From Ireland by DragonSkulls Ancestral Discovery writing prompt entry |
After the DNA test, I found that my blood line actually came from Ireland. It took a long time but I did finally come across some ancestral relatives. I couldn't find a phone number for any of them. That's when I decided to go to the little town of Mardil, Ireland and see if I'd have any luck at finding them. Many of the local establishments knew of them and kindly pointed me in the right direction. Fifteen miles from town, on an old dirt road, I came upon the house in the woods. When I knocked on the door, I was astounded at the size of the little man that answered. He was tiny, like three and a half foot tiny. He asked, "What is it you'd be wantin', lad?" "My name is Edward Williams. I'm from the United States. Might there be a Derrick Jen-" "Dick, it's for you," he yelled and turned and wobbled away. Then another small man came to the door. He said, "Word gets around here fast, lad. So, rumor has it we have the same blood coursing through our veins, eh?" "I uhhhh..." "As abundantly obvious, I have serious doubts about that as well." We stood there just looking at each other for who knows how long before he finally invited me in. I had to bend over getting through the whole house. I sat on the floor rather than risk breaking one of their tiny chairs. There were so many little people wandering the place I couldn't have counted them all. The room we were in had a big-screen TV. They had the weather channel on. "Hey, everyone, this giant is related to a few of us somehow. His name's Ed. Give the lad a hello when passing," Dick announced. A few minutes later, he offered to show me around. It was just as you'd think a little country cottage would look like except for every room was ridiculously small. The oddest part, though, was that every single room had a TV in it. And not only that, every single television was on the weather channel. No sports, no movies, no news...just weather. Not only that, they had an intercom mounted to the wall in every room. Every few minutes it would blurt out someone's name and that person would instantly jump up and head to the back and go through a door into another room. "What's going on back there?" I asked Dick. That's when he decided my visit had reached an end. "I think you should go back home, lad. We met, blah, blah, blah and now it's time for you to go." "You can't be serious. I came all this way to find you and now you're just going tell me to go back home? I want to know my ancestry before leaving." "Are you sure about that, boy?" "Yes, I am." He guided me to the mysterious door. "This is like that movie Matrix. You can take the red pill and nothing changes, or take the blue pill and you see it all. Going through this door is just like that. Once you go through this door, there's no going back...ever. This is your only chance. Choose wisely." I thought to myself, "Come on, that's crazy." So, I said yes, I wanted in. The door opened to an enormous underground cavern that had endless piles of gold coins stacked everywhere. There was a little guy monitoring three giant screens. "Sun's coming out in Boston," he yelled. "Here's your guy," Dick responded, pushing me forward. Another little man scooped up a pot full of gold coins and shoved it in my hands. "Ready," he hollered. "Wait a minute, what the-" "I told you, no going back, laddie. Give the gold to whoever shows up." Dick sarcastically saluted me goodbye. The next thing I knew, I was standing in drenched woodlands, at the end of a rainbow, with a ridiculously small green suit and tophat on. "Yeah, I'm a six foot tall leprechaun, genius. Here's your stupid gold."
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