CHAPTER 1
It is a cold morning, where Lucan, who, was laying under her blankets, were looking out of her bedroom window. Seeing the dew, clinging, like a child to her mother on her window's, she, shivered at the thought of it
“ Oh! Thank you, she whispered to herself, it is week-end, no school, thus no need to get up and get dress. Sighing to herself, she slide deeper under her feather du-vet, embracing the heat as she roll herself into it. At last, she, thought, to herself, a rest day after a busy week. No need, to stir this morning, willing her body, to continue, to further her rest. At thirteen years of age, with long black curly hair, freckles on her face, she was contend, as she turned on her other side. As she was slipping into a sleep daze, she, saw a bright light, that was giving off sparkles of rays, shining through her windows. Trying to sit up, as to see, where this light was coming from, Lucan, felt a heavy feeling of foreboding, coming over her. A bit like a warning that her life was about to change forever, and she have no control over it. Amaz-ing, she thought, this light, it’s getting brighter and brighter, as she finally lost the battle to sit up and moved over into dreamland. Snoring lightly, Lucan was unaware of the battle, that, was about to be played out in her town. Vital important to it’s survival she, who, was to be the hero was deep in wonderland, glad that school was closed.
A few blocks away, from where Lucan, lived, stayed Miss Luther. She was a spinster, (there was this rumour that when she was young, her husband to be, run away with her best friend) with her little poodle called Bessy, who was getting herself, ready for her morning run.
Chasing the newspaper boy, who delivered newspapers in the area, was her highlight every morning. With ears out¬stretch, she was running, up and down outside their fence, in anticipation of the big event. Walter, the news-paper boy, whom Bessy was waiting on, was about two blocks away. Delivering newspapers early on a Saturday morning, by cycling in this misty weather, while every-body was still asleep, was not something that he desired. To top that, he has to dodge bad drivers, and let’s not forget the mighty one, the one and only, poodle, who awaits on him, every day. Smiling to himself, Walter ped¬alled, softly, as he round the corner to Printer street, which he has rename as Poodle street. Why? Is it always the small ones, that give you a hard time, he wondered. Throwing newspapers to the left and the right, he sings to himself. “Can, t wait for next year Varsity, babes, sun-shine and no more poodle twine”.
“OK! Poodle”, he said, as he brakes, bringing, the bi-cycle to a stop. Sifting through the newspapers in his bag, he had to laugh to himself, as he saw, further down the street Bessy, the ‘poodle’ `waiting on him.
“Well, little fellow”, he said to himself, as he ap-proached her, “every day the same thing so lets rock!”
As he got closer to Bessy, who was waiting patiently on him, he nearly fell off his bike. The little fellow, was running away, giving a cry bark, on his way and he was still about a two- hundred meters away.
“Well, what is going on”? said, Walter to himself, “usually he can’t wait for me to come pass. Must be my lucky day”.
Curious, why “poodle” ran away, but also somewhat re-lieve, that his ankles will get some rest, he cycled on. As he got closer, to miss Luther’s house, a dreadful fear suddenly came over his body, something so power-full,that it paralysed him. Feeling as though his life was being sucked out of him he struggled to control his bicy-cle. With every little nerve in his body being paralysed by fear, his bicycle fell out of his hands and unceremoni-ously fell to the ground.
“What was wrong”? he wondered as he lay on the ground. Feeling, as if he was suffocating, he tried to get up, to run away, but the fear, was so overwhelming, that it paralysed him. “What was going on”?
“Why couldn’t anyone hear him scream”?
“Why is it, that nobody, are helping him.”? Why am I feeling so faint, Walter wonders, as he struggles to get up from the ground. What is happening to me, and what is this bright light coming over the house? “I can’t breathe!” Walter whispered as darkness took hold of him and the cold fear of the unknown swept over him, as he lost consciousness. Like a hawk, sweeping out of the sky, to grab its unexpected prey, so did the fear take over his body, as he lay helpless on the ground.
Bessy, the ‘poodle’, in the meantime, was running away, in fear from his home and the darkness that threatened to overtake everything in its path. Just to get somewhere safe and away from this fear, was all that he had on his mind. What started out as a promising day, has turned into a nightmare for any canine, brave or not. Why, this fear he wonders, as he turns to look around, while still continuing to run. In the distance, he saw Walter, lying on the ground. With ears flat and tail between his legs, he tried to run even faster, as all around him, dogs started to howl in fear.
While the citizens of Printer street were arising, a gloom was settling over their city, without them knowing it, bringing with it, the misery and dampness of a life with-out hope and a future without love.
High above the sky where the ‘Gods’, lived, there was a buzzing of eagerness, as the council was in session. It was a city with order,thee most beautiful colours of rain-bows were hanging over it, while the chil¬dren of the’gods’ were sliding on it. “Whoopee,” they would shout, as they lay on their tummies and slide down from one side to another. Birds and animals of wonder were living side by side: lions, hyenas, eagles and doves, truly a place of wonder. The place had an aura of wonder, but at the same time, also of a place where time did not exist.
Konkey, the ‘God’ of tease, was as usual busy with his old tricks. His face itself, had the impression of someone who could not hurt a linert (harmless little creatures whose duty it was to convey messages from the ‘gods’ to one another) but they were the brunt of many of his jokes. Hiding a waterbomb behind his back he ap-proached the magnitude of ‘Gods’, that has gathered for some silly reason, to drop it on someone’s head. Having fun, was all that he could think of, as he surveyed them. As he came closer, he could sense that something serious was wrong. For the first time in his entire existence, Konkey, could feel the despair of his kin, which was something strange to him. With a turn of his hand, the water bomb, that he had in his hand, disappeared.
“Goocks!Goocks!” he calls out, as he glides to a standstill next to his best friend. “What is going on?” Why is everyone standing around with such long faces?he asks in one breath.
Looking up in dismay, Goocks,the ‘god’ of humility looked at him, with a frown. Biting her lip, she studied, Konkey, to decide, whether this was another one of his practical jokes or not.
“Really,!" You are a pain” she said blowing through her nose.
“What? Do you mean?” Konkey answered with a smile on his face. Usually that was the sort of answer that he craves for, but not today! For some or the other reason, he got this feeling that something was seriously wrong.
“Goocks!”
“Oh! Okay! Okay! I’ll tell you.”
Suddenly, the crowd goes quiet as the door to the palace where a meeting, that was in session opens. One by one, the elders of the city, came out, with a very serious grin on their faces.
Punching, Goocks, in her side,Konkey, was becoming impatience and desperate, as he, were always the first one, to know when something was wrong.
“Tell me now! he shouted.” How is it possible that he does not know what was going on?!
“Quite!” someone whispered in front, as heads turned, shaking left and right when they saw who the culprit was. “What do you expect”, they whisper to one another, “Konkey”!
Out of pure desperation, Konkey slide to the front of the crowd while everybody steps back. They all were in some way or another a victim of one of his jokes and wasn’t prepared to go through it again. Not trusting him, they open up a gap between them and him.
Meanwhile, Molt, the supreme ‘God’, ruler of Octavia, was getting ready to speak to his ‘people’. As he was walking forward, the dazzling light of his appearance was too bright for any of the other ‘gods’ to look at. Fal-ling to their knees, while the children were attracted to the brightness of light and love, that shone around him. Picking some of them up, he smiled down at them, though his eyes were as cold as someone who had re-ceives bad news.
Stretching out his hand he said to the crowd:
“They who do my will do not need to fear me, but be-hold my wrath to those who disobey me”. He barely opens his mouth, but the words came out as cleared and thundering, as when lighting strikes the earth on a stormy night.
Cringely inwardly, a cry aroused from those who were kneeling down, in front of him. “Molt, is great, and we fear him above all things. Molt, is wise and just, he does as he pleases. Who? are we, that you have to consult us. Beware to those who arises his anger, he will deal with you harshly and without mercy”.
“Last night”, he continues, “something I taught that would never happen again, happened. Someone, in our mist, did the unthinkable. He dare to defy me, by open-ing the doors for the spirit of darkness to escape”.
Gasping inwardly, but also filled with exitement,Konkey couldn’t wait for Molt, to continue. At least, someone else is in trouble for a change, he thought and not himself and that alone, is worth it.
Looking over the crowd, Molt, waited, for several min-utes that felt like an eternity to Konkey,as he continued.
“Behold”, and with a swoop of his hand, he opens up a door, to what seems to be a replica of what happen the night before. At first, all they could see, were the calm-ness, of the night and heard the snoring of themselves. Giggling, amongst themselfs,as they identify some of the snores, the children stared at the adults. Sifting, the pic-tures move over to where the ‘linerts’ was sleeping in their quarters. After what felt like several minutes, they saw a shadow creeping out of one of these houses. Cringing their eyes to see who it was, they look in horror as this “person”, was taking the road to the side of the PROHIBITED place.
Only Those, Who Have Permission From Molt, Goes There. Looking at one another with total unbelief, some of the adults started to cry, as they knew what was going to happen. Staring in wonder, the children stop their playing, as they have never encounter any of the adults to cry. What is going on, they wonder in amazement. Turning their attention back to the night before, the ‘god’s’ were all agitated, knowing what was about to happen. Walking up and down, muttering to themselves, while some of them were sitting and crying on the floor that were covered with gold. Others were standing around like those who were in shock, not truly believing what they just witness.
Konkey, with tears in his eyes, turned and with the shake of the head moves to the back of the crowd.
"Goocks” he uttered looking at his best friend “I am scared what is going to happen now?”.
Putting her arms around her friend, Goocks smile down at him. For all the tricks he played on people, he was just a softie at heart.
“Do not worry” she said, “the great Molt will take care of this. As immortals, we have nothing to fear, but our imagination of what is about to happen”.
With a frown on his face, Konkey looks at Goocks and said; “Are you trying to be funny or what? Telling me, the father of all imagination, not to worry”.
Snorting through his nose, he unwraps himself from Goocks. “Do not imagine” brrrrrrr
“I am sorry” Goocks said, “It is just something that slips out”, she said, while she looks at Konkey with a smile on her face. “Dramatic!”
Meanwhile, the great Molt, was seating himself on his throne and with a serious look, was contemplating what to do. Looking at the previous night, was something he hope, would never happened again.
The figure on the screen, all dress in black, kept, to the darkness of the trees, while looking over his shoul¬ders, all the time, while steadily moving forward. Grunting, the crowd realised, that their nightmare, was about to start all over again. On the replaying of the previous night, this ‘person’, was approaching, what seems like a big hole. Surrounded by huge trees, the hole was covered with hair treads, from the great Molt himself, that was unbreakable, running straight and side-ways over the hole. Around this hole were fierce looking dog's, patrol-ling the area. To reached this hole, one had to glide over the guards, which was the dog’s, who was especially cre-ated by Molt. Their skin was made of leather, covered by impenetrated layers of steel, their teeth were made of steel, which was strong enough to rip anything apart. If that was not enough too scare you, their eyes shone yel-low and they were running in circles around this hole, never becoming tired, for all eternity.
Looking at one another the ‘God’s’ shook their heads. No one could get pass those dog’s only Molt could go there, no one else.
With a grin on his face the creature of the night before, took something out of his pocket, sprinkle the contents over himself and just ......... glides pass those dogs.
Looking down into the hole, he was speaking to some-thing or someone. Smiling broadly this time he took some of the contents that was in the bottle and sprinkles it over the hole.
Looking on, the ‘children’ were amazed, to see, as a beautiful creature arose from the pit. Standing upright .they could see,that it was one of them.However,the look on his face,was filled with bitterness as a smirked played around his lips.With wings hanging by its his side, a sharp face,with a long chin, it smooth its wings,with his hands. Lighting up the sky, his appearance was like one, who was never imprison, his eyes were round and beauti-ful shape, and he had the most wondrous smile of all the ‘God’s’, that they have ever seen. Stretching out his hands, while the dogs were still running,around, unaware in circles the creature touches himself and smiled.
“For this you will be richly rewarded”, he addresses the person in black. “I am still too weak to challenged Molt, but that day is nor far off. For now, let us console ourselves with my freedom. Soon all my friends shall be free, then Octavia shall be mind again”.
Turning squarely to face the screen, he uttered, “Behold all of you ‘God’s’ that imprison me, your time is coming. Very soon, I will have the power over life and death, join me or perish. The choice is yours. Let Molt, not deceived you, I will reign supreme and those who oppose me will die, no more immortal ha!ha! ha! I will return”. With a swoop of its wings it disap¬peared into the night with its helper by its side.
With fear in their eyes the ‘gods’ turned towards Molt, who was getting off his chair.
“Woe, unto those, who want to opposed me, anyone who wants to challenged me, beware I am Molt. Even, if all of you ‘gods’ attack me at once, you will all perish. If there are some of you who have any intention of joining the ‘one’ beware my power”.
Sweeping his hand over the crowd, the ‘gods’ all fell over, like paper in the wind. The children where the only ones not being touched.
As the ‘gods’ laid on their backs, Molt lived up his hand and watched them roused from the ground. “Who dare challenged me! Speak up, he thunders? Can any of you, ‘Gods’ takes my place? Look, you are like clay in my hands, bind together, use your power to defeat me”. Lowering his hand to his side they gently drift to the ground.
Looking in fear at their leader, they kneel down.
“Oh”! great Molt! a voice sounds out from the crowd, “have mercy on us ALL. Let your anger not destroy us, direct your anger at those who oppose you. Show no mercy to them, destroy them in your anger. Pity us, do not let those who challenged you, get away and in so doing destroy our existence and challenge you”.
“Who said that”, he roars, “step forward”.
Opening up, the crowd, move backward to allowed Molt, to see who spoke to him.
In the centre of the crowd, knelt a figure, hands in front of him and his face touching the ground.
“It is me, HD, who spoke. Forgive me, if I have spo-ken out of turned, but do not allow those who chal-lenged you, to get away unpunished”.
Looking bemused, Molt, answered, “And what do you propose I do with them”.
“Choose one of your weakest servant, equip him, with some of your strength and let him go after this .....thing that dared to challenged to you”.
Walking forward, while the crowd moved further back, Molt knelt down, took HD by the hand and said: “Amazing, how it is always the little ones who have more wisdom than their parents”.
Staring at them, he took HD forward, indicated, that he should stand next to him and said, “This ....... monster, can be beaten, but, beware, it takes a pure heart, mind, body and soul to defeat him. As he went to hide amongst the human beings down below on earth, I need someone to act as guardian for this human being to defeat this monster. Think careful, before you answer, because you are not allowed, to help him or her to defeat this monster, only counselled and advice”.
“Whom shall I send”?
Looking around to see who would take up the chal-lenged, Konkey smiled to himself. This is what he has been waiting for ADVENTURE.
Gripping an unexpected Goocks by the hand, he rushes forward, afraid that somebody else would steal the glory. “Here we are o’ mighty one ready to serve thee!” he shouts as he pulls Goocks by the hand.
In his rush to move forward, Konkey, trip over some-one’s feet, falling flat on his face, with poor Goocks on top of him, as they slide to the beginning of the stairs, where an amused Molt was waiting, on them.
“Come on” he says, “let’s give them a hand”
While everyone, was laughing at them and in such a manner, it broke the tension. Goocks, however, was fuming, as she got to her feet. Dusting her self off, she looked at Konkey, with murder in her eyes.
Konkey, on the other hand, was a having a ball, making people laugh, even at the expense of himself was his job. With a grin on his face, he kneels down before Molt.
“If it pleases you my lord, me and my friend would like to volunteer”, and with a tug of the hand, he pulls Goocks, down next to him.
Highly agitated, she looks at him, turned to Molt and said: “Forgive my friend his presumptions, you higness, sometimes, no all the time he opens up his bear trap without thinking. As you know, he is the ‘God’ of jokes and never a more silly ‘God’ was born”. Looking at Molt, as if it was his fault, that Konkey was born, she knelt down.
