Story - Termina Trouble

Once upon a time, on the 11th birthday of a poor boy a postman arrived at his home to deliver a letter from his uncle. The letter was an invitation to meet his uncle in Glasgow in the morning the very next day. The letter also said that he should pack some stuff out of the usual clothing: 1 lantern, 2 empty bottles and all the gold coins he could find and earn.
He packed the stuff and started searching for coins. He found 10 and then went outside to see if anyone had lost some. He was lucky, two more coins. Later that day when going to leave the boy picked up his uncle’s letter, and out dropped a red locomotive ticket, the boy smiled, but then he suddenly remembered that a red ticket usually meant one-way, he took his bag and went directly to the locomotive station where he saw the big black locomotive with “Glasgow Express” written on the side, he showed the ticket to the conductor and went in. The locomotive started and was slowly leaving the station, as the speed grew the more exited the boy got. Suddenly the locomotive stopped and the boy dropped down onto the floor, he hurried up and ran out to the exit where he saw a sign outside that said Glasgow station, he hurried out ad looked around. A hand was placed on his shoulder out of nowhere and he turned around and saw his uncle standing there smiling at him. “Had a good trip Dabecuz?” the uncle asked, the boy nodded, “good, by the way… I have to show you something very important!” the uncle answered and started walking towards the exit of the station, Dabecuz followed along. The two walked through streets filled with horse carriages and dark alleys until they finally reached a pub in one of the poorest areas of Glasgow. They entered and went upstairs to an old door with the number 7 hanging in the middle of it. The uncle pulled a key out of his pocket, placed it in the door and turned it around twice. The uncle stepped forward and through the still closed door. Dabecuz stared at the place where his uncle just vanished, when an arm suddenly grabbed his clothes and pulled him through.
He arrived in a new country a new world. The sky was covered in twilight and it seemed like time stood still even though it didn’t. Then he spotted a great city with towers and very high and shiny buildings. “Welcome to Termina!” said the uncle out loud and started heading towards the city. As Dabecuz approached he saw things out of his imagination a small metal carriage with small black wheels and without horses (car), a guy with a strange stiff haircut, and a triangular building made of glass. Although Dabecuz still recognised some stuff a horse carriage with four horses and some poor people walking around. Whenever people approached him they said something completely un-understandable, he just nodded and followed his uncle to a building where “Suvó ev Kamo” was written on the windows. The uncle sat down on a chair and waved a bypassing man over to the table and said: “Jemo sevvoo udt jemo xek sxesecuko fcoujo” “0oj jah” the man answered and went away. A couple of seconds later the man came back with two cups and placed them on the table, the uncle paid him and the man went away again. ”You see… each and every 100 years something terrible is going to happen here in Termina, and today is no exception,” he pointed up into the sky, Dabecuz looked up and saw a HUGE grey ball hanging above their heads, “yes it seems the moon is going to fall. If no one prevents it to do so everyone will die! But there is a part that I didn’t tell you, when this terrible thing is about to happen every 100th year, a guy named Dabecuz arrives and saves the day… this is why I brought you here… oh yeah by the way you got three days from tomorrow to prevent it from falling!” The uncle drank his coffee and waited for Dabecuz to finish his cup of hot chocolate before he rose from the chair and started walking on the streets. “You probably wonder where all this different stuff come from… the only thing is not from where but more like from when… you see the flow of time is totally and completely screwed up, seriously, most of these things don’t exist in England because they are going to be invented somewhere far into the future, and those guys over there lived in England long time ago but they don’t anymore”. The two entered a building that seemed to be a weaponry store and the uncle asked Dabecuz what kind of sword he wanted, Dabecuz looked around and tried some of them, but none of them really fitted in length or in weight until he found one high up out of reach, it looked perfect in size and weight, he pointed up on the sword and the shopkeeper went over to take it down. Dabecuz tried the sword and it was perfect, “500 hifooj jah” said the shopkeeper and the uncle paid. They went out of the shop and entered the triangular glass building and further up to the 5th floor where they entered a room, and then the uncle told Dabecuz to get some rest before saving the world.

