The Search in Mahata
"Hope you got some rest"says Osis.
"Yes I did, thanks for hosting me." Says rido.
"No problem. Now eat lunch and let's go to the mayor , we need to start the search of your son."says Osis.
"Ok"
They together went to the town hall to meet the mayor.
"Hello sir, how can i help you." Says the receptionist.
"Tell the mayor that osis is here and want to talk to you."
The receptionist take the interne phone and call the secretary of the mayor.
"Tell the mayor that Mr Osis is here and want to meet you."
After some minutes , the secretary comes.
"Come with me sir.
Osis and Rido follow the secretary to the mayor's office.
"The mayor will meet you in a while"
The mayor opens his office door and go to Osis to hug him.
"Hello my friend, how are you and how was the travel." Says the mayor.
"I'm fine, and it was nice" says osis.
"Who is this woman with you?"
"She's a new friend , I found her in the desert alone under a lonely palm tree, she claims that someone kidnapped her baby, that's why I came here , to ask for your help to search for it." Says Osis.
"I'm not the police but still you came to the right person, I'm gonna make some calls." Says the mayor.
"Thanks bro"
"So did you bring any goods with you from the north?"
"What a question, ofcourse I did , my crew is selling them in the market right now."
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"Hello , the mayor is with you, a woman came to me , she claims that her baby was kidnapped in the desert, can you check all entries please ,If someone entered a baby entered this week the city you question him."says the mayor to the police chief.
"Ok sir , we gonna do that right away."
6 hours since the search is started and still no trace of the baby. The mother is losing hope.
"If they entered the city and that's reasonable because it was the closest city to your found location, we will find your baby don't worry mme."says the mayor
" Maybe they went to the north, that means I will never see my baby again." Says rido.
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"Maybe she dont have a baby , and was just hallucinating. " says the mayor to Osis.
"No she's not , minutes before we find her in the desert, we saw an SOS flash coming from her location , and she havent any SOS gun, someone must have been there."
"Ok we will still look."
Days passed and nothing is found, Rido is more convinced that her baby is in the north so she decided to cross the desert and search for it but Osis stopped her.
"Just let it go , don't go to the north , you may never comeback." Says Osis.
"But my baby is there" says Rido while crying.
"He's far away and the probablity that you find him is very small, don't risk your life, and I wont let you go anyway." Says osis.
Rido stays for now , but there's no guarantee for that.
Osis was right , the probability that she finds her son is very very small, that means it's impossible.
First she don't know which city her son is now, second if she comeback to Kebkod , she may get killed if they figure out that she was in the south without a permission and last a wealthy family adopted her son and they won't give it back.
So Rido have really no choice , she must stay.
Meanwhile, her son is being rised in a good evironment , well he's in the north but still his new family isn't strict, actually if they weren't wealthy , they would immigrate to the south like most of the members of the extended family (cousins, oncles ..) but they can't do that without loosing their money.
He's going to learn in a school , gonna have 3 meals a day , and he gonna get all child gadgets he wants , what else he wanna get.He's too young to figure out that he's not rised by his biological family. He may never know his biological parents. Well his father is missing and his mother is miles away.
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Antarés is attending kindergarten.it's time for him to interact with others childreen his age.
He's living in the north,you can see the bad behaviour in childreen since kindergarten, maybe because of the staff or maybe their environment in the family. But Antarés's family is different, so his environment is different , his behaviour is different.That's why he's not liking the kindergarten.
He cry everytime his mother take him there so he stopped doing that and made him stay at home with a babysitter.This babysitter was a good one chosen by the mother.Well good people know good people.
Antarés is in good hands now but not for too long , the babysitter is still young , she's actually a student. 6 months after, she moved out from the city to attend an university abroad. People say she immigrated to the south.
Antarés is alone this time , he can't go to the kindergarten , and finding another babysitter gonna be hard. He's gonna have to stay 8 hours a day alone , because his parents are working all day and his siblings are in school.
