The Red Sun
Why does an axe inside one of the oldest structures the world has ever known cease to surprise me?. As I took it out, I saw some writing on the back. It was in Arabic, but I understood it with ease. It said, " You have traveled half of the Earth in search of the unknown, but now, you shall travel all in search for your next quest. You shall reach an island where the red sun shines on the blossoming trees on the dead river."
Just as I was trying to figure out the meaning of the text, I noticed a guard gazing at me. Nothing suspicious at all, I am just a kid, kneeling behind a Moai, with an axe and a dagger in my hands. It's something you see every day. Most of you would say that my reaction was the dumbest thing anybody would do in a similar situation, but I was just a young boy scared to death, so that was the only reaction in my mind. I stared at the guard for about five seconds, then started running. Consequently, the guard started running behind me, and the chase began.
I kept running around the island, jumping over obstacles and ramming through people on the hope that I will lose the guard, but he was still following me like a homing missile. I will never outrun him. He is always behind me. He will catch me, but what will he do after that? Will he send me to jail? I don't want to go to jail. I kept panicking, which was not good as it slowed me down, but just as I was about to lose hope, I found it, I found an escape route. There was a cruise ship just leaving Eastern Island's port. I ran with all the power I had left in me and jumped from the port across a wide gap of crashing waves on the hope they won't be the last thing I see. My legs didn't land on the ship, but my hands did. I helplessly pushed myself onto the ship's floor, gasping for air and watching, as Eastern Island slowly faded away into the horizon.
The ship was on its way to Chile, the closest country to Eastern Island, but the cruise would take a whole day, and because I was not authorized to be on there I had to find somewhere safe to stay for a whole day, and where did I choose? A bathroom stall.
As I sat in the stall, I got my axe out and tried to figure out the words, "Red sun, travel all, island, blossoming tree? What does any of that mean? Ok, step by step, right now I am in South America. I traveled from Europe that what he means by half the globe, but If I were to travel all the globe from South America, I will end up in the same place. That means I must travel all the map, which will end up with me in Asia. There are so many islands in Asia, but only one is associated with a red sun and blossoming trees, Japan!"
The moment I reached Chile I sneaked outside of the ship and rushed form my hotel, nearly all of my bags were packed, so I took them and boarded a plane to Japan. On the flight, I kept thinking about where to go in Japan," An axe is used for chopping wood, and the writing does mention blossoming trees, so I guess I have to go to a cherry blossom park, but which one? Blossoming trees on the dead river? The Hiroshima Peace Park! It is a park filled cherry blossoms on a river, and the park was built to memorialize those who died because of the atomic bomb. It matches all the criteria." There was something else that kept me hyperactive, but this one also made me nervous.
A man was staring at me, studying every move I made. When the plane landed, he followed me through the airport. Why is he doing this? I can't go to the park now or he might do something. I have to lose him first. I got into a cab and told the driver to drive around town as fast as he can. At the beginning he refused, but when I told him there is extra pay, he agreed. Even then the mysterious man was still tailing me. Once we gained speed on the high way, I yelled, "Stop!" The driver panicked and slammed the brakes, therefore, the man's car slammed into our car. A fight ensued between the two drivers and I escaped through the confusion and hid behind a gas station. I looked through my bag for the dagger, but instead, I found a watch. When I grabbed the watch, it transformed into my dagger.
Just as that happened, I heard a noise behind me. I turned quickly to find the man standing behind me. He grabbed me by my throat and raised me. "You think you can defeat Gyvor, the slaughterer of knights, the one who shall prevail! You're only a boy! Looks like the ancient weapons made a mistake," he said. I was starting to choke and my vision started to blur, so I stabbed with my dagger helplessly, my last chance of survival. Suddenly, his hand loosened and I fell. I had stabbed directly into his heart. He was bleeding, but his blood was...... black.