the fifth ruler

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Introduction

In a distant past, in a world overshadowed by four tyrannical rulers, a man emerged. A man not of flesh and blood, but of legend. He was powerful, so strong that the earth trembled beneath his feet. The four rulers, each in a corner of the world, ruled over its different parts: humans, strange creatures with skin like stone and eyes like stars, demons with wings of darkness and venomous fangs, and gods with immense powers and devastating wrath. Each of these rulers had strengthened their throne with the blood of the people.

But this man, with his face hidden in shadow and a black, spiraling aura that swirled around him, appeared like a terrifying nightmare to these rulers. With his sword, which was made of stars, and with a power that erupted from the depths of the earth, he crushed all four rulers. He called himself the "Fifth Ruler," and like a merciful rain and a warm sun, he descended upon the people. The world, for the first time in its history, achieved unity. But this peace did not last. For unknown reasons, the Fifth Ruler closed his eyes to the world, like the sudden extinguishing of a bright star.

The world was once again divided into four parts, and four new rulers came to power, this time with even more oppression and tyranny. Generation after generation, the rulers changed, but the secret of the Fifth Ruler's last words remained. Sad yet hopeful words that he had delivered to the people with a voice as pleasant as the sound of a flute on a cool night, just before his death. His words pushed the world into a new era, an era full of dangerous and exciting adventures.

The message he carried within him was like a mysterious key that opened the doors to forgotten secrets. He said: "What are you afraid of? Power? Wealth? Do you want to obtain it? Do you want this planet? Do you dream of ruling?! Then come and sit in my place and rule! Find it, whoever finds that precious crown and places it on their head and calls themselves the first person in the world... Congratulations, you are now the ruler of the whole world!"

Eight hundred years passed. Eight hundred years since that tumultuous time. And in a remote corner of the world, a boy was born...

Chapter One

This episode: The End

Helma was afraid of the country of Copper. Her husband, Artian, to get her away from there, took her to a very distant and secluded place. They went so high that they reached a peak covered in unstable snow; white snowballs that covered the peak like a thick jacket. They were alone, in absolute solitude. They built a small wooden cabin. Below the peak, there was a lush forest that provided their food. With fear and trembling, in inadequate clothes made of lion skin, they lived in the harsh and unbearable cold. Everything was bleak and dark for Artian, Helma's husband. But one day, Helma became a beacon of hope. She was pregnant and after months of waiting, she gave birth to a son who brightened the darkness of their small cabin. Helma, with a tired and withered but happy face, was resting on the rotten wooden bed in their humble cabin, next to her husband. A deep peace reigned in her small world. Helma, with hair the color of red and a few green strands, and with eyes as white as snow that drowned a person in them, said:

* "My love, look at our baby! How beautiful and handsome he is! A cute little rascal!"

Artian, with a terrible anxiety, hugged the baby with trembling hands and held him close. He had his eyes closed and said with a trembling voice:

* "My love... look how cute he is! His hair and eyes are red. His hair is like yours and his eyes are like mine, my sweet honey!"

The baby's whole body got wet from crying. Helma's heart sank and she said with a worried voice:

* "Artian dear, give him to me quickly! He's suffocating from crying! My poor baby!"

Artian, with a worried and slightly pitiful face, said:

* "Here, take him, my love. It seems he doesn't like me!"

Helma, angrily, said:

* "Artian! What are you saying? Can't you see how much pain I'm in? The baby has just been born, of course he's crying! Stop it now!"

Artian, with his red eyes and white hair like snow, said calmly:

* "Alright my love, calm down. Why are you getting angry? It will affect your beautiful face!"

Helma, angrily, said:

* "Am I ugly? Me?! There's no one more beautiful than me in the world! I'll hit you!"

Artian, with a slightly mocking laugh, said:

* "My love, it's a good thing I delivered the baby! If I hadn't been trained in midwifery in the country of Silver, how would you have given birth to the baby?"

Helma, shouting, said:

* "Shut your mouth! I'll hit you!"

There was a moment of silence and then they both laughed together. Helma, laughing, said:

* "My love, joking aside, what should we name our baby?"

Artian was silent for a long time, running his fingers over the wooden table of their small cabin. His eyes were fixed on the dim flames of the fireplace. After a long silence, as if from the depths of his being, a calm and short word came out:

* "Kourosh."

Helma, with raised eyebrows and a questioning look, said:

* "Kourosh? Why Kourosh? It's a strange name for our little boy. Does it have a special meaning?"

Artian's face became serious, his eyes stared into the distance. It was as if he was lost in his lost memories. With a calm and slightly trembling voice, he said:

* "In ancient legends, they say there was a man named Kourosh, a hero. He managed to reach a very powerful king several generations before us and face him. But well, he was killed by that same king. The people of that time considered him a savior."

Helma, with eyes that sparkled with curiosity, asked:

* "What happened then? I mean, how did he die? What's his story?"

Artian lowered his head. His shoulders slumped and his disappointed voice echoed in the desolate air of the cabin:

* "I'm sorry my love, I don't know the rest. I've only heard this much."

Helma, with a calm voice, said:

* "It's okay, it doesn't matter. It's a beautiful name."

A smile appeared on her lips, but a slight sadness was visible in her eyes. She looked at her sleeping little boy and said with a voice full of love:

* "My love, look how beautifully he's feeding! You are my precious son, you are my Kourosh..."

Artian, with a slightly bitter and mocking laugh, said:

* "That was very moving!"

Helma, with anger and a voice trembling with rage, said:

* "Consider yourself dead! You son of a..."

Artian's face became serious and he cut Helma off. His worried voice echoed in the silence of the cabin:

* "I hope he doesn't end up like that Kourosh."

Helma, with a calm and sad voice, said:

* "Me too."

Seventeen years passed. Kourosh, with his fiery red hair and red eyes, was sleeping on the rotten wooden bed of their small cabin. A restless sleep that was disturbed by the sound of a muffled and distant scream:

* "Help! Help me! Kourosh! Help!"

Kourosh woke up with this scream. He rubbed his eyes with his hand and said with a sleepy and slightly angry voice:

* "Who's shouting so much? Lower your voice! Can't you see people are sleeping?"

But the scream not only didn't stop, but it reached his ears with greater intensity:

* "Help! Kourosh! Come to my aid! Help me... I'm... falling..."

Kourosh thought for a moment. Their small cabin was in a remote corner of the world. They had no neighbors. With a sudden fear, he said:

* "Wait a minute... we don't have any neighbors at all! Could it be mom's voice?!"

With this thought, he got out of bed. It was at this moment that his bare foot landed on something soft and large. He looked down with fear and horror. A small, white mountain animal was sleeping next to his bed. Kourosh, without thinking, unintentionally stepped on the poor animal and crushed it. The animal's blood and flesh splattered on Kourosh's foot, but he ran towards the door without stopping and shouted loudly:

* "Mom! Mom! Mom! Dad! Why aren't you answering?!"

His mother's scream reached his ears again, with even greater intensity:

* "Kourosh! Where are you? Kourosh! My hand is tired! I'm... going to fall!"

Kourosh, with bare feet and inadequate clothes, in the bone-chilling cold, ran with incredible speed towards his mother's voice. He opened the door of the old wooden cabin in a hurry and followed the sound. In those terrifying moments, he saw something vague on the edge of a deep and dark cliff. His mother's withered fingers! Fingers that were clinging to the frozen edge of the cliff.

With all the strength and speed he had, he ran towards the cliff and shouted with a voice trembling with fear:

* "Mom! Mom! Hold on! I'm coming!"

Helma, with a trembling voice that clearly conveyed fear, said:

* "Kourosh... help... please help me... my hand... is... slipping..."

Helma's hands, weakened by fatigue and cold, were slipping from the snow-covered edge of the cliff. Kourosh, with his chapped hands, at the last moment, grabbed his mother's lifeless hands and saved her from death.

Helma, with mixed feelings of fear and immense joy, while her tears were flowing, said:

* "Pull me up! Faster!"

Kourosh, with all his strength, pulled his mother up and said:

* "I'm pulling you up now, mom! Hold on for a moment!"

Helma, as soon as she reached the top, jumped into Kourosh's arms with boundless joy and hugged him tightly and said with a voice trembling with happiness:

* "Kourosh! Kourosh! Kourosh! Thank you! Thank you!"

