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The Hidden Place
“Kim, how is your sister, Scarlet? I haven’t seen her in a month” said Maya
“I don’t know. The policemen are looking for her everywhere. They can’t find her. I am very worried about her.” said Kim, shaking while she was talking.
“Oh, sorry then” said Maya “So, where are you going today?”
“I am going to Hidden Beach to dive” said Kim
“Okay then, Bye” said Maya
Kim is a teenager that likes to dives in different beaches and this time she chose this beach. The road that leads to the Hidden Beach was empty and lonely, so it was easy to drive on it. Kim arrived early and started to dive as soon as she could. She was exploring the place. She found a lot of caves and little fossils of strange animals she had never seen before. She saw one cave that looked very attractive and decide to explore that one more carefully. Kim couldn’t believe what she was seeing. At the first time she saw it was a dream, but them she realize it wasn’t at all. It was a wonderful place. She thought ‘If this is not a dream, then maybe I am dead. Perhaps I am in the Paradise or in Heaven’ then she said to herself ‘I can’t be dead, and this is not a dream, then what is this place?’ She started looking everywhere and she found the answer to her question, this place was A New World. A world nobody knew at all. She decided to go back and tell her friends about this world, but suddenly the cave got close and there was no way to open it. Now she was trapped in this world. She didn’t know the risk of this world and she was afraid, because she didn’t want to die. Kim thought ‘ Okay, if I have to found out the way home, first I have to name this world, I’ll think about it’ She started thinking as hard as she could she thought ‘The Wonderful World of Disney’ but then she said “No that name is very lame”. It took her half an hour until she found a name she liked. “The Dreams”. Kim chose that name, because that place, for her, was like a dream came true for a child. She started to see plants. They were of differents colors and sizes. The most wonderful flowers she had ever seen were there. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. There was a plant with spots all over her leaves. There was another one with spirals all over her leaves. They were some thin plants with leaves in shape of lighting bolt. Also, they were big heart shaped trees with some sort of fruit that looked like rocks. Kim began to walk through this strange forest and found a pen and some kind of book, I say sort of book, because all the pages were in blank, so it was sort of a diary book. However, she took it and started to use it to annotate the physical characteristic of every plant, animal or tree she found and liked, put them a name and write about the dangers it could cause. The first thing Kim wrote in her diary book was this:
Name of the plant number one → Lighting leave
Characteristic → Its trunk is thin, its leaves are in shape of lighting bolt, its main color its black and purple.
Danger → Unknown
After that she began to walk again, but this time looking for a cave. It was getting late and she didn’t want to be outside in the darkness in a place she didn’t know, specially if she didn’t knew the dangers. Look for a cave isn’t easy, particularly if you are in a forest full of vegetation unknown. The place was full of creepy sounds and very lonely. After 3 long hours she found a place where she could stay the night. It wasn’t at all a cave, but it was better than sleeping outside. Kim was very tired and was falling asleep when some terrible sound was heard. Kim got so scared that she almost die of a heart attack. She started to look around trying to see where the sound came from. The sound was like the lions roar, but it has something very particular that Kim couldn’t assimilate. Suddenly the same sound was heard, but this time 3 times closer. “ It has to be a beast” said Kim trembling “a very big one. I think it’s following my smell. Ohh Gosh, I don’t want to be food of any animal and less in this place that anybody knows” In the same second she finished the sentence appeared a very strange animal. Its head was from a baby tigger and his body from an adult owl. For being a little animal, his roaring was really marvelous for its size. The strange animal wasn’t aggressive, but its teeth were very sharp. Its heads color were black and yellow and its body brown. The creature was looking at Kim with its creepy green eyes, so Kim began to write on her diary book about this creature. At the end she call it ‘owlggeron’. She call it this way, because the creature roar like a lion, had the head of a tigger and had the body of an owl. The look on his eyes showed loneliness and sadness. Maybe it was, because it had lost its house or parents, or perhaps because it has lost its husband or wife and its children, but this made Kim felt sad about him and decide to see if the animal could talk. “Hello” said Kim “My name is Kim, and yours is?” For her surprise the owlggeron respond to her “Hi, my name is Zack, as you can see I am a extravagant creature, just like you” said Zack “I’ve been looking for someone of your kind”
“Yeah, but what do you mean of my kind? Are you going to eat me or something like that?” said Kim
“Oohh! no, no, no. I only eat plants. I mean I like you to be my owner and treat me like your friend or pet. I could help you get out of this world” said Zack “I know the way out of this place. I could keep you safe, if you accept to own me, there is no one that knows this place better than me.”
“What happens if I decline?” said Kim
“ Well…. Look Kim, There is something very special in my kind, we are the only creatures in this world that have the ‘terror poison’. What I mean when I said ‘terror poison’ is that when we bite, the creature star to see some sort of terror movie, of those ones that can make the stronger get literally crazy and the weak die, that is the same thing that do our poison do, so if you decline I would bite you and that means you’ll die.” said Zack
“I accept, but not because you could kill me, but because I know that you need a friend as much as I do” said Kim
“Oh! Thank you! Thank you! so where do we start? I mean, what do you want to do right now?” said Zack very excited
“Sleep, I am very tired and change your name, can I?” said Kim in a soft voice
“Yeah, of course, what name?” said Zack
“ I’ll tell you tomorrow”said Kim in a sleepy voice “Now go to sleep”
They, both fell asleep on closing eyes, so the night happened very fast.
