The Precious one (Chapter 1)

The sandstorm was just about to grope them into its clutches, what is this!!! Jake and Frank can feel the ground moving under their feet. The ground separated with a crack so wide to devour them alive. To their surprise it was not the door to hell (Core of earth) but a dark cave with water to their knees. Frank starts praying "Oh God please forgive us for all our sins......." Jake seeing this gets puzzled and exclaims "Franks can you please stop for a moment!!". Both of them experienced an acute thermal changes in their body, from a scorching temperature high enough to barbecue smooth skin to cool water acting like elixir of life.

"Are we still on earth or in heaven?" asked Frank, to which Jake replies sarcastically "you are so unlucky to be still on earth. Shall i help you check-in heaven?".

"How on this earth is this possible? How can there be water below a desert en caved like this. Is this a sign of us getting near to the one we are seeking for?"

Jake is a treasure hunter who has seen more than half the planet and has more than a dozen discoveries to his name but unfortunately he does not have a place to claim as his home. He is tall handsome, cow-boyish and more of a maverick sort of a person. Frank is a Pastor and tricks people by playing Exorcist But in reality he is a coward who sometimes gets terrified by his own play at exorcism.

Jake and Frank were childhood friends and they were fantasized by the story of Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil and its fruit when they were eleven year old. Jake is a sport and want to get hold of the mysterious tree's fruit but he wanted his near dear friend Franks help for this. Though Frank was a poor chap and coward yet he was brilliant at history, religion and facts.

Both of them used to attend the ceremonies at their Church at quintessential ancient Winchester n Town where Frank's Parents held the speech related to Biblical events and Parables. Frank had been a firm believer in God and a reverent theist. In his Childhood he used to act as Pastor (Who he really is now) in stage dramas where he fails miserably every-time due to his stage mis- presence as he fumbled and jumbled all along his act and was regarded as a spoilsport of the plays. His lone friend was Jake who was more of a being belonging to the other phase of the earth who believes only in facts and nothing else. The close they were, their ideologies differed completely.

Both were good at studies but were better at playing. Jake spent most of his days in the local library where he read through books on countries, cultures and heritages. Jake wasn't an atheist but was more attached to facts than stories. He always believed to have born to see the world and and its aesthetics but was strangled to the deserted place by his parents who wanted him to be a successful businessman. Whenever Frank fell in danger there comes the hero with his pocketful tricks to rescue him. Jake always traded Franks rescue with the county carnivals cotton candy. This is how their friendship was.

It was on one fine morning when they were attending the church ceremony. The topic being explained was creation of World by God and the Garden of Eden.
To be continued.......