“Oh! what a joy”, Molt utters as he started to laugh “ha!haha! the perfect combination. Brains and laughter a rarity, hard to find in this life, just what I need”.
Dismissing the rest of the crowd, he nodded at Goocks and Konkey to follow him. Turning around he look at HD who was still standing on the steps. “You too”
Looking around HD, pointed at himself, and said, “Me you highness”?
Smiling gently Molt, nodded his head, as he, lead them up the stairs.
It is an exited Konkey, who follows with a very upset Goocks and a bemused HD who still couldn’t believe his luck. Not only, did he stand next to the almighty Molt, but he was personally invited as well. Oh! things could only get better.
On entering the palace of Molt, the three ‘hero’s, to be, was amazed, to see, that his living quarters was not at all impressive. Sensing their disappointment, Molt, smiled as he leads them, to what, at the first look, seem just like a normal stone. On closer inspection however, they were, amazed, to see, that it however, was a one way mirror. Looking into it, they were amazed to see, that it was filled with the images of the earth’s people, as they go about their daily lives.
Konkey, the ever optimist, rubbed his hands together, as all the possibilities of all the jokes he could played on them, flashes through his mind.
Goocks, on the other hand, was horrified at the thought what Konkey, would do if he had access to so many people who lived an existence of utter ignorance.
HD, on the another hand, just marvels to be in the pres-ence of greatness and couldn’t wait, to get back to his friends to share everything with them. If in the process he elaborates a little too much, he was sure they would forgive him.
“Sit down”, Molt said, as chairs rises from the ground.
Amazingly, it seems that the chairs were specifically de-sign to fit them as it fitted their body perfectly.
Sighing, as he gave himself over to the adven-ture,Konkey smiled to himself, just what he needed, to break away from his boring existence ..........freedom to be set free amongst, earth’s people
“You two”, Molt said, and with a nod of his head, he looks in Goocks direction as well as Konkey’s, “will be my messengers. Identify, someone among the human’s who you, think is brave enough to destroy this creature, with its followers”.
“This, your majesty”, Goocks uttered, “is all a big mis-take. We can never go down to earth, I have never been away from Octavia.Please your majesty”, she said as she falls on her knees, “it was just a joke”. Looking at Kon-key, with eyes that flashes murder, she said, “you cannot take him serious oh! mighty one. Everything, to him is just an excuse to play his ridiculous jokes on”.
With a big grin on his face, Konkey, looks at Molt and said: “Your highness, I am tired of being the one, who is never been taken seriously. All my life, I have been a joke! Now, here, is an opportunity to redeem myself, please your highness, do not take this away from me. I beg you. When you created me, you saw it fit to equip me with a sense of humour and a lust for life, do not take Goocks advice to heart, she is just afraid”.
Looking at both of them Molt arise, blowing on the mir-ror, then beckons them to come closer and said:
“This, is Printer street on earth, and this, is the people that lived in that street”!
Staring in wonder, Konkey and Goocks approached. Looking into the mirror they could see a community just like them. People moving forward and backward, cutting grass, children playing in the street, with their dogs chas-ing them. Old people, sitting on their stoops, taking naps, doors not being lock at night or during the day, neighbours helping one another, people’s love for each other, was evi¬dent.
“Now this”, said Molt, as he moved his hand over the mirror, “if we, don’t do something or anything about this creature. Now you decide!”.
Looking into the mirror,Goocks yelled, as she step back and fell over her feet in her hurry to get away from the horror in the mirror.
Konkey stared in total disbelieve, as he saw, how the creature and it’s helpers taking over, first printer street, then, they start to move out, into the rest of the city, then the world and eventually Octavia as well.
Sucking out the joy in life, turning brother against brother, neighbour against neigbour, killing one another in cold blood, children being enslave, a world of total darkness and despair. A city where there is no love but only hatred for one another and the slaying of the inno-cent until it reaches Octavia.
“So”, Molt, says as he looks at Goock’s: “any more excuses”, and with the swing of his hand he closes the port.
Not looking at one or the other the ‘gods’ shook their heads.
“Well then”, said Molt, “this is what I want you to do.Konkey, you and Goocks will go down to earth to find someone, strong and pure of heart, to fight this crea-ture. Remember! you are not to intervene, only to coun-selled and time is against all of us”.
Turning to HD he said, “It will be your responsibility to see that no harm comes to those that these two choose. For this I equip you with special powers, which you will transfer, but beware, these powers will only come to the front if there is harmony among the three of you and the earthling you choose”. Blowing on them, Molt said with a voice of seriousness, which they have never heard, “we are depending on all three of you. Remember harmony can defeat this creature”.
Staring, at one another, Konkey, Goocks and HD felt a strange sensation, as the back’s of their necks, began, to tinkle, and a lightness overtook their body. With mist, rising out of the floor, they could not see one another and the next moment they fell a jerk as their body’s was toss and turned, as they began the descending to earth.
CHAPTER 2
“Lucan! Lucan!, shouted her mother, where she was busy, preparing breakfast in the kitchen downstairs. “When, is that child ever going to wake up”, she won-ders aloud. “Lucan!”, she shouts, with all the annoy-ances she felt, “if you don’t get up, right this moment, you are going to be in serious trouble”.
Listening to her mother’s voice, as she was still lying in her bed,Lucan was amaze at the tone of her mother’s voice. In all her life, she has never heard her mother sounding so angry. What was wrong? Deciding to go downstairs to see what the fuss was all about,Lucan got up, put on her morning slippers and went downstairs. As she walks down her big oversize brute of a brother came pass (o.k. not so fat just annoying) knocking her out of the way.
“Oh! you imbecile”, she shout’s, as he walks on, with-out apologising. “Just you wait, till I tell dad, then you will see”.
At the thought of her dad, she smiles as the two of them were very closed and they understood one another. He will sort out, Brent,thinking he can threat her like dirt.
“Dad!, Dad!”, she shouted, as she runs downstairs, looking for her father. As she entered the kitchen her mother looks up at her with an expression that she could only describe as pure hate.
Seeing the look on her mother’s face, made Lucan so sad, that she burst out in tears. With tears running down her face, she turned, to look at her brother who was sit-ting at the other side of the table. He, had that look, as if he hated her, and couldn’t stand the sight of her. What! did she do wrong?
Why? is her mother and brother acting so strange and were was her cat, ginger. Still crying, she turned, around, going back upstairs to her room. “Ginger, ginger, here sweetie”, she called out to her cat. “Here, hairyball come to Lucan”.Scratching her hair, she thought, It is strange, she never goes out without first saying good-morning to me
Deciding to quickly take a shower, hoping everything will return to normal Lucan step into the bath¬room with a feeling that something was very wrong this morning. First mom, then Brent, they never agree but he has never look at her like he did this morning. Where was Dad, he usually comes when she calls, but he didn’t, even answer went she called, out and to top this Ginger is also gone. What is going on? Feeling, a little sad, she opens up the hot water tap, as well as the cold water tap and after making sure it was to her liking, she steps in under the water.
“Are you sure this is the right place”, Goocks asked as they glide to a standstill, frowning at Konkey. “How did you, get to choose, this home”.
“Relax”, he said, as he spread his hands, “this is it, this is where our saviour lived. I’ve got a feeling for these things. He is brave at heart, fear¬less, a mighty warrior, one whom all human beings will inspire to be like in the future. Just think, of all the people on earth, we get to choose him”.
“Not we, you!”, Goocks said, annoyingly.
“If we didn’t allowed you, to choose,” HD muttered we would still be busy going through our sorting list
“Oh! put a sock in it, Konkey”, Goocks answered, “let us just get this brave warrior, so he, can kill this dragon and I can go back to Octavia”.
“Guys!”, HD whispered, “I think we have a problem”.
Looking at him, Konkey walks up to him, put his arms around him and says, “tststs, when was the last time you had some fun, relax”.
“But!”,
“No buts, relax”, he continued as he flew up to Brent’s room, “let's go meet our hero”.
“Konkey”, he tried again, “help me to talk to him”, he said to Goocks, who was staring at him with a blank ex-pression
“Help you?” she mustered as she looks at him, “help you, all I want to do is to go home. You are the one with the power how can I help you”.
With a sour look, at him, she flew up, to where Konkey was already exploring Brent’s room.
Shaking his head in total disbelieve HD look around and muttered to himself, “that is the wrong room. Can't you sense it, that is the wrong room”. Flying across to the other side of the house, he entered, Lucan’s room. “I'll just wait”, here, he said as he made himself comfortable on the bed.
Meanwhile, in the other room, Konkey was opening up draws, looking into cupboards while Goocks was leaning against the door.
“What is this?” he muttered as he looks at a screen where the pictures keep on disappearing. Putting his hand out, to grap one of the images, he accidentally knocks over the thingy, with the pictures.
Brent,who was sitting downstairs in the kitchen, grins, as he heard the noise. “Today, there will be no mercy little sister” he said, as he ran up the stair's, two by two.
“Get her”, his mother shouts as he ran out of the kitchen, “kill her”.
With hatred in his heart and the desire for blood witch somehow feel wrong to him, but he couldn’t explain where it came from, he enters his room.
“Come out sis”, he whispers as he bolts his bedroom door behind him. “I've got the key in my pocket, so you might as well come out, because theirs is no other way out”.
Konkey and Goocks, who was hovering above, look at one another, surely, this could not be the one, the evil that flows out of him was nauseating, there was no love here.
Nodding at Konkey,Goocks, walk through the wall, while still hovering above in the air.
Waiting on a dejected Konkey,she couldn’t help, but to smile. The ‘God’ of tease. was depress, his whole face and body language spoke of disappointment. His face looks like someone whom he had just played a trick on, only this time, he was on the receiving end.
“Was I wrong”?, he asks Goocks.”That, can’t be our hero”. Holding his head between his hands, he lamented, “where did I go wrong”?
“Oh! I agree with you”, she said, as a high pierce note broke the silence.
As quickly, as he was depress, Konkey ‘s face turn’s into a grin. “This way” he said, as he walks through the wall, into Lucan’s room. Breaking out, into the most hilarious laughter, he folded himself double as he saw, poor HD hiding under the bed with Lucan, swinging a baseball bat at him.
“Get out! get out!” she shouts, as she swings the bat at him.
“Shall we help him”?, Goocks asks, as she looks at Konkey who was thoroughly enjoying himself.
Keeping his stomach, while tears of laughter run down his face, he shook his head. “No!, no!”
Disgusted, at the way he reacts,Goocks touches the back of Lucan, who immediately calm down. Dropping the baseball bat, she turn’s around and looks in wonder at Goocks.
“A girl”, Konkey, spoke out aloud in disgust’s, as he slides next to Goocks. “There must be some mistake, we, need a hero, a man with muscle, not a girl. Oh! my repu-tation is ruin, never, will I be able to look myself in the face, we are doom, eternally doom. Now there is no more hope for us”. Putting his head in his hand, he looks at HD who came crawling out underneath the bed. Sobbing, he bawled, “doom! we are doom!”.
“I tried to tell you,” HD said, as he looks in disgust at Konkey.
Putting his hand up Konkey was too distraught, to say anything.
Lucan, look in amazement at these, “what to call them”, she didn’t even know. Pinching herself, to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, she first look at Goocks,than Konkey, who look as if he still couldn’t believe his eyes and then finally her eyes settled on the one who invaded her pri-vacy. The mere thought of that made her blood boiled, the audacity, to come into her room, while she was tak-ing a shower.
Before she could explode again, HD look at her and said;
“Daughter of Molt, who is the creator of the heavens and all that is above it, as well as the earth below, peace we bring you. I am, HD, the god of endurance, this is my friends, Goocks who is the goddess of humility” and with a bow Goocks bent down in her direction. “This here” is Konkey, the god of tease, like everything, else, he, is a joke, he concluded with a grim look on his face.
With a sour expression on his face, Konkey look at Lu-can and say: “Yeah!, Yeah!, peace and peace, can we go now”.
Ignoring him, Goocks turned, to Lucan and say, “forgive my friend his behaviour. It is just, when he was borne, they didn’t include any manners, so it is not that he is being rude, it's just his nature”.
Deciding to ignore them,Konkey, throw himself on Lu-can’s bed, who was looking at him with total disbelieve. Snorting through his nose, he look’s at his fellow ‘God’s’ with a sour look on his face.
“Your world, is in great danger, daughter of Molt”, Goocks continues, “and you have been chosen by the mighty one himself to save this world. All you need, is faith and courage”.
“Can I get dress quickly”, Lucan asks, as she still had her towel around her. Moving into her bathroom, she dresses herself, as she speaks to herself: “Just a dream, Lucan, you are okay, it is just a dream. If you go out there they will all be gone”. Stepping out of the bath-room, fully dress, eye's closed, hands turned into a tight fist, she said, “one, two, three, they are gone”. Opening her one eye slightly, she looks at an amused Konkey,who was standing in front of her.
“Daughter of Molt, are you okay, do you need to sit down, you look faint” he said with a broad smile, as he circled her.
On hearing the sarcasm in his voice, Lucan open her eyes, look him in the face and said: “If you, are who you say you are, let”, and with this, she turned around, point at the clock radio that she hates, let this disappear.
Groaning loudly, Konkey flip himself on her bed, pull the pillow over his head, and immaculate snoring sounds.
Taking Lucan by the hand,Goocks said: “do not fear, do not allow yourself to doubt. Do you remember that night, when you and your best friend, what is her name again.....Mary-Jane went, to the movies and these big boys who was sitting at the back, made remarks that scared you”.
“How did you know about that?” Lucan asks, “we never told any one about it. Wait a minute, unless Mary-Jane put you lot up to this”. “Yeah!”, just like her, she smiles, “trying to trick me”.
“Lucan?”, Goocks ask with all the sincerity she could muster, “What happened to those boys?”.
Turning to answered, she sat down, as the reality hit her. “This, big guy came in, went to the back, pick up those boys, and here, her voice faltered. I felt so save when I saw him, like he was my guardian angel, then lifts them up with one hand and then disappeared through the roof, right in front of our eyes with them. We thought we were just imagining ourselves”.
Smiling gently, Goocks, took her by the hand, lift her to her feet and continue to fly up to her roof with her.
Feeling as light as a feather, Lucan marvelled, as she rises to the sky. “This is real”, she muttered aloud, “I am flying”.
“Somebody, gives her a medal”, Konkey shouts as he lay in disgust, watching Lucan rise.
“Guys!”, HD said quickly, as he saw how Lucan’s cheeks shot red. “Can, we please try and work together, as our time is running out”.
Descending gently to the floor, Goocks and Lucan looked at Konkey, who by this time was looking, ter¬ribly bored
“Can we get out of here”, he said, as HD took Lucan by the hand, lowering her on her bed, and said: “Ignore him, chosen one”.
Deciding, that she likes him and the girl best, Lucan flashes him, one of her smiles.
“Whoa! Do that again” he said.
“What!” She asked, alarmingly.
“Would you be so kind to smile at me again”, HD, said as he drops to his knees, “please”.
Sitting up, when he heard the seriousness, in HD’s voice, Konkey turned to look at them.
Ignoring Konkey,Lucan, smiles, as she wonders, what this was all about. A lot of strange things have been hap-pening to her since this morning. First, her mother and brother’s obvious dislike for her, by the thinking of how they treated her this morning, tears start to form in her eyes. Now she is sitting with three strange creatures in the house, who is asking her to smile. If only she could find her Dad, he will, really, clear up this mess. This is very strange things that are going on here!
“Be not afraid” HD said, as he saw the tears starting to form in her eyes.
Looking at his fellow ‘god's’, he nods his head.
“This is the one!”, and with a nod of her head,Goock’s gave her approval, while Konkey just stared at him.
