THE STORY OF THE NEEDLE SWORD
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Right in front of their very eyes stood a magnificent and big totem that was balancing perfectly on its needle tip while a reddish-pink glitter trail from the top of its hole flowed down in a swirling manner all the way down in perfect match of a 'Needle And Thread'. "Wow. that's 'un gorgeous statue ah av ivva seen", Koda gaped open mouthily at the totem. "Ahem. Your majesty. That's ah.. that's a totem actually", Goltimer corrected him. The three were staring at it mesmerized when 3 barely-red pieces floated up to the top of the totem and froze in mid-air above it. The totem glowed with strange cryptic symbols all over it, including a sort of a rough picture of a man sitting at a loom. The three circled the totem thinking what it could be and what to do.
Unable to think of anything the three were standing together when, " Ugh, I can't think of anything regarding this totem. It looks like nothing more than just a statue of pins and threads like The prince said. And it's so strange that there's an island and i don't know anything about it", Goltimer began complaining. " But what could it be? Its definitely magical that we can surely tell by the looks of it" reverted Grendale. " Yeah, still. Looks at this symbol. It looks like a pickaxe with a sword...…".... "....nah that looks more like a loop in the needle where something like an eel is passing through...."....
While they were debating about the cryptic symbols Koda moved over closer to the glitter trail and observes the rough picture. A light gust of air blew a few glitters off path and travels over behind the totem and lands on an uneven shaped rock structure that they never observed before. "Hmm. what's could this be?". Moving closer to the rock, he sweeps off the glitters and looks the rock more closely and notices a flat-wall-like carved space behind the rock. "T' totem o' Seamsters"....
*RUMBLE*.....*RUMBLE*.....*RUMBLE*...
"What's happening? what's that noise?", Grendale asked getting ready for any surprise attacks while Goltimer looked around them tryna locate the noise. " Look--", Goltimer pointed out to the totem where all the glitter trail were taking up the shape of eyes. Koda got terrified and went and hid behind Goltimer who had his fists up. The island stopped rumbling and the glitter eyes came to life with a pair of blood red snake-like-slit eyes. The eyes looked down upon them and squinted a little. " WHO ARE YOU? AND HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THISSSS PLACE?".... The trio were terrified to their roots. First this island and its self-forming totems and now this...god what's next? unicorns?...
Somehow Grendale built up a courage and went a little forward and gulping down his fear faced up to the ..uh.. eyes and answered," We... We are just mere travelers Mr. Totem. We mean you no harm. We have no idea how we ended up here when we were supposed to be elsewhere. That floating pieces over there...', Grendale pointed above the totem's head,"... that brought us here". Seeing the floating pieces the eyes went wide and immediately it switched back to Grendale and in a surprised voice asked where did they find 'THE NEEDLE SWORD'. "T' wha'..? wha's a needle sword?", Koda couldn't control himself from asking. " IT WAS ONE OF OUR GREATESSST AND ONLY CREATION", the totem began explaining. " THIS ISLAND USED TO BE ON LAND ONCE UPON A TIME BEFORE IT WAS MAGICANIZED TO FLOAT AND THIS TOTEM USSSSED TO BE THE WORSHIP SSSSTATUE OF ALL THE SEAMSTERS AND SEAMSTRESSES OF 'SHIRABAN' THE CITY OF CLOTHSSS".
"Woah. 'a' sounds li' a gurt place".... "What happened to it then? It sounds like it isn't there anymore", Grendale questioned. " ALASSS. THAT IS QUITE TRUE. THE ONCE PROSSSPEROUS CITY IS NO MORE. IT GOT ATTACKED AND EVERYTHING WAS DESTROYED. THE ONLY REMAINSSSS OF THE ONCE GLORIOUS 'SHIRABAN' IS THIS ISLAND AND THAT NEEDLE SWORD ONLY".
What happened in 'Shiraban'? What and who destroyed it?
Find out in the next episode.
Stay tuned dear readers.
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