It was a highway road, but the young David never care about that, he was driving recklessly overtaking cars in excessive speed. The dark is starting, his girl Janet wanted to recommended the reduction of the speed even though he is not wiling to listen, she told him about it for so many times yet he didn’t ceased it, she has no choice than to leave him continue the risky race, and again she has no idea on where he is taking them nor why he is doing the madly race. He continue driving pulling the car forward to some extent that they left the town completely, that is when the heart of the lovely Janet started beating to and fro after seeing the long trees of the lonely forest.
” You have to stop this nonsense or else I will hold the stirring so that we will die now.” Janet managed to spoke at last.
” I am sorry dear, it seemed I am definitely out of my sense that is why I am not able to hear what you spoke.” He said reducing the speed.
” So what is your plan now?” Janet asked.
” We are about approaching Maxwell’s resident, I am sure he can tell us all what we need to know.” David respond.
” But I don’t think if he can help us with anything.”
” He can.. Don’t forget he helped my dad with am…..” David said turning the stirring.
” And that doesn’t mean he can help you, but let’s give it a try perhaps he might.”
The young David continue driving after they off the friendly chat, Janet who seemed in hysteria about the roadway they are moving to. This is not her first journey into the woods, her face was in puzzle so as her reaction. She looked deep in the woods after the wolfs of this boring night started alerting a vigorous hollo. There she covered her ear trembling in feared. David who concentrated his mind in driving began to understand the the change in her appearance.
” Are you okay.” He asked.
” I am feeling something different inside me, we have to go back now.” Janet spoke in fear.
” No we can’t, we have followed the shortcut that will lead us to our destination,
So you have no worry we are about approaching.” David respond. They shut for a while before David managed to spoke at last. ” You are right.”
” What do you mean?” Janet asked. He didn’t respond, he only opened and closed his eyes in dizzy expression.
” Are you okay?” Janet asked but he didn’t answer. She looked at him in doubt thinking what the hell is wrong with him. That is when she perceived the lost of his senses. He is driving with closing eyes roughly. She shouted holding the stirring.
” Oh my God wake up, wake you freak before you get us killed.” She kicked him but still he remained steadily without moving. The car increased the speed moving roughly hitting trees while Janet is there trying her best to get the car in control. It took about a moments before the car stopped after collided with a tree. She get out of the car coughing, the smoke all over began to dispersed in the air, David was brought out and lay under tree, she sat next to him crying talking to him in hum voice.
” David.” She torched him gently. ” Did you see what just happened?” She embraced him in pity. Blood started spilling out of his mouth and this made her to looked at him once again. His skin is changing from its normal view into abnormal. And also his hair, David had a very dark soft hair, but now it was turned to a firm hair stained with red. She stood up in astonishment because she never experience this to anyone. She torched his hair feeling how firm it was. She looked at all angles seeing no one. quickly she got into the car to see if she can start it. She spent about twenty minutes doing this and that for the car to start but it didn’t. She moved out in sorrow thinking about her only boyfriend. A thought came up upon her mind that there might be some people some where to help but the problem is she don’t know where to find them. With this she decided to take David with her to move into the wood. She did it, she helped David and together they continue moving. David has no appetite, he can’t walk alone with no help, she grabbed his shoulder moving slowly to make sure he didn’t suffer. They walked into the wood for a very far distance before they made it to one small house near the lake. Janet was happy to see this house because she is now certain that they will get help. She knocked the door, no one open and there she thought they might be sleeping, she broke into the house and dropped David at one sit. She turned to close the door unexpected she saw a lady standing before her.
” You scared me.” Janet said recoiling back.
” Who are you and what brought you to my house?” The lady asked.
” I am Janet and this is my boyfriend Dav…..”
” Just tell me what brought you here?” The lady asked in thunder voice. Janet recoiled back dreadfully because of seeing the visible red colour her eyes reflected. She looked at the lady thinking about what she saw, maybe she was having a dream.
” I am sorry to broke in your house without seeking your permission, but that was because I am really in need of help, my friend is dying please help me.” Janet said taking herself closer to David. The lady looked at David without saying a word. She came closer looking at his skin and hair.
” Where are you coming from?” The lady asked.
” From Las Vegas. “Janet respond.
” How many hours does it took you to come here?”
