About a century ago, a rock from space impacted our world. At the time, many believed it would be just another of the thousands that fall or cross the skies. However, the reality was different, as this event would change the course of history forever. A portion of that rock was lodged inside the human being, coexisting with mankind to this day. This manifestation was called the "Second Soul" or "Magic Spirit". With the arrival of this event, most people acquired powers, and from then on, everything changed drastically. These gifts arose in children, a phenomenon unexplainable as to its origin. The world was plunged into darkness and danger, as children were easily corrupted and those who resisted were defeated by the strongest. In the midst of the chaos and destruction, he emerged, a figure who had amassed a following over the years. Although his name was a mystery, he called himself Thanatos. His persuasive eloquence inspired his followers to seek order in a world torn by constant conflict. However, all this facade was a mere sham, for his real goal was to bring us all under his dominion. Small groups of Thanatos' followers, known as the Circuit, ravaged everything in their path. The helpless before an organized army led by Thanatos lost their freedoms and rights. In just three months, humanity was subjugated by the Circuit, the voices of opposition were extinguished one after another, leaving only the echo of Thanatos, the architect of this new reality. Little by little, the world forgot what freedom meant, under thirty months of absolute rule.
However, a ray of hope, which had disappeared in every corner of the world, shone in the heart of Africa. A little girl longed to regain her freedom, even as she was destined for the mines where the slaves of Thanatos were sent. Her name was Ndereba Harambee. Her mother had died while giving birth to her, and her father died when she was eleven years old. The conditions in which her father lived led him to suffer from heart disease. Despite this, he struggled to provide for his only daughter. When the mine collapsed on him, no one extended a hand to help, not even the Circuistas supervisors. Harambee screamed and begged her masters for help, but they mocked her. On her knees, on the sharp, rocky ground, she begged for her father to be rescued. He was all she had in life, but the guards continued to mock. In the last moments of agony and suffering, her father mustered his last remaining strength to take his daughter's hand and pass on his final lessons to her. "Never give up, fight for your freedom, never... never use the gift you have been given to do harm, use it for good. Please, never resort to revenge." With these words, lying on the ground dejectedly, he embraced his little girl for the last time, surrendering his last breath in the delicate arms of his beloved daughter.
Her body was contemptuously dumped in a mass grave. Harambee could do nothing to secure a respectful burial for her father, instead receiving beatings from his oppressors. Circumstances did not improve for her, however. After her father's death, her workload increased to eighteen hours and her rest period was reduced from four to two hours. Thus two long months passed in the midst of this torment. Slowly, his will to live was fading. The shackles on his ankles burned and caused pain night after night, day after day. There was no escape from this suffering. Crying, he cursed his existence. As he slept, he talked to his late father, expressing that he could no longer go on, that he could not stand the pain, the cold, the heat, the hunger, the thirst and the exhaustion. He was burdened with all this, no longer wishing to go on.
Finally, one day she tried to take her own life by hanging herself. However, as she was about to carry out her sad decision, she saw through the window of her modest dwelling a girl a little younger than herself, begging for help for her mother, who was seriously ill. The mother had fainted in the middle of the street due to lack of food and the continuous forced labor she was subjected to. To make matters worse, she was being beaten on the ground, while the girl was trying to stop the abusers, even though she was also a victim of the abuse. Harambee saw herself reflected in that little girl and from the window of her house, she felt an immense indignation that ran through her entire being. It was at that moment that Harambee took a rock that she held in her left hand and, with the force of her fist, smashed it. That same rock he intended to use to tie her to his leg and hasten his own painless death.