Kourosh, with a worried and scared face, while still trembling with fear, asked his mother:

* "Mom, what happened? Where's dad?"

Helma, with her trembling hands, wiped her tears and said with a serious and sad face:

* "Do you really want to know?"

This question pierced Kourosh's heart like a dagger. He bit his tongue and said with a trembling and broken voice:

* "W...what... do you mean? What happened?"

Helma, with a cruel face, pulled her son towards the cliff and said:

* "Look down."

What Kourosh saw was beyond his imagination. His eyes filled with tears. A cold and dreadful breeze seemed to have sucked all the air of life out of his chest. His forehead furrowed in pain. His heart was beating violently with fear. His father, lifeless and torn to pieces, was lying in the forest below the cliff. His blood, like a dark and terrifying stain, had contaminated the ground. Kourosh, with eyes that had turned red from tears and blood, and with a trembling and choked voice, said:

* "What... what... what... the hell is this? This... this... dad... uh...uh...uh..."

Kourosh, with a terrible cry, threw up everything he had eaten. With mixed feelings of fear, anger, and grief, he asked his mother:

* "What... what happened?"

Helma, with a savage and cold-blooded laugh, and with hands that, although soft, shone with filth and cruelty, pushed Kourosh towards the cliff. With a voice that trembled with cruelty, she said:

* "Hey! Hey! Hey! Did mom just throw me? Am I going to die? Wh...wh...wh...why?"

Helma, with an angry and cruel face, said:

* "From the very beginning, I didn't like you or your stupid father! Die!"

Helma, without thinking about the consequences of her actions, wanted to turn her foot back when her foot slipped and she fell from the waist down from the cliff. With a voice that trembled with fear, she shouted:

* "Huh? Huh? Huh? No! I don't want to die!"

Kourosh, on the verge of death, felt time stop. He found himself on an old chair of pure white, in an endless space covered with shining snow. Absolute whiteness, extending to infinity. There was nothing but pristine and dazzling whiteness.

Kourosh's gasps, from the intensity of fear, had reached their peak. His eyes were bulging, as if they wanted to escape from fear. Tears flowed incessantly, but he didn't know what he was afraid of, what he was feeling. Fear? Grief? Or a combination of both? In the midst of this, a strange and bizarre creature, white and shining, like a soulless ice sculpture, appeared before him. A creature without any specific features, just pure whiteness. But its gaze, was the gaze of a hungry predator; a gaze that had trapped Kourosh. A gaze that stared at him from the boundless depths of whiteness.

Kourosh, with trembling hands, pressed on his heart. His clothes became bloody. Blood flowed like a fountain from the wound on his hand. He lowered his head and with eyes that burned with fear and anger, and a body that was writhing with tremors, he said with a calm and broken voice:

* "What... what... what happened to make it like this?"

End of Chapter One

Chapter Two

This episode: The Strange White Creature

The strange white creature, without eyes, mouth, or any other specific organ, looked directly at Kourosh. Its voice, was like the sound of the wind in winter, cold and devoid of emotion:

* "Do you want to know what happened? Do you want to know how you ended up in this misery and misfortune?"

Kourosh, out of fear, closed his eyes and lowered his head. The white creature, with a voice that trembled with anger, said:

* "Hey! I'm talking! Am I mute that I can't talk? Have you seen a ghost, boy?"

Kourosh's blood, from fear, froze in his veins like the branches of a frozen tree. But his mouth, from the grief of a few minutes ago, would not open.

* "I know, I know, you're sad now. Your mother killed your father and then wanted to kill you too. Now you hate your mother and want to behead her. But you don't know anything. Do you want to know? Oh, by the way, I forgot you can't talk out of fear right now. Wait a minute, did you think I'm God right now?"

Suddenly, the bright and pleasant ground, turned into a dark and terrifying ground. The whiteness disappeared and darkness covered everything. A mouth opened on the creature's face, a very large mouth that extended to below its eyes. Kourosh, without blinking, saw that the creature was holding its face with its white hands and had opened its mouth and dark and mysterious things were coming out of its mouth. It was scratching its face with its nails and from the creature's mouth, strange and unfamiliar colors gushed out; colors that Kourosh had never seen in his life. Colors that flowed towards him like roaring waves and drowned him in them. Kourosh was so shocked and scared that he could no longer recognize his emotions. The only thing he felt was raw and helpless fear. In that moment, only he and that strange and bizarre creature were alone in that endless and mysterious space.

The creature, with a voice that echoed like thunder and lightning in Kourosh's ear, with anger and a loud shout, said:

* "Hey! You idiot! Are you comparing a weak creature with me? You'd better apologize right now, or I'll make your life miserable, you foolish mortal!"

After a few dreadful moments, everything returned to normal. The creature, with a face that was still tainted with anger, but had calmed down a bit, said:

* "Of course, you can't talk and apologize, you've lowered your head? So I'll consider that an apology... good, you're an understanding boy. Because of this understanding, I'll allow you to ask three questions."

The creature, with a sad and mournful face, said:

* "Since you can't talk, it's better if I answer the three questions you're going to ask myself."

The creature, with a slow movement, snapped its fingers with its right hand and a dark and mysterious rectangular box, like a magical object, appeared in front of Kourosh. The creature said:

* "Well done! That was a good question. You wanted to ask what this is? This is called a television. You can see and watch any part of the world with this remote in my hand. Especially Indian and Turkish movies that take a lifetime to watch..."

Kourosh, with a surprised and confused face, sank into thought and said with a voice that trembled with surprise:

* "What the hell is this thing saying?"

The creature, with a short and mysterious laugh, said:

* "I know what the hell I'm saying."

Kourosh, with a voice that trembled with surprise and a little anger, said:

* "Huh?! I was talking to myself in my thoughts, how did it know?!"

The creature, with a calm and mysterious voice, said:

* "The answer to your first question of the three main questions is this: the further you go, the more advanced the countries become. It's clear from your face that you didn't understand anything, let me start from the beginning. This world, is like a huge puzzle divided into four large pieces: the human section, the strange creature section – with skins like stone and eyes like stars – the demon section – with wings of darkness and venomous fangs – and the god section – with immense powers and devastating wrath. In each of these sections, there are different countries. One section might have only one country, or hundreds of countries! No one knows. Each country has a king, and each section has a main king who rules over all the other kings. And the further you go, towards more advanced civilizations, everything becomes stranger and more complicated. Flying cars, phones that connect to the mind, skyscraper apartments, and thousands of other things that you can't even dream of!"

Kourosh, with a confused and bewildered face, said in his thoughts:

* "Why... why is this thing talking nonsense?"

The white creature, with a laugh that brought the sound of cracking ice to Kourosh's mind, said:

* "Wow! You're so clueless! With that lion skin you're wearing, it's obvious how stupid you are! Now forget it, you'll understand later."

The white creature's lips, stretched to below its eyes and its laugh turned into a loud and savage laugh. A laugh that echoed in the silence of the white space. Then, with a voice that was like the sound of the wind on a stormy night, it said:

* "We've reached the question I like. What happened to your mother? I've known you since you were born. Now don't ask why, because I won't answer you. Your mother was possessed by a jinn. That is, something had taken over her body and the things she did were not in her control. In simple terms, one moment you see it's her, the next moment you see it's not her. Let me tell you..."

Sixteen years ago...

Artian, Helma's husband and Kourosh's father, woke up from a troubled sleep. His eyes fell on Helma who, in the darkness of their small cabin, was staring at the old wooden door. Worry was evident in his eyes. With a trembling voice, he asked:

* "My love, are you okay? Why are you staring at the door? At this time of night, has something happened?"

Helma, was as if she was lost in another world. Her eyes were lifeless and devoid of any emotion. With a numb and colorless voice, she answered:

* "My love, it's nothing. I'm just hungry. I want meat. I want to go and eat the meat I've hidden."

Artian, with raised eyebrows and a questioning look, said:

* "My love, I can't go hunting at this time of night... huh? You've hidden it? Where did you hide it?"

Helma, with a mysterious and slightly terrifying smile, said:

* "Yes, I'm going to eat my delicious meat."

