THE LIGHTNING THEIF
FLASH FICTION
He makes grand entrances.
It lets everyone know that he has arrived.
No one trusts him and no
one greets him but he does not care.
Although this one day, he
did have someone greet him. The night was perfect and still.
The water barely rippled.
The air was humid and stuck to everything.
Rumblings could be heard
in the distance. They waited on a small island for his arrival.
Suddenly a flash in the
clear sky lit up and fork lightning streaked across the sky.
His greeter stood up and waited.
He sauntered down the
path whistling a tune. He stopped short when he saw who greeted him.
A smiled stretched across
his lips. “Fancy seeing you here this night. Don’t you know a storm is on the way?”
“I think the storm has
arrived,” was the response he got.
“Now, you are not here to
challenge me are you because…”
His words got waved off
in the sticky air. “I have no interest in challenges, I want a favour.”
Eyebrows went up. “A
favour you say. What would that be? I don’t give out…”
Once again his words got
waved off. This annoyed him and soon he was scowling at his greeter.
They never wavered. “This
is what I want. I want you to bring down a star for me.”
The thief shook his head.
“I cannot do such a thing.”
“Oh but I know you can
and I know you know what star I am talking about.”
The thief shifted and
glanced up at the sky. There were a few stars in-between the dark clouds.
He sighed. “Okay, what do
I get in return for this?”
His greeter came a little
closer to the thief making him a bit nervous. “I will not tell why you came
here tonight. Your secret is safe.”
“Fine, meet me here in an
hour.”
They parted ways.
When the hour was up, the
thief’s greeter was pacing anxiously waiting for him to arrive.
In a sudden flash he was
now standing in front of his greeter. He held a small box in his hand.
His greeter smiled. “You
brought the right one?”
“Of course I did, and remember
our bargain.”
His greeter smiled and
stretched out their hand for the box. The thief gently laid the box in the palm
of the greeter’s palm.
The thief was about to
disappear when the greeter opened the box and the light within came bursting
out and lit up the entire area.
The thief couldn’t get
away.
A female that a glow
around her stood between them. She wore a silver chain around her neck. The
greeter had one too. They matched.
The thief stared. It
couldn’t be.
The greeter was a star
too but he didn’t glow. She walked up to him and took his chain and hers and
joined them. A flash ran up his chain and suddenly they were both glowing
lighting up the entire area.
With wide eyes, the thief
watched them rise into the sky and through the clouds.
It took him a minute to
gather himself up. He noticed something on the ground. It was a price of chain.
He picked it up and it glowed in his hand.
Smiling to himself, he
tucked it inside his coat pocket.
He went on his way to
take care of what he came for, his secret safe.
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