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Chapter 2 - Our Ride to Fantasies..

This all started with John's new year party, where we got drunked and decided to play "truth and dare". Well, this game is always a trouble when all four of us play together. Although Ellie is not that daring but when I'm with her, it's girls versus boys or Ellie and Martina v/s John and drake. Oh God! I can't imagine what we did that night, we dared John and Drake to rob Mr. Smith's new discovery. Mr. Smith is a well-known scientist who works for the wold's leading gaming company, we were aware that he's upto something very big but on the other hand very stupid to think of the circumstances that can occur due to our brainless behavior. Mr.Smith was not at home that night, the lights were closed and his house was not appearing less haunted to us. Me and Ellie were cheering them to go inside and complete their dare while John and Drake were confused but they were trying to show us how confident they are with shivering bodies but confident voices. However, they managed to jump up the house and went inside where me and Ellie were alone outside (scared and curious) to know what's happening inside. 30 minutes passed, we were clueless "what happened with Drake and John? Why aren't they responding?" asked Ellie. Me saying "how would I know" chewing my nails. "That's it! let's go inside. We cannot leave them alone in trouble" said Ellie. I was also worried, so we decided to go inside too and we see them both playing games and eating popcorn. Uuuuhhh!!! so this was making them so busy? we were worried like hell.Ellie said, "Guys lets just go from here. If we got caught, we'll be in a big trouble.John said, "Oohh hello madam, don't trick us. We'll leave once we find his latest discovery. Buhahahahaha." Drake, "thinking like a scientist, as you know I am his student and a junior scientist, I think there must be a secret room somewhere here. We should find it." All of us agreed and started pressing and turning everything. Ellie being tired, sat on the couch dragging it on the floor and look what we found. There was something on the floor, we opened it but no use, there is a code inside. We cannot go inside if we don't guess the code in 3 chances. "Damn! john shouted, obviously he'll keep his discovery safe but what now? will we loose??" Drake, "no! we won't. I can take help from my genius mind. John, "how can I underestimate you my brother? Afterall, you are a born genius. You've won so many awards in almost every competition.You can do this, only you can do this." I warned the boys to not do this because if we failed, there can be an alarm or a trap. On which Drake agreed, "yes, you are right, so i'll only try it twice, if it doesn't open, we'll leave. John, "okay okay, just do it brother. Drake failed for the first time hitting his hand on the floor and tries for the second time with shaking hands and deep breaths, and guess what?? the door opens and our mouths too. Drake and john started dancing and making noises, but hello?? the dare is not over yet, said Me and Ellie. Ellie, "hey, look there is a slide to go inside. huhhh, who will go first?" and whoop there she goes inside with a slight hit by John saying "you will". All of us went inside but there is no light, we can't see each other. Hello?? Hello?? yelling everyone. Suddenly a torch light opens, how can we forget? drake always comes with his scientific bag pack. Now, we can find the main switch and we did. "wwoowww, this looks so magical". It was looking like as if we've entered the world of games. John, "But what is that?" Ellie, "why it this covered?" Me, "It looks so big". While we were just wondering what's inside, Drake removes the cover. Drake, "so this game is his latest discovery han? what's new? Another game? I am just so much dissapointed. Why does he not make something different?" John, " this is so big, we can't move this thing. So, I will consider this as a win." Ellie was so scared that she wanted to run away as soon as possible giving him the win but I was not ready to loose this opportunity. We didn't took this risk to just see this. We will be the first one to play this. John plays the game, the game has 5 players but we are only 4. let's do it! we 4 are enough to play this. The game had 5 levels and 5 lives. We didn't knew what will happen if we loose all our lives, but who cares? We were so excited to play this game. Okay, so had to give our names as animals. So, presenting Drake as Eagle, John as Wolf, Ellie as a rabbit and me as a lioness. First stage was "jungle survivor", second stage was "Dark survivor", third stage was "the modern world survivor", fourth stage was "zombie survivor" and the last stage was "Storm survivor". These all stages were so scary but we are players pro max, we've played and won so many video games, we'll with this too. The game asked us to stand on the positions of each player, but what happened next was unbelievable. The floor of the position where we were standing opened and we all went inside. Thank God! we were together but unconscious. A voice comes, Hello, gamers. Welcome to the world's first realistic game. You all are on stage 1 