The Forbidden Village

There was once a small village on a large mountain. Nobody ever entered. There was a village at the base of the mountain, and nobody ever dared to venture to the village. Legend had at that if someone were to enter the village, God would be angry and send down his plague. One day, a daring group of kids decided to find out what was really in the village. They snuck out and climbed for two days. When they finally reached the village, they saw no motion and heard no noise. They thought that the village must be abandoned. However, as they entered the houses, they found, to their utter surprise, that people had lived in this village. But they were dead now, nobody was left alive. They saw corpses all around - in houses, on the floors. They did not know what to do, and they began to regret their decision to climb to the village. All over the corpses were rats and bugs. They approached one of the bodies, and as they came closer, they saw that the insects did not look normal, not healthy. Suddenly, a small red-eyed insect flew over angrily and bit the youngest boy right on the neck. The boy had a small red mark on his neck, right where he had been bitten. But it seemed to be growing, and growing fast. Within minutes, it covered his whole neck. All the other kids gathered around to see what was going on, and they all tried to stop the growth of this mysterious bug bite. The boys knew journeying to this forbidden village was a big mistake. They had to get the youngest some help, so they all ran from the village. Back down the mountain, back through the forest, and back to their village. They knew that they would get in trouble for going to the village, but they didn't care. They needed to get the youngest some help, for what started out as just a small red mark had grown to cover his whole neck and chest. All the wise elders and the best doctors in the village did not know what this was, and they did not know what to make of it. Within days, the boy's entire body was covered in red. He began to get weaker and weaker, and it was clear that he was going to die. The boy did die, but not before three other cases of this spreading red mark were found in his village. Nobody could find a way to cure this, and nobody knew what to do. They realized that this must have come from the abandoned village the kids had visited. The old legend must have been true. Just weeks later, some relatives of some of the village inhabitants came to visit. But when they got there they found exactly what the children had found in the small village on the large mountain. They were terrified at what they saw, but they did not know what to do. Nobody had survived. And as they were leaving to return to their village, one of their sons was bit by a small red-eyed insect.