” Well, we started the ride around 10:30 AM and now it was 9:30 PM, so I guess we spent the whole day on road.” Janet respond.
” Whole day on road?” The lady spoke suspiciously, “Trying to find what?” She asked again.
” I am sorry Miss, but this was a personal issue that cannot be spoken.” Janet stood up. ” Please can you show me your toilet?” The lady showed her the direction to follow to get in the toilet. Janet broke in the toilet distraughtly concerning the condition of David. The lady she saw was surprising, she is certain that she saw something inside her eyes but she can’t tell what. After she’s done, she made it out to sitting room where she left David.
” His illness is complicated, it was making him weak. I know she will not leave him till he’s gone.” The lady spoke looking at David.
” What! What do you mean she will not leave him, do you know what is inside him?” The lady sat looking at her. ” There is something you don’t know about. The whole driving he did, he was not the doer, rather she is, she brought you here you and him so that you will suffer the same fate with hers.” The lady said courageously.
” I don’t know what you are talking about! We are on our way to….” David started coughing. Janet got hold of him so that he will not fall. It took some moment before he cold down and got back to sleep.
” You are saying something about a lady huh?” Janet asked.
” Yes, he ruined her life, he was lucky he died a natural dead if not she will have take her revenged. Still she’s not going to let it go, that is why she’s revenging the treachery to his son.” The lady said releasing the reflection on her eyes. Janet looked again in certainty that something must be inside this lady’s eyes. She is not seemed normal at all, there must be something about her. Quickly she went to David grabbing his shoulder.
” David, we need to go now are you hearing me?”
” You have no where to go! Do you think you can escape it.” The lady spoke with smile. ” Just like you spent the whole day on road that is how she spent her whole life into the darkness.”
” I don’t know what you are talking about, there is need for you to explain it accurately before we can get the point.” Janet spoke trembling David to wake up.
” You are here because of her, you spent the whole day on road because of her, and the main reason she did this was to revenged what his father did to her.” The lady spoke in hum voice, she moved closer to David looking at him with smile, ” Look at my hand.” Janet took her eyes steadily to the hand of the lady.
” Oh my God!” She recoiled back in feared. Her hand is affected with same illness of David.
” He caused it.” Said the lady.
” Who?” Janet asked.
” Thomas Cordell.” The lady respond in agony.
Thomas Cordell, that’s the name of David’s father. So she mean David’s father ruined her life that is why she’s trying to revenged it to David. Janet had this thought before she raised her head forward to look at the lady.
” You have to know that David should not be blame because he didn’t do anything to you, it was his father, and his father is dead so you have to show mercy on him.”
” Mercy? Like father like son don’t you know that!” The lady said reflecting her eyes again. ” I am only going to make him suffer a little bit before he fall into the darkness.” Her voice started sounding horribly, and her eyes began to show red reflection, Janet grabbed David and ran to make an escape, the doors of the house quickly shut down together with all the windows.
” Where do you think you are going?” The lady approached in her evil appearance. She started incantation that led the coming of dusty storm into the house. Janet released David unknowingly, quickly she grabbed him again and ran to open the door, together with David she made it out followed by the evil lady that turned monster, she was flying on the storm releasing magical arrows to them. Janet started moving from one tree to another so as to avoid been seen. She hid herself on one tree hugging David tightly.
” I know where you are, never think you can escape it.” The evil lady spoke in her monstrous voice while approaching. Janet grabbed David once again and changed the location. This is how she continue the escape game without letting the evil lady come encounter of her. She made it to the road grabbing David who looked tired, she started waving to one truck approaching and luckily the driver stop.
” Where are you going young lady?” The driver asked. She didn’t answer. Quickly she pulled David inside then she climbed on.
” Just go go go.” The driver started the trunk thinking what the hell pursued them.
” Hi, you didn’t even tell me your name.” He said looking at her.
” Just keep quiet and drive.” Janet respond looking at David whose gasping weakly.
” You have to tell me where you are going so that I can drop you. Remember I am not like you, I am a truck driver and my job is to spent the whole day on road.” He said with smile. Janet looked at him in the mood to talk but before she get to it a sudden collision stop her. It seemed her driver has collided with another moving truck. They shouted in despair after the truck commence to wobbling.