Artian's worry turned into fear. Something was strange about Helma's behavior. She was never this strange and bizarre. He said to himself:

* "She's trying to scare me. Why is she acting like this? Where is this strange behavior coming from?"

Five long and agonizing minutes passed and Helma didn't return. Artian became frantically worried. On that terrifying night, he blamed himself for not taking care of Helma. With a heart full of fear, he opened the door to find Helma. With a trembling and worried voice, he was shouting and calling Helma's name with a mixture of eagerness and fear. He searched Kourosh's small room and saw with horror that... Kourosh was gone! A foul smell, a strong smell of burning and something like the smell of blood, reached his nose. He said to himself:

* "What's this smell? The smell of burning? No! Is it happening again? I won't let it happen this time!"

Artian, with a body that was trembling with fear, opened the door of the wooden cabin. This was the beginning of a story that should not have happened. Artian, with eyes wide with fear, saw a scene that was etched in his mind for the rest of his life. A reddish light, like the flames of hellfire, was devouring something. Helma, at that moment, let go of Kourosh and Artian threw himself towards Kourosh. But he couldn't grab Kourosh's small hand. Artian couldn't save Kourosh. Kourosh, small and defenseless, fell next to the flames. Artian, with short breaths and a body that was trembling with exhaustion and fear, could only whisper:

* "Thank you, thank you, the fire didn't want to destroy my child.... thank you."

Suddenly, time went back to a few moments before the incident. The white creature, with a cruel and emotionless face, said to Kourosh who was frozen with fear:

* "Consider it a prize... the human section has four countries. That's your second question, now it's better if I answer your third question... let's explain your father's death."

Fifteen minutes before the disaster...

Artian, was standing on the edge of a high and dizzying cliff. A strong wind was messing up his hair. The forest below the cliff, with its beautiful colors and unique greenery, was visible before his eyes. Helma, with a strange and bizarre face, was dancing and acting crazy. A dance that was more like madness than joy. Artian, without taking his eyes off the forest scenery, said:

* "My love, leave the dancing for a moment and come see this green nature. Today its greenery is more than other days. It's as if it's saying come to me."

Helma, with a distorted face and a voice that trembled with anger, said:

* "What do you want from me? But since you said so, I'll come now, my... dear..."

Artian, was shocked to hear the word "my dear". His face turned red like a flower that has been burned in fire. Something in Helma's voice was strange.

Helma ran towards Artian, but suddenly she got dizzy and fell on a pile of snow. She tried to breathe, but breathing had become difficult for her. Her face was wet with sweat. It was as if her throat was being squeezed. A thin and mysterious voice, like the sound of a snake, echoed in Helma's mind:

* "Hello Helma, my dear. I'm the one you love. The one who lives inside your body."

Fear gripped Helma's entire being. Her eyes were bulging. With a surprised and scared face, she said:

* "Wh...wh...who... who... are you? What are you doing in my mind? What... do you want?"

Helma's throat was so tight that it felt like her bones might pop out of her skin at any moment. Air was barely entering her lungs. Her breaths were short and difficult. The evil jinn, with a voice that was like the sound of claws scratching on a stone slab, said:

* "My dear! How quickly you forgot! Now forget all this. I don't want to kill either, but I have to! Do you understand? I have to! I have orders to kill you and your family! Artian, my husband... oh, I'm sorry, your husband! What an idiot! He still hasn't seen what's behind him! What can you expect from an 800-year-old man?"

The jinn's voice was accompanied by a mysterious laugh. A laugh that sounded more like the cracking of bones than the laugh of a normal creature.

Artian said hastily:

* "My love! Why aren't you coming? This scene is very beautiful, come on."

The jinn, with a swift and sudden movement, took over Helma's entire lifeless body. Helma's eyes turned the color of fiery red and her body trembled violently. With incredible speed, she ran towards Artian. Artian, who was still in shock, when he saw Helma floating in the air, with fear and anger, clung his hand to the edge of the cliff. He shouted:

* "Helma? What's wrong? What are you doing? Pull me up quickly!"

The jinn, with a voice that trembled with mockery, said:

* "My dear, you're an idiot!"

Artian, with a trembling voice, asked:

* "Huh?"

The jinn, with a cold and cruel laugh, said:

* "A complete idiot! So stupid that I don't want you anymore... I'm barely tolerating you, if you love me..."

* "???"

The jinn, with a voice that was like the sound of breaking bones, said:

* "Go... die..."

Helma, with a strange and unnatural strength, placed her foot on Artian's hands and pressed so hard that Artian's fingers slipped from the edge of the cliff. The greenery of the forest, in an instant, turned the color of red blood. The jinn, with a voice that soared to the sky with cruelty, said:

* "Didn't he die too easily? Forget it! What can you expect from an 800-year-old man? But he was handsome! Did you see his face? It was like a 20-year-old kid..."

Kourosh, was distraught with crying. His eyes were trembling like a wave. A sticky and mysterious thing, came from an unknown place and covered Kourosh's mouth. The white creature, with annoyance and a tired voice, said:

* "Be quiet now! I don't have the patience for crying and wailing! You don't know why I'm helping you and telling you everything. But I know why I'm doing this. Wow kid, you have so many questions in your mind, I'm going crazy because of you but apart from that let me tell you a point, when someone fights on this planet you live on, only the things on the surface of the planet like roads, apartments, mountains, etc. are destroyed, but the planet itself doesn't even get a scratch because this planet is a bit different from other planets, it's a bit special. Why did I suddenly bring up the topic of the planet? What's a planet? You'll understand later, retard, and it was just a point I wanted you to know because it will help you."

The creature, took the remote in its right hand and pressed the back and forward buttons. When the box, showed an image of the multiverse, the creature didn't go back and forward anymore. With a snap of its right hand, the multiverses started to light up and be destroyed like fireworks. 354 million multiverses were intertwined and destroyed. Kourosh fainted from fear and his eyes closed. Suddenly, Kourosh disappeared from the chair and the strange and bizarre creature started laughing and said in its thoughts:

* "I just wanted to scare him a little, so I set off some fireworks, why did he faint?!"

End of Chapter Two

Bonus part:

The white creature, in a tone as if it was explaining to its audience, said:

* "My dear readers! You must be saying why I explained so much in the second chapter. You must be telling yourselves: 'We understood everything this way! All this explanation is useless now!'"

* "But I must say that this was the initial information for the start of the novel 'The Fifth Ruler'. So don't worry! I practically didn't explain anything. This is just the initial information."

Chapter Three

This episode: Does Kourosh Die?

Kourosh, unconscious, returned to the moment of falling from the cliff. Time, like a film that has been rewound, turned back. He was falling in the cold and dark air, towards the lush and beautiful forest. Fear and horror were swirling in the heavy air. The evil jinn, with eyes that were wet with fear and a face that had turned white with horror, shouted with a trembling voice:

* "Huh? Huh? Haaah? No! I don't want to die!"

At this very moment, as if his torment and punishment had begun. A giant and sharp branch from an ancient tree in the forest, pierced the jinn's body like a dagger. The sound of breaking bones echoed in the silence of the forest. His back broke and his voice was silenced forever. His blood, like a dark and dreadful rain, fell on the green leaves of the forest and contaminated its greenery. But the jinn's body, by the mysterious will of Mother Nature, remained hanging on that cursed branch; as if a warning to others. Kourosh's left eye, remained in the forest as a price for his salvation. Kourosh, remained unconscious, but alive. Mother Nature, by sparing Kourosh's life, repaid her favor. It was as if this was the unwritten law of nature.

Kourosh, hit the ground with incredible speed. But his blood, did not change the color of the forest's greenery. Five long and dreadful hours passed. Kourosh, with his left eye lost, in the winding forest, regained consciousness...

His head was like a bomb about to explode, Kourosh whispered to himself: "Why isn't my left eye in its place?" Memories, like a fast-forwarding film, paraded before his eyes. All the curses of his family came to life in his mind. Kourosh, for a moment, saw his father next to the cursed tree. His father's body was devoid of soul, like a lifeless statue. Kourosh, with a terrible cry, reached his father. His father's eyes were not in their place and ropes of flesh were hanging from that cursed tree. Kourosh, with a cry that echoed like the sound of a rebab in the wind, cursed himself for why all this misfortune had befallen him.

