“B-But”
“No buts!” He hollered and disappeared.
I explored the strange land for hours. There was no human being in sight. A beautiful place like this must have some form of life living here.
Suddenly a strange figure came out of the blue and tried to wrack me. I dodged his attack. The strange figure had a green mask on his face that blended in with his entire body. He strike again and I dodged his attack once again.
“Go away you monster!” I shouted.
He approached me and was ready for another shot. Halfway from swinging his spear, the thing collapsed onto the ground. I then saw an arrow in its back. Anything could happen in this strange land, so I took the spear and stared at the thing.
“What the hack was that?” I asked myself.
I then heard a large scream from the distance. A massive horde came after me throwing spears at me. I loss balance and fell onto the ground. Unexpectedly, the entire horde collapsed onto the ground. They all had arrows on their backs. I saw one of them had a book. Words came out of the book and flew right into Arabian’s book.
“Woah!” I screamed. “I see now. That monster that was holding the book must have been the one that caused the pages to be blank.” I opened up Arabian’s book. One of the last pages had writing on it.
“Yes!” I shouted with glee.
The sun was going down. I didn’t have anything to eat. I could drink the tasteful water from the river. I had to find food or I would starve to death. Nightfall was falling upon me. I ran quickly to find shelter from the cool air. I ran inside a house and exploded the house
“Food!” I saw a plate of fruits on the table. I gobbled them up in less then a minute and fell onto the bed to doze off for the first night.
When I woke up during the night, I decided to read the book Arabian Legends to know more about the story. After reading the first few pages, I knew what to do to revive those words on the last few pages. Arabian Legends was a non fictional book. 2000 years ago, this place was a town full of civilians and Arabian was the name of the town. Fruits and Vegetation was unlimited in this beautiful land. The plants never died because of the lake that was providing water for the plants and the people. The lake was known as Rainbow Lake.
The town was called Arabian, the town of unlimited water. Some called Arabian the greatest place on earth. The entire town was happy and there were not problems at all.
There were three evil spirits, leading a dangerous horde. They are known as Mephelis, Sleflid and the leader of all, Ibils. The horde was known as Clan Ibils. The spirits drove out the civilians and killed any that tried to fight back.
I finally realized that I am the main warrior in the story. I have traveled back in time and every move single move that I do will change the events in the story. After a while, I got back to sleep.
The next morning, I got up and grabbed my stuff. I got out of the house and saw the sun shine luminously. I had enough information to find where the remaining spirits are. The sun shined brightly on my face.
“I see that you have completed part of your task.” A voice behind me said.
I turned around and saw Arabian. He looked quite impressed with what I’ve done so far.
“Arabian, when I was attacked by an army, I almost got killed, but every single creature suddenly died expectedly. What happened?”
Arabian smiled, “You don’t have to defeat an enemy with your own brute force. You are the ruler of the Ordish Horde. You should know how to command your army.” He then disappeared.
I was confused, so I opened the book and read on from where I stopped. I could command the Ordish horde because I am the leader.
“Cool. I have an army!” I said euphorically. “First of all, I’ll need to find the main base of the Ordish Horde.
“Woah! That is humongous!”
I reached the base in no time. I saw tents everywhere with towers around the base. During that time, I learnt some fighting techniques and acrobatic moves that may help against these spirits. Before I walked into the base, I decided to read a bit more of Arabian’s book. It says that before battle, my men will shout “O di ma shi” and salute.
“O di ma shi!” The whole camp shouted and raised their arms, as the Germans did to Hitler. I assumed that raising their arm like that was their salute.
“We are ready for battle,” One of the men said.
“Ok then, move out!” I directed my army. Every man got ready with their arrows and spears. There were swordsmen, archers with heavy plated armor and shields. I just realized that I only had a spear. Not even a spear or shield.
“Here,” One of the men handed out a golden plated armor and shield, “Use this.”
“Thanks,” I saluted to him and he saluted back to me, looking ready for battle.
“O di ma shi,” I shouted, and the entire army moved out.
If I didn’t read that book, I wouldn’t have an indication of what to do. We were going to attack Sleflid, the second spirit. We saw their base from the mountains and got our battle formation intact.
The weather was cloudy; it was as God knew that the dawn of battle was coming upon two brute forces. A thunder strike roared across the mountains.
I got ready to charge. “Read-,” I stopped, seeing that my men were gone. “Hello? You’re all there?”
“You didn’t forget about our camouflage technique, haven’t you?” A voice behind me said.
“Oh! Eh … no. No at all.” Actually I didn’t know anything about it at all until then. I found out that was how the Ordish Horde defeated Mephelis.
