The Little Guy And His Jinnie Chapter 41

The Little Guy And His Jinnie
Chapter 41

Jake had been working on all of the 850 Jinns that had appeared in Princess Amira's bedroom—the fact that he'd restored 781 of them so far, plus the one he'd banished. The news quickly spread, and many Jinns were outside the room awaiting their loved ones. In 781, they had another 45 palace guards—125 of the royal army that had protected the palace and the lands.

Jake saw a great many heartfelt reunions among many there. He saw at least 400 of the city's citizens and another 10 of the council guards. The Jinn King stood beside Jake, welcoming all that Jake restored. These first 581 left Jake almost at the point of exhaustion, but he kept going. The following 200 were from another city a few miles from the royal city.

Down to the last 68, Jake walked around the small group, trying to get a true feeling about the rest of them. Reaching out, Jake fell when 38 of those left stood and walked past him, thanking him. Looking at the last 30, Jake could only shake his head. These were bad, some not too bad, but the others were evil to the core.

"I will offer all of you a chance, for now. I know all of you witnessed the first one of your kind and what I did. I am offering almost the same to you. I..." Jake started.

"Why don't you quit with the bullshit story and just kill us as you did our compatriot. I am not in the mood to be bored..." Suddenly, the woman Jinn was silent.

"I have killed no one, nor will I." Closing his eyes, Jake wished they were all healthy but had no powers. All thirty stood amazed on most of their faces.

"It is a trick! He intends to kill all of us!." Another female Jinn cried.

Sighing, Jake could only shake his head, shivering a little as this was quite taxing on him. Finally opening his eyes, Jake was a little dizzy but held firm to where he was. "I have restored two powers to you. I took the powers of the very first that I met. I will never do that again. She died before I could correct what had been done. I won't do this to any of you. You have two powers. Now, I will banish you to a camp I made for all of you."

"You should have killed us, you bastard!" The first female Jinn sneered.

"That may still happen, especially if your other compatriots find you. Though I tell you, it will not be me that kills you. It will be them or your selves, now. Be gone!" Jake shouted as the evil Jinns began to fade one at a time. Many were shocked that they were still alive, though a few only sneered and promised to return for revenge.

Moments after the last of the evil Jinns faded, her room was finally almost empty. Jake turned to Amira, smiled, and fell to the bed unconscious. Damn, Jake thought his Jinns could scream so loud it hurt his head. His Jinns, he smiled, thinking of all of them and the few others he knew. I'm going to be a father. He smiled as the darkness thickened nine times!

Trully flew across the room to Jake's side as several hands lifted him onto the bed. Looking him over, Trully had to push all her feelings away as she started to go over Jake. Several sobbing female voices said prayers that Master Jake would be ok. A moment later, Trully looked up at Princess Amira, her brothers, and the King.

"I am afraid that Master Jake has had a relapse," Trully said a tremor of fear in her voice. Closing her eyes momentarily, the doctor appeared beside her with concern.

Looking at Trully, then Jake, the doctor touched Jake's arm and issued a loud hiss. "By the great Jinn! He has the ancient dark magic in him again! He had this the whole time and never told either of us! The pain he must have been in! Never in all the time I have been alive have I seen one as brave as him!" The Doctor leaned over to Trully and whispered, or as stubborn!"

Trully wore a shocked look in her eyes then nodded to the Doctor. "Is there anything we can do?" King Al-Mazhab asked.

The Doctor and Trully looked at each other, then the King and his children. Yes! It was the only thing that could be done. However, the Doctor wondered if Master Jake could survive it! He had taken a lot of pain, far more than the Doctor had seen any human take, but this was far beyond that!

"There is King Al-Mazhab, though I am hesitant to do it. We must remove ALL the dark magic from him. That, I am afraid, will cause him pain unlike any that he has ever experienced. I fear we would lose the only chance to set this dimension back as it should be finally." The Doctor and Trully both had rugged, worried looks on their faces.

"Will he survive if you don't do this?" Princess Amira asked.

"For a short time, yes, but as to ending the war? I doubt he will have the strength to—even the strength to continue living. Trully said as the tears started to fall from her eyes.

The Doctor grabbed her and held her close. They both owed Master Jake so much. Far too much to let him go this easily!

"Can you contact Master Jake?" The Doctor asked of Gen.