“Lucan!, we need your help urgently. I know this is strange but I an asking you to trust us. Can you do that”, HD asks gently.
Nodding her head without knowing why, Lucan thought she much be crazy. It is typical of her to trust strangers. Her father, always says, that she will even help the devil, without knowing it. Sighing to herself, she decided to herself, to hear what they had to say. Besides it is usu-ally, the things that don't make sense, that eventually works.
“What do you want and what do you want me to do?”She asks.
“We need you, to go out of this house without telling anyone”, HD answered.
“Are you crazy”, she whispered at HD, “my parents will kill me, if they find out I left, without getting, their permission or telling them where I was going”.
“You, need to do this”, Gooks answered, urgently
“Can we go now”, Konkey said, as he moved to the window. “Let, us find someone else”.
With daggers in her eyes, Lucan turned to Konkey and says, “I will see you outside” and with a swing of her hair, she left the room.
“You, need some manners”, Goocks said, as she flew pass Konkey out of the window.
“Definitely!”, HD echoes, as he follows suit.
“Me?”, Konkey stuttered, as he flew out after them, “my manners are impeccable. It is she, who is being rude and obnoxious”.
Knowing better, than to get into an argument with him, HD and Goocks just floated down behind a tree, as they waited, on Lucan’s arrival.
“Why? did it have to be a girl”, Konkey moaned aloud as he came to a standstill next to them. “A girl, of all people, why not a warrior”.
“Remember, HD said, “you are the one, who chose this house, so please stop moaning!”.
To her better judgement, Goocks, pulled Konkey to her and said, “I am a girl you moron. What is your prob-lem!”.
Feeling quite aggrieved, Konkey loosened her grip and says: “No need for name calling” and with a toss of his head, he continues to move further away from them. He, who could usually see the irony in any situation, is being upstage by a girl.
Looking at both of them, HD realised, that before they could even attempt to challenged this monster, they will have to create unity among them, and by the look of things they had still a long way to go.
How, will he get Konkey to realised, that Lucan, is also the creation of Molt, and that all human beings are cre-ated equal. It, is people’s perception, of the lie they choose to believe, that made them think men are better than women. That women need to be protected always. Yes, they may not have the strength of men, but they can just be as brave as any warrior in battle. Their strength lies in their compassion, their beauty in their heart and their ability to accept any circumstances that might come their way
Konkey, needs to realised, HD thought to himself, if we do not have unity among us, we all are doomed,Octavia as well. This monster grows on people's unforgive-ness.hatred, disillusionment,jealousness,envy and total disrespect for one another. Sensing the growing evil in the sky, HD closes his eyes in the hope of gathering strength to see through what he had to do.
Staring at Konkey,Goocks wonder sometimes what it is they had in common that made their friendship last. She, is gentle and kind, he, is a brute, that only cares about the fun he can have on somebody else.
Chapter 3
After, what felt like an eternity to him, Walter woke up, from where he was lying. Wondering, what he was doing on the ground, he got up, dust himself off and start’s to look around. Starting to shake, after realising, what hap-pen to him, he quickly gathers up, the fallen newspapers, that was laying on the ground. Looking around him, be-cause, he could sense, that whatever this feeling was, he had to get away from it as soon as possible. Jumping, on his bicycle, he pedalled as fast as he could, in the oppo-site direction, of Printer street. There was no way that he was going to continue to delivered newspapers, after what happened to him.
Laughing, to themselves, the creature and his helper were busy in ms. Luther’s kitchen, which they have captured. Preparing, some kind of juice, that had the most deli-cious smell, they cringe their hands in expectation.
“You chose well,” the creature said, to his helper, as he filled all the pots in the house with the ‘juice’.
“What? did you say you name was dear”, ask ms. Lu-ther's, where she was sitting at her table. Totally and ut-terly under his influence, the Creature turned, smiled at her, and said: “I, am the ruler of the universe, I am the creator of your world, from now on they will called me Maleton”.
“That, is wonderful” ms Luther’s whisper as she drifted off, back to sleep.
Looking at his helper, the creature said: “It was a wise day, Thorn, when you, decided to set me free. Those, who serve me, loyally I always reward and this shall be your reward. The day I took over Octavia,you shall be my second in charge”.
Falling to his knees, Thorn, the chief -linert said: “my lord and master, I have waited long for this day. Before, I had to run up and down like their slave, taking messages, day and night from one ‘god’ to another. Secretly, I knew, that if, I could steal some of Molt’s poly-juice, I could set you free, and in free¬ing you I could only hope that you would have pity on me”.
“Be assured, your reward, you shall inherit, but let me, first acquire my strength so that I can take this hu¬man world over. Here, and with this, he kicked at the chair, that Ms Luther’s was sleeping in: Come forward, take this juice and let the whole town drink of it. The more they drink the stronger I will become and in such a way I will have control and regain my strength over their souls. Go both of you, let them drink, who will dare to oppose me after this. I AM MALETON............HA! HA! HA”.
Bowing down before him, they took some of the pots and continue out of the door. “Soon”, Thorn whisper, “will my master be in charge and then everyone will re-spect me”.
Bessy, who in the meantime, return from running away, was entering the gate, when the two helpers come out, Sensing a strong smell of evil, he turned around to run away again.
Seeing ‘poodle’ running away with his tail between his legs’ was the most hilarious thing for Ms Luther’s and Thorn. Looking at one, another they laugh, till the tears came running down their faces.
“You, make me laugh”, Thorn said to Ms Luther's, “once we rule Octavia, you can be my chief -linert”.
Smiling Ms Luther’s shake her head, not knowing, that she was being manipulated and under the spell of evil, agreed with a broad grin.
Feeling angry and bitter, at everyone who have a happy thought, but with an intense desire to serve the ruler of darkness, they proceeded into a community who had no idea what evil was being set loose upon them.
Running out of the house, like a thief, worried Lucan,she had never deliberately disobeyed her par¬ents.
“Where are you?” she whispered, afraid that her mother and Brent might hear her.
“Pst”, Gooks called from behind the tree in their gar-den.
As she, was moving towards them, she was amazed, to see Ms Luther’s entered their drive way with a pot, in her hands.
Getting, the smell of something delicious that was com-ing from them, she was on her way to intercept Ms Lu-ther’s for whatever she had, when she was caught from behind.
Spinning around in anger, she was shock to see tears running down all three of her newly acquired friends, faces. Staring, in disbelief at them, she asks:” What is your problem.?”.
“It have began”, HD said sadly’
Taking, her by the hand,Goocks led her to the window of their kitchen, where her mother and brother were grabbing a jug to get some of that cooldrink.
Turning, with a question mark, towards Goocks,she was annoyed to see her still crying
They are only having some cooldrink she said, when all of a sudden a feeling of evil so intense was beginning to take hold of her. Falling to her knees, with a dizziness in her head, she was hardly aware of being pick up and car-ried away. After a couple of minutes she opens her eyes, to find herself lying with her head, on Goocks lap in the shade.
“Feeling better”, HD acquires, as she struggles to sit.
“What happen?” she asks, as what she just experi-ences, came back to her. “Can somebody, please tell me, what is going on”.
Taking Lucan,by the hand, he continues, “Irrespective, of how things may seem, now is the time to believe. What you have felt back there is just the beginning if we, no you, do not bring a stop to it”.
“Bring a stop to what”, Lucan asks as she felt like a person who knew that something just happen but do not know what.
“Evil”, Lucan “evil”.
“What?, do you, mean evil and what does it has to do with me, where do I fit into all of this?”
Pulling himself up from where he was sitting, HD looks at Lucan, and said; “You, have been chosen, by the Al-mighty Molt, to stop what you have just felt, to take over this world and our world Octavia. If you for some or the other reason can't carry out your mission we are all doom”.
“Almighty who?”.
“She don’t even know who the ruler of her planet is”, Konkey snored. “Do you still expect her to save this planet and ours”.
“If you do not stop this moment”, Goocks said, “you will be sorry”.
Looking at Goocks worringly, he sifted closer to Lu-can.The last time, she was upset with him, she called down lighting from the sky, that had him burning for a long time. There is no way, that he is going through that pain again.
Feeling, if this was all just a nightmare,Lucan, turns around, walk back to the kitchen window, where she felt that same evil spell and shook her head. Turning back, she sat down with her head between her hands, and without looking up at anyone of them, she said, “tell me more. Just this time, start from where you people come from, who you are and what do I have to do”.
Grinning at one another, HD and Goocks surrounded Lucan, while a shock Konkey suddenly stood up¬right: “Maybe”, she really is the chosen one, he thought. By the mere smelling of evil she did not run away, so maybe, just maybe. I'll, think I will give her a change, he ac-knowledges to himself and with a smile he went to join the group. Seeing him walking to them,Goocks open up her arms as to welcome him in.
After hearing what they had to say, Lucan got up and without a word to any of them, walk out by the gate.
Goocks,was about to followed her, when she felt an arm restraining her.Konkey look at her and said, “she needs to be alone, this is her decision and hers alone. We are not allowed to influence, only serve and advice”.
Turning to HD, he said: “I am sorry if I have hurt you, but being a god of jokes can sometimes be a burden”.
Stunned, beyond believe, HD, could only nod his head. Considered he has never heard Konkey apologise to any-one, irrespective, the type of joke he played on that per-son, he was more than glad to accept his apology.
“Come”, said Gooks to her friends, “we have work to do and a creature to subdued”.
Feeling more confidant then what they felt, the three ‘Gods’, of the city of Octavia, high above the clouds where no human being, have ever been, set off to support the one, which they hope could save mankind as well as Octavia.
Walking down her street,Lucan, was astonished at the level of intolerance she saw among her people. Old Mis-ter Jensen, who is usually so friendly, just insulted her, and all she asks was, how are you today. Over on the other side, were Mister Nicholson and old Mr Harvey, busy arguing over about their respected trees that was shedding leaves in their drive-ways. How old mr Harvey was, nobody knows, as he was all crinkled up and full of creases.
Standing closer, Lucan, approached to see if she could try to diffuse the situation.
“Good-morning Mr Nicholson and Mr Harvey”.
Turning to her, with the most despicable look on their faces, Mr Harvey, was the first to re-act: “Are you trying to be funny, girl”, he said, as he steps forward in a threatening way, “what is so good this morning”.
“Did you see how this donkey” and with this, he pointed, to Mr Nicholson, who was also glaring at Lu-can, “threw his leaves in my drive way”.
“Donkey!, you say, I will so you, who are a donkey”, and with this Mr Nicholson scoop down, pick up a hand-ful of leaves and continue to throw it over Mr. Harvey.
Standing in shock Lucan step back as the two lifelong friends start to throw leaves over one another.
“Stop!”, she shouted, “this is insane, why do you want to kill one another”.
As if a light went on, somewhere in their crazy minds, both stop, look at one another and shout “I am going to get my gun and then I will be back”. Turning as fast as they could, they run into their respective houses.
“This can be happening” said Lucan aloud to herself. Seeing old Mr Nicholson, coming out of his house, while trying to load his shotgun, made her believe that this was really madness. On the other side, Mr Harvey, also come out, looking for his neighbour, gun in hand.
As Lucan turned, wondering what to do, Ms Gwen-doline, who lived on the other side of the road, shouted at her: “Get out of my drive way, you children are always playing in my driveway, messing up my pergolas”.
“Over here!” she shouted at her old, but very cross neighbours. “Wait!, till I get my firearm, then we can all shoot her”.
“That is a good idea”, said mister Harvey, as he pointed his shotgun at Lucan.
“Don’t worry Gwen”, mister Nicholson answered, “we will wait for you”, as he pointed his gun at Lucan too, with a smirk on his face.
Stepping back, Lucan, thought of making a run for it, but seeing the look on their faces, made her realised, that what her new friends warned her, about, was coming true.
“Mister Harvey, mister Nicholson, it’s me Lucan, you can do this please”, she begs as she saw the evil in their eyes.
“Wait!, wait!”, Ms Gwendoline,shouted from inside her house, “do not shoot her until I come”.
Listening and staring in total unbelief, at what used to be, the sweet old people who used to love cats and dog’s,Lucan, couldn’t be¬lieve her eyes. Here, her people, were getting ready, to commit murder in daylight and nobody seems to care.
“I am ready” said ms Gwen as she came running out of her house, pointing, her fire arm at Lucan.
Trying hard, to control their hands that were shaking so much, the tree ‘desperadoes’ took aim. Smiling to them-selves, the three senior citizens, pointed their weapon at Lucan.
“On my count of three”, ms Gwen said to her neighbours.
“One”.
“Two”.
“Three”.
Closing her eyes Lucan wonders if it was going to hurt, or maybe they where just trying to scare her. She, hopes nobody, would blame these old people for what they were doing, it's not their fault. Feeling, a gentle touch, at the same time, that the gun’s went off, she felt a gentle tuck as she was being pick-up.
Opening her eyes,Lucan was amaze to feel that it didn’t hurt. Wondering, if she was in heaven or not, to open her eyes or not, took some time to decide. Looking, through one eye, she, was annoyed to see Konkey,s face, in front of her. As she looks down, she, nearly had a heart attack. She, was floating, above Printer street, while HD was holding his hand out, pointing his index finger at her. Realising, what nearly just happen, those people, that she loved so much, tried to kill her, made her burst into tears.
On hearing, Konkey,s laughter,Lucan turned around, with tears running down her face “You!”, she said cross.
Pointing his finger downwards, while continuing to float on his back, Konkey, was laughing so hard, that Goocks and HD had a hard time, keeping a straight face.
As HD, lower his finger, Lucan, gently, floated down to earth. Looking, at what greeted her, made her, burst out laughing too.
Laying flat on their backs, were the three DESPERADO'S, shock written all over their faces. Laughing, so hard, Lucan, fold double as she falls to her knees. If only things were’ nt so serious, this, was some-thing she could take with her forever.
Trying, to get up, as quickly as possible, mister Harvey pointed at her
“Shoot, her again”, he said, as he lay on his back.
Deciding, that it was in her best interest, to get away from the DESPERADO’S, Lucan, ran down the street, clutching her stomach as she runs. Crossing, the road into Odin street, she stops, to looked behind her to see if they were following her. As she looks up at the sky, she saw her ‘friends’ following her. Smiling up at them, she waved at Goocks, to join her.
Back at Mrs. Luther’s house, the creature, was growing stronger, as more and more people drank of his potion. By drinking of his potion’s, they were being enslaved and in the process, were giving over all of their deepest, darkest, desires and fears to him.
Raising, his hands to the sky, he muttered: “I, am the Morningstar, the ruler of these puny human beings and very soon I will be ruler of the universe. First, I need to get some of my old friends back. Let me think, whom, shall I call first, my old friend Mentor, no, he likes vio-lence too much. I, can have him, going off on a rampage, ha! ha! ha!. Rubbing, his hands together, he said, it is good to be back where chaos rules. By all my might and all my deepest desires, let it now come to pass, let all that have serve me, loyally be brought back from wherever they are being held captive”. Closing his eyes, he let out, what seems like a roar, but had the echo of a high pierc-ing sound.
Closing her ears, from where she and Goocks were walk-ing in Odin street, the unexpected noise, nearly called her to stumble.Lucan, was amazed, to see that she was the only one, NOT to be affected by the sound. In amazement, she saw, instead of being affected by the sound, the people of her town, was following it.
“It is like a call, look at them”, she mentions to Goocks, who was standing, sadly, to, look at those, whom she knew, could not break free of their own will.
“Only you, can save them” she said.
“Me!”
“Yes!, Lucan, it is time to believe”.
“Oh! come on, Goocks, how can you, be a goddess. You, look just like me, same clothes, baggy jeans's, top and a pair of takkies”.
“What about the flying?”.
