text: [Themes: fantasy, fantasy]
  
  What I was dreaming for years was going to be real if only I would dare to risk my life...
  
  Not always that the path we wanted to follow offered right in front of us. Therefore, this was my great opportunity to take a path where these guardians guided for me.
  
  And I decided..
  
  "What is the first character that you want to be?" Jim asked me ,but he was busy, editing words in a book.
  
  "I'll be an Alchemist in The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho first!" As soon as I told the guardians who I wanted to be, The Alchemist appeared ,floating in my sight.
  
  Jake flew toward me. "Grab it and read. We will bring you into this story. You'll be able to do everything just like an Alchemist. The only difference is that it's your choice to use your ability in the story. Don't forget to complete the Alchemist's task. He needs to help Santiago reach his Personal Legend!" Jake's voice became higher pitch ,and finally I heard nothing from no one anymore as I was reading.
  
  My world swirled around ; there was no sign for this world to stop rotate. "Stoppppp ,please." I shrieked as loud as I possibly could even though my ears were hurt because of my own voice. And the world stopped circulating. They probably heard me. I kept my words when I noticed new environment. Here I stood in the desert!
  
  I could feel the wind touching my face ; it started to make my hair messy. One of my hand instinctively held up to remove lock of hair from my face ,so that I could clearly see the new perspective. Surprisingly, I grabbed none of my hair, but I touched my wrinkled face instead. It reminded me that I wasn't a 'Dream'. I was an Alchemist!
  
  The time rushed very fast, so did the caravans arriving at the oasis. I watched hundreds of people and animals gathering around the oasis. I could feel that there's one that I had to teach him my secret. The omen told me because I lived here for a very long time that I understood the Language of the World.
  
  "I'm waiting right here" I sighed. This was just the first day being the Alchemist. I felt my power was connecting to the World. I wanted to know how I myself made the Master Pieces. Honestly, the Alchemist's life was very interesting to me. However, being the Alchemist was different. I had to wait for only a boy named Santiago to come to see me. This was the truth. But really? I kept asking myself and thought that being the Alchemist was not the best choice for me.
  
  I waited and waited. There was nothing to do without the protagonist named Santiago. "Jim,Jake,Jack. I wanna choose my new character. This is not the right one!" I began to shout as if those three guardians could hear me. But no, I heard no tiny voices. Thus,I had to continue my job; this was my only duty now.
  
  Day by day I watched the boy from far away. Today, he fell in love with Fatima at the well. I reviewed my memory. What!! how can you fall in love at first sight just like that. Don't you know. True love at first glance existed only in love novels. "How can you reach your dream with this obstacle?!" I started to complain him with myself.
  
  Love is beauty as well as a thorn of a rose. It makes you as happy as a sunflower facing toward the daily. However, it also makes as sorrowful as a withered flower with no light shining to heal it.
  
  "What!" If there was my disciples living beside me, they probably shocked because of their respectful alchemist screaming almost every day. Santiago knew this girl for only a single day and he asked her to be his wife. Oh My God.
  
  My alchemist day repeated its cycle as usual until today. Great! now he realized the omens. He would successfully warned those cruel chieftains. Go go! Deal with them. Believe in what you see. I could feel that I was very into it. I was really the Alchemist!
  
  Not very long since the day Santiago received gold from the chieftains, today I would meet him. There's he came.
  
  I welcomed him with wine and hawks that used to be the omens.
  
  " 'When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.' (from The Alchemist, p. 114)" I repeated this essential phrase aiming that the boy would understand since he had already known all he needed to know in order to reach his Personal Legend.
  
  But no. I had too high expectations on him ;he who now decided to stay right here at the oasis with his lover....
  
  > Forever, the Alchemist.
  " 'I want to stay at the oasis. I found my treasure, Fatima.' (from The Alchemist, p. 118) "
  
  I could not stand on my feet now. I believed that it only stuck in my brain. But the truth, I consciously felt that something blocking my air way and my throat. I was afraid to hear the truth. The truth that I was trapped in The Alchemist forever.
  
  "Sir. What will happen if I choose to be here?" And Santiago's question was left behind. I now was visiting my soul, asking if I really wanted to pursue my dream. My eyes were empty, so did my brain.
  
  "Fatima wasn't found near the pyramid." I gathered all of my patience while trying to guide Santiago toward his Personal Legend.
  
  "But you haven't answered me? What if I stay"
  
  I did not know how long time had passed, but Santiago's question came right to my mind, not even passed my brain. Such a stubborn boy! Literally, if you stayed here, I would be trapped as the Alchemist arguing with you forever! You want that?! And this was out of my expectation!
  
