Monday, January 29, 2007

Story 1 -In Search of An Adventure

There was once a boy called Looka. He lived in a huge city and for some strange reason he was quite bored of living there. If you asked him why, he would say, “It’s because nothing adventurous happens in a city!” Now if you live in a city you would know that is quite untrue. In a big city, it can be quite an adventure crossing the road. But, our young friend Looka didn’t quite see it that way, he was looking to fight pirates and robbers and nasty gangs. Of course, his parents would never let him stay out for too long so he never met any blackhearted criminals, but Looka was always on the search for them. He would jump into alleys; look around corners in the hope of finding an adventure.

One day as young Looka was walking down a busy street, he saw a strange looking man. He wore a long overcoat, with a black hat that almost covered his face. All that Looka could see on his face was a big, black moustache.

“A villain,” whispered Looka to himself, “Surely this man is up to something really bad! I think I’ll follow him!” So, Looka began shadowing the man, he felt like a real detective. His heart beat faster, he breathed deep. “This will be a great adventure!” Looka told himself.

The mysterious man in the overcoat went quietly through the streets. He did look quite strange; it was a too hot a day to be wearing such a thick overcoat. People on the streets did stare at him, but then in a city people are too busy rushing from one place to another to be bothered about strange looking people. Everyone left him alone, that except Looka, who kept following him.

“He must be an international spy,” thought Looka, “Only international spies wear such overcoats.” He had seen international spies on television and he was sure that this is how they looked!

The man walked on, then he entered a rickety old building, Looka followed him. The stairs of the building looked as if they might just crash, but the strange man rushed up. Looka waited for to go up, and then followed him. A voice went through his head, his mother had told him never to go into strange buildings, “They can be very, very unsafe,” she had told him. But, Looka was in search of his adventure and so he crept up the building slowly, trying not to make a sound!

The building was scary, there were strange sounds going on as Looka was climbing up. It creaked and moaned, Looka was sure that it would break. But the brave boy went ahead. It looked like an abandoned building; there was no one in there.

Looka went up, then he looked around in the corner he saw the evil looking man, so he quickly hid behind a door. The door was rickety; it looked as if it would fall! The man turned around, and suddenly to Looka’s dismay he seemed to look at him. “Who’s there?” the man shouted. “Show your face!”

Looka ran as fast as his he could! The weird stranger ran behind him. The stairs and the wooden floors made a lot of noise. “CRR, CRR, went the floor! “Oh dear! I think the house will break,” shouted Looka. The man behind Looka yelled “Stop!” but the boy was too scared.

They both began racing down the stairs. The house moaned and groaned, “STOP BOY!” Yelled the man; But Looka was not ready to listen to him. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him, not stopping even to catch his breath! He could hear the steps of the strange looking man chasing him. “Oh dear,” thought Looka, quite upset with himself, “Why did I ever come looking for adventure?

Just then, the house began to shake and shiver, Looka could hear the floorboards groan, “This is terrible, the house is about to crash!” screeched Looka, but there was no one around to help him!

Creek, went the house, the stairs began to shake and break, “Oh God, Please help me!” yelled Looka. Suddenly he found he began to roll and to his surprise, the strange man that he was shaking fell down ahead of him. It seemed something had hit him on his head and he had fainted. Looka didn’t know what to do, he was relieved that the man could no longer attack him, but he had to save him. With all his strength Looka began to drag him out! It was really difficult, and Looka’s arms ached.

Finally, Looka was on the street, there was a whole load of people gathered there. The fire brigade had come over there, blaring its sirens and one of the firemen saw Looka. He ran towards him, “Come here kiddo,” he said gently, he pulled Looka towards him. A stretcher quickly carried the strange and unconscious man across the road!

Looka was shivering in fear, but the still had to know whom the strange man was. So he crossed the street behind the stretcher. The paramedics put quickly took off his coat, and dark glasses. Looka could hear one of the paramedics whisper, “This is a false mustache, let’s pull it off!” As soon as it was pulled off, Looka cried in astonishmentm, “Oh, man, this is the famous rock singer Gory Goo! What’s he doing here?”

Of course there was a big uproar after the identity was discovered of the strange man. It turned out that Gory Goo the rock singer was here, because this was where he grew up. He did not want to get any of his bodyguards and came alone as he was tired of never being alone. Gory Goo, was very happy that he was saved, Looka received a bravery award, he even got a lifetime of free tickets to any Gory Goo concert, anywhere in the world! With air tickets thrown in, once again all free. Looka was very happy. “I really think I’ll make a great detective!” he told everyone he knew!

1 comment:

Pranaadhika Sinha Devburman - Bat said...

I can SOOOO relate to looka's character.. blame it on Blyton