The Genie and the Wish
Logan and Julie looked around at all of the green trees as the warm air flowed through the woods of the mountain they were hiking on. Logan felt the breeze move across his face and through his brown hair. The young couple had been planning this trip for quite some time and finally had set aside a weekend to go out for a hike in the mountains.
"Hey Logan! Get a move on!" Julie called out noticing her boyfriend had stopped walking and was falling behind.
"Coming!" Logan shouted as he headed back up the hill to meet his girlfriend of 4 years.
Julie was one of those girls that looked absolutely cute in anything she put on with a freckled face and long dark hair. Her green eyes made her look even more unique. The two of them continued up the mountain for several more hours before making camp near a small stream.
The following morning the two hikers were up with the rising sun. They packed up their camp and continued on their way up the trail. After a few hours of hiking they stopped for a bathroom break in the woods. Logan quickly pissed and waited while his girlfriend finished up. He stood around and looked down at his watch as five minutes went by, then ten minutes, and then fifteen. Just before twenty minutes had passed Julie came into view.
"I found a pretty cool cave over there. Lets go check it out." She said pointing over to a rocky cavern.
Logan's curiosity was peaked so the two grabbed their flashlights from their bags and made their way inside. The two of them followed the tunnels deeper and deeper.
"How far do you think these go? Logan asked after almost thirty minutes of moving through the cave.
"I'm not sure. Why do you want to go back? Julie asked with a teasing tone in her voice as if to mock him for being scared.
"No we can keep going. Do you think this is man made?" Logan asked as they continued.
"I don't know. I- oh my gosh!" Julie shouted as her flashlight fell onto a skeleton laying against one of the walls.
"Woah!" Logan said with more surprise and interest then his girlfriend's cries of horror at the sight.
Logan moved over to the skeleton and looked at the scene. The skeleton had on very old clothes. Possibly from the 1600s or 1700s. An old musket lay on the ground beside the figure as well as a wooden box.
"What are you doing?" Julie asked as Logan bent down to open the box.
"Are you not curious?" Logan asked with a smirk.
The young man then bent down and flipped open the latch on the chest opening the lid. Inside the old crate was a single object -- a oil lamp of some kind. The lamp had engravings across it in a language long lost to the world.
"It's a genie lamp! Maybe you should rub it and get three wishes!" Julie said jokingly.
"I wish" Logan said as he picked up the lamp.
While holding the lamp in his left hand Logan placed down his flashlight and rubbed the lamp jokingly. Just then he felt the lamp become hot in his hands and turn red from heat. He quickly dropped the lamp in shock.
"What the-"Julie said as a green mist began to come out of the oil lamp. Logan and Julie stood up and took several steps back as green fog continued to come out of the lamp.
The cave filled with so much of the green smoke Logan and Julie could not see anything apart from the red steaming lamp. The couple held each other and watched in shock as a figure started to appear through the mist. The heat from the lamp dissipated and a figure stood in front of the couple. Julie lifted her flashlight and the two saw what appeared to be a woman in her 20s standing before them. This tan stranger had her brown hair tied up in a ponytail and was wearing strange clothes similar to that of an exotic dancer.
"Wow sorry about that. It normally doesn't take that long but ive been cooped up for a few hundred years." The woman said as her brown eyes looked over at Logan and Julie.
Logan and Julie just stared jaws open and confused.
"Poor guy -- he never even tried to have a wish granted from me" the unknown woman said looking down at the skeletal remains.
"W-who are you?" Logan asked with a stutter.