It was early when Kim woke up. The place was warm and had flowers all over the place. Zack was making the breakfast with fruits. The fruits he was cooking were strange. They had an exquisite smell. The colors of those fruits were blue and green and their aspect were like a raindrop. Kim took her diary book and wrote this:
Name of the fruit number one → Raindrop blugre
Characteristic → Its smell is great. Its color is blue and green. Its aspect is like a drop of water or a raindrop.
Danger: If you eat it raw you’ll die in 2 hours.
She knew that what she wrote wasn’t at all true, because she didn’t know at all the dangers of the fruit and the name of it. Now that she had Zack she could ask him and erase what she wrote, so she asked him “What’s the name of those fruits?”
“Raindrop blugre” he answer.
“And, its danger?” she asked
“That…. if you eat it raw you’ll die in 2 hours.” he said
“Are you reading my diary book? because that is what I wrote a moment ago.” said Kim a little irritated
“No!” he said “I don’t even know what is a diary book!”
“Then, how can you answer with the same answer I wrote in my diary book?” she asked angrily
“Can you show me that book, please?” he asked “I won’t open it, so don’t worry”
She took her book and gave it to him. He examined everywhere, until it jumped up and said “Oh my goodness! this cannot be possible, it has to be my imagination”
“What?” she asked
“This book is only given to the sister of the queen of this world. The person who writes on it choose the name and the danger of the creatures in this world for 10 years. After those 10 years the creatures choose a new queen and the creatures lost their physical characteristic, danger, cure and name. The creatures give the new queen 2 books, one of the book is hers and the other for her sister. The queen book choose the physical characteristic of the creatures and the cure of the danger the creature caused.The book of the queen sister only disappear when the sister of the queen appear and it reappears in the floor close to the queen sister in this same world. That means that you are the queen sister.” said Zack
“So that means that you lie to me when you said that you had the ‘terror poison’ am I right?”said Kim
“Yes, you are right” he said ashamed “I thought, that if I didn't threaten you, with that I could kill you, you’ll never be my friend” he said, but this time sad. “Aren’t you going to change my name?” Zack asked Kim
“No, I was joking.” she said
“Then, the breakfast is ready!” he announce
The food was delightful. Its taste was like soup. She ate a lot and got full, then she asked “What’s the queen’s name?”
“I don’t remember very well, but I think is Scarletta or Scarlet” he answer
“Then I want to go to her palace, I want to see her. Can you lead me to her castle?” asked Kim
“Yes, but first we have to gather food, made you some clothes and shoes for the journey, gather water, and made a backpack for both of us.” said Zack
“Then, what are we doing here? let get started!” she said loudly
“At your service my princess!” he said
Zack took some leaves and made two baskets improvised, then they gathered some fruits and Kim named them and put dangers to them. It was so fun doing this. They started to make the clothes and the shoes and the backpack. When they finished, they packed everything and left the place. Zack was telling Kim the story of how the world had started and why the animals could talk.
“So, where is more or less my sister castle?” she asked
“Far away from here. We have to find my friend Spot. He can lead us to your sister castle fast. He is the coolest ---” he was interrupt by someone
“You are not going anywhere” someone said. The voice came from everywhere. Then the same voice said “Hello, my name is Black. As you can see my name describes myself. I am your worst nightmare” said the Black
“If he think he or she is scaring me, he or she is not” Zack murmured
“I heard you” said Black “I won’t let you go.”
“Why?” asked Kim
“Because, I am Scarlet sister now and if you go to her castle all the poison and have putted on her cup will, just disappears and she would remember that you are her truly sister and then she’ll remember me and take me out of her kingdom” said Black
“What have you done to her, that she hates you? you should have done something to win her hatred” said Kim
“I haven’t done anything to her. I just .. was ... hanging out more with my others friends, because every time I invited her, she was very “occupied” to hear me or hang out with me, and when she saw I wasn’t calling her anymore she thought I wasn’t her friend, got jealous, and decided to take me out of her kingdom, so I came here to hide from here. I called myself Black and pretended to be a bad girl. I started to read books of magician and learned how to use it and made a potion that made the queen Scarlet thought that I was her sister” she said “ But now you are here I am not going to pretend anymore I am bad, I am going to be bad and if you don’t return home now, you would be the second one to prove my power. You have 3 minutes to decide if you are going to leave or if you are going to be my pets dinner.”
