HOW TO MAKE A GOD

A muffled voice was screaming something but Geddon was too deep into his sleep to make it out.

“Geddon!” A lingering voice echoed. “GEDDON!!”

Geddon’s eyes opened abruptly to Aim shaking him furiously and yelling his name.

“Aim what’s going on?!” Geddon said still in a bit of sleep. Aim gave an expression like he seen a ghost and was sweating profusely. The bright rays from the sun shot into the tent.

“Lee has been gone for awhile and his gear is still in his tent!” He finally said. Geddon shot up from his padding and both boys went outside to check Lee’s tent.

Aim was right. All of Lee’s belongings were still in the tent, even his daggers and Scabbard that he had brought with him.

“Aim’s right, Lee wouldn’t leave all his things going anywhere, even if he still has that.” Geddon thought. He picked up Lee’s pack and flung it across his shoulders.

“Geddon we need to track down Lee what if he’s in danger?” Aim brought up. “By the rules you are second in command of the team.”

At first Geddon was slightly trembling as he didn’t know what to do, it was his first mission after all and already in a tough situation. He composed himself and focused on just one task, finding Lee.

“See if you can track Lee using your gift”.

Aim nodded. “My father taught me a trick how to tell the difference in smells and even figure out a person’s walk. For you there’s more hefty footprints that you make, although even you’re the youngest and shortest of the team it’s very odd to me.” Aim replied looking around for anything that could give him a lead on Lee’s trail.

“You want to talk about being a Hunter?” Geddon asked, a question he didn’t want to bring up since the beginning and last night. Aim thought back when they were younger in class screaming about becoming an Archeologist with Geddon.

Aim looked down in a bit of disappointment. One day he showed up late for class one day and wasn’t the same in Geddon’s perspective again. “Yeah but there’s a reason Geddon like I said last night, anyway let’s look for the Captain I don’t see anything here”.

Geddon smiled, reassuring its alright and he was just curious. “You’ll blow everyone back on how strong of a Hunter you’ll be”.

Aim smiled back.

The two boys went into the tents and grabbed their gear. Aim went to lead Geddon on the path to see if they could see any footprints in the dirt.

“Bullseye!” Aim noticed there were three different set of footprints. “That one is Lee’s I can tell by the shoes in our village, plus you see this here?” He pointed to small holes in the center of Lee’s footprints.

“Is Lee wearing a spike or something?” Geddon said with a bit of a snicker. The two boys followed the footprints until they ended up near a stream with a few cliffs above them. A beautiful plot of land with grass and flowers everywhere. Large yellow flowers had been recently been trampled over and big enough for the size of three people confirming Aim’s theory.

The two boys began to walk closer to the stream when Aim halted Geddon.

“What’s up Aim?” He whispered.

“I can hear chatter I don’t recognize the voices”.

“Wait I can’t hear anything how can you”?

“When you listen try to use the bones in your ears, usually humans don’t use all of them. When you do that, start to close your eyes and pinpoint the area where you hear what you’re searching for”.

Geddon just looked confused but did what Aim told him. He pictured the area closely using his photographic memory and swept his eyes to the left, nothing. He went to the center and looked forward, nothing. He finally turned his sight to the right, *muttering*.

He opened his eyes “hey I heard chatter but I can’t make it out to the right”.

Aim shot a smile “it took me a week to get the hang of it and you do it in one go, you are a genius Star”.

He raised his bow from behind his back and instructed Geddon to follow his lead.

“Don’t worry Lee we’re gonna get you back.” Geddon said as the two boys hopped down and crouched into the flowers.