The Dark Forest: By Vaibhav

Mack Needle and Tom Hills were classmates at Bloom’s Academy. While watching a haunted show on television, Mack got inspired and told his friend Tom about visiting scary places. Tom was initially hesitant, but Mack convinced him saying they could become popular in their town. They started to search for possible scary places to visit and found a forest close to the Crimson Hills. Many news articles read that people who had visited that forest hadn’t come back.

Mack and Tom were both excited and nervous about the trip. They had not informed their parents and wanted to venture out on this trip by themselves. They packed the essential items such as water, snacks, torches, cameras, and helmets.

The next morning, they began traveling to the forest by bike. Mack decided to call it ‘The Dark Forest’. On reaching The Dark Forest, Mack started the video recording. Both of them were exploring the forest when they heard strange noises. Tom quickly looked around but saw nothing. They continued walking and saw a bridge that appeared very old.

Firstly, they tested the bridge by throwing some rocks. It broke one of the planks on the bridge. Since the bridge broke, they were forced to walk across the water stream. After a few minutes, they heard a deafening sound. Both of them were shocked to see that the bridge had disappeared. Mack immediately checked the video recording of them crossing the bridge, but the file had become corrupted. Tom got tensed and started scolding Mack as things were getting super weird!

Mack managed to convince Tom again, and they continued walking until they reached a village. They saw many humanoid-looking creatures walking around the village. Within a few minutes, one of the humanoid creatures started chasing them. They started to run towards their bike. Mack and Tom managed to get onto their bikes and sped away at lightning speed.

After reaching home, Mack learned from the news channel that many strange humanoid-looking creatures had been found near the Crimson Hills. Mack considered himself lucky to have escaped those strange creatures. He was extremely tired and went to bed. When he woke up the next morning, his mother was scolding him for watching stupid horror shows in the night. Mack realized that whatever he had experienced was a dream!!!

 

Written by:

Vaibhav

 

From Mysore to Africa: Written By Vihaan Ganjiwale

 

All the wild animals of Mysore zoo wanted to see Africa. They booked an animal airplane. The elephant wanted to fly the airplane, but it was too heavy. The cheetah was a good pilot, so it flew the plane. It was the first air trip for the animals and they enjoyed the flight very much.

They were all very happy to see animals roaming freely in the forest. It was very hot in Africa. They went back to their airplane and flew back to India, But they accidentally landed at a human airport in Bangalore. All the animals went Inside the airport and people got scared when they saw the wild animals. All the animals were puzzled and realized that they had landed at the wrong airport. They flew back to Mysore animal airport and finally returned to the zoo. They were very happy with the trip.

By:

Vihaan G

The indolent boy: by Aditya S

 

The indolent boy

There was once an indolent boy named Jack. Jack’s somniloquism always worried his parents. Jack was in middle school and was 14 years old. He lived in the USA. He had no friends in his school or near his house. Jack was indolent because he always got bullied by two teenagers in his school, Kris and Charles. This was a quotidian thing, and Jack wouldn't do anything to stop them. It would be a cold day in July when Kris and Charles would stop bullying him. One morning, Jack was walking to his school. When Jack reached school, he saw Kris and Charles waiting for him at the front gate. Kris and Charles walked up to Jack and started to act nice. Jack was confused, but then suddenly, Kris kicked him and Charles pushed him. Everyone in the school started to take pictures, make videos, and laugh at him. The bullies started laughing and went to their first class. Although Kris and Charles were bullies, they were very dumb. Jack was the smartest in his class. Jack’s first class was science. Kris and Charles were talking to each other, so the teacher picked them up, but then they started to mumble, and everyone started to laugh at them. Jack was sleeping in the class right behind Kris and Charles. The teacher asked Jack, ”What does velocity mean?” Jack simply answered the question, “How fast the speed is going in a particular direction.” The teacher was impressed to hear a kid say the correct answer even though the boy was asleep. Kris and Charles felt jealous, so they showed fists to Jack which meant that they were gonna beat him up at lunch. Kris came up with an idea to get Jack in trouble, “Jack looked up the answer in his laptop!” yelled Kris. The teacher was disappointed and sent Jack to detention. Jack tried to explain, but the teacher wouldn’t let him. Then the same things happened in all the periods. When it was lunch, Kris and Charles threw down Jack’s food and gave him a wedgie. Jack got mad but didn’t do anything about it; after all, he was an indolent boy. A mysterious guy wearing a mask and a top hat saw the scene. His name was Mr. Strange, and people called him the mind-reader. 

After school, Jack went home limping. He tripped a few times on the floor, which made his leg feel worse. He decided to go to a bus stop nearby. He saw a bus stop that would take him straight home, so he sat down and waited for the bus. After a while, the bus came and Jack went on it, but he didn’t know that Mr. Strange was on it. Jack’s leg felt a bit better sitting on the bus. He went to his house and took a rest. He started to do his homework and finished it at night since Jack was like a home bird and didn’t have friends to go out with. While Jack was finishing his homework, Kris and Charles were at a party. He filled a glass with water, and then he was gonna drink it when his mother called him. Mr. Strange was watching him from the window. After Jack went to his mother, Mr. Strange snuck into Jack’s house and put some magic salt in Jack’s water. This would make Jack feel stronger and braver. Jack came back into his room and drank the water because he felt parched. Mr. Strange had snuck before Jack came in and quickly ran back home. Jack went to his bed and fell asleep. 

