(5) Cristal Quest.
“Relics hiding in circumference, Finish the quest to get the rest”
Next morning when we were in the hut Mihari came to walk me up. And told us that we have to go the Oleta with Jafari. We took our bags, came out side and followed him. He took us to the river cost and told us to stay there.
“hey, Mihari. Where are we going?” Anna asked Mihari. And I was just standing and enjoying the view.
“Baba is coming. He will take you to the Oleta” Mehari said. And pointed toward the center mountain.
“What is there expertly in the Oleta” Anna asked.
“it’s a gathering place for the fest” Mihari said.
“There is some kind of festival going in here” I asked in between.
“yes, and there is dancing competition, fighting competition and some other quest” Mihari said. I kept looking at his whistle locket. And he noticed.
“What kind of quest?” Anna asked him.
“Take this, you probably need this.” He took his locket and handed it to Anna.
“See, this kid is much more gentle than you” Anna said. I kept looking at her.
“Hey kid, do you have something for me too” I asked. I don’t if we are going to face another ghost again.
“I have only one Totota” Mihari said.
“That’s not fair, I too need one Totota whistle” I tried to play with him.
“you can ask baba; He gave it to me” Mihari answered so intellectually.
“he is even smarter than you” Anna said. I again looked at her and said nothing, because I knew it was meaningless to argue with her on this. I don’t even know if she was making fun of me or saying it for true.
Mihari pointing his finger at the river and us that the Jafari is coming. We saw him coming on the swimming dragon on the water surface and there was another dragon too behind them and he was much Scaryar than Jafaris dragon, he has teeth, really sharp teeths. We kept looking at him with his dragon. He told us that we have to visit Oleta to meet the guardians. Mihari ran and climbed the dragon and set behind his father. Anna and I kept looking at each other because we knew he had to ride that dragon with teeths. Jafari sensed I was scared but Anna was excited about riding the dragon.
Jafari told us it is totally safe to ride it, just don’t ever touch his head.
Anna quickly climbed on it and held the belt. around his neck. And told me to come behind her. I tried two or three times to climb him but failed to take the seat. And Anna gave me a hand and took me for a ride. I keep grabbing her tightly while sitting behind her. I was a bit scared. And then Jafari told us to follow him. And he took us to the Oleta located in the center mountain, It was a giant vault shaped hut for gathering, same as told by Mihari.
We entered the Oleta and Jafari told us to take the seat. There were actually lots of people, maybe from every village. and Every buddy was looking at us like they had seen some ghost. Some of them were looking so angry. Jafari went to an old person sitting in the front center chair and greeted him by bowing down. And he kept talking to him for a while. and both were looking at us Like they were thinking “that to do with these two guys”. After a while Jafari looked at us and called us at him we came Infront of that old guy, Zidasa. Jafari introduced us to him and other Gurdian leaders sitting behind them. We greeted them the same as Jafari did. He told us about that old guy is the leader of all guardians and he was the most senior among guy here.
“What made you come here” Zidasa asked us.
“We came here for research” Anna said.
“What kind of research, you are on” That guy said and kept looking at the Totoa whistle locket in Anna's neck. I thought we were in trouble for a while.
“We have been looking for different types of life forms everywhere in the universe. We came here in a ship, it’s on the surface above this Holam, We hope you would help us go back to our ship”
“We can’t just let you go from there until it confirms that you are not going to tell anyone about this place to anyone. We already have suffered strangers, Strangers before” Zidasa said. All other guardians were listening silently while looking at us.
“We promise you about that” Anna said and took all the sunstone from our bag and kept them in front of them. Making it confirm that we are not going to take any evidence from here.
“But it is not as easy as you think, to go from here.” Zidasa nodded and said. And every buddy was looking at us like we did some kind of crime, after looking at those sunstones that we took out from our bag.
“We would do anything, to go back. Just guide us what we have to do” Anna asked. I was just standing beside her and hearing them.
“We have a festival here today, and (he took a pause) You have to complete the quest on your own. Jafari will guide. But no one would help on this, you have to find and collect all the five relics from all the mountains”
“What are these relics” Anna asked him.
“Jafari will guide you on this, And yes. You have find it before lights out” He said.
“What If we couldn’t find it” Anna said.
“Well Then you have to wait till the next festival, After six months. But don’t worry you will wing it” He said and called Jafari to guide it further. And announced to every buddy to enjoy the festival.
Jafari took us outside the Oleta and called Jiraya, One of his guardian friends. And introduce us.
“Where is Mihari” I asked.
“don’t worry he will be playing with other kids” Jafari told us.
“What are these relics” Anna asked Jafari.
“Relics are key to the crystal gate. And you have to collect it from every mountain”
“But how are we supposed to do it… We don’t even know anything about this place” I panicked and asked between them.
“We will tell you the location you just have to go there and take that relic to mount centora”
“But it’s going to take hours to go on every mountain, how are we going to do it before light vanish” Anna said.
“Don’t worry we have something for you” Jafari said and told Jiray to bring something. And he brought same dragon with the teeths as ride and he had armors sword and a metal shield, He handed all those things to us and Jafari helped us to wear those armor.
“Don’t touch his head and don’t think anything stupid about him, He can hear your thoughts… They are really good swimmers and climbers” Jiraya said about the dragon and held his neck belt in my hand. And keep looking and laughing at me from a distance. And I was really feeling weird wearing that armor and with shield and sword and the dragon too. Few days ago, I was playing video games and compiling the quest and now it’s all come to a real thing. I slightly moved my head and looked at the dragon, he was just standing beside me and looking at me. I heard his breasts and my legs started shaking. I quickly hand it over to Anna.
