THE " CURSED" PRINCE
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" THE PRINCE CONTINUED SEARCHING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAD MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED EVERYWHERE. HE WENT DOWN ALLEYS, LOOKED IN SHOPS, EVEN AT THE MARKET CENTRAL WHERE COMMONLY EVERONE IS GATHERED, BUT ALL HIS SEARCH WENT FUTILE. EVERYONE WERE JUST.....GONE LIKE THEY NEVER EXISTED. THE PRINCE SAT DOWN AT A FOUNTAIN AND WAS PONDERING OVER WHAT TO DO, WHEN HE SAW A SHADOW PASS THROUGH THE CORNER OF HIS EYE. HE SWIFTLY GOT UP HOPING IT WAS A PERSON AND SO HE COULD ASK WHAT HAPPENED HERE. HE RAN OVER TO THE PLACE WHERE HE THOUGHT HE SAW A SHADOW. HE LOOKED EVERYWHERE AND.... THERE IT WAS. A BIG DARK SHADOW OF AN ANIMAL LOOKING LIKE A SKELETAL MONSTER BARING POINTY TEETH JUST DISAPPEARING AROUND A CORNER. THE PRINCE FEARED THE WORST AND DREW OUT HIS SWORD AND CLOSLY SNEAKED UPON IT. WHEN HE WAS CLOSE ENOUGH HE ROARED AND CHARGED AT IT WITH HIS SWORD HELD HIGH AND.... !SSWWIISSHH!...."
" THE PRINCE STOPPED HIMSELF JUST IN TIME AS HE WAS ABOUT TO ACCIDENTALLY BEHEAD A POOR DOG. THE DOG WAS SHIVERING FROM FEAR AND WHEN THE PRINCE STOPPED, IT SAW ITS CHANCE BETWEEN THE GAP OF HIM THINKING AND FLED FROM THERE. LOWERING HIS SWORD, HE SIGHED IN DISAPPOINTMENT AND WENT BACK TO THE INN. HE PUT THE BUNDLE ON THE HORSE'S BACK CLIMBED UP AND SIGNALED HIS SOLDERS TO MOVE. THEY CAME TO THE GATES AND WERE GOING THROUGH WHEN THE PRINCE CAUGHT SIGHT OF OF A MAN CARRYING A LAMP IN THE ONE OF THE DARK ALLEYS HURRYING SOMEWHERE. THE PRINCE STOPPED THE HORSE AND GOT DOWN. HIS SOLDIERS WERE ABOUT TO FOLLOW SUIT WHEN HE STOPPED THEM AND TOLD THEM TO STAY HERE WITH THE HORSES, DREW OUT HIS SWORD AND BEFORE HIS SOLDERS COULD SAY ANYTHING WENT AFTER THE MAN."
" KEEPING SILENTLY TO THE SHADOWS, THE PRINCE FOLLOWED THE MAN FOR A LONG TIME. OCCATIONALLY THE MAN WOULD TURN AND LOOK AROUND SUSPICIOUSLY BUT THE PRINCE DID A GREAT JOB IN CONCEALING HIMSELF. ABOUT AN HOUR LATER THE CAME TO AN ORCHARD TYPE PLACE WHICH THE PRINCE HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE. HE WAS FILLED IN AWW AT ITS BEAUTY. EVERY TREE WAS DECORATED, EVERY SHRUB TRIMMED AND PATH DECORATED WITH COLOURFUL STONES AND CANDLES. THE MAN HURRIDLY WENT INTO THE ORCHARD AND A LITTLE DISTANCE LATER CLIMBER ACROSS A HILLOCK AND DISAPPEARED. THE PRINCE CAME OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND BRISKLY WENT OVER TO THE HILLOCK. CLIMBING ON TOP OF IT HE LOOKED DOWN AND WAS TAKEN ABACK IN SURPRISE."
