Avranica

by RCT D!

Magic – in the enlightened world of today magic is lost. People do not believe in magic any more. But there are many places in the world unaffected by modern technology. At those places animals still keep the control. There is no human being devastating the habitat.
One of those last magic places is situated right in the heart of Africa. There is an endless rolling savannah with acacia trees. A river with clean and fresh water cuts through the rocks and savannah and on the horizon there are huge mountain ranges. For hundreds of years nothing changed, until the first human being arrived with a stinky vehicle that polluted the air. This person was a hunter and he wanted to disturb the peace. It all started when he killed a young giraffe. The hunter disappeared and the desperate sense of crisis was fading away. But he returned after some time and many other hunters came with him. They shot more and more animals and the threat was consistently increasing. The wild animals were bereft of any protection and were being slaughtered by the poachers, so in their desperation they sought advice from the old tree. Since the dawn of time the ancient tree was watching over the savannah. The animals worshiped him and believed in his magic power. Now all animals gathered around the majestic tree and hoped that he would help them. For a while nothing happened. But suddenly the magic tree began to move and became angry. Magical fountains rose up to the sky. His wrath would come down from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the animals. So the animals hid waiting for the return of the enemies.
It was a good morning to go hunting. The hunter smiled. Perhaps he would kill a lion today. Next to the big river he stopped his jeep and disembarked. It was unusually quit, no creature was anywhere to be seen. Suddenly he heard a dull noise. It came from above. He looked up in the sky and saw a meteor shower. It moved into the same direction where he stood. He already saw that the first one impacted 500 meters next to him. He ran, he had to hide somewhere. Deafening riot was around him and he couldn´t see anything because of the circulating sand. Everywhere around him meteors impacted but as if by magic he remained unwounded. Suddenly a temple appeared in front of the hunter. As fast as he could, he entered the temple. Then the entrance collapsed behind him, he was trapped. When the hunter regained consciousness, he was in a temple room and around him the stones of the collapsed entrance. He had survived but now he was trapped. Though racked with pain he walked carefully through a breakthrough in a wall. Behind that there was a cave passage. At the end of the cave passage he spotted something like a coal car on rails. He approached but suddenly he recognized a noise behind him. He turned around and saw a lion! As fast as he could, he jumped into the coal car. Through the sweep the car began to move. The rails went downwards and became faster and faster. The hunter regretted entering the coal car but there was no way out. The car dashed with no control through gloomy cave passages and over abysmally ravines…

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