” Get out get out.” Said the driver. She pulled David down the truck and lay him under tree. Together with the driver they checked up the truck they collided with if the driver is breathing but to their surprised he was not there.
” Where did he go?” Janet asked.
” I don’t know.” The driver respond. He looked at the truck before he concentrated his attention on the road. ” Oh no.” He said recoiling back. ” Quickly get into the truck let’s move on.”
” What is happening?” Janet asked.
” We are on apocalyptic road. The driver respond.
” Apocalyptic road.” Janet said in hum voice. She helped David into the truck before she got in. ” What are you waiting for dude?” She shouted, the driver didn’t answer. All what she heard was his scream. She quickly took herself to driver sit and luckily the key was there. She started the truck and fire on. Janet rode in sorrow as she know the driver was dead, and there is probability that she might be followed by that killer. David whose still gasping weakly has no idea on what is happening, she looked at him in pity before she increased the speed. The truck they collided with was drove by unknown man, the man started pursuing Janet in excessive speed. Janet held the stirring firmly turning moving forward to escaped the attack of this monster. They continue the race thrusting each other violently, the monster man was a professional driver, he propelled Janet into the bushes leaving her on her only fate. She held the stirring firmly and wrenched it pulling the truck back to the road. The monster man who parked at road side watching to see her end felt strong sorrow after she managed to made it back to the road. He pulled his truck once again in wanted ambition of eliminating her permanently. Janet never allow his truck to torch hers even a little while, she started using some driving skills he never know about. She was driving based on tactics and plan, the monster man grew eager to eliminate the young Janet but she never give him the chance to. Any new problem he brought Janet will make sure she got the solution for it. They took a very long time making the risky game before Janet made a suggestion that she need to see the face of this man. She watched his position with her bright eyes and sharp brain, she didn’t see anything of him except his hat. Maybe it was because of the dark that is why she cannot see him. Luckily she casted her eyes on a small torch light lying downward. She took it switching it on then placing it to the monster man, still she cannot see his accurate appearance, all she can see was but a hat, as if he was told what she was doing, cleverly he turned his face to other direction and lastly he brought a shotgun, he shot twice missing his target, before he proceed to the third one Janet has propelled his truck into the bushes. The truck released a horrible smoke before it collapsed, With smile on Janet’s face she passed by waving goodbye to him. She continue driving peacefully in cold temper looking her only love who seemed to awaken now. He looked at the truck surprisingly thinking how he got in. He valued his Janet more than himself because the love he felt toward her cannot be discussed in a sentence. He looked at her wondering why she was sweating.
” Are you okay?” He asked.
” Partially.” She respond.
” What happened to you, it seemed you are not okay.”
” Yes I am not.” Janet said cleaning the sweating with handkerchief.
” So where are you taking us?” He asked.
” I don’t know.” She respond.
” Okay stop the truck now.” He commanded. Janet didn’t listen to him she only continue driving. ” I said stop the truck now I am hungry I want to eat something.” He shouted.
” I am sorry David, you have to know that there is no stop here, they called this place apocalyptic road because of the calamity and catastrophe event that occured daily. So I will not stop unless if you want to get us killed.”
” Okay, so how did you got this truck and where is the driver?”
” I don’t know how I got it but you have to put in your mind that the driver was dead on this road.” Janet respond. David kept shut thinking about what he was told. He looked at the large masses of trees waggling. His thinking mood was paused after they approached the checkpoint. They were asked to park, the police officer reflected his torch light on them for inspection before he started asking them question.
” Are you the driver of this truck?”The officer asked.
” No sir I am just assisting.” Janet respond.
” You are just assisting, so what is wrong with the driver?”
” I am alright sir, I just asked her to relief me for a while so that I can get some sleep.” David spoke courageously.
” Okay, where are you coming from?”
” From Las Vegas sir.”
” To where?”
” To Texas Sir.”
” So you are from Las Vegas trying to move to Texas in this very night. You are suspicious please come down.” The officer shouted.
” I am sorry sir we are just…” Said David.
” -Just come down.” The officer shouted again.
