The Abandoned City: A Mystical Encounter with Nature (amazing and beautiful short tale).

He had fallen asleep like any other day, after a very busy day at school and collecting different types of marbles, which was his favorite hobby. He liked to collect marbles with animal figurines inside, his most valuable possession being the marble with the face of a tiger. Our boy liked the feline animal, he was inspired by its graceful movements and stealth. This animal was the hero and protagonist in each of his adventures. He imagined himself being like the hero who was accompanied all the time by a Bengal tiger that was his friend and at the same time his guardian, traveling to different spaces in the world, helping and saving all the people who could need it. That was his dream, what he wanted to do.

The truth is that he woke up on this new day when a ray of sun came in through the window and the sound of many exotic birds woke him up. This was not something usual because he lived in a city, a city full of pollution from robots, technology, with high skyscrapers and purifying machines that were responsible for oxygenating the air. The noise of the automated machines that were in charge of watching and cleaning all the streets could not be heard. So he looked out the window and saw something that really surprised him: the landscape had changed drastically. There was not a single person on the street. He ran down the stairs to try to find out what was going on and shouted, "Where is everyone? Where did everyone go?", without getting a response from anyone. The city was deserted, vegetation had suddenly grown everywhere and there were different amounts of wild animals. He could see, in the distance, some capybaras entering the grocery store. On top of a 20-floor building, he could see a herd of monkeys all grabbing different objects: some had lamps, others played with what looked like ribbons, and the boldest one was trying to put on a Japanese kimono. On the other side, we could see a flock of paradise birds that seemed to be entering into a conversation with toucans, when suddenly they were interrupted by five macaws that started making a scene.

All this landscape within a city that was abandoned and the boy was now there alone, without anyone.

He did not know what caused this event, but the truth is that his wise uncle had told him the day before that the patterns of the clouds indicated that something mystical was going to happen and apparently that was it.

Now the boy was faced with an impressive urban landscape.

What happened next is left only to the imagination of you, dear readers.