Three long and hard days passed. Kourosh, without water and food, was lost in the forest. He had lost his left eye. He was alive, but it was as if he had lost his soul. His right eye, like a dead eye, was looking at him. Kourosh was walking in the forest, like a wounded and suffering lion. He was wandering next to the ancient and wide trees, in search of food and shelter. Suddenly, five seconds later, he saw that his left hand was in the mouth of a giant and savage tiger. Kourosh, from fear and pain, was not aware that a brave tiger was standing behind him. The tiger, seized the right moment and tore Kourosh's left hand from his body. Kourosh, screamed from pain and fear and his tears flowed. He asked for help from his dead family:

* "Mom! Dad! Heeeeelp!"

Five minutes before this incident, outside the forest, a soldier in a red uniform and silver armor, said to a man who was sitting on a horse:

* "Commander! Don't go into the forest! It's dangerous at this time of night! Why don't you go to deliver the letter tomorrow at dawn?"

The ignorant man, questioned the manhood of the army commander. The commander, a kind man with black eyes and a gold uniform and silver armor thicker than steel, said to the ignorant soldier:

* "Shut your mouth, you ignorant insolent! This letter is more important than my life and I have to deliver it to the leader of the rebel team, Chief Arsalan, as soon as possible. He has been trying for years to kill the ruler of the country of Copper, that is, Maria, so that people like me and you can live in peace. So shut your mouth! We've put our lives on the line to find him; and you say tomorrow?"

The ignorant soldier, after hearing these harsh words from the commander, trembled with fear. His body was trembling like a leaf in the wind. His mouth was dry with fear and he could barely utter a sentence:

* "I apologize commander, I've just become a soldier, I didn't know what to do and also... the ruler of the country of Copper is a girl?"

The commander, angrily, removed his right hand from his mouth. His face was red with anger. With a strong and angry fist, he hit his own head. His face was burning with anger and rage. With an angry and agitated voice, he said:

* "May the world collapse on my head! It slipped out of my mouth! Hey soldier! Forget it right now!"

The soldier, with a surprised and confused face, said:

* "Huh?"

The valiant commander, with a swift and decisive move, drew his sword from its scabbard. The long and shiny sword, reached his knee. A sword that was thirsty for blood and its shine, had terrified the ignorant soldier. The sword was placed on the soldier's neck. The commander, with a distorted and angry face, said:

* "I said forget it right now!"

The soldier, with a pale face and a trembling voice, said:

* "I... I... I made a huge mistake commander, I'll forget it right now."

Five seconds passed. A dreadful silence reigned. Then, the soldier said:

* "I forgot."

The commander's anger reached its peak. With an angry and furious voice, he said:

* "Are you kidding me! Damn..."

Suddenly, a weak and feeble voice echoed in the night air. A voice that was like a small wave in a big sea. The commander, with a surprised and worried face, shouted:

* "Did you hear that too? Is someone screaming in pain? You four come with me! Move!"

The commander, with his four soldiers, went into the dark and dreadful forest. The night was terrifying and full of impurity. The bone-chilling cold had contaminated the forest air. On that dreadful night, in that terrifying forest, the valiant commander, with a swift and decisive move, stood up on his horse. He drew his bloodthirsty sword from its scabbard. The sword, with incredible speed, was thrown towards the tiger. The commander's aim, was precise and deadly. The sword, with the sound of cracking bones, pierced the tiger's body. Five tall and ancient trees in the forest were also in the path of the sword and were broken. The savage tiger, with a bloody and broken body, fell lifeless in the darkness of the night.

The commander, with his sharp eyes, saw Kourosh. Poor Kourosh, without an eye and a hand, was lying unconscious on the ground. The commander, with a voice that trembled with anger, said:

* "You deserved it, you damn tiger! Remember not to attack someone weaker than you again! Of course, you won't remember anymore, because your brain is already splattered out! Hey! Boy! Hey! Are you alive? He's unconscious, huh..."

The soldiers, ran towards them with worry. One of them said:

* "Commander! We're here..."

The commander, with great anger and fury, said:

* "May the dust of the whole universe be upon your heads! Other people have soldiers, we have soldiers too! If I had two sheep instead of you, I would have conquered the world by now!"

The four soldiers, simultaneously and with fear, said:

* "We apologize commander." and they bowed.

The commander, after a few moments of silence, with a calmer and more composed voice, said:

* "Instead of apologizing, quickly put this boy on the horse and take him to my tent."

One of the four soldiers, with a composed and indifferent face, said:

* "But commander, he might be a spy! It's dangerous! Let me finish him off right here."

The foolish man, hastily drew his sword from its scabbard and went towards Kourosh. But the commander, without any hesitation, with a strong and decisive fist, hit the ignorant soldier's chin. The soldier fell to the ground unconscious. The three soldiers were looking at the scene with fear and surprise. One of them, with a trembling voice, said:

* "Didn't you hear what the commander said? Quickly put this boy on the horse!"

The other two soldiers, with a face full of fear, said simultaneously:

* "Yeeees!"

Poor and unfortunate Kourosh regained consciousness. Like a mouse that has hidden in its hole, he got up from the bed from a headache. He realized with horror that his left eye and hand were gone. In their place, there were strange white and shiny things. Kourosh, with fear and surprise, looked at them, poor and suffering Kourosh, saw himself in a strange and mysterious place. A completely black and endless space had surrounded him. In this dreadful silence, the commander's voice was heard:

* "You're awake?"

Kourosh, with a pale face and terrified eyes that were still full of the horrifying memories of the forest, said:

* "Hey! What do you want with me? Do you want to kill me? What are these white things that are tied to my left eye and hand? Why did you bring me to this strange and bizarre black place? I... I thought I was dead."

The commander, looking at Kourosh closely, was a little surprised and said:

* "Huh? Oh! You mean the bandages?"

Kourosh, with a trembling and confused voice, said:

* "Bandages?"

The commander, with a short and slightly mocking laugh, said:

* "Wow! You really don't know what bandages are? It was obvious from that lion skin you were wearing!"

Kourosh, with a voice that trembled with surprise and a little anger, said:

* "No..."

The commander, with a louder laugh, said:

* "Well, those white things are called bandages. They prevent bleeding. And this strange black place is called a tent. It's made of fabric. And those clothes you're wearing, they're made of sheep's wool that protects you from the cold. And those things on your feet, they're called shoes. They protect you against anything like sharp objects and against the cold. Did you understand? Those clothes you're wearing, they're mine! You should be grateful!"

Kourosh, with a mouth open with surprise and a little anger, said:

* "Thank you! And... to be honest, I didn't understand anything you said."

The commander, with a short laugh, said:

* "I knew it!"

And they both laughed at each other's words. A laugh that was a mixture of peace and a little distrust. Kourosh said:

* "Thank you..."

The commander asked:

* "For what?"

Kourosh said:

* "Both for saving me and for making me laugh. I thought I had forgotten how to laugh after what happened to me."

The commander asked:

* "What things?"

* "...Sorry, sorry! I shouldn't have asked you."

Kourosh, with a kind smile, said:

* "It's okay."

Kourosh stared into the commander's eyes. A close and meaningful look. The commander, with an uncomfortable and slightly embarrassed face, said:

* "Why are you staring at me like that? Have you seen a girl? Don't you have feelings for me? You dirty person!"

Kourosh, asked with surprise:

* "What are feelings?"

The commander, from embarrassment and anger, slammed his face into the ground five times. With a desperate face, he said:

* "Forget about it! You haven't introduced yourself to me?"

* "I..."

* "Wait..."

Kourosh, with a surprised face, said:

* "For what?"

The commander, in a kinder and calmer tone, said:

* "It's polite for me to go first. I am Surena. And you?"

* "I am also... Kou..."

Suddenly, a handless soldier, with a body covered in blood from head to toe, pushed the curtain aside and said breathlessly:

* "The army of the country of Copper has attacked!"

The commander, with fear and horror, said:

* "What are you say..."

