the imprecation of wizards (9 page)

Gary stopped near the pair
of imposing wrought-iron gate which two golden crowns were on it.
He dismounted from his motorcycle and pushed the gate and entered
the cemetery and he went toward the house from a black, stony path.
When he reached to the house knocked as was trying to show himself
normal. After a few moments the door opened by fifty-years-old
woman called Mojgan. Gary went a little back and said, “Everything
is ready for the ceremony.”

Mojgan, “Ok. Now, go and
call the semi-mature hybrids.”

Gary, “Yes my
Lady.”

Gary went out of the
cemetery and went toward the hamlet. When he arrived to there, two
hybrids had sat on the ground like the animals. Their bodies were
like the mature hybrid at the human mood and color of body’s hair
one of them was red and another was black and they were the same
creatures that were at Mikhail’s dream. When they saw Gary, they
got up and stood on their legs. Gary stopped near them and said,
“Excellency Key Holder be healthy.”

Black hybrid said with a
raucous voice, “Excellency Key Holder be healthy. What do you
want?”

Gary, “You must go to the
village for the ceremony.”

The hybrids ran very fast
toward the village and Gary went from another way. After a while
the hybrids reached to the village and they went toward the center
of village where people were in the plaza. The people were happy
and each of families had a basket full of the black stones. At the
center of plaza was a very big circle which had drawn with red
color and they were throwing respectively their stones inside it.
Each of families was throwing their stones together and it seemed
they had come to a marriage ceremony.

At among the crowd only
Anahita was silent and sad. She had worn a beautiful dress but
unlike the other girls did not speaking with someone and she had
just gazed to the others. After a while all of them became quiet
when they saw Key Holder and they bowed. Key Holder with pride went
toward a big, decorated chair which was opposite the circle and sat
on it. The people raised their head and said, “Excellency Key
Holder be alive.”

Key Holder raised his cane
until they became silent, then he said, “Today we want to punish
someone who had protested to my wish. Everybody should know that
they have to obey from me. I'm agent from the king of the
kings.”

At this time two rural men
brought a young boy called Arman toward the circle and they took
him toward a big spike which had adjoined to it a tall, big chain
and they enchained his left leg and then came out of the circle and
went toward the people as everybody shouted happily. Key Holder was
looking at them happily while Arman was looking angrily to him. Key
Holder looked at them and said, “Where are his parents?”

Everybody looked at one side
where parents of Arman were sadly and ashamedly. They went slowly
toward Key Holder and stopped near the circle and they bowed. Key
holder looked at them angrily and said, “Do you want to punish with
your son?”

The father of Arman
expectorated toward his son and sad ashamedly, “He isn't my son
anymore. We request from you to punish him.”

Arman looked aghast at his
father as he could not say anything. His mother came near the
circle and expectorated toward him and they bowed again and said,
“Please punish this sinful.”

Then they went ashamedly
toward the crowd as Key Holder was looking at Arman happily. Arman
took a deep breath and said loudly, “You can steal my love, you can
bewitch my family, but, one day, you will be punished.”

Everybody looked frightened
to Key Holder who had become very angry. He aimed his cane toward
the circle and at once a black smoke came out of the cane and it
diffused slowly, like a fog, on the stones. Arman said as had
scared, “I hope she can escape later.”

Key Holder became extremely
angry and hit his cane to the ground. With this work, black fog,
went down into the stones and they started to quaking. Arman looked
at them frightened while he went back slowly, but the stones
cohered strangely and the people came closer until could see that,
even Anahita, who was more sad until be curious. At opposite their
eyes the black stones transformed to stony wolves.

When Arman saw those stony
wolves started to run frightened, but the stony wolves quickly
attacked to him. The wolves caught him very fast and they injured
him with their stone mouth. Arman was yelling loudly but the people
were shouting constantly, salutation to great wizard.

The only person, who was sad
and was crying for him, was Anahita. She could not bear to see such
brutality and went out of the crowd. Key Holder was looking to them
with joy and pride. Finally, after a while Arman died as his body
had become bloody. No one was sad, on the contrary, all of them
acclaimed for Key Holder and he hit happily his cane to the ground,
and the stony wolves were separated and they fell on the
ground.

With this action the
ceremony finished and the people went toward Key Holder and after
bowing to him, they went out of there. Key Holder was very happy
and he looked at the hybrids and said, “You can go to home
now.”

The hybrids bowed and went
out quickly of the plaza and then Key Holder hit his cane to the
ground and disappeared. He appeared near the Anahita house and
looked at it and he disappeared again. He this time appeared at the
black path and disappeared again till finally he appeared inside
the cemetery.

Key Holder moved toward the
black building. The door was half open and he entered to the house.
The home was very stylish and aristocratic. On the walls some
pictures of Key Holder and his family had been seeing. A wide
staircase was connecting there to the second floor. Two middle aged
woman who were housekeeper were cleaning there. When they saw Key
Holder bowed. Key Holder went toward an armchair and sat on it and
said, “You can go with the hybrids.”

They quickly went out of the
house. Key Holder reclined happily his cane to the wall. After a
few moments, Jill came down quickly from the stairs as was very
distraught. She stared to Key Holder and said, “Where is my
betrothed.”

Before Key Holder could
react to her, Mojgan came down frightened and bowed, after her,
thirty-years-old woman called Fancy came down and bowed while Jill
was just staring to Key Holder with anger.

Key Holder got up angrily
and he slapped to Mojgan as she was thrown backward on the carpet,
then he looked to Jill and said, “When you see me, you have to bow,
you're my spouse, now and that stupid boy was punished.”

