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Chapter 15


I had been there for like… 10 minutes without anything happening. But those Statues freaked me out. They looked horrible. I didn’t really want to meet them. Then I looked at the amulet, which was lying by the creature’s feet. I took it, and looked at it. But then suddenly, I heard a rumble. One of the walls side was falling down. Or a bit of it did. Then a door became visible, behind the wall. I looked at the amulet, and then at the door. Then I realized how stupid I was. But then I focused on the door again, and opened it. Then I felt a big pain for a split-second, and woke up on the street. Saw Cath looking at me. My cheek hurt.

“Oh sorry if I hit you too hard, but you where acting really strange in your dream, and I slapped you,” said Cath, “Why were you sleeping on the streets anyway?”

“I uhhmm… I don’t know. OH YES! Now I remember.” And so I told the story about the scary Mudokon, and the weird dream, which wasn’t a dream at all. Or so I thought.

“Hmm. that sounds creepy. Maybe someone is after you. Anyway, Nakl told me that you wanted to leave tomorrow or something. You… weren’t planning to go without me. Were you?”

“Of course not. I would never leave you, even if I could choose between the whole world and you,” I replied, but then I could hear how desperate that sounded. But Cath only giggled, and then we went home.

I lay in my bed, but I didn’t know if I should sleep in case of any disturbing dreams again. But I couldn’t stay awake for long, and fell asleep.



I woke up, and was surprised that I had just dreamed normal. Cath was already up, and she had prepared for our journey. She had also made breakfast. Was this womud wonderful or what?

“Well, I didn’t want to wake you up, you’ll need your rest for the travel,” said Cath.

“Your wonderful. But what about you? Why aren’t you still asleep?” I asked.

“I just couldn’t sleep anymore.”

We sat down by the table, and started eating with pleasure. When I was done, I took my plate and washed it. Then I looked at Cath. It was time to leave. Time to leave the Mudokon-city.

“Well… We still need some Elums.” Cath said.

“I think we have just enough money, for two Elums.” I said.

“Good, we’ll buy the cutest ones.”

“Um… I thought that we’d need the fastest ones.”



We arrived at Nakl’s place where the Hero-Mudokons, Andriel, Hirnissa, Nescar and D’rehhnar were. I stopped up for a second, and was surprised to see them here. Then Nakl came.

“Hello. Welcome,” he said.

“Umm… what are they doing here?” I asked.

“This is where they are going to sleep. Oh, and you are going to travel with them, to the Mounts of Vindith. They are going the same way as you, and they want you with them.”

“Umm, ok. Weird,” I said, and went to the Mudokons.

“Hello, my name is Daniel, I’m pleased to meet you,” I said.

“Hello, we heard that you’re going the same way as us, although we’ll split up at the Mounts of Vindith. We know that there is a Glukkon-factory not too far away. But we will not dare to enter the mountains, and if you heard the rumours going around about them, you wouldn’t dare either,” Andriel said.

“It gives me shivers just thinking about them,” D’rehhnar said.

I looked at them. I didn’t really know what to say. Then I thought about a question I could ask.

“Who’s Abe?” I asked.

They all looked at me, as if I was stupid.

“Remember, he just got away from a factory, he wouldn’t be able to hear about him.” I heard Nescar whisper to his friends. I felt a little embarrassed.

“Well, you see. Abe was this Mudokon, he was born in captivity, and he like his life there. But then he found out that the Glukkons wanted to make the Mudokons into food, which scared him really much, and then escaped. He saved all his buddies on the way, because he thought it would be a pity to let them die there. When he got out of the factory, he fell down from a cliff, smashed his head, and died. But then the shaman, Bigface came and revived him. He told him that he was the chosen one to free the Mudokon-race from slavery. He tried really hard, and he did free lots of Mudokons. But then one day he decided he wanted to put a stop to the industrials. He wanted to kill Maggie, and destroy the Magog cartel. But he just never returned. No one knows what happened. We all still have the big question in our hearts. What happened to Abe? We don’t know. Some believe that he died, while others believe that he is kept as a prisoner. Someone also told me that he turned evil.” Hirnissa said.

“Thank you,” I simply said, and turned around. I got my fear back. What would happen to me on my journey? Would I get killed by the Glukkons? But my inner thought got interrupted by Cath’s voice.

“Hello! MY name is Cath. I’m coming with you. Pleased to meet you all. When are we leaving?” she asked.

“Well, soon. Now actually. We were just waiting for you two. Do you have your Elums ready? And your stuff?” Andriel asked.

“Umm… Right… Elums. Well, we were just going to buy some.” I said.

“Then hurry. We must go as soon as possible.”

“I’ll just wait here.” Cath said.

I mumbled and then went away. I went up to the Elum-store, where all kinds of Elums were. Some were shorter, some larger.

“I need an Elum that is good for long travels,” I said to the store-keeper.

“How many, my good Mud?” he asked.

“Well, two,” I said.

“Ok, we have these well-trained Elums here. They’ll cost you 20 Reave-stones each.”

I gave him the stones.

“Well, congratulations with your new Elums,” he said

“What are their names?” I asked.

“The One you see there is called Refty and the other is called Glow. Be careful with them, and treat them as friends. Elums has feelings too,” He said, and patted one of the Elums on the Back. It growled pleased.

“Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind.” I said and took the Elums with me. When I got back to Nakl and the other, Cath screamed in surprise, and kept talking about how cute they were. She took Glow as her Elum. Then I had to take Refty. He seemed strong for an Elum.

Me and Cath had just packed our food, and things we would need, as it was time to leave. I said goodbye to my friends, and explained to Liah, that I couldn’t work at the bar anymore. He was a bit sad, but then I told him, that I would be back someday and would be able to work again.

Then we mounted our Elums, and left the Mudokon city. I made sure that I had my dagger, which I had named Scarch. I kept looking back at the city until it was only a little spot on the horizont.