The Medallion

I was walking down the road thinking about what prank to play on my brother. I was wondering when suddenly I fell on the pavement. Ouch ....it hurt so badly. I looked up to see I had collided with a boy. He suddenly handed me a medallion.

"Take this and run away. Don't let them catch you. Protect it."

These words were what he had spoken to me. Then he took off without any delay as if his life depended upon it. Little did I know the medallion he handed me would change my life completely. My mind was devoid of all the thoughts except of this incident.

Then when I reached home I saw my brother's car parked in the garage. It's when I remembered I was going to punk him yet again. But after the rushed meeting with that peculiar boy, I was in no mood to tease my brother. My brother is in last year of high school and two years older than me. I am sixteen. I have always adored my brother. Also he is so easy to fool. He easily falls for my bluffs. My mom and dad once thought I was bullying him. And their misunderstanding got me grounded for one whole week. See...I always get into trouble. My brother was there in the kitchen making lunch. He told me, " Estella go take a bath. You stink right now."

I stuck out my tounge at him and skipped to the bathroom. After I took a bath, I went down to have lunch with my brother. Mom and Dad are both working so they can't get much time for family. We are all we have. Of course,we love them but it's just rare that we get to eat together and have some quality time together. After lunch I went to my room and locked the door. I took out the medallion and examined it. It had a beautiful blue crystal in the middle.

The metal was a strange reddish golden colour and it shined. I could see it was not polished as after I had scratched the medallion I saw that it was still the same colour. The only possibility was that it was made from a mineral which had not been discovered yet or was not from this world. It was an alloy, that also couldn't be the possibility as an alloy is made out of two or more metals mixed together.

When I ran my fingers over it, it had a strange texture. I couldn't describe it. There were some symbols over it (or were they images). To me it looked like tribal tattoo designs. On the back of the medallion there was a single word engraved: *Salzbaro*.

What the heck is Salzbaro? I was really confused. I googled it and there was no result about it. Now it felt like what have I got myself into. Was 'Salzbaro' a person, a thing, an animal or a ... place?

Then I noticed that the blue crystal was something like a cap that was covering a button. I pushed the button and suddenly I was falling down...... down....... down.......

I was traveling through a wormhole.

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