Part 12 - The Artifact

The boys examined a weird, yellow object levitating next to RURI. It seemed to be some sort of flute made out of spikes. The magical, irresistible aura of the instrument left no doubt: friends have found the Artifact. The crystals exchanged smiles between each other, until RUBI broke the silence:

"Yooo, so...one of us has to play that thing, right?"

The rest nodded in approval. After some discussion, they decided that RURI is the one who should do it.
The crystal took the flute in his hands. Without much thinking, he closed his eyes and blew into the instrument. A loud, enchanting melody filled the room. RURI never played a flute, and yet he was unraveling next parts of the spell flawlessly.

After some time, the melody got more intense. The whole place began to shake. RURI got surrounded by sparkles and started floating in the air. The Temple began to collapse, the boys began to scream. RURI was levitating in the middle of the room, untouched by the chaos happening around. The crystal was in a deep state of trance, as the Artifact was bending his mind to its will. The melody was getting louder and louder, the place was shaking more and more...

SUDDENLY, it all stopped. RURI woke up from the trance and dropped the Artifact. The aura around him disappeared. He started falling down. Seconds after, the entire Temple collapsed. ANBA, HISU and RUBI began to scream again. Terrified friends closed their eyes AND THEN-

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EPILOGUE

RURI, RUBI, HISU and ANBA opened their eyes. They saw their Tribe's leader looking at them.

"Oh, you finally woke up! I'm really glad to see that!"

The crystals quickly got to their feet and looked around. Somehow, they were in their village! They immediately started bombarding the elder with questions.

"WHY ARE WE HERE? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? DID WE SAVE THE WORLD? WE WERE IN THE TEMPLE AND RURI WAS PLAYING THE FLUTE AND EVERYTHING GOT DESTROYED AND-"

The old crystal cut them off and told them to calm down. When the boys controlled their emotions, he spoke:

"The melody you played spread through the whole planet. It hypnotized the BUKYs and put them all to sleep. We found you laying on the grass after the chaos stopped. How you escaped the Temple is beyond my knowledge. Perhaps we might never find out...but that doesn't matter now! What matters is that you did it boys! You saved the world and redeemed yourselves! I'm so proud of you!"

When the sage finished, big grins appeared on friends's faces. They started hi-fiving, laughing, dancing and slurping on spike juice to celebrate! Soon, the other villagers joined, forgetting about bad blood between them. The party lasted all night long! The moods were high and the bellies were full! After the fun, everyone got to sleep, happy to see things going back to normal...

The time to end the story has come. Our boys learned an important lesson, and they sure won't behave as irresponsibly ever again...well at least I fucking hope so, there isn't another Artifact laying around!!!

The End.

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"I just want to say, that if you made it to the end, thank you soooooo much! It means A LOT to me. I hope you enjoyed, and see you in the next world I'll create!
Goodbye <333"

~Razmiel.