"Me? I can always contact master." Gen said to the Doctor with a smile.

"Please inform Master Jake about this. Then, let him know of the pain he must endure. I am going to have to have all of you who know master Jake well to lend all the strength that you have to him. He is going to need it." The Doctor instructed each of the Jinns in front of him.

Gen nodded, then closed her eyes. Master Jake? My love, are you here?

Gen? Is something wrong? You don't contact me here unless it is essential. Jake thought back.

Yes, my dear master. The Doctor and Trully have discovered that there is still dark magic in you. The Doctor wanted me to inform you about this.
Gen started.

Yes, I am aware and, at present, keeping it at bay. Jake answered.

The Doctor says he needs to remove all the dark magic altogether, or you may not survive much longer. Gen thought. The vision of Jake was nodding.

I take it there is more?" Jake asked.

Yes, master," Gen said as the tears started to fall from her eyes.

Is it that bad? Jake asked.

Yes, master, the Doctor doesn't think you will survive too long when you recover. As for the war, he says there is no way you could go on, let alone win. Master, the Doctor tells you, you will have to endure pain unlike anything you have. Gen thought the tears were falling faster now.

I do this, or I die. If I don't do this, I could very well die. Gen's tear-stained face nodded. Tell him to do this. Hell, if I die either way, then this way, at least I have a chance! Jake told Gen.

Master, I am so afraid that I will lose you. Lose you to the worst pain imaginable! Please master at least live with us as long as you can! Gen was pleading.

Jake sighed. To live not even half a life is no life. To be weak and useless to any of you, my loves is a death I feel I can never face! Jake thought to Gen. She could see she wouldn't change his mind. He was as brave as he had always been. Sighing, Gen nodded, then opened her eyes.

New tears were falling from her eyes as she took a deep breath. "Master Jake said that he wishes you to do this. He said, 'To live not even half a life is no life. To be weak and of no use to any of you, my loves is a death I feel I cannot face ever.'"

Rashala, Sheeka, Rosalinda, Nyrae, Akeesha, and even Inger had tears starting to fall from all their eyes. The master, Jake, never ceased to amaze all of them completely. Princess Amira was also shedding tears, and then she suddenly got severe and walked to the doctor. "Tell us what we must do to help him, Doctor!"

"I need all four of you to concentrate on the darkness in his body. Were it just Trully and myself, then we'd have no chance, but I think all our power will do the job." The doctor told all of those that were present." Looking over at Jake's Jinns, the Doctor reiterated, "I need every bit of strength you can give him. All of your... love, ok?"

The Jinns nodded as Rashala, Sheeka, Rosalinda, Nyrae, Akeesha then even Inger added her power. A few moments later all four of the royals, the Doctor, and Trully all started to pour everything they had into the spot where the Doctor was seeing the dark magic.

At first, nothing seemed to happen as the Doctor saw that the dark magic was resisting. Then, finally, a few minutes later, their combined power started to overpower the darkness. That's when Jake began to scream as if he were being burned alive.

"We have to keep going," the Doctor said, sweat starting to break out on his and the other's foreheads. They hadn't won yet, and they were beginning to destroy it. With each passing moment, the darkness got a tiny bit smaller, though Jake was screaming harder as it began to disappear.

Thirty minutes later, well over half of it was gone, but Jake was starting to look paler than ever. "We can't keep this up much longer!" Princess Amira shouted. "We are killing him!"

The Doctor stared straight at her, "Do not stop! If we do now, he is as good as he is dead! He wants us to do this. We have to finish!" All six around Jake were starting to tire. They had been at it for an hour, and all but a speck was gone.

"By the great Jinn!" Amira said as she felt the strength of the Doctor and Trully starting to fail. "We are so close, Doctor; please don't let go!"

"I am at an end!" The doctor gasped, still trying to keep going.

Suddenly, there was a rush of power, and the last speck was destroyed easily. Sheeka and Nyrae's bodies were glowing. We apologize for taking so long to wake up. Father will be fine now. Mother Amira, protect our brother well! A voice said in all their minds. With that, the glow was gone as almost as one, and all 12 Jinns that had been involved dropped to the floor, exhausted.

