THE ROD OF COMMAND

LIE TO SAVE

LIE TO SAVE

As she exchanges herself to save Evelyn. They do not know what to do, but they know that she exchanged her soul to save Evelyn, they all feel pity for the little girl Ebres because she was just a kid not more than fourteen years to pass through pain and sorrow as they thought. Dehina can not take it.

“I am going back to save her, she is just a kid and I promise to take care of her but I broke my promise,” she said.

“No, I will be the one to go,” Delmar replied.

But Dehina never agreed to that because he was going to be their king in the underworld very soon and Queen Sisiana has gave Dehina a command to protect and help him bring back the Rod Of Command, so she kneeled down and bowed down saying.

“My prince, I can not turn the command of our Queen down, she gave me command to protect you and help you bring back the Rod Of Command”.

Delmar is giving Dehina a sign not to treat him as the son of the Queen when Evelyn was with them, but she did not stop talking.

So Evelyn was confused. She asked, “why are you calling him prince?”

Delmar tries to persuade Evelyn, “oh that is what she calls me because I am the son of a woman who was the owner of a big company, so they called me prince because my mom is the queen of the company”. Delmar said.

Though Evelyn was still confused but she believed him at that moment, to stop another secret from being exposed, he told Dehina that they needed to think of a way to save the little Ebres.

So Delmar went out after talking. After getting outside, he looked, then he saw a lightning in the sky and the weather began to change, then there appeared an old man walking in the clouds slowly and came down without his legs touching ground.

Delmar stood still to see who he was, maybe he came in peace or to make trouble. The old man who was walking without his leg touching the ground walked closely little by little and slowly stepped his feets on the ground near Delmar.

He moved closely to Delmar, and said, “ I am looking for a little girl, she needs my help and I need to see her, where is she?”.

Delmar knew the old man was talking about the little Ebres. So he took the old man in, and showed him the little Ebres. As Dehina saw the old man, she remembered that the old man was the one she met at the forest of the witches ghost. The old man saw Dehina too and he also remembered her face. The old man asked what happened to the little Ebres.

After explaining everything to the old man, he makes up his mind to bring her spirit back to her empty body, and the old man holds the little Ebres. He focused and traveled to the spirit world and because the old man is the chief of the ancient witches ghost who has lived for too long, it did not take him much time to bring back the little Ebres spirit soul back to her empty body.

After the old man brought back the soul of the little Ebres back to her empty paralyzed body, they were all happy. Dehina and the little Ebres hugged each other as they have developed a strong relationship as mother to a daughter.

The old man wants to take her back, but the little Ebres mind does not choose to go with him even if the old man was the one who brought her soul back from the spirit world where she was encamped, because she exchanged her body to save Evelyn.

Though the old man promised to protect her, that was not enough for the little Ebres because she wanted to be with her new friends and mostly Dehina. As they were heading back, the little Ebres knelt down and begged the old man, “please allow me to stay with them”.

The old man replied, “where is your heart?”

The little Ebres answered, “my heart belonged with them”.

So the old man give her three pebbles and said, “this pebbles is your messenger now, wherever you are in trouble and you need my help, place this three pebbles on the ground and give them space like one the stretch of a leg, and the other also like the stretch of a leg, then remove one of your hairs, the long one, and drop it at the center of the pebbles stones, then instantly I will appear to you”.

After saying that, the old man vanished before the little Ebres. The little Ebres turned back and headed back to her friends. She was happy because they have been waiting for her to come back. They have been thinking she could change her mind. She hugged Dehina once again and they all went in.

All what is happening, the presence of the old witch ghost man, the scene of the little Ebres, how the old man freed her soul, all of that, seems so confusing to Evelyn since she does not remember any and she began to be suspicious of them.

Even if all that happened to her as being in the line of the Queen of the witches ghost, using her blood to resurrect the witch ghost, all has been forgotten but she still feels some strange things in her body.

After those moments, like about some hours, the messenger of Queen Sisiana arrived to Earth to deliver the Queen's message to Dehina but was not able to communicate with Delmar, before that time, Evelyn and the little Ebres has gone to bed and no one saw unaie the Queen's messenger but only Dehina who were the main target of the queen Sisiana through her messenger unaie.

Unaie the Queen's messenger told Dehina to get ready in the next day for the search of the Rod Of Command before the sun rise when the weather become hot, that may course the renewal of the it.

After seeing the message and the flash vision of the secret place that the Rod Of Command was hidden itself, Dehina told Delmar the time has come for them to search for the rod of command and they need to prepare themselves.

The next day, Delmar and Dehina are preparing to search for it, then princess Velena knowing they are about to leave secretly begged Delmar to allow her to follow him, but he refused because the rest of the people may feel suspicious if they all leave.

