.

"Oh God…"

Tears run downs her face.

She stands, claws reforming.

"Scorpio… where are you?"

TELEPORT FLASH.

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