“And what happens if I don’t want does one to be my destiny?”Kim asked
“You can’t do anything” she said “I am very powerful for you”
“Oh, that’s what you think” Kim said
“ What do you mean?” Black asked “No one dares to treat me”
“ The word ‘No one’ do not include my name. I mean I have something that you can’t beat”
“The book” said Black in a boring tone
“No” she said “Zack”
“What? Are you crazy? Remember, you put in your diary book that my danger was unknown. I can’t make anyones die with my bite or whatever.” he murmured
“Exactly” she said “that means you can choose your own danger. I leave that to you. I gave you that choice to you. Once you choose it, it will immediately appears in my diary book and you would never change it until the new queen rise.” she said
“Oh! that’s awesome, thank you!” said Zack very happy “Now, you decide Black Widow, if dying in my hands or leaving us alone cross the forest and go to Scarlet’s castle”
“Maybe I can talk to my sister about you and tell her what happened and why you weren’t calling her anymore” said Kim
“You won.” said Black “But don’t think, that this would stop me. I promise you I’ll return for you and your sister. Be ready, because I am coming very soon for you.”
“Don’t get bothered girl, you’ll never catch me” said Kim who disappear into the shadows with her friend Zack. After 10 minutes of absolute silence, Zack couldn’t contain the comment and told Kim “Whau! You were wonderful, you acted like a hero.”
“Oh, please, Zack don’t be so dramatic.” she said “you acted better than me”
“Oh! don’t you be a liar!” he said “you are the one who is being dramatic!”
“Can we stop fighting?” said Kim
“Yeah, of course, sorry” he said
“It’s okay” she said “So…. where is your friend? I mean where can we find him?” she said
“Oh! Spot, he is close to this place, over there, you see that tree, that’s his house” Zack said
It was close, but the place was lonely, strange and it has something that make the place looked unsafety.
“Spot” Zack called “I am Zack your friend, Do you remember me?”
The place was getting lonelier and darkener and Spot didn’t appear. Zack kept calling his name, until something moved in the woods. And guess what!, it was Spot. Zack introduced Kim to Spot and then told Spot about their journey and asked him if he could take them to the castle and he said yes. It was easy to take them to the castle for Spot because he was a dragon. The castle was close to Spot house, so they arrived to the palace very quickly and early. Kim was very excited. She wanted to see her sister. The guards told them to wait outside while they informed the queen about some visitors. They waited outside 15 minutes until the guards returned and lead them inside the castle, directly to the queen.
When the queen saw her truly sister, started to remember everything. She began to smile, until finally, she could not bear more and pounced on her sister Kim full of tears. Kim couldn’t speak. She haven’t seen her sister in a month and now she was with her.
“Scarlet! Why did you disappear? In the real world everyone was looking for you. I thought someone had kidnapped you.” said Kim “Why did you left without telling me you were leaving?”
“I thought it was going to be nice having some vacations alone for two days and I forgot to tell you. Then I found a cave in Mexico and you know the rest………” said Scarlet “Oh! I’m so happy to see you” she hugged Kim.
“Me too!” said Kim happily.
“Wait, wait, wait, stop just right there” said someone
“Morgana” said Scarlet
“Black” said Kim
“What?” said Scarlet
“She told me her name was Black” said Kim
“Oh, she is Morgana, not Black” she said
“Well, well, well.” said Morgana “Look how many visitors we have here. I told you Kim you were going to see me soon.”
“You met her?” said Scarlet
“Yes” said Kim “I met her in the forest. She told me you were jealous, because she was hanging out with her others friends, leaving you aside. That you made her go away, because of that”
“That is not the reason why I made her go away from this world and she knows it too” said Scarlet “I made her go away, because she was changing. She was becoming a witch, a bad one, and I didn’t know why.”
“I am here to take away from you the kingdom, Scarlet, so stop making stories” said Morgana.
She started to make black magic, so Scarlet called her guards. Every time some guard entered through the door, Morgana threw them a spell that made them drop dead. Scarlet got scared and Kim took a mirror and put it on her back. Morgana closed the door with her magic and pointed on Scarlet who was beside Kim, so when Morgana threw her spell on Scarlet, Kim putted the mirror in front of her sister and the spell bounced off the mirror and hit Morgana, who fell unconsciously on the floor. Kim and Scarlet ran to her. Morgana woke up, but this time she was different, she wasn’t anymore a bad girl, she didn’t want to take the kingdom away from Scarlet.
“What happened to you?” said Scarlet “You were a bad girl a moment ago”
“Someone in your kingdom practice black magic and its trying to destroy you. You must be prepare for it. I don’t know who did this to me. I just know its hidden in the forest and that is very powerful.” said Morgana
“Guards!” she called
“Yes, my lady” they said together.
“Take her to room #74, call Chloe and Zoe and tell them to take care of Morgana.” she said
“Yes, my lady” they said together and did as they were told.
“Zack, call Corim and tell him to look for the one who practice black magic in the forest. Tell him that he can take some guards to his journey and that if he finds the magician, tell him that he have to return and tell me everything he knows about the magician.” said Scarlet
“Okay” he said and went out of Scarlet presence.
“We must find that guy” said Kim
TO BE CONTINUED……..
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