The rest of the police came closer and surrounded the truck, just before they began the check up they heard the horn of a mad driver in excessive speed. He started shooting them one after the other. ” Son of the bitch, it was the monster man, let’s get back to the truck.” Janet shouted moving back to the truck together with David. This time around she left David to drive them away. David started the truck and fire on pulling forward. The police made their escape before the monster man got them all. The monster man drive in agony trying to revenged what was did to him. Janet was in much puzzle because she never thought he can survived that accident, David rode the truck aggressively just to confuse the monster man. He didn’t remained in one place, as he was driving he was taking the truck into the bush for a while before he get back to the road, the monster man lost senses on where to start, it seemed he met a man of his type. He used his gun to shot but no target is captured, he threw the gun aside holding the stirring for this wonderful game.
” I am going to make sure he didn’t rise again.” David said increasing the speed.
” You have to reduce the speed we are now on a bridge.” Janet spoke in warning. The monster man increased the speed too not knowing it was a trap. David started to reduced his speed slowly since he got what he want.
” I want you to get out of this truck after the count of three.” David said looking at her.
” And what of you?” She asked.
” We are moving together.” He respond.
” One, two three, go.” Together they made it out leaving the monster man alone on road. He started to reduced the speed after seeing their truck moving slowly not knowing he was too late. There was a profound collision between the two trucks, this collision led to sudden explosion of the bridge. The two trucks were at last into the water masses. David and his girl Janet managed to made it out the bridge moving to find a new car. Within they sighted a small car approaching toward them. They waved the driver to stop and luckily he did.
” David! What are you doing here?” The driver spoke in surprised. David looked intently to the man talking wondering how he knew his name.
” Oh! Is that you Sir Maxwell?” David asked.
” Yea kid, so what brought you to apocalyptic road, don’t you know this is a dangerous place?” Maxwell asked.
” We came looking for you and here you are.” David respond raising his head upward for the sound of the moving wind. The storm started gathering closer to them.
” Oh shit! The evil lady is here.” Janet spoke getting into the car, David do the same quickly.
” Just go go go.” Janet shouted. Sir Maxwell drove awfully in thinking mood.
” Can you please tell me what is happening.” He asked heading to bridge, Janet stopped him, she asked him to followed another road because the bridge is no longer into existence. She also updated him about their mysterious event on road.
” This your adventure is boring, even though I am just like you, I spent the whole day on road and now I am on my way to farm house so that I can have some shelter. So if you didn’t mind I will take you there so that we can spend the night together.” Sir Maxwell took them to his farm house where he satisfied them with a delicious meal.
” I read my father’s diary he asked me to find after his demised. I have seen how he discovered the lost town of Asilia Down the Sea, and also how you helped him with the sword of fire, together with my mum Alice who submitted the cloak of fire to him. I want to know more about these two items now.” David said looking at Maxwell.
” Before your father died, he handed over these two items to me and asked me to keep them for you because he know one day you will ask for them and thank God they are here safe with me. The Sword of Fire and Cloak of Fire were created in 18th century by a German warrior named Karl Robert, he was called Mr fire by Persian warriors, Karl once had a dream, in his dream he saw the destruction of the entire German by foreign invaders he never told who they were. And there he was told upon to creat a sword and cloak to travel with into Persia. He did as he was told even though he don’t know what to do in that land. After he made it to Persia he found that the city is in war and there is no going back to whose already in. He used the sword and the cloak he created to depend himself against attack. He performed an excellent role in this war and this made sultan to ordered his present. The princess of the city whose having fond of him started to think what to do in other to gain his trust. Her final suggestion to her thought was to praise him in the form of poem, she composed a brightly poem that brought a honour to the German warrior, and it was in this poem that Cloak of Fire and Sword of Fire got their name. The title of the poem was The German Fire meaning The German Warrior.
The fire has come to set us free
The fire of far in distance above
The fire that wiped the weeping away
The fire that cast the bold and again
Again and again it set us free
Bring and brought the fortune to us
Therefore injecting the panic to them
The German Sword of Fire again
Again and again it has what we need
Again and again the fire has came
Mr and Mrs of fire again
The princess and fire of German again
Possessing the cloaking of fire again.
The cloak that will served and protect us again
May The God give reward to fire again
May The God give relief to fire again
The fire that came to set us free.
The horde into the palace gave a ring of applause to the princess after delivering this pleasant poem. Mr Karl also appreciated her effort and there after he started to asked her some question concerning her poem.