which is jungle survivor. There is a golden box for each of you, which contains all the instructions regarding all the stages, but you have to find it first and earn it. We were all so shocked and stress but Drake was so damn excited to know that his favourite scientist has discovered something really big. Well, that's so childish of him. We are in a big trouble. However, now we have to win this game to get out of this hell. We were all in jungle but there was something wrong with this jungle. We could hear animals talking. Yeah right, they were talking like humans. We could see a turtle moving and saying "hello guyz, welcome to this jungle" very lazily. There was a colourful bird who welcomed us too with his beautiful dance. They were our helpers. But they didn't knew anything about the game. They only knew about the jungle which was not enough. We had to find that golden box for which we were walking, searching and asking every animal but we could feel as if we are being followed by someone. We strategized and caught a fox who was following us, then our animal friends told us about his worth. He knew the secrets of the jungle, he might also know about those golden boxes, but he never works free of cost. Each player was asked to give a belonging to him, which we did and we got to know about a golden tree which bares golden fruits, but it is not easy to reach that tree so easily. So, john grabbed the fox as we might need him to find that tree. Though the fox was not happy with this but when Ellie talked sweetly with him, his heart melted. The fox was guiding us but he was scared as he knew the dangers awaiting for us. "The danger will start from here. Nobody will eat or drink anything from here. Everything is poisonous. No matter how much hungry you are. No matter if you are forced by someone, always remember don't eat", said the fox. We kept on walking, but it was getting very hard for us to keep walking without eating. The fruits were so juicy and that fruity smell. uuuhhh!! I saw a snake eating an orange and a monkey eating banana. I could smell a lie, it could be a revenge by that cunning fox. We can see animals are alive even after eating the fruits. That's enough! I will eat what I want. "Don't blame me if you die. Why don't you all eat the fruits and let me go?", said the fox. Drake, "No guys, we can't take any risk. we can't loose our life even before starting the game." I have to do this, after all I don't want to die before marriage. Look at John, he's always hungry but he's so composed and controlled. Well, but looks like he's going to lose his control after sometime, I could predict looking at his red eyes, lost mind and loose body. "I cannot resist now, i want food", slowly said by john and he ate it. We lost him, he was quite, laying on the floor after he fainted. His eyes were closed and his body instantly got blue. We were crying when his body got back to his normal skin color and his eyes opened. We all shouted "ghost ghost" but then we heard a voice. Mr. Wolf has 4 lives left now. oohh shitt! he now have four fingers left both in hands and legs. It was sad but we kept on walking, suddenly we hear a victory sound and a voice saying, "congratulations, you've crossed the poison world." we got 2 bricks each as an award. Well, we couldn't imagine the use of the bricks but we were happy that now we can eat something after a whole day. We ate alot of fruits and drank enough water, we ever stored some in our pockets. As we moved toward our destination, we saw that there was a broken bridge , which was huge. "We cannot go further", said John. Drake, "that's not possible, there must be a way, we've to find it. Since, we are the first people to come here, no one ever broked it. So it is a part of the game. We've to figure it out guyz. Think!!" I saw the bricks and randomly said, what if we join the bricks to cross it? John, "you are a genius lady. please don't use your mind. We have few bricks that can never be enough to make a bridge and walk through it." Ellie got angry and threw her brick on the bridge gap saying, "so why did they gifted us this useless thing?" We were amazed to see that the brick was on air, it didn't fell down. So, we can use one brick to stand on it and one brick to make the second step. Ooh Ellie, you always makes a way for us unconsciously. But we had some animal frnds too that didn't got the gifts. So john carried the frog with him while Drake kept the turtle in his pocket and the bird could fly. Ellie got so excited after we praised her that she said, "why do you guys not use your brain? If the brick can stay in air, we can also stay in air, we don't have to use brick, it will be time consuming. So, lets go guys". She fall down when she stepped without the brick, but this time we were not crying as we knew we have 5 lives. We were yelling "Ellie Ellie", when we saw Ellie hanging on the broken bridge. We moved according to the strategy and Drake managed to save her, although it was so horrifying experience but we crossed it and the victory sound again. This time, we got glasses. when I wore them, I couldn't see anything, but when I took them off, I saw Ellie had only 4 fingers indicating 4 