Dawn of The 1st Day: 72 Hours Remain.
Dabecuz woke up early in the morning and got dressed; his uncle was already eating his brunch, he sat down and took some scrambled eggs and some roasted white bread (toast). Next the uncle told Dabecuz to get some basic information about what to use to save this world; he suggested the local library, which could be found the lower right corner of the same street as the triangular building.
Dabecuz headed to the corner of the street and saw a pure white building with a sign shaped like a book hanging above the entrance, he entered. The room was a completely white corridor with white bookcases on each side and some vertical glass plates through the middle of the floor. There wasn’t many people in there just a few in the corners. Suddenly something caught his attention a box on the wall with a sign that said: “Free Terminian – English English – Terminian translator always keep it close to your heart…” He picked one up and looked at it and then dropped it into his pocket near his heart and then it disappeared. Dabecuz was totally in chock, how could the thing just disappear like that? Dabecuz checked his clothes but he couldn’t find it anywhere. Then suddenly a voice came from behind Dabecuz turned surprised around and saw a man standing behind one of the glass plates “excuse me sir… are you looking for something?” Dabecuz answered quickly that he was the new Dabecuz and he needed a way to prevent the moon from falling; the man threw some diagrams and maps up on the plate to tell him where to locate a sacred mask called the giant’s mask. Legends said that this mask could turn the one who was wearing it into a giant, maybe a giant big enough to grab the moon and throw it back into space. Dabecuz smiled and went over to the other side of the glass plate to take the map that the man just showed. But on the other side of the plate there was nothing except a bookcase, he went back to the previous side and there the man was just like before. Dabecuz asked how he could get that map and the man just pointed down and out came a piece of paper below the plate. Dabecuz thanked and went back to the triangular building on the way he now understood all the signs and what all people said. He passed by the place where he got the hot chocolate the day before he looked at the windows at it suddenly said “Café of Time.” He could finally understand Terminian. He ran back to the triangular building and up to “his” room and entered. “Why did it take you so long you have just 50 hours remaining!” and Dabecuz explained shortly and went resting.

Dawn of The 2nd Day: 48 Hours Remain.
Dabecuz jumped out of the bed, got dressed, ate his brunch, grabbed his sword and map, filled his bottles with water and the lantern with oil; and went out of the city through the southern exit. He followed the map through a desert that seemed endless, sand everywhere and even though there was still twilight; it was burning hot. Dabecuz saw different creatures that he had never seen before after two hours of walking he reached a door. He looked confused at it and ran around it to be sure his eyes didn’t trick him. He opened the door and saw some kind of tomb inside. He entered and closed the door behind himself, the door vanished but Dabecuz ignored it and walked through the room through the door on the other side. Dabecuz heard a noise from behind as he reached the middle of the room; an arm had reached out for him through the floor then the arm pulled its body up through the floor and a zombie appeared. Dabecuz drew his sword and cut the zombies head off; but the body continued chasing him even though he kept cutting it to pieces. He had enough and then ran into the next room and closed the door. This room was filled with bats and lots of them; sneaked through the room as he suddenly fell over something. He lit his lantern to see what made him fall; bad idea, all the bats suddenly woke up and started attacking Dabecuz he threw the lantern away and the bats followed along. Dabecuz felt that the thing that made him fall was a chest; he opened it and realised that it was the giant’s mask he tried it on and then started growing and growing until he broke the ceiling; he grabbed the ledge and took the mask off. He immediately started shrinking and soon he hung on the ledge he just grabbed. He made his way to some stairs in the room and went up; he opened a door and found himself near the entrance of the triangular building. He went once again back to his room and went to sleep.

Dawn of The Final Day: 24 Hours Remain.
As usual Dabecuz jumped out of bed and ate his brunch; but that day he didn’t have to hurry that much; he just had to wait for the moon to get close enough so he could catch it and throw it back where it belonged. But there was jus one unusual thing. His uncle was missing. Dabecuz went to the Café of Time to get some hot chocolate and afterwards he checked out the town, but then he saw that the moon was closer than expected so he hurried underneath the moon. At the moment he arrived he noticed his uncle standing there too. His uncle waved with his arms and said something un-understandable up towards the moon. Dabecuz put on his mask and then grew in size; grabbed the moon and fought against it in the end he overcame the force of the moon and threw it back into space. He took off his mask and then drew his sword and pointed it towards his uncle’s throat “don’t be silly Dabecuz” said the uncle and pushed the sword away. “You tried to destroy Termina, bad idea!” said Darbecuz and cut his uncle’s head off. Dabecuz dropped crying down on his knees and stayed like that for a while; then he drew his sword and stabbed it into the ground and placed the mask on top of it like a landmark for where he had saved the world.
Dabecuz went back to the area where he first had put his feet on Termina’s solid soil, went through the portal and arrived back in Glasgow. But as he looked around everything looked different, he grabbed a newspaper and looked at the date; then he realised that it was 30 years since he left went to Termina…