WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
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CHAPTER 11
Marichuiy and I exchanged glances with Bathny.
She was right after all.
The Mexican man had an almost burned out cigarette in his right hand. He took a puff and blew out the smoke, he removed his modern cowboy hat and placed it on his chest.
He looked up at us and then directly to Marichuiy.
“You Marichuiy yea?” He asked.
“Yes” Marichuiy answered with a little nervousness in her voice. She cleared her voice and strengthened up before asking.
“Did my mum send you, where is she, is she outside?”
“OK, first of all I do the questioning, u only talk when I ask you to, get it?” The man asked, Marichuiy glared at him for a while and then nodded. “And secondly, I don’t know where your mother is, as a matter of fact I was expecting you would tell me”
“But that box and the book, my mother left with them, how come they are here” she asked.
“I stole them” he replied nonchalantly.
“From where or from whom” marichuiy asked.
“From my brother’s lab” he replied, he dragged the chair from the makeup table and sat on it.
“I don’t understand, what has your brother got to do with this and how did he get the book”
“Sit down, I wanna tell you a story” the man gestured for her to sit on the bed, she did without taking her eyes off him.
“Uhm before you start telling your stupid story, can you let us go since you are already settling things with the witch you wanted.” Kira asked but the man ignored her as if she didn’t even speak. He just focused on Marichuiy.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
“First, my name is Salvador and my brother’s name is Pedro. In the 17 century, there lived a great mountain called kuluvanda in the south side of mexico. this mountain was protected by four dragons and their dragon lords, they have a golden temple each which was made of gold and other precious stones. People came from far and near to this temple to pray for riches and plead for gold. These temples were believed to answer their prayers and bless them With wealth and also supply them with enough gold.
Everyone was happy. But one day the emperor of the kingdom where this mountain stood died, and it was believed that he was poisoned by his wife, as a punishment, the wife and son were bu.rnt alive….”
“Oh my God” Kiwi gasped and covered her mouth.
“But do you think she killed him?” Bathny asked curiously and I leaned closer cause I also wanted to know.
“You know what I think, I think she’s innocent and the person who killed him was his brother who took over the throne, but life is never fair, good people always die in a cruel way and thats why I chose to be bad cause bad people rule the world” he replied and winked at Kiwi and she shuddered in fear while he chuckled wickedly, he’s too cute to be this evil, I wonder what happened to him that made him this way.
“Well as I was saying before you interrupted, the king’s brother took over the throne, he became a tyrant king, Oppressed the people, siezed properties and turned the people to slaves, he closed the boarder and stopped tourists from entering the kingdom to pray at the dragon temples. Out of his desire to be the richest man in the world, he gave orders to the dragon lords to mine all the golds and diamonds in the dragon temple and send them to his treasure house, the dragon lords refused. He sort for dark powers of dark wizards from the west, these wizards killed three dragon lords and subdued the dragons to obey the emperor and do his bidden. All the golds were mined and sent to the emperor’s treasure house. But when they got to the fourth dragon temple the king of dragons, it’s dragon and dragon lord were too powerful to be killed, and they also refused to be subdued or surrender, all the wizards joined forces and their power became more powerful, they fought with their might until they almost defeated the dragon and the dragon lord, but the dragon king refused to surrender, he would rather fight till its last breath than to allow the wizards to subdue him into torturing innocent people he had cattered for all these years. When he saw that his dragon lord was already too weak to fight, he protected him with his wings, and with his last strength and power, he destroyed the temple together with the emperor, the wizards and the emperor’s army, the only survivor was the dragon lord because he was covered by the dragon wings….”
“Even the dragon died?” I heard myself ask.
“Well it was recorded that he went into a deep sleep out of weakness and he’s been sleeping for over 300 years, he might never wake up again or he might, I don’t care” Salvador concluded his story.
“OK, great bed time story, now can we go home?” Kira asked.
“Sssshhhhhh” we all shushed her and she gasped in shock. “Why are y’all acting so weird tonight?” She asked us but no one said anything to her.
Marichuiy turned back to Salvador and asked. “But what has this got to do with me or my mum or that book and the box that cur$ed me”.
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“The dragon king has a law which states *Take Anything you want and ask for anything you need BUT NEVER TAKE THE BOOK OF WISDOM AND THE BOX OF MAGIC, IF YOU BREAK THIS LAW, YOUR OFFSPRING SHALL BE CUR$ED WITH BADLUCK AND IF YOU FAIL TO RETURN THESE PEOPERTIES BEFORE HE/SHE CLOCKS 17, THE CUR.SE WILL BECOME PERMANENT” Salvador explained, Marichuiy gasped and held her chest.
“But how did my mum get them, the book and the box?” She asked.
“16 years ago, my brother and a bunch of his lab team went on search for this temple after reading about it in a library, I thought it was a stupid search, I mean how can someone believe some sh*t he saw in a library, I warned him not to go but he insisted, he asked me to come with him and his team but I refused cause I thought he was going crazy, he told me that if we go and search for gold and diamonds that we might still find some littering the floor of the temple and we will never be poor again but I refused, and thats because I didn’t believe the story, well he went for the search, found the mountain and the temples but came back with nothing, instead he ended up in the hospital for 6 months and him and his team went for therapy for two years, cowards” he blurted out.
“So you are saying that the story you told us is a true life story, the temple exists?” Michael asked.
“Of course it does, did you think I was telling you a bedtime story?” He asked with a faked American accent.
“Yes” we all exclaimed except Kira who groaned in anger, what’s her problem though?.
“Ok, so they found the temple…..” Marichuiy paced around with thinking expression. “But still how did my mum get the book” she asked and that was when I realized it.
“I think…” Bathny starts to say.
“Your mum was one of his team that went for the search” I finished her speech.
“OMG, its True” Ruby screamed out.
“So she took the book” Marichuiy mumbled to herself a little loudly cause I heard it.
“But didn’t your brother tell her about the law?” Kiwi asked Salvador, good question.
“I don’t know, I don’t care” he shrugged.
“Do you care about anything at all” Bathny asked him but he didn’t reply.
“But what if you didn’t open that box, would you have been cursed” Bathny asked Marichuiy.
“I don’t know” she replied.
“Whether you opened it or not, one way or another, you would still get cur$ed” Salvador stated.
“But dude there was really no need to kidnap us, you could have just said ‘hey guys, what’s up, can we have a chat at my mansion?” Henry complained.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20
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