Dressed in Black

On a foggy day, a huge volcano erupted at Manies Village. Volcano ashes spread all over the village and destroyed a huge amount of houses. But then, the volcano and the ash clouds disappeared! Then came lightning followed by a booming voice, “People of Manies, I cannot tell you who I am. But I am from the skies and I will be coming down to your village soon. I will protect you from a future disaster like the volcano eruption that happened a few minutes ago, or an attack.”. The voice made the ground shake and the villagers ran for shelter back in their houses to prevent the person in the sky to see them.

The next day, a man dressed in black came down to the village and bellowed, “Hello Manies!” that woke up the whole village. “He’s here, everyone! Run!”. The villagers cried. “Hey guys, don’t run!” cried one villager. “Remember he was going to protect us?” he said with patience. “Let’s ask him what his name is, okay?” the villager said. “Okay!” all the villagers said in unison. “What is your name, sir?” asked a villager called Henry. “Oh, hello there, my name is Jacob.” the man dressed as black replied. Then Jacob reached out a hand for a handshake. But no one got near him. Jacob waited for a moment and retracted his hand. And then, a burst of light flashed through the village and charged at Jacob. All the villagers thought that Jacob had summoned those lightning and wanted to hurt them so they screamed. “Please don’t run, I’m here to protect you guys.” Jacob tried to explain to the villagers.

“Fine, we will stay only if you show us what you can do to protect us, okay?” Said one of the villagers. “Okay,” Jacob said. And then he summoned a burst of lightning and more powers to show the villagers what he can do. “Wow,” the villagers said in awe. “You are amazing!” A villager named Zac said. “I hope you can help us defend against a raid that is going to happen next week!” Zac said hopefully. Suddenly, a siren went off. “They are coming!” Cried Zac to Jacob. “Who?” Jacob asked. “It is the raiders! They said they will be coming next week, but here they are now! So we need to run!” Zac explained while running. “I will protect you guys then,” Jacob said with confidence. “Good luck then, you’ll need it!” Zac shouted in a far distance. An arrow flew past Jacob’s head. And then a volley of arrows was shot towards Jacob. “Arghhhh!” Jacob shouted. Then he summoned a bolt of lightning toward the raider and half of the fleet disintegrated. “Run!” Shouted one of the raiders.

And they fled. “Manies, you can come out now. The raiders have fled!” Jacob announced proudly, his voice echoing along with the empty village. Then a cheer went up! “Hooray!” The villagers cheered. “Thank you so much, Jacob! You can officially be a part of our village now!” Announced the chief of the village the next day. “Thank you, chief!” Jacob was so excited that he was jumping up and down like a kid who got their favourite thing for their birthday. The next day, there were many knocks on Jacob’s door. People gave him food and jewels as thanks. “Everyone, I appreciate all the gifts you guys gave me. Thank you so much!” Jacob said happily. “We will do anything to make you feel like home!” Zac said. Whenever Jacob went out for a walk, many people would trail him and ask him for autographs. Once, the chief of the village even gave him a gold medal and a diamond crown as a prize for saving the village!

1 year passed without any disaster or attack. But on a peaceful and clear day, the siren went off again. Everyone ran for shelter once again like last time and Jacob stayed outside to defend the village. This time, it was giants and cyclopes attacking the village. Jacob has never seen them before, so he doesn’t know which power to use. He combined all his power together and fired it towards the crowd of giants. They disintegrated. He shot another at the cyclopes, but they didn’t even get a scratch! This got Jacob thinking very hard, he was trying to figure out the cyclopes’ weakness with his brain. “Ah-ha!” Cried Jacob as he finally thought of a way to defeat the cyclopes. He did what his brain told him and summoned a bolt of lightning first, the fire and finally, water.

He launched them towards the cyclopes. He doesn’t believe it! The cyclopes still didn’t disintegrate! “Ahh!” Cried Jacob in frustration when the cyclopes are coming close to him. Suddenly, a pitchfork flew out of nowhere and hit one of the cyclopes’ eye. He was blinded. “EEE!” Screamed the cyclops in pain. “Hooray!” As the cyclops slumped down towards the ground and disintegrated. Jacob’s head turned toward the cheer, it was Zac in front of all the Manies villagers. “Thank you, guys!” Jacob said with a sigh of relief. Now he knows where to hit the cyclops to make the cyclopes disintegrate. But there were more coming, so Jacob used his power to summon hundreds of bows and arrows for the villagers. “Now we can go and defend this village with pride!” Cried Zac over the loud footsteps of the cyclopes. “FIRE!” Shouted Zac as a volley of arrows were shot into the air and some went into the cyclopes’ eyes! “You guys have incredible aiming skills!” Jacob shouted. “I know because our ancestors used to be archers.” Zac said as he fired another arrow straight at the last cyclops. “YAY!” Cried all the villagers, including the chief when the last cyclops slumped down and disintegrated.

Next month, all the villagers were given a medal of bravery, including the chief himself and Jacob. At a speech, Jacob asked why there were so many attacks on this village. And the reply was, “We actually have a lot of wealth and treasures that other village or tribe and creatures might want, so we are lucky to have you help us defend our village.” The chief said. Afterwards, no more attacks came and Jacob continued living a happy life down on Earth with the Manies. THE END