Brother's Keeper
Brother’s Keeper
One rainy afternoon, there was a knock at Sir Perry’s door. He opened it to find a young boy, about eight years old, standing there.
“Will you help me?” they boy asked. “My brother and I were exploring a cave, and he got lost. Please, will you help me find him?”
“Certainly,” Perry said. “Come, we must be off at once. Show me the way to the cave.”
He put on his armor and followed the boy. “What is your name?” he asked.
“Ky,” the boy answered.
“And what is your brother’s name, Ky?”
“Rand,” he said.
“We’ll find Rand, don’t worry,” Sir Perry assured Ky. “But we will need allies. I must find my friends, Sir Marc, Sir Steven, and Sir Jake.”
They soon found Marc, Steven, and Jake, and told them everything. “If he got lost in a cave, an Afanc may have taken him,” Marc said. “We’ll have to be careful. Afancs are very dangerous. We will need our animal friends.”
They rounded up all their animal friends, then headed for the cave. It was very dark inside, they found. Dark, and cold, and wet, and full of strange sounds. They felt their way through, until they could hear the sound of a little boy crying for his mother, and went toward this sound. There, they found a huge, dirty water monster in the shape of a human, standing in front of a boy chained to the cave wall. “What do you want?” he demanded.
Sir Perry drew his sword. “Let that boy go,” he commanded.
“Never,” the monster said. “He is my prisoner. I will keep him here forever.”
“Then you leave me no choice but to fight you,” Sir Perry said. With that, he lunged at the monster and ran his sword through it. The monster turned into thousands of drops of water, as it had done before. Sir Perry then went to free the boy, however, before he could, the monster reformed, this time even bigger than before. “Fool!” he rumbled. “Do you think a mere sword could destroy a creature made of water? You can never defeat me!”
“What if we build a fire?” Ky whispered.
“Of course!” Sir Perry breathed. “Sir Marc, you and the horses take Ky outside to gather wood, while the rest of us keep the monster distracted. Quickly, now!”
They went to do as they were told. It was a long, difficult fight to keep the monster from poor little Rand, but at last, the rest of the group returned, carrying lit branches, which they flung at the monster. With one last roar, it dissolved. Sir Perry then hurried forward, and broke Rand free of his chains. “Ky!” he cried as soon as he was free, running to his older brother. “RoRo!” Ky exclaimed, and they hugged. Then they turned to Sir Perry and the others. “Thank you for saving me,” Rand said.
“Yeah, thank you,” Ky added.
Sir Perry smiled. “You are quite welcome,” he replied.