Chapter 2
Three men wrapped in cloth from head to toe are riding their camels. They moved at the fastest speed their camels could go but with the load on their humps, it is good enough for them to move at half of their normal speed.
Suddenly, the man first in the row stopped having all the others to follow him stop too unknowingly.
"Hey! Watch it!" one of them shouted.
The first man looks back and apologises, "Sorry! Come here! There is a man here!"
"A man? Leave it! He would be dead like the others we saw on the way!" the second man shouts.
"No! Look! He is still breathing!" the first man says after getting up from checking the man's breath.
"Really? Then take him with us!" the third man says.
He found himself on a mountain looking at his surroundings.
'Where am I?' he thinks.
Just then, someone calls out.
"Hey there! Over here!"
He turns to see who it is.
A beautiful lady smiles at him, waving to him to come to her. Drooling over her beauty, he walked over to her not taking his eyes away from her. Soon, he found himself running towards her with his hands flung outwards ready to give her a hug the moment her reaches her.
Closing his eyes, he enjoyed the breeze that caresses his face while running.
He openes his eyes hoping to see that beautiful lady again but…
However, before him is someone else.
"AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he yells.
He pushes that person away and moves closer to the wall behind him.
"Don't come near me!" he says pointing his index finger at her.
"Why?" that person says.
Judging from the voice, you would know that that person is a she.
"Gh-h-h-h-o-o-o-s-s-stt," he stutters.
"Gh…h..o..o..ost? Ghost?" she repeats trying to make out what he meant. She looked up at him, "What ghost? Who is ghost? Me? How dare you call me a ghost?! For your information sir, my name is Fu Zhen! All for what I have done to take care of you, you called me a ghost?! Ghost!"
She blows air upwards, turns and walks out of the room.
His eyes are still wide open, shocked from what he had seen. After a short moment of being daze, he finally gets back to himself. He moves his eyes to look around him only to find himself in a room. This made him both happy and disappointed. He is happy because he thought he was dead and for a moment there he thought he went to hell! He is disappointed because the beautiful maiden he saw just now was just a dream and now, how much he wished that this is a dream too!
"She is the ugliest thing in the whole world if she isn't a ghost!" he says.
She, if used words to describe, would be a very hard thing to do. Her eyebrows are thick and rough, her face is covered in pimples and her hair is tied up in a bundle, making her look like an old lady.
"Oh noo….this must me a dream!" he says. He pinches his cheek and ends groaning, "Ouch! If this is not a dream…I'd better find away to leave this place!!!"
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Fu Zhen complains and complains.
"Papa! He called me a ghost! A ghost! Why did you bring that guy here?! You had me look after him and all I got back was that – ghost!" she complains.
"Papa know you are not happy dear but I couldn't leave a man that is going to die and yet have the chance to go on living in a desert, right? Besides you are the only girl in this house and you volunteered to do this yourself, right?" says her father.
The last sentence made her feel dreadful. She regrets for having volunteered to do so right after noticing that he is a handsome-looking guy.
Her father pats her shoulder before leaving the kitchen with a cup of water. She lets out a sigh and continues pouting.
As soon as the sun's last ray was swallowed up by the darkness of the night, Prince Aaron got ready for his escape. He sat on the bed and waited till not even a sound was heard.
Soon, after a few hours of waiting, the lights outside are finally turned off and he could hear the doors of the other rooms in the house being closed. Carefully, he tips toe towards the door and opens it with total care not to alarm the other people in the house. After sliding the door open, he peeps outside to make sure that the coast is clear. Then, he creeps out of the room towards where he thinks the entrance to the house would be.
To be continued…