” You said the fire has come to set us free?” Mr Karl asked.
” Yes meaning the warrior has come to set us free.” The princess answered
” You said the fire of far in distance above?”
” Yes meaning the warrior of far in distance above.”
” You said the fire that wiped the weeping away?”
” Yes meaning the warrior that wiped the weeping away. What I want you to know is that, in any verse of my poem you saw the word fire, kindly replace it with the word warrior and that will give you accurate meaning of it.” The princess concluded.
” My last question please, who is this warrior you are devoting the extolment to?” Mr Karl asked. There was a dead silent into the palace. Every living soul listened to hear the answer of this question. The princess started with a smile that expressed her bountiful beautifulness, she walked a few step closer to Mr Karl.
” I didn’t expect this question from you, I thought you understood what I mean.” She whispered looking at him. ” He is.” She said vibrantly. ” He is the one I am referring the extolment to.” She poked him with smile. The crowd started yelling clapping for Mr Karl for receiving this honour. Then the sultan cleared his throat before he started delivering a sermon.
” Praised be to ALLAH lord of the world who created earth and heaven, and who send the German warrior to us, this young man called Karl brought a satisfactory fortune to all of us, he saved our lifes and defeated our enemy by injecting fear into their heart, I can see it to all of them. I know we cannot reward you Mr Karl neither we can’t made back what you did to us. All I can say is may ALLAH reward you abundantly and may ALLAH relief you abundantly May your ambition come true and may your enemy fail. I prayed in the ninety nine names of ALLAH that may the Sword of fire possessed the power to destroy anything no matter what it was and may the cloak of fire protect its possessor against any calamity.”
” Ameen.” The horde chorus.
The blessing of the sultan prayer followed the sword and cloak till this days, Mr Karl decided to remain in Persia to continue his life, he was married to princess after he embraced their religion. In the late 18th century he made it back to German together with his wife and children. But unfortunately they poisoned him and took the sword and cloak to United State. After I heard about this history, I decided to search for the sword and cloak, luckily I found it. I stole the sword in a very dark night, just before I get to the cloak they sounded the alarm, so I have no choice than to make my escape.
” So does this mean Sword of Fire is the same thing as Sword of Warrior?” David asked.
” I don’t know, but if you like you can refer it that way.
The leaves started rustling and this made Janet to confirmed that the Evil lady must be approaching.
” I think the evil lady is here.” Said Janet.
” The evil lady?” Said Maxwell.
” Yea the witch I told you about.” She respond.
” Why is this witch trying to kill me?” David asked in worry
” The answer is this, remember your father fought with different sea monsters and land monsters of all kind on his mission to discover the lost town of Asilia. I thought she was one of them that is why she’s trying to kill you.” Said Sir Maxwell.
” But she is to blame my father not me.” Said David.
” She is trying to revenged what he did to her, he made her fall into the darkness.” Said Sir Maxwell.
” What do you mean into the darkness?” David asked.
” Most monsters felt ashamed to get permanent wound by a man, what I mean with permanent wound is, any wound that cannot be cured, so whenever it happened they will hide themselves in a place filled with darkness where they will never be seen again.” Said Maxwell.
” I now understand why the evil lady spent her whole life into the darkness.” Said Janet.
” Quickly get into that room and bring a box inside wardrobe.” Sir Maxwell poked the room. ” Inside the box lay the sword and the cloak, take it its all yours.” David stood up, in less than a minutes his condition grew worst, his skin started to changed its colour so as his hair. He walked weakly into the room to find the box. The rustling continue which later led to storm, all the windows of the house made by glass started to explode one after the other. Janet and Sir Maxwell moved forward in fear to escaped this disaster. The evil lady appeared into the storm with atrocious appearance. She hanged them on wall violently using her magical tricks.
” Son of Thomas, I knew you are there.” She started in monstrous voice. ” I know you don’t want to lose your girl do you?”
” David don’t listen to her, she is just a witch.” Sir Maxwell shouted.
The evil lady began to hear the moving sound of David but the problem is she can’t see him, she looked all angles seeing nothing. Cleverly the young David stabbed her in his disappearing cloak and later on turned visible.
” What did you do to me?” The witch asked in her weak voice.
