Flame the Elf by Amber Riel (top 10 inspirational books .TXT) 📕

“Grandma,” Flame interrupted, “John’s bad now.”         

“I knew that I should have never trusted that kid,” the dragon replied.        

“He’s your grandchild but you never trusted him?” Princess questioned.        

“No…. I never did and I never will.”         

“Ok-ay. Grandma, if my dad comes looking for me, tell him I’m looking for John. Okay, grandma?” Flame asked.       

“Okay, I will. Be careful, Flame, Leon, and you other two that I don’t know.”         

“We will, grandma.” Flame began walking away, leaving the others behind.

The three elfish girls and Leon arrived back into the village. Flame and Leon had followed Lassy and Princess to a small little hut which appeared to be a nice little place to live. Lassy and Princess made plans as Flame and Leon followed from behind.         

“Is Samwell going to be there?” Princess asked.         

“He’s my brother of course he’s going to be there.” Lassy laughed.         

“Yay!”         

“Flame, do you want to stay the night at my hut with Princess and me?” Lassy asked. “Joseph’s going to be there….” She added with a persuasive tone. “And Leon, you can stay there too…. Kona’s going to be there.”

“Yeah,” Flame replied as she smiled at the thought of seeing Joseph again. “Mostly because Joseph’s going to be there,” she replied, jokingly.         

“Same for me but instead of Joseph,” Leon replied with a smile, “Kona.”

Joseph and Kona were relaxing inside of a four room hut. They were explaining to two other guys that the princess was in the village and how he had the honor of meeting her.         

One of the two guys had short, dark brown hair and matching dark brown eyes to match. The second guy on the other hand had blonde messy hair which flew in all kinds of directions and hazel eyes as well. Both of the two guys were dirty from working out in the steaming hot blazing sun. Neither of them had believed Joseph’s story for a minute.         

Lassy and Princess entered the hut followed by Leon but Flame had decided to wait outside for a few moments. She wanted to find a store with supplies for her adventure.         

“Kona! Kona! Where are you?!” Leon asked, searching the tiny little living room.         

“I’m right here,” Kona answered as she crawled out from under the table.         

“Oh, Kona…. I’m staying the night tonight.”         

“You are? That’s great.”         

“I know.”         

“Here comes Princess and Lassy,” the blonde boy spoke as he turned his attention toward the two girls. “Hey, Princess.”         

“Yeah, Raphael,” Princess replied.         

“Is Flame in the village?”         

“Yeah.”         

“You see Flame isn’t here in the…. Wait…. What did you just say?”         

“Yeah…. She’s here.”         

“In your face, Raphael, and Samwell,” Joseph began to brag.         

Flame walked into the hut and began looking around. It was different from the palace aside from the fact that it was so small and the palace was huge. She hadn't been in a hut before and for the rooms being so close together made her wonder what it would have been like to actually have grown up in one.         

“Hi, Flame.”         

Flame turned her attention toward Joseph and smiled. “Hi, Joseph.”         

As soon as Raphael and Samwell laid eyes on Flame, they both dropped to the floor and bowed down at her feet.         

“You two can stop bowing now,” Joseph told them.         

“But it’s our first time meeting royalty,” they both replied.         

“Hey you two stay away from my girlfriend.” Joseph started to sound kind of jealous but not bad. It was cute how he was acting jealous and Flame blushed a little at the sound of his words.

The group had fallen asleep. They were unaware John was watching the small village from over by a slim white wood tree with few branches and leaves. He waited for the fires in the village to die down to indicate the villagers were in bed. He searched with his eyes till he spotted a graveyard. “That’s good,” he muttered to himself. “I can get the dead to listen to me and then I’ll have an army of dead people attacking the village and attack Flame…. Mmmm.”

Once John had awakened the dead, he ordered them to place the village on fire. The zombies as some would call them had obeyed and managed to start small fires which slowly grew.

Leon woke up to the smell of smoke. “Kona…. Kona…. Wake up.”         

“Why?” Kona asked in a sleepy tone.         

“Because I hear something and I smell smoke. Let’s go see what’s going on.”         

“Okay.”         

Both of the lions worked their way outside of the cottage and looked around. Leon spotted John laughing not too far away. “Oh no.”         

“Oh no what?”         

“You see that boy standing on the rock laughing?”         

“Yeah.”         

“His name’s John. John is Flame’s brother…. Well, now he’s on the bad side.”         

“That is bad.”         

“I have an idea.”         

“What is it?”         

“It goes like this…. I’ll distract John while you tell everyone. Okay.”         

“Okay.”         

Leon worked his way onto a bolder which wasn’t too far away from where John stood and gave himself a brief moment. “Hey, John, up here!”         

“What? Leon! I guess you want to die.”         

“You wish. John, please don’t make me fight you.”         

“What are you talking about I never said that? I said, ‘Do you want to die?’”         

“The same thing, John.”

Kona’s nails slid out from her front paws as she lifted both of them to the door and began scratching. She continued to scratch at the door, letting the noise grow louder in order for the others to hear her at the door.

Joseph climbed out of his bed and made his way to the front door to find out who it was. He opened the door and looked down at Kona, not really aware of the fact that she was standing there in the first place. “Hi, Kona. What are you doing here?”         

“Joseph, dead people are attacking the village.”         

“Oh…. Okay…. Dead people…. I’m going to sleep now…. Good night.” As soon as Joseph finished his sentence he closed his eyes and dropped to the floor dead asleep. Kona tried to wake up him up but he wouldn’t budge until he realized what she had said. “Dead people! Attacking the village! Wait right here, Kona. Dead people are attacking the village!” he called through the cottage as he jumped up, waking everyone up.   

When Flame realized what Joseph was saying, a horrible thought popped into her head. “I didn’t find John…. He found me…. Oh man.”

Everyone hurried outside to see what all of the commotion was about. John noticed the group and couldn’t help but smile at the sight of his dear sister standing in the crowd. “Oh so you have friends now, Flame?” he asked, sarcastically.         

“John, I can’t believe you,” Flame spoke, ignoring her brother’s words. “Going on the bad side.”         

“My baby sister you still haven’t learned your lesson…. Am I right or do you want me to kill you then tell dad?” he mocked.         

“You’re out of your mind, John.”         

John vanished along with the zombies, leaving the fires to play in the village.         

“That was your brother John?” Lassy asked.         

“Yeah…. He wants to kill Leon and me now.”         

“Your brother is cute too bad he’s on the wrong side.”         

“Lassy, aren’t you going out with Raphael?”         

“Yeah.”         

“John is mean.”         

“I know.”         

“Never mind…. I can’t stay here.”         

“Why?”         

“Because I’m trouble for you guys…. I have to go. Come on, Leon.”         

“Please don’t leave, Flame….” Joseph replied with heartbreak. “Please stay.”         

“I wish I could but John knows where I’m at now…. So I can’t stay.”         

“Wait, Flame. I’m going with you two,” Princess spoke up.         

“I’m going too,” Lassy added.         

“Princess…. Lassy…. Oh well. It’s going to be dangerous,” Flame told them. “Just so you guys know.”         

“We know,” they both agreed.         

“Bye, Flame, Princess, Lassy, and Leon,” the three guys and Kona told the girls.         

“Bye, Joseph, Samwell, Raphael, and Kona,” the three girls and Leon replied.

“Be careful…. Be safe…. And send John far away from here….” Kona whispered to herself with worry.

The king was searching for his beloved daughter. Like any loving and caring father he worried about his children