Hello guys, this is my entry for @geekgirl's contest about art and story together in one.

I read the post several times and learned that there is a drama going on, I don't really want to butt into it because I don't know these people who are in a fight, hope they figure out that fighting in this platform is not worth it, so just do it on the streets, LOL. Just kidding...
Anyway, I asked the people in the chatroom about the gender of @xeldal and find no answers. Well, for me, @xeldal is a cute name for a girl and so I made @xeldal in my story a girl. I hope you find this work of mine good. So with all that said, please do enjoy my work, "Xeldal and the Ghost Parade".

Story Time!

It was her summer vacation that time when all of those happened. Xeldal, a 15 year old girl with her family came into their relatives in the province to spend the whole summer vacation with them.

Because its summer season, the weather is hot but because of the light breezes on the province the weather seems to be likeable despite of all the heat.





Xendal went out a bit for some fresh air after finishing a book that she was reading. She gets into the middle of the grassy field and smiled up while stretching her body. She was completely enjoying herself at her vacation.

Xeldal looked around from where she was standing, just looking at the beautiful views of the province when suddenly...





The tall grass made some sound that as if there is something moving under them. Xeldal noticed it and got cautious at the moment.

"The hell, I was noticed", a small creature said while running away from Xeldal's position. The said creature is a weird small being as size of a midget that wears a pirate costume and has a really tall and narrow head.

Xeldal got a little surprised at what she just saw, the creature was so bizarre that she paused out of shock by that moment.

The creature ran into the old house nearby and gets in. Xeldal, after recovering from her shock decides to take a closer look on what she just saw. With that said, she gets into the house too.

Slowly, Xeldal opens the door and gets in. What a curious little girl- and her courage is also exceptional. Most people will just run away if they see something out of their imagination. Just look at weak people when you tell them things about cryptocurrencies, they run around like chickens and shout "that is a scam" even the all time highs are clear as a day.

"Hello? Wait, I heard that thing can talk, maybe its smart and..."

"Stay away!", a voice came out as a reply.

"Don't worry, I will not hurt you, I just want to know..."

"Want to know? Little girl, you are the one that will be hurt here, your curiosity will hurt you!"

Disregarding all the little creature's words, Xeldal went inside the house. The door shuts close, "bam"!

"You witch, I already told you! Now your doom will start from here!", the little creature came out from where it was hiding. Soon, the room went dark and the walls of the house collapses.

"Huh?"

"I warned you... Now find your way out of your trouble missy!"

After the walls collapses, there was nothing to see. Everything is dark as black, as if Xeldal was outside our atmosphere. She was like on outer space.

The little creature runs out of the scene, Xeldal tries to follow but a large voice stops her. "Can you please stop chasing people that do not want you?"





"?"

"What? I just stopped you from doing anything more stupid than this... Do you have any idea what you just did and where you are?"

Xeldal was out of words, from a small creature that she was chasing now a very large creature is on front of her talking.

"Do you even know who that guy is? That small guy is a space pirate that has been cursed for his multiple heinous crimes and he is sentenced to be in that form and live alone for eternity. Anyone who gets near him will be sent into a random dimension, and now your talking to me, a space cat, a cat that lives in the middle of different realities. In short, you're screwed!"

"Whhhhhhhaaaaaaat?"

"But..."

".!."

"But do not worry, you're just lost..."

The big cat points and a array of lights lits out of nothing. It was a long corridor. The corridor is so long that you cannot see the end of the said corridor.

"Just follow the lights and there you will find Jack, be nice to him and he will tell you how to get back to you home"

There is nothing Xeldal can really say here, everything that is happening is just so random. The fact that there are multiple realities existing was already too much for a 15 year old girl. All she can do now is follow the cat's instruction.

The corridor lights turns off after Xeldal passed on them. Looking behind the areas without lights are like endless darkness of different terrors, the situation is so sudden, so hard to grasp and so tense that Xeldal can hear her own heart beat while she was walking.

After hours of walk, Xeldal saw a day light from a near distant, it was a way out. She ran as fast as she can, all those darkness suffocated her that it made her excited on seeing natural light. It was like light was water and she was so thirsty of light.

As soon as she came out, a fire shot from a gun has been heard all over the field. The fire shot came from a man chasing a nut cracker.

"Oh no! I don't want to be in more trouble", Xaldal runs afar from the commotion of the place.

"Help! Help!", the nut cracker shouts for help.

"Waaah, my heart can't take this anymore!", Xeldal runs as fast as she can but still gets reached by the nut cracker. The nut cracker runs along with Xeldal and makes a little chat.

"Hey, cut it out, I'll be in more trouble if you run with me!"

"Help, I will die if you don't help me"

"You have a gun, why not use it to fire back? Maybe you can win?"

"What if I don't?"

"At least you tried I guess?"

"I guess I have to decline!!! Wahhh!"

After that sentence, the man shooting made a hit on the nut cracker's leg that made the leg snap of into two.

"Blam, blam, blam", the nut cracker rolls on the field due to the inertia exerted while they were running. "Now I'm dead!"

The gun that the nut cracker was holding moments ago flew into a far distant. Now the nut cracker is shaking in fear, the man hunting him is now approaching.

"You and your family have big debt to me, how dare you run away and hide from me? Those money should had been invested to bitcoin!"

"Why not buy Steem instead?"

"Shut up! I didn't told you to answer back!", the man answers with his gun pointing to the nut cracker. And then...

"Bang!", a gun has been fired. But the gun that was fired wasn't from the hunter, it was from the nut cracker, the gun that the nut cracker was holding when he was running. Xeldal took it for a fire.

"Waaa, what?", the hunter got surprised, the gun fire that was made scraped his cheek a line that made it bleed a little.

"Who are you? Wha... Don't hurt me", the hunter ran away with Xeldal having no chance to answer.

In fact, Xeldal herself is in another shocking episode of her life, that is her first time to shoot a gun and she almost killed someone with it. If only she just pointed more accurately, she could had got the head instead of just the cheek.

"Thank you, I could had been dead by now if you haven't..."

"Aha..."

"Hey,are you okay..?"

Cause the nut cracker was greatful of him being saved, he helped out Xeldal finding her way to Jack. It was already dark that time when they made it to the town where Jack could be found.

The space cat told Xeldal that Jack could be find at the end of the dark corridor. Somehow Xeldal expected that Jack is the nut cracker and maybe the one reading this too, possibly.:D

The town was full of lights and colorful banderitas, there is a festival going on.

"Excuse me ma'am...", someone excuses Xeldal from her behind because she was blocking the way of the stranger. Xeldal turns and looks, it was a ghost.

"...that's a ghost Xeldal, don't you?"

"With everything that happened to me today, there is nothing that can surprise me anymore, where is Jack?"

The nut cracker points on the parade that was going on, behind, behind the crowd and the parade of ghost and monsters, a big grinning monster was watching the parade.

"That big grinning fella is Jack go talk to him", with that said, Xeldal approached Jack.

*"Excuse me sir, are you Jack?"

"A little girl human... I wonder why something like you got here..."

...

From here, what could Xeldal be seeing? Will she be able to go home? Or will be doing some more adventure before reaches to a conclusion..?

The weird world of Xeldal and the Ghost Parade.

[End]

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Thank you for reading this entry for @geekgirl's contest, I hope people enjoys reading it.