Jill screamed aghast and she
wanted to hit to Key Holder that Mojgan hugged her and went back,
but Key Holder became more angry and got Jill's hair and took her
toward the second floor as was dragging her on the ground and
Mojgan and Fancy were just looking them.

Mojgan said sadly, “Poor
girl.”

But Fancy looked at her and
said, “Don’t say this. That fool boy should was abandoning
her.”

Mojgan sighed and said, “I
don’t think Jill can withstand like you. I am very worried about
her.”

Fancy hugged her and said,
“Don’t worry. Excellency Key Holder will subdue her soon, like
me.”

Mojgan separated from her
and said, “It's better we prepare for lunch. I don't want to
infuriate him again.”

Fancy, “You are right. We
should hurry.”

They went to the kitchen to
prepare food. After an hour, Key Holder came down from the stairs
and entered in the kitchen while he was not angry anymore and he
was smiling. He went toward Fancy and hugged her and kissed her
lips and said, “Do the newspaper is come?”

Fancy, “Not yet, my
Lord.”

Key Holder looked to Mojgan
and said, “Hey, old woman, when Gary comes, take the newspaper and
tell him to take the accursed boy to the village for cleaning the
circle.”

Mojgan bowed and said, “Yes
my Lord.”

Key Holder and Fancy went
toward a room which was in there as were hobnobbing with together.
Mojgan after they went to the room went quickly toward the second
floor and she entered to a room which its door was open. Inside the
room was a big bed which had a very beautiful curtain and the other
equipments of room were luxurious. A big, luxurious mirror was near
the door and at on the walls were a big picture from the king of
the kings and some pictures of a almost fifty-years-old man called
Karman who was almost like to Key Holder and he had a cylindrical
hat which had seven golden ribbon.

Jill's dresses were on the
carpet near the bed as they were almost scrappy and Jill was crying
soundless in the bed while had pulled the blanket on herself.
Mojgan went toward her sadly and sat beside her and hugged her.
Jill hugged her and said, “How you can live with him?!”

Mojgan, “Oh, honey. You
should learn it. You should forget everything.”

Jill, “For
what?!”

Mojgan sighed and said,
“When I married with previous Key Holder, I thought everything will
become ok. But when he died, I became alone and he told me that he
loves me! He was very young and I did not listen to my father and I
married with him and he became new Key Holder, just for me! But
now, I became an old woman! But I have to live for nothing. This is
my destiny and tomorrow will be Fancy's destiny.”

Jill looked at her and said,
“Why didn’t you go?!”

Mojgan wanted to answer to
her, but came the sound of ring and she kissed Jill and went
quickly toward down. When Mojgan opened the door she saw Gary who
had a newspaper in his hand. Mojgan got the newspaper and looked to
leading article which had written in it {the legislative parliament
find its new chairman} and said, “Take the boy for cleaning the
circle.”

Gary bowed and said, “Yes my
Lady.”

Gary went out of the
cemetery and embarked on his motorcycle. He sighed and turned on
his motorcycle and he went toward the valley. After a while he
reached to there but when saw a car near the valley was surprised
and came down quickly and went toward the valley.

Shamira and Mitra were near
Mikhail and they were speaking happily together. When Gary saw them
took a deep breath and went toward them. Mitra went toward him and
said, “What happened?! Why are you sad?!”

Gary looked at Shamira and
said, “Who is she?!”

Mitra, “She is my
family.”

Mikhail and Shamira came
toward them and Mikhail said, “What happened?!”

Gary tried to smile and
said, “Nothing. We should go to the village now.”

Mikhail, “why?!!”

Gary looked at Mitra and
said, “You should more be careful. If the hybrids had come, they
would have killed you.”

Before Mitra could answer to
him, Shamira said, “I had told her, she should watch.”

Gary looked at Mikhail and
said, “Come with me.”

Mitra stopped him and said,
“You worry me.”

Gary took a deep breath and
said, “Don’t worry. I’m with him. We should hurry.”

Shamira hugged sadly Mikhail
and said, “Don’t worry sweet.”

Gary looked at them
surprisedly and Mitra said quickly, “She is just very
kindly.”

Mitra got Shamira and said,
“We should go. See you later.”

Mikhail smiled and said, “I
hope.”

They went and Mikhail
embarked on the motorcycle while he knew that the topic will be
bad, but he had no choice. When He hid his ring under the stone his
feel became bad again. When they reached to the rivulet the sound
of Linda's scream suddenly reverberated in his ear, but Mikhail
tried to hold himself as it wasn't easy. Nobody was inside the
village and Gary was driving very fast.

When they arrived to
Anahita's house, she had stood outside the house. When Anahita saw
them, she wanted to stop them, but Gary continued his way and
passed from her while Mikhail was trying to don’t look to her. But
the status when became worse that they became close to the
plaza.

Suddenly the sound of
parents' scream reverberated in his ear and he saw the scene of
burning of his parents. Gary stopped and Mikhail came down while
his head was paining badly and he could not move rightly and fell
on the ground while was crying and was looking at his parents. Gary
ran toward him and said, “Be calm.”

But Mikhail was suffering
badly and was crying while had gotten his ears with his hands. It
was the first time that he had come to there after his parents'
death. Gary was trying frantic to calm him but it wasn't easy at
all. Gary looked to around himself and when he saw nobody is there,
he hit to Mikhail's neck as he became unconscious.

At this time, Anahita
entered to the plaza as was crying and had gazed to Mikhail. When
Gary saw her, got up quickly and ran toward her and said angrily,
“What are you doing here?! Go home now!”

But Anahita ran toward
Mikhail and sat beside him and hugged him and said, “What happened
for him?!”

Gary ran toward her and
slapped her and said, “Do you want to die?! Look at that body. He
died because was amorous. You can not be in love with
him.”