The magic keeper

Chapter 7: Map

When we returned home, it was time for dinner, we decided to eat a Lebanese meal: labneh. It was delicious.

I went to sleep early, because I was very tired. But I didn't sleep. They were watching TV when I told them good night and locked

myself in my room.

I opened the bag then the box. There was a map-it was for the game- and other things like soldiers and stuff. But what got my

attention was a folded paper.

I unfolded it. It was also a map. But not a complete map. It was ripped, ripped in a middle of a word. In big characters, the letters

"INE" were on the left side of the paper, and on the left side of these letters, there is, like, half a letter. I didn't recognize it. On the right

corner of the map, there is a weird.. I don't know.. sentence made of bizarre words.

"Witchy gootchy fatchy boo?!", I said before the strangest thing happened in front of my eyes:

The paper, that is just a paper, grew. It simply grew. By itself. The map began to get bigger and bigger and bigger. And the letters of

the word began to show.

Z - Z - E - M - H - C - I - B.

The word was 'bichmezzine', it was my town. Oh. My. God. What is that? A dream? This wasn't supposed to be with me.

I slowly examined the map. Yep. It was my town. I still remember it. I remember every detail of it. And every detail was there. In that

mysterious magical map.

A mark caught my attention. On the part where the forest was, there was an 'x' in red. Like the ones we see on the treasure maps.

Maybe .. Maybe it was some magical treasure. Maybe it chose me because I'm in the town it was burried in. Maybe it's meant to be. I'm

meant to be. I need to go find that treasure.

I touched the 'x'. Suddenly, the two icons 'zoom in', 'zoom out' appeared out of nowhere. Wow. Magic does exist. I pressed the zoom in

button. And it was like I was zooming on google earth. I zoomed And zoomed and zoomed. Every time I did that, the map grew, and

more details showed themselves. But it wouldn't zoom the exact place of the 'x'. So I didn't saw what was there. I saw the trees, the

grass, and the plants around that place, but I didn't see it. I guess I should go and see.