Chapter 10: Chapter 10

The tale of Josh

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Wheel trundling.

“Hail our queen!” The fairy captain proclaimed and the others “Hail!” and then the queen stepped out forward.

“I have heard the good news and I have come to the feast, so may I see your goodness well.” The queen fairy spoke to the hearing of the captain alone.

“As you please my queen, but we are taking another one down this minute.” The captain fairy told her.

“Ha, ha, ha, this one is fresh for our captain.” A fairy said.

“Shut up.” Another fairy close by interrupted him quickly. “Tagore, this is less to be kept to be kept for our queen.”

Then Tagore, the fairy that had spoken first looked at the other one that had just shut him up. “Must our queen and lord be benefited the best flesh always, do as well to kill this one I beg you, Captain Jeffery the second.”

But Jeffery replied negatively. “I shall do no such thing, till captain Gilbert White the first permit.”

But Tagore is stubborn and would not exercise any patient, then he gave orders. “I need that one with the majestic look, tie him down!” immediately, they all grabbed Josh and...

"Stop!" Captain Gilbert White shouted and they all pause. "Stop I say." He made way for the queen to ride into the scene.

"How many of them?" The queen fairy proclaimed as she looked at their captives.

"About eleven, but two were killed the past week." Jeffery the second replied.

"So our mistress and lord, may we finish the job for the third killed?" Gilbert White asked immediately.

And then the queen fairy walked towards Josh who lay on the ground in grief. "And how does this prophecy came to your ground?" She asked.

"What prophecy my queen?" The nervous Tagore replied sharply.

"If you wish your throne and fatherland never to fall, release these foes and lead their way out of this territory now!" The queen fairy screamed in anger immediately.

The others were shocked at this instant but only the anxious Tagore wasn't.

As the Lord of the fairies, the queen shook her trinket and rode back on her carriage, while the others worked to her orders like a trojan.

Then at last Josh and the nine left, were bandage loosed and given a surplus of grains to go with.

While captain Jeffery stayed home to watch the others, Captain Gilbert White, Togore and Addison accompanied the travellers out of the fairy clan.

As they moved on Josh picked them up and tie them all together like logs of wood and put them in his little bread bag.

Only the voice of Tagore was heard screaming. "Bastard!" Each time as they went.

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"Get me a humming pigeon." Commanded Mr Smiles as the daylight intensify, and then he wrote a letter and set it firm on the humming pigeon's beak.

And to some extent of enchantment, he left the messenger to the sky and it flew northwards while Rabindranath leads the way.

The others follow suit and it sometimes looked exciting as they walk through lake Michigan from where they had started their journey earlier- at Buffalo.

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After some few seconds, Zeugen opened his mouth and began to talk words which to most of them was silly.

And Skye imagined how quickly this young fool must have forgotten so quickly the suffering he had earlier that made him looked funnier even to his words.

"All creature have their joy, and a peace of me had mine.." Zeugen continues to talk.

"Oh! Zeugen, can you bite your lips for a.few seconds." Jimmy Taggart requested.

"Oh! My goodness, I never know such a kin creature is following my path." Zeugen answered sharply. "If I had known, I would have put you earlier into my bag, so please don’t pest my life."

Jimmy who was being mocked, mooch towards Zeugen's front and made him realise that his iguana can eat him up if he does such a joke again.

Then Zeugen started to talk silly mannered when at length he was shut up by Josh who commanded him to sing them a nice song to err on the side of happiness, instead of talking silly.

Zeugen began to sing them a song as he looked up at the sky. "The lowing cattle, bleating sheep, the crowing cook at dawn nor the duck neither, now I see to my eyes..." Zeugen stopped singing. "Master Josh! A humming pigeon." He called out.

"Humming pigeon, where?" Josh asked quickly as Zeugen pointed in the direction.

Josh turned south, he moved quickly to make a jump onto a little elevated rock and stretching forth his hands and the pigeon lands on it.

Then move his left hand to take hold of the paper, he opened it wide and read.

In a short while, he sat down sluggishly on the rock side and wept for joy as he soliloquized to himself. "My goodness, the gods had shown their face upon my plea, but Mr Smiles never would have this such kind heart to return help!"

Josh immediately lumped to his feet and exclaimed aloud. "Please my fellows, be happy, help is come to our rescue." They all smiled. "Please Zeugen!" He looked at Zeugen.

"The poem of hope I pray thee to sing aloud!" Josh told him with joy and Zeugen who would not miss even one of his mindset words screamed to start the poem.

And so forth he was interrupted when Josh asked him for ink and paper to send back the message of the bright day.

So Josh wrote, enchanted and sent to the cloud the hummingbird once more and then Zeugen continued the poem of hope.

"Och!" The lake is so cold and freezing." Zeugen exclaimed as they stepped on lake Winnipegosis. Only the wave on the cold current which moved towards the south was felt.

Meanwhile, they were not alone altogether, little did they know that they had companies.

Suddenly a bow was stretched and an arrow left the bow with a straight turn and low sound from between the leaves surrounding the lakes and caught Sam by the throat and then the young goodman slept.

"Sam!" Juliet and Skye screamed together immediately. Josh turned back and headed for the fallen Sam who flapped and sunk into the water.

Unknowingly to them, Jack appeared behind the Bush with many other Manitopa warriors on his side and ambushed the hopeless journey teams.

"Dear friends, it's been a long while since you left my sight, now I am in charge of each lady you possess," Jack told Josh with a wide smirk on his face.

"You have no more authority down here, even your little caretaker you called Shwenstiger is in my custody," Jack said and the eyes of the other widen in shock at the discovery.

"So you should learn to appreciate every single provocative character each friend of yours brings up. You made me this way and I would never forgive you for that night!" Jack told Josh.

"Do you know how painful it could ever be to bear a child you know not his papa, No!" Josh shouted at him in anger. "And what do you do? Suffer your beloved you just put on the tummy."

"What are you insinuating?" Jack asked, seeming nervous. "That I have a child."

"Yes, of course, every damn thing you did that night earlier on gave a child," Josh told him furiously.

Jack looked at Skye who was crying at this moment with Juliet consoling her. He never knew Skye will be pregnant with a child for him after he slept with her that night.

Hw got up on his feet and cut loose the rope tied to Josh's hands. "You are now free to embark on your earlier journey and take the lady Skye with you, for I have not yet got ready for a family."

Josh glared at him and packed his sword and stepped through the gate with the others.

He turned to Jack. "Nevertheless, you may still be my friend, you and your people, but remember this. You have a child of your own, someone to call you papa." Josh told him and walked away with his group of friends.