  I tried to gather myself back before my head was going to explode into million pieces. I'm not Dora Dream. I'm the Alchemist! I must complete my duty!
  
  "I'll tell you. At first, your life will be as smooth as a one-way river. You'll be counselor at the oasis and marry with Fatima.Later, you will recognize your Personal Legend, but you'll choose to ignore it. Lastly, Fatima will feel bad because she realize she's another river that cross you from your dream. Sadly, omens will leave you."
  
  I saw empty eyes just like mine looking toward me. And Santiago looked forward to see an empty desert and turned backward to glance at the oasis. He was absent-minded for awhile. But I knew he needed time to make his own choice. He seemed to concern something. Great!
  
  I tried to create a nicer and better pathway for him. I emphasized that ' love never keep a man from pursuing his Personal Legend.(The Alchemist, p.120)'
  
  "How do I make sure that if I go with you my Fatima won't marry with other man?" The boy eventually turned to face me and looked into my eyes ,forcing me to answer.
  
  His face got a tense line. His eyes were straight and confident that I was sure he had just made his decision. But I did not know his choice.
  
  "If it's true love between you and her, finally you'll be back to her and she will wait for you. Even though it's the rest of her life..." I stopped my sentence. If it's true love, time and direction did not matter. This what I believed, regardless my case. Since my father had passed away, my mother never ever looked and cared for me anymore. As the time passed, our true love was fade and eventually disappeared.
  
  "This is true love. I shouldn't leave my great chance. She is really my treasure! She's even more valuable." He argued with his deep voice to declare what he really wanted.
  
  Hmph! It was clear now-- what the boy chose.I screamed inside.
  
  I was not short-tempered. But this time I did not know whether I could control myself or not. I tried my very best. Unconsciously, my thought was suddenly conquered by my anger toward Santiago! Fine! Foolish, brainless boy!
  
  I lost myself now. This case made me realize that an optimist did not always get her dream."Fine! Go! Go to that stumpy girl. Marry her and you'll find out her nasty daily life. Those gold you owned will be gone like ice melts in the sea. You'll never know and find true love! Omens will abandon you! " I shot word like a curse. But I was sure it would happen. Omens told me.
  
  "Fatima is not stumpy! She is as worth as billions gold! I'll have my happy life with her. Bye old bumpy man." The boy turned back without regret and headed back to the oasis.
  
  Only me left. I cooled myself down, going back to my shelter and have a rest.
  
  I slept for half of a day, forgetting my condition as the Alchemist. If I did not complete my task, I would never ever returned home. I was furious at the boy that I had not realized what I needed to do. He lit fire inside me and eventually.... Boom! I burst into pieces. And did not know whether I could gather them back.
  
  I woke up in the next morning ;however, I felt dizzy. There were stars in my head, jumping up and down,and rolling from left to right. As soon as I felt better adn gathered myself back, the first thought of my morning was I regretted what I had said. Shouting at the boy was the second rank that I should not have done. Giving up on the boy should be the first choice that I must not even touch it!
  
  As fast as I could, I went back to the oasis where i expected to find the boy. I walked and seeked for him every single aisle that I could walk through. I asked every single person that I walked pass even a 5-years old kid. But none of clues I found.
  
  Shadow glowed bigger and bigger, I felt. I looked upon te sky, aiming to receive some omens from the dark sky. But none did I find. I now sat on a wooden bench. Then, I hear some footsteps coming from somewhere. My eyelids could not bear against gravity anymore. So I let them go. But I could hear soldiers talked. One of them said.
  
  "There he is. The old man that the prince mentioned."
  
  The other insisted. "YES! Did the prince really say 'get rid of him' ?"
  
  "Hell no! He was not that brutal. He just ordered us to take him back to where he came from"
  
  I did not know who the prince was. I could not say any word because I had no energy left to start my pace. I felt four hands holding me and making me sat on their horse.
  
  I was not sure where they were going to take me to. They said they would take me to where I came from. But actually I came from the Earth, not in the desert. If they were taking me to my shelter, I wondered how they knew where I lived.
  
  "If the prince really know this old man and he said this man was friend., why doesn't he take this man instead" One of the guard complained.
  
  "Don't you remember! The prince was going to marry Fatima tonight. He needed to prepare himself!"
  
  What I heard made me stun like a stone. Even my breath was stopped for a while. Santiago now was more than the counselor. He was the prince !
  
  And the prince ordered I could not resist.
  
  All of my senses were gone now. I felt nothing. I could not hear my heart. Even the softest but nearest voice from my heart, I could not communicate with it. My conscious was gone.
  
  I knew nothing.
  
  My last thought resonated in my head.
  
  It said 'Hello my new life. Hello Alchemist!'.