The last of his kind A Journey into the lost empire By Ben. H

The last of his kind

A Journey into the lost empire

By Ben. H

“Hurry Fabio we don't want to miss the game!” said Aapo. Fabio didn’t want to explain the reason he didn’t want to go see the pok-ta-pok game. He didn’t want to see who was going to be sacrificed to the gods. What if it was someone he knew, he didn’t want to go see someone die.”come on let's go fabio” said itzel fabio's mother. Fabio slowly dragged himself out of the small hut and started the long walk to the ball court.

As the family arrived at the ball court his family was excited, but all fabio saw was the fatal place of his own people. If fabio had the chance he would burn it all down to the ground.Fabio’s family sat in the stands before the game started. as the players walked in fabio could see the worried expressions on their face they also knew that if they lose they die a terrible death but everyone else thought of it as pleasing the gods but fabio didn’t want to please the gods all he wanted to do was live and not watch people die by having their hearts cut out how about sacrifice their enemies that would be helpful on both sides the priests will get the sacrifices and fabio won't have to watch his fellow citizens die but his opinion was to small to make a difference in the entire empire maybe he could try to convince other people about his cause about sacrifice.

Fabio watched the ball bounce back and forth the players hit the ball with the giant pads on their hips he watched the heavy ball pok-ta-pok the game got its name from the medanceing sound the ball made pok-ta-pok after a while of the ball going back and thorth after hours of watching the ball flew through the small ring and the expression on the teams face fell fabio couldn’t bear to watch those people i'll be sacrificed the very next day

“Wake up wake up” yelled Aapo he was wearing his fancy clothes “today where going to go to the city” when fabio remembered the people the innocent people they were going to be kill to please the gods! He thought the gods were kind and forgiving not monsters who wanted people to be killed for their pleasure.maybe if he can get their early he could try to convince the priest to not kill the people and then the priest can tell everyone else except it could be risky he could be sacrifice but also them seeing an innocent child being killed by the hands of a priest also he would die trying to make a difference or maybe he can go with the sacrifice our enemies who don't believe in our gods and religion approach. Each way was risky but a risk he had to take to prove his position about sacrificing his own people.

The city was so big fabio couldn’t imagine how people made it so grand. then as he turn a corner and up rose the magnificent great temple in front of him it was magnificent until he set his eyes at the bottom of the temple it was covered with the blood of his people; he had to stop it and save his people from dying by the hands of a priest. Fabio asked itzel if he can explore the market place she handed him a few clay coins and he set off at first he acted like he was going to buy something but soon enough he slipped away to the great temple.

fabio hadn’t really planned how to get in there where guards surrounding the door maybe he could climb up and get in to the temple.it didn’t take long until fabio was spotted but he was an expert climber from all of the rocks back home, and the guards couldn't get to him with all their armor limiting their movement. He climbed up to the top trying not to be seen he went in and found the priest his bones started to stiffen what would he say. Them the priest turned around and stared at him. What are you doing here he scolded “oh I understand you what to be a sacrifice” he said with a smirk.

“No just the opposite he said I think that we shouldn't sacrifice our innocent people we could sacrifice our enemy or the people who have committed crimes in our empire” said fabio

“But” said the priest “if we do that our people will stop committing crimes and our enemies won't attack us unless we attack them so we would run out of people to sacrifice”

“so then we can won’t kill our enemies we will capture them and use them as sacrifices” countered fabio “

“Boy” said the priest “I have two options I can kill you right now or save you as a sacrifice which one do you want” fabio did not want to answer each one was bad

“ma-maybe” fabio stammered maybe I i'll run away and form an empire of my own that won't kill our own people. And he sneaked back out “I’ll consider it yelled the priest”

fabio sneaked through the crowd and found itzel and apologize for being late and said that he got lost in the marketplace and couldn't find his way back on the way he bought a few bananas to take his focus to take his mind away from the sacraficesing and death.

Later that night fabio took all of his possessions, some building material, and some food and ran into the jungle and planned to never be seen again by his people accept for people like him he would welcome those people with open arms.the jungle was harsher than he thought especially at night he kept on tripping over tree roots he kept on running with all of his materials. After a hour or so of running he stopped to make a shelter and found himself asleep, asleep and deep in the jungle.

Five months later…

Fabio couldn't bear to have no one around him he needed someone to help him heal if he was hurt he didn’t want to have no one around him he needed to have someone to comfort him when he was scared he wanted someone to talk to him.

Fabio packed up all of the supplies he had left and started the journey back home. the jungle was thicker than before usually the farmer would cut down the vines but the vines where covering the trees he approached his house but it wasn't anything like it was before no one was running around. He enter and it was even worse the inside was crumpling the floors were covered in weeds. Fabio curled up on the floor and cried and cried for days.