21 chapter 22

Iona had been told by an old broken down woman one day out of the blue that the cult leaders are not to be trusted.

Iona was just a little girl when she was eating with other female slaves and the older woman were teaching the younger how to cook for a lot of people.

At a camp fire one night, Iona was siting next to an old woman.

Iona was only around four to five years at the time and was a blank canvas that could be molded

to meet whatever goal of whomever may teach her.

Children often take things as face value, even if it does not make sense to them. Children would most likely just believe what they had been taught.

Iona holds her little bowl with both of her small hands.

She is getting knock out of the way by the other slaves.

Iona had gotten thrown out of the way and had dropped her bowl on the bricked ground. A teenage girl ran over the top of the bowl which cause the simple mud made bowl to shatter.

The teenager did not even say sorry as she ran away witch left the crying Iona with nothing to put her diner in.

She could do nothing but cry that she would go hungry this night. She had gone hungry for last three days.

Iona tried to some how put her broken bowl back together but she could not do so.

The little girl cried out loud as she cuts her small hand on the broken shards of her bowl. Blood begins to pour out of her hand when she is touched by a touch of a wrinkled hand.

Iona jumped back since she did not see who had touched her.

Iona spoke,"Do not touch me! Leave me alone!"

She turned around and saw that it was just a feeble old woman.

The old woman smiled with a gummy smile. She had lost her teeth long ago and

her sunken jawline.

The old woman spoke,"Honey let me bandage up that hand or you will get an infection."

Iona could see that this old woman had went her no harm and let her work on her cut hand.

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Iona had a newly wrapped left hand and hugged the old woman in return. The old woman fought back the tears that was starting to whelm up in her saggy eyes.

The young girl runs up to the pot of food and she say that it was empty.

Iona broke out in tears that she would would go hungry again this night.

The old woman spoke,"Here, honey! I have had a bowl ready for you eat dinner out of."

Iona was so upset that she did not even see the large bowl of food in front of her

The old woman had set a bowl at her feet and had another bowl in her hands.

Iona could not be comforted so the old woman put a spoon in the bowl in her hands. The woman put the soup in the young girl's mouth as you would feed a young baby.

Iona fought it at first until she figure what it was.

The young girl spoke,"Yum!"

Iona grabbed the bowl and begun to slurp up the soup.

The woman speaks,"Here take your spoon since it will help you to eat you diner."

The young girl used the spoon as a scoop and she ate the entire bowl of soup.

The old woman handed Iona the second bowl.

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The girl amazingly ate the second bowl like it was nothing.

Iona was licking the bowl clean when she hears a person's belly rumble out of hunger.

Iona looked over and saw that she had eaten the food of the woman that had helped her .

Guilt overcomes the little girl since she had been as the other people had been and cared for only themselves."

Iona had been like the other slaves and cared not for their fellow woman. The little girl begins to cry out loud.

One of the adult slaves begin to curse wildly due to Iona constant crying and she jumped up off her seat (which was a large boulder).

The woman was rather large due to all her hard manual labor that she had to do every day. The woman was both chunky and muscled at the same time.

The angered woman spoke," I am gonna knock out this little $%$#@! I am tired of all her belly aching and I am going to shut her up permanently!"

Iona was terrified as she heard the threat and later the laughter of the other slaves.

What was Iona going to do?

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The young lad, Tenlong had a nightmare of what had happened after the aftermath of his mother's demise. Tenlong had just lost his mother and the young boy had lost all sense of himself.

Tears had begun to pour out from the eyes of the young Tenlong, so much so that his tears are running down his large chest.

The boy's tears was causing the blankets that he was wearing as clothes to become wet with his tears. The boy wonders around in the wilderness for what seemed to be several miles.

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Some time goes by and Tenlong starts to calm down somewhat.

He speaks,"I need to go home and I can get help from the village! They had always been helpful in the past!"

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Tenlong can see in the distance his small village and becomes so excited that he starts to run as fast as a horse galloping.

Tenlong runs into the village screaming like a wild man to the village's contempt.

People in the village market place were appalled by the sight of a crying giant running into the village with clothes roughly made out of blankets.

Tenlong yells," Help me! Help me! They have killed my momma! I need some help!"

Everyone in the market place does their best to ignore the blaring demands of Tenlong. They all treat the boy like he is a nonentity.

They do not recognized him since he is a Giganto descendant that he recently changed in size from from four foot one hundred pound frame to that of a seven foot man weighing over three hundred pounds.

Gigantos were very rare among the people of Lowroda but it was not unheard of.

The Gigantos were said to rule the whole planet of Violio at one time in the distanced past. They were said to be a race of powerful giants. They destroyed themselves by their violent nature and they were only saved by intermarrying into other peoples. That was the only way that could escape from total extinction.

At least that is what the legends said at least.

The Gigantos were very proud and would not allow themselves be utterly destroyed.

Tenlong was one to carry on their proud bloodline to his complete obliviousness of his bloodline.

Tenlong knew that he was naked after his transformation and that he needed to clothe himself but he did not know that his size had been changed.

He was trying to get someone to answer him but to no avail.

The boy yells," It is me, Tenlong! My Momma has been killed by a bandit! Can you all not hear me? Please help me!"

A woman throws a flower pot at the head of Tenlong which it shatters all over him.

He was taken back by the assault as he tries to free dirt from his eyes.

He bumps into a nearby well and uses a bucket to wash his face clean.

Tenlong was taken back by what he saw.

He was looking at a young man's face and not his own.

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A woman comes running up to the young Tenlong and begins to start to yell endlessly.

The woman yells," How dare you say such a miserable lie? Tenlong is still a little boy! Who are trying to fool? We are simple folk but we are not that dumb! Get out of here!"

Tenlong looks back down at the well and again sees his newly formed face as he touches his cheek with his hand.