“Charge!” I ordered my men.
They all came screaming down the mountains. Sleflid’s army had no idea about this attack. They quickly got themselves ready and charged back. Arrows came screaming through the air as thunder came above our heads. The two brute forces coincided with each other and battled on.
I swung my spear and bought down two men. A massive fire roared above our heads. A large giant came and squashed three of my men. It looks as this was Sleflid.
“Oh cra-,” my speech was cut short, seeing that Sleflid swung his enormous club at me. Luckily, I dodged the giant swing, which made a dent on the ground. I realized that his weak point was his forehead. It took him a long time to take his club off the ground. I jumped up onto his club and climbed up his arm without him realizing. I sneaked to the back of his head and reached the top of the giant.
“Take this!” I screamed and stabbed my spear right through into head. The overwhelming scream of the giant made me lose balance and I fell off. I thought that this was my death, but I saw that I landed into Arabian’s arms. Sleflid fell to his death, landing on his own men.
We were on the verge of destroying Sleflid’s army.
“I did it!” I shouted with glee.
“You’ve done an excellent job.” Arabian let me down onto the ground, “Many have tried to defeat the giant. We have loss many men.”
The entire base was on fire, blazing away to the ground. My men cheered on with victory. I opened up Arabian’s book and I saw the second to last page fill with words.
“Tomorrow is the final battle,” I told my men, “You did well today. O di ma shi!”
“O di ma shi!” The entire base sounded. Everyone saluted and went off into their tents. Arabian approached me and led me into his tent.
The night was dark and windy, but the easy breeze felt nice after the intense battle. Stars lit up to brighten the night.
“Tomorrow, I will fight with you against Ibils,” Arabian said. “Legends say that Ibils is immortal and cannot be killed. Tomorrow we will make history.”
“Yes we will. I’ll lead the Ordish Horde to victory!” I shouted. As I exited Arabian’s tent, I went into my tent to rest for the battle.
“O di ma shi!” We all shouted and moved out of the base.
The sun was bright and shining upon my men for the battle that will make history. As we reached Ibils’ base, there was a large dragon in a cage. Next to it was a pool of lava, which is there for unknown reasons.
“The dragon is Ibils?” I interrogated.
“Yep,” Arabian replied, “Don’t you remember?”
“Oh yeah. I know.” I pretended to remember. I didn’t really get to the part of the story about it saying that Ibils was a dragon.
Our positions were ready. We were camouflaged with the environment with our weapons ready.
“Charge!” I commanded.
“We all ran towards the base. Immediately, arrows came flying our way. It looks like Ibils’ army knew we were coming.
Their army came charging at us and our forces made contact with each other. Ibils was set free from his cage and flew into the battle.
I knew saw at first sight that his eye is the weak point. Ibils landed on the ground, breathing out fire, burning all standing in his way. He then stared to me.
“I’m in trouble.” I whimpered.
His giant tails whipped at me and I barely jump over it. I held my spear tightly and stabbed his tail while I had the chance. His eyes looked angry, through his skin is as hard as steel. He whipped his tail at me once more and I flew in the air. I landed out of the battle zone, injured. If it wasn’t for my armor, I would’ve been killed. My men were losing and Arabian was nowhere to be seen.
Ibils flew up into the air and flew toward my direction. He swooped at me and I managed to grab his foot. He looked back and didn’t see me. His skin was so thick and rubbery; I guess I didn’t hurt him before. I climbed up onto his head and he noticed me. He flew downwards with pronominal velocity. I held on tight and saw his eye. I stabbed it with my spear and Ibils screamed. He was out of control, flying in all directions. He was flying into the lava. I quickly jumped off and landed in one of the tents. I quickly got out of the tent and saw Ibils fly into the pool of lava.
“I did it!” I shouted with success. I opened Arabian legends and saw the words in the last page. I smiled and saw Arabian.
“You did it.” Arabian hugged me, “How can I repay you?”
“There’s no need for that.” I replied. Suddenly, I disappeared into nothingness again like before and I flew fast, but not as fast as Ibils did. I saw the light and flew right into it once again.
“Argh. My head.” I groaned.
“What’s wrong?” I saw Julie again. We were in the construction site again as it were before. “How come your head hurts?”
It looked as time didn’t move when I was in the book. “Julie, you won’t believe this.”
That is when I told her everything.
Note: If writing is like this, then Ross is telling the story to other people as it happened it the past.
If writing is like this, then this is what is happening as it were the present time. This is another type that I found out during the project.