Before he could finish his sentence, arrows were shot at them. That young man was killed and his bright future was extinguished. The commander, with anger and rage, pushed the curtain aside. Kourosh, was lost in the middle of that terrible war. The blades of the swords were shining in a sea of blood. The cursed night, was lit by the red light of blood. Commander Surena's eyes, in the midst of the chaos of war, became lifeless and dull. The enemies, were wearing green clothes. He said to himself: "The color green doesn't suit you bloodthirsty people at all." The commander, out of desperation, trusted Kourosh. He grabbed Kourosh and shouted:

* "Hey! I'm talking to you! Can you hear me?"

Kourosh, came out of his daze and said:

* "Y...yes?"

The commander, took a letter out of his pocket and gave it to Kourosh and said:

* "I might not survive to deliver this letter to the chief. The chief's name is Arsalan. Go to the country of Copper and give this to him. Now run away from behind this tent."

* "Huh?"

The commander, rushed into the heart of the enemy. Kourosh, confused and dazed, said:

* "What are you saying? Hey! I'm talking to you! Where are you going? Well, where in the country should I go? That idiot..."

Suddenly, the severed head of one of the enemies, was thrown from Kourosh's right eye to the opposite side. Kourosh, bewildered and terrified, said:

* "Huh? W...what... w...what...was that?"

Kourosh realized that this was not a joke. He had fallen into the middle of a bloody war. The sound of the sword blades had deafened the sky and their sparks, had turned the darkness of the night into the brightness of the morning. If he didn't escape from this chaos, his death was certain. Unfortunately, a green-clad soldier, saw Kourosh in the tent. The soldier, with a shout of "I'll kill you!", ran after him. Kourosh, with a face full of fear and surprise, said:

* "What are you saying in the middle of all this?"

Kourosh saw a sword next to him. He picked it up and ran towards the green-clad soldier with speed. The soldier, was ready to dodge the shiny sword. But suddenly he realized that there was no sword in Kourosh's hand! He turned his head to the sides and saw the sword on the ground. As soon as he raised his head, he realized that Kourosh was escaping from under the tent. The soldier, with an angry face, shouted:

* "You dirty cheater!"

The green-clad soldier, ran after Kourosh with anger. But at this moment, Kourosh was lucky. He knocked the soldier to the ground with a strong and sudden kick. The soldier couldn't breathe for three seconds. His face was distorted with pain and anger. With a choked and angry voice, he said:

* "You garbage! Consider yourself dead!"

The green-clad soldier, ran out of the tent with anger and shouted loudly to his commander:

* "Commander! Someone escaped! I think he has the letter!"

The enemy commander, with black hair and light brown eyes, turned his head to the sides. He saw Kourosh who was running like a small ant among the trees. With a firm and decisive voice, he said:

* "Theeeere he is! A few people go after that dirty garbage!"

Several soldiers, simultaneously and with a loud voice, said:

* "Yeeees Coooommander!"

Surena, was lost in thought about Kourosh and his fate. At this moment, a soldier with a serious face and skin full of pimples, shouted loudly:

* "Stop! In the sacred name of the country of Copper, I order you to stooooop!"

Kourosh, in a mocking tone, said:

* "I'll probably stop so you can kill me easily! Are you talking to a three-year-old kid who would say yes to you?"

Kourosh, while running, said to himself:

* "Damn it! I'm not used to this thing called shoes! I'm running with difficulty..."

Kourosh finally reached a deep cliff. A cliff in the depths of which, an endless and cruel death awaited him. The sound of the roaring waves of the sea crashing against the rocks below, reached Kourosh's ears. For the first time in his life, Kourosh felt happy. He said in his mind: "So this is the sea? The same place my mother used to tell me about in stories. It's very beautiful!"

At this moment, the pimply soldier, with an angry voice, said:

* "Well, well! We finally caught up with you! You can't get away from here anymore!"

Kourosh, with anger and despair, said:

* "Damn it! Damn you all..."

The soldiers, were slowly approaching Kourosh. At this moment, a thought came to Kourosh's mind. He said to himself:

* "I don't know why this letter is important, but I know if you take one more step, this letter will be food for this sea."

The green-clad soldiers, shouted out of fear:

* "Stooooop! We won't take another step forward!"

Suddenly, the enemy commander, entered the scene. Fear and horror gripped the soldiers and Kourosh and the commander, with a harsh and threatening voice, said:

* "If you have the guts, throw it into the sea! So that you'll end up like your commander!"

Kourosh, with a face full of fear, said:

* "My commander? Who's my commander? What do you mean?"

One of the soldiers, said:

* "Commander Zahhak! Don't you..."

Zahhak, with a spear in his hand to which Surena's severed head was attached, entered the scene. This terrifying scene, caused a rain of tears and blood to flow from Kourosh's eyes. Kourosh, with an angry and resentful shout, with a shout of "You bastard!", ran towards Zahhak. But one of the green-clad soldiers, with alertness and cruelty, aimed his bow and shot an arrow towards Kourosh's stomach. The speed of the arrow was so great that it threw Kourosh towards the cliff with great force. Kourosh, along with the letter, fell into the cliff and his head hit a hard rock with a terrible sound...

End of Chapter Three

Chapter Four

This episode: Soheil and Soheila

A beautiful and delicate girl, with an attractive figure and a captivating face, had hair whose colors were like a bright day and a dark night; the left side of her hair was white and the right side was blacker than darkness. She had eyes like the sky and pupils the color of a red rose. Her face and lips were like a beautiful painting. Her tongue was purple. She, in old and tattered clothes, next to her eight-year-old younger brother, who had dark brown hair and black eyes, were throwing stones by the river. The little boy, upon seeing Kourosh, shouted with worry:

* "Sister! Sister!"

The girl, with a distorted and slightly angry face, said:

* "What is it? What is it? Why are you shouting?"

* "Well, sister! Look! Something is coming this way on a piece of wood..."

The girl, with surprise and a little fear, said:

* "Wait a minute! What's that on the wood? Is it a person? Yes! Soheil! Go wake dad up to come and help!"

The girl, without much fear, entered the river. But the current of the water was so strong that it pushed her back with one blow. The girl, angrily, said:

* "Damn it! How strong is this river! I can't go any further than this! If I go, I'll drown..."

Soheil, scared and wet, ran towards their cabin. The cabin was in a very bad condition; Soheil quickly reached his father and woke him up by kicking him with both feet. His father, with a surprised and tired face, said:

* "Ouch! What's wrong with you, boy? Aren't you afraid I'll have a heart attack and be on your hands?"

Soheil, angrily, said:

* "Forget about that! My sister has gone into the river to help someone!"

The father, with surprise and worry, said:

* "What do you mean???"

The girl, with a calmer voice, said:

* "Good! It's getting closer and closer."

Twenty seconds passed. The girl, angrily, said:

* "Get here already, damn wood! I mean, the current is strong..."

The father, ran out of the cabin and went towards his children. Upon seeing them and their condition, with surprise and worry, he said:

* "What are you doing Soheila? Who's that?"

Soheila, with anger and worry, said:

* "Hey old man! Instead of asking questions, come and help!"

The father, with a face full of fear and worry, said:

* "What's wrong, my daughter? Calm down! I'm here."

The father, threw himself into the river and helped his daughter. They grabbed the wood and pulled Kourosh out of the river. Soheila, breathless and with an angry face, said:

* "Damn it! Instead of coming to help me, you're asking who this guy is? How should I know who this is!"

The father, with tired eyes and a pitiful face, said:

* "I'm sorry! Don't be angry anymore! Okay?"

* "You'll drive me crazy eventually."

The father, with a serious face, said:

* "Now what do we do with this boy?"

Ten days later...

Kourosh, with a face full of fear and worry, said:

* "Why? Am I going to die now??? No!"

Helma (Kourosh's mother), with a cold and cruel voice, said:

* "Die, damn it! From the very beginning, I didn't like you or your father..."

* "Noooooo!"

Kourosh, woke up from a troubled sleep. He was breathless. His face was wet with sweat. With a surprised and scared face, he said:

* "What... what... was that?? What the hell was that? Ouch! My head hurts so much! Wait a minute! Where... am I????"

Soheila, with anger and a sharp tone that stemmed from her worry and exhaustion, shouted in Kourosh's ear:

* "You stupid boy! Be careful what you're doing when you get up! You destroyed my head! My back is broken from pulling you out of that river!"

Kourosh, with anger and confusion, and a pain that came from his wounds, said:

* "Who are you?"