“There, I have to admit, I don’t know, how you did that, but I am sure there is an explanation for that. Yes! I’ve got it”. Turning Goocks around, she patted her on her back
“What are you looking for”, she asks, knowingly.
Speaking like someone, that is in a dream,Lucan an-swered: “there are no trusters or wings”.
Taking, her by the hand, Goocks, took her around the corner. Making sure, that there was no else, except the two of them, she said “watch and believe”.
Folding, her arms, across her body, she looks up, to the sky and say: “I, am the goddess, of humility, I, have the power to uplift man, to make them rich, beyond their be-lieve, or too take it all away to see whether that person is worthy. By the power, that my father Molt, gave me, I now humbly asks, to be restore to my presence”.
Staring in disbelief, Lucan, look on, as a glow appears all around Goocks,covering her whole body. The brightness of the glow became so severe, that she have to cover her eyes, from being blinded. Hearing, a soft wind blow, she looks through her fingers, shivering in excitement. Tak-ing, her hands away from her face, she looks around.
“Goocks!, Goocks!”, she called softly, “Where are you?”. All, that was left on the ground, was a leaf, that drops out of the sky. Feeling, a tickling on her skin, a serene peace, settled over her, as peace and laughter filled her body.
“Daughter of Molt”, she heard a voice, coming from the sky. Looked up and believe”.
Dazzled in all her glory, the goddess of humility, was standing up in the sky, a look of pity and love on her face.
“The problem, with you human beings, are that you peo-ple refused to believe in a higher authority. You, desire things, that are of no use, once you leave this life. Things, like more money and more earthly possessions. While, on this earth, you say, to yourself, I am here, to enjoy myself, as I only lived once. So let me be, tolerant with those, who are lest fortunate then me. Not loving, caring or serving one another as you should, just tolerat-ing, one another. When evil comes to your door, you call it not understanding or liking each other, saying each one is entitle to his opinion and that is just the way life is. That is what you say, then nodding to one another as you have invent the truth to life”.
“Oh! Mere mortals, do you not realise that you're were created, to serve Molt, first and then one another. Do not, let his anger be set free on you. Who, can withstand, his wrath, no one, in all of Octavia will come to your rescue. We, will all hide in the heavens, until his anger has evaporated. Pity, on you, children of Molt, whom first have to see to believe. How can you save your world, if you yourself are blind. When two blind people lead one another, it is a tragedy in the making”.
“Look! at this world of yours, Lucan, it is already be-ing destroyed, but your fears are paralysing you, even though, your heart tells you otherwise. Whom, but you can save these lost souls?”.
Looking up at Goocks,Lucan, whisper, “make me see and believe so I can know the truth and be set free”.
“Only you, can do that, it is a conscience decision, it’s up to you, to decide, whether you want to believe or not. Just because, you cannot see, doesn’t mean you cannot believe. Have faith, in yourself, Lucan, and accept your destinity,now is the time”.
Returning, to her human form, Goocks, took Lucan, by the hand, and said, “come let us continue. Time is run-ning out for all of us and you need to be brave”.
Falling on her knees,Lucan, tried to speak, as the fear at what she just witness overtook her.
Horrified, at what Lucan, was about to do, Goocks, pulled her up by her arm and said: “Do not bow down, before me, that, is reserve for the great Molt, alone. As you are his servant, so am I, do not worship me, but save that for your creator”.
Beckoning HD, who has been following them, quietly, to join them, she dusts Lucan, off, of the leaf’s, that was still clinging to her clothes. “Where, is Konkey?”, she asks him.
With a sour look, on his face, he pointed at the crowd, who was following the calling of the voice.
Using an invincible rope, Konkey,was using some of his magic, to tie the legs, of those who was crossing Odin street into Printer street. Pulling the rope tight, he laughs as people unexpectedly fell over their legs.
Staring in horror, at what she just witnesses, Lucan,ran over to Konkey. “That, is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. What type of a ‘god’ are you? People should be respected and not laugh at, especially when they are down and lost. Not humiliated for some-body’s else’s fun. Shame on you!”
“What is wrong with you?”, Konkey asks agitated.
Turning to HD, Lucan,said, “You spoke about the great Molt and that I have been chosen. Do, I have the ability to shut him up?”and with a frown, she stared at Konkey, who, had and air of innocence surrounding them.
With a broad smile, HD, answered, “as we are here to advise and serve you, you have the power to command us to do anything”.
Facing,Konkey and with a stern look on her face,Lucan said: “as long as you are here on earth to help me, you will seize to make fun of people at their expense, you will be nice to all of us AND THEM”.
“No!, no!”, Konkey uttered, “this can’t be true I am being controlled by a mortal”. Clutching his heart, as if someone put a dagger through it, he looked at Goocks with a sad look on his face, and said, “help me”.
“I, am sorry”, she said, “Lucan have spoken, whatever she wants us to do, and if it means she wants you to stop, with your ‘fun’ and with a broad smile, she went on you will just have to do it”.
Turning, his back on the group, Konkey was aggrieved. To think, all he wanted to do, was to have some fun. Nobody, got hurt and now he have to listen to a girl, as well. Sighing, to himself, he wondered, if this day was ever going to end, it started out so beautiful
Speaking aloud, Lucan asks them, “were do we find this creature and how do we get rid of him forever”.
“Let us go back to your room”, HD answered, “from where we can plan on how to best trap this creature. You, will need all the courage you have, to defeat this creature”. “Do not despair”, he quickly answered, as he saw the worried looked on Lucan’s face, “when the time comes you will know what to do”.
Chapter4
Coming out of the house, followed by his followers, which he has arisen, the creature stood, proud as the smell of evil flowed out of him. Surveying, the people, who were under his spell, he shouted at them. Falling, to their knees, they shouted, “great, great, are you oh, Male-ton, you are strong and wise. There, is no one that can compare with thee, come and rule over us”.
With his evil smile, the creature, who was in the form of a human being, opens his mouth. The stench, that came out of it, made the trees and plants to die, as birds fell out of the air, dead. Printer street, inhabitants, who pride themselves on their gardens, watches in amazement, as even the grass, withers and died. In less than a minute, the area has turned, from a lavish green, into an area of desolateness. An eerie silence settled over the commu-nity, as not, a sound of a bird, was heard in the sky, or the bark of a dog. All that was presence, was the stench of the creature and his followers, waiting on his instruc-tions.
“My friends” he said, with hands outstretched, “for years, I have been imprison, enslave, longing for the day when I could be reunited with you”. Balding his fist, he said, as he raises them to the sky, “by that filth called Molt, but today, I have been reborn, today we shall start again and you are all wise to honour me”.
“Beware to those, who would dare to oppose, me they shall perish”.
Shouting and rejoicing in there believe, that Maleton, is their leader, the crowd nodded their heads in unison. “Death unto those who would oppose our God, show them no mercy”, they shouted, “dead to them and every-one that support them. Use us in your endeavour to rule over us oh, great one”.
“However”, the creature continues, “among your midst, is one who can ruin all our plans. What are you going to do about it”, as he smiles.
Turning to one another, with obvious hate in their eyes the crowd started to chant “give him to us, give him to us”.
Enjoying the worship, Maleton raises his hands to quite them. “This person, who was born among you, is equip, with special powers and thus I am not strong enough, yet, to challenge her. The one, who defeats her, will be richly rewarded, as he, will have the power over life and death and will be my commander of my army”.
As the mood, were getting darker by the day, the stench of hatred and intolerance, among the people, was even more appalling.”Give us a name”, they shouted, “we, will kill who-ever it is, that oppose our lord give us a name. Death, unto those who dare oppose you”.
Smiling and turning to his side, Maleton,indicated to Thorn. “Come my faithful servant, come join me, your time of reward have begun”.
Crawling on his knees, to where Maleton, was standing, Thorn spoke out aloud: “My lord and master, I, am only your servant and desire only to serve you, your wish is my command”.
“This”, Maleton said to the crowd, “is my faithful ser-vant, Thorn, it is through his efforts that your ‘God’ is free today. He, will give you the name, of the person, who would dare to challenged me. Seek her out and de-stroy her, you have my blessing. Bring me her head, on her body or not”. Turning back into the creature, it was, it spread its wings and flew off into the night, that was starting to settle.
“Give us a name”, the crowd hiss at Thorn, while itch-ing forward with all the hatred they felt towards this per-son that dare to oppose their “master”.
Standing upright, he faces them, and after struggling, to mention the name, he called one of the crowd to him, and whisper in his ear.
“It is that uppity girl, called Lucan”, he shouted to the crowd, “let's go and kill her, we all know were she lived”.
Pulling himself smaller, at the hearing of Lucan ‘s name, Thorn, slip back into the house, as the crowd, with mur-der in their hearts and on their mind’s, set off to kill the one, who would dare to oppose their ‘God’.By opposing him, she was challenging them, and by challenging them, she deserves to die.
On entering their house,Lucan, was amazed, to find that there was nobody home. In fact, it looks very peaceful, as she tentatively called out, “Mom, Dad, anybody home”.
“Strange”, she said to Goocks, “I haven’t saw my Dad, this morning and now there is nobody here. This, is really getting out of hand”.
“I am afraid I have more bad news”, Goocks said,” there is a crowd, outside on the way here, to get rid of you”.
“What”! Lucan shouted.”When, is this nightmare go-ing to end”, as she moved to their back door.
Pulling his hand, slowly across his neck,Konkey, pointed at her with a big grin on his face.
Going back, outside, Lucan, could feel the hatred in the air, as she heard the chanting of voices approaching. Running to the gate, she looked down the road, to see a big crowd, with all types of weapons in their hands, on their way.
Running back inside, she bolts the door, looks at HD and asks, “what do I do”?
“I say, we tie all their feet together”, Konkey answered sarcastically.
Putting a restraining hand on her Gooks, said: “I suggest, we get you out of here, somewhere safe”.
“How, do we do that, and what about them”, as she pointed outside, to where the chanting was beginning to sound, closer.”Won’t, they destroy my house”.
“Not, if you give them something to chase”.
“Give them, oh! I see”, Lucan said, smilingly, as she approached Konkey. “I need your help”, she said.
Still sulking, he refused, to look up, and replied, “I am at your service your majesty”, he said, with a voice, drip-ping with sarcasm.
“I, am sorry, if I have offended you, Konkey,but you can’t, go around, making fun of people and hurting them in the process. Here, I am giving you, an opportunity to redeem yourself. Please help me”!
Standing closer to Konkey,she whispered in his ear.
Taking her by her hands, a broad grin, lights up his face, then he walks to the door, bows towards Lucan,and exit the door.
“What did you say to him”, Goocks ask. “At least, he is beginning to act like himself again”.
Smiling, shyly, Lucan, pull her, followed by HD, to the window, to look outside.
Standing, in the middle of the street,Konkey, was lining up water balloons, right across the road in anticipation of the crowd’s arrival.
“I think, we better get out of here”, she said to HD.
Taking them out by the back door, Lucan, was getting more worried about her family. If only, she knew where her dad was, he would have known what to do. Everyone is just mad, people trying to kill her, meeting supernatural beings. What more, is waiting on her, now, she even have to run away from her own home for her safety.
Back, in front of her house, the crowd, come to a stand-still about twenty metres from where Konkey was stand-ing. Laughing at one another as they observed his weap-ons, they ask, “are you going to kill us with that or are you going to wet us!”
“Let’s get him”, they shouted storming forward, knocking one another out of the way in their haste to get to Konkey.
Picking up the balloons and throwing it at them in one movement, he breaks out laughing, as the droplets of wa-ter, that contain bee-sting, started to prick those on whom it settles. Throwing down their weapons, they jump up and down as the bee-sting started a rash all over their bodies. Jumping up and down, as tears of laughter run down his face, Konkey, run over to the rest of the crowd who haven’t been affected yet, and started drop-ping some of the water -bomb’s on them.
Dropping their weapon, s they too, started to scratch, where the bee stings have bitten them and the rashes have started.
Settling down in the middle of the crowd to observe the mayhem, Konkey laughed, as he said, to some of them. “Here, take this”, as he offers them spatulas to scratch their bites. “This will help for those itsy bites, at the back”.
Grabbing, out to take it, they stood in horror, as it turned into the most hideous snake that, coiled itself onto theirs arm.Aagh! They shouted, as they run away trying to shake this thing off their hands.
Standing in the mist of all the chaos, was the god of mis-chief, enjoying himself to the bone while the followers of Maleton was trying to get some relieve for themselves.
Running into one another, scratching themselves, the crowd left, one by one. Going their separate ways, they looked at Konkey, who was standing in the centre of all the mayhem, enjoying himself thoroughly, with murder in their eyes.
Sensing that it was time to leave, and to pick up his friends, he decided that it was a good time to get out of there. Still laughing, he spread his arms out wide, as he ascended, to the sky, following the sense of Lucan.
chapter 5
Maleton,meanwhile, was settling himself with his closest followers, in the cemetery of Thornton,twenty miles from where printer street and it surrounding neighbours were. Looking at his followers, Maleton, roused up a spike roof over the cemetery and surrounded it with wall's, that, was made out of razor wire, on the outside, and with dragon’s scale’s on the inside. Filling it, with mirror’s all around on the inside with a throne that could turn all around he surveyed his dark works.
Pointing his finger to the ground he said: “Open up and hide us in your bosom”.With a loud crack the earth open,swalloing him with his new home. Closing, after a couple of minutes, an eerie silence descends on where the graveyard was, before. Instead, all there was now, were just empty space, no indication that a cemetery ex-ists before or that trees were their just a couple of sec-onds ago.
Down in his new home the ruler of “Octavia” said: “Let’s see, what do I still need, oh! yes, how could I forget, my fire. Where, am I going to tortured the dwellers of Octavia.Oh! what a joyful thought”! With a swoop of his hand a big pit aroused out of which a fiery flame burned.
The intense heat, made his followers shuffle back, as far as they could, and bowed down before him.
Smiling his evil smile, he proceeded forward, to seat himself on his throne. Covered in gold, he said: “to those present, worship your lord, see my power and observe. This will be our kingdom until I shall return to my right-ful place in the sky in Otavia.No one can enter this place and nobody can see from the outside in, or get in, with-out meeting my little pets”.Laughing, he pointed at the razor wire that turned into small little creature that dashes all around on their tails.
Gasping his followers looked at the creatures, whose teeth looked as sharp as razor wire.
“Master!, what are they”, one of his followers asks.
“Observe!” Maleton said, as he pointed at his new pets.”Attack him”, he said, as he pointed in the direction of his follower who spoke
Screaming in horror, he watches, as they crawled all over him, getting in under his skin and starting to eat him from the inside out.
Shouting in fear, he fell to his knees.
Grinning, at his screaming follower, Maleton, with a swoop of his hand, turned the little creatures back into razor wire. “They are called my ‘vacuum cleaners', to keep the dirt out”, he said, as he balled his first. “So be-ware, those who dare to oppose me”.
“Get Thorn for me”, he suddenly shouted. “Did they kill that girl? Without her death I cannot continue. I want her to suffer, where is Thorn” he shouted with hatred in his eyes and the true believe that he was supposed to be the true leader of Octavia.
Taking them, to her secret hide-out, which was behind the palm tree in their garden,Lucan,sat down, as they were joined by Konkey, still flushed and in good spirit from his excitement.
“I want to stay here, on earth”, he said tongue in cheek
“Please explain to me, what is going on”, Lucan said, as she looked them.
Staring at one another, Gooks replied, “Where to start, but first I need to know whether you, believe who we are or not, because without unity we cannot succeed”.
