WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
Chapter 27
GIFT OKORIE??
CHAPTER 14
He squeezed my hand and smiled at me, I smiled back.
“But why couldn’t the dragon lord take the book and the box back to the temple?” Henry asked as we walked through a flower garden, I don’t know if it belongs to the villagers or the jungle.
“Taking these stuff back myself is a punishment” mum replied.
“And according to the law of the temple, dragon lords do not help an offender unless it benefits the master” dad added. How did he even know about this. I guess mum told him, but why ask him for help after all these years.
“That village, why are they uncivilized?” Kira asked.
“And what village is that?” Kiwi added.
“That was kuluvato village, it’s in the map, if you turn the map upside down you will see it.
It’s one of the villages that existed during the time of the dragons and dragon lords, it was the only village the dragon king was able to save from the tyrant emperor and his dark wizards who turned the other three dragons and their lords evil.
Their ancestors believed that there was an extra ordinary treasure the dragon king installed in them that the outside world shouldn’t see.
So they stayed back in the village and reject any type of civilization, they literally destroyed our phones and laptop when we got here” mum explained.
“Woaw, crazy” we exclaimed in surprise.
“They’ve been living like that from generation to generation” dad added.
“But how come you guys didn’t see the village the first time you came 17 years ago?” David asked.
“Because there was a bridge at the cliff” mum and Ricky said at the same time, they glanced at each other, Ricky smiled at her hut mum rolled her eyes, dad stared daggers at Ricky. David and I exchanged glances and giggled a bit, it was kind of funny. I just hope its not what I’m thinking, these two should better respect themselves.
“The bridge at the cliff was still there, so we crossed immediately” Ricky finally explained.
“Crazy people” Bathny whispered and Henry laughed, I guess they also noticed what happened. And wait a minute. Is Henry now cool with Bathny, is he no longer a g.ay.
“He was never a g.ay before, he was just passing through a phase, all teenagers pass through a phase” David said to me.
“Dmn it, must I always think aloud” I cursed under my breathe.
“You basically do that when you are with me” he replied, I didn’t want to but I blushed, really hard while he smiled at me, does he find my embarrassment amusing?
“OK we have walked three miles” Salvador who was leading the way said as he stopped walking.
“How did you know” dad asked him.
“Well unlike you, I was measuring” he replied and dad rolled his eyes at him, I had to laugh in my mind, he looks funny whenever he does that.
“OK, the dragon fly said…..”
“Its the ‘dragon lord Henry, not dragon fly” Dave corrected and we laughed. Henry is mad.
“Oh, sorry, the dragon lord said that when we walk three miles….”
“Turn to the right and follow the path” mum cut in.
We turn to the right and dmn, three different paths were staring at us.
“He did not warn us about this” Kiwi complained.
“I hate it when people don’t give a Clare explanation of something” Ricky breathed out.
“I swear this is fking annoying” mum added as we stared at the three paths which each of them looking like the right path making us get confused the more on which one to follow.
“What do we do now?” Jonny asked.
“I say we take the middle path” dad and Ricky said at the same time.
“Hey don’t say what I said” dad snapped at him.
“I said it first” Ricky argued.
“Were you deaf? I said it first…..” Dad insisted.
“Boys!” Mum screamed at them. “Chill, you both said it together, we get it, now stop arguing” she snapped at them.
“Hehehe, boys” Salvador mocked them, mum threw a stick at him, he picked it up and threw it back but dad caught it and threw a stone at him.
“Shall we go now?” Bathny asked and started walking to the middle path, we all joined her but Salvador ran to the front.
“This guy has a problem” David whispered to me, we both laughed.
“Umh guys, are you sure this is the right path” kiwi asked as she looked around the tall trees which were already withering away, some of them has completely withered.
“In most jungle movies I’ve seen, the right path is always the middle one” Henry stated.
“Dude you watch a lot of stupid movies” Ruby snapped.
“You are an idi©t Ruby” Henry retorted.
“This is real life Henry, and this path looks like doom” Bathny complained.
“In the movies, the right path always look bad while the bad paths always look good and enthusiastic” Henry breathed out.
“Henry this is reality” we all yelled at him.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
We got deeper into that path and the bushes, shrubs and trees began to look like a burnt forest.
“What the h*ll is going on here?” Dad asked.
“It’s getting hotter By the second” Michael complained.
“I really don’t think this is the right path” Kiwi whined as she robbed her hands together.
“Maybe we should go back” Dave advised.
“Let’s at least see where this gets us” Mum replied.
“Its not getting anywhere, it keeps going on and on, darker and darker and more scary” I argued.
“Let’s keep our hopes high, like this saying goes, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel” Henry said with optimism.
“This is not a tunny dumb head” Kira spat at him. He wanted to throw a stone at her but the look he got from Michael made him change his mind. Lol.
“Guys I see something, its daylight” Salvador pointed towards the end of the forest.
“Wait” mum stopped on her track as she stared at the supposed daylight.
“What is it” dad asked her.
“That doesn’t look like day light, it’s more like fire” Ricky replied.
“How would you know that” dad asked him grumpily. He seemed to be acting jealously towards Ricky since we left the village.
“Well for a fact, I’ve been in this jungle before to know what is daylight And what is not daylight and my friend believe me when I say what we are looking at right now is fire, Clara will bear me witness”
“Don’t call my wife into this” dad muttered at him.
“Who’s your wife” I blurted out.
“Marichuiy behave yourself” mum retorted, I rolled my eyes.
“Somebody should tell me what it is, is it daylight or fire” Salvador screamed as he corked his gun.
“It’s fire, now what exactly do you wanna do with gun, shoot the fire?” Ruby asked him, we all laughed, this guy is savage.
“Perhaps to shoot the fire maker, there are wall of stones breathing out the fire” Kiwi pointed. We managed to look beyond the fire and saw a huge set of stones shaped in human heads that were breathing out the fire.
The stones blocked the rest of the forest, there was nothing beyond it, no road, nothing else, even if there was a way out, we wouldn’t make it through that burning flame.
“Have you all now agreed that this is not the right path, can we now go back?” Kiwi asked.
“Yep” we replied weakly and started walking out of the forest back to where we started.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
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