The girl, tired of witnessing such a horrifying scene, left her house and ran to where the tragedy was taking place. As a guard prepared to beat the girl with an iron club, intending to inflict suffering on the slaves, Harambee appeared behind him and snatched the weapon from his hands. Although the guard thought he was in control, he could not move forward as he saw Harambee destroy the iron stick with his left hand, uttering words that would mark the beginning of the end of the Circuits: "Ilikuwa ya kutosha" (Enough is enough), speaking in his language, Swahili. These simple words made the guard recoil, for they had never witnessed anything similar and were not prepared for such a reaction. Harambee made his way over to the mother of the sick girl. However, the guard, angered by the rebellious act of a "dirty slave" like her, snatched the gun of another guard present and prepared to strike her from behind. Just at that instant, the girl pushed Harambee aside, taking the blow herself instead of her savior. The impact broke her back, knocking her unconscious and also robbing her of the ability to walk again. At that moment, Harambee's eyes widened wildly at the sight of such a gruesome scene. The girl's back was covered with blood. It was then that Harambee understood what his mission in life was: to put an end to the oppression imposed by Thanatos and his Circuit.
Harambee stood upright, his eyes beginning to narrow in anger. Her scream of hatred released what she had kept silent for years. The sky became covered in clouds and the girl's hair changed color, leaving behind black to turn white. Anger gripped her being, releasing years of tyranny in a single day, all through her scream.
The roar echoed throughout most of the area, but not only that, her rage granted her the strength to break the chains that had tormented her for nearly three years, doing so with her bare hands. The guards, terrified at what they witnessed, fled the place, leaving alone the individual who had aroused the fury of the young woman. However, he was not intimidated and decided to teach her a lesson. But the roles of teacher and student were reversed when Harambee struck the man in the chest, knocking him unconscious instantly. Rain then poured down on Harambee, the woman and the girl, as well as all those who had witnessed the act of rebellion that marked the beginning of the end of the Circuit.
The next morning, Harambee personally went to the Circuit's military base to challenge it. Using only his powers, he unleashed fire, mayhem and destruction, leaving an indelible impression on the Circuitists. His clandestine bravery went viral. Despite his efforts to keep his revelation a secret, he couldn't stop the rumor from spreading that a girl named Harambee had defied the Circuit. Soon, everyone wanted to be like her. However, her country was still far from free. Thanatos maintained his relentless control, as he prepared to confront the one person who had dared to defy him. Thanatos set out for Kenya with an even larger army, seeking to intimidate both Harambee and her supporters. But it was too late, Harambee had won the approval of his people and they had learned to defend themselves and control their powers.
At that moment, Thanatos understood the threat that Harambee posed to his rule. He ordered his army to bring Harambee's head to him, but she managed to stop the Circuit army and drive it back. Nothing and no one could break her determination to seek freedom.
Thus, she stopped and repulsed him three more times, until on the fourth round, Thanatos himself took center stage. Before he could initiate his attack, Harambee surrounded him and launched a surprise attack. Although Thanatos was unable to react in time, he managed to stand and fight. It was at that moment that Harambee launched his attack mounted on a lion, an animal he had rescued from the clutches of the circuitists who were using it to hurt him. With his golden spear, a gift he had received from some kĩkũyũyũ lords as a token of gratitude for his skills and leadership, he led the offensive.
Thanatos was dazzled as he faced his opponent, a mere girl (apparently between 16 and 18 years old, her age remained unknown). His rage turned into a smile and laughter. He couldn't believe that someone like her was causing him trouble. In that instant, Harambee unleashed all his anger against the individual who had caused suffering to his people. The struggle between their powers intensified: the cunning and intelligence of the young woman against the strength and agility of Thanatos, spear against scythe. The fate of humanity hung in the balance in this battle. Finally, Harambee thrust his spear into the middle of Thanatos' chest. Ndereba's scream expressed her anger, her great enemy was pierced by the spear. Although Thanatos was immortal, he survived the attack, but was weakened. As a result of this, Thanatos fell in the midst of the battle at her feet, but she could not or did not have time to do anything to him. The circuists took their leader and fled to the icy wilderness of Antarctica, abandoning that place forever. Meanwhile, Harambee climbed to the top of Mount Kenya, raised his spear and shouted in victory. At last, Kenya was free, thanks to the battle that the whole world would remember as "The Battle of Hope," led by Ndereba Harambee.
The shock of losing Kenya was devastating. Slowly, more countries learned of Ndereba Harambee's courageous exploits and his fight against the Circuit empire. They all adopted his name in the name of freedom and equality. At that moment, the people took the reins and fought for their families and homelands. The Circuits, far from being able to restrain the revolutionaries, resorted to extreme measures such as threats and torture, but nothing had any effect. The desire to regain freedom had spread throughout the world and it was impossible to stop that feeling.
