I awoke to find myself laying face down in the dirt. There was a sour taste in my mouth, my head felt like it had ripped apart and my body felt stiff, like I had slept for days.
Where am I?
“Come one Mia, I said to myself, Remember.”
I fought through the fog in my head and remembered that a tornado had hit before I blacked out. Wow i’m thirsty I though feeling how dry my throat was. Luckily as I lifted my head off the ground, I found myself looking at a water bottle that was smeared with mud and dirt. Please contain water! My bones cracked as I reached out for it. I opened it and peered inside. It was empty. I was about to throw it away in irritation but then the ground started to shake and smoke stared to appear. From the distance I could see someone walking towards me.
“Help me” I croaked, My voice barely more than a whisper. As the stranger neared my eyebrows furrowed in confusion. I couldn’t see his feet. Instead his legs seem to turn into smoke. I squinted my eyes to get a better look, but I still couldn’t see them.
Once he was in front of me, he knelt down so we were face to face. I had hoped it was just my imagination when looked and saw that the bottom of his legs seemed to end in smoke. But now after seeing him up close. He really wasn’t human. I didn’t utter a single word all I could do was stare at his eyes that were swirling with a million different colours.
“What do you want” He snapped, which me me break out of his spell.
“W...What?” I managed to say.
The stranger looked at me in annoyance. “I said what did you want? Why did you summon me?”
I was completely confused. “Summon...” I said questioningly.
“Yes summon” He said, while making a sound of annoyance. He signaled to the empty water bottle in my hand. “You opened that didn’t you”
I looked at the bottle, still not understanding. I looked back up at him and giving him a confused look. His eyes widened and then he started laughing.
“Oh wow, You really don’t know what you’re holding do you” He said between laughs.
I brought my hand up to wipe away the mud. “Umm, a Evian water bottle” I said reading off the package. “And an empty one at that” I grumbled “Wished it was full again”
Suddenly it started to fill up. “Ahhh...” I screamed backing away from the bottle that fell to the ground and spilt everywhere.
“Ah seriously” The stranger clicked his tongue. “Why did you wish for it if you were just going to waste it” He said reaching out to pick up the bottle.
“Stop!” I shouted, completely spooked “Don’t move any closer”
He stopped and looked up at me with one eyebrow raised.
“What the hell are you” I said, my voice coming out an few octaves higher that usual. “And how did you just do that!”
“I’m Dijin” He said calmly “And its cause you wished it”
“What? Jin?” I said testing out the foreign word. “Wish? What the heck are you talking about!”
“Well like I said I’m Dijin, and I grant wishes to who ever summons me from the bottle”
“B... But you’re wearing normal clothes, and you’re not blue” I looked down at the bottle in my hands “And this is plastic, what kind of genie lives in a plastic water bottle.
His lips curled in disgust “I said I’m Dijin. D-I-J-I-N. Not some genie, we’re completely different and I didn’t exactly picked to be captured in a water bottle, or any type of bottle.”
“Wait people just go around capturing you” I said in amazement.
Rolling his eyes he replied “No of course not, and remove that glint from you eyes, its not fun being captured, i’m basically a slave”
“Oh..” I said looking around awkwardly feeling a bit guilty for what had just passed through my head “Well... then what now”
He snorts “You’re the one with my bottle” He says “You can wish for whatever you want”
“But don’t I only have 3 wishes...Oh no now 2” I say just remembering how I used up the first one.
“I told you I am not a Genie” He say exasperated “You can have as many as you want, Now hurry up and tell me what you want, I don’t like to stand around and do nothing”
“Oh well then, can I have a glass of water please” I say
He throws me a look at the word please, but clicks his fingers and a glass of water appears in front of me.
“Wow” I say clapping my hands, not at all afraid this time. The water felt so good. It was ice cold going down my throat. Then my stomach started to rumble.
“Would you like something to eat too” He asks.
“Yes please!” I say excitedly “Give me a cheese pizza!” I say
He clicks his hands and it appears right in front of me. My mouth waters as I inhale the smell.
“Make it bigger than me!”
He clicks his fingers and expands right in front of me.
“Ok, now I also what a giant tub of ice cream” I say “And something soft to sit on, and a change of clothes!”
He clicks his fingers once again and everything I wished for appears, my clothes also change from old to new.
Amazing.
Amazing.
“Can I go now” He asks, looking at me in disgust.
I look back at him, the guilt of using him was overpowered by the rush of excitement running through my veins at my new found power. “No, Not yet” I say “I still have a lot more to wish for”
