Dagger and Wishes

So another ordinary day on a pretty cool as street!! My brother Matthew and his… well uh, polar bear were cleaning the attic just cause you can find pretty cool stuff up there! I mean last time we found a map… leading to, well… nowhere. Anyways I had approached the door to find a young British boy he stood glaring up at me with his eyebrows being thick and bold as they always were.

“Yo Arthur, dude great timing! We need help cleaning the old, attic.” I grabbed his wrist and yanked him up the stairs hearing nothing of what he was trying to say to me.

“YOU GIT LET, ME, GO I CAN WALK MYSE-“he was interrupted by me, ‘accidently’ slamming the door on him. I laugh at the mark on Arthur’s now red face then turned to my younger bro Matthew.

“Yo Matt, Whad up dude?” I asked while watching the small polar bear walk around packing some stuff into boxes, I approached the young blonde haired boy sitting on the dusty ground Arthur following behind me.

“Huh, oh remember the jewelled dagger the Frenchy was talking to us about,  yeah, amazingly I found the map to where it lays…” his voice softened and started to quiver a little before continuing “I-it looks da-dangerous, so we-we sho-“

“Yo dudes! Let’s go find it!!!!” Matt got cut off by my extreme, excitement and picked up a small bag nearby with a water bottle and a safety kit. He then looked at Arthur, Mr Kumajiro and myself before replying,

“A-Alfred we have to be b-back before dark or Francis will worry” I laughed, took the bag, the map and dragged both Arthur and Matt outside and out towards the forest. Me being the awesome hero!

20 minutes later.

“Matt… I think you’re gonna suffocate the poor bugger...” Arthur placed a hand on the small and frail blonde boy before stopping to realise that we had arrived at our destination. Matt let go of the white bear and placed him on the ground, then slowly walked towards the opening of the cave aware of the tight suspense growing in the area. The next thing I hear was a crackling like sound coming from beneath him, then all of a sudden all we hear was the scream of the Canadian.

“MATTHEW!!!” both of us screamed while running over to the hole now planted into the ground, we couldn’t see much till Matt decided to turn the flashlight on his phone on.

“Hehe, I’m fine!! Mr Kumajiro is okay too! I have a few scratches here and there! I’m going to continue exploring down here to find a way out, you guys should as well alright!” We both nodded in agreement and continued on into the cave. We both turned on our flashlights and trembled before entering the secluded and gloomy cave awaiting us. We kept walking for what seemed like hours but in reality was about 15 minutes when Arthur started to look around nervously.

“Yo dude, You’ve been quiet ever since we arrived” there was a long pause and a sudden halt of foot steps behind me, I turned around to look at his face when suddenly we both heard a Canadian like scream, Arthur grabbed my hand and ran to where the voice was coming from.

“You American git, when your brother screams you go to him!” I looked at him confused then gave it a small laugh and ran beside him, “now you can run on your own eh, since when” I looked at him with my right brow lifted, I knew that this was his way of challenging me to a race I smirked as I started to gain speed that was until I got hit in the face by a flying polar bear… I flip back on the ground awaiting Arthur to pull the bear off of me.

“Where the hell did you come from Kumajiro!!” I looked at the bear, still slightly in pain from the sudden force, he was pointing down the dark and foggy hallway.

“Mr Kumajiro! Where are you? We need to quickly find the others and get out before those monster’s come back and find out we took the dagger!! Mr Ku-“ The Canadian voice had been cut off by Arthur running and dragging him back to the light where Mr Kumajiro and I were standing in. “Oh, Hiya! We better go before they… come..” his small and timid voice came to a halt as we turned to see these big monstrous rock-looking guys appear their eyes were red with anger and lust for the intruders to be killed. 

“You danm git! What did you do!!” the British boy turned and started to shake Matt roughly before losing interest, he turned to face the rock like monster’s to start chanting as I got out my bat. “Alfred stay back I can handle these guys” he had said hero like, but I’m supposed to be the hero here! Duh! But before I could respond he got flung back into the wall, Arthur was able to paralyse one with his magic, which left me one to finish off.

“ARTHURR!!” Matt yelled running over to him, Mr Kumajiro running too. “Alfred! Arthur is hurt badly, and he isn’t waking up his pulse is getting slower as well!” Matt yelled out to me his voice shaking with worry, I turn to him and attempt to get over to the 3 before I, myself, the hero, fall over on a stone and twist my ankle.

Crap, not now! “Matt run! Grab Arthur and run!” I yell out to him, I didn’t want to see him hurt. All I could hear were the sobs coming from him as he grabbed the dagger and unsheathed it from its case and started to chant words that Arthur would do when using magic, ‘Flora Dora the explorer, hocus pocus’ and something else in French.

“Se il vous plaît nous sauver! Prenez-nous la maison” Matt had yelled out. Last thing I knew was seeing a bright rainbow-ish light and awoke to Matt shaking me roughly. “Alfred!! Arthur is dying and your sleeping you need to use your wish to save him! Wake up you idio-“

“I’m awake! Now what do you want the hero to do?” I asked slowly getting up and reaching for the unsheathed golden dagger. Matt took me through the procedures I then started to chant words that rhymed “Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Yummy burger…”Matt hit me, “Okay, sorry… I wish that Arthur wakes up and has no injuries” The bright light appeared again and it hit Arthur, he woke up to a scream of both surprise and pain.

“Ow! You git what was tha-“Arthur was cut off as he saw he had no injuries and that I held the dagger, “oh uh thanks? We should get rid of that dagger I bet someone will want it, then try to use it to kill off our po-“ 

“Here’s the box! Because this dagger is valuable, we need to add a valuable of ours as well into it so we can be safe” Matthew said as he slowly placed a bottle of Maple into the box tears forming in his eyes, I placed my beautiful and favourite Hamburger of all time and Arthur placed his beloved tea, we all started to become teary but we finished the burial quickly, bolted home to where our other copies of the ‘valuables’ were. I ate heaps of hamburgers, Matt had heaps of maple on pancakes and Arthur just had his tea. We lived like this till we found another map on a new journey, but that story would be for another time. Oh and just remember IM THE HERO!!!! 

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Se IL vous plaît nous sauver! Prenez-nous la maison – Please save us! Take us home. {French}