Chapter-14: Visiting the stone table village.
All his friends were in the school and he was tying up the horses with the chariot for a round. He wants to check the power of both horses. Thomas was sitting there and staring at him because he remembers his condition when he heard that his daughter went inside that forest with him. But he also knew that because of him, his daughter came back alive otherwise she would be dead.
Both horses are in black color and looking very powerfull, it seems that they can easily win the race but he remembers that this time his opponent is none other than the king OZ. He knew that for winning the race, he can do anything and this time he would be busy in his practice.
"Uncle Thomas, I am taking them out for a round."
He took his seat and went out. He was checking everything, both the horses were pulling the chariot easily.
"Nice!!"
While crossing the school Isabella stopped him in the middle of the road. She came out from the school because she wanted to go along with him. She took her seat on the backside and asked him to go.
"Yes… madam."
All the students and teachers were looking at them and Angel was also looking at them. She wondered about Isabella because she left the school without telling anyone. That time Daniel, who was sitting behind her. She told her that this school was made by his father.
She was sitting behind and enjoying the ride but she found that he was taking the chariot out of the village.
"Where?" Asked by Isabella.
"Stone table village."
She smiled because she is leaving the village after a long time to visit another place, otherwise her father won't allow her to go out. When they take that road which will take them to the village, he sees a broken cart which used to be pulled by a man. But he left that cart over there and kept walking inside that village.
When he entered the village, there were two stone pillars dug in the ground. They were roaming around and found that in that village everything was made up of stones… tables, bowls, beds etc. Isabella was very happy to see that people were roaming around, buying products and children were playing on the road. Hero was looking around, ropes were on his hand and a huge smile on his face but his smile disappeared when he saw a picture of a man.
He stopped the chariot.
"Hero… why did you stop?"
He stepped down and walked towards that picture which was pasted on the stone wall. He took that picture and remembered that man; he met him when he was going to meet the king. Meanwhile Isabella stands behind him.
"Sad… you know him?"
He moved his head up and down with a serious expression on his face. He knows that this place is under king OZ and he is not aware of his own people. … Meanwhile, one female who had worn an old cloth, was staring at him. It was like she knew about him.
"Are you Hero?" She asked with surprise.
… "Yes."
Suddenly, her eyes became big and she shouted and told everyone that his name is Hero, that boy who came out of the black forest alive. All the people who were there, they all stood around them and looked at them like they had never seen any human before.
That woman noticed Isabella and she asked that she was the girl who also went inside that forest and came back alive. In her innocence, she said yes and everyone started cheering for both of them. They told him that those four witches always used to come into their village and kill someone. She started laughing and again in her innocence she told them to change their place of living and cone to buffalo village, her father will provide a place for living.
She was talking to everyone but Hero was looking around in their eyes and he found that very soon, all the people were going to force them to stay there. That place was beautiful and he knew that they needed his help but that time he realized that they had to leave the village.
He quickly grabbed her hand and asked her to sit in the chariot. She quickly ran towards her seat and Hero grabbed the rope of the horses.
"HAA!!"
Both the horses started moving but there were many people who were trying to stop them but he wouldn't listen to anyone and kept moving out of the village. But very soon he found that people started creating problems on their path so that they could stop. He knew that they were doing this to save their life but that time he had to leave the village.
"Isabella grab something."
She realized that he was going to increase the speed and she grabbed the hands of one side of her seat. "HAA!!"
Horses started running and speed increased. Isabella was looking behind and she saw that they were trying to break the wheel of the chariot by throwing stones.
"Hero!! I think we should not come over here."
He shouted loudly so that his horses could run very fast but that was not enough. He ties that rope with his leg and raises his hand in both directions and move his hand behind. All the fruits, vegetables, grains fell over them and they ran out from that village.
Horses were running with their full strength and he slowed them down.
"What happened with them? I hate this type of people." Said by Isabella.
Hero was smiling because due to those people, he found the strength of his horses and his ability to run out of problems.
Finally, they reached the home and he left the chariot with horses in its place and moved towards his house. When he reached his house, he saw his aunt and uncle with their daughter. He was not surprised but he was very happy to see them. They always used to visit him when the chariot race came and they used to stay in their house for seven days and then went back to their house.
Race day was about to come and fear of Henry was increasing because he knew that if Hero will win, then the king will fired him from his work so he has to lose which is impossible.
It was night and villagers saw many people sitting on their carts, coming towards their village. They all stopped their carts in front of Isabella's house because she said that her father used to help everyone. At night, Thomas was sitting in front of many villagers with frustrated facial expressions because he wasn't able to understand what to do with them.
He shouted.
"Hero!!"
He heard that sound in his house. That time his sister, who was about 5 years old, was sitting on his shoulder. She was shocked. He snapped his finger and he disappeared from his house and stood in front of Thomas with his whole family.
"Now, what does he want to say?" Said by Joseph with Mary.
Thomas told everything to him and he was surprised because he didn't know that the Hero went out of the village in that chariot. Thomas told Joseph that he could arrange some houses but they were many. At that time, Joseph told him that he also had some houses and they could use that.
That was not enough for Thomas, he was shouting at him. That time, Hero looks towards Isabella and asks what happened. In sign language, she told everything to him.
"Oh!!"
He quickly grabs Thomas' hand and requests him to take his seat because he wants to say something.
But on the other side, in the broken mansion Rose was confused because she didn't know about the crystal ball. She told everything that Hena asked something and that ball gave an answer to something. She was scratching her head.
Lauren was sitting on other sides. Even she does not know about that.
"Hena never told us anything."
… "Finished!!" Said by Hena.
She was angry on all of them and they all started looking down because they knew that she is more powerfull than them.
"We used to drink blood because that blood gives us a long life and maintains our looks."
Now, everyone knows about the reason for drinking blood but they still want to know what they will get from that boy. Hena also had the power to read someone's mind.
"His blood will give us immortality."
… All females stand from their seats because they know about immortality but now they know the boys who can make them immortal.
But there was still a problem and that problem was four protectors who used to rotate around his body so that no one could harm him. Hena also knew about that and she was trying her best to know how to handle four of them.
Reagan said that she should use that crystal ball again because if he knew their main problem then, he must know how to handle it. But Hena had a smile on his face.
"Chariot race."
She had small black balls on her hand, she threw that ball out from the mansion.
It was like she had decided to do something in that race.