Jimmy and the lion

Jimmy and the Wizard (Part 1)

When Jimmy was on his way to the magician Juancho el Gris'cave, he began to wonder if that magician would really revive his parents or if he would be an insignificant sorcerer who uses a couple of hairs on the fire to revive people. When he entered in the magician's cave, he saw traps and pikes with bodies and heads, not to mention the path that he had taken where there were scorpions, snakes and creepy monsters.  

Leaving the path aside he kept going to the end of the cave. Then, he glimpsed a small and shivering light: it was a bonfire, but not a normal bonfire with a red flame; the flame of the bonfire was pale blue. Over the fire there was a saucepan and next to the saucepan there was an old man with a gray beard and a gray top hat that was stirring the saucepan. 

Jimmy felt a small chill in his body, but he didn't give it much importance. He asked the magician if he could prepare a potion. The old man asked him why with a broken voice and a small snap of his jaws. When Jimmy turned away the old man, he saw in his face a mixture of an ant and a human being. The old man told him that if he beat him in a fight, he would prepare it; but he needed some special ingredients...