WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
Chapter 24
We all went silent as we stared at the graceful rising ball.
But the sound of the dragons rushing out of the cave broke the silence.
“Oh no, they are back” Bathny screamed and we starts running again.
The dragons flew past us and blocked our way.
“I gave you a chance but you chose the wrong option, I’ll make sure you don’t make it out of here” the voice spat at me.
“I’ll make sure you forever remain dead, or cursed or whatever it is you are” I spat back.
They began to approach us but one of the dragons looks towards the east, he saw the sun and winced in shock, he turned and began to run but it was too late as the rays of the sun caught up with them and they vanished into thin air.
“I guess they are not friendly with the sun” Henry stated.
“So that’s why they come at night” I added.
“Whatever, one thing I’ve learnt about this jungle, never deep yourself in any water here, first it was crocodiles, now dragons, what else are we gonna see in the water” Bathny snapped.
“Lions with two head maybe” Ruby replied humorously and we all laughed including Salvador.
“I can’t believe we are laughing after the ¢razy night” Dave chuckled out.
“Like the saying goes, let the past remain in the past” Michael stated and we laughing.
“Ok, break time is over, let’s move on” Salvador snapped at us, we groaned but still followed him.
“This way” he pointed to the south.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
We walked for a while until we got to a cliff which is opposite another cliff but there was no bridge for crossing.
“We are supposed to get to the other side” Salvador said as he checked his map.
“Therewas a wooden bridge here before” Ricky complained.
“Dude 17 years ago is not 17 hours ago, wind must have blown it off” Henry spat out.
“So how are we gonna cross it now?” Kira asked.
Salvador sighed as he looked around for a way to cross.
“This way” I heard a whisper.
“What did you say?” I asked David.
“Huh, I didn’t say anything” he replied.
That’s weird, I know I heard a whisper of a male voice and the rest of the guys are kinda a few steps away from us, so it’s not possible for me to hear their whisper.
So who whispered to me.
I looked around a bit, I shrugged and concluded that it was my mind playing tricks on me. I was about to look back to Salvador when I saw him. The man that visited my mum and gave her the book.
He was standing elegantly as he stared at me. He then turned to leave but whispered again. “This way” I gasped, was he trying to help us.
“Umh, guys, let’s go this way” I said to them and pointed to the north.
“The map says south” Salvador argued.
“Well how will you cross this cliff, why don’t we try another route” David urged.
“Yea, I’m with them” Michael stated, he walked towards us with Kira, the rest joined including Salvador’s men. Salvador grunted, he sighed three times before agreeing to go towards the north.
We began to walk down the northern direction.
“Dmn, I’m hungry” Kira complained as she held her tummy.
“I see apples over there” Kiwi informed us.
“There’s an apple orchard over there” Bathny added.
“Oh my gush, and grapes too” Kira cooed, the three of them ran towards the orchard and vineyard, Bathny came back and dragged me with her. We giggled as we ran to the beautiful garden.
This is so beautiful, it was as if the garden is being taken care of by humans.
“Wow” the guys wowed at the garden when they finally joined us.
“Bathny was plucking and eating the fruits.
“Have some bes” she tried to give me a seed of grape but I declined.
“What, no, remember what happened the last Time I ate jungle fruits, a cursed girl isn’t supposed to eat fruits of the jungle that cursed her” I reminded her.
“Oh please, is that supposed to be the law of moses?” Kiwi asked, everyone laughed.
“Open her mouth girls” Kira commanded, Bathny held me while Kiwi opened my mouth, Kira presses a grape and the juice went straight into my mouth and down my throat. I hate this people that I love so much.
“You guys are unbelievable” I hit them one after the other and they giggled, crazy girls.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
As we were about to pluck more fruits, we heard a different female voice screaming “thieves”
“What the h*ll..” Ruby snapped. We all stared at the girl in shock.
“Where did she come from” David and Michael asked in unison but they didn’t care as we all stared at the girl approaching us.
She then stopped, she turned and ran back to where she came from.
“That was so weird” Ricky stated.
“Oh my gush look” Kiwi pointed to the same direction. We turned back again only to see about 5 people dressed in animal skin approaching us with big sticks.
2 women and three men. And they were not looking happy, they probably wanna know the people stealing their fruits.
“Umh, listen, we are coming from a far place and we were so hungry, please do not be angry with us, we sincerely apologi…..” Ricky was trying to apologize but one of the men hit him hard, he fell down and past out, they hit Salvador and his men, they passed out as well.
“Why are you stealing from us” the beautiful woman with brunnete hair asked.
“We are really sorry ma’am but we didn’t mean to….” I was still talking when the other girl approached me and gave me an eye blinding slap.
“Hey, leave her alone” the woman stopped the girl, she bent towards me cause I was already on the ground.
She caressed my cheek and then her face turn to shock. “Marichuiy?” She called out.
And that was when I saw her face clearly. “Mum?” Was all I could reply before I passed out.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
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