Biting her lip, Lucan, looked at them, as she contem-plates her answer: “Is she really ready, to hear and ac-cept, even though her eyes see differently. How could she, be sure even after what Gooks showed her.Did’nt she imagine herself, how can she a warrior. She, can’t fight, cry easily and do not have the heart to hurt people. If on the other hand, she is the one, because it seems that every one in her community has been taken over by something or someone that is evil. Is it her duty, does she really wants this. Feeling that for some or the other rea-son she had the abil¬ity to over come this thing, she looked up at Gooks, as a smile break forth, I truly believe I can be of some help”.
Nodding her head, Gooks, began to speak:“ In the begin-ning of the creation of Octavia, we, all, served Molt, our ‘God’ of righteouness.There was peace and harmony among ourselfs,a place for each and everyone of us to exist”.Biting her lip, as if she was recalling unpleasant memories,Goocks went on. “Then something happened, that split Octavia, forever and took a lot of time to healed and still today we are being reminded of that time”.
“Every year, Molt, goes away for an hour or so, as to test us, as to see who are truly faithful towards him. Now, to you, it may not seem such a long time, but to us, living in Octavia,it’s what you down here like to called a week”.Sitting up and not able to take her eyes off Gooks, Lucan, was fascinated, as she felt that there was more to come and what the reason was, that they came to her.
“During the course of that hour”, Goocks continue, “Morning Star, who are causing all this hatred amongst your people, was in charge of our univers.At first, he was really good, but then, he demanded that we bow down before him. How could he”? Shuddering, as she thinks back to those days, made Goocks very uneasy. Closing her eyes, as she forces herself to continue, what a terrible time it was for all of us. Those of us, who re-fused to bow down before him he threw in the fire of hail and brimstone. Oh! How we suffered, unfortunately a lot of the other gods went with him. Declaring himself ruler over us and Molt, he desecrates our universe by electing himself as ruler over us, and in the process changes our destiny forever”.
“Do you remember”, she asks her two friends, ‘softly’.
Looking at her, Konkey and HD shudder as they re-member those dark days, as if it was yesterday.
“Go on please,” Lucan said, as she felt the pain of her friends.
“Patience, dear, patience, however, do not be so impa-tience. You might not like to hear the end”.
On his returned, Molt, was met by Morning Star and his followers, who demanded, that he step down as ruler and handed his throne over to them.
“Demanded, from Molt”, HD chuckles
“What happened, then”, Lucan ask
“At first, Molt was amused, that anyone would dare to challenged him, but then his anger aroused. Do you know, how futile it is, to challenged Molt”.
“At first they cast all types of spells, to bind and sub-due him, but he just laughed at them. Playing with them as a cat plays with a mouse, he stood and took everything they had to thrown at him, oh what a joke it was. Here “morning star “who was going to rule us, and his followers, was being making fun”.
“Putting a spell on ‘Morning Stars’ and his followers, he binds Maleton up like a little kitten, and with his fol-lowers, were banned for all eternity. Never to be release by any one of us, nor to be visited as they were through into the fiery pit of fire that never sleeps”.
“Who is Maleton?” Lucan asks, as she watches the pain on all three faces as they relived those dark days.
“After his fall, he became the creator and father of all that is evil”, Konkey answered and he, “is here on earth amongst your people, coming to take over this world. Once he have succeeded, nothing can stop him from moving on, to try and take over Octavia”.
“Nothing, not even, Molt!”
“Yes, Molt can, but he has given us the power, to look for someone on earth to do it, and Lucan that someone is you” Gooks said, as she finished. “Imagine, the humilia-tion, if you're as a mere mortal overcame the ruler of darkness”
“Do not underestimate the power of Morning star however”, HD said, “as he is the father of all that is evil and cunning”.
“Let me get this right”, Lucan said, “this is the same person we are talking about,Maleton and Morning star”.
“Forgive us” Gooks, said as she took Lucan’s hand in her hers. “Sometimes we forget, that you are not in-formed of all that goes on in Octavia. Yes, he is the same person, but beware his strength lies in his ability to make people believe that he has their best interest at heart. When in truth, his sole purpose is to posses you and to take over your believes and desires”.
“Why does he want to posses me”, Lucan asks as she bites her lower lip.
“By taking over your desires, he, can feed them with his evil agenda and in the process, takes over your soul. By taking over your being, he will become twice as strong as he is now, because of your power. Remember, you are the chosen one and if he can possess you, the stronger he will become,untill it will be nearly impossible to stop him”.
“Impossible”!
“Nearly impossible”.
Feeling, as what she just heard, couldn't be true,Lucan stood up, looked at her friends, and said: “I think, evil can be overcome, but for this to happen, goodness in people has to come to the front. If good people do not do anything when evil surface, that is when the real trouble starts. For me, I think it is time that we give this Morning star or Maleton, whatever is name is and his followers a visit. How can I defeat him, just the knowledge that somehow I can defeat him, but, I have no special powers”.
Smiling, HD took her hands, in his, and said, “the great Molt himself, have equip me with special powers to give over to you, when there is harmony amongst all of us. As I am standing here now, I asked each one of you, are we in harmony to defeat this evil one”.
Staring at his compatriots he uttered:
“Goocks”!
Shaking her head up and down, Gooks, stood up, as her glorious self appeared.
“Konkey”!
Lifting himself up, as his being was transformed, from person to ‘God’, he nodded
Watching Lucan, with a smile on his face, HD, trans-formed himself into the ‘God’ of endurance that he was.
With dazzling light radiating from them, they form a cir-cle around Lucan, by holding hands. Looking down on Lucan,with a smile on his face, HD spoke out: “By the powers that our great leader Molt himself, who have seem fit to bestow on me, I HD, the ‘god’ of endurance, hereby transformed it over to you oh, daughter of Molt and saviour of this earth, and ours above in the sky”.
Feeling as if a thousand volt of strange energy was enter-ing her body,Lucan stood upright, aware that something strange and marvellous was happening to her. As she was standing in the middle of the light and without knowing where the words came from, she heard herself speak
“Oh!Molt, father of all living things, I, am but a weak human being, but thank you for seeing fit, to equip me, with special powers and may I have the courage to do what you want me to do. Strengthen me in my endeav-our” and with this she fell down on her knees.
Encourage, by what they have heard the three ‘gods’ laid their hands on her, while HD, was blowing on her. “Re-ceive the gifts of Molt and know that no harm can come to you if you belief in yourself ”.
Feeling refresh and strong Lucan, got up, knowing that whatever they have equip her with, she had receive it. What felt like an eternity to Lucan,but must have been only a couple of minutes, because when she opens her eyes again, her friends were back too ‘normal’ again. Getting up, she asks, “what is the best way, to get rid of this dragon and his followers and the spell that he have cast on my people”.
Staring at her, with renew respect, Konkey, was the first to react, “if you, can with hold his glared without getting sucked into his gazed, that is the start. Then you, have to try and get the golden chain around his neck. Once, you have that chain, he will be weak, but you will have to move quickly to bind him with your special powers, oth-erwise he can still escape. However, his powers will be broken and the curse under which your people dwell, will be broken. Beware, however we can only advise you and serve you but we cannot help you in fighting, the evil one, you will have to do it yourself”.
Acting, more braved than what she felt. Lucan, turned to HD, and said: “What is this special powers that I have been equip with”.
“This, I do not know” he answered, “and it will only be revealed to you in your time of need”.
“So, what you are saying, is that I go into battle, with what is his name again”.
“Maleton”!
“Whatever! Without knowing my strength”.
Sitting down, running her hands through her hair, she said:” Great, just great, of all the people on this earth, they have to choose me, than they equip me, with special pow¬ers without telling me what It is, just great”.
Smiling at her apologetically, if it is his fault, HD could just nod his head. “I have some more bad news”.
“What!”
“We, have to go”, and with this he pointed at the three ‘Gods’.
“Go! where”, Lucan asks, as she watches them, with a worried look.
“It is time, for you, to take control” Goocks, said gen-tly.
“Control of what!” Lucan asks, quite annoyed.
“Your destiny!”
Looking at them, Lucan, said: “You can’t leave me”, with a thin voice that sounded like, she, could break out into tears any minute.
“We, are not leaving you, we will be around you, you just won’t see us, if you need us, all you have to do is call”, Gooks answered.
“Goocks”, Lucan said softly, “but I need you, all of you”.
“Do not be afraid, remember, what you have”
“Lucan!”, Konkey said, with sincerity in his voice, “I am sorry for being such a pain but you can save this world and ours too, just believe in yourself”.
Dumbstruck,she stared at Konkey, as one by one, they vanished, with the clothes they had on, dropping on the ground. Did she, hear correctly, did he apologise to her? Does he truly believe in her? Bending to pick up the clothes, she felt all alone, now that her friends have gone, but somewhat braver, as she recalls the energy she felt, when they equip her with her powers. Walking, in-side her home as it was getting darker now, she thought to herself to take everything in her stride.
“I think”, Lucan said aloud, “I will go and have a look for my dad and mom”. “OK! Brent, to”, she said aloud, as she heard Gooks, in the sky clearing her throat as to remind her of her brother. “I wonder what Konkey would say about that”, she continues. Stopping dead in her tracks, she was amazed as she heard his voice coming out of the sky: ”He probably would say, why, when you have the whole house to yourself”.
“You guy’s can hear me”, she said, astonished, as she looked around to see where he was.
“Of course, dummy”, the voice of Goocks also came through.
Spinning around, to see if they weren’t playing a joke on her, she actually felt funny when she realises that there was no one around.
“We told you we will be around,” HD, said, “if you need us. All you need to do, is to call us and we will be there”.
Smiling, even though she couldn’t see them, Lucan, ran, into the house, feeling all of a sudden much better, to get her jacket as she was beginning to get cold.
Chapter 6
Meanwhile, down in Printer street, Thorn, the linert, was enjoying his new role of being second in charge of the universe. Laying on the couch, he was ordering those people, who came back, with their tails between their legs, after their encounter with Konkey, around. “Bring me more juice, in a cup”. When the person who brings it to him, comes to give it to him, “in a glass”, he would say laughingly. “Did I ask for a glass or a cup”. Then, when he goes to get it, he would call somebody else, not a cup, in a glass no in a bottle, he would send them back and forth. Kicking his little legs up in the air he was truly enjoying himself.
Outside even though it was dark and cold, stood the community of Thornton, without feeling the cold, wait-ing on further instructions. Their desire for blood, was increasing by every second. The itchings, with which Konkey have traitored them, on their body’s have dissa-peared. All they could feel was their desire for revenge as they were feeding their imagination, with what they would do, once they got hold of that girl. She, will regret the day that she was born, the day she chose the side of the wrong, when she chose to humiliate them. Patient, they whispers to one another our time will come, pa-tients, she will be ours. Just think what we will do to her, once we have her in our control, oh the sweetness of payback.
Suddenly a loud voice, booms out of the sky:
“Thorn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Falling off the couch, as the voice of Maleton came piercing through the walls, made Thorn stood on atten-tion:
“Yes, master”
“Did you destroy that girl like I ordered, and where is her head?”
Stuttering Thorn, couldn’t get the words out, as he felt the anger and evilness of Maleton coming through the sky. Falling on his knees he begged, with his follow helpers on his knees: “She,............. was help by some of the ‘gods’ when we went to apprehend her”
“Apprehend!!!!!!!! Did I say apprehend her, or kill her?”
“I, am sorry master, please have mercy”.
“Sorry, you are sorry!! Idiot, be glad that you have set me free, otherwise you would have paid the penalty for disobeying me”.
“Forgive me, my lord”, the LINERT shriek, as smoke came out of his head. Running up and down in agony, it shrieks “forgive! please forgive .................”
“Listen up all of you”, the voice of Maleton spoke to the people standing, outside: “the one, who brings me this girl's head on a block, will be richly rewarded. Didn't I say this before, now I am telling you again, bring me this girl's head on a plate”.
Kneeling down, as they heard the word of their master, they look in awe at one another as their faces shine in adoration at their master, even though they couldn’t see him.
“Thorn, will lead you to this girl”, the voice continues “and do not fail me this time again, linert or you and all of you shall surely perish”.
As the stench of the creature filled the air, they all got up, look at Thorn who came out by the door, dreading what he had to do.
He, have heard the story’s of this girl, while he still was a linert, in the service of Molt. He always thought that it was just stories, but now he will find out for himself. Shaking himself to get rid of this fear, he screamed at his followers, “forward to victory for our god Maleton”.
“Forward” the crowd shouted, as they moved down, the street, the smell of hatred and revenge for what they were put through evident. “No mercy” is the slogan, as one by one weapon’s of all imagining kind possible, ap-pear in their hands. Guns, knives, hammers, spear's, axes, anything they could laid their hands on, to killed a person with.
CHAPTER 7
After putting on her jacket,Lucan wondered, whether, she should be shock that there was no one home or sad. After all, did she truly believe that her family will not be under Maleton’s spell. On hearing the sound of noise ap-proaching, she walks out of the gate, looking down their road.
“Not again!”, she said in despair as she saw the crowd coming down the street.
On seeing her, they, shouted there she is, as they all started to rush towards her.
Wondering whether to run or to find out whether she really had special powers, she steps outside their gate, waiting on the “evil” that was fast approaching her.
“Goocks”, she spoke out aloud, “can you hear me”?
“Yes, Lucan”, the voice of Goocks came through.
“Wish me, luck!”
“You, don't need luck, remember just what makes you special and truly believe in it”.
Walking down the street, Lucan approached the crowd, as they split into two groups to surround her. Branding their weapons, they grin at one another as the desire of their hearts was right in front of them. OH! how long have they waited for this moment.
Breathing deeply, Lucan, was shock to see that her whole community were out in the street, under the influence of Morning star. Walking behind them, was a funny looking creature, with her family, it was a wonder she couldn’t find any one of them and her best friend, Mary Jane as well.
With tears in her eyes but determined to save her family and friends, wondering what she was going to do, Lucan proceeds down the road to meet them head on.
Coming to a stop about five metres from her, the crowd look at Thorn, who was trembling. “Kill her!”, he shouted, as he moves back and away from her. There is no way that he was going to get closer to her. If these fools, known what he knew, they would run away screaming and begging for their lives. Shouting with weapons in front they charge Lucan who was, standing arms, to her side in the middle of the road, waiting on them.
Looking up to the sky, she raises her hands above the crowd: ”Spirit of anger and deceit, coming from the fa-ther of darkness, all that is vile, I Lucan binds you. In such away I will bind these people and in doing so, save them from themselves, until I have conquered the crea-ture of darkness”.
With ropes rushing out of the air, to spin around their feet and hands, tying them to one another, while some of them tried to run away. Swooping them up at their feet setting them against each other, the ropes tied them to-gether. Others tried to get away, but was held together by the ropes. In less than a minute they were all binded except Thorn, who tried to run away.
Pointing a finger at him, Lucan uttered:
straps of leather to bind you with
teaching you how useless it is to resist
scorn of my anger you will be
till I decide to set you free
See the power of my might
and you shall feel it through the night.
Being pull back by an invincible force, while being wrap in leather was nearly too much for the linert.Foaming and hissing he struggled in vain as he tried to get away from Lucan.Seeing him fighting with all his strength made it see the more comical as his fear was so evident. The former ruler of the linerts was tightly bind and was of no use to his fellow partners in crime.
Dropping her hands to her side’s ‘Lucan jump up and down, “Goocks! HD! Konkey!” she shouts, “come here”.
Seeing, the re-entry of her friends, made her even hap-pier. Pulling Goocks by the hand, as she jumps up and down: “look! look! I did it! I did it!”
Smiling to themselves, the ‘gods’ looked around at the struggling inhabitants, some of them still struggling to get out of their bonds, as they stood in the centre of the road tied to one another. Hissing, all types of curses at them, spitting at Lucan them with foam coming out of their mouths, as they strained to get to her.
Konkey, took a jubilant Lucan, by the hand, whisper in her ear, and step back.
