[Alector]

Ok, guys here is the next chapter!

Chapter 6:

A short while after the event, Melas is still sitting on the rock which is getting hot due to the heat of the day. Alector washes his hands on a small waterfall, what is conducted of a waterhole on the top of the mountain. At the top half of the mountain blows a coolish wind at times that the body of little Melas encases. He looks reproachful down to the white Mudokon -"You said to me, that I shall wear something, because I’m naked…"

Alector returns his comment -"I’m sorry, I forget alot of things at times and thats what I said to other people before." -Melas says: "How did you made your loincloth? Did you make it yourself, or did another person make it for you?"- Alector climbs up to where Melas has been sitting for a long time, takes his hand and pulls Melas down from the place. –" What do you intend? It’s painful enough for me to walk naked through the world!"- Alector: "There’s nothing that I havn’t seen on a creature before that I haven’t seen on you, besides I wanted to show you a plant that produces the substance that we need to make our loincloths in the wild." They both walk till they reach a big plant with long brown threads. The threads resembles cobwebs, they are just much longer and easy to treat. The threads are so big, that they just need one of them to make a loincloth. Alector pulls one of these threads till it quietly detached from the plant. He combs the stuff with his long nails till it has a smooth surface. Then he wraps it around Melas bottom area and ties a big knot. –" Ok, that was easy, is it suitable?"- Melas jumps up and down–"Yes, it is!"- Alector grins –"That’s good, we can walk back then!"- The little Mud with the big ears walks behind Alector as fast as he can because he can’t take such big steps like Alector. On a high rock, Alector gives Melas a small weapon –"I want that you look out for a while, Im gonna go away for a short time."-

Melas nods and sits down, then turns his gaze to the bloody meadow where the Fleeches attacked both Muds a short time ago. Alector is already on the road to find the plants that grow under the sand of a desert. Some hours later, he is on the small desert to search for the little plants. He forgot that this place is very dangerous due to the heat, the warm air, and to the creatures who live here. But he ignores the danger to get home again. The place smells sweetish, almost like death. He grubs for the plants in the hard, hot ground of the desert, finds them and finally packs them into small bags on his loincloth. He was ready to go when he heard a quiet voice. It’s the voice of a little child. Alector turns around and sees a big hole in the ground. He walks over to it and looks into it. The hole is so big that it looks like a small lair and in this lair is a little Mudokon child with a dead Elum next to it. The child is crying -perhaps it was the owner of this Elum-.
The inside of the hole smells terrible –"Hello, what has happened to this Elum and why are you still sitting here in this dangerous place?"- The child does not reply. Alector leans toward the Mudokon child, holds out his big hand, and places it on the cheek of the small Mudokon. A tear flows into Alectors finger and then stops flowing. He holds the other hand out under the hand with the tear and lets the tear trickle of the top hand, but it doesn’t fall down to the ground, instead the tear hovers in the air between Alectors big hands.

The little child wipes the tears from its big eyes and stares up at the tear floating in the air. Alector doesn’t say anything, he just wants to cheer the mud.
He closes the hands with the childs tear still in his palm. He waits till rays shine out of his hands and then throws the tear into the air. The tear is now like dust and it gleams over the both Mudokons, it falls slowly on the ground and lights up the ground. Grass and plants are growing on the hard desert ground around the big bole, the child, and Alector. The grass covers the dead Elum and the child begins to smile. This was a new thing to see for the child Mudokon. Alector stands up –"You can’t stay in this place, it’s better you go home now!"- He goes away from the smooth grass back to the hot sand of the desert to walks home again . A few steps away he hears strange sounds. The white Mudokon turns around and sees a child throbbing on the ground with a stone. He walks back to it –"What are you doing now?"-. The mud looks up to Alector without saying a word and continues to hit something. It’s trapped on wire and can’t move from its place. Alector hasn’t ever seen something like this before and tries to unleash the leg of the child. The wire is so pungently, that Alector is hurting himself by touching it, while the child looks around at the horizine, it sounds like a loud thunder. Little stones on the ground are moving back and forth. The small Mudokon looks towards a big hill far in the distance. It can’t see anything, but someone is running down it. The thing runs closer and closer to the group without stoping to slowdown. The kid suddnely realizes what it is – it’s a Scrab –"Is a Scrab so heavy, that it makes the landscape shake?"-

Alector looks to the child –"What? Where is a Scrab? why didn’t you tell me sooner?"- The child just shrugs. Alector says –"Quite arrogant…"- He stands up and pepares to kill the Scrab.
Suddenly more Scrabs appear on the hill in the distance. The first Scrab stops and is waiting for the others. More and more Scrabs are running down the hill till a gigantic herd of Scrabs runs through the small desert towards them. Alector grabs the wire and tries to pull it out of the hard ground, but his hand slips and is sliced open. The Scrabs are gaining speed and are nearly at the spot where they are. Alector demolishes the wire, grabs the child and jumps as fast as he can over the big hole. The herd is now running over the shrivelled hole. Dust from the shaking caves it in quickly. Alector runs as fast as he can as the gigantic herd is gaining on him and the rumble of the ground gets harder and louder. The desert seems to be getting longer and the hot sand is rubbing agianst Alectors feet.
In front of them is no way out because an abyss blockades the exit. Alector quickly decides an other way, turns around and runs into the huge heard of Scrabs. On the other sides are alot of gulches where he can jump over it and perhaps they can absend to the other side. A few Scrabs are jumping to Alector and try to attack him, but he just dodges them quickly and kicks the Scrabs away what are in front of him or running to his near. One Scrab has been chasing Alector for awhile and he fears its going to catch him. A gulch is in front of them both. Alector wants to jump, but the Scrab kicks him. with that they fly with the Scrab into it. He just can catch the wall of the gulch and slips down till he can hold tight on it. He rips his hands on the wall and blood begins flowing down his arms. Alector looks up towards the top of the gulch and sees the big herd jumping over it. Most Scrabs are slipping on the edge and disapearing into the abyss.

The last Scrab jumps too late and bounces on the wall over the Muds, it falls down towards Alector and cuts a deep wound into Alectors shoulder as it continues to fall into the dusty darkness.

Alector falls a little bit, but he can grabs the wall tight and stops slipping. He holds tight with the left hand, on the right arm dangles the Mudokon kid. It’s hard for him to hold tight because his hands are just bloody clots. –"Try to climb on my arm and hold tight on the wall!"-
The child tries to get the wall, but the arms are too short and the blood makes the hand and the arms so slick that the kid slips down every moment. Alector tries to heave the kid, but it slips down even more.
All of a sudden the Mud grabs the wall, but it shuttles. It slips so fast, that Alector just holds his finger in his hands –"I can’t…I can’t hold you!"- The mud looks up to him and whispers–"Please help me."- it slips more and more till it falls down the gulch. The child screams while it falls into the depth. Alector tries to catch him, but for nothing –"Nooooo!!! DAMN!!!!" He climbs up to the top of the gulch and walks slowly to the hill where the herd ran down. He still can’t believe what has just happened to this little kid.
Alector walks till he reaches the hill –it looks so much bigger as far in the distange, it looks almost like a mountain.
His feet are burn like fire and the hands are so gluey of the blood, that the sand is fixed on them. On the top of the hill is a coolish ground without sand. There is grass!
Alector walks to see more, but there is nothing, it looks like a gigantic abyss without ending. He sits down and looks over the it.
Suddenly he smells flowers and hears sounds. Alector stands up again and walks on the grass. There’s a big valley. He sees Mudokons walking to forests, he sees villages, waterfalls – it almost looks like a paradise!

-Alector doesn’t know what he have found…but he’ll findit out!-