Chapter 26

The collectables complete

The children were finding the mushrooms and collectables and the last blue beetle was still deluding them. They kept finding the common one and the uncommon ones and a rare one now and again yet the blue and green spot beetle still not found. Then as 9 year old Guapi past the gong encasement saw something flies past him and it landed right by him he went to check it and saw it was the blue and green spot beetle that had eluded them for months and now the children celebrated that they now completed the beetle collected and with the result of completing all four types of collectable would bring the population to 10. That meant that the village could have a max of 115-117 if born triplets. To show this was one each of each collectable was displayed on the researched hut roof.

Hung was playing tag and it was his 14th birthday, after celebrating his 14th birthday he went to work on construction and soon showed up to be a trainee farmer... Even though the farmers could fish, but as the farmers also were master builders all worked on scraping away the moss. Sometimes the master scientists would work on scraping away the moss. Top was Adept Builder and came to help for a bit and then went back to his researching. Nitis worked on all three jobs first on the ancient place then a spot of fishing when he found a crab then back to researching.

The guiding hand takes action

As the guiding hand looked in saw that the food had dropped below 2000, so needed to take action and Put one of the master farmers to farm which was Wabu, even though he was a master builder, someone needed to fish. The guiding hand did want the ancient place clean, but could not afford to have hungry villagers which would slow the production down. Also assigned Tobi to fishing also as he was the villager’s runner and could catch the fish faster. The guiding hand at first thought of teaching Hung to fish, as he had only a building as his skill, then decided not to as, there was no time at the moment to teach someone a new skill as there were enough master farmers and they could find crabs that is worth 55 food, and that Young Hung would be better at the construction of clearing the moss. Maybe Hung could learn to fish at a later time when the ancient place reveals its secrets. After this action was taken, soon the food bin had 2170 food enough to keep the villagers to keep working on the moss inbetween fishing trips.

The children were playing the tag game and Napuka was ‘It’ the one who liked dancing, now age 11. After the tag game came to watch the dig. Napuka saw a mushroom and picked it and took it to the food bin, and then she returned to watch the dig again. The builders had cleared 84% of the moss, yet this job was taking longer than expected as each percentage of the removal of the moss was very massive and large so everyone had a go at taking a turn at scraping it away. When the guiding hand looked in again was still 84%. So decided to leave them to it as one says: Quote “A watched kettle never boils”

To be continued

Chapter 27

Old Friends

At the South shore
Young Seven who was only 9 years old when Orla and Nitis left to find a new place to live and now he was 28 and he had a mate her name was Ulla. With shoulder length black hair. Seven and Ulla were both trainee, doctors Seven told Ulla about a plan and was making plans to go after Orla and Nitis. He had planed to do this for many Isola years, since he was 14, but the elders always advise him against this. Now he was 28 and was ready. His mate had been willing to go with him, Ulla was 22 years old and she was only 6 when they left. Tuna was in her seventies now and was sorry that Seven had made his mind up to leave the South shore in searched of Orla and Nitis. They found the piece of map that Nitis and Orla had drawn and left in case any one wanted to find where they where going. Seven along with Ulla find the path that Nitis and Orla had used 23 years ago.

Back at the west shore
The villagers were busy working trying to scrap away the moss which had been cleared by 87%, when one of the children came running up to them which was little Itchi saying, two strange people of fallen down the waterfall. Nitis and Orla came running over and recognised little Seven and Ulla all grown up they were the children of Tuna and Seven and Ulla was the daughter of Ghali and Ashby. She asked them how their parents were and was sad to find out they had died of old age.

happy villagers when they see who they were
The villagers stopped work to celebrate this event and had a feast. Later Ulla and Seven was amazed of what they had done to the village and was also admired the gong encasement. Orla told them what had been happening and how they had found the missing pieces of the gong. Seven and Ulla said they were doctors and Orla was please and that since they have been so busy that they had not got fully trained healers. The only healer in the village was Wabu who was a trainee doctor. Ulla did not like running and Orla remembers when little Ulla was 2 years old she would walk everywhere rather than run. Seven always disliked bananas and still did. The guiding hand was pleased with this event and with them been doctors, when anyone was sick could get them healed quickly. The scraping away the moss was slightly delayed after the newcomers had arrived, went back to work after giving them a tour of the island and the huts they could used as sleeping quarters. They both thought was very nice and when they found the villagers had a cooking pot to cook stews was equally pleased and told them that Tobi mostly did the cooking and Seven and Ulla said they could do some stews as they could choose the healthy herbs, but also said as they were only trainee doctors, might have to experiment which herbs were best.

Seven decided to make a stew and after it was cooked the villagers found that the stew could clear the nose and throat. Which was good for healing villagers, Seven knew his herbs. As he was now Adept doctor, he was almost trained when he arrived but needed to know what herbs did what and after a quick study of each herb was satisfied what herb was good for in each remedy, As Ulla was much slower and did not walk very fast was still going round studying the herbs. She had less skill than Seven, but was still a great help to the village been a doctor. In the meantime Seven went on to enjoying the pond. The guiding hand decided to let Ulla keep on studying the herbs until she had become Adept Doctor then if she wanted to have a child, with Seven later. If she got stuck passing the dam, the guiding hand would unstuck her and put her to the herb, but at the moment she had not. Seven did not when he was studying them at the time.

