He Man Cosmic

Chapter 68 Gunslinger

Things were going nicely on Eternia. Yuka was with a couple of his Trollan friends Pansia and Jerion, he was also with Andra and Damien. They made friends with a boy named Jared. "Hi Jared, how are things going?" Damien said.

"Not much," Jared said. "Hey you guys want to see something cool at my place?" He asked.

"What is this cool thing?" Damien asked.

"Yes what is it?" Yuka asked.

"What do you want to show us?" Jerion asked.

"I can tell you are very excited to tell us," Pansia said.

"Well we better see it because I have a feeling Jared won't let up until we do," Yuka said.

So they went to Jared's house. "Hello kids, there are cookies in the kitchen if you get hungry," Jared's mom said.

"Check out this stuff talk about cool?" Jared asked showing his stuff. "What I want to show you is my dad's gun," he said.

"No way," Damien said. "Guns are dangerous," he said.

"I agree bad idea," Pansia said.

"My mother was killed by a gun from a man who robbed her and my father took his own life with a gun," Andra said. "So I know how dangerous they are," she said.

"Count me out," Jerion said.

"That sounds bad, Man at arms said they are dangerous even though they are meant for protection," Yuka said.

"Come on let's go," Andra said.

None of them said a thing about the gun.

Yuka was worried what Jared might do if he decided to use the gun. He decided to go talk to him. "I am going to go talk to Jared," Yuka said. "Would one of you go with me please?" he asked. "I just want to talk to him about the gun because I worry he might try to show it off or might use it," he said. "We need to tell him about guns before somebody gets hurt or worse," he said.

"Good idea," Andra said. Both Andra and Yuka went to Jared's house. They found him in the backyard he had the gun. "Jared that is not a toy," Andra said.

"Come it's not loaded, I think," Jared said holding up and pointing around.

"Please put that down you are scaring me," Yuka said.

"Come Yuka quit being a wuss," Jared said accidentally pulled the trigger. The gun went off and Yuka got hit in the arm.

Yuka screamed went happened. "Yuka!" Andra said. Yuka was in pain holding his arm.

Jared's father heard the commotion and saw his gun in Jared's hand. Jared's father quickly began to work to try to stop the bleeding.

Yuka was rushed to the hospital wing of the palace. "What happened?" Dree Elle asked seeing her brother in agony.

"He was shot by a gun," Andra answered.

"It's my fault," Jared said. "I had my father's gun and was messing with it, Yuka and Andra tried to talk me out of it," he said.

"You are in big trouble young man," Jared's father said. "My gun is not a toy," he told him. "Yuka is now hurt, all because you did something foolish," he said.

"Yes sir," Jared said. He looked like he was about to cry.

"Jared just what were you thinking?" Andra asked. "Guns are weapons, which means they are dangerous," she told him.

"You could've hurt Hannah and yourself too," Damien said.

"You've could've killed Yuka or somebody else," Teela said.

"Don't you understand what you did?" Man at arms asked.

Jared had tears in his eyes and cowered. "Wait a minute," Vana who was there said.

"You just don't think do you," Adam said.

Then Jared ran out of the room crying. "Get back here we are not done," Jared's father said.

"WAIT A MINUTE! Vana yelled.

"Okay Vana what is it?" Man at arms said.

"I know that Jared made this mistake, but yelling at him and scolding him all at once won't do anything," Vana said. "Right now Jared is feeling lower than the bottomless chasm around castle grayskull," she said. "Not mention extremely guilty for causing a friend to be in pain," she said. "Right now he needs to hear he did make mistake and he will be punished yes, but he also needs to hear that many people have made even worse mistakes and that it is not the end of the world." She said. "He probably feels like he isn't loved anymore and none of you want to be his friends anymore," she said.

"I guess I didn't think of that," Jared's father said. "I love my son very much," he said. "I am just so disappointed in him, I just wanted him to learn," he said.

"I still want to be his friend," Andra said. "I made my own share of mistakes that could be a real doozy like this one, people still loved me and wanted to be my friend," she said.

"I will find him and talk to him," Vana said. "I know how he feels right now," she said. She found Jared. She saw him headed for the forest. "Trying to run away?" She asked him.

"Maybe Vana," Jared said. "No one cares and this mistake is too big," he said.

"They do care, sometimes if someone is mad at something you did it is sometimes because they care," Vana said. "I also know what is like to feel like a mistake you made is too big," she said.

"You do?" Jared asked.

"Of course, it all started thousands of years ago after I got my mage emblem before I came to Eternia. I was a spunky go getter like you," Vana said. "But after I got my emblem I went after the unnamed order without a plan," she said. "I got myself stuck and many people killed and my brother who saved me got badly hurt," she said. "I ran away from Trolla after that and bounced planet to planet and made friends, during that time I realized something," she said. "You can't run away from your problems no matter how big they are, it is best to face them and go to your friends and family so they can help you," she said. "True you will still get punished for what happened, but sometimes facing your problems is better than running away from them," she told him.

"Okay," Jared said and went with Vana back to the palace. "I'm sorry I always thought guns were cool and exciting, I never realized how much they could hurt someone, I know whatever punishment I get I deserve it," he said coming up to his father.

"Well for starters you won't be able to do things you enjoy for a month and then do yard chores for the month too, and finally apologize to Yuka," His father said.

"Okay father," Jared said feeling better. Jared came into the room where Yuka was. "Yuka I am so sorry, I should've listened to you and Andra. I promise I will never play with weapons again," he said.

"I forgive you," Yuka said. "I know it wasn't on purpose," he said. Then the two of them hugged.

"In today's story you read how Jared made the mistake of playing with a gun." Vana said. "Yuka got hurt because of it," she said. "He felt his mistake was too big and couldn't fixed," she said. "But any mistake can be helped no matter how big," she said. "Just remember just because your loved ones are mad at you doesn't mean they don't care, a lot of the time it is because they care," she said. "Until next time," she said.