The one who shall not be named…!

It happened on the eve, when the whole country was celebrating its festival. A man with great power, Pride and arrogance tries to conquer the nation. Innocent blood on the floor. A whole crew of soldiers were murdered by the most wanted man in the history. People don’t dare to speak his name . The murder shook the nation, all celebrations came to an end the very moment, everything was silent, as if all the happiness faded.
He was all filled with darkness, anyone and anything which came in his way was destroyed. As they say powerful people come from powerful places, he came in search ofpower, the power which nobody has attained yet till now. He is mass murderer and filled with all kinds of evil plans.
Two incidents happened that day , the nation was destroyed and theone who shall not be named was born. According to the prophecy, the one who shall not be named, be destroyed by a man, born in the stark family. Having a practice in wizardry, the whole stark family was traced and brutally murdered. Except for one who survived, named Anthony stark.
In search of power, the one who shall not be named grew even much stronger, and named himself- thanatos, the God of death. Meanwhile Anthony stark started to learn in an orphanage. Not knowing is past, he always asked the father of orphanage about his parents. The father spoke nothing about his past. The boy had nightmares about his parents, but never knew whether it was true or just his imagination. Anthony stark became one of the brilliant students in the orphanage. And mastered all the skills in weapons and combat, and some wizardry.
Now it was the time, Anthony shall know his past and the prophecy. The father called him and started to go into that miserable past. But the prophecy, was a bit terrifying. It stated that “One shall not live, while the other survive, and the other shall be dead, completely destroyed”.
The father knew that Anthony is not yet ready, Thanatos has an army and Anthony, just him and his friends. Father said to Anthony that he has the love for his family, friends, everyone and there is nothing more powerful than love.
The time has come finally, Thanatos finally meets a worthy opponent. It’s time, the nature knew that war is about to begin. Even the nature gave a hand to Anthony. All living creatures of the deep were with him.
Anthony’s friends ready to sacrifice themselves for their mate.
And at last the war starts, and the history itself repeated. The sand soaked with blood, people dead, many structures destroyed. It seemed like the young stark is been destroyed, hopeless and all alone. The forces of Thanatos was to most extent destroyed, with only a few left, he had no fear of failure.
Then there came people from the nearby towns, all young men, kids, everyone. For the first time Thanatos felt like he is not going to win the battle.
The battle starts again, but this time, tables have turned, Thanatos's men dead, his authority gone forever, his treasury completely looted. At that moment he was destroyed. He was moved to the prison, with no medical assistance and no food and water, until he begged for death. And according to the prophecy, the boy killed him.
After 20 years, after the night of mass murder of the Stark’s, the sun was shining on the country once again.
As they say, part of the journey is the end. There was an end to the streak of the one who shall not be named. And the young man, crowned king of the country.
But nobody know what lies ahead, maybe another Thanatos is waiting for a chance.

UDAY PALLI  

WHAT IF IT WAS TRUE!!!

