Missing

Write me a story I asked AI...

Write a story about a young man searching the globe for his missing father who went to buy cigarettes. After years travelling the world he discovers a skeleton in an abandoned villa after an earthquake took place destroying the town called Soest. The skeleton is leaning forward as if he's thinking or...

Of course how else can it be my story starts like any other story I read created by AI. If it comes to eerie this is:

In a small town nestled in the rolling hills of Europe, a young man named Felix lived a simple life with his mother. His father, Johan, had vanished one fateful evening when Felix was just a boy, claiming he was stepping out to buy cigarettes.

All those nestled towns... rolling hills... It makes me feel sick. Interesting is that AI sides with the father who left a wife and little child behind without money while mother sacrificed herself, never remarried, loved the man forever, became ill, died and was buried next to the found skeleton-dad underneath the oak tree in the garden since it's a peaceful place to be._

I had more than one question for AI. The bot never answered with a 'yes' or 'no'. Each answer was an even longer story with so called 'facts' why father left and went abroad for a smoke. Corruption was the reason of course and abroad is Europe and Europe is also the place father lived and... ended up dead.

Leave it alone, Mom had begged. She sounded tired. She would leave again in 20 minutes. To make ends meet, she had three jobs. She hardly slept. I took care of myself most of the day. We never ate together. She said she got it at work but I saw her getting thinner and thinner.

Mom, I said one day

I'm old enough now and I'm leaving. Behind the seven mountains, beyond the house of the seven dwarfs, lies the land of a Thousand and one nights. I'm going to seek our fortune, you've toiled long enough.

Mom's face turned pale.

It is where the giant lives in the gates of heaven, she whispered. Haven't you heard what a killer he is? Charlie of the Beanstalk...

The young man, let's call him Fe was a thief, mom, you shouldn't reward thieves, it only brings trouble.

Mother is a sweet person, but she worries too much. Tomorrow I'll leave before the sun rises. I have been taking care of myself for years.

The overgrown young man slept like a baby and left before sunrise the next day.
He didn't need any luggage, his pocket knife was enough to meet his needs. At a trot, he disappeared behind the horizon, just like his father had once done when he told his wife: Katrien, I'm going to buy some cigarettes.

He proved that fast runners are not dead runners, within a day he had crossed the seven mountains and was on his way to the promised land. He would have arrived there long before if a large spider web had not prevented him from doing so.

Who are you daring to disturb me and run into my web, cried the spider, after all those hours of hard work, you want me to start all over again?

I'm sorry ma'am, I'm on my way to Thousand and one nights.

That's what you believe, ugly piece of shit, here the lord of the night rules. Anyone who wants to pass must first solve the riddle of the skeleton that lives in the villa built at the black lake's side.

The spider pointed with 4 legs in the direction of a row of trees that had suddenly appeared, after which it quickly walked up through its web and disappeared out of sight.

The villa was huge.
Holy shit who built that? The door was at least three meters high and possibly even four!

Hey, skeleton are you there?

His voice echoed through the entry but there was no answer. Wandering through the hallways he found an open door. Sunlight shone through.

The room didn't look scary

despite the giant skeleton that seemed to be leaning over.

What was the riddle he had to solve? Has anyone ever achieved this? He studied the bones of the giant from head to toe. This was not a position anyone would die. Only the hand of magic could have accomplished such. He knelt next to the skeleton and studied the hand on the knee. What was it that the man had seen? Pieces of vines came up through the floor and for a moment he thought he saw them moving.

I can't solve the riddle, but I think you have already done so and it looks like it has cost you dearly, he spoke to the skeleton.

A drop fell on his hand and then another on the wooden floor. The skeleton slowly came to life and even flesh appeared on the bones again.

Get out of here, a voice shouted from behind the wall the skeleton was facing. Your presence brings the skeleton to life, he is the giant of the night, a bloodsucker. Only a missing family member reunited can bring the bloodthirsty one back to life. Run for your life boy and never come back.

Without a second thought, the young man ran outside. It was a good thing he had put on the seven-miles boots. Was there a riddle to be solved? The only thing he was sure of was that he had found his missing father and had won free passage to One Thousand and One Nights. For sure his mom would be pleased if he stood before her with the treasures he promised her.

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Picture: source
Date: 14-5-2024
Prompts: missing - leaning
All pictures: are mine

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