Smiling broadly at him, she looks at the crowd swing her arm across them and said:
no more hissing or anger you display
be quite until I come back this way.
Looking on in amusement, the ‘gods’ watch, as Lucan, works her magic. Watching in horror, the people of Thornton,shook their heads, as big strips of tape, wrap, itself over their mouths.
Dusting her hands off, she turns to HD and asks: “What do I do next? ”
“What you have done here”, he said, “is good, but to get to the creature I suggest that you interrogate his helper. Beware, however, the anger that he displays is not the answer to his soul”.
Turning to the crowd, Lucan was annoyed, to see Kon-key, turning himself into all kinds of creatures, re-sembling her, and in the process annoying her captives even more. The harder they struggle,to get to him, the tighter the ropes become and in the process, their anger increases.
“Konkey!!!!!”
Returning to his human form, he grins, as he saw that he have been caught red handed.
“Before you guys disappear again, what do I do with him afterwards”.
Bending down, next to the linert, HD, while continuing to look at the fallen second in charge of the universe said: “Oh!, if you want, we can take him off your hands. We are sure the great Molt would like a word or two”.
On hearing, the name of Molt, the linert strain to get loose, while his eyes, nearly pop out of their sockets.
Inspecting the linert,Lucan,was amazed to see that it re-sembles a cross between a monkey and a baboon, with tiny wings on its back. Its eyes big and round, stared in horror as Lucan, came closer to inspect it.
“Is this the one that help the creature escape?” She asked, as she looked down, with pity on her face.
“Can you believe it”, Konkey answered, “this mail de-liverer, defiled Molt, break into his palace stole the poly petal ....”
“The what?”
“Poly petal!”
“It is a plant, when you rub it, turns into liquid, which you than throw over your body that makes you invisi-ble”, HD answered. “To think, you linert,as he pointed at Thorn, of all kind will gamble with what you had”.
“Who was he”, Lucan asks curiously, as she looks up at Goocks, “and do they still have some of this .........what do you call it again?”
“Do not worry”, Goocks replied, “the poly petal only works in Octavia” and he, as she pointed to the linert, at Lucan’s feet, “was in charge of all the linerts in Octavia that served us. In our world we are all created to serve Molt, the day we start thinking otherwise, there is going to be trouble, and this, is what lay at your feet, trouble. He wanted to be what he wasn’t created for and bigger and more important”.
Looking at him, Lucan, was amazed to see the intense hatred in its eyes for her. Feeling such compassion for it, as she usually have for those in need, she laid her hand on its hand. Speaking directly at Thorn,Lucan, looked in it’s eyes and said: “You have this intense hatred for me, why, I do not know or understand. But this, I can sense from you, you, have been hurt deeply along the way. Cruel jokes, have been played on you, and with this, she turns her head to Konkey, who have suddenly find something interesting in the sky to look at. We, here on earth, if we have the desire and we have the strength, can break free from whatever circumstances we are born in. You, on the other hand, do not have that option, you were born to serve Molt and run errands all your life. In you desire to be more than what you are, you have made cer¬tain decision, yes, what you have brought back here is evil and you have defiled your creator. This, I can understand, so now, I ask you and pointing her finger at him, the rope uncoiled”, leaving a shock Konkey, HD and a smiling Goocks looking at one another.
“What is wrong with her”, Konkey, wondered, “didn’t she realised that this thing, defiled Molt and as such, should be pun¬ished”.
Kneeling down before Thorn, she continued, “help us please, no she said as she continued to looked in his eyes, help me to get rid of your master and in such a way maybe, you can redeem yourself”.
Feeling, as if he was drawn in by those eyes, the linert fell down, on his knees as he started to cry bitterly. “I am doomed, eternally doom”, he sobbed as tears run down his face. “No one, can saved me, no one”, he wailed, as what is about to happened to him, flash before his eyes.
“Do not say that”, Lucan said, as she took his faced into her lap, as she cried with him. Feeling, as if her heart was breaking with pity for this creature,Lucan look up with tears streaming down her face. Turning to HD, she whispered, “help us please”.
Seeing the pain and anguished, as well as knowing, what cruel type of jokes, Konkey, used to played on them,Goocks, walked forward, put her arms around them, as she also started to cry.
Staring in disbelief at one another, HD and Konkey could see the pain and anguish, as how living the life of a linert could allow a person to be moved, to go over to the dark side.
Feeling ashamed, for all the cruel tricks, he played on them, Konkey moved forward to console the poor Thorn, who was balking his eyes out.
Trying to think of something to said, HD, felt the power of Molt, as he received a message from the mighty one, coming through him.
“Step aside”, he said in such a voice of authority, that all of them look up, at him. Seeing the light in his eyes both Konkey and Goocks, took Lucan by the hand and moved away from Thorn.
Keeping his eyes on Lucan,he whispered “I am sorry”, as he awaits for the judgement that would seal his fate. Knowing that no one could save him, he steels himself, shuddering at the thought of his judgement.
“Because, you have challenged my authority”, the voice of Molt continue through HD s, “it is just fair that you shall be thrown in the pit of darkness for all eter-nity.............and there suffer the consequences of your doings”.
“What is the pit of darkness”, Lucan asks, worringly,as she saw the look of horror on Thorn’s face.
Before they could answer her, Molt, continues through HD, “but for the love and compassion that Lucan have bestow upon you, you will be banned eternally from Oc-tavia, and become mortal again, if Lucan will accept you”.
Facing Lucan,the three ‘gods’ of the city of Octavia, waited on her response as they stared in amazement at her.
Wondering if she was dreaming,Lucan said, “I don’t know, what I am going to do with him, but if it means that I can save his life yes ....a thousand, yes”.
“So shall it be”, the voice of Molt, continues through HD.
“For your life on this earth, I will give Lucan, the power over life and death concerning you. From this moment on you will be an animal, whichever one, she decide you have to be, so shall it pass”.
Seeing the light disappearing out of HD, eyes,Lucan, was amazed at the gentleness in Thorns eyes now that all the hatred was gone. Looking up at Lucan,he made her feel so embarass,when she read the gratitude in it.
Spinning her around, Goocks said, “you are amazing, do you know just what you did?”
Shrugging, her shoulders, Lucan concentrated more on Thorn, who was kneeling at her feet, a look of con¬tend on his face. “What am I going to do with you?”, she wondered aloud.
“It is only someone, whom have a tender heart, forgiv-ing nature and a loving spirit for everyone, that could, moved the heart of Molt. You, saved someone who would have otherwise be doomed and as such he is your servant forever”, HD said with admiration in his voice..
“Do not say servant, a servant is someone who has to serve his master, we are friends, yes, if we come from the same creation, we are friends and as such, should serve one another”.
Just shaking their heads, not believing, what they just witness, HD and Konkey just looked at each other, thinking, that Lucan didn’t truly understand just what she had aquire.To think that the great Molt, himself have been moved by her compassion, something they have never witness or thought that it could be possible.
CHAPTER 8
Standing next to Lucan,Thorn said, softly, “please be quick, wish me to be whatever you want me to be, but I need to get out of this skin”.
“What, would you like to be”, she asks gently.
“I do not deserve your kindness”, he said, “my life is in your hands, but if it pleases you I have always envy the pigeons, who roamed so free. If I could change into an animal I would say change me into a pigeon, so I can experience what it is to be free”.
“Then so be it”, Lucan,said with her famous smile, stretching out her hand at Thorn. “It is my wish, that you turned into a dove until I, decide otherwise”.
A dust of white cloud, raised, covering Thorn, the previ-ous ruler of all the linerts in Octavia,where the ‘god’s’ lived. Clearing a couple of seconds later, all they could see, remaining of Thorn, was the marks in the ground, where he kneeled before. Looking around, they heard a soft coo as a white dove with speckle spots, landed on Lucan shoulder. With a big smile, Lucan turned to her ‘friends’ and say:” Where do I keep him and what do he eats”.
“Easy”, Konkey said, with a grin on his face, but quickly discard whatever thought he had, when he saw the look,Lucan gave him.
“Lucan, it is in your power, you already break this curse on him, now, all you have to do, is too believed and no harm can come to both of you."
“I think, it is time we cleared out this Maleton and his followers”, she said to her friends and companions,” it is time to restore love and peace back on earth”.
Nodding at her in agreement, her friends smile, at the courage that she displayed without knowing it.
Turning to the crowd, who was standing, through the whole ordeal, straining to get loose of their bonds, but to no avail, she looks at Thorn on her shoulder and said: “I think for the time being you should wait in my room”
“What are we going to do with them?”, Lucan won-dered aloud, “oh! I know”.Shifting her attention, while her new friend practice his new found freedom, she said,as she point at the crowd:
I believe in love not hate
to get through these feelings we acquire
takes only the things we desire
away I declare
let love reign supreme
back to the ruler of darkness you shall be send
to give him the message to repent
if he chooses he can desire
my wrath be said free
on him and his squires
Bringing her arms down, the spirit of anger that have bounded her people, accumulates in the centre in a black cloud until, all together it swoops off, in the direction of its ‘master’, from where it came from..
“What are we doing here?”, Ms Luther asks, as her senses no more clouded by dark thoughts or feelings re-turned. Hearing the noise behind her, she was shocked to see all of her neighbours, with all types of weapons in their hands behind her. “What is going on?”, she won-dered aloud. “Mister Harvey, what are you doing with a gun?” and over there old Mr Nicholson who was so shock that he drops his old faithful on the ground.
Turning and looking on in amazement, the people of Thornton, was shock to find themselves and their loving neighbours, with the most horrendous weapons in their hands. As some of them started to cry from shock Lucan said, “people, people”, in such a voice of authority, that everyone who was crying immediately stopped.
“Do not be alarmed or amazed at what you are seeing. As it is already dark, I suggest you all go home and I will explain tomorrow morning. However do not go out of your houses tonight”, she continues as she silently breathe on them.
Not daring to argue, with someone who spoke with so much authority, they looked at one another and slowly one by one they disperse as a feeling of serenity and peace settle’s over them.
“Cool”, Brent said, as he looks at his sister with renew respect.
“Lets go home”, their father said, “and then missy, you, better tell me what is going on here”. Biting her lip, as she wonders, how to explain,Lucan put her arms around her parents, as they moved in the direction of their home.
“That girl”, Maleton said, as he felt how all the hatred and dark feelings that the people of Thornton had, for one another disappeared. Sensing his hold on them being broken, he roared in anger.
“Thorn!”, he roared!
“Thorn!”
Getting no response or sense, from his previous second in charge, he turned with all the anger and hatred he felt towards the world and especially towards Lucan, to his followers and ask:” Who, will be brave enough, to go and kill this girl for me. I am too weak at this stage, but once my strength returned, beware, those who dare to challenged me, will surely suffer. There will come a time, when this, and by the thought of Lucan,the veins in his neck start to swell, she won’t be able to withstand my power. Who ever will go, he will be richly rewarded this I promise he shouts” as he walks up and down, his anger evident at the one who oppose him.
Stepping forward, a creature presenting, a leopard with a human face, answered, “my lord and master, I do not want your reward, all I want is to rip this girl who is standing in our way of victory, to shreds. Give me this opportunity to show you, my appreciation of thanks, for setting me free of those dreadful places, where I have been kept captive for so long”.
“Obs, my good friend”, Maleton answered, “look at what that Molt did to you, to think you, who once was the ‘god of reason’. You who used to be one of the handsomest, look at what, you have become. Did he listen to your ideas, when you wanted to reason with him, give him some advice as how to run Octavia, noooooooo, all he wanted to do with, all of us, was for us to bow down before him and serve him. Today, my friend you have and opportunity to take revenge on what Molt did to you. Go you have my blessing and here, used some of this poly petal to make you invincible, show this girl no mercy and bring me her head”.
Growling, the creature turns around as he sprinkles some of the poly petal on him and disappears into the night, seeking the glory, of being the one who would defeat Lucan.
After watching his leppard,dissapeaering through the secret passage,Maleton called out: “Brockley”
Stepping forward,the previous ‘godof dreams’,,bowed at his feet. “Yes, master?”
“Come here,approached my throne”.
Watching his leader nervously,Brock,got up and walking forward ,with fear,on his face,wondered what he have done.
“Do not look so worried”,Maleton said,as he se-cretly,enjoyed the squirmish. “You, have a change,to serve you master”.
Leaning forward,he whispered in his ear,as the eyes of the god of ‘dreams’,grow wider by the second.Smiling broadly he,turned around,and with a spring in his step,he exit their hiding place.
Full of himself,the leader of the fallen gods,sat back,as a content smile plays around his lips.
After a lot of explaining in which nobody in her family wanted to believe her,Lucan finally got away to take a shower. Reflecting on what happen to her, during the day, she had to admit, that if anybody would tell her a story, as what she just told her family, she would also looked at them funny. Chuckling silently, to her¬self as she recalled the look especially on Brent’s face, she wonders, what tomorrow would hold in store for her. Stepping out of the shower, she suddenly felt ravenous. Thinking back she was amazed to discover, that for the whole day she had nothing to eat. Getting dress as quickly as she can, she indicated at Thorn, who was sit-ting contentedly on her bed to follow her. Flying on her shoulder, she wonders how she was going to tell her par-ents about her new pet.
Walking quietly down the stairs to the kitchen, she was thankful to see that she had it, all to herself. On opening the fridge door, she was annoyed, when Thorn, suddenly flew off her shoulder, nip her with his beak on her hand, fluttering around her in despair.
“Stop it”, she said as he continues to nip her hand as well as her hair, flying up the stairs and down as indicat-ing to her to follow. “Quite”, she said, as he flew in the kitchen flapping his new found wings in an agitated fashion, as she made no attempt to follow him.
Closing the fridge door, she suddenly remembers what Goocks told her(he will be your guide so listen to him). Sensing the presence of something, she moved away from the door, when suddenly marks appeared on the fridge door, just a second where she stood before. Seeing the deep cuts on the fridge door she turned and ran up the stairs, with her pet flying in front of her, as she called on her three friends: “What is going on?” she said, as she bolted her bedroom door behind her
“He, is outside your door, but do not be afraid” HD said.
“Who is he, and did you see that marks on the fridge door and you tell me, not to be afraid? I can’t see, who is trying to kill me, and you are telling me, not to be sa-cred. Are you trying to take,Konkey’s job over or what?” Lucan asks with a frown.
“Oh stop being so dramatic” Konkey said with a smile on his face. “Adventure, this is what life is all about”.
Biting her ear, as to try and tell her something, of what was going on, poor Thorn was jumping up and down on her shoulder.
“He is a leopard and he is invincible at this stage”, Goocks said, as she sat down next to Lucan
“But I thought, you said that the poly petal only works in Octavia?” she said in exasperation
“I also thought that Konkey ”said as his mind race ahead what he could do, if he could acquire some of it.
“What now” Lucan said, as she moved forward to open her bedroom door. “Am I now a captive or what? ”
Putting a restraining hand on her HD said: “Do not open that door! as long as we are here with you, you are save!”
“But what about my parents and my brother?” Lucan, said worringly, they are out there in their bedroom’s.
With her hand, on her shoulders, Goocks, said, “as long as you are alive they cannot touch your parents, because of the protection Molt have put on them”.
Looking up still shock at what happened to her in the kitchen, but also excited, that's a relieve Lucan said, “one less little think to worry about”.
“Don’t be so dramatic”, Konkey said, as he lay down on Lucan’s bed, “this is exiting”.
“Easy for you to say”, Lucan said smilingly, “you are not the one who are being hunted by a .....what is his name by the way”?
“Obs”, Konkey whispered, as he put his head under her pillow.
“Oh!, I am so afraid to ask”, Lucan says as she runs her hand through her hair. “What is it or should I rather say, what drives him to try and kill me”.
