Volcano - Story

Now I will tell you a story. It’s both true and false, what is true and what is false is up to you.

There was a little island in the south, half of the year it was really cold and it even snowed most days. The other half of the year it was hot enough that it could reach 40 degrees Celsius. But it was not due to the movement of the earth, but thanks to a volcano, I know that it may sound weird, but this is how it is. Half of the year the volcano was active in the sense that it produced heat to the island, the other half of the year it was inactive.

A boy lived on this island, not just one boy, but this is the story of this cursed boy. His name was Selegas, he was fifteen years old when all this happened. He was the son of Luk, the person responsible for projecting the systems that used the heat of the volcano to produce energy. So, since the boy was little, he had learned about this work, went to the volcano to see things close enough … But on this island there was one rule that overruled all the others. Breaking this rule would lead one to death… A single, but the most important, rule.

No one, but the leader, was allowed to get within 100m of the rim of the volcano. That means, no one was allowed to go right to the top.

Why? Just the leader could answer this… When a mechanism was ready the leader would install it inside the volcano. Even Luk, who projected most of the things couldn’t go.

Selegas, a curious boy, which loved the work of his father so much, had two curiosities. To see the projects of his father working and to discover what the volcano was like from the top. So one day he decided to go there to see with his own eyes.

He waited for the night to fall, for most people to go back to their houses. Only when silence ruled the street, his father had gone to sleep and the lights of the street were off, to save energy (the city did that in the late night) did he decide to go.

It could be tricky for anyone else, but not for Selegas, he knew the way already. He had planned everything a thousand times before, but it had taken him some time to build up the courage to actually do it, some years in fact. He jumped out of his window and followed his way in the night.

His heart started to beat faster, his hands started to sweat, even if it was cold, he started to breath deeper and deeper. He slowed his pace, looked back just to be sure, and also looked to both sides. He stopped, sat a little and thought to himself “this is the day, there is no going back, not before arriving at the top of that mountain”.

He started walking again with a doubt in his mind but a certitude in his heart. In a gap of time, that he couldn’t measure, he arrived at the top of the volcano. And he saw something really impressive. He could never have imagined something like this…

There was a staircase, which went down to a floor where it was supposed to be only magma or emptiness. There was a house there, outside the house there was a little girl playing with a doll alone. This girl was as young as the boy, but she had the smile and lightness of someone who didn’t know the malice of the world.

Before going down the boy took a better look, he saw in fact that there were some more buildings, not too many, these structures were connected by little bridges, under which flowed the magma. He went down the stairs to see the girl. She looked him with curiosity.

-Are you the next leader? – she asked.

-No… - he answered with honesty, the only thing he could do.

The boy with eyes still wide, a lost look showing everything that he couldn’t barely believe that he was there and that there was all of this.

-So you better follow me. – said the girl with a tone of urgency.

The boy started following her. They went to a building, there was just a bed, a chest and three more dolls. The boy started blushing “this should be her bedroom”, but it was in this moment that he noticed that she shined a little, she was redder than anyone he had ever met. In this time something marvelous occurred, some magma entered from a hole in the floor and went to the roof, illuminating partially the room.

The boy stayed there and talked until the first rays of the sun were able to be seen. Then he returned home. After this day he started going there many times, some years in fact. After sometime the girl told him something, which he would understand the real reason later, “always be careful to see if I’m alone, you can’t be seen by anyone”.

One day his father went to his room in the middle night, and he wasn’t there. When he was back the father interrogated him and he told a lie. The father remembered him:

No one, but the leader, was allowed to trespass one hundred meters below the top of the volcano.

The fatidic day arrived, he was there in the mountain, when he was leaving a woman saw him and screamed something, he didn’t understand it all but he caught the end “and never come back”. The next days he didn’t see the girl, but he kept going. In one week after that day the woman surprised him by his back and grabbed him. She was strong and he could fell that her hand was extremely hot, when she started walking a voice said.

-Great fire, may you give me a moment.

It was the voice of the leader. The woman just looked to him and restarted to walk. The leader went to her side after being ignored, explained that the boy was the son of the most important projector of the island, young and innocent…

-There are no excuses. – it was a flaming scorching voice, but cold and strict. – He knew the rule and I warned him last time. Imagine if everybody discovered how we nourish ourselves. He will die as food, and he should be happy to be useful.

The leader followed the woman. They were in the place where the boy first saw the girl with the doll. The woman screamed something he couldn’t understand. Then the girl, which was not little, appeared.

-You, as successor of our supreme race should understand our place. Be nourished by the body of this boy.

And like this she threw the boy from the floor to the magma. The leader screamed, the girl screamed and the woman even threw a little laugh to complete. The girl started running and jumped.

She reached the boy, they exchanged a gaze too short but that lasted for an eternity, and will be forever in the mind of Selegas. She gave him a kiss and pushed him… And he passed out.

Later when he waked up he discovered that the island had been devastated, he was the only survivor and the volcano was empty.

There are legends of what happened, that they were the ones who made the island hot, spirits of the volcano, but when they touch the magma, it erupts, but if they fall, the volcano erupts for the last time and becomes inactive forever.

How I know all of this, it a pleasure to meet you, Selegas, the cursed boy.

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