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Chapter 5 - The Strange Palace

After what felt like an eternity, he had finally reached the top of the massive flight of steps. He looked around was mesmerised by the massive Chinese palace, which had a brick red roof tiling, blood red smooth stone pillars and a massive oakwood door.

Before Ezekiel was able to take everything in, he was approached by a swarm of people. They all burst out of the massive oakwood doors, there were fifty of them in total. They were all wearing similar outfits. The males had on a black tuxedo, a white shirt, a black tie and black trousers, with shiny shoes and the females had the same top half outfit but wore a skirt and had heels on. He was greeted by around fifty servants. However, Ezekiel was perplexed because he had never seen those types of people before, they looked different to any human being had ever seen. As the door was about to close Ezekiel saw another fifty servants burst through the doors. The first set of fifty servants lined up side by side from the door to a few metres in front of and the fifty servants that came in after them stood parallel to them, which created a pathway. Ezekiel stood there mesmerised by what was going on. He was nervous, but also was curious to know who or what would walk through the door next.

(SLAM)

But the doors slammed shut.

No one walked through the door.

Ezekiel looked up at the sky and he could feel strong wind hitting his face, it was so strong that it almost was suffocating. After a short while, his legs gave out and he fell to the ground and was on his hands and knees. Ezekiel began shaken like he was scared for his life and he quickly became drenched in sweat. The hundred servants ignored him and left him alone. Then in an instant that strange pain Ezekiel was feeling, went away. Ezekiel's breathing went back normal and the shaking had stopped, when Ezekiel looked back up to see what was going on, all the 100 servants bowed their head's.

Ezekiel got up off the floor to see what was going on and the door slowly opened and Ezekiel saw some old black guy with a dirty white vest and long brown cargo shorts, who was standing next to someone. And that someone caught Ezekiel's eyes. He was dressed differently to the rest, he had a black shirt, red waistcoat, a red tie, red trousers and red shoes, but on top of that he had pointy ears, spiky hair and glasses. Ezekiel could instantly tell that he was the one in charge.

Sadness, drive, guilt, anger, honesty, humility, integrity, wisdom,humour,courage. The qualities of this generations champion. However, a competent enemy is not the problem, but an incompetent ally can lead to the end of our world. I hope this champion is competent. For your sake.

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