Obsidian Rock

Obsidian prince went to the library to reread the notebook “Mineralogy Guide.” He got frustrated with the properties and had no magic whatsoever. He ripped the pages. “Useless! I want to activate my obsidian rock!”

He went to floor 3, the rock room. The rock was sitting on the pedestal nonchalantly. He pictured himself sitting above the hole and doing nothing to empower himself. The wind blew his hair and coat. He was majestic in his daydream. His eyes were white as a ghost. Not purple as usual. Not dead, but reborn. He shook his head. “Just like my parents, who disappeared long ago. I lived alone in this castle. I killed others, but the obsidian rock still needs to activate.”

Cobalt pecks his neck once. “Food.”

Prince said, “Food? Just eat the guards.”

“I do not want to eat them. I want nutrition. See my belly!”

Prince saw his belly was thinner than five years ago. He gasped and gave him the purple gems. “Eat that.”

“This is your bath bomb.”

“Eat it or eat the guards.”

Cobalt flew away from his shoulder. The prince cannot predict his next move. “Will he eat the guards? If he does, I do not have to worry about his belly.”

He stood and turned to the window over the solidified lava. He was on floor 6 in his room. He then looked at the icicles, where the ghost dropped the camera earlier in the day. Also, he met his older brother. “I almost beat the ghost with my anger. But Prince Flame came on time. How could he know that I would beat the ghost out of the ghost? He even said I had to be nice. I cannot be nice to people. I have my authority, my voice. I do not follow people’s expectations around me. Unless I was calm as an innocent boy years ago.”

He turned around and touched his pants pocket. He found a silver ring in between his fingers. He sniffed it. A girl named Finna died in the lava. She had long, black hair, wearing brown hiker’s clothes. She had stepped on the lava frantically due to fear of vultures circling the group. It happened five years ago. The ring she had was from Cherry, her mother.

“Curious. I have met humans as my prisoners. They know. But they got away from me. The smell was cherry. I want cherries on the obsidian rock to look lovely.” He daydreamed for a while.

“However, the Finnal died years ago. I was fifteen by then. She was short to me. I do not like short people. Height does not matter to me.”

Finna was a friend to the creator of the Rock Community, Cupcake. He tasted the ring. “Feminine power? The power does not belong to them. The power belongs to the ring. My mother is not strong as my father. The females are not strong to have the ring. What are they used for?”

The memory appeared before him. Cupcake touched the ring that her friend Finna held up close. They were smiling and cherished their mother. Cupcake would create the Rock Community to bring them together even though her friend was gone. If she dies in the lava, she is living in the lava.

“Not for her,” he said coldly. “Not for her mother. Not for Cupcake. Not for my mother. Not for anyone!”

He threw the ring to the pedestal. The rock swallowed that snack. The rock grew twice its weight. “Not for--” His eyes were on the rock. “Does the rock weigh more?”

Silence.

His gloved finger tap the tip of the rock. It attached his finger. His eyes narrowed. “I do not need the book or the library for the obsidian rock. It needs jewelry as fuel. But it still attached to my finger. If you do not let go, I will crush you. I will become a no-name person!’

The rock sat on the pedestal. The prince swung his coat and left the room. He locked the door with the stone key. He went upstairs to his room. At the last step, he heard the crashing sound in the hallway. Perhaps, Cobalt was eating the guards.

The guard escaped from one of the rooms and ran past the prince. Cobalt appeared with blood over his belly and wings. He said while chewing the flesh from the guards. “I got them.”

“Finish your dinner, Cobalt.”

Cobalt flew downstairs to find the guard while the prince locked the door to his room. Cobalt attacked the guard with his peak. The guard screamed with the ax striking the vulture. “Stop eating my friends. Stop decorating them!”

“I am not done with you. I am finishing you off!” the vulture tore the flesh from the guard’s arm. He pecked more than he needed to.

“You have no respect for me, Cobalt and obsidian prince. No matter how the guards helped you. You do not give us anything. We want a house. We want meals. We want to be outside. We want to be normal beasts.”

“Shut your mouth!” the peak poke his eye.

The guard screamed Bubbles’ name. He woke up in the room of Amber Castle. He sat up as the room was warm. Prince Flame was in the bathroom taking a shower while Scruffy waited for him at the door. Bubbles asked for Scruffy’s help. The bird looked at him and pecked him instead.

Bubbles entered the Obsidian Castle. He found the guard in bones without flesh and skin. The vulture was eating the rest of that on the floor. Bubbles whispered harshly, “You kill him. Why did you kill him? I do not want to hear you peck like a woodpecker. I do not want to see pecks on a friend’s body. You kill him. You did not see it. You are so related to the obsidian prince. How could you!”

Cobalt finished his meal. He turned to the ghost. “Hello, Bubbles!”

“Pretend that you did not see me. I am gone!” The ghost finally disappeared before the prince opened the door.

Cobalt looked at him from the floor. The obsidian prince said, “I thought the ghost came for me.”

The vulture only blinked. The prince saw the bones on the floor. “It is now for me to decorate these bones for a chandelier or a lamp. What else?” He was on the floor as a little boy picking small things which part to support the lamp or some object.

Cobalt found this not very cool, so he flew to the window and slept there. The prince laughed and played with the skeleton through the night. He ate a shard from his pants and continued playing or decorating the bones in a formation. He expected a majestic lamp or a cage for someone or something else.