Chapter 4:Promise.
"Kalel" I hear faintly "Kalel" I turn around to see Ratonhnhaké:ton stood a few meters away from me wearing our village's traditional wedding clothes, he looked so handsome that I almost didn't recognise him. I look down at myself and realise that I am wearing a beautiful long white dress that had long sleeves and trailed behind me, sat in seats around us were all of our friends my mother and Clan Mother, but what was weird was I saw Ratonhnhaké:ton's father which I had only seen on various occasions and his mother Zio. Her face was so beautiful, full of life and happiness. Then I saw him. My father, I had not seen him since he died and when the village was burnt down I just kept wishing he was there to comfort me. I held out me arms and started to run to him but I couldn't it was like my arms were shackled, I looked around and all of my loved ones were disappearing like they were melting away. I looked down at my hands and they had blood on them, and so did my dress. When I looked up I noticed Ratonhnhaké:ton had an evil look on his face, he was holding some kind of tomahawk that I had never seen before. He came running towards my swinging his axe in a deathly manner,he came sprinting up to me and swung the tomahawk at me as I huddled on the floor.
"AHH!" I screamed as I woke from the nightmare panting with sweat dripping down my face. I twist my body to the side and place my feet on the flood going to stand up but then get a shooting pain in my left ankle whilst remembering the day before which for some reason brought a huge smile to my face. I go to grab a long piece of cloth and a wet piece of cloth left on the table besides me and immediately assume that Ratonhnhaké:tonhad left them for me. I place the wet cloth on my forehead and start wrapping the other cloth around my foot. When I'm finished I stand up and screech with the pain in my foot. I ignore it and limp out of my hut and realise that it is the middle of the night and the sky is pitch black. I see Ratonhnhaké:ton walking forcefully towards me, " Hey Rat-" I try to say but am cut of by him putting his hand on my mouth and pulling me into my hut viscously. " What's going on Ratonhnhaké:ton?" I say when he pulls his hand away from my mouth as he sits me on the bed shooshing me. "I have to leave the village kalel" he said leaning on his knees in front of me. " ok so I will get my stuff and come with you. How long will we be?" I say In a calm manner. "No Kalel you have hurt your ankle, and I mean I am leaving the village for good. According to Clan Mother my destiny is not here." I suddenly feel a tear start to form. "you are joking right? Your not really going to leave the village. After all we have been through together Ratonhnhaké:ton please don't leave me!" I say swinging my arms around my neck he takes me in his arms and kisses my forehead lightly. " I will return for you Kalel,. You made a promise to me when we were five that everything was going to be ok and it has. Now it is time for me to make a promise to you. I will be back Kalel don't worry." he says as he stands up with my arms still around his neck. He pulls away and I let my hands slip from his neck, down his chest and back to my side. He says good bye and leaves my hut. I sit there for a few moments almost hypnotised, I snap into realization and jump to my feet, at this point I forget about the pain and hobble after Ratonhnhaké:ton who was probably way father than I could mange to get but I had to try. "Ratonhnhaké:ton!" I should looking around the village for him. I quickly jog to the opening of the village and into the forest even though it was excruciatingly painful. "Ratonhnhaké:ton!" I shout barley able to walk on the rocky and muddy ground of the forest. At least a few miles away from the village I look around and realise I have never been in this part of the valley before, I then look around and see that I'm not even in the valley anymore. I keep walking until suddenly my left foot gets stuck on something and I plummet to the ground hitting my head in the process. Still conscious I lay on the cold hard ground and cry myself into what I hope would be a coma and that I would never have to wake unless Ratonhnhaké:ton was there next to me, to look after and care for me for the rest of my existence. But at some point I new I would have to wake up.
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As I sat in a tree above Kalel I couldn't help thinking how it would have been so much easier if I hadn't come back to see her and had listened to Clan Mother in the first place. I jumped down from the tree and landed just a few centimetres from Kalel's feet but luckily she was in a deep sleep and didn't wake. I carefully picked her up with my arms tensing around her. Seeing her in so much pain made me feel sick to the core, to know that I was the cause of all her pain I wished some some reason that she had never talked to me when we were children. That I was just some boy that she never bothered to ask his name or say hi and that we would go our whole lives just glancing at each other when we walked by. As I was walking her back to the village I could see her eyes slowly open in time. When they did fully open for some reason she jumped and fell out of my arms and landed in a bush of berries. I couldn't help but chuckle a little as I bent down to greet her "That was not funny." she said with a stern look her face but with pure happiness behind it "Are you ok? What were you doing way out here by yourself?" I said helping her to her feet " I was looking for you"she said with her arms around my waist, I went to go say something back but then I heard something "did you hear that Kalel?" she didn't say a word and just nodded. I slowly turned around to find a giant black bear stood up on its back legs in front of us. "Get behind me kalel!" I screamed as I wiped out the small knife I had and pushed Kalel aside, the bear came charging toward us and knowing that the knife I had was just half the size of his claw was not going to do any damage I turned to Kalel grabbed her hand and we started to run. "where are we going!" she shouted in pain as I turned around to see that she was still limping on her twisted ankle "I don't know but we can't lead this thing back to the village, its to dangerous!" I shouted snaking our way through the tall trees trying to ignore her cries of pain because if we stopped the bear ws sure to get us. I remembered what Clan Mother had told me about there being a man to the north who could train me, "This way!" I shouted turning to the way I thought to be north but not really being sure since I had only a few seconds to look around and find out where we were.