I got up in middle of the night, I was sweating horribly. I realised that there was a power cut in our area. I looked out of the window, my neighbor and my best friend Matilda Joseph Robert was still awake, I could see light in her bedroom.
I looked at my wall clock it was an hour past midnight. I thought of going to her house and watch movie for some time. I locked my house and stepped onto the road.
It was pitch dark and could hear sounds of dogs howling nearby. I switched on my torch light and started going towards my neighbor’ house. Suddenly, I heard some heavy footsteps coming my way. My hands started shivering and I ran to the door and started ringing the doorbell continuously. But there was no answer. The footsteps were heard more nearer to me.
When I rang the bell for five more times, she then opened the door. I hurried inside and closed the door as soon as possible.
Seeing my condition my friend asked, “Are you ok? What happened to you? Why are you so scared?.” I asked, “What took you so long to open the door?” She said that she was wearing her head phones and was listening to music so she hadn’t heard the doorbell ringing. Then I narrated the whole incident that happened to me outside her house.
Then Matilda and I went to her bedroom to watch a sci-fiction film in her laptop. There was an alien in it seeing which both of us got scared. Suddenly, the bedroom door open ‘CRREEAAK….’
Our minds went blank, our skin turned pale. We did not see anyone near the door. Hairs were sticking out of our spines. Suddenly out of nowhere a thick smoke came and was taking in the form of a man. He wore a long coat, a hat, and had had a stick in his hand. His face had taken form.
He started to speak pointing towards me, “I have come here to take you to my world”. He had a very tough voice. I caught my friends hand tightly and replied, “No I am not coming anywhere. First tell me who you are, how did you come here and where are you going to take me?”.
He replied, “I am Judo, from Jalala planet. Our king and queen had a girl child. They named her Isabelle. After her first birthday, a witch had kidnapped the princess. The king ordered the troops to find and kill the witchand to find the princess. The witch had come to earth and had given the baby to an old couple who had no children, as she was about to die due to some illness. And that child is you”.
“Me...?” I replied. “Yes...” he continued, “we searched for you everywhere. But in vain. Fourteen years passed, once a good witch came to the palace and said that the lost princess was on earth. She had shown us your picture and came here to take you back.” Matilda said, “My friend is not going anywhere.”
Judo then waved his stick and everything went white. I felt dizzy and fell unconscious. When I opened my eyes I was on bed wearing a princess like dress with simple jewelry with tiara on head. The king and the queen were very happy to see me and they hugged me. I was happy but one thing kept poking me was my friend. On my fifteenth birthday they gave me an unusual surprise. My friend Matilda was in front of me. Suddenly everything went black.
When I opened my eyes I was on my bed and all that I had saw was a dream. It was my Fifteenth birthday indeed. When I went to school I had a great shock of my life. There was the new student and her name was Matilda too. She was exactly looking like the girl, whom I saw in my dream.
Was that all my imagination? Or was that just a coincidence?.........

~ S. LIKHITASHRI 

WATCH OUT FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Marinda was a little girl in her school. She obeyed whatever her teachers told.one day her class teacher told a value, we must always see calendar for dates and occasions because if we ask others for the date they might prank us and unknowingly we might have circumstances due to it. It may be the teacher, students or even principal.
The next day, the same class teacher told her that, as halloween was the next day they had to wear something scary. At home marinda was thinking what to wear and while eating she remembered what her sir told them to see calendar and not to trust anyone blindly . And when she checked the calendar it was actually god’s day and when she checked her diary in competitions section it was written that they had to wear and gods disguise . She understood that her sir was testing them.
The following day she disguised herself as a Goddess and went to school. At school she had lots of comments against her costume. When the winner was announced ,there was no 2nd and 3rd prize only 1st prize as there was only one who wore right costume . Sir wanted to check if students were really attentive and understood the moral he explained in class. That was the reason he told the students about the calendar previous day itself . From that day onwards every one including Marinda followed calender every day . And marinda had a say on her notice bored a “PRIZE OF MINE DEDICATED TO THE ONE WHO HELPED ME, “MY CALENDAR”…..and the prize was placed near it …..
-BY S.ANUSHKA. 

A trip to Amazon
One fine spring morning, a group of six went to camp in the woods of Amazon. All belonging to the same field of expertise, wildlife survival and archaeology. Knowing the possible threats of the wild and the plausible relationship with the chances of staying alive. Going into the deep was exciting but fully terrifying. The sun was setting down and there were few climatic changes, a thunderstorm was on its way.
The six of them were actually on a research of the deepest mysteries, untold from centuries. They knew that there path was not easy. But they knew that the end result is worth it. It was dark and they had to stay somewhere safe from the wild creatures and the thunderstorm, they spent a few hours and built a small shelter with bamboo and the wet sand, they set up a camp fire to keep the bears away. They took turns and had a guard on the others, while the others were asleep.
The next day, they began to go deep into the Amazon, and they split themselves into two groups of three each and decided to meet at a point by evening. And as the time passed and they went deep they had new challenges to face. There were traps set up, wild creatures, and the climatic conditions to face.
It was almost dark and they decided to get back to the camp, and only four came back. The remaining two were missing. They couldn’t tryto, it was too dark and had no sign where to start from.They were left with no other alternative, than to let it go. Slowly the storm got intense and they lost hope in their research but had a strong feeling that they’ll be finding out. The next morning, they cleared the camp and moved on towards the deep.
They yelled their teammate's name. They found their teammate’s belongings lying on the ground, but no sign of their friends. They kept moving as planned and continued to search for their friends. At a distance, they found some smoke in the air and followed it.
“Alas, we found you”, screamed one of them.They found the others. And they also found the ancient cave they were looking for. They knew that there will be traps set up on their way in, and decided one of them to stay back, just in case of any emergency. So five of them moved into the cave.
First they had to climb up a rock, they started to climb but one of them fell off from a great height. Next, they had to go through poison darts. Next, through an old bridge, partially damaged.
At last only two make it to the destination. “ yes!, We made it, we are finally at the doors which have the darkest secrets for centuries”, they tried to open the doors but stopped as they were some inscriptions on the door in ancient Egypt. They knew that the place had a connection with Egypt.
They decoded the inscription, it stated the way to open the door was to give away a soul with the blood on the door. One of them accepted to make the sacrifice. The door opens, and all they found was a diamond worth more than the earnings of the United States of America.
Where six went in and only two return. They make a place in the history of America.


