Abe chased the fleeing greeks deeper into the tunnel but tripped... oww! his hands scraped the rough rocky floor in the cave and his wrists ached. he stood but the light of the fire behind him only showed a split in the cave and he did not know which way they went. the left side seemed to have a dim light so he guessed they had a fire there and went in that cave... but soon the cave darkened so he realized the source of light was not from the cave he had only seen some reflection of the fire behind him. he felt scared he would stumble again and started crawling BACK to his team, thru this tunnel. luckily as he moved his right hand forward, his hand felt a CROSS of smooth moist metal. it was exactly two inches wide and extended one onch longer like 3 inches long of which one inch beyond the intersection and an extra inch longer the opposite length. he lifted it and heard a metalic scraping as its chain dragged on the ground. so he put the chain over his head and felt the moist metal hit his chest... and drop down his shirt! the chain was broken... it continued down his right pants leg and clinked on the ground so he lifted it again. he gripped it in his fist. as he moved forward the moist cross felt warmer... not the warmth of the palm but a miraculous warmth. what did it mean? suddenly it felt VERY hot and a pale cloud appeared he could see a transparent ghost! just a bit opaque and the shock of a ghost in the form of a man combined with the heat caused him to drop the cross. then the pale ghost vanished. safe he raised the cross with his fingers... and as he wrapped his hand around it so it would not fall again he again saw the ghost and started to speak with it. the ghost told the story of its death in a battle between muslims and christians when a muslim boat brought warriors to the balkan peninsula. when he died he was prevented from entering heaven and hell to stay on earth and do a mission as a ghost. the ghost pointed abe to the exit so abe went along a tunnel. he heard the sound of tiny thin streams flowing down the cave wall. when the floor dipped down his foot "splashd" in a puddle so he stopd. did the ghost fool him? he raised the miracle cross and called "ghost of muhamed". the ex-prophet was forced to submit to God and came.
the ghost confessed tricking the christian because he still hated christians despite his mission to undo his false teachings called islam, so he had pointed to the puddle as a mean but harmless prank. now ghost led abe the correct direction... but a fox blockd the cave. abe waved the miracle cross so the fox floated away leading them to the exit. the ghost also exited and began its mission to teach christians that the detail in quran that the book of jesus is good is correct but his other teachers were just "intended to pull the pagans to one god" but he must undo the contents of his false teachings. abe pointed out that christians already believe and he would accomplish his mission if he would appear to muslims... they could not kill him since he is a ghost and his message would match that section of quran so some would reject the false parts.
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Abe exited the cave and saw the sun a bit above the horizon. was it rising in the east? if so he was facing it and east. or was it setting in the west? he started walking toward the sun and soon it neared the horizon and with a blaze of rose pink and gold started setting he knew he was facing west and since the mountain was behind him he must be on the west side of the mountains c6. he knew he was facing italy and the branch of the nile sea between italy and the balkan peninsula. this land was named by his uncle nam "westvil". Abe started to mourn his dead group. certainly the captors killed them. no point risking going back into danger.
as abe walked up a hill, from the elevation he saw a group! he turned to run toward them and it was his unit! he shouted "caikin!" and they saw him and rejoiced to reunite. they want to continue toward the treasure. which? they told Abe that pirates stole from many ships and hid their wealth somewhere along the coast and they think THIS map is th eone that the pirates used to return and enjoy their riches.
however a new danger! from behind them a group of greeks came running and shouting! they are furious. Abe's group did not know that when abe shot an arrow that killed tiny ty, the managers under ty started fighting who would replace them and their followers formed into groups to fight each other except for a tenth that felt free from the tyrant and now could leave to start a new life and these forty who were only loyal to ty! and now ty dead they want to hurt the ones who killed their leader instead of just picking a new one.
how will they get saved? similar to casper the friendly ghost... the ghost of muhamed the prophet who had met abe showed itself to the greeks. when they sae a ghost many froze in their place and then fainted as they mumbled a g-g-g-g-ghost. others turned and fled the ghost only two remained and ordered the ghost out of their way.
ghost said i must protect abe who led my out of the cave so i can do my purpose and go to paradise. unable to kill abe one rode away back to join ne side of the civil war so the leader he wanted would be king. the other asked what is preventing you from paradise? the ghost explained that he had good intentions when he knowingly lied about messages from allah and teachings that he hoped would lead people away from polytheism and worshipping demi-semi-gods, but as his role as leader excited him he thought to much of himself and wanted to be a general with a powerful army that he led in many wars and using rear to "convince" people who did not truly accept the faith only wanted to live. therefore, continued the ghost i was prevented from entering paradise despite my good intentions and i have not yet finished my mission so only after i teach muslims that i lied about allah then the muslims will cause me to be allowed into paradise when they renounce the book quran because i admit i wrote my own ideas. the ghost begged the greek and the group to spread his message as he headed to muslim land to start undoing the "fruit" of his teachings and turn muslims away from the book which he knowingly lied about. the last greek agreed to escort him and together sway the people of the nile continent.
so the ghost had scared away their attackers of forty angry soldiers. carroth led them toward the coast based on the map and told them the story of a wizard who could vanish and re-appear to surprise and kill the king of the enemy by surprise. once the wizard even used magic to seem like a woman's husband and fool his wife into passion.
another danger. a group of ten hungry wolves [not unique but in the story beauty and beast and more]. the ghost will not scare wolves [in contrast to casper, even animals feared ghosts] as the humans were scared away. how will they be saved from the wolves? the plain has no trees and even if it had, they would surrounded up trees. they try to run but the faster wolves soon surrounded them! being wolves they can attack and bite! one charges forward and the brave army unit united to swing their swords and poke their spears sometimes missing but more often hacking and jabbong the wolves. but even as four are too injured to move and 2 died the other four are "hungry as wolves"! meanwhile the greeks continued their civil war.
as the defenders are tired from the fighting and almost collapse... Abe used his miraculous cross to ignite FLAMES that blaze on the fur of all the wolves.
the hundreds of greeks have massacred each other and the few survivors surrendered and submitted to the leader named undin. they now came on fast horses to recapture abe's team. abe used his miracle cross to make a new miracle... creating a hundred feirce-foxes whose only purpose is to fight the attackers.
the greeks are busy with foxes who bite and injure them soon most of the greeks were eaten alive. as the survivors fled the foxes chased them and each fox that was no longer needed ended its temporary existence.
abe prays for a miracle to fly them to the treasure but for that the cross did not provide a miracle only to save them from danger. it only symbolicly attracted a group of rare birds to show that Jesus heard their prayers as his mix of human soul and God sat beside God on the heavenly throne.
instead they take the quick horses of the attackers and rode them. the horses "carry" the group
to a town on the coast. luckily the dwellers welcome the peaceful strangers and invite them in to share food and sleep in soft straw beds.
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