Moving over to the window HD replied, “He is one of Maleton’s fiercest warriors, a cross between a human being and a leopard”.
“If it’s not monkeys being cross with baboon, now this, this Maleton is really sick. I can’t fight with a leop-ard”, Lucan, answered as she flops down on her bed next to a surprise Konkey. “What am I going to do? ”
Putting a hand on her shoulder, as to calm her down,Goocks said, with a smile on her face. “Stop! thinking like a person, remember you are the one with the special power, just believe in yourself”.
“Oh! how I which this was all just a dream”, Lucan groan, as she put her pillow over her head. “Outside, my door, there is a leopard, waiting to kill me, here, in my room, I am surrounded by ‘gods’. I am going to sleep, I am really tired and had enough for the day”. Stretching her hand out, to Goocks, she said, “as long as you guys are here I am save, right!”
“Right!” Goocks, answered with a smiled, secretly admiring this child of Molt, who is dealing, with all that happen to her, by going to sleep.
“Well, then, let Obs or whoever it is that is with him, spend the night, outside, my door. This is really getting to become to much”.Yawning, she closes her eyes and whisper, “I am so tired, can you guys please switch off the light”.
Blowing gently on Lucan, Goocks wink at HD, to turn off the light as they keep watch over their friend. “Sleep little one we will watch and keep guard over you”, they whisper down on Lucan who was already fast asleep with a bird sitting on her pillow keeping guard as well.
CHAPTER 9
Winking at HD and Goocks,Konkey, slip out by gliding through the door, with a big smile on his face.
Obs, in the meantime, were growing as angry as a bee, who has been disturb while guarding his queen, to think, he nearly had her. If, only there was a way he could get to Lucan, without her guard dogs around. Oh! how he would enjoy himself, by ripping her to pieces, slowly at length. Smelling that one or more of Lucan’s guard dog’s was approaching, he turned around, sniffing the air, looking around.
Growling, he spoke aloud, “do you think that you can stop me, whoever you are, servant of a human being”.
“Of course not, indeed, I am here to entertain you”, he heard a voice answered from above.
Looking up, he was suprised, to see the god of tease, hovering above him
“Konkey!” he growled.
“My friend! Obs! how happy am I, to see you”
Smirking, Obs, moved forward, “I see, you dare, to chal-lenged me! come down so, I can rip your heart, out through you mouth”.
“Tstststst,all this violence, but I think you got bigger problems”, Konkey answered with his usual grin.
“What do you mean?”
“Well!”, Konkey said, “if you insist that I have to spell it out for you, in the next couple of seconds, you, are go-ing to be in a lot of pain”.
“Ha! ha! ha! me in pain, I am invincible and you can-not touch me”, Obs boasted.
Pointing his finger to the back, Konkey answered, “you are right, I cannot touch you, but your poly petal is work-ing off and do I really need to tell you, that you are not even supposed to have it! and I know something you don’t”.
“Maybe, if you shared with me your secret, I will have mercy on you”, Obs said as he showed his teeth, to an amusing Konkey who was still hovering above.
“If you insist” he said, with a big smiled on his face, “your tail is on fire and in a few seconds, you are going to be in a lot of pain”.
“What!” Obs said, as he swings around, "aah he shouts as he saw the fire on his tail".
Breaking into laughter, as he lies on his back, while floating in the air,Konkey, shouted after Obs, as he jumps through the wall.
“Do not forget, to tear me apart, ha! ha! ha!”
Obs, in the meantime, was running as fast as he could, to the fish pond and without any grace or pretence jumps into it. “That”, Konkey, he said, as he was sitting on his hind in the fish pond, “I will get him for this!”
“Did you say something”, he heard someone ask
Looking up, he was dismay, to see the protectors of Lu-can, looking down at him.
“Is this, who I think, it is”, Goocks asks, as she winks at Konkey.
“Yeah! you are right, it is old fire tail”, he said as he burst out laughing.
Turning to look at his tail,Obs hissed, “I will get you for this even if it takes me a lifetime”.
“Why? do their always have to be so much animosity in this world”, HD said, as he looked down at the leop-ard. “I have a message for your boss, tell him, a girl has been raised to conquered him and all those who support him”.
“Why? don’t you tell him yourself?”Obs growled.
“No, I think it is better, if you go”, HD said, as he pointed his finger at his tail.
“Aah!” he shouts, as he saw the smoke coming out of his tail, feeling the flashes of pain coming through his body.
“Away you go” the three ‘gods’ shouted in unison.
Running, screaming away, into the night, Konkey turned to HD and said, with a mock expression on his face: “Oh what did you do?”
Smiling at them, he turned around, as he floated back, to where Lucan was fast asleep, not waking to the commo-tion that went on, outside her house. Sitting on her bed, highly agitated and watching her door, like a guard dog, was the previous, linert of the ‘gods’, now “protector” of the one that have to save his world.
Meanwhile, back in his room,Brent, prepared himself to go to bed, as he still shook his head, at his sister story. Feeling extremely tired, after a day of drama, he couldn’t,keep his eyes open. Wondering, whether, Lu-can, was pulling their legs or not, he got into his bed. Clapping his hands together, the light in his room switches off, as he sinks into an exhausted sleep.
Climbing through Brent’s window,Brock, the ‘god of dreams', smiled at himself, as he recalled how many peaceful nights of rest, he had disturb. Usually, he would lull them into, the acquirement, of something, that they secretly wished for, a very long time. Once, they have that in their dreams, they would relax, totally. He, could then, started to plant any thought or feeling that he wanted. Giggling softly, at all the mayhem, that he has caused, while he was still a servant, he sat on the bed.
“This, is what I want you to remember, when you wake up tomorrow morning. Your sister is evil, she is out to kill you and you parents. As she, is extremely dan-gerous,it is your duty,to get rid of her.You will act nor-mal,when you are around her,but once the opportunity is there,you will take her out.You know,what, she likes to sleep late,so that is your time.Blowing on Brent,Brock laughs softly,as he watches the sleeping boy.Oh! Human beings, are so easily, to controlled, and so stupid. Put-ting down the knife, that he picks up in the kitchen next to Brent,he smiles broadly. Disappearing, through the window, he kept to the trees, as he saw, how, his fellow partner, with tail ablaze, running away in shame.
“You’re time is coming”, he murmured, as he watches the three ‘gods', flying back to Lucan’s room’.
Opening, his eyes, the following morning early,Brent put his feet off the bed. Feeling fearful and very angry, he got dress, in the dark. Listening, nervously for any sign of noise coming from his sister's room, he stared through the window. How, he was going to stop her, from harm-ing himself and his parents, he did not know. One thing however, he for certain knows, is that she has gone mad and was extremely dangerous. With his hearth thumping in his chest, he opens his door slightly, surveying Lucan’s room, that was further down the passage. Going back, he picked, up the knife that was laying on his headboard. Walking softly on his socks, he approaches her room quietly, as the thoughts in his head, urges him forward.
“Someone is coming", HD, whispered to his fellow Gods, as a bored Konkey,were lying on the bed next to Lucan.
Sliding through the door Goocks re-turn,immediatly,which pricks the interest of the god of tease. Using some of her magic,Goocks,locked the door from inside as Brent turned the knob of the door.
Give him to me, please he utters as he smelled the evil coming through the door.Remember we have to protect Lucan,and besides,he let me down, he said softly.
“Wait you can have him, but on one condition, do not hurt him" HD replies as he stared at Gooks.
Not really liking the idea, but seeing no other way out, she nods her head.
Setting off like a tracer bullet, before they have time to change their minds,Konkey was outside Lucan’s door. Coming to a standstill, behind Brent,he peeped over his shoulder.
“This way, come on follow me”, he said in a smooth voice, while being invisible. I know a better way, we can get rid of her. Do you know, you, are the special not old goodie two shoes.
Nodding his head at the voice, Brent steps back from Lucan’s bedroom, as he remembers, that she likes to sleep with her window open. Walking stealthily down the stair's, he opens the front door of their house, while Konkey,keep on encouraging him.
“Used the ladder to get to her, he whispers as he leads him in the direction of the fish pond. Stand on the edge, to see whether there is any movement. Come on get up, get up, he urges Brent in his soothing voice.
Jumping on to the edge of the pond,Brent stood on his toes, to spy if there was any activity in his sister's room.
Blowing on the fish pond,Konkey tied his legs together, as he grins from ear to ear. Jump over to the other side he told him, then you will have a better view. Remember, she is out to get you and she is ugly, from the inside out.
“Yea, I'll jump over to the other side".
Stretching his leg, he fell into the fish pond, that was now covered with slime and grease. On top of that,Konkey have turn the water into tiny ice blocks, Watching Brent,sneeze and cough, was the most fun he had, had in a long time.
As soon as he hit the water, reality returned to Brent,as the ice cold water, cleared his mind of all the negative thoughts. Shivering, he looked around him, as he won-dered what he was doing there. Getting out as quickly as possible he shivered, covered in crime as he moved home. To cold to considered the weirdness of the situa-tion, he folds his arms around him, as he made his way into his house.
Coming down the stairs, his mother looked at him srangely,as she went to the kitchen, to prepared some breakfast.
Nodding his head at her, while his teeth were clattering, he offered no explanation, as he leaves a wet trail behind. Taking a hot shower, was all that he longed for, he'll cleaned up later.
Floating back to Lucan’s room,Konkey, was in high spir-its, as he saw his fellow compatriots, staring at him. Ig-noring the scorn on their faces, he lay next to Lucan,who was beginning to stir
CHAPTER10
Waking, to the smell of breakfast, being prepared in the kitchen,Lucan stretches, herself, as she opens her eyes.
“Good morning”, she heard as she turned, around.
Sitting up, she looks around to find her guardians staring at her: ”Are you guys still here?” , she asked in a sleepy voice.
“Oh no!” she said, as her memory of the night before, returns to her, “is he still outside? ”she asks in a soft voice.
“Who?” Konkey asks with an innocent face!
“Funny! closed your eyes”, she said and “you to HD I want to get out of bed!”
“Women”, Konkey muttered, as he turned around.
Slipping out of bed,Lucan, put on her gown, “you, may turn around”, she said, as she went into the bath¬room.
“Human beings are strange”, Konkey,HD said, ”can you image to sleep? Just think of all the time they spent sleeping ,eating, washing, ugh they are strange”.
“My friend!” Konkey utters, as he puts his arm around him, “I do believe there is hope for you”.
Staring at them, if she couldn’t believe what they were saying,Goocks got up, knock on the bathroom door: “Lu-can”, she said
“Yes!”
“Can I come inside?”
“Only you? Goocks!”
“Yes, only me”, she said, as she looks at her two friends, who was staring at the ceiling.
Slipping inside, she was amazed to see Lucan. putting paint on her face
“Why, are you putting paint on your face,” she asks, as she step closer to the mirror
“It’s not paint”, Lucan said laughingly,” come sit next to me”.
“What are you doing?” Goocks, asked, as she leans over, to put some ‘paint’ on her face.
“Just trust me”, she said and closed your eyes.
After a couple of minutes, Lucan, told her to open her eyes.
Smiling, at her image in the mirror, Goocks, was pleas-antly surprise, to see that the paint, Lucan, put on her ‘face’ actually, enhanced her features.
“What do you call this?” she asks as she gently in-spects her face.
“This, paint” Lucan said laughingly, “is what we called here, on earth, make-up, to make ourselves look good and pretty”.
“All of you, and why, you are then so beautiful al-ready”
“No silly, not the men, only the lady's, and I think it is time we go to the kitchen”, she said
“Don’t you dare, to say anything”,Lucan ordered,as she pointed at Konkey, who was getting ready to let rip with a funny remark, as they step out of her bathroom.
“But”
“Not a word”
Sulking, he followed the rest down the stairs.
Thankful, to see that she had the kitchen to her-self,Lucan, wondered how she was going to explain to her parents and the rest of the people of what went wrong with them yesterday. Biting her lip, as she thinks of the reaction, she knew for sure was going to follow, she took two slices of bread, whip some jam onto it and walk out of the back door. “How in the world, did I get into the middle of this” she wondered aloud.
“Oh! that is easy” Konkey, answered.
“You!” she frowned “go away”
“As you wish”, bowing down sarcastically, he disap-peared.
Sighing in desperation, Lucan, moved to her favourite spot in the garden. Sitting down, she muttered, “what am I going to do, who is going to believe me?” Putting her head between her hands she closed her eyes. She, herself are not even sure that she posses magical powers, how can she expects the world to believe her. They will all think that she is crazy. Why, did these things have to complicate her life further?
Walking back, between the tombstones with his tail swollen up,Obs was fuming. Oh he couldn’t wait for the day when Mallet will took over, then, that Konkey will dearly pay.
Mallet kept his eyes on him as he enters their hiding place. “Another failure”, he said
“My lord and master”
“Do I have to do everything myself”
“She had help my master”
“Of course, she had help you idiot!” Maleton shouted as he pointed his finger at the leopard who was cringing in fear.
“Have mercy” he said as he lay flat on his stomach.
“What is that?”he asked, “after you have failed me”.Turning around, to look at his followers, whom was all hiding behind anything, they could find he roared: “let this be a lesson for those who failed me. Do not return, after you have failed, rather, wished to die, than to face my anger. Behold, look and observed my power”.
Stretching his finger towards Obs, the leopard roared in pain as a white beam coming out of Maletons finger penetrated his body.
With a cruel smile on his face,Maleton,open his hand, which in turn, split the leopard’s body in two. “I will rule Octavia”, he said, as he raises, his hand to the sky, look-ing at his followers, as the remains of Obs body, was floating in the air
“Is there any one here, who think a girl can beat me. Speak!”
With his eyes wide and the look of evil on his face, he turned his hand into a fist, “behold those who would dare to oppose me”.Putting his hand down to his side, he watches as the remains of the leopard fell, down from the sky, hitting the ground with a loud thud. Walking closer, he stood legs apart, over the remaining of the corpse, “see what I do to those who disappoint me and to those who revered me”.
Closing his eyes, spreading out his arms wide, tilting his head to the back, he shouted, “I am Maleton ruler of the death and I command that you give me back my ser-vant”.As thick clouds fill the sky above the cemetery, the animals who died because of fright started to stir. Lifting his arms to the sky,Maleton look like the evil he was, spoke to the remains of Obs, “arise my servant, it is your lord Maleton who speaks come back to life”.
Looking on in fear, his followers were amaze to see how the broken body of Obs came together. Pieces of his bro-ken body came flying in, going to all the parts of the body, where it belongs, forming the whole body of the one who was just ripped apart.
With a loud roar the leopard, opens his eyes and started to lick the hands of his master. Falling down on their knees, his followers scream with fear and reverence, “you are our lord and master, you are our ruler and soon you will be the ruler of all of Octavia ”.
Looking around at his followers, Maleton smirk, as he saw how his followers feared him and bowed down be-fore him. “Only those who oppose me, need to fear me, so beware, I will deal with this Lucan myself” and with a swirl of his robe he disappeared.
CHAPTER 11
Deep in thought, Lucan, did not see the form of a person coming out of the earth behind her. Sensing the smell of evil she spuns around, just in time to see Maleton taking shape. Not trusting herself to speak,Lucan, felt a tugging in her heart that warns her to be careful. Taking a step back she was amaze at how quiet it had become, where there was the sound of animals in the air, before, now their was none.
Turning his head towards her, he flashes her, a smile that looks so real and friendly, that she nearly took a step to-wards him. Caughting, herself just in time, she felt if an invincible force, was drawing her near to him.
“There is no need, to be afraid” he said, in the most smoothing and eloquent voice she had ever heard. “I am hear to help you, because you have found favour in the eyes of the one. Trust me he says as he moved forward arms outstretch, come and embrace me, so we can be one”.