- Uday Palli 

THE LETTER OF TRUST 

Dear son,
I had received the letter saying you have changed your house from your uncle who lives there. I am not sad that you changed your house without informing me, but I sad that your uncle had to tell me instead of you. I hope you are not hiding anything from me and I insist you please treat me as your friend and not as a strict, serious father, like my father was. I am sending you an attachment. I hope you take and spread knowledge and wisdom to a good use.
(Let us see the story)
There was a queen honey bee and her hundred bees. It was as usual work for them to collect nectar and store it. But for few weeks their nectar production was very less. They worked day and night, but after one hour passed their nectar would become half they had bought. One they had caught the bee stealing their honey and keeping for him self. He was caught and prisoned for one year. One year passed and he was released and even allowed to work. But whenever the bees went out for nectar he was not allowed. After few days he went asked the honey bee queen. She replied that these things were matter of trust and they had lost trust upon him and trust ones lost can’t be gained again.
Moral of story is :> trust needs to be gained over years but it can be lost within few moments.

S.Anushka 

THE BEAUTY OF LIFE
Our life is full for ups and downs like a roller coaster. Until and unless we struggle in life we cant reach our goals. Our life is just like a butterfly. In the initial stages of a butterfly it will be a caterpiller. Before going to hibernation stage it builds the strongest cocoon to its ability, so as to be safe during that period. When the right time arrives for it to come out, it will have to struggle by itself. It has to struggle to build its muscles strong to fly, then it come out to be a beautiful butterfly. An example that the nature also teaches us something is:
Long lone ago, there was a king named Chetan. He was very rude and selfish king. There was poverty all around in his kingdom. He never knew about this about because of his cruel and selfish ministers. The king used to roam his kingdom in his luxurious carriage dragged by seven beautiful horses and surrounded by horse men. So there was nothing to see outside, one day the king decided to go on hunting on his finest horse.
So the next day everything was arranged and the king was ready to go on his hunting. In the forest, the king was accompanied by six horsemen. All of them roamed around the forest for hours, but once the king spotted golden colored deer and he started riding his horse towards it. The deer ran so fast that after two minutes it went out of site, the king who was behind it also lost his way back to the kingdom. He also left his fellow horsemen behind. So, the king started roam in the forest all alone.
After sometime, he started to get hungry and soon the sky was becoming dark. He had to find his shelter for his night’s stay. Finally he came across a small hut. The king knocked on the door. An old lady opened the door. The old lady did not know he was a king. So, she thought he was her son and told him to sleep outside. The king caught very angry but couldn’t do anything so, he slept out.
The next morning the lady ordered the king to go to the forest cut and sell the wood in the market. He went very annoyed, he didn’t know how to cut wood but somehow he managed to do so. He sold wood in the market and bought back some money. He had been really tired after the day’s work. The woman made him a really delicious meal. He was very happy. Now slowly he changed his mind. After a few days the kings soldiers came searching for him. The king returned to his kingdom. Now he saw all the poverty, illness and death. He changed all the laws and removed all the cruel and selfish ministers. After a few months the kingdom became a beautiful palace had ever known.
The moral of the story is: the nature is the best teacher of life.

 -- S.Likhitashri