The builder had scraped away 90% from the ancient place and was beginning to see some of the patterns beginning to show. It was looking more and more like an ancient mosaic and it would not be long before the whole of the pattern would show.

To be continued

Chapter 29

After studying the herbs for awhile Ulla decided to help and scrap away the moss and soon got into it and as her interest grew kept at the job and she found she was improving faster at construction than a doctor.

In the meantime Mucha, Noa and Laurence were still nursing their babies which in a few days would be age 2 and they were trying to think what they were going to name their babies. Laurence had a little boy and gave him the name of Uru Orla had named her son Miki, Noa named her son Olu and Mucha named her daughter Ginger as she had ginger very curly hair.

Chimba who were 15 when her sister was age 2 and they looked like twins as her baby sister was exactly like her, Chimba had 2 skills, science and construction, construction been her main skill, as she was Adept builder. There were now 11 children running round the village. However two of the children were now 13 and would not be long before they were age 14. The children who turned 13 always 14 before the guiding hand can turn round. Noa decided to have another baby after Orla had another which, she found she had improved to become a master parent at the age of 47, Laurence wanted to help with scraping away the moss as she was interested of what it might be and, would think of bringing up a family, after. She loved her son Uru and hoped she would have a baby girl next time.

The ancient place was now near the end as the builders had already scraped away 99% of the moss and were excited at what was been revealed and so all that had some building skill all began to help.

The ancient mosaic is finished

The villagers scraped away the last of the moss and found that it looked like an ancient mosaic that must have had once had an important building, according to the complex beauty.

Now that the job was done Laurence thought she would try and have another baby and of cause with the guiding hand not watching saw her going in doors with Oh no Nitis. The guiding hand, made sure she mated with Wabu and then had a baby.

As Pepe was admiring the ancient mosaic and was looking at centre it looked like that one of the totems would fit perfectly and he got hold of Nitis’s totem and placed it in the centre and the totem suddenly jumped aside and Pepe got a fright and he ran away, then he told Nitis what had happened to his Totem and Nitis came to investigate and he saw it was the last piece of the gong they had been looking for and told Pepe well done and he took it to the gong encasement and fittered the last piece in place and all of the sudden it sparked in a flashing light. The villagers celebrated and admired the gong of wonder and wondered who would be the first to ring it. It was up to the guiding hand to choose. As Ulla had not yet arrived at the celebrations. The guiding hand waited for her to arrive and by the time she got there. Every one had gone back to their duties. Poor Ulla had been forgotten about in all the excitement...

Ulla is chosen to ring the gong of wonder.

The guiding hand choose Ulla to ring the gong of wonder, as it was fair and this time she would be the centre of attention. Ulla was slightly nervous at the prospect of ringing the gong of wonder and at the same time felt it a honour to be the first to ring it. She went up slowly and took a strike with a mallet that was at it side and the gong gave a long vibrating sound. The villagers all come running to observe what the gong had granted or taken.

To be continued

Chapter 30

Ulla rang the gong and the villagers came running to see what the gong had granted. The gong granted technology. There was an extra 3000 tech points. This would help towards level 3 in science. The scientist had over 50,000pts and they needed 150,000 to level 3 and 160,000 to get level 3 in Exploration now. All the other technologies were fully researched.

The builders were now building a sewing hut which was 50% done. Seven decided to cook another stew and he used one black herb and two others and it turned out a healthy stew and all the villagers all had some. With four 2 year olds that had now joined the other children, little Itchi was not "It" as often now and she was now age 7. Itchi was surprised and please that there was a little girl who just look like her, and even though she was not her little sister. Was Noa’s daughter Unagi. Unagi liked surprises; this was a nice surprise to have a friend that had the same hair face. The only difference Itchi did not like work, she liked hearing drums.

Since more babies had been born and the population was now 31, the builders made plans for a new hut. It took one Isola year to build as when the guiding hand left for a couple of hours and was surprised to find the hut was finished. The builders must have worked very hard on it and also. Three more babies had been born. Now the population was now reached to 34. Orla was now age 50 and Nitis was age 47.

It was time to ring the gong again and the guiding hand chooses 42 year old Balun and this time. (Not keep you in suspense this time). The gong granted health. (Even though the guiding hand had pursed them over night until coming back the next day) the gong was charged up. All the researchers that had lost health though injury, had their health line fully restored, saving to make a stew that fully restores health. The clothing hut was now 60% so maybe the builders will get that finished if the guiding hand leaves them to it.

To be continued

Chapter 31

The clothing hut was ready for the villagers to buy clothes and Orla Who was now 53 and was the first to buy new clothes. Then Nitus followed by the rest of the villagers. They used up all the tech points before realising they had not fully researched science and it would be a long time before they would be able to buy new clothes again. The scientists did not think it was too important to fully research science as they had every thing they wanted, plenty of food, huts to sleep in and lots of fish in the ocean. The scientists knew in time they would fully research science if they wanted to afford to buy clothing for future generations.

Now that Orla and Nitus had found a new home at the West shore and now would be able to raise many children and grandchildren. were now content. Here must leave them now to get on with their lives.

The End