“You have already ridden it, so you should do it” I said.
“why are you afraid of it now” Anna said and laughed.
“No, I just don’t like dragons” I said.
“But you do the same things in the video games” Anna said.
“But they are just video games.” I said.
“But it's your time for a real adventure, you should take the chance” Anna said but I refused to ride that dragon, Because I saw him the way he was looking at me.
Jafari told us to go and told us to go and came before lights out. Anna quickly climbed the dragon and I was sitting behind her and we went through the river and climbed to the first mountain, that dragon was really fast at climbing the mountain and there was an old temple. We went inside looking for the relic. And when we finally saw the relic it was guarded by a few ghost spirits, at first, we were afraid. Then Anna remembered the Totota whistle given by Mihari and played it to make those ghosts move away from us and we finally collected our first key from the first mountain. It was a red metal stone key.
Then we came to the next mountain on our furious dragon. And went to another temple. It was just under a big tree and gate was closed by tree roots. I used my sword to cut the roots to open the gate but it kept growing. So, I decided to stay on the gate and keep it open, till then Anna will go and collect the key. And she went inside and I kept cutting the roots and waiting. Anna came after a while to another relic, and its wooden key was mostly like a sculpture.
We kept moving and came to the third mountain, it was the same mountain where we spent whole night before meeting jiraya, we saw the temple gate and went inside but keep walking for few minuets it was all dark inside and nothing was visible. Then again, we came out. And thought of going up on the top and took some sunstone with us, so we went up on the mountain top and took some solar stone and with us to use it for light. And we searched inside the temple which was inside the mountain. As we became closer to the relic with the sunstone it started glowing. and when we finally took the relic and we noticed as we moved the sunstone close to the relic it started glowing more white. We came out of the temple with the third key.
Then we moved toward the fourth mountain and came to the temple. It was at the river bank of the mountain and the gate was closed with a stone door. I saw a pattern on the door. And thought I saw it somewhere. Then Anna reminded me it looks the same as the pattern on your shield. I moved to the door and stuck my shield to the door and rotated it until it stopped and the door was open and it was going down inside the water. We thought for a while, and we had no other option than to dive in the temple. We went inside the temple and we swam inside and we were glad there were air pockets to brith. We saw some inside the water on a stone platform. And we dived inside again and found our fourth relic, it was a crystal shell. So now we had our fourth key to home.
We kept moving to another mountain and reached the final temple. As we came closer to the temple gate, we saw there was a dragon guarding the gate. Anna asked me what you do in game in such a situation. I simply answered we have to fight that dragon. We kept looking at the dragon for a while, He had wings and he looked much more dangerous than our dragon. Till then he noticed us and stood up with a roar and flames were coming from his mouth. And he really had a big jaw. He charged on us and Anna took the dragon to the mountain top. And when we saw we were above the flaming dragon he was flying too. Anna quickly jumped our dragon on that flying dragon and I was screaming from behind and he fell on the ground and got unconscious. Anna quickly went inside the temple and came with the fifth relic it was a dragon shell. Until then I kept looking at that sleeping dragon. My legs were still shaking after falling from that Height. And showed me the fifth relic, the dragon shell with a smile. I told her to move back to the center mountain before he wakes up.
So, we were coming back to the center mountain where the fest was going.
“When you learned to ride a dragon, you were really incredible” I said very happily and with pride.
“Its simple, I was talking to the dragon while fighting” Anna said.
“Oh!... How ?” i said.
“Remember, Jiraya told us that he can hear our thoughts” She said and I was blank.
We reached the fest with all the five relics and the good news was we were before time. Jafari and Jiraya welcomed us. And invited us to the fest.
“Can we go home now?” I asked. While we all were walking to the Oleta.
“No” Jafari said.
“Why, we have all the keys.”
“Its not safe to go it’s the tunnel in daylight, I told you before, we will move in night.”
We entered the fest, Zidasa saw us and smiled and told us to enjoy the fest and the food till the night.
We all were watching the dance after having food and me and Anna danced too for a while. Then Mihari came to me and held my hand and took me aside and gave me two lockets, one was with the small sunstone and another one was the crystal stone. I looked at him with a smile and moved my hand over his head, because he was a really nice kid to remember. I asked for a locket in the morning. I quickly put that in my pocket before any buddy notices it. And told him not to talk about it to anyone or we will be in big trouble.
We thanked everyone before saying goodbye and that dragon too was still looking at me so aggressively, I don’t know why he had a problem with me. Mihari asked, "Will you come again to visit us?" Anna took him in his arms and told hum that we will come for sure to visit you.
And the night came and Jafari and Jiraya took us to the crystal gate and put all the relics in the key points. And the gate was open. And we gave them final goodbye. They told us to visit them again someday if possible. I hugged Jafari and told him he really helped us a lot and he is really a nice guy. And then we finally moved to our ship.
We came inside the ship and after getting refreshment and changed our clothes and put the system on. We came to the deck area and started the ship and it moved away from the surface. And when we finally came out of the planet’s gravity, Anna set the location of the base, I noticed it was 14 of Feb and it was Valentine's day. So I decided to present those lockets to her which were given by Mihari, Anna turned autopilot on and went to the bed to sleep, And there was a window where we could see outside in space. I came behind her and hugged her tightly and wished her a happy Valentine's day. And gifted those two lockets and she quickly turned to me and asked how I got this. I told her everything. She was looking very happy to see them. I slightly moved and kissed her cheeks and when I moved to kiss her lips, she quickly turned her face towards the window. And I kept pleasing her for one kiss but she kept refusing saying not today honey.. not today.. (And Our conversation went on)
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