With a bewildered and worried face, he continued:

* "Wait a minute... the letter... where's the letter?"

Kourosh, who was shirtless and with a wounded body, searched for the letter. His clothes were next to him, but the letter was not there. With anger and worry, he searched inside his clothes, but the letter was not there. Soheila, unaware of Kourosh's intense worries, said with anger:

* "Hey boy, hey you with a missing part, are you even paying attention?! I just changed your bandages! Don't move! Or you'll bleed again! Now shut up!"

Kourosh, with a bewildered and confused face, and a voice that trembled with pain, said:

* "I don't know where I am! I don't know why you helped me... of course I'm grateful, but right now, it doesn't matter at all if I bleed."

Blood flowed from Kourosh's wounds. Soheila, with anger and rage, slapped Kourosh's ear and said:

* "You're crazy! I didn't treat you so much for you to bleed again! I should have left you then! You would have died right there! Now go to sleep!"

Soheila, with an angry and tired face, left the tent. The father and Soheil, with a bewildered and worried face, entered and said:

* "Hey! What happened? What was wrong with my daughter? Why was she crying? She was like a savage wild animal! Why?"

Soheil, with a shout and anger, stomped his foot and said to his father:

* "Don't call my sister a savage!" and he left the tent.

The father, with a smile, said:

* "Look at the kid! He's only eight years old! But he's just like his sister."

Kourosh, in his mind, said:

* "That bitch! I'll kill her..."

The father, sat next to Kourosh and said:

* "What's your name?"

Kourosh, with composure and a bit of sarcasm, said:

* "Politeness dictates that you say your name first."

The father, with surprise, said:

* "Yes, absolutely! My name is Toofan. And you?"

* "I am Kourosh."

Toofan, with a worried and distressed face, said:

* "Huh? Huuuuh?"

Kourosh continued:

* "Excuse me? Did something happen?"

Toofan, calmly and composedly, said:

* "No, my son! It's nothing. What a name your mother and father chose? And also, don't hold a grudge against my daughter! My daughter has a soft heart."

Kourosh, with a more satisfied face, said:

* "Yes! I realized what a good girl she is as soon as I saw her..."

And in his mind, with anger, he continued:

* "I want her head off her shoulders!"

Toofan, with a questioning face, said:

* "By the way! You didn't say how these things happened to you?"

Kourosh, with a distressed and bewildered face, said:

* "First answer my questions! First of all, where is the letter? Second, how long have I been unconscious? Third, why did you save me? And the last question, where is this place?"

Toofan, with composure, said:

* "First of all! I didn't see a letter! I don't have it..."

* "Wait a minute, you didn't see a letter?!"

Toofan said:

* "You've been unconscious for about ten days. And for your third question, I have no answer."

Kourosh, with surprise and a little anger, said in his mind:

* "I didn't get it! What does it mean he has no answer? And I've been unconscious for ten damn days??"

Toofan continued:

* "And the answer to your last question is that you are now in the most miserable country in the world, that is, the country of Copper."

* "Now why miserable?"

* "Did you come from behind a mountain that you don't know what's going on?"

Kourosh, with anger and a little regret, said in his mind:

* "Now you don't have to say I'm from behind a mountain! But now that I remember, my mother used to say that the country of Copper is cursed and miserable! That's why I think she said she ran away from there."

Toofan, with composure, continued:

* "I'll tell you what's going on here! This country is very poor! To the extent that the people of this country seem to be cursed! But instead, we have a ruler who is rolling in money and drinking his wine in that palace of his! That shameless bastard!"

* "By the way! The letter might have fallen into the river..."

Kourosh, with an indifferent face, said:

* "What river? I fell into the sea."

Toofan, with a surprised and scared face, said:

* "The sea?! That river is only connected to one sea and that is the Pearl Sea! Hey hey! How are you alive? You shouldn't even have a bone left of you by now!"

Kourosh, with a sad face, said:

* "If that letter is lost, it means Commander Surena's death was in vain..."

* "Can you leave me alone?"

* "Sure."

Toofan, with an excitement that was rooted deep within him, whispered in his mind:

"The moment I walked in and saw this boy's right eye, I realized his eye is like a man's! But it seems fate doesn't want this boy to die! Because anyone who falls into the Pearl Sea, their death is certain! How did he even get to this river?" Cold sweat formed on his forehead. His fingers unconsciously clenched into fists.

Toofan, cautiously went out the door and asked:

"You have a powerful purpose that fate has kept you alive for! What is that powerful purpose???"

A black and dark aura, like a cobra ready to attack, quickly wrapped around Kourosh. Kourosh's lips stretched unnaturally and a mysterious and terrifying laugh came out of his mouth. His voice was like the sound of claws scratching on a stone slab:

"Fate? Whatever fate is, I will change it! I will change whatever it has in store for me! What is my purpose? I will destroy those four good-for-nothing rulers and obtain the precious crown and become the fifth ruler! And then... I will bring the world to its knees!"

The black aura quickly disappeared and Kourosh's mouth returned to normal. Toofan, with fear and surprise, went out of the house. He didn't even have time to say anything.

Kourosh, with surprise, said in his mind:

"How was he not scared? In my childhood, my mother told me about this world and since then it has become my dream to achieve this goal! In my childhood, when I used to say my goal, this black thing would come out of me and my face would become like this..."

Toofan, went out of the house and with a face that showed his fear and excitement, said in his mind: "This boy is the one! The same one that man talked about! This boy is the real deal! It's been a long time since I've felt this much excitement all at once."

End of Chapter Four

Chapter Five

This episode: Memories

Kourosh, with a pale face and terrified eyes, said with a trembling voice:

* "Am I... am I going to die?"

Kourosh, with great force, was thrown from the cliff into the dark sea. His face hit a rock with a terrible sound and he was completely knocked out. The letter, fell into the dark sea.

A man with a beautiful and flawless face, had long and black hair that challenged the darkness of the night. He had eyes blacker than absolute blackness. He was wearing a white and shiny uniform and black gloves and black shoes. This uniform was so shiny that the beauty of the sun paled in comparison. He, with a calm and composed voice, said:

* "Hmm! He's finally here."

The man, with a strange composure and dignity, walked on the surface of the sea and approached the unconscious Kourosh. He spun his right index finger like a whirlwind. Suddenly, the part of the sea where Kourosh was drowning, churned like a whirlwind and a very large and deep hole was created. Kourosh, was suspended between the earth and the sky and then fell towards the bottom of the sea with a terrible speed.

The man, raised his finger upwards. Kourosh stopped in the air and slowly came up. The man, pressed his right index finger and thumb together. A small hole appeared between his fingers and the man said:

* "Transform..."

A thick and long piece of wood, like the trunk of a large tree, appeared on the surface of the sea. Kourosh was placed on that wood. The man, with composure, said:

* "Kourosh... you are going to have great adventures and gain many experiences and joys, but... every joy and happiness has a price! You are also going to experience a lot of sorrow and pain... be strong! Because you are going to usher this world into a new era."

The man, with complete peace and composure, blew a gentle breeze from his mouth. But this gentle breeze, caused the beginning of a great disaster.

A very strong storm began. The sky, from fear, was split in two. The wood, with an incredible speed (one hundred million per second!), like an arrow shot from a bow, moved towards the horizon. The sea, from the speed of the wood, was split in two. This crack continued to the bottom of the sea and also divided the sea floor into two parts.

The sky, with anger and rage, threw very strong and dangerous lightning bolts. The sea, with huge and tsunami-like tides, was in turmoil. The intensity of the wind was so great that it lifted everything on the surface of the sea; whether it was ten thousand tons, or a hundred thousand tons, whether it was ten thousand meters, or a hundred thousand meters, it swallowed everything like a feather returning to its nest. The man, with composure and a deep look, said in his mind:

* "I set the speed of the wood well so that it would return to normal after three days and move with the current of the lake there. I also placed a shield on Kourosh and the wood so that nothing would happen to them."

Thirteen days later...

Soheila, with great anger and rage, picked up a stone and with all her strength, threw it towards the lake. With a loud and angry voice, she shouted:

* "What's wrong with that crazy boy? Is this the reward for saving him? Instead of saying thank you, he's looking for a ridiculous letter!"

