Summary of Chapter 5 from Excousion Into The Badlands
Chapter 5 marks a crucial moment in atinuke’s Internet novel, Excousion Into The Badlands. This chapter blends tension, emotion, and plot progression to deliver a memorable reading experience — one that keeps readers eagerly turning the page.
Sandra: Now that we are lost, how are we going to leave this place?
Me: we will find away but first did anyone observe anything?
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Samuel (another boy said): the only thing I observe is we are gonna die.....we are going to die and I don't wanna die.....i'm still young I haven't even finish school yet....i haven't even fall in love......oh great God of heaven I don't wanna die.
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Me: will you be quiet.......no one is dying OK.
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Joy: Actually from my own observation....this people don't wanna kill us......it more like they
Want to capture us.
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Me:I think you are right cus if they want to kill us, we would've been dead already cus they killed
Our teachers un notice.
Lara: so you are saying they wants to kidnap us and take us as prisoners or slave?.
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Me: not exactly but what I also observed is that they killed our elders may be because might
Become a problem 4them or may be they are too old 4 them to use so my guess is that they
Want to use us for sacrifice.
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Pst.chris and samuel: OH MY GOD.
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Samuel: I said it we are all gonna die.
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Me: we wont die unless we do something.
What........they all said.
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Me: unless we kill them first.
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Pst.chris: we are not killing anybody, we are too young to be a murderer.
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Me: would you rather they kill us first or do you think if they kidnap us do you think they are
Going to release us later or they take us as slaves................well as for me i'd rather die than to
Be anybody's slave.
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Sandra: so we are going to kill them?
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Me: yes if you wants to survive.......this is a no mans land.....it is the survival of the fittest
........there are only two rules here:
1.KILL OR BEKILLED
2.DO EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO SURVIVE
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Pst.chris: God why did you allow this to happen..........i pray to you concerning this excursion nw
Why did you allow something like this to happen or is because I sing shakiti bobo at home on
Friday or is It because I dance shaku shaku in church last week sunday..........God if that's the
Reason please forgive me and let us leave this place safely.
Daniel: so chris usef sabi dance shaku shaku....u wey b say u na pastor........wonders never
end( said in pidgin).
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Me: leave him let him pray to God cus we need all the help that we can get.
So lets sleep by tomorrow we will find away to go home and if we come across any of those
People we kill them.
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(Garfield high school)
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Mrs.Peters POV
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I watched as my husband parked the car in the school premises and we notice that we are not
The only parent there.....I guess they are also waiting for their children.
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We walked straight to the principal office and also met him worried trying to call someone but
Was unable to...........Hmmm hope it's not what I'm thinking.
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Me: Where is my son?, where are they?........you told us to come and take them today that they
Will be here.....So where are they?.
Principal: I'm sorry Mrs peter........I just can't get through to them.
Me: ahhhhhh I'm dead oooooo......The principal has killed me, principal we must find my son,he
Is my only son......So we must find him or else this school will burn.(I cried).
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(everyone has woken and started looking around for them except one person lekan-the
Centuries sleepers).
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Me: Lekan....Lekaaan.....Lekaaaaaan.
He did not wakeup, if not that I knew the kind of person he is.....I would've thought he is dead
Cus with the way I shouted. So I pick a stick from the ground and beat him with it and then he
Woke up.
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Lekan: heeey.......Why did you do that?.......cant you just call my name?.
Me: of course I did to the extent that I'm scared that it might have attracts people that are huntingus............How can you even sleep so soundly with everything that is happening around here?..........haaha your level of sleeping is really extreme, you should be awarded.
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Lekan: Okok I've heard you..........so what do you say happen again??.
Sandra: mike and 5 other are no where to be found.
Lekan: do you think they arekidnapped?
Sandra: I don't know so let's find them.
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(we are about to start the search when we see them coming carrying something with clothes).
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lara: where have you guys been?........do you know how worried we are?.....We thought something bad happen to you.
Mike: we are sorry about that.........we just don't want to wake you guys cus I know you must be
Tired since yesterday.
Me: so what do you have with you?
Mike: fruits......Thought if we are going to fight we need strength and this is the only thing we
Can get.
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Samuel: fruits......just fruits didn't you find anything like meat or fish or.......
Daniel: or shawarma or pizza or rice or doughnut.........are you serious at all, I mean like seriously
Is your brain working at all.....Does this place look like there is a restaurant there, does this place
Look like a city to you?........that you are looking for meat.
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(I guess he really make him Angry)
TBC........
INTO THE BADLAND
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