The Golden Monkey

I have just rented out my new apartment (10 years from now). It might be a little hard to pay the fee. Then I might need to work double shift.

    I packed all my things from my college dorm ( If i ever get a scholarship) and moved my stuff to the new apartment. Once i got there i unpacked all my stuff and rearranged it in different places. I set up my room and went to go put things in my bathroom. I was done organizing the bathroom, I noticed that there was a box in side the bathtub. It had a sticky note on it that has the owner’s name scribbled out. What surprised me was that i had my name on and said open it. I opened it and what was inside was just a bunch of junk. It was map of South America, a scroll with dates and items, and a metal belt with weird buttons on it. That’s when the belt started talking.

“Insert date and year to travel through time,” it said.

“This is just bluff it’s not real traveling through time is impossible. Just fake I’ll just put in the attack of Pearl Harbor,” I said.

I entered the date and time of the bombing, December 7, 1941. I knew it wasn’t possible i thought to myself. It’s not going to happen. I’ll just step outside to go buy some food, when i noticed the temperature dropped from the mid 90’s to 30’s. I look outside my window to see what happened. The city turned into rubble and there was smoke rising above the buildings. I stepped out side to see what happened when the belt started to talk again.

“ You have entered the exact date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. You where lucky to have made it after the bombing.”

“So You're saying I was taken back to the 1900’s. So you do work? You’re a time traveling belt thingy.” It was kinda strange for me to talk to a belt that talked back.

“You know I have a name. I don’t like being called a thingy.” It seemed to be angry and it took me back home.

“ Let me guess your name is 2 by 4.” It seemed kind of obvious that it would have a robot name or something like that.

“Nope my name is Carl.”

“.................okay.” It was actually thinking that Carl would have a better name than that.

I started to look at the paper with pictures of relics and dates. I asked Carl what they were for.

“Carl, What do I do with the scroll of relics and time periods?” I had no idea what they were for. Maybe they were pieces for a puzzle to tell me the combination that could be use to open anything.

“They are used to find different pieces to make a golden...” Carl kept talking till I interrupted him.

“ Is it a golden car or a golden mansion.” I was actually excited to see what the golden item was.

“ No, none of that it’s better than what you think.”

“What is it? tell me!.”

“It’s a Golden monkey”

“ You got to be kidding me.” I felt disappointed to hear that it was a golden monkey. When you usually hear the world you would think of something expensive, not ridiculous like a golden monkey.

“ My brother is working for a man named Stark.” It started to bug me how when there is a adventure you always seem to run into a enemy who’s trying to kill you or mess up the whole thing.

“What does the monkey do anyway Carl?” I felt that i should know what to do to not make go crazy and mess up the entire past and future.

“ It makes people turn it monkeys and Stark can use them to enslave the human race.” All this stuff about monkeys making me think about the movie Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. The golden monkey seemed to have been aggravating because it sounds fake and there’s no way it can turn people into a monkey.

    “ Well let’s get started tomorrow Carl.” I was tired and terrified at the scene of pearl harbor.

    “ Too Bad. You should of thought of that before you opened the box. Next Up the left leg at Machu Picchu.”  

       I arrived at Machu Picchu, Peru 1000 years back from the present. I remember researching that there used to be a ancient civilization, the Inca. I saw a old man selling jewels and relics that seemed expensive. I asked him if he has seen any golden monkey leg.

“ Excuse me sir but have you seen a golden monkey leg of some sort or relic or map to get me there?”

“ Welcome Mitima, what can i do for you today? Would you like a Napa or a llama.?”

“ Carl what’s Mitima and Napa? I don’t understand his language. He’s speaking English with a little foreign language.”

“ He’s speaking a Inca language Mitima means settler and Napa means albino llama. I have just created a program to translate English to whatever language you want. You’ll be speaking English but he will hear his native language.

I set the translator to Inca and I started to ask the vendor if he has seen the relic on the map.

“ Yes, I’ve seen it in the Inca Pucara ruled by our Sinchi and his Coya.

“ Pucara is fortress, Sinchi is chief or leader, Coya is queen” Carl reminded me.

“ But the only way to get in is you have to be a guard. If you sneak in which is impossible without dying. The Pucara is well guarded and has traps.Only way to get in if you were a bug.”

“How do I become a bug.”

“Go ask my mother.”

“No need to be rude you could have just said no.” i said.

“ No I serious my mother makes people into animals. My brother got changed to a Napa for punishment, then he met a horrible fate by a hunter.”

“ Where is she?”

“She is in the house, behind my counter.”

    I stepped inside to find his mother, I found a giant black bowl full of random things.

    There were llama eyes still blinking, rabbit’s feet, yellow liquid which I hope is jello, and skulls with eyes still in it.

    “ What do you think your doing?” I heard a voice behind me. It was a little old lady with an eye patch, crooked teeth, a pink eye, a long nose like Pinocchio, and pointy ears. Her repulsive image made me wince.

    “ How do i look?”

    I stood there trying to think of a word when i said.

    “ Um you uh look nice.”

    “What can i do for you?”

    “ I need you to make me a bug.”

    “ What kind of bug?” she said. Her voice was scratchy and sounded like she was gargling water or had food stuck in her throat.

“ Does it matter!”

“ Fine. Come and drink this.” she went and took a cup out of the kitchen and dipped it in the giant bowl and gave it to me. I started have second thoughts about this when she forced it to my mouth.

“ In ten seconds you’ll be a bug.”

I waited for ten second, I felt funny in my stomach. I went to the bathroom and saw in the mirror.

“ You did turn me to a bug, but there’s one problem.”

“ What problem?”