Soheil, with a sad and worried face, said:

* "It's okay, can you not cwy??? (It's okay, can you not cry???)"

Soheila, in her mind, said:

* "When he's sad, his tongue becomes like a three-year-old's! So it seems he's sad for me..."

Soheila, with a kind smile, went towards Soheil and said:

* "I'm sorry! Your sister was a little sad! Now Soheil has made his sister happy, so let's go and play!"

Soheil, with a cheerful face and a wide smile that lit up his whole face, said:

* "Okay!"

Soheila, in her mind with a calm and slightly funny tone, said:

* "His tongue is fixed, it seems."

Soheil and Soheila, with a boundless joy that was evident in their movements, ran to the side of the lake and started splashing water at each other. Their laughter echoed the sound of joy in the quiet space of the lake.

Ten minutes passed. Kourosh, with a pain and effort that was apparent in every movement, let go of the wood and carefully opened the cabin door. He opened his right eye and was faced with a pleasant scene: Soheil and Soheila, with sweet and shining smiles that shone like two stars, in a halo of sunlight, were playing. Kourosh, calmly and carefully went towards them. Soheil, with a childish and mischievous voice, said:

* "Look! Look! Uncle grumpy is coming..."

Soheila, turned her head and saw Kourosh a few steps away. Her face quickly changed. Her laughter disappeared and with a sharp and slightly rude voice, she said:

* "Who? I don't see anyone! I'm just seeing a piece of scum standing in the shape of a human!" Her voice was trembling with anger.

Kourosh's face distorted. With anger and a little disappointment, he said in his mind:

* "You'll regret saying that..."

And with a calmer, and slightly trembling voice from pain, he said:

* "And I came to thank you..."

Soheila, with a sad and angry face, with a trembling and choked voice, and tears that had gathered in her eyes, said:

* "Your... thanks... is... useless... to... me! Get lost!" and she ran towards the cabin with anger.

Soheila, with tears streaming from her eyes, quickly went towards the cabin and slammed the door so hard that the sound of it echoed in the quiet space of the lake. Kourosh, in his mind with a little anger, said:

* "This girl... everything this girl does, my hatred for her increases..."

Soheil, with his small and frail foot, kicked Kourosh's leg hard and said with a voice that trembled with anger:

* "Talk to my sister properly!"

Kourosh, with a distorted face and legs that were trembling with pain, said with a voice of anger and pain:

* "Ouch! What's wrong with you, you crazy kid?"

Soheil with a sudden movement, stomped his foot on the ground. The sound of his foot hitting the ground, broke the silence. Soheil, with worry, ran towards his sister. Kourosh, with despair and a little anger, whispered:

* "Hey! This one's also crazy like his sister!"

Toofan, who had seen everything up close, came towards Kourosh with slow but determined steps. His face showed worry and sympathy. Kourosh, in his mind with fear, said:

* "Oh no! This old man is coming towards me angrily!"

Toofan came towards Kourosh and with a deep respect, bowed to his waist. A move that surprised Kourosh even more. Toofan with a calm and embarrassed voice, said:

* "I apologize for my daughter."

Kourosh, with surprise and a little confusion, said:

* "Huh? N...n...no need to bow old... no! I mean... don't bow! There's no need!"

And in his mind he said to himself:

* "I was about to say old man..."

Toofan, with a sad and mournful face, said:

* "My daughter, sees you as her older brother! That's why she behaves this way! But unfortunately... he's dead."

Kourosh, with surprise, said:

* "Huh? Dead?"

Toofan sat by the river and Kourosh sat next to him. A short silence reigned. Toofan, with a calm and composed voice, said:

* "If you've noticed, besides our cabin, there are no other cabins in this forest."

Kourosh, with a questioning face, said:

* "Now that you mention it, yes! There's no one! What happened?"

Toofan, with a voice that trembled with sadness and grief, said:

* "We were exiled! We were exiled from the country of Copper!"

Kourosh, with surprise and a little confusion, said:

* "Exiled? What is that? Is it edible?"

Toofan, surprised and with a little laugh, said:

* "Huh? I'm telling you there's something wrong with you! Exiled means being kicked out of a place in a way that you can never come back! I was exiled from the country of Copper! So I can never go back."

Kourosh, with a questioning and slightly disappointed face, said:

* "How many words are there that I don't know!"

Toofan, with a deep and sad look at Kourosh, whispered in his mind:

* "Where did this kid come from? Is he really the one that man talked about???"

A short silence reigned between them. Toofan, with a calm voice, said:

* "Now forget about this! Would you like to hear the story of my life?"

Kourosh, with a serious and curious face, said:

* "I'm interested, I'd like to know."

Toofan, with peace and composure, began his story:

* "Thirty years ago, the ruler of the country of Copper, with his servants, came out of the palace to visit the country. The more miserable the people became, the happier this bastard became. Wherever he passed, the people started to bow. When I bowed, my eyes met the eyes of one of the servants and I fell in love with her."

Kourosh, with surprise, said in his mind:

* "In love?"

Toofan continued:

* "I had found a hidden tunnel and every night I would secretly enter the palace and pass through the soldiers. When I found her with a lot of difficulty for the first time, from that night on I would go there every night and every night I would see her with bruises and strange wounds. When I asked her, she would say her family beat her. It was then that I made my decision to save her for good. I insisted so much and went every night that she also fell in love with me. And without the ruler's permission, we got married. But we couldn't run away, because if they found out we had run away, they would find us wherever we went and cut us to pieces. That's why... by the way, my wife's name is Darya."

Darya, for fear of her life, went to the ruler. Her hands and feet were trembling and with a face full of fear, she said:

* "Greetings to the king of kings, the lord of lords! I, your humble servant, have a request."

Maria (the ruler of the country of Copper), with composure and a contemptuous tone, said:

* "I'm listening..."

Darya, consumed by fear, said:

* "Y...y...yes, my lord! If possible, I would like to resign."

Maria, with surprise, said:

* "Resign?"

* "B...b...because... I got... married."

* "Oh! So you got married! And without my permission?"

Darya, breathless, with a face that was pale and wet from sweat, said with a trembling voice:

* "I'm sorry! I'm sorry..."

Maria, with a cold and cruel tone, and a cunning smile on her lips, said:

* "On one condition..."

Darya, with horror and confusion, asked:

* "A condition? What kind of condition?"

Maria, with a composure and dignity that increased the fear in Darya's heart, said:

* "You'll find out later..."

And with a loud and firm voice, she commanded:

* "I accept your resignation! Soldiers! Throw this maid out of the palace!"

The soldiers, with a loud and simultaneous voice, shouted:

* "Yes!"

Darya, with a face that was caught between the joy of freedom and the fear of the future, with a trembling and repetitive voice, said:

* "Thank you very much! Thank you very much! Thank you very much..."

Toofan, with a calm and sad tone, and a face that spoke of the bitter memories of the past, continued:

* "When she came out of the palace, she told me everything. But at that time I didn't know what was going to happen to us. Ten years passed. I named my first son Arash who was eight years old and I named my second child Soheila who was five years old. It was Arash's birthday party. Everyone was very happy, but..."

Kourosh, with surprise and a little worry, asked:

* "But?"

Suddenly, the sound of a loud knock on the door was heard. Then, the sound of a loud and angry shout from one of the soldiers filled the entire house:

* "Attack!"

Ten soldiers, with violence and cruelty, broke down the door of the house and like savage animals, entered the house with force and violence. Their sudden attack, cast fear and horror into the hearts of Darya and Toofan. Darya, with a face full of fear and horror, and a trembling voice, said:

* "What's wrong? Why did you enter my house like this?"

One of the soldiers, with a rude and threatening tone, and a harsh face, said:

* "The sacred ruler has summoned all four of you, so shut up and cooperate..."

Toofan, with a surprise and anger that was visible in his eyes, said:

* "You bastard..."

And Darya, with a trembling voice and full of fear, and eyes that were wide with horror, whispered:

* "Don't you dare...."

Darya and her family were forcibly taken to the palace and forced to kneel before the ruler. Maria, with composure and a cold and cunning smile on her thin lips, said:

* "You haven't forgotten our condition, have you, maid?"

Darya, with a face that was pale with fear, said:

* "Yes my lord! I will obey any order you give."