Struggling, to rid herself of this spell that he was trying to put her under, Lucan moved back as the hair on her neck started to rise and the voice inside her urging her to be careful. Where is Goocks and the rest of them, she needs help to withstand this evil.
“Why are you moving away” Maleton said, “behold I am hear to help you, just trust me and everything will be all right”.
Remembering what her friends told her, Lucan felt his aura of evil that flows from him: “I know who you are", she whispers, as she saw the gold chain hanging around his neck.
“Really” he smiled, “do you really know who I am. Do you believe the lies they have spread about me. ”
“You are, you are” Lucan tried to say.
“Finding difficulty in speaking”, Maleton said, as he stop advancing towards her.
Trying as hard as she could, to speak,Lucan, felt, as she was being suck into a deep dark hole where there was nothing but despair.
“Concentrate” her inner voice whisper, “harder, be-lieve in who you are, you have the power to beat this evil. Do not allow him to take over your life. Remem-bered you are the only one who can stop him".
Sensing victory, over what stood between him and Octa-via,Maleton, advances forward, with a conquering smile on his face:” You, who dare to oppose me”, he shouts, “you, who are supposed to be the chosen one. Look at you! Today you will learn that I am Maleton,ruler of Oc-tavia and all it’s ‘God’s’ ”. Stretching, out his hands to-wards Lucan, he shouted, “YOU! who where chosen to slain me, look at you, nothing but a stupid girl”?
Staring, at this evil, who was trying to conquered her world,Lucan felt angry as she looks at this despicable ‘thing’, who was so full of himself. To think, he want’s to conquer her, how dare he call her just a girl,were’nt she chosen by the great Molt, himself to overcome this evil.
“You, will never take over my world”, she shouted, as she took a step forward towards him: “I have been cho-sen, and today you shall see it, behold my power!”she shouts as she raises her hands to the sky.
Seeing, Maleton, stopping dead in his tracks with the look of fear on his face, gave Lucan, the courage, to take another step forward.
“Die”, Maleton shouted as he threw a ball of fire to-wards her, which appears out of his hand.
Opening her hand in the shape of a star, Lucan, received the ball of fire, that Maleton blasted, towards her. Keep-ing the ball of fire in the air in front of her, she mocked him, by asking, “is that all that you got. Remember, I am just a girl, but you, you are Morning star, ruler of Octavia to be”.
Outrage, by this............girl that would dare to challenged him, Maleton swirl his cloak around him and said: “Now you shall die”, he said as he pointed to the ground. “My pet”, he said with a smile, “especially for you”.
Coming out of the ground, sliding in her direction, Lu-can, was amaze, to see what appears to look like a lizard. It had strong jaws, heavy claws with a long neck and was trashing around its powerful tail that had spikes all around it. Coming out of its mouth, was a long forked tongue, with sharp razor edge teeth.
“Not another of your designs” she mocks a raging Maleton as she stood facing him with a mock smile on her face. “What is it with you and all these creatures” Lucan asks, as she watches the lizard sliding towards her.
“Attack”, Maleton shouted, “kill her and bring me her head. Attack”, he shouts with all the hatred he felt to the one, who stood between him, Octavia and becoming conqueror of this world.
Rising, to stand on his back legs, the lizard turned his head, look at Lucan and with a roar jump towards her, his mouth wide open.
Still holding the ball of fire in her hand,Lucan rose her-self off the ground, and flicked it at the lizard.
Swallowing the ball of fire, he looked at Lucan, and burps as an enrage Maleton, was shouting his encour-agement all the time.
Deciding to end all this,Lucan, glide forward, blowing on the lizard and said: “receive my power”.Struggling to with held Lucan’s gaze, the lizard felt drawn in as he feels how his strength was being taken away from him. Sliding in underneath him, the lizard, was unable to do anything to her, as she used invincible rope, to bind him. Sitting under him while making the dust, spin in cir-cle’s,Lucan was amused at the Komodo (that is the dragon) who was looking in all direction all the time while being commanded by a screaming Maleton, who was running up and down
“Here she is, no over there, left, no, right, you are looking in the wrong direction, over here”.
Smiling to herself Lucan decided after a couple of min-utes, to put a stop, for the sake of the lizard, to end it all.
Crossing her arms in front of her chess, she steps down in front of the komado,who by this stage was dazed of all the spinning, and decide that this masquerade had gone on to long. Raising her finger she pointed at the lizard and said “go back where you came from” and with a swoop of her finger it disappeared into thin air never to be seen or heard from again.
Turning her attention to the ruler of darkness, who was screaming in anger at Lucan,:
“You, shall surely die, how dare you oppose me”, he shout’s while brittle of spit was running down the side of his mouth. Clapping his hands together, he glided to-wards,Lucan. “I will make you sorry you would ever though about opposing me”.
Stepping back more in shock than fear,Lucan was amazed at the evilness that was transforming Maleton and exposing him, for what he really was.
“The ruler of darkness,king of all that is evil,even be-yond the grave,a despicable fallen angel”.Feeling as if all of life was being suck out of her,she struggle to focus on Maleton who was still gliding toward her ,hands clap together inhaling all the time.
“I’ve got you”, he said to Lucan who was falling on her knees, shaking her head, to get rid of this nauseating feeling that was threating to take over her mind. “Never”, she said, as she fights to get rid of these feelings of evilness that was taking over her soul.
Feeling ropes, binding her, Lucan, was too weak to de-fend herself.
“You, who dared to challenged me”, Maleton roared as he looked down on Lucan, “today you shall surely die”.
Pointing his hand at the sky, he roared, “is this the best you can do? Beware all of you who are watching me from the sky, join me or suffer like she will. Where is your helper's now”, he gleamed at Lucan,who was bind up, still on her knees.
“Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Maleton laughed, “they sent a girl to oppose me” as he walks away from Lucan, who was struggling against the invincible ropes who was pressing the air out of her body.
Turning sharply,Maleton, looked at her and said, “when I have kill you I will take over this world and destroy any-one who would oppose me. You first”, grapping her at the back of her hair he looked into her eyes and whisper
“I am the lord of darkness
behold I conquer you
body and mind soul I posses too
Maleton is your lord
from this day forth”
Looking into Maleton’s eyes,Lucan, fought, as she could feel, how her will was being suck out of her. Realising, that he was trying to take over her will, she struggled to closed her eyes but were held captive by those evil eyes, as she felt like someone who was falling into a hole, while struggling to get out.
From deep in her brain, the voice of Goocks, was begin-ning to talk to her: “Don’t give up, remember, you are special, you have the power to overcome, but you have to believe”.Shaking her head, as to get rid of this darkness that was trying to destroy her, Lucan, suddenly remember what her three ‘friends’ said: “Maleton, cannot harm you, he can’t only posses you, if you allow him”.
Smiling, Maleton, was rejoicing in his victory over her, as no one, have ever survive, his transforming of evil, while the person was hopelessly bound. Still shouting at the people of Octavia he was rejoicing in his victory.
Frighten, he let go of Lucan, as he looked down at her face and saw her smiling up at him
“Impossible!”, he muttered as he steps back in shock, “you should be mine”, he said in amazement. “Nobody, have ever survived my taking over their mind, no one”.
Feeling stronger by the second,Lucan, got up unto her feet, as she willed herself, to get rid of the imaginary ropes, that was binding her. Standing tall, she faces Maleton, who was petrified at the sight of her, as she spread her arms, to show him, that he had no power over her..
“You, can only enslaved those, who are weak in the body and mind. Those who are vulnerable and easy to overcome but not me”, Lucan said, as she raises her hands to the sky.
Looking up to the sky, she spoke aloud: “do not fear citi-zens of Octavia,this evil will not be permitted to go un-punished. Thank you father Molt, for finding me worthy, I know I was weak for a moment because of my own fears. But no more, I truly believe that I have been cho-sen, if I have find favour in your eyes give me a sign, so that this evil can see that you are truly the ruler of Octa-via,the place where the god’s dwell. A place of love and harmony, not despair or evil”.
“You”, she said, as she turned, her gaze towards Male-ton, who was trying to make himself disappear, “you that dare to challenge me, and in the process, challenge the real ruler of the city of the ‘Gods’.
Cringing, he steps back, as he saw the look in her eyes, while all of a sudden, a light so bright that he could not look at Lucan surrounded her. Feeling the fear running, through his being, Maleton, tried to escape, but was amazed to discover, that he was surrounded by invincible walls.
“Maleton!” Looking up, he saw Lucan coming closer towards him with the radiance of light surrounding her.
Stretching his arms to call on his evil doer’s, he was shock, to feel that he could not even lift up his arms. The light that shone from Lucan made it impossible for him, to let his evil shine. Realising that he was trap, he started to hiss like the serpent he was.
Looking down in pity on him Lucan said: “I think it is time that you give back what do not belong to you. Put-ting out her hand, she rips, off the golden chain that was hanging around his neck. Stretching her arms to the sky she said: “It is time that you go back from where you came from".
“Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!” Maleton scream, as he realised what was going to happen to him. Looking up towards the sky, he could see the whole of Octavia, opening up with Molt, sitting on his throne, smiling down on Lucan while waiting on her.
Spitting and screaming the lord of the dark was like a baby in the arms of Lucan as she tied him with korni ropes.(only used to tied up fallen gods).
Looking at the sky, the people of Thornton, was amazed, to see, what appeared to be human beings, bobbing up out of their cemetery, to a great light in the sky.
“Your followers”, Lucan said as she raises her hands to the sky. “No longer will evil reign in this town. Every-thing that you have awake or brought from the sky shall return from where they belong”.
Struggling, fiercely, Maleton, was hopeless to do any-thing as he saw how his followers were apprehended, once they have reached Octavia.On reaching the city they were immediately tied up with korni ropes in front of everybody who was jumping up and down everytime one of Maleton’s followers, reaches them. Rejoicing all the time, they shout and dance with joy.
Looking down at Lucan, with gratitude on their faces, the inhabitants of the city of the ‘gods', waited in anticipation, as Lucan, pointed at Maleton, look at Molt, who was sitting on his throne and said: “Behold the one who would have dared to challenged of the ‘gods’”.
Raising her hands, to the sky Maleton, hissed and spit as he was being transported back, from where he came. “I will be back”, he shouted at Lucan as he disappeared into the sky. On reaching Octavia, he was gagged and immediately taken to his holding cell from where he would be dealt with by Molt, himself.
CHAPTER 12
Clapping their hands and waving at Lucan, the ‘gods’ of Octavia was overjoyed at the apprehension of the evil one. Shuddering’ they looked at one another as they thought what would have happen if this evil was allowed to reign Octavia.
Feeling as if she had no more strength left,Lucan,knelt on the ground, exhausted but with the knowledge, that she has the power to overcome any evil. With warm and energy spreading through her body, she looks up into the most gentle face she has ever seen. Speaking to her, his words sounded like a soft tender breeze during a sum-mers day, like the soft sound of a calming river running through a green forest.
“We, who dwell in the sky, are eternal in your debt. You have saved us from destroying one another, and I, Molt, ruler of the gods, living in the sky thank you. You are brave child and in your bravery you have made your nation proud. Ask anything of me and you shall have it”.
Shaking her head as to clear it,Lucan, look at Molt, and said: “for myself, I do not ask for anything, just this, if I have found favour in your eyes , that ‘the gods’, will in future treat all linert’s with respect and dignity. In doing show, they will refrain the linert’s from becoming rebel-lious, as they are the the objects of many jokes. Just be-cause some of us are less important than others, doesn't give us the right to treat them with disrespect or play cruel jokes on them”.
“You, have spoken well”, Molt said gently, “and so I degree, from this moment on, all linerts are grounded equal status and as such, will be treated with dignity and respect. Anyone, who do otherwise, will have to deal with me. This I declare ruler of Octavia”.
Looking in disbelieve at one another, the linert’s, jumps up and down in their joy. Bowing down at Lucan,they could hardly believe their luck. No more cruel jokes equal status, truly they are in her debt forever
Standing with his friends,Konkey, the god of tease,was less than amuse as the linert’s were his favourite objects of making fun of. “Who, am I going to make fun of now”, he asks his friend, Goocks the god of humility, next to him.
Facing Konkey with tears running down her face, she hugs him, and say, “I am sure you will think of some-thing”.
“Oh! Shut up” Konkey,said as he saw the look on HD face, who was approaching him, this cooye stuff, was beginning to get to much. All this hugging and crying ugh!
Taking Lucan, by her arm Molt, lifted her up and said, “because you have chosen not to enriched yourself or to become like one of the god’s, but to think of the turmoil of somebody else, who is not even of your world, I praise you”.
“Thus I declare.................Konkey!, HD! Goocks! ”
“Yes, your majesty” they replied, descending, kneel-ing before their ruler.
“Get up”, he said with a smile.
Smiling at Lucan, they stood next to her, wondering what their leader has in store.
Still keeping Lucan, by the hand, he pointed at the three ‘gods’ and said to her, “because of you love, I give these three to you, to serve you in whatever capacity you might need them”.
Gasping, the rest of the ‘gods’ in Octavia sense that they were witnessing something extra ordinary. Never in their history, has a mortal been given authority over the ‘God’s’.
“Because there is so many evil in your world Lucan I also give you the power to overcome all obstacles that might hinder you in your fight for justice”, Molt contin-ues. “However, beware, that power, bring out, all types of demon’s, in a person, if that energy are not being put to uplift the plight of your people. This, I, Molt ruler of Octavia declares from this day on, you shall be equip with all the power you need, whenever you are in cir-cumstances that requires you, to used it”.
“So shall it be until I see fit to change it other wise” and with a swoop of his hand he disappears, as well, as the ‘gods’ in the sky, who was smiling down on Lucan’ with gratitude written all over their face.
Crowding Lucan,HD and Goocks were fussing over her. “Are you hurt, tired, thirsty can we get you something anything”.
Laughing, silently, she shook her head and said, “pinch me or am I dreaming”
“ouch!!!”
“What did you do that for?” she asks Konkey,as she rubs her arm where he had pinch her.
“You! then ask for it”, he said, with innocent voice
“Oh! I get it”, Lucan said, as she looks him in the eyes: “Somebody is upset because the linerts are free”.
“Goocks!”
“Yes! Lucan”
“Is somebody sulking?”
“Definitely!”
Putting her one arm on HD shoulder,Lucan, said, “now what are we going to do about that”
Whispering, something in his ear she walks over to Goocks,who was watching everything with a smile on her face.
“Goocks, do I remember correctly, that the ruler of Octavia, personally said to me that he belongs to me”.With a stern look, she stared at Konkey,who was watching her, suspiciously.
Trying hard to hide her smile, all Goocks could do, not to burst out laughing, was just to nod her head.
Putting one arm around Goocks and HD,Lucan, looked at Konkey and with a big smile on her face she said: “Smile for me! ”
“What?” Konkey uttered, as he wondered what they were smiling about.
“I said, smile” Lucan answered this time, as she burst out laughing.
Looking in shock at her, Konkey for the first time, real-ised that whatever Lucan, said, he had to do. If he don’t, he was disobeying Molt, and no- one disobeys Molt, not even the god of tease.
Watching the three of them, smiling at him, he had to admit, that for the first time in all his life, he was caught out, by a girl.
Bursting out laughing, he saw the irony, he who was the god of tease was being tease himself, who is now the joke. Cracking himself up, he went to join them as the four of them all laugh together. Who knows what adven-ture awaits them and if they can laugh together, they can do anything. Standing in the circle with her ‘friends’,Lucan wondered, what adventure was waiting on them. Whatever, it was, as she smiled at her friends, she knew, it was something they could handle. One thing, she knew for sure her day’s will never be the same again, and who knows, she might even be allowed, to visit that city in the sky,called Octavia.
(27429 Words)
|
Print this short story
Show the next latest work
