The Conquerers

Chapter twenty-four

Three hours later

Namia pov

After what feels like an eternity, we finally arrive at the location of the village. We turned into a big forest and while we are going through the trees, Miza says
"So your village was really fun wasn't it?"
I smile and say
"Oh yes, we didn't really have problems like the outside world. Life was simple"
She looks at me nervously and says
"Does your village...still exist?"
I look down sadly and say
"No, they killed almost everyone, my village is but a distant memory"
She looks down sadly and says
"I'm sorry, I brought back sad memories"
I smile and take her hand in a comforting manner as I say
"No don't be, your very sweet"
She smile and the car finally stops. I take a look around to see that the village is actually quite lively, which is strange considering the fact that it is now one in the morning. Miza seems to read my mind and says
"It's always like this. We seem to love nighttime"
I smile and nod as we get out of the car and take our luggage. We walk towards the village to see the village celebrating our arrival. I smile at them because of how much they remind me of my own village. We go in front of the village where five people who are older in age are sitting on wooden chairs like it was some sort of thrones. I'm guessing they are elders. Xerxes walks up and says
"These are the friends we have been talking about. David..."
He looks at David who lands him a small smile and then at me while he finishes
"And Namia"
I smile nervously as well as the elder sitting at the middle gets up and says
"Welcome, I am elder Imu, to my right is elder Ni'alla and Ileana and to my left is elder Santo and Mi'lano"
David speaks for the both of us and says
"It's nice to meet you all."
They smile at us and elder Imu says
"Let the celebration continue"
The people cheer and go back to partying. I walk next to David and we all walk towards the elders. Xerxes says to the elders
"We need to have a meeting"
The elders nod and walk up to a sort of temple as we follow. Once we all get in, Mi'lano closes the door. We all take a seat near the long stone table as elder Imu
"If I may ask, why was a meeting called my king?"
Xerxes says
"We called a meeting to discuss the plan from now on, David?"
David steps up and says
"When I was in the airplane, I got an email from an old friend who owns a company that is control of ancient objects that have ties with extraterrestrial life..."
Elder Imu nods as David continues
"She is in Greece, she said that among those objects is a sort of abandoned spaceship that travels at light speed. If we go see her..."
Ni'alla finishes with a whisper
"That's their chance to go home and finish the prophecy"
She looks up at Imu and whispers
"The prophecy our ancestors have been waiting for is coming true, and we are alive to see it"
Imu looks down at her lovingly and kisses her palm. David says
"Yes, that's the possibility"
Imu says
"Very well, when do you count on leaving?"
Xerxes says
"Maybe a week?"
The elders nod and Mi'lano says
"The people will miss you, they already got used to you both being their leaders"
Leaders? Like kings and Queens? I look at the elder and say
"Leaders? Like royalty?"
Hiraeth says
"I'll tell you later"
I nod and we hear gun shots outside. I take my gun out and look at Xerxes who says
"Let's go"
We all run outside though I look at the elders and say
"Get behind us, we don't want you getting hurt"
They obey as we see Mr. Cain's captain. He smiles as he cocks his gun at us with the rest of his little army. He says
"Agent, I can see that you found your victims, I wonder why you haven't killed them yet"
I look at the captain and point my gun at him
"Because I never counted on killling them"
He looks at me shocked and David says
"Captain, I can see Cain brought you to do his dirty work, again"
Captain tries to shoot him but misses as I push David out of the way. Captain smirks and says
"Well oh well, looks like we are going to have a good old fashion Cowboy shoot down"