The curse of Eke

I am so sorry, my grammarly was having issues and I had to use another app for spell check. It really isn't AI generated.

This is the original story

“Kom Kom Kom !!!" The gong of the village town crier obieze rang in the air across the whole village.
“The igwe has declared that no one is to go to the eke river again, this news has been passed to the igwe from the mouth of the gods," obiezes high pitched loud voice sounded even higher than his gong across the village.

Eke river was the only source of clean water for the people of eke village. It was given to them by their deity the great and mysterious “eke".

"Kom Kom Kom !!!,” "anyone who decides to be stubborn and go to the river will be digging his own grave and shall be met with the sudden wrath of the gods,” obiezes sounded the alarm with his voice that was like it was going to crack at any time but never did.

“Ehh!," adaobi who was outside prepping the fire place stopped what she was doing to listen again and confirm what she was hearing.

Obieze continued sounding the warning as he departed and his voice grew farther. But adaobi could still hear him clearly.

“Ewooo!!" She let out a sorrowful cry as she fell to the ground.

“Mama what is it?" Her first son chibueze ran out of his hut.

“It is your sister ooo! She has gone to the river to fetch water," adaobi continued to wail.

Soon all adaobis biological children came out and mourned with her and by the time her husband was back from hunting his home was already crowded with villagers that were mourning his already dead daughter.

All the commotion and crying outside, meanwhile in one of the huts, ife was sleeping soundly like a log of wood. Suddenly she sat up and opened her eyes, her beautiful and rear blue eyes were like those of a lioness whose cubs have been threatened, her face was expressionless.
Ife stood up from the bed and stormed out.
When she reached outside she didn't stop where her parents and siblings were being consoled by the villagers, she just walked on straight without stopping as the villagers all fearfully made a way for her.

Adaobi and her husband were very successful, she was a successful farmer while her husband obinna was the best hunter in the village like his fore fathers all were.
There both got married and were happy together but they lacked one thing, the fruit of the womb.
They had tried all means and they even tried if adaobi could concieve another man's child but it was no good, and when obinna tried to pregnant another woman since they thought the problem was from adaobi it also failed.

One faithful day while obinna was hunting he caught a female leopard and the moment he killed the leopard he heard the cry of a child. At first he was scared and wanted to run away but he gathered his courage and looked for where the cry was coming from, when he saw the child he couldn't believe his eyes. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
He carried the child home and showed it to his wife. His wife adored and yearned for the child but was also scared because her beauty didn't feel normal. She had the fairest and spotless skin ever, her little round face and long soft black hair, her perfect pointed nose and pink lips and then finally her light blue eyes that felt ethereal.

They carried the child to the high priest and the moment he saw the child he chased them out and said the child was “a curse upon the gods.”

Obinna and adaobi heard the high priest but they already loved the child and decided regardless to keep her no matter what, they named her ife. Few months later adaobi conceived and she continued to concieve until they were satisfied.
Ife was a heavenly beauty but still many people avoided and feared her like an abomination.

As ife stormed down the path people who were in her way would stop or shift and even those who were scared would jump into the bush.
Ife walked fast and steady down the road that lead to the eke river.
Finally she got there, just at the bank of the river there was an old woman there, struggling to lift a beautiful clay pot filled with water to her head.

“My child please help me lift this water to my head," the woman said with her trembling voice.

Ife didn't hesitate and went over to help the old woman. With her help they lifted the clay pot which was strangely much heavier than it looked. But ife didn't flinch as she lifted it like light work.
Suddenly the old woman with a now strange smile tilted the pot which was now on her head forward and the entire water poured out on ife.
But ife still didn't flinch but now had an evil smile on her face.

“eke, you must be a fool to think I will walk blindly into your trap," ife mocked the old woman.

“Eke, this will be your first and last warning," ife said, then dragged the pot from the old woman and smashed it to the ground.

The old woman let out a shreik the second the pot shattered before turning into a mount of squirming maggot that quickly decomposed and turned into sand like it never had life.

Ife who stood and watched unfazed then went into the river. Where she stood was shallow but still she could see the reflection of her sister who was sitting and crying deep inside the water.
She reached deep into the water and dragged her sister nkem out. Nkem coughed up water a few times before ife helped her and they both went home.

The moment adaobi saw nkem she hugged her so tight and so did the rest of the family, while the rest of the villagers rejoiced and some mummured in fear as they watched ife return to her hut.
To some of the villagers they were happy ife was able to save nkem while some were scared. Adaobi and obinna thanked the gods for the day they found ife.

But the truth was that eke was never really angry, nkem was taken just to lure ife to the river where ekes power was at its peak, it was a battle between the gods; the mysterious eke, and the curse upon the gods; ife.