EXCALIBUR ... My personal version
December 2016
Author & Writter : Ms Izabel LAnglais
King Arthur arrives for the contest
to win over the magical sword Excalibur.
Every nights had already gathered
around the stone that held Excalibur. Some had already tried to free the
magical sword but none has succeeded yet.
When King Arthur’s turn came,
everyone laught as he prepare to try his chance. Most of the others were
knights. He was a king but not in the usual battles or strength demonstration
like them. What was a King doing there
and why would he need a magical sword . “Leave the sword to us “ they wished in
silence.
But He grabbed the sword handle and
ignore the stare and comments. As he started to freed the sword that slided out
of the rock so easily, he hesitated...surprised of his own success and aware of
the “awes” around him. Everyone started to get silent and his heart started to
beat in his ears. Slowly, like it could vanished, he continue to freed to sword
until he felt all the weight on his arms.
Everyone applauded loudly and with his soul so light...he was now the
King of the Magical world.
He brought the sword home and left her by the
fireplace in the shadow. After preparing for the next day celebrations, he
decide to retire for the night. As he was turning and piling logs into the fire
so it would last the night, he heard crackling sound from his side in the shade
where he had left the sword. He froze
and held his breath a second...moved his hand to his side for his handblade,
thinking someone was there to steal the sword.
He felt something moving on the corner, but a soft swishing and a
presence...not hostile though. Assessing from the corner of his eye, but
because of the darkness he couldn’t see a thing. He jumped backward and called
out facing the area with his handblade in his hand, “Show yourself”! A stillness that irritated him... as he was
to repeated himself starting to move in the direction... she came out
...slowly...
He couldn’t say a word with the
surprised...A beautiful women was standing there in silence staring at him.
Where did she come from? Then he realised his naivety, maybe she was a women
thief.
Sternly he asked, “Are you here to
steel the Magical sword Excalibur?”
She looked at him and smiled softly,
“I am, Excalibur...”
He looked puzzled ay her thinking she
was playing with his mind and that it was maybe a trick to create a diversion.
So he made a stepped forward, still with his handblade, checking if she would
quickly move to grab the sword and run away with it. But he predicted wrong as
she didn’t make a move and stayed there staring at him with some sort of
mysterious look at him. Even more puzzled now he asked “how did you got here?”
“Are you out of shelter?” “ This is no acceptable way to ask for hospitality”
She moved on the side of him and
walked passed him toward the table and
walked around the room passing her fingers on each thing that she seen, like
she was trying to make sure they were there or that she was real...
Now he was almost amused...but he
jumped very quickly to see if the sword was still there, and it was, right
there where he left it. She had paused beside the window and looked outside.
The moon was out already and a beautiful starry night.
Maybe she was lost...she looked like
from an other time...but no signs of having even
walked outside. Too clean he decided, to be lost.
He tried “Are you hungry?”
She smiled
Taking this as a yes, he moved to the
table and placed back his handblade to his side, looking if she was to be
startled. But no, she didn’t moved and stayed there looking at him. He placed
on the table bread and some wine and cheese. “you can sit if you please and
have something to eat” thinking it will give him some time to figure out who
she was and what to do next. She thanked him and sat at the table.
He just looked at her eating and
asked again “ Who are you?”
“ I am Excalibur” and she continued
to eat
So he said” but the sword is
Excalibur and I just checked that it still is at the same place I left it when
I arrived after I won it at the contest today”
“You are brave King Arthur, and of a
pure heart, you have won the Magical sword indeed and she will be making you
win in battle with her magical powers” “ I am the soul of the sword, to be
protecting you when you are not in battles, as your wife” “When you travel or in battle...i will return
to the sword to protect you” “You can’t
tell of my nature to none and pretend to have found a new wife for yourself”
“We will protect you
both and you will keep the sword powers for yourself, as long as your heart
will stay pure, as now” “If you loose
the path of the pure heart, the sword and me will return where it was”.
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Years later, as the war
was over and Peace was on the Magical World, King Arthur was successful as a
King. He freed Excalibur, so she can be
in flesh and free as his wife and Queen. They raised many orphans as theirs. As
they grew old together, they went to
heaven together and eternity.
She left the sword to
be won again by an other pure heart to be King of the Magical World. A pure
soul waited in the sword for a pure heart to won her as a wife and queen.
Written
May 2017