The Bronze Knocker's Tales

This is the story of Francisco, an 8-year-old boy who lived in an ordinary neighborhood in a forgotten part of South America, with an average family.

This boy, Francisco, was in the attic of his house going through the old albums, and inside a box he sees something that shines with a yellow glow, but quite strange, because it released a kind of dust similar to glow of fireflies. From the box, he hears a laugh, a laugh like something he's never heard before, something unusual, and a voice saying welcome.

Francisco was completely fascinated and surprised when he sees this, because he immediately goes to the box and sees the object that is shining, which is a bronze knocker, with the face of an old man who is smiling at him and looking at him. This knocker or this being begins to tell you a story. He tells her that many years ago, in this place, there was a mountain populated by wildlife, with many fauns and satyrs that played the flute and lived in this forest. These fauns were in charge of protecting or guarding a cave.

Francisco asked him what a faun was, and the bronze knocker explained that it was a mythical being with half the human body and half the body with the legs of a goat, with goat horns that played the flute and that they liked to drink a lot of wine and challenge and dance inside the forest. These fauns were in charge of guarding or protecting this cave, and a red dragon lived in the cave. The dragon said that he could grant three wishes to everyone who managed to reach the cave and solve the riddle.

Francisco did not stop being amazed and even in love with all this story that the bronze knocker told him. So, finished the story, the knocker disappeared completely, and Francisco doesn't know where it went or why it disappeared. But Francisco would return to the attic every day to see if the knocker would appear, and the knocker would just appear and call him, say: "Francisco, I'm here," and the bronze knocker would appear every day in a different box and tell him a different story every day to Francisco. Each time, the stories were more interesting, they talked about magical beings, goblins, witches and enchanted castles dominated by very powerful wizards.

Francisco couldn't get out of his astonishment until one day he asked the bronze knocker if those stories they told him were real. The voice from the knocker told him that yes, all those stories were very real and they were as real as he wanted them to be. The knocker explained that she was an entrance or a door to fantasy worlds, and Francisco immediately began to think that he lived all those adventures with each of the protagonists, with the dragon, with the fauns that guarded the cave of the dragon and started living all those adventures in his mind with all those magical creatures. He really enjoyed each of these adventures, but over time he grew up and realized that he missed his friends and his real life a lot.

So he himself understood that living in these fantasy worlds is very fabulous, it is very wonderful, but that reality also offered him many joys. Francisco gradually forgot about this magical bronze knocker and began to resume his real life again, which offered him many challenges with his friends and with his normal development as a boy, passing into adolescence.

This is my story about the magic knocker for the five minute daily writing challenge.