THE MAYOR'S ESCAPE BACK TO "SHIRABAN"
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" Wow. 'th't indeed is 'un gurt tragic story", Prince Koda sniffed and wiped his eyes into his handkerchief. Grendale blinked back a few tears and looked away for a few seconds. The Totem was silent for a long time giving then all a break to digest this tragic story. Then wiping his nose Goltimer comes forward and asks, " You haven't told us about this sword yet. What happened after " Shiraban" was gone? ". The totem once again began, " YESSS.. AFTER "SHIRABAN" WAS DESTROYED, THE KING WENT BACK TO HIS KINGDOM. HE WAS SURELY BURNING IN VENGEANCE, BUT HE SIMPLY COULDN'T LEAVE THE BABIESSS THERE TO "SHIRABAN'S" FATE. SO HE TOOK A DECISION TO TAKE THEM ALONG WITH HIM AND RAISE THEM AS HIS OWN. AS WEEKSSS ROLLED BY ONE DAY THE KING RECEIVED NEWS THAT THE MAYOR OF "SHIRABAN" HAD SOMEHOW MANAGED TO ESCAPE. THE KING WAS FURIOUSSS AND HE IMMEDIATELY ORDERED A FULL SEARCH OF HIS KINGDOM AND SENT SOILDERS FAR AND WIDE TO SEEK HIM OUT. "
" MEANWHILE THE MAYOR HAD SOMEHOW MANAGED TO GET HIS HANDSSS ON SOME THREADS AND NEEDLES AND HAD SEWED A BRILLIANT BLANKET WHICH ONLY WORKED AND TRANFORMED THE WEARER INTO ANY PARTICULAR PERSON TEMPORARILY, WHEN HIS OR HER CLOTH MATERIAL WAS ATTACHED TO IT. WHEN THE SOILDERS WENT FOR LUNCH JUST OUTSIDE TO THE DINING AREA, THE MAYOR BROKE OUT OF PRISON AND IMMEDIATELY SET TO WORK TO SEARCH FOR A CLOTH MATERIAL THAT COULD HELP HIM GET TO SSSAFETY. AFTER MINUTES OF SEARCHING HE HEARD SOME RUSTLE AS THE SOILDERS WERE COMING BACK. TIME WAS LESSS AND THERE WASN'T ANY HOPE TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE. ALMOST WHEN ALL HOPE HAD SEEMED LOST THE MAYOR FINALLY FOUND A PIECE OF GOLD THREAD THAT HAD ACCIDENTLY FLOATED OFF THE TRASH THE SWEEPERS HAD SWEEPED JUST MORNING. HE HASTILY PUT IT WITH THE BLANKET AND JUST AS THE SOILDERS ROUNDED THE CORNER FLUNG IT ON HIMSELF. "
" THE WIDE EYED SOILDERS WERE IN TOTAL CONFUSION AS TO HOW AND WHY THE KING HIMSELF BOTHERED TO VISIT THE LOWLY PRISIONERS. THEY IMMEDIATELY CAME FORWARD AND BOWED LOW TO HIM. THE MAYOR COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE SOILDERS WERE BOWING TO HIM INSTEAD OF ASKING WHO HE WAS AND WHAT BUSSINESS HE HAD HERE. BUT HEY NO PROBLEM. AT LEAST THE ROAD WAS CLEAR SO HE BEAT A QUICK ESCAPE. THE MAYOR WAS ALMOST AT THE BORDERS WHEN A SOILDER CAME ON HORSEBACK AND DREW A SWORD AT HIS NECK. THE SOILDERS AT THE BORDER WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED AT THIS SOILDER'S BEHAVIOUR AND SOME EVEN TRIED TO WARN HIM IT WAS THE KING, BUT THE HORSEMAN WAS DETERMINED AND KEPT THE SWORD AT THE KING'S (DISGUISED MAYOR'S) NECK AS HE DISMOUNTED AND CAME FORWARD TO BLOCK HIS PATH. HE SMIRKED A LITTLE AND TOLD THE OTHER THAT THIS WAS AN IMPOSTER DISGUISED AS THE KING TO ESCAPE THIS PLACE AS HE HIMSELF WAS WITH THE REAL KING THIS WHOLE TIME. THE OTHER SOILDERS QUICKLY DREW THEIR SPEARS AND POINTED AT THE FAKE KING. THE MAYOR WAS IN A FIX AS TO WHAT TO DO WHEN HE REMEMBERED HIS LAST PIECE OF MAGIC. HE TOOK OUT THE LAST PIECE OF THREAD HE HAD LEFT AND CHANTED HYMES INTO IT WHICH SET IT ABLAZE AND GAVE OUT A BLUE SMOKE THAT BLINDED THE SOILDERS ENABLING HIM A HASTY ESCAPE. "
" THE MAYOR SOMEHOW STRUGGLING FOR LIFE REACHED THE BARREN GROUNDS THAT HE THOUGHT WAS "SHIRABAN" AND LOOKED IN ABSOLUTE HORROR AROUND THE PLACE. HE WAS HEART BROKEN AS HE LOOKED AT HIS ONCE BELOVED HOME REDUSED TO ASH AND DUST. HE SANK DOWN TO THE GROUND RIGHT WHERE HIS HOME ONCE WAS. HE RUBBED THE ASHES WHERE HE FELT HIS WIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEANING THE RICE AND PLANNING NEW CLOTH DESIGNS FOR NEXT YEAR AND LOOKED AT THE PLACE WHERE HIS SON WOULD ALWAYS COME HOME RUNNING AFTER FINISHING HIS ART SCHOOL. THE MAYOR HUGGED THE ASHES AND CRIED HIS HEART OUT. A FEW MINUTES LATER HE COULD HEAR FAINT GALLOPING OF HORSES THAT MEANT ONLY ONE THING THAT THE KING WAS ON HIS BACK. HE KNEW THAT IF HE CAUGHT HIM THIS TIME HE'LL HAVE HIM BEHEADED. SO THE MAYOR IMMEDIATELY GRABBED A FISTFULL OF ASHES AND RAN AT FULL SPEED TOWARDS THE SECRET SACRED GROUNDS WHERE I WAS LOCATED. "
" THE MAYOR HAD BARELY REACHED THE TOP OF THE HILLOCK WHEN HE SAW THE SOILDERS POURING INTO THE GROUNDS. HE QUICKLY RAN TO ME AND THEN SPREAD THE ASHES IN A CIRCLE AROUND ME ALL THE WHILE CHANTING AN ANCIENT MANTRA THAT MUST HAVE BEEN ALL-TOO-POWERFUL BECAUSE ON ONE SIDE THE WHOLE SKY TURNED INK DARK FOLLOWED BY STRONG GUST OF WINDS AND A LITTLE RUMBLE OF THUNDER AND ON THE OTHER SIDE WAS DRAINING THE LIFE OF THE MAYOR AS HIS NOSE STARTED BLEEDING BADLY AND DROPS OF BLOOD KEPT DRIPPING ALL THE WAY AROUND THE CIRCLE. BY THE TIME THE SOILDERS CAME TO THE HILLOCK AND SPOTTED HIM, HE HAD COMPLETED HIS CHANTS AND THE WHOLE CIRCLE WAS GLOWING IN THE DEEPEST RED. "
Is this the end? Did the mayor survive?
Find out in the next episode.
Stay tuned.
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