The Doctor tried to stand but felt like his legs were rubber. Feeling Jake's neck, he nodded to the others. "He is weak, but he's still alive. By the great Jinn Trully I think we will need a rest a while, don't you agree?"

"Yes, my love, I do agree." With that, she laid against the doctor and was out quickly.

Please take care of your father; none of this would be possible without him! Then, just as suddenly, the voice was gone. Jake's Jinns pulled themselves to the bed, each placing a hand on him. "We will all be here for you always, our dear master," Gen stated tiredly as the rest nodded, and they were all asleep.

The King and Amira's brothers stood, nodded toward Jake, and headed out the door. Making it to their rooms, they, too, succumb to the exhaustion they all felt.

Jake was having a horrible dream; all of his Jinns were captured and were being tortured. Their captors had Jake tied to a post in front of the spectacle; He watched each of his jinns succumb to the horrors that they were subjected to. He was screaming. Jake Jerked awake, bolting upright in the bed only to have a searing pain run through his body.

Screaming again, a multitude of bodies suddenly rose to try and help him. "Please, master Jake, try not to move. Let the magic heal you first." Jake heard Gen say. Heal? What in the world was she going on about?

"You will have to not move for at least a week, master Jake," he heard the Doctor say.

Try as he might, Jake couldn't get a single word out of his mouth. What in the hell was going on?

Jake saw the Doctor lean over, and then he whispered in Jake's ear. "You should have trusted us more, master Jake. Yes, I know that you hid the dark magic from us. I know that you were in great pain. Please, master Jake, please never do that again. Trully and I have far more knowledge than you think. I know you thought we couldn't destroy all of it, but we did."

Jake sighed so the Doctor knew he'd held on as long as possible. It was the only way Jake could think of to keep them safe 'til they could destroy it.

"Master Jake says he will try to remember that. At the time, it was the only way he could think of to keep all of us safe." Gen suddenly said beside Jake. Jake tried to smile, but nothing seemed to be able to move at all. "Doctor? Master Jake wants to know why and how long before he can move."

"As I said, you must be in bed for a week. I believe that you will start to be able to move things in a few days." The Doctor smiled.

"Master Jake says he is glad you think it is something to smile about. He is a prisoner in his body; he is afraid that the council is going to take us from him because he can't speak." Gen relayed this to the Doctor.

"I think I can answer that," came a voice near the door. A moment later, Rasmir walked into his line of vision. "Please have no fear, Master Jake. Your jinns are safe, as are you. The fact that part of the royal army is back should keep those who are evil at bay for a while. In the meantime, heal master Jake."

Jake tried to sit up with every fiber of his body, but nothing happened. Suddenly, Gen shouted. "Ah! Good, I see that movement is already returning! It is rare for the hands and fingers to start first! Please try again." Jake's eyes widened as this time he could feel all the fingers on his right hand move, though not his actual hand.

Tankena was pacing; according to the spies that he still had, that bastard Jake was injured badly. Smiling wickedly, he walked around the cave, gathering several weapons. It was finally time to destroy that weak bastard human! At least the deadly trio had done something good when they hit Jake with all the dark magic.

Laughing, Tankena knew it would be a week before the human could move anything, let alone speak! It was the perfect time to go in and destroy the bastard once and for all. He was just about to leave when the mist appeared. "Tankena! Where are you going?"

"It's about time I attacked that bastard and ended him," Tankena said.

"It is impossible for part of the royal army to protect him. As are the King, the Princes, and the Princess. It would be impossible to reach him. Even if you did, he has at least 7 Jinns around him now!" The leader's voice said.

"This is pathetic! You used to go straight in, no problem! What's wrong? Lost your taste for revenge on the human world?" Tankena sneered, then suddenly choked as he was lifted off his feet.

"You should remember your place, you worm! The plan will work. He is hardly able to move. I will take his body soon and wreak OUR vengeance on all the human world! Don't forget your place again, slave! I may have to get another that can follow orders if you can't!" Tankena was dropped to the cave floor like a rag doll thrown away.

Tankena looked up at the mist as it left the cave's opening. A great rage filled him as hatred for the leader grew in his heart. A hatred that, for the first time, was absolute.

The mist appeared in the Jinn dimension a few moments later. The leader was taking the fog to the palace as close as the mist could get. Soon, the leader thought, I'll have the body of the ever-last master and ultimate power!


To be continued