So Delmar told Princess Velena to wait, as they were still discussing. Then Evelyn entered, she saw him and princess Velena discussing so she felt jealous and said with a fake smile, “what are you guys discussing?” .

Delmar quickly reply, “oh nothing, let me have a talk with you,”

So Evelyn and Delmar left the presence of princess Velena to a private place.

He spoke to Evelyn holding her hand saying, “ Evelyn, I need to rush back to my country, I have an emergency call from my mother and I have to travel back, but I will not take more than a week to come back”.

Delmar already calculated the day for the search of the Rod Of Command to the day he will return it to it's rightful place, the underworld, and he also calculated how the Queen, her foster mother may have delayed him from going back, so the calculations of the whole days amounted to one week.

After Evelyn hearing that she feel so sad and think Delmar want to abandoned her to his country, she said in her heart, “is it bad if I followed my boyfriend to his country to know more about him and his family? This is actually an opportunity that I do not have to lose”.

So after saying that in her heart, she asks Delmar to take her to his country as she feels uncomfortable to stay without seeing him in a day.

“Delmar, take me with you please to your country”. She said,

Delmar, feeling guilty for lying to Evelyn, replied, “I will not stay long, just a week because it is an emergency call, I will be busy settling the dispute so please wait for me”.

After he finished talking, he felt so guilty looking at the pity and innocent eyes, the adorable face of Evelyn, he was moved to kiss her the first kiss in her mouth and tears drop down from his two eyes.

Princess Velena was secretly looking at them when they kissed and she felt so sad and jealous.

After that, Delmar hugged Evelyn, he hugged Helena too, even if Helena did not want him to go, so he left together with Dehina to a far far place from the city called the strange land.

Delmar and Dehina go with a car to avoid suspecting them, the place that was so dangerous to go because it was full of dangerous things, that has received the lighting of the Rod Of Command.

Every time it renews itself, since the Rod Of Command was not far from the place.

Everything in the land becomes bad and mighty as some are not even real, but illusions, the land becomes a weird land and Everyone who mistakenly finds themselves there never makes it out alive.

It has been two days in the strange place, Delmar and Dehina are still searching and tracking the lighting from a far distance and as they are getting closer, the lighting continues getting brighter.

They kept moving and tracking the lighting, and instantly another lightning appeared at their left hand side, another lightning appeared again and again until they were surrounded by a lot of lightning that made them lose track of the main Rod Of Command lightning.

Delmar and Dehina stop for some minutes because they were confused, and they don't know which lightning to follow.

After some minutes, they still do not know which way to go, so they follow their left side and continue tracking the lightnings, as they continue walking till around midnight, immediately the lighting vanished and it becomes dark again, a voice from the dark continue to call saying,

“Delmar, please save me”.

But he keeps thinking it may not be real, then two shadows of themselves appear and continue looking at them, Delmar shadow and Dehina shadow, each shadow standing at each side.

“What is that?”, Delmar said.

Dehina replied, “I don't know, but I think the shadows are not real”.

So they walk closer to the shadows, as they move closer to the shadows then the shadows move forward deceiving them to another direction, until they miss the road and find themselves in the middle of dead humans.

The realm of the dead humans called sheol, there they saw all the people they knew who were killed or died unfairly, that were dead a long time ago, holding a scroll in their hands, an ancient language was written on the scroll stating, “a fair judgment”.

As Delmar was standing confusedly because he was the only one who was seeing everything, he heard a low voice as if the voice was echoing from a far distance, a voice of a crowd screaming and crying.

“we! Our body needs justice, we need justice, give us justice, how long can we continue to wait?”.

And they continue screaming and crying, then Delmar moved forward to see more, and one of the dead bodies raised up and said, “young human, I know you will like to know we seek for justice for our spirit, because we are here before our time and everyday we wait for the judgment day to come upon those ones that sent us here before our time”.

Droid asked, “What is this place?”

The dead spirit replied, “this place is called sheol, the grave of mankind”.

He asked again, “who sent you here, and what if you are sent here without anyone's doing?”.

the dead spirit replied, “no! This grave is for those seeking justice”.

So the dead spirit pointed a finger and showed him another grave telling him the other grave was different from the first one. That one he saw dead humans, gathering at one place, holding a bow of blood.

Each one with their own bow of blood, in their forehead there was written, “judgment of gehenna which means judgment of eternal destruction. With a bad look different from the first look, and they never seek justice nor do they scream and cry, they continue to say.

“Others are coming, we are not the only ones”.

So Delmar was taped behind by Dehina showing him once again the direction of the Rod Of Command, because it destroyed all other fake light that lighted up during the time of it's renewer.

The Rod Of Command continued to renew itself until the following day, and the fear was the weather would not be so hot during the seventh to eight days of the renewal then it would cause disaster to the humans including the animals.