Children of Light Part 4
Return of the Darkness
Hello. Sarmoo Okoro here to give you a little idea of what’s coming up in Part 4.
Well, there’s a new holiday world in this story. And many more new faces too.
But I suppose that you are judging this story by the name ‘Return of the Darkness’. And yes, this story is not without danger, and I don’t mean the pack of wolves in the Easter Meadow.
But with danger lurking in Part four, will Jack and my friends overcome it? And will they get back to Halloween Town?
Read on, my friends…
Chapter 1
Where We Left Off
Well, hello. You have a new narrator. Sarmoo Okoro, Charlie’s best friend.
Now then, last time we left you we’d just been locked in Christmas Town with no way out. A part from one little idea that Santa thought up.
Instead of a holiday door, we just had to take a holiday train.
But all six of the trains were buried under six or seven feet of snow.
Digging one out was going to be difficult, but it makes the job easier when you’ve got lots of people to work together.
There wasn’t just me, Emma, Jack, Mathew and Benjamin. Charlie and his friends all chose to help us.
Benjamin chose one of the hills of snow where one of the trains was supposed to be and he insisted that we started digging on that one.
Jack was the main one to direct everyone to their jobs.
He recommended me, Charlie and Emma working at the top of the hill. And it would be safer for Benny Bear and Benjamin to work on the bottom with Mathew helping and supervising.
Jack himself also helped by shifting all the dug out snow.
And my best friend’s friends also chose to help.
All the adult elves were still exhausted from Christmas. But the kids were all active and eager to start digging and playing in the snow.
Though most of them played more than they dug.
And Benjamin wasn’t really much help either. He just kept whingeing and complaining that me and Charlie wouldn’t and couldn’t play with him.
“Benny Bear, I’m getting board.” Benjamin whined. “I’m tired.”
“Maybe that’s because I’m tired.” Said Benny Bear, pushing a little spade into the snow.
“The why don’t you pway instead?”
“Because that will only make us both more tired. I suggest that we take a nap.”
“Owh.” Benjamin moaned again. “I don’t wanna nap. I wanna pway.”
I listened to them complain while I continued digging.
“I know Benjamin can be cute and all, but I’d sure hate to be his mother when I whinges like this.” Said Emma.
“Our family never dared to complain. Even though we were a family of poverty and we had a desperate struggle every day it was life. But no-one would complain because there was nothing we could do to save ourselves from our struggling. We just had to…what’s the term?…Put up with it.” I explained.
“I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for everyone. I know we’ve all had a though time in our past worlds. I miss the city I use to belong to. Before it…well…you know the story.”
I nodded as I continued shoving the shovel into the snow.
“I miss my world too. I know that we were in poverty, by when Mr Sailsburry came to Kenya and took and interest in my family. He taught me English and how to count and…”
#Bang#
When I forced down my shovel through the snow it stopped and hit something hard.
I just stared for a few seconds.
“Come on!” Said Emma. “Let see what it is!”
Emma picked up a trowel and rummaged through the thin layer of snow that covered the hard object that the shovel just hit.
I started rubbing the snow away with my hands, trying to get to whatever was underneath.
And then, through the thinnest snow, I saw a flat grey surface.
“Come on! Come on!” Emma encouraged me as she stood up. “Jack!” She called up. “We found something!”
Jack climbed up the steepest side of the hill to get yo Emma as fast as possible.
“What is it?”
“It’s the top of the train. I think.”
Jack knelt down and assisted me in uncovering the surface from the snow.
Myself, Emma and Jack continued sweeping snow all the way to the front of the hill.
“Hold on.” Said Emma. “This grey is going clear.”
“It must be the windscreen.” I guessed.
“Emma!” Cried Benjamin from the bottom of the hill. “We found something!”
Emma crawled over the sloped edge of the hill.
“What have you found?”
“It’s a pwesent.”
“A present?” Emma guessed that Benjamin might have got a little confused. “Benjamin, are you still over excited from Christmas? Were digging up a train, you dummy.”
Emma slid down the hill to where Benjamin was helping the elves uncover the side of the train.
“Wook.” Benjamin pointed to what he had uncovered. “It’s a pwesent.”
Emma looked towards what Benjamin was pointing at.
It was the picture of a blue present with red ribbon on the side of the train.
“I told you.”
“Well, for once you were right.”
Benjamin giggled and stuck out his tongue.
We all made haste in digging up the train and shovelling the snow now that we’d finally reached the train itself.
We knew it would take us a while but the more we got done the more we were motivated.
Soon, after a few hours of dusting the snow, the train was completely dug out.
All that needed to be done now was to see if it would work.