The next morning, Jack woke up feeling a bit more zappy. He jumped out of his bed and went straight to his restroom and started to brush and take shower and then got ready for school. He found it a bit strange that he was more active than before. He took his clothes and wore them. He felt a bit confident that he would be able to beat Kris and Charles because he felt stronger. His leg felt better and he could run faster than before. Instead of taking the bus, he decided to run to school. He ran so fast that he made it to the second bus stop before the bus could reach it. He continued running and didn’t feel tired. He then made it to school just in time before class started. He took all his books for his first period. He saw Kris and Charles talking and making fun of Jack while he entered the class. Jack could hear almost everything Kris and Charles were talking about. Jack sat down in his chair and Kris and Charles leaned back to his table and said that they would beat him up at lunch and after school. When it was lunch, Jack took his food and sat next to Kris and Charles. Kris and Charles felt confused, so they started to say mean things to him. Kris threw Jack’s food on the floor and then so did Jack. Kris felt angry and tried to punch Jack, but then Jack held Kris’s hand. Charles tried to hit Jack, but then Jack saved himself by a hair's breadth. Then after lunch, Jack took his other books and went to his next class. Jack felt happy like never before. When school ended, Jack kept all his books back in his locker and went out of the school. He saw Kris and Charles, but then both of them started to run away. Jack felt happy that no one could beat him up. If Mr. Strange hadn’t helped him, Jack would have been indolent forever in his whole life.

Written by:

Aditya Shrivastav

Baker’s new recipe: By Aditya S

Chris felt angry and sad about his job because he wasn’t earning money.

Very few people came to his bakery. Chris used to have many people coming to his bakery, but later people didn’t like the cookies and stopped coming. Chris tried to come up with an idea that could make the cookies taste better and get more customers to his bakery. He took his recipe book and looked for recipes that could make the cookies taste better. He tried to use some of the recipes that were in the book, but for him, it didn’t taste better. Some of them were too bitter, too sour, and too sweet. He wanted one that could make the cookies taste perfect. Chris tried the last of the recipes that were in his book. He took the recipes and left them in the oven for a whole day. While the cookies were in the oven, Chris went to sleep and waited for 24 hours. He kept on thinking if this would make the cookies taste better. Would this get more people to come to his bakery? He kept worrying about the cookies, but soon after, he fell asleep. While Chris was sleeping, little sparkles were coming from the windows, but Chris couldn’t see them. Those sparkles from the lights were Fairies. 

The Fairies wanted to help Chris make the cookies taste better, without Chris knowing it. The Fairies put a bit of sprinkle on the recipes and made changes to the recipe book. Then the Fairies went back to their land. When the Fairies left, it was morning for Chris. He went to check on the cookies. While he was walking to the cookies, on the table, he saw that the recipe book was different from yesterday. He then tasted the cookies and found them perfect, but he still wondered how the recipe book and the cookies were different. He thought that someone had sneaked into his bakery and swapped the books and the cookies, which didn’t happen. He looked at the recipe book very carefully to see if it was swapped, but when he checked the other recipes he tried, they were all the same. Chris didn’t think that he had bad eyesight, or he mis-saw it. He wondered and wondered how the recipe book and the cookies had changed.

After Chris tried the recipe book, he knew it would get many customers back. He had a Ballpark figure for signs, boards, and flyers all over his town. When people saw the boards and signs,  they went to Chris’s bakery. “If I don't like this Meringue, you have to give me back my money!” yelled an old grumpy man. “Sure,” replied Chris. The old grumpy man tried the cookies and felt joyful. He ate all the cookies in less than 2 minutes. “Wow, I like these cookies. You don’t need to give back my money. These cookies are better than an old rabbit’s carrot!” said the old grumpy man. “Thanks,” replied Chris. The old grumpy man told all his friends to come to visit his bakery shop. All the cookies tasted very good. A million and one people in town went to try the cookies in the bakery, and they all liked it. Chris became the affluent man in town, but he still kept wondering how the recipe book had changed and how the taste of the cookies had changed too. After the fairies saw Chris being befuddled about how the whole new thing happened, they felt bad for him because he kept sleeping late. So the fairies put some sprinkles onto Chris’s head to make him sleep. They went near him quietly and slowly put the sprinkles on him, but Chris turned his head around. The fairies quickly went hiding and back to Chris’s head and put the sleeping sprinkles on his head. Chris fell asleep and the fairies put some sprinkles that would make him forget about all of the things that were changed by the fairies. Chris woke up in a happy mood. He wasn’t feeling too well; he felt a little confused after the fairies put sprinkles on his head. But he forgot about it and went to open his Delicatessen. At Chris’s bakery shop, there was a whole crowd. Chris was happy to see them, so he gave all the new cookies to the people in the town.

By:

Aditya Shrivastav