Lightening
"Who would dare do such a thing, I raged my eyes flashed lightening, "Why would Aroni the great stand aside and let this insolence on his person go unchallenged?
"It is non-other than Ogun of Ire, also named Lakaaye Oshinmole, the Orisha of war who has water flowing in abundance in his household but prefers to bath in blood. She answered and then proceeded to narrate her plight,
"Arise and wipe your tears good mother, go home and prepare your son's favorite dish for I promise you that he shall come home in time for dinner, Ogun does not have two heads, he has two ears, surely he uses them to hear and he will listen to reason."
Aja departed with gratitude and I prepared myself to seek out Ogun at his forge under Ire. As fate would have it, I met the smith god at his smithy tinkering with his boring tools, the boy Dada sat tied down by the corner all forlorn and managed to look like an half drowned rat caught in a trap and dragged yards across the forest floor.
"Greetings Lord of Ire, custodian of crafts, god of commerce, the silent one who says a thousand words with just a stare."
"Please spare me the sugary praises and state your business Jakuta. One does not simply see the firefly by day, something must be amiss, and to whom do I owe your surprise visit."
Ogun wasn't an Orisha for much banter.
"Ah, a man of few words, I admire that about you Iron one, I come for the boy, surely you do not want some youth sulking all about your forge disturbing your inventions for a thousand full years, allow me to return him to his mother and she will forever be indebted to you, the boy too must have learnt his lesson by now.
"The lizard wants to get married, the wall gecko is the father-in-law, the moth boosted to dance at the wedding feast till his wings tears, tell me Jakuta hurler of stones, how does it concern the moth, for he is neither related with the lizard nor the wall gecko, the boy's case is none of your business. My verdict stays the same, the boy shall serve here for a thousand years, go back to your parties and funfair Olu Koso, this does not concern you."
"You seem to misinterpret me Lakaaye Oshinmole." I said, my temper was beginning to get the best of me as I threw attempts at diplomacy out the window. "I did not come begging for the boy, I had come to take him for I promised his mother he shall eat at her side this night, and what Shango says he will do, he does."
"Control the next words that drops from your tongue Shango, do not let the intoxicating power of the axe given to you by my old master steer you like a canoe into your doom. I advise you to trend softly for a figurine made of clay, courts disgrace when it asked to be taken to the river to bath.
I am not Elegbara the god of despair, Lanroye's twin, whom you slew as a mortal for I am made out of sterner stuff. I was born with a sword in both my hands, I witnessed creation itself, my twin swords cleared the way of the monsters of the deep to Ile-Ife the cradle of birth, only the law of hospitality holds me from casting you out of my forge and my patience wears thin."
With a sneer of insolence, I drew and struck at the flaming chains holding Dada, they parted like wax. Thus free, Dada morphed into a deer, leapt across the forge and fled out the smithy to freedom.