lives. It again seemed to be a useless gift. However, we moved forward but wait what?? There is another world some steps far from us, which is dark. Dark as possible. "This is the darkest part of the jungle, there is no life here in this part but there are unknown dangers here", said the fox. John and Ellie has lost their one life each, this was so complicated. We were playing the game without even knowing about it. But, the only way to get rid of this was to win it. We were near to the dark jungle when we met a wind storm, so we decided to wear our glasses. "God!! can you guys see what I can see?" Drake shouted. we could clearly see everything inside dark jungle, so the glasses were not useless, without those glasses we were unable to see anything. "Now, the dangers won't be unknown", said Ellie. The animals could also see everything inside the dark jungle, which was quite surprising. Well, we wore the glasses and entered the dark jungle. There were different traps, wet mud, bullying animals and poisonous smell. As we were moving forward, the smell was increasing and paralyzing our minds. We were getting lazy and brainless by the time. Drake was still the smartest among us as his mind was extra sharp, we were all following him but suddenly my leg got trapped in the grass and I shouted "help". Everybody stopped and tried to help me but it was getting tighter and painful. Soon it started growing and covered all my body, squeezing me badly. It was so painful that Drake suggested me to kill myself in order to get rid of this costing me 1 life. I had no option so I ate a poisonous flower, died and tarrraaaa !! I am back again with only 4 lives left. Now, only drake has 5 lives among us, we had to be very careful with and save our lives for the upcoming dangers, so we were very careful this time. We were walking again and getting more lazy and brainless by the time, Drake was leading us but li'll did he knew that there is a huge trap waiting for him. One step more and he got trapped in a pitfall, it was so deep that we could hardly see him. He fainted after falling and he was also badly injured. We kept calling his name but when he didn't responded for a long time, we threw water at him from the top. Finally, he woke up but since he was badly injured, he was unable to get up and it was also impossible to get out of that pitfall, so he had to give his one life to join us again. Drake was back all healthy, yet sad as we all had 4 lives remaining. "We cannot lose any more life on this stage", said John. We were more determined now as we held each others hand and started walking more carefully with our one foot testing the danger and then we applied the pressure on that place, so that we don't get trapped this time. Finally, we could see a golden light coming, which we followed and we got out of the dark jungle. The victory voice again. Yahoo!!! we jumped in the air and a group high five ofcourse. The fox moved forward and took us to the golden tree baring 5 big golden apples. We were so hungry that we wanted to eat those apples. "Wait there young people!. These are not just fruits but a key to win this game. Once you earn these apples, they will fall down and turn into golden boxes", the tree said. We never heard any tree talking. Drake asked the tree how to earn these apples. "By making me happy. First of all, you have to sacrifice one member from your team for my happiness, other three will get these tasty apples", the tree replied. "We'll go together, there is no way we'll sacrifice anyone", said Ellie. "If you didn't chosed any one member, you all will be dumped, you all will loose and therefore, you won't be able to get out of this game ever. Be smart", the tree said. We could never imagine sacrificing any other person, so we volunteered our names to save our friends. We all had tears in our eyes but then the tree laughed and said, "I like true friendship, I am happy." We were clueless what will happen next but what happened next made us mad. The tree started shaking itself with happiness and the fruits fall down, which then turned into golden boxes. We heard the victory voice agsin saying, "congratulations!! you've successfully crossed stage 1". We were so happy and soon we opened our golden boxes. Each golden box was describing each players specification and power, there was a letter and a band. We had to wear our animal band to receive the specifications and powers of the animal we chosed in the starting of the game. The letter was showing us the map for each stage and description of each stage. We wore our bands and it felt so different, we could feel some animal power within us. Drake got strong eyes, he could fly and see everything clearly on the ground while flying high on sky. John got the power of a wolf, he got strong a strong body, fast running legs and strong sense of smell. Ellie got strong hearing capability. She could hear the dangers from far and run fast. I got strong like a lioness. I could also run fast and hear/smell the dangers from far. We all were feeling like super heroes. According to the map, we had to go inside the tree's mouth to reach level 2 which was dark survivor. By it's name, we could guess