Thanatos, who had not yet recovered from his wounds of the last battle, began to hate the girl who had dared to confront him. He felt helpless as he could no longer fight against his greatest enemy. The fighting continued unabated until the last country under the rule of the Circuits, England, was finally liberated by the revolutionary army known as the Highlanders. The Highlanders took Hampton Court Palace in London, the seat of Circuit power, leaving them cornered in the cold wilderness of Antarctica and with no more colonies to conquer.
In that instant, Harambee created the guilds, small organizations charged with defending their families and homelands. The idea spread around the world so that, if the Circuit tried to return, they would face skilled and trained people, thus avoiding being oppressed again.
Harambee remained in his homeland with his new family: his sister and mother, the same people he had saved long ago. Although his sister never walked again, they were both happy and shared joy in being together. For Harambee, this was his new family and his new purpose: to protect them.
However, all this was not over yet. Thanatos tried again and again to return. His army camouflaged themselves as ordinary people and from the shadows tried to provoke coups d'état in various nations, often being close to success. It was then that a young man named Ivan Crusoe realized that it was only a matter of time before the fearsome fellow would return and disturb the peace once again. Ivan shared his idea with the world, writing thousands of letters in different languages to express it. However, his idea was rejected by many major nations and politicians, as expected. Until the letters reached the hands of six children of different nationalities: Jack Barret, Rosa Velazquez, Alex Bernstein, Shen Jun Li, Chizuru Aikawa and, of course, Ndereba Harambee.
These seven children from different countries pooled their resources to fulfill their most cherished dream: to stop Thanatos. They met in Versailles and planned the creation of a new organization, the World Organization of Attached Guilds, abbreviated as W.O.G.A. Their mission would be to help all the guilds in the world whose location was on an island emerged between South America and Africa.
Ivan and Harambee realized that the only way to defeat an army like the Circuit was to create a skilled and trained one of their own. At that moment, Tanatos recovered from his wounds after several years and decided to attack humanity again. Harambee would not have to face him alone this time, as she would have the help of her friends. Despite fighting skillfully, Harambee found himself at a disadvantage against a Thanatos that was no longer the same, but much more powerful.
In the year 1920, at the top of the mountains of Tibet, the last battle between the guilds and the circuits was fought. Thanatos confronted the presidents of the organization and damaged everyone. It was at that precise moment that Alex Bernstein sacrificed his life for his comrades, receiving the impact of the enemy energy, which unleashed everyone's fury. Jack cut Thanatos's tendons with his facon, Shen blocked his cursed energy with a blow to the chest, Rosa disarmed Thanatos with her incredible strength and abilities, Ivan protected his friends with his special combat magic, Chizuru hit him with all her strength and threw him to the sky using her wind powers. Finally, Ndereba Harambee delivered the final blow with her golden spear into Thanatos' chest, uttering a spell in Swahili that locked him in a chest, putting an end to evil once and for all.
The survivors returned to their homes and lived in anonymity, putting an end to injustice and, of course, Thanatos. They decided to add one more letter to the organization, which was renamed W.O.G.A.B. (World Organization of the Bernstein Attached Guilds) in honor of Alex Bernstein, who had died a heroic death.
After Thanatos' defeat, each went his own way. Harambee returned home and lived until her passing, honored with the greatest glory anyone could achieve. Shen returned to his homeland and contributed significantly to the formation of the Republic of China. Chizuru married Ivan Crusoe and together they left the W.O.G.A.B., leaving their positions to their children. Rosa put aside her differences with Jack and married him, proving that love could overcome hate.
To this day, the guilds and the W.O.G.A.B. continue to function as important entities. Their policies were accepted worldwide, although the Circuit still continues to be at war. Despite this, its acceptance is also widespread, as its initial ideals were peace and the elimination of borders between nations. Most notably, however, Ndereba Harambee will remain an icon in the struggle against the Circuit, and her name will be remembered time and again as "Harambee, the mother of freedom."
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