The Magnificent Four- Episode 4

The morning was still brand new when Cherry looked outside from the window, he could see his mother talking with his father, he looked around himself in the tower packed with books, he walked to a shelf filled with books and brought out two books, he flipped their pages simultaneously, then he closed them and flung them to the door. He looked up at the roof and smiled, he went down stairs and came back up with a heavy book and dropped it on a small table, he sat down and read the front page of the book severally, he opened the book and read it all.

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Cherry looked out of the window up in the tower to see that it was only noon, he clicked his finger and a clock appeared, within moments it had disappeared. He smiled and jumped out from the window, he clapped his hands twice and the gravity around him seized to exist. He went to the King’s palace and rested on the roof, he entered the tower through a tiny window and rushed down the stairs.

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Sesson walked out of the door of the dining room after lunch, he went to his room and he collapsed on the bed. He gazed strangely at the ceiling and watched Cherry descend to the ground, he watched as his dress changed to the dress of a Palace guard, he opened his mouth to talk but no words escaped from his shaking mouth. Cherry released his fingers and Sesson heard his own voice. Cherry grabbed his hand and threw him out from his window and he landed on a carpet, Cherry jumped out from the window and also landed on a green carpet.
‘Where to?’ your highness,’ Cherry asked bowing to him.
‘Really? Could you please drop the act!’

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Roden carried a brown kettle to the stove and went back to his father who was washing his hands. He gave to Dave a green fabric to dry his hands, he walked out of the door and saw the Prince with his guard, they both grabbed him and Cherry tightened his finger and the bark of a tree opened and they entered and walked through series of doors then stopped as soon as they saw a ranch, Randy ran to them and they disappeared with him, they saw themselves in a cave with a blur fire which wasn’t burning the sticks it was on. Sesson ran to the fire and kept his hands over it and then slumped on the ground beside it. The others all gathered around the fire and sat down.
‘So Cherry, why did you steal away my dad and bring us all into this god forbidden day?’ Roden asked, looking into the fire.
‘Do you really want to know?’ Sesson asked him,’ I am definitely enjoying this place.’
‘Firstly I didn’t steal your dad; this is actually five years before your dad met your mom.’
‘Is that supposed to amuse me?’ Roden looked up from the fire and glanced at Cherry,’ and why am I not my regular 10-year-old boy in a decent city?’
‘You should be really happy for that, have you seen any young boy lately? All the boys below the age of 15 were all slaughtered in this city!’
‘Why am I to be grateful? Because of your little intimidating story, even if they were to be killed, I wasn’t because I was never known in this year.’
‘You were even the one that brought us into this year; by tearing that net.’
‘Really?’ Roden asked in surprise.
‘Hey, guys are you seeing this?’ Randy asked from a distant area. They all rushed to their feet except Roden.
‘You all should come back here,’ Roden yelled,’ don’t you remember he was the one that led us into that Cabin’.
‘Yeah, but this one’s different ‘cos I built this cave,’ Cherry replied, running to Randy.
‘But if you built it you wouldn’t be running to see anything new, ‘cos they will all be from your dull imagination,’ Roden said, standing up.
‘I’m sorry, I won’t take you forward to 1520 if that’s what you want, but if you want to know more about this cave, read the book in your hands.’
‘But there is no…,’ Roden paused as a red book came to his hands.
‘But please don’t read the last page.’
‘The last page?’ Sesson asked, snatching the book from Roden, he flipped through the pages of the book until he got to the last page,’ what! You imported things from other caves to this one, and I thought you were loyal to me.’
‘I am, my Prince,’ he replied bowing down.
Randy looked at the trio as they crawled like dogs to through the short-roofed inner part of the cave. They got to where Randy was and he showed them an opening on the ground, they could see jewelleries, mostly gold, Cherry put his hands together and the ground close firmly, then he opened his hands wide and the ground shook rapidly and they fell into the lower Chamber of the cave and then they were with the jewelleries, Sesson tore off a part of his garment to form a sack, he put several items into it while the others waited for Cherry to provide them with theirs’, two sacks appeared behind them and they grabbed it and began to fill it with golds, soon there was a loud sound and they all turned to Sesson. They soon noticed that his sack was full and that he had hit the bars of gold on the 22-carat gold on his robe, they laughed at him until the cave shook furiously, a blazing fire was soon after them, Cherry stamped his feet severally but the fire kept rising, they then received wings to fly out of the cave with, through the opening on its roof. Shortly after, they got out of the cave, and as they descended on solid ground beside the roof of the cave, a fierce dragon shot its hot fire towards them, they flew up gradually but the dragon kept shooting its fire towards Randy and he soon lost his wings and began to fall slowly and then the dragon became keen on getting him as there were no wings carrying him. Suddenly, a dark majestic dragon appeared underneath him, seeing him on a safer place, Sesson and Roden tossed their bags towards him. He patted his dragon gently as he grabbed the sacks but the dragon carrying him soon got a sharp cut on its left wing and it flew speedily to a large field which was Randy’s Parent’s ranch. Randy fell off the dragon as it hit the ground, then there was a loud sound as the flying dragon released fire on their stable and the horses galloped away but were soon stopped by the hedges of the ranch, Randy soothed the fallen dragon’s wound as he took off as the heat from the fire of the other dragon reached him, he mounted a horse and tried to gallop away through the gate of the ranch but he was stopped by his parents, his new found father took out a large arrow and bow and tried to shoot the flying creature, until it returned to its home. Randy turned towards the stable, seeing the fire was being quenched, he climbed down the horse and took down the sack from its mane. He entered the ranch house and then entered an empty room where he poured out the contents of the sack, he put 13 bars of gold at the corner of the room and placed a sack over it, then he put 15 bars of gold each in the remaining sacks and ran off to the tree where the trio had met him before, a young worker ran towards him, but the tree opened and he walked through it and it swallowed him, the worker cleared his eyes and then collapsed.