that we might enter a world which might be similar to the dark jungle, but we entered a place which was like a real world yet opposite to the real world. We fall down to a place full of witches, black magicians and ghosts. Witches had long nose, big eyes, pointed lips and irritating voices. Magicians were all bald, their eyes were deep and dark, they had skulls in their hand and they were continuously murmering some magic words. The ghosts were crying and flying in the air, they were everywhere and everyone was damn scary. According to the letter of the golden box, we were supposed to act normal among them. We had to pretend as if we are like them. For this, we entered here with different costumes. John and Drake were dressed like black magicians whereas me and Ellie were dressed like witches. Our powers were a curse for us here in this stage as we could hearing those creatures so clearly was making us sick, but we had to act normal. According to the map, we had to find Marry's house. Marry was a witch who fall in love with a normal boy, who got killed by a black magician (who was in love with Marry). The black magician burried his dead body in Marry's house, while Marry killed herself by cutting her braid after she failed to find her love. Marry is a ghost witch and the most powerful witch of this world who don't let anyone enter her house. On the other hand, she cries everynight for her love and gets more powerful with each passing night. We have to go to Marry's house, talk to her, tell her about her lover's killer, find the killer, ask him about the death body's location, bring the killer to Marry and enter our next level. Well, that sounded like a joke. John, "They can't expect humans to fight ghosts, black magicians and a witch". Ellie, "yes Drake, you must be joking, they can't write this". Drake, "Guys, don't forget, we are not humans, we are "superhumans". we can do this!!". We had no option, we had to do this obviously, we didn't wanted to stay there for the whole lifetime. We followed the map, unexposing our identities and powers and kept walking. There were times, when we had to use our powers for running, hearing and smelling. Finally, we were outside Marry's house but beleive me no one was ready to go inside, yet we had to and we did. Although, we could hear loud scary voices of cry and anger bht John being a gentleman rang the bell. We were like "Seriously John?" , we could have gone inside hiding ourselves but well, she stopped crying and asked, "Who's there? Is this you Robert??" John again being a gentleman was about to reply when we covered his mouth with our hands to stop him. Suddenly, the door opened with the same creepy voice like in horror movies. We walked in and the door closed. Asusual, this was so predictable, she won't let the door open for us to run. Sigh, we kept walking and suddenly she appears. "uuuuumm humans!! i can't wait to taste you. By the way, you must know about me and this place", she politely said. Raising her voice with anger she said, "Then why did you came here?? To disturb me? To make fun of me? Why???" She chocked our necks and raised us in the air with only one hand gesture. We all were helpless, our powers were useless infront of her power. We were unable to fight from her and suddenly she started sucking Ellie's soul and threw us all down. We were coughing madly and trying to stop her but she finished Ellie in seconds, then she baught me closer to eat my soul while in the meantime, Ellie comes back with remaining 3 lives only. The witch threw me again and came near to Ellie. "Who are you? I just ate you and you are back unharmed? How is this possible", she shouts loudly and starts making loud noises which starts breaking everything in the houses. Drake, "I know who killed your love". Witch stops, "who?" How do you know this? She was about to grab Drake when Drake flied from that place to another. "Listen to us first. Be calm. We are hear to help you. Talk to us. Don't harm us or you'll regret", Drake said. The witch was angry but curious to know the killer of her love. So, we made a deal, she'll not harm us and will let us go once we tell her about the killer. John, "But how can we trust you? what it you kill us after knowing the truth?". "If you don't trust me, i'll kill you right away", the witch threatened. We told her that her best friend who knew black magic killed her love. The witch got mad after hearing this and she wanted to take out her anger by eating our souls, forgetting her promise, but then we told her that her love's death body is burried somewhere in her house and his killer is still alive. We also realized her that she'll never be able to find that death body and her enemy if she'll not let us go. She was not trusting us first as she was concerned that if she'll let us go, we might betray her but then when we gave her our loving fox as a deposit, she agreed. Although the fox was not happy but he was so scared that his voice was not coming out of his voice box. Well, but we needed any belonging of the black magician to reach him which should be with Marry according to the letter. She remembered that at the night of her lover's death, the black magician proