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Adviser: Ms. Leni Marlina
Reading Sources: “Amictus The Queen Bug” by Adam Blade
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Hello All.
We are the new members of Reading Circle Community (RCC) from English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Padang.
Now, we'd like to tell you about our activity in the first meeting.
In this first meeting, we discussed a story, “Amictus The Queen Bug” by Adam Blade.
Here are the summary of the story that we discussed:
Chapter 1: The Horrible Truth
The story was started with a boy named Tom who standing in front of the mirror to see his reflection. Hethought he was so foolish. He didn’t know why his nose become tilt and his eyes become strenght burning whenever he saw his reflection. He just had fight with a Sea Monster in the first Beast Quest, and Tom was wounded by the monster. He got serrious wound because of the terrible poison of the monster.His kin, Freya, gave her blood to cure the wound.
There was Elenna, who had bruised head, she jaust regained consiousness. Silver, Tom’s wolf, came trying to give warning to Tom. Tom tried to calm it dow. However, he was so anxiety. He had so many question on his mind about Freya that left him. Then Velmal, the evil appeared. Velmal said thet Tom’s mother never thought about him. Tom didn’t trust the evil. A wizard said thet Freya’s heart is riddled with the evil, she didn’t want to bee good. Further the wizard said that Tom’s mother didn’t want him.. Velmal then gone.
Then another vision appeared to Tom and others. Tom triend to train his sword, but he let it to fall to his side. The vision was Tom’s father, Aduro. He said sorry to Tom aboyt the way Tom had found. He said sorry because Freya’s secret had been revealed to Tom. He asked whether Tom could still face the Quest.
Tom said that he would never give up to the Quest. He then started to go out of Gwildor with his friends, Elenna, Silver and Storm by riding Storm. Tom had the responsibilities to do the Quest.
Chapter 2: Local Hero
Tom and his friends back to the way they’d come, towards Gwildor’s mining town. They were going to return shoopkeeper’s mirror. On the way they took a rest for a while. Tom had found his prize for the last Quest against Trema, the Earth Lord: a diamond-encrusted mirror to go with the pearl, gold ring, pair of gloves, and set of scales that he had retrieved on earlier Quests. Elenna asked about the mirror, then Tom said it will be replaced with the diamond from the mine.
On their way, they saw many people were looking at them. They didn’t know why they did that. One of the people said that , “It’s him.” A woman tried to get closer to Tom. Elenna asked to go then. They came to the shop.
In the shop Tom and Elenna tried to explain about shoopkeeper’s mirrror. However, it didn’t matter for the shoopkeeper anymore. He was so happy that tey could be back. In addition, the shoopkeeper saw a book to Tom and Elenna. That book was very old and unreadable actually. However, it can be seen that there was an image of Tom and Elkenna, also Silver and Storm. That was trhe second time for Tom to see such image. The last was from a lady in Gwildor that called him The Son of Gwildor.
Tom shocked, he went outside the shop. Tom realised that he was a son of gwildor. If this was Freya’s kingdom, his mother, it meant that the boy on theimages was him.
A crowd of people had gathered on the street. Tom went to the main road.Tom pointed Storm out of town. Ahead of them lay the kingdom of Gwildor. Tom had blood tie to the people in the Gwildor, so it was up to him to save the land from Velmal. No Quest had ever meant more, and he had a feeling that the next Beast would be the most cunning and ferocious yet.
Chapter 3 “A Golden Crest”
Tom and his group rode out the town. When they crossed the street, the townspeople were standing along the street, welcoming them, and encouraging them. After they were far from the town, Tom put out the his silver amulet, on the other side a map of Gwildore that had guided Tom to every Quest in Gwildore, as well as helping him tracks the prizes that helped him liberate each Beast. In the map they watched two paths magically formed on the map on the picture of The Rainbow Jungle. Then they went to the south. When they arrived on the edge of the jungle, the saw heavy jungle. Tom looked at his amulet and saw two path, one path headed to tiny picture of brass telescope. The other path headed to a small insect. Amictus! That is a kind of insect foe. Tom put his amulet away and gazed between the trees. Elenna, Silver and the Storm followed him. Suddenly a giant butterflies flew above them and make them shocked. A huge parrot stretched its wings as it settled on a branch, repeating what Tom said and flew away on rainbow-colored wings. They continue the trip until Tom suddenly stopped. They saw a huge ship which is mossy and ancient sail in rags from the mast. Tom wondered about the ship, because it’s far away from the coast. He was very surprised when he saw a painted of King Hugo’s crest, from Avantia.
Chapter 4 “Treasure”
Tom turned into the animals and to stay when Tom and Elenna roamed the ship. The next Freya’s prize is a telescope. He looked around searching for it. Tom peered down and spotted a glint of metal. Elenna cried to him to take it. Because they were running out of things to barter with, but Tom did not want to take it. Ellena looked for an arrow and found the arrowhead that was made of sharpened flint and shafl was polished rosewood. It was very precious to Ellena. There was still one object on the box, a beautifull brass telescope, inlaid with ebony diamonds which is Freya’s prize. After he put the telescope, the ship groaned and lurched to one side. Elenna reached Tom’s hand and helped him out, the telescope gripped in his arms. Tom launched himself from the deck to the jungle and pinning the telescope to his chest with his arms. Tom examined the telescope. He looked through the smallest lens but there was nothing different. He was wondering whether the lens was broken, but when he saw again, he saw two beetles pushing a dug ball between them on the ground. They were normally too small to see with naked eyes. Tom asked Elenna to see what he had saw. Elenna was very surprised. With Freya’s prize they can see things that are normally camouflaged that is the opposite of Tom’s magic rings that allowed him to be camouflaged. Silver and Storm joint them. Tom took the telescope to his leather beg which is all prizes there. When they enjoyed what they had found, evil laughed over the tree that make tom angry. He promised that while there’s blood in his veins, he will defeat Velmal and free his mother.
Chapter 5 “ Hiffen Fury”
In this chapter, Tom and Elenna went to a jungle to find the Beast. They climbed into strom’s saddle they plunged onwards through the jungle. Tom used his charming telescope to see the surrounding. Once, when Ellena try to use the telescope, she saw an endless row of lilac-coloured eggs along the forest floor. The eggs were beautiful and Ellena got closer to the eggs and touched them. So did Tom. At the time they were close to the eggs, they heard sound from behind them. Tom tried to check it, but he found nothing. Then, he took his telescope and looked around. Tom saw Amictus, the last Beast of Gwildor.
Amictus is the perfect disguise for a giant green insect. Tom could not see the Beast without any help from his telescope. Amictus attacted Tom and Elenna because she (Amictus) is the mother of the eggs. She got anger to them and lunged again which caused Tom’s telescope clattered. Tom’s flanks was kicked by Amictus and it made Storm ran out to help Tom from Amictus.
Amictus watched Storm and she was smelling the sallion’s scent. Tom have to be hurry to decide which prize would help him defeat Amictus. Then, Tom chose the golden ring and slipped it into one of his fingers and help out a hand. Gradually, Tom’s body was disappeared and be invisible. Elenna and Storm cold no longer see him but they could still hear his voice.
Chapter 6 “Birth of a new enemy”
The story continued when The Beast jumped into a place where Elenna hid. The Beast reared above her, a huge barbed calw ready to slece her into two. Tom took a run to grabbed Elenna’s hand to avoid Amictus’s attack. Amictus failed to kicked Elenna out and her claw sank into the tree tunk deeply.
Then Tom asked Elenna to hide in a spot where Amictus could not find her. Storm and Silver are also with Elenna. At first Elenna refused it because she could not let Tom faced Amictus alone, but Tom could ensure Elenna to let him.
Tom got his invisibility with him while Amictus was still bent over the eggs. Then The Beast that tried to smell Tom’s body moved to look for Tom. She could not see Tom’s body because Tom’s body was invisible. When she got closer to Tom and her giant head whipped around and dipped low, Tom attacked her face after he abandon his invisibilty. Amictus’s body crashed to the ground. Then Tom thought Amictus was die and he got closer to the giant. Unfortunately, The Beast pretended and then kicked Tom’s calf and spikes sank into it.
Then the Beast sound filled the jungle caused the eggs cracked and hundreds of tiny insect burst into the air. Amictus trill with pleasure. Tom could not react because more insects surronded him. Amictus moved closer to Tom and swiped a limb at Tom’s body and sent him crashing towards the bush where Elenna was hiding. Then, Amictus and other new insects moved away. While staring at the cloud of mini-beast, Tom saidthat he would find a way.
Chapter 7: Jungle duel
After his plan did not work, Tom tried to find a new way. He looked up to see elenna emerging fom her hiding place with a grim in her face after used the shield to swat the babies of Amictus. Slowly, the insects swarmed away toward their mother. Then, elenna noticed something that the babies are also enchanted by Velma in the way that their mother is with the babies dancing joyfully in the air around their mother. Tom agreed with elenna that thought that they were not evil, they just protective which reminded tom with his parents that would fight to the death on their behalf.
Tom had an idea and took that shield from elenna then went to find Amictus alone with elenna hiding at that place. As he tried to get closer to Amictus, the insects turned to face him. He was attacked by hundreds of tiny claws and just heard a warning cry from elenna. Because the insects tried to attack him again, he tried to use the shield to protect him. Unfortunately, the insects sunk their claws on the shield and took the shield away from him and stole that shied - The shield with six magical tokens.
Then he turned around and saw Amictus in a huge boulder moved toward him and ready to fight with him. Tom stood frozen, but there was nowhere to hide. When the beast-Amicus tried to attack him with her claws, Tom reached out his hand into a tree and leapt from one branches to another branches. Amictus tried to swipe her claws to the branches to attack Tom. She roared with frustration because she her claws stucked in the riped fruit. Then her babies came and protect their mother but they did not attack Tom. They saw Tom crouching in the branches made them hesitate. Amictus tried to instruct her babies to attack Tom, but they did not move. It seemed like they did not want to attack him. Elenna was right for saying that Velmal’s curse had not tainted the blood of the young. Then, he got an idea again.
Chapter 8: One on one
Because the babies of Amictus did not want to attack Tom, it was time for them to fight one-on one. Tom tried to leap into another tree. He jumped and jumped running away from Amictus with the Amictus struck out with her giant claws. Amictus kept telling her babied to attack him even though the babies did not move. Actually Tom wanted to get closer to Amictus, but the poison of her claws prevented him. May be just his invisibility could help him some day.
He pressed his body closer to the tree and barely moving. Then, with his braveness, he peered out into the jungle. he heard Amicts roared and baby insects bobbed in the air. Amictus tried to attacked him again with her claws, but luckily it just hanging out in the fruit next to him. Amictus went to him nearer and her huge head swiveled above him. She slamed her claws into the ground in frustration.
Tom took advantage of this situation, solely he reached his hilt of his swords. In order to hinder the Beast attention, slower Tom unsheathed his sword. Then, in one swift movement he raised his blade toward the poisoned claw. Unfortunately, Amictus glanced down, and sent her claws in rapid until Tom flew through the air and straight for Amictus’s mouth! He tried to go out from there with spreading his arm and flipped his body over. But it was othing because he got trapped.
Desperately, Tom snatched two babies of Amictus and held the babies closer to his ches in order to make Amictus would let him go. But Amictus did not do that. Amicus’s mandibles was closing tighter and Tom was hard to catch breaths. He really thought he would die. There was no one to be seen that could help him. The quest was over and he never would see his friends and find the truth about his mother again.
Chapter 9: A Mother’s Love
There is a man, named Tom, who had an impossible fight with a Beast. The name of the Beast is Amictus, that is a bug that became a monster because of Velmal's magic. Because of that, Amictus killed her babies and many people. So that, Tom as one of the villagers of Gwildor would like to kill Amictus. Not only to kill Amictus, but also he would like to find his mom.
Tom almost gave up in that fighting, because every arrow that he released to the Beast couldn't stab the Beast body. In the middle of the fight, Tom almost lost his energy to fight the Beast, but soon, he heard Amictus keen with pain. He came to Amictus that had fallen with head leant back and her eyes were squeezed shut on the floor of the jungle. That was an impossible fight he had ever got. Elenna, who is Tom's friend, told that Amictus became a Beast because of Velmal's magic, and she was fighting in velmal's magic. Velmal had put the poison in the claw of the Beast, so that the Beast itself would like to released that poison from her body. Then Tom understood that the Beast didn't want to her own kin. The only way to avoid their deaths is to force Velmal's poison out of her body.
Using his last energy, he tried to reach the thorn which is sticking out of Amictus's skin. He was trying harder and his fingers grappled the air as he stretched out. Then Amictus waved her claw near to Tom. Finally, he reached the thorn out. The point of the thorn jolted out of Amictus's claw and tore open the casing with green, foul-smelling liquid frothed out and traced a path down the claw. Meanwhile far below the field fighting, Elenna, Silver and Storm tried to get out of the poison path. Tom didn't want his friends to be tainted by Velmal's poison. After all the poison has been released from Amictus body, she finally released her grip on Tom and the baby insects. Tom looked into Amictus, he saw her face creased into what almost looked like a smile. Then, Amictus began to stand up and walk around the jungle.
In the end of fighting, Elenna hugged Tom tightly. She was relieved that Tom was still alive. Then, Tom gently held Elenna's arms and take her away from Amictus. From the below, they saw Amictus gently gave her claws to her baby and floated in the air with small cried of pleasure. "If Amictus can fight off Velmal's magic, then Freya can do the same," said Tom loudly. Tom still believed that his mother would be free of Velmal's magic.
Chapter 10: New Realms
Tom had fought with Velmal, who is the evil wizard in Gwildor. Tom saw his mother, Freya, looked pale and strained because Velmal held her hands in powerful grip. Velmal asked Tom to give up and let Freya with him. If Tom refused his favor, he would like to kill Tom's mother. Tom didn't want to see his mother die, but he also didn't want to let his mother stay in Velmal. When Tom looked into his mom, he saw Freya gave a small nod as a sign to Tom to stay strong to do what he want to do. That is all the encouragement that Tom needed. Then he believed and became stronger to fight Velmal.
Tom began to challenge Velmal, even though he noticed that it would be difficult to fault down a wizard like Velmal. Because Velmal could use his magic freely, whenever he want to help his self. Tom tried to encourage his self to fight Velmal and got his mom back. But what Tom have worried happened. He couldn't defeat Velmal, even he almost died in the fighting. Velmal freely used his magic to fight Tom. Tom almost couldn't find any idea to defeat Velmal, even he fought until the end.
Velmal laughed as he felt he already won the fighting. Then, he asked Tom to stop and gave up because Velmal was not Tom's evil fair. Meanwhile, Tom still in his believing that he could defeat Velmal. Then, Tom remembered the ruby in belt, the gift from Torgo the Minotaur. Through the ruby, he could communicate with Beast. Soon, he pull the ruby from his belt and held it high up in the air as he call Amictus loudly. "Amictus!" he cried. For a moment, the jungle was silent. Then there was a deafening crash as the giant insect heaved her body against trees. Her clow tore up a huge tree trunk, ready to hurl it at Velmal.
Unfortunately, as an evil wizard, Velmal use his magic to run away from the Beast. He sliced his hand through the air and then make a swirling portal of rainbow colors. Then the circle of light narrowed into a tunnel and gracefully arced away through the jungle leading. Velmal also gapped Freya's wrist and gagged her toward the light. And soon, the portal was gone and nobody knew where they go.
Tom felt so guilty because he fault to save his mother. Without thinking it over, he would like to jump into the portal, but his friends forbid him to do it. His friends tried to encourage and told him to make a new world. All the questions about his mother would have to wait and a new Quest had begun.
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