” I did nothing, I only showed you the power of my cloak, the cloak of fire.” He respond.
” Killing me will not get the solution for you, it will only scattered things for you.” The witch concluded before she passed away. His skin started turning back to its normal color, within he turned normal. Sir Maxwell and Janet were brought down after the demised of the witch.
” How did you disappeared?” Janet asked.
” I don’t know, remember the blessing of sultan prayer is still with this cloak, maybe it was that blessing that made me disappeared.” David respond.
” It was known for a long time that who ever wore the cloak of fire and ran to attack his enemy will definitely disappeared And he will only turn visible if he succeed.” Said Sir Maxwell.
” What if he fail, does it mean he will remain invisible forever?” Janet asked.
” There is no failure to a man that wore that cloak except if he is trying to offered a crime.” Sir Maxwell respond. The cattle inside the den started to alert a vigorous hollo, and later on they heard the horn of the monster man.
” The monster man, he is here!” Janet said in fear.
” That bastard, how did he survived that collision?” David asked.
” I don’t know.” She respond.
” Can you tell me why the monster man was a killer?” David asked looking at Maxwell.
” There were so many reasons to become a killer, one of those reason why the monster man was a killer is that he was a cannibal.” Said Sir Maxwell.
” What of the other reasons?” David asked.
” I don’t know, you can find them yourself if you are in need of them.” Said Sir Maxwell. The door was broken and threw away by the monster man, he got in the house by force standing looking at them.
” Son of Thomas.” He shouted. ” You killed my Gigggg….”
” How did he know that?” David said in surprised.
” The question is how did he know our location?” Janet spoke in wonder. Janet looked at him with concentration to see if she can identify him but truly she can’t, he is looking giant, he wore a very long black attire with hat on his head. His face is stained with dark, he flew kicking David aside, Before David stood up he gave him another blow that knocked him on the wall vigorously. Janet ran to the telephone to inform the police about it while Maxwell carried the sword and cloak lying on the floor. The continuity of this terrible conflict led to collapsed of wall and the house started trembling to and fro. David whose using his skills depending himself against the attack of this monster started to searched for the sword as he know it was the only protection he got. The monster man groaned throwing anything he held to David. They continue the fight till they made it out of the house unknowingly. That is when David began to think that Maxwell had made an escape together with Janet. They are suppose to help him because he cannot fight the monster man alone. The cattle were released and their hollo started causing distraction to the monster man. David used this opportunity to hid himself somewhere he cannot be seen by the monster. The monster man began to killed the cattle as they continue moving toward him, the sorrow in his mind was that he didn’t accomplished his mission. After the bygone of the cattle, the monster started looking at all angles in case he can see his target. The place was extremely quiet and dark as well, and this made the monster man to alert a terrible yelling irritably thinking that his target was gone.
” You are really an asshole to stood against the fire.” Sir Maxwell spoke in far distance without letting the monster see him.
” Where is the fire you are saying?” The monster man shouted.
” There he is.” Said Sir Maxwell.
The monster man turned back after he heard a few steps. There he saw David holding his sword. The monster man groan and ran to David to knock him once and for all. But surprisingly David started to disappeared here and there. The monster man lost senses on how to attack because his target is not seemed to remain in one place. This is how David confused the monster man and at last he killed him. The police came in after the conflict was resolved. The News Reporters started making a snapshot of the incident so as to show it to the whole public. Mrs Alice who was awaken by the sound of her television she forgot to switch off before she slept sat for a while to watch the latest news
Apocalyptic road is now safe, the monster man was killed by a young boy called David, David was the son of Late Thomas Cordell of Las Vegas, the hero that discovered the lost town of Asilia on his mission Down the Sea….
” Wow! Like father like son.” Mrs Alice said turning off the television.
This great job done by David made him that celebrity he wanted to be, the news was reported in and out of United state and this brought honour loyalty and devotion to him and his people his family and his country.
” This place is not safe for us so let’s get back to Las Vegas now.” Sir Maxwell said getting into his car. David sat next to him while Janet at the back.
” We are suppose to be sleeping now not traveling.” Janet said in vexation.
” No we will not, we had spent the whole day on road and now it’s time to spent the whole night on road.” Sir Maxwell said after he started the car, he fire on heading to the highway road.
THE END
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