Chapter 5

Chapter V

“It was a bright morning with a good wind to breath as the ocean creates scenery of a festive season where birds sing with the wind and the waves are strong enough to shake any ship in its surface.”

Prince Machus set sail to the village where his brother situated with a hundred men in the ship. As they were heading he feels something good on that day without knowing that the prince he was looking for was on that place. He was standing in the front deck of the ship hearing the birds as they sing their song as the ocean is calmly sympathize the wind as it go on its flow.

On the distant sea; enough to see the island in his naked eye, he already know that the people specially the children are waiting for him when he observed a flag waved on the coast as to welcome him coming to the beach. The prince got excited to land as he heard the shouting children as he get nearer to the place. The ship stopped at a distant because they reach the shallow part of the sea. So, the prince sailed on a small boat to reach the beach and as he landed all children on the land was running towards him; some grabs his arms and some hugs on his hips and some on his back trying to be lifted by his body. The parents is on the distant laughing to what the little ones have been doing to the prince as the prince is playing with their children and he seemed enjoyed what they are doing to him. He grab one and the he lifted it up.

            “Let’s go to the hill.” The prince told the little children.

Then they go. The hill is just a distance apart from the beach so that it only takes them a little time to climb it.

            “I want to be like you, master.” One of the children said.

The prince only gives back smile to them.

“Before that, I will let you have this.” The prince said while giving items to the children.

The place became joyous as they were before and the smell of a coming festive for the prince coming is noticeable in the smell of the air.

“Master, how to become strong?” one of them asked the prince.

“To become strong? Hmm…” he thinks for an answer that is suitable for these children.

“For me, to be strong, you must have this and use it in good ways.” He said while pointing on his heart.

“Our heart?” one of them replied.

“Yes, that one.” He replied.

“How could we pluck out our heart and how we will use them?” A strange question of a little child.

“No, what I mean is you must be lovable to your friend and to your parents as well.” He said.

“Loving those people who is important to you is what will make you strong.” He added.

The prince observed that one of them is alone in a distant space so he approached him and talk about its problem.

            “What’s the problem?” the prince asked the little boy.

“Master, why do people fighting against one another?” the boy said.

“Why you asked that?” the prince worried to the boy.

“My grand father died long ago because they fight against bad people.” The boy answered the prince.

“Basically, there are two types of fighting. The first one is fighting for your own good and the second one was fighting for others sake. The first one shows greed of worldly power and the second one shows justice be justified.” He said to the boy.

“Your grandfather died because he is fighting for the other people’s sake, and that you should be proud of.” He added.

The prince was worried because the bad guy the boy referring was his great grandparent who in history united the city of Phillean, Trauso and Aussey through brute force.

“Why are you looked worried?” a mysterious man appeared in his side.

The prince was in total shock because he isn’t notice the man coming. He just pop out instantly from somewhere the prince didn’t know. The man is kind of weird because his beard is almost covers his face which makes him hard to identify who he was. The only thing the prince clearly identified is the man is wearing a white robe with his feet is standing on a small rock. He looks like old but his body is telling him he is not.

            “Whoa!” the prince was shocked.

“Where you come from?” the prince asked but the man not answering his question.

The prince was scared to the mysterious man and he almost runs in fears.

“Don’t be scared by me.” The old man said facing the other side.

The prince was relieved and looks closely and still fear can’t be taken away.

            “Don’t worry I am harmless.” The old man said.

It seems funny that a prince like him is scared of a bearded man with a white robe. XD.

“You were looking for your brother, right?” the mysterious man said.

The prince had forgotten his fear when he heard about his brother from the old man.

            “How do you know?” the prince curiosity drives him to ask.

The old man became silent again while the prince is eager to know where his brother is.

“Go to the village and you’ll meet there a man who will be the one to tell you where he was.”

Due to his eager and will to find his brother he quickly run towards the place the mysterious man had told him. A few steps from the place he was he suddenly realized he forgotten to give thanks to the man so he looked but in he witnessed an amazing event, the man mysteriously vanished in the thin air! The prince has goose bumps in his entire body and wonders who it was. In the thin air he said to himself.

“I wonder why people pop out and vanished mysteriously. I can’t understand them but I really thank them.”

            “Whoever you are, thank you!” he shouted.