The king, with a devilish smile and a lustful look, said:

* "The feeling these maids give me, is not the feeling I want! Your feeling was something else! My condition is that you make your children my maids and I do that thing with them! I'm sure they'll give me the same feeling you did..."

Darya, with surprise and disbelief, said:

* "Huh?"

Toofan, with worry and confusion, asked:

* "What feeling? Maid? What's happening, Darya?"

Darya, with anger and rage, shouted:

* "Hey! Hey! You're kidding, right?"

Maria, with a cold and cruel tone, said:

* "Am I kidding with you?"

Toofan, with horror, asked:

* "What's happening?"

Soheila, slowly started to cry. Darya, with a trembling and choked voice, said:

* "Toofan! Do you remember you once asked me why I was wounded from my face to my feet? And what did I answer you?"

* "Yes! You said your family beat you, so what?"

* "I lied!"

Toofan, with surprise and a little fear, said:

* "Huh?"

Darya, with a face that was dry with fear and grief, said:

* "I don't have a family at all, the ruler of the country of Copper loves to torture! From the first day I started working here until the last day, this damn thing would torture me every day! All kinds of methods! From whipping and slashing me with a sword, which was the easiest, to others..."

Toofan, with anger and rage, turned his face towards Maria and said:

Toofan, with a rage and resentment that he had hidden in his heart for years, shouted:

* "I'll kill you! I'll kill you, you bastard!"

Maria, with a strange composure and peace, raised and lowered her left index finger once. Toofan, from the intensity of the gravitational force, let out a loud scream and stuck to the ground like glue. With anger and great pain, to the point that blood flowed from his mouth, he roared:

* "You shameless bastard!"

Soheila, trembled with fear and turned pale. Arash, like a wounded tiger, shouted with a trembling voice:

* "Mother! Father! Soheila!"

Darya and Soheila turned their faces and Toofan could only listen, Arash said with a choked voice:

* "I love you."

Toofan and Darya, with surprise and worry, shouted:

* "(What do you mean???)"

Soheila, with fear and surprise, said:

* "Huh?"

Arash, like an angry tiger, ran towards the soldier, drew the sword from its scabbard and attacked Maria and shouted:

* "I'll kill you!"

Maria and Arash's eyes met. At this moment, Arash realized that the candle of his life had come to an end. He turned his face towards Soheila and whispered with a calm and worried voice:

* "Take care of yourself."

Arash's body suddenly exploded like a barrel. His internal organs were thrown in every direction like a fountain and blood covered everything. Toofan, from surprise and grief and anger, his mouth was locked and he went into shock.

Maria, with a calm and emotionless voice, said:

* "It was his own fault! He wanted to not get protective in this situation, but he did and he died."

Darya, with a face that was dry with sadness and grief, slammed her face into the ground three times. Blood flowed from her face like clear water. With a trembling and crying voice, she said:

* "Arash? Arash my dear, where did you go? Don't joke..."

Soheila, with fear and horror, saw herself in a place where she knew her death was waiting. Without thinking about the consequences of her actions, she ran towards Maria. Darya and Toofan, with horror and a scream, said:

* "(Wh...wh...what are you doing?? No! Not you too! Don't go! Please!)"

Maria, with composure and cruelty, said:

* "You seem to be in the mood for dying too, kid!"

Maria, pointed her left finger towards one of the soldiers and the sword came out of its scabbard and went towards Soheila and Maria said:

* "It's no problem! You die too!"

The sound of the sword hitting bone, was heard. But Soheila, with a trembling and scared voice, shouted:

* "M...mom??"

Darya, with a face full of sadness and grief, fell to the ground. Toofan, from the intensity of fear and anger, had gone mad and didn't know what to do. Maria, with anger and rage, shouted:

* "Damn you, you piece of garbage! Now who am I going to perform my tortures on??"

Soheila, with tears and a scream, said:

* "Mom? Mom! Arash! Arash, where did you go? Come and help! Mom! Get up! If I were strong, this wouldn't have happened..."

Maria, with a devilish smile and a lustful look at Soheila, said:

* "So I'll fulfill the same condition and take that kid."

Toofan, with angry and resentful eyes, stared into Maria's eyes so intensely that Maria, from the intensity of fear, her throat went dry and with a face full of horror, she said:

* "I... I'll... pass... on the condition... I made! Throw them out!"

The soldiers, with a terrifying face and a cruel tone, said:

* "Yes!"

The gravitational force was lifted, Toofan and Kourosh were lifted from the ground and thrown out of the palace with force. They fell on the ground like two lifeless bodies and did not move at all. But after five minutes, a man with a white hat on his head appeared. He lifted both of them gently and said:

* "Teleport."

A few days passed. Toofan, with a face that was crushed with pain, regained consciousness. The pain was so intense that he slammed himself into the ground several times. A man with a white hat, placed his hands on Toofan's face. After a few seconds, the pain disappeared. Toofan, with a trembling voice, said:

* "My head doesn't hurt anymore! Who are you? Where's my daughter?"

The man with the white hat, with composure, said:

* "Calm down! Did you even notice that besides your head, your wounds are also fine? Your daughter is sleeping next to you."

Toofan, ran towards the unconscious Soheila and hugged her tightly. He kissed her with love and worry and said:

* "Who are you? Where is this place?"

* "We are now between the country of Copper and the country of Silver, in the desert."

Toofan, with surprise, said:

* "Huh? Between the country of Copper and Silver?"

* "Yes. (This man lost his whole family just a few days ago but now he's talking to me comfortably, what a strong mind he has, anyone in his place would have lost their mind and gone crazy.)"

* "By the way... why are we in a stable?"

* "Huh?"

The man, with an anxious face, said:

* "H...a? W...w...what... I don't know! W...what are you talking about? O...oh! This... is my home! Lalalalala..."

Toofan, in his mind, said:

* "What a ridiculous laugh..."

And with a distorted face, he continued:

* "I'm a fool! We're in a stable! A horse stable! And that too between the country of Copper and Silver!"

The man, with a mocking laugh, said:

* "Alright, alright! You caught me!"

And with composure, he continued:

* "I'm from the country of Diamond! I just built this place so you could rest."

Toofan, with surprise, said:

* "Whaaaaaaaaaat?! The country of... Diamond?????"

* "Yes! The country of Diamond! It's better not to act like a servant in front of me! Don't kneel! Don't bow and scrape! Please don't do these things in front of me! Even if I'm from the country of Diamond!"

Toofan, with a happy and satisfied face, said:

* "Thank you..."

((The country of Diamond, the country of Gold, due to their significant technological, power, and wealth advantage over the country of Copper and Silver, can buy and sell the people of the country of Copper and Silver like sheep! Even though the country of Silver has a significant advantage over the country of Copper and everyone knows this, but the same treatment that is given to the country of Copper, is also given to the country of Silver...))

* "By the way! It's rude of me not to have said my name! You can call me Chang."

Toofan, with surprise and a little laugh, said:

* "Chang? (What a ridiculous name?) What a beautiful name! But it's the first time I'm hearing such a name."

* "Each country has different names! Each country has its own special names and foods! Well... you haven't introduced yourself yet!"

* "Oh! Oh! Oh... I'm sorry! You can call me Toofan."

* "It's a beautiful name!"

Toofan, with a cheerful face and a smile on his lips, said:

* "You're too kind."

Chang, spun his right index finger in the air like a ball. Suddenly, a portal appeared between the air and the ground. Chang said:

* "Toofan! It's better if we get out of this stable."

Toofan, with surprise and a little fear, said:

* "Huh? What is this? What happened? What? Go out? Why? Wait a minute... what the hell is this?"

* "You'll understand later."

Toofan hugged Soheila and they went out of the stable with Chang. Chang, held his right hand in front of the stable and with strength, squeezed it. The stable, like a small ant, became smaller and smaller. Chang, put his left hand into the portal and brought out a small palace. He picked up the shrunken stable from the ground and threw it into the portal. Then, he placed the small palace in front of Toofan. The small palace, like an illusion, quickly became bigger and bigger and turned into a large and beautiful palace. Toofan, with surprise and horror, shouted:

* "Huuuuuuuuh?"

End of Chapter Five

End of Volume One

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