" EVERY RESIDENT OF 'SHIRABAN' HAD GATHERED AROUND A STRANGE STATUE OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE A NEEDLE WITH FLOATING GLITTER SWIRLING AROUND IT FROM TOP TO DOWN LIKE A ROPE. HE WAS ABOUT TO GO DOWN THERE BUT STOPPED ON SEEING A FEW PEOPLE HOLDING SPEARS AND KEEPING A STRONG WATCH WHICH DIDN'T LOOK FRIENDLY, SO INSTEAD HE HID BEHIND A BEECH TREE AND WATCHED AS THE PEOPLE BROUGHT IN BIG LOOM MACHINES ON WHEELED CARTS AND SET UP THEIR TOOLS ON TABLES AROUND THE STATUE. AFTER A FEW MINUTES THE WORSHIP STARTED, FOLLOWED BY THIER MELODIOUS MUSIC AND FINALLY ON A MINUTE TO SPARE BEFORE MID-NIGHT THE DANCE GOT CONCLUDED."
" THE PRINCE WATCHED EVERYTHING OPEN-MOUTHEDLY ABSOLUTELY MESMERISED BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS VERY CONSCIOUS ABOUT HIS HIDING PLACE SO AS TO NOT GIVE HIMSELF AWAY. !!BONG!!BONG!!BONG!! - - - THE DRUMS SOUNDED SIGNALLING MID-NIGHT. EVERY PERSON IN THERE WENT NEARER TO THE STATUE AND KNELT DOWN BEFORE IT. BEFORE HE COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING THE CLOUDS PARTED AND THE MOON'S LIGHT FELL ON THE STATUE WHICH GLOWED THE BRIGHTEST RED LIGHTING UP THE WHOLE PLACE SURROUNDING IT. THE PRINCE WAS STRUCK SPEECHLESS AND WAS HYPNOTIZED BY ITS GORGEOUS SHINE. HE SUBCONSIOUSLY CAME OUT FROM BEHIND THE TREE AND WENT A LITTLE FORWARD AND BEFORE HE KNEW IT, THE LIGHT FROM THE STATUE BOOMED ACROSS THE AREA AND CAME BLASTING TOWARDS HIM."
" THE PRINCE'S EYES WIDENED AND HE SHRIEKED IN FEAR. HEARING HIM SCREAM THE PEOPLE WHIPPED AROUND AND WERE STUNNED TO SEE HIM THERE WATCHING THEM WITH WIDENED EYES AS THE LIGHT RUSHED TOWARDS HIM LIKE A MAD ELEPHANT. THE PRINCE TURNED AND RAN IN ABSOLUTE TERROR. BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE LIGHT WAS FASTER AND CAME CHARGING AT HIM AND BANGED AGAINST HIS BACK SENDING HIM FLYING TO THE GROUND. THE PRINCE FELL HARD ON HIS FACE AND BROKE HIS JAW. HIS CHEEK WAS ALSO CRUSHED AS BLOOD OZED OUT OF HIS MOUTH."
" HE IMMEDIATELY SCRAMBLED TO HIS FEET AND RAN AS FAST AS HIS LEGS COULD CARRY BACK TO HIS HORSE. THE SOLDIERS WERE HORRIFIED AT THE PRINCE'S STATE BUT BEFORE THEY COULD ASK HIM ANYTHING HE CAME AND JUMPED ONTO HIS HORSE AND IMMEDIATELY ORDERED TO LEAVE THE PLACE. THEY RUSHED OUT OF 'SHIRABAN' IN HURRY. VERY SOON THEY WERE TRAVELLING THROUGH A THICK FOREST OUTSIDE OF 'SHIRABAN'. AS IT WAS VERY DARK NOW THEY SLOWED DOWN TO A HALT JUST BESIDE A FLOWING RIVER. THE PRINCE GOT DOWN STILL DAZED FROM THE FALL AND WENT TO WASH HIS FACE AND CLEAN HIS WOUNDS"
" NO SOONER AS HE KNELT ON THE RIVER BED TO SCOUP WATER. HE REALISED WITH SHOCK THAT HIS SIGHT WAS GETTING POORER AND POORER BY THE MINUTE"
Is this the end of the prince? What will he do now?
Find out in the next episode.
Stay tuned.
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