2: Tom and the Lost Colour Kingdom
Synopsis
Everyone in Colour Village believes that the village was founded
by the Colour Tribe. Yet for generations, rumours have persisted that
an even older civilisation once existed long before the Tribe: the
lost Colour Kingdom.
During their expeditions through the
Colour Forest, past the Old Lighthouse and the shipwreck off the
coast, Tom, Azur, Vonka, Liva and Zinnia keep discovering different
versions of the same ancient Yin Yang symbol. Each one reveals a pair
of opposites that are not meant to fight each other, but to
complement one another.
As their adventurous and philosophical
quest unfolds, the Colour Gang uncovers more and more clues
suggesting that this forgotten civilisation not only existed, but
deliberately left its knowledge behind for future generations to
discover. Meanwhile, Tom finds himself secretly falling more and more
in love with Liva—a complication he could well do without.
Then
there is the promise of a treasure chest said to contain an endless
fortune: the Heart of Gold. Or is there something
more to it? According to Captain Onecolour, the Heart of Gold
contains...
everything except gold.
As
the Colour Children gather the scattered pieces of the past, they
begin designing a new future for Colour Village together. But before
they can discover what truly lies hidden inside the Heart of Gold,
they must first find the treasure chest itself.
The Opening
1 The Colour Gang Is Complete Again!
A week after the party in old Ben's garden – on the now
legendary evening when Ada Abracadabra broke through every colour
barrier with a video far too embarrassing to describe – Tom, Azur,
Liva, Vonka and Zinnia arranged to visit the old inventor once again.
They met at the foot of the hillside where Ben had built his little
cottage with his own hands and were now following the sandy path up
the hill. As they walked, they caught each other up on everything
that had happened over the past week.
Ada Abracadabra's video,
which by now had been watched by everyone in every Colour District of
Colour Village, was still the thing they talked about most. They
still weren't sure whether they themselves had accidentally sparked
the Colour Revolution on social media. Liva had shared the video with
Vonka, who had shared it with her sister, Saffra. Saffra had then
forwarded it to a large Red group chat. But after that, nobody knew
how Ada's video had spread to every colour channel. Even if someone
did know, no one dared admit it. Sharing videos with people from
other colours was strongly discouraged, and posting or publishing
videos made by people from other colours on your own social media was
strictly forbidden.
"We should always be careful, because we judge simple colours—but we're talking about complicated people." - The Old Man