Meeting with Gregory

“Wake up, Gregory! I have a job for you.” He gets no response and goes to tap the man on the shoulder he then vigorously shakes the man until he sees him raising his neck. He goes to take two chairs from the fallen instruments and gives them to his children while he watches the movement of the man.

“Hey, isn’t it my man Terrin,” said Gregory “You know, the last person I expected to see was you, old man.”

“You’re killing the children with your magic we had no choice,” Terrin said

“I said I’m not the one, for someone who used to work for the Chief, you should know what the job is like or is because of the little mice behind you”

Watch your lips, you little idiot, they are my children”

“What will you do, kill me! My my you all tried a million times. Whoever gave me the power does not want me dead.” He laughs very hard as he eventually chokes, he keeps breathing very hard as it became unbearable for him.

Terrin heads to the fall to fetch water for him, “we did not try that, we should have allowed you to commit suicide.”

He takes the water from Terrin’s hands and drinks it rapidly, his face looked horrible, his hair was very messy and his green eyes made him look like a snake who is ready to strike. He sits straight and smiles with his horrible teeth as his lips have sores covered all over, it is amazing he can laugh in his state. “I know you did not come to tell me the history of your wedding, what do you want?” Gregory asked with a suspicious look.

“For old times’ sake, let’s say I believe you and that you were being controlled by someone, let’s say the person is the very person who destroyed your family and made you like this. Why would you be framed for killing all the orphanage children? Why did the Chief cover everything up?”

Gregory responded “Have you heard of the prophecy”,

“Which prophecy?” asked Terrin, “the snake shall come from the belly of the mountains and shall consume the dragons, and make all the other animals tremble in fear” Deagmund answered.

“your kid is very smart, I see he has his mother’s eyes no wonder he is more handsome than you”

You are not here to talk about my family, continue with the story before I leave you here”

“I can see you need me, hmmmm, anyways I told the chief about the prophecy, and not long after I heard about the fall of the Danien kingdom, I should have known we were next you know! The wretched king was offered a lot of power, I witnessed it before I could transmit the warning to the people, I was captured, and they needed an excuse to start a war so they spread rumors of me going to kill the prince of the bird family. My family had nothing to do with their plot, the king murdered them, and all my work went in vain!” Gregory’s tears flew from his eyes as he never recounted the event to anyone. He looks at Terrin who had a stiff face not wanting to give any emotions away. He continues “they brought me out after infusing the dark aura into me, by then the villages were already under war with each other. I was chained to the palace bound to only witness as the event unfold until one night the sorcerer went into the palace treasure room and took the heart of the lion, the soul of the kingdom came into his hands, and he crushed the emerald and the trees began to die. Soon the water stopped flowing and the rivers died away along with the trees, they blamed everything on me, I was to die but the king gave me his strength and power when he came to his senses and found his family dead inside his own palace. The king made it such that by giving me his life force I inherited his power. The sorcerer disguised himself as the king and condemned me to death, blaming me for the death of the children.” Gregory looked tired at this point as the tears kept flowing from his lips.

Terrin said, “the darkness has returned and I need your help finding him, if everything you are saying is true, then help me put an end to all this.” With your power and vision, we can see through every direction.”

Gregory laughs, and looks at the weary face of Terrin, he sees how serious he is, shakes his head, and holds out his hands to Terrin. Terrin hesitates a bit, still having doubt inside his head, he looks at the man and asks “do you know how to find him”. Gregory answers “We need to go back to the village all the answers we seek shall start from there, even the mystery surrounding your family. Funny enough I have always known you were not an ordinary person, your son carries greater power, he needs to awaken the dragon in him.”

Terrin gives him a strange eye, as Gregory continues “you know, I’m not lying. You may not understand everything but within you know I’m telling the truth. Aside from your hunting skills you also need to awaken your spirit. we can only fight if we can fly like him.” Terrin releases quiet energy in his hands and freezes the hands as he holds the chain soon the energy within the chain tumbles but Terrin speeds up the freezing in order to control the energy from bursting alerting the outside people. After sometimes the shackles loosen and the man is able to remove the hands from the shackles. The chain rises from the floor and goes after the people in the space, the shackles kept opening and closing, pounding on the floor. Gregory infuses his energy into the puppy doll lying on the floor and threw it into the shackles, the chain bound the doll to the chair. Gregory summoned a cloak to cover the three of them and began chanting words, Terrin was back at his house sitting in the same spot before leaving the house. Deagmund got soaked as he entered the bathhouse, Tiffney came looking dirty as she entered the bush, and Gregory entered the door looking wretched as he was.

In the meantime, a young girl entered the room and found the chair the three people standing there not moving, the man sat on the chair also in a fixed posture she accidentally dropped a glass of water spilled on the place which touches the garment of the prisoner, soon the prisoner becomes dust and withers away, she touches the two people sitting on the chair the same incident happens and finally touches Terrin and feels the air washing away the image. She goes to sound the bell on the statue and the guards start rushing inside. They come to find the girl alone in the room, and whispers fill the room, “Go to Terrin’s house and find him, search everywhere till he is found.” A gentle voice sounded inside the room. Everyone turned and found an old man holding onto his stick with his white beard and grey hair focusing on the chair. He leaves the room and goes to the very top of the statue where a cage of pigeons is found sitting in the mid-air. He holds the pen in his left hand as he scribbled on two papers, soon the message on the papers vanished before the messenger brought the pigeons. He tied the message to the legs of the pigeons and whispered into the pigeons’ head almost as if he was speaking to the pigeons. He then held them for a while before he stretched them to the heavens and allowed them to fly to their various destinations. He then descended the statue and entered a long hallway at the feet of the statue. Steam kept escaping from the feet of the statue and propelled the fans underneath the ground, the underground pipes connected to the fans in the underground rooms, all 62 and big halls intersect at the main entrance, a small alley that holds no symbolic meaning. The old man stepped into the alley and entered a chart while people dressed in white-clad followed along as the horses drove the chart through the streets, the fire from the touches of the family coming from different directions in the street of Zion merging as one on the high bridge connecting the two rivers together. The white-cladded men in the mask used their hands to light a fire in the sky as they began to chant the name of Terrin.

Terrin begins to sneeze as he feels chills inside him, as he sat on his lazy chair smoking Gregory comes to him panting “They are coming, coming in their multitude we need to leave this place.” Terrin begins to cough as the smoke enters his throat, he coughs a couple of times before responding “there are horses in the back of the house enough to carry as three far from here.”

“Deagmund, Tiffney!” Gregory keeps calling out their names, as they appear from their various rooms holding unto a bag filled with cloth and accessories. Tiffney holding a big sac in her hands which was heavier than her was pulling her off the ground as she kept stumbling on her feet. Gregory takes the sac from her hands as they begin to run through the garden with vegetables, they bypass a tree house and came to the back of the house where they saw Terrin pulling three horses, withdrawing his legs on the ground. Tiffney rushes to the side of the horse, she touches the belly of the horse and the horse stands on his feet, she looks around as the three men look at her with sly eyes. Terrin places Tiffney in front of her as they move from the house. They pass the dusty road which leads through the bamboo trees, enter the canopy forest, and cross the bridge. They ride through the shadow until they get to a hilltop with the water basking back and forth and the blue nature of the skies reflecting on the surface of the sea.