“ I am a bug, but I’m a six foot tall bug! When I said I want to be a bug I mean a two inch bug.”

“ I know.”

“ Then why didn’t you make me into a two inch bug?”

“ The fortress is a mile away, if you were a two inch bug that would be like a thousand miles.”

I was shocked to know how much I would walk if I was that small.

“ Just drink this at the entrance.”

“Okay.”

I left the room, I was on my way to the fortress. I got stopped by the vendor’s mother.

“ I gave you the wrong potion! I accidentally gave you a potion that makes you blow up.”

She had 7 other potions with her and a little suit case to carry the potions. I was one my way when she stopped me again, to explain how each one worked.

“ Green is for shrinking yourself to two inches, blue is to grow back to you original size, orange is for blowing things up, purple can be used as a weapon just pour it on you hand and a weapon will appear, yellow is to make turn into a random animal, red makes you disappear.”

“ What about the clear one” I asked.

“ Its just water” she answered.

Ten minutes later I saw the fortress and started running to make the travel faster when a guard startled me. The guard stood there, brave and focused, holding a large spear in his hand and a shield in the other. I used the green potion to shrink to two inches and started to crawl in front of him to enter the fortress. I would not have noticed him, a man of 27, stood on the corner opposite other the man I encountered. He wore golden armour not like the other guards because he was wearing gold and the others bronze. He carried bow and arrows, a large golden sword, a shield in the shape of a dragons face, body armour that had many details, a helmet with the format of a rhino, and a large red cape that has been scratched up. He seemed to be a higher class in that the other guards. I noticed a guard bring a prisoner up to him. The high class guard began to speak in a rough voice showing no mercy.

“ What is the problem?” he asked.

“ This man was caught stealing from the royal vault, sir. He is to be executed by orders other queen.”

“ I’ll handle it, leave at once soldier” he demanded.

“ Yes sir” he left at once.

The high class soldier tied the man to the nearest tree. He put a sack over the man’s head. What was strange was, the soldier take off all of his weapons and pulled out his hand and pointed at him as if he were to give him a high five. The man started to pleaded him for mercy. His hand started to glow and came out a ball of light. It disappeared and the man felt that the soldier had gave him mercy. Then a giant mouth came out of his hand, it appeared to be the mouth of a wolf and it devoured the man. There was nothing left of the man just a hole through the tree.

     I was horrified of the man, so I ran through the crack in the wall and pulled out the blue potion, so I could return to my original size. I was back to my old size when i noticed the left monkey leg standing on half of a pillar. Next to the leg was the same things that the higher class soldier had. I heard footsteps coming my way, I opened the chest of the suit got inside to make it look like I was protecting the monkey leg. I noticed they were the same kind of class I had on. One of them walked up to me.

    “State your class and business.”

    “ I’m protecting the prize jewel of the queen and I’m a new recruit I have no idea what’s my class.”

    “ It is Vindication of they.” said the soldier next to him.

    “ I leave you to your business.”

    Both soldiers left, I had my chance to take when the soldier I saw came up to me.

    “I know who you are.”

    “ I think you don’t because I'm a new recruit.”

    “ No you’re not.”

    “ Yes I am.”

    “ Tell me then name of the class that most of us are wearing?”

    “ It’s Called Vindication of They.”

    “You’re wrong it’s Vindicator not Vindication. You shall be executed at once for being a intruder.” He pointed at me the same way he pointed at the man on the tree. The light ball cam out of his hand. I began to run away.

   As I ran through the temple, I stumbled upon a door that says “Lab”. First of all how is there a lab in a ancient temple? Isn’t this supposed to be a ancient population, not some sci-fi movie. I decided to enter the room, the guard wasn’t behind me at all.
The room contained computers, glass like tubes, and scientists. All of this doesn’t make any sense. The men were in white with glasses and clip boards. A few minutes after I snuck under a table, the men started talking to each other. They seem to speak english not Incan though.
    “ We need more soldiers from the future to be able to take control of Peru.”
           “Greg,how are we supposed to findmore we took all 10 elite soldiers from the U.S”
    “ Let’s try to make mutant lizard people. We can use some of the people that were sold for our use” suggested Greg.

“ Instead of lizard people we call them Zardmen. But, we need more” said George.

“How about a future soldier.I remember going to the future world war 3. I saw these soldiers who had the most futuristic armour I ever seen.I bought one from the U.S and what was advanced was that in the push of a button they turn invisible.” remarked Greg.

“  Then how are we supposed to see them if they are invisible?”

“ I didn’t think that through.”

It was starting to get boring so I left. Then they started to talking about the golden monkey so, I stayed awhile longer.

“ One thing for sure was we found the pieces of a golden monkey but, there’s a piece missing.”

I looked in my pocket to see that i still had the last piece. Good thinking scientists you spoiled the whole fun out of it, now there is nothing to do after this.

“ Yes there is” said Carl

How did he read my mind? Suddenly, both men looked under the table. He gave me away now i have to run again. One of the men grabbed my arm and threw me through a hole in the wall. I think it leads to a trash can.

I didn’t wake up for about 5 minutes. When I woke up I noticed I landed on solid concrete. I noticed I was outside of the temple, about 10ft away from the guard I saw earlier.  

There was a small opening behind me. I crawled through and saw the monkey pieces on the table. I could fit my hand through and grab them. But before i put my hand in there i had to be ready to pull them out quickly. I grab them and pull it out, It started to flicker and it grabbed the piece out of my pocket. In a flash I was back home. I didn’t have the belt and the monkey was gone. I never knew what happen to it.

USB Monkey II by 0olong
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