Author´s note: Sorry about the grammar mistakes of the last episode, I couldn´t give me best shot because yesterday I was tired after all the hospital and stuff. I´m feeling OK now, so I´ll do my best with this one and I´m wondering if I should change the previous one. And as for my questions, answers will come but not when you expect them.
Let´s go!
6. Dust of Gods
12 hours before
Once the story is over, Scooby sighs. That one was a tough. He stares at the chess board and wonders about how did the old gang turned into that. Why did Ricky gave up that way? And, Cassidy said that she was the one...
"I think I know what you are thinking about, old boy. Cass did told us a lie about who finished her romance with Ricky but if you ask me, I believe she was shielding him" Pike smiles.
"Rhielding him?"
"Think about it. Your friends do not trust E and would never see him as someone who would do something like that, that is why I think Cassidy lied. She was taking the blame, she was taking us away from the conclusion that Ricky was the one who convinced the others to leave and broke up with her. He´s already a dramatic character and adding that would have spur something unwanted or misunderstood. Owens is an anti-hero and anti-villain, my friend. These years have been hell for him. He´s lost to his own guilt"
"Roh" Scooby lowers his ears. "Rhat ro we do?"
"I dunno, mate. I dunno. Some things are not to be solved by third parties. It must be Ricky who sees through this"
"Reraclis was real bad"
"Yes, he was. But cousin always sees himself stomped by humans, pushed away. His greed is big but not as much as his vanity, his pride. If he doesn´t feel loved, he´s capable of anything. You should see his face each time he loses when we play chess, it´s poetry" this makes Scooby giggle. A sound catches their attention and some of the books fall from the shelves. Much to their surprise, a strange paper was hidden inside one of them.
#The Little Prince sat on a rock and rose his eyes towards the sky:
"I wonder" he said. "If the stars are shining so that one day, we can each find the one that is ours. Look! My planet! Is up there, above us... But, is too far!"
"Is a nice planet" said the snake. "Why are you here?"
"I´m angry with a flower"
"Ah!"
And both went quiet.
"Where are the men?" finally exclaimed the Little Prince. "One is so lonely here at the desert"
"One is also alone when he is among men"
The Prince looked at the snake for a long while.
"What a strange animal you are! You´re as thin as a finger"
"True but as mighty as a king´s finger that is" said the snake.
"I really don´t think you´re mighty" smiled the Prince. "You don´t even have legs, you can´t travel..."
"I can take you further than a ship" said he coiling around the Little Prince´s ankle like a golden bracelet. "Whoever I touch, I send him back to the place where he come from. But you came down from a star. You´re pure..." The Little Prince did not answer. "I feel pity for you. You, such weak creature, over this rough granite ground. I can help you if you ever miss your planet. Yes, I can..."
"Oh! Now I understand" said the boy. "But why are you always talking in riddles?"
"Because I answer them all" replied the snake and they both went quiet.#
"Rhat´s this?"
"This my dear canine, is a fragment of the Little Prince. A book written by Antoine Saint-Exupery, the French writer. A master piece, I must say"
"Raint Exu..." Scooby then remembers something. The Never Land disappeared but the log of Hawkins was found in Saint-Exupery´s papers and there he revealed that all his crew died but he found a heaven where all dreams came true. "Ricky ronce said that rhis writer rote about the Rever Rand"
"The ship Never Land? Yes, in his papers. Interesting. Antoine was lost in a mission and has never been found. Legend tells that he somehow reached Sunken Island and is still there. Also, I´ve heard that the Little Prince was based on the week he spent lost in the Sahara desert where he saw glimpses of Sunken Island. That kind of visions are called Dust of the Gods and only a few are able to sense it"
"Rust?"
"Yes, dust. If you think it through many authors have mentioned that dust in their books as well as Sunken Island but people haven´t noticed. Peter Pan´s fairy one and the island of Never Land, as well as the Crocodile, that can´t be a coincidence. The Wizard of Oz where a storm swallows up the house and the Wizard, the Ring Master, is the king. Stevenson´s Treasure Island where James Hawkins is the hero and is faced by pirates. The Little Prince where a snake has a main role. Alice in Wonderland, that place where anything is possible and is underground and beneath the mind and is ruled by the insane. Robinson Crusoe, lost in a island where no man lives" everything starts to make sense. "The dust mentioned in The Golden Compass, the power of books in Inkheart... the lost island of creatures in Where the Wild Things Are and many more before and after. Sunken Island does exist but people just don´t sense it"
"Ro..."
"That place so many people have looked for, was always there, old chap. This page is the encounter between the Little Prince and the Snake. In other words, Hawkins or Antoine meeting Jormungard just like Ricky that night. The Little Prince is also a way to talk about the guardian of Sunken Island, its ruler, a kid that never grows up like Peter Pan, James Hawkins, Alice, Lyra, Max, Dorothy. Scoob, you have found it so many times but you never noticed. The Never Land was looking into the seas and was attacked by the Goodsight pirates and the eel, not knowing that the instructions to find it are in books" Scooby goes pale. "And if my cousin goes on with this, is not only the ending of Crystal Cove but he´s also messing with forces he can´t hardly imagine, far more than dangerous than this bloody curse. He´ll be messing with the one place where the universe is one"
SD
Cassidy watches E who after some hours of uncertain, is finally recovering some colour and the doctors seem pleased as he is suddenly improving a lot.
"We should go see the kids"
"I´ll do it" Ed goes to the door.
"Ed, your injure..."
"I´ll be fine. Someone has to stay in case he wakes up"
"But, what if...?"
"If don´t make it, then at least the kids will" he leaves the room. Angel sighs and feels a shiver running down her spine. She wishes from the deepest part of her heart that that omen was just about the storm falling on Crystal Cove.
WOW!
Never have thought about this similarities between books, hu?
Well, I have and for some time now. A huge clue for the mystery of Sunken Island.
How are Pike and Scooby going to get into the Rogers´house?
And Pericles, what is he up to?
Will Ed Machine be able to save our friends?
Next Clue: Jagged Edge