He is spending the time watching TV, always this channel which broadcast cartoons.
Good thing, the babysitter already teach him the basic of the language. he can speak now.
And the cartoons are helping too.
But he's alone.
After sometimes , he developped a habit of walking around the room while watching the TV and imagining that he's in the cartoon or something, it's a little weird , his sister thought he's insane so she told the mother, who brang him to a hospital. The doctors said that's normal , he's just very active but they also diagnosed something else, he have a heart disease, arrhythmia, Tachycardia to be precise, his heart is beating fast.
But it's fine , it's not critical.The mother told his siblings to not make him angry, she thought that his heart is beating fast , it would be bad if he goes faster.
At the other hand , the mother couldn't let him stay alone at home anymore, so he's attending kindergarten again.
He's sad but atleast not literally alone. He's with other childreen in the same room but alone in the corner.He was forced to write things, letters and some words. it was boring. So he end up drawing things and pretend to write when someone is checking him out.
One day , his mother came as always to bring him home from the kindergarten. They had the usual discussion.
"How was your day?" says the mother.
"Same as yesterday." says antarés.
"You didn't make friends?"
"No, no one want to be friends with me ,they think, I'm a freak."
"No one is thinking that you are a freak , you are just shy."
"Then why, they come to me and make some grimaces and laugh?"
"Who is doing that ?"
"They"
"Who is they?"
"Everybody"
That was weird for the mother , everyday she go the kindergarten , the staff reassure her that everything is fine, they didn't tell anything about the bullying he's getting.
They reached home, there , he found his siblings watching cartoons , so he joined them.
Meanwhile his parents are in the kitchen.
"Your son is getting bullied everyday" says the mother.
"the young one or the old one ?" says the father.
"in the kindergarten ,Antarés"
"They bully kids in the kindergarten too ? this is insane, what the staff are saying ?"
"they are saying everything is fine. But it's not , I think they don't care about Antarés."
"Let's move him to another kindergarten then."
"it's not worth it , soon he will go to school"
"Ok fine, how was your day?"
"Work was fine, I'm a little tired , I'm gonna get some sleep and then cook the lunch"
"Nah let it go , I will cook today"
The mother go upstairs to sleep.
They got lunch and now it's time to go sleep for the kids.
Antarés and his brother share the same room.
They didn't think that this night was special.
"Hello Antarés" says a skeleton wearing a cape.
"Heeellloo, whooo arrre yooou ?" says Antarés
"I'm a friend , don't be scared."
"I don't have friends"
"Well you have now"
"Leave me alone"
"I'm sorry ,I can't , I must fulfill my purpose."
"What is your purpose?"
"I'm a messanger , and I have something for you"
the skeleton shows him a green thing.
"What is that"
"That's a , hmmm let's call it a gouji, not the vegetable through. It's yours , it helps you use your powers."
"I have powers?"
"Yes, you have, you are chosen , you are the Belgueji"
"What does the Belgueji means?"
"Well it means the Chosen" the skeleton says that while laughing.
the skeleton give the green thing to the kid.
"I forgot to say , it's just a half , you will get the other half soon."
"soon?"
"Well , I mean when you grow up."
"I'm already grown up" (every kid say that)
"Ofcourse , you are not."
"Dont make me angry , I have powers "
"Oy oy , I'm scared, your powers don't work here , they only work in real life."
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"Ow I almost forgot again , you won't be able to use your powers until you get the other half."
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"Antarés !! Antarés , WAKE UP" says his brother
"What, what?" says Antarés.
"You were speaking a foreign language."
"No I wasn't, wait did you hear me say something?"
"Yes , you were like discussing with someone."
"So you saw him too ?"
"Who?"
"The skeleton"
"No, you are scaring me Antarés"
"It's ok, don't worry it's just a dream, go back to your bed and sleep."
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"And don't tell mom and dad about this"
"Ok"
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