SIMPLE TRIALS

"My babe is gone"

    "I can't believe what I heard on the news"

    " Yeah I know my babe's gone"

    " What no, and besides she's taken"

    " By who"

    " Logan of course, didn't you watch the news"

    " Oh poor sweat Rebecca, you would say anything for a story wouldn't you?"

    " A story ?"

It got intense and Sofia desided to join in.

    "It's so true, I heard Ken and Loretta talking about it yesterday, they say they saw it with their own two eyes today on the new"

    " Then how did they talk abo...you know what forget it that's not the problem right now, Logan is"

We kept on walking and it felt like we were walking on the same spot for hours so I decided to turn around just to be safe. 

      "OMG, isn't that the chocolate river we're supposed to be walking away from"

    " You're right we've been walking on the same spot, and it's probably this necklace"

    " Pendant"

    " Pendant, it's hard to believe but it might be possible you're right we have to break it"  

    "Oh now you listen"

I threw the pendant to the floor and it shattered like glass, I moved a step forward while looking back to see if it worked.

    "It worked"

    "And it could have worked sooner too if you listened to me earlier"

    " Now it's my fault"

    " The road is tilting"

    " I was the smart one, you just wanted to break for no reason but I....."

    " The road is tilting"

    " What are you talking about"

    " The road is tilting"

    " The road is tilting"

    " What did I just say"

The road kept on tilting until we started sliding and stopped at the feet of an old man.

    "You have come a long way from were you came, but passing this first stage is your only aim"

    "He rhymes, Logan do you know what this means"

    " That he's Santa"

    " Well it does look like him thou, but no, he's going to ask us a riddle, keep friend and river in mind they are bound to be the answer, because a lot of people think they are the hardest"

    " Hello, I'm still here, the one who would make the path clear"

    " Why"

    " Why what"

    " Why do you act so brave, first we see something and then you start up a conversation"

    " Well you questioned it, and besides what do you mean by act brave, I'm just trying to be positive or was I supposed to run at the site of every thing i saw"

    " No that's not what I was trying to say, I meant why did you come after all I said to you"

    " Because, like I said I thought you needed a friend and I don't give up so easily"

    " You become sad and emotional?, at the death calling face of trial ?"

    " Okay then Santa what's the riddle"

    " What I bear for you is no riddle, but a map for a quest to find a fiddle, Christmas spirit you must posses, to find your trust among the rest"

    " Wait I don't think that last one rymed exactly well"

    " Will you just take the map and go"

    "Come on Logan you heard the man, lets move"

We kept on walking following the map until it was dark, we layed underneath a... I'll guess a tree watching the oddly colourful skies, it was bueatifully filled with bright neon colors on a black picth backyard. Logan had is eyes shot and I couldn't tell if he was asleep or not.

    "If you never fell into this hole, where would you rather be right now"

With is eyes till closed. 

    " No where right now since you won't be there"

I slowly turned away as my entire face blew up red and I couldn't help but shot my eyes pretending like I didn't hear him.

The next morning I opened my eyes to find myself moving, I was on Logan's back, how was it even possible.

    "What in the world are you doing"

    "Well as you can see it's almost 9 and I want to leave here as soon as possible, and trust me I tried waking you up and what do you do to rocks that doesn't move, you carry them"

    " It was a question not a test you didn't have to be so strict about it, can you drop me now"

    " Well since you're up"

He dropped me down to the ground like I was nothing, just letting me to fall.

    " Ouch, I meant gently robot arms"

    " Wow, I guess I can accept that as thanks?"

Then we looked up to see a giant tree blocking the path.

    "Oh no, another one of these trials"

    "Look, Angel, it's a tree, we can just walk aro.....ar.....arou"

I felt myself falling to the ground and by the time I woke up we were surrounded by some kinda tiny people, elves.

    "Ugh, oh my God, what is that? "

    "I don't know but they keep staring at us" 

    " What do we do?"

    " I'm guessing, slowly get up and run away"

To our surprise it spoke, and in English too.

    "Welcome to Jangle Village"

    "Logan,they can talk"

    " RUN"

We ran in no particular direction but they were everywhere so we decided to give up and just talk to them, because they seemed friendly but immediately we gave in the elves tied us up and started carrying us deep into their village.

    "Where are you taking us to?"

    "To the pit"

    " Why"

    " Because of the prophecy, the gods told us that one day they will come,the giants and we must sacrifice the giants to them by burning them in the pit"

    " Wait you can't burn us"

    " We can't, why not?"

Trying to figure out a plan before words just busted out my mouth.

    " Because we are the gods, the giants are bigger than this and we are very disappointed in you all for not knowing that"

I could hear my own fear in every word that came out my mouth with a grind in my teeth but to my surprise they quickly untied us and started bowing down.

    "And now that we have shown you what a giant doesn't look like I'm afraid we must take our leave"

As we were going I turned to Logan surprised.

    "What if they find out you lied"

    "Clearly we'll be long gone by then"

As we kept on walking the walls became taller and the road tighter.