THE ENCOUNTER – PART I: SSEGGWANGA AND MMUNYE – The Supa-dupa worm

Sseggwanga stood on top of Kiggula, flapped his wings as though to fly but that was only to prepare for his vocal rendition of Cock-A-Doodle-Doo. With his accent it sounded more like Kookolirooko! Kiggula was the wall in front of the garden.
He belted out the Kookolirooko chorus ensuring that an audible after-chorus inhalation could be heard. It was the sign that he had made it. It was much like a belch after a satisfying meal...No one was like him! he stood on top of Kiggula  and looked down at the other feeble chicken that had long given up on trying to fly. If only they could just learn to flap their wings harder, he thought.
The wall was the sign of accomplishment. Very few chickens could ever boast of having flown to the top of Kiggula.
There were horror stories among the chicken just about everywhere. Every chicken that ever tried to fly to the top of Kiggula just smashed into the wall. Dejected, with their necks buried into their bodies, they quietly retreated. That honor was the preserve of Sseggwanga. Only he could transcend the limitations of gravity and crest himself on Kiggula.
"But why weren't these chicken more hard-working?", he mused. It only required more hard work, Eating the right worms (The body building worms) which of course could only be found by scratching deeper into the earth. But they were content to eat only the surface worms! Lazy chicken! They deserved it, he thought.
Kiggula was the great divide. It defined who was strong and who wasn't. 
One day, He just couldn't take it. When one of the chicken rammed into the wall, he exclaimed loudly "O you lazy chicken!! Will you continue to ram into Kiggula? Can't you summon enough strength?? If at all you knew the power in searching for the deep worm!"
Though he felt indignant, some part of him squirmed. He had a secret.
There was another wall behind the garden. It was called Kiggala. It was considerably higher than Kiggula. In the dark, when no one was watching, he would try to fly to the top of Kiggala. There he found his turn of ramming into the wall. He would say to himself, 'try harder' but still found himself embarrassingly short of that challenge. Thank goodness, no one knew about it.
But Sseggwanga was confident and very sure that He would be able to conquer Kiggala. He only had to work harder, flap harder. May be there were other types of Body building worms that could be found even deeper into the earth.
One night, as he was on his usual nocturnal operation “Beat-Kiggala”, he heard a voice behind him in the dark. "O you lazy Chicken! Will you continue to ram into Kiggala? Can't you summon enough strength?? If at all you knew the power in searching for the deep worm!" Sseggwanga froze! He thought that all this time he was alone. Now someone knew his secret and not only that, he was taunting him.
Sseggwanga turned in horror and looking into the darkness asked, "Who are you?"
An eagle emerged from the shadows and said "I am Mmunye"
What? It was the great Mmunye! Every chicken knew about him. But nevertheless Sseggwanga was so scared. He could not tell whether he was scared of him as an eagle or just that now he knew his secret.
Mmunye could tell what he was thinking so he told him "I have been observing you for a long time. I have seen you strutting on Kiggula, your boastings and the way you make the other chicken feel guilty about not being able to overcome Kiggula"
Sseggwanga was embarrassed and with words choking to come out of his mouth he asked "So now are you going to reveal...."
Don't worry, your secret is safe with me", Mmunye interrupted
"Why are you struggling so hard?", Mmunye asked.
"I want to fly over Kiggala", Sseggwanga replied.
"But why?" Mmunye asked, "Do you have to prove anything? What would you want to prove?"
This time Sseggwanga was firm "I want to show that Chickens have wings and they can fly!"
So Sseggwanga fell on his knees before Mmunye and begged "Please Mmunye, what must I do to fly above Kiggala and even higher??"
Mmunye looked at him sympathetically and said "Well, you know what to do. Go and eat the deep worm"
"But I have done all that, Mmunye! I have dug for all the deep worms but I still cannot fly above Kiggala!" Sseggwanga replied
"Ooo, just one more thing," Mmunye replied, "Dig with your feet to a depth of around 20 m and there you will find the Supa-Dupa worm. With that you can fly to the top of Kiggala and even far above"
That was the most depressing thing Sseggwanga had heard his entire life. He knew beyond a shadow of doubt that no chicken could ever dig that deep. As he dejectedly turned to go back to the rest of the brood, Mmunye cleared his voice and said
"How hard it is for chicken to overcome Kiggala! It is easier for a fish to climb a tree than for a chicken to fly over Kiggala."
That was like salt in the wound. He was in a daze when he dejectedly asked "....who then can ever fly? How come that you, Mmunye, you can fly even higher?”
When Mmunye replied this time, he was looking at Sseggwanga straight in the eyes and little did he know that Sseggwanga would remember those words for the rest of his life, because in them, lay the secret to everything
"What is impossible for chickens is possible with eagles"
Flapping only three times, Mmunye was already way above Kiggala and off he flew..
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