The Magic Jewels
In the medieval days, there was an enormous sparkling, shimmering, rare, gem. One day, there was a horrible thunderstorm, and it started to rain hail. The hail started as small as pin, and grew bigger and bigger until it was the size of a football! In the storm, the rain washed away a lot of soil, and the priceless jewel was unearthed.The hail seemed made of diamonds! (I think they were.) The hail was so hard that it cracked the jewel into 5 pieces. (Now you should know why I thought they were diamonds. Jewels can only be scratched by harder jewels.)After the storm, a kind sorceress – yes, there is such a thing as good sorceresses’ and blessed them. Later, some wise men found the jewels and put the pieces back into the dirt again. The jewels were buried. After many centuries, some modern gold miners were digging for gold and found the jewels.
Clank!
“Hey, Edgar!” a gold miner bellowed to his companion.
“What, Brian?” the man who apparently was Edgar shouted back.
“I think I found something!” Brian said.
“Wait a second.” Edgar went into a cabin and took out a pickax. Then, they started picking furiously at the ground. There was a sparkle, then a glimmer. There was another shimmer.
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“No, dummy, it’s not gold. ‘Whatever is shiny is not gold.’ So it can’t be gold.” Brian declared. He seemed to ponder something. “Besides, you scream like….like….like a girl!
Anyway, they examined the “sparkly thingamabob”. Much to Edgar’s protestation, Brian decided, “These are jewels.”
Edgar whined. “But it's gold!”
Brian shot him “The Look” and raised his eyebrows. They put the jewels into a sack, although they didn’t know the sack had an enormous hole in it. (Wow, they must be blind. The hole was at least 5 inches wide!) The magical gems dropped onto the ground, falling from the hole in the sack. One of the jewels grunted.
“What was that?”
“What was what, Edgar?!”
“I heard something.” So both the gold miners whirled around. Right smack-dab in front of them were the magic jewels on the ground.
“Gosh, you guys are, like, blind! Couldn’t you see that gigantic hole?” a jewel exclaimed. Edgar and Brian screamed……..like girls. They threw the sack on the ground and ran toward the jewels, which seemed to be….the wrong way. Of course, they didn’t know that there was a banana tree near where they were, and monkeys had thrown banana peels everywhere.
Edgar and Brian finally realized where they were going, and turned the other way.
“Why didn’t you tell me that we weren’t going the right way?” Brian screamed.
“I was following you!” Edgar said.
Slip!
Brian tripped over a banana peel. Enraged, he found a coconut, and with all his strength (which, I’m telling you, was not much strength), threw the coconut at his target, the banana tree.
Steeerike one! one of the jewels bellowed. This made the monkeys mad. Thus, they threw banana peels on the gold miners’ heads, faces, and feet. Edgar and Brian attempted to escape the banana shower.
Steeerike two! the same jewel shouted. They had forgotten that there were still banana peels strewn all over the ground. Therefore, they tripped on the banana peels while running away. Or should I say trying to run away?
They got to the magic jewels, but slipped again and fell down on their heads. They got up again and reached for the jewels, but the jewels merely just ran away.
Steeerike three, you’re out! the “umpire” jewel said out loud. Obviously, now the gold miners knew that the jewels were magic.
“Hmmmm………..I wonder if we can sell these, and I think we could become very wealthy if we did. But we should reason with them. After all, they’re not ordinary jewels!” Edgar exclaimed, winking.So the gold minters ran to the jewels and said, “Let’s have some races. If you win, we’ll never bother you again. If we win, you have to do whatever we want. Agreed?”
Though, this was not good deal, the jewels agreed anyway. They were sure they could win.
“There are 28 races,” Brian declared. The first race was an obstacle course. The jewels merely just flew over the obstacles, and won the first race.
“Hey! Not fair!” Edgar shouted. “Cheater, cheater…..pants on – pumpkin eater!”
“You never said we couldn’t use our magic. The race has already started, so you can’t change it now, either.” the five jewels said in unison. One of them stuck out their tongue.
The second race was swimming in a ten mile pool. The gold minders won because they were better at swimming than the jewels. Each team won and lost, won and lost, won and lost. At the end they were tied. Each team had 14 wins and 14 losses. The gold miners and jewels argued. Finally, Brian came up with an idea.
“What if we sell the jewels, but help them escape the person we sell them to?” Brian told Edgar.
“Great idea!” Edgar exclaimed. Edgar and Brian told all 5 jewels, and they decided that they should use the gold miners’ idea.
The next day, the gold miners sold the priceless gems to someone for $10,000. The person who bought the jewels hid them in his attic.
Tiptoe. Tiptoe. CRASH!
Edgar tripped over a chair.
“Shh
Brian was wrong. The man, who was Robert, had snores that traveled a thousand miles (literally).
Edgar and Brian tiptoed out the house, and let the jewels outside.
The magical gems decided to live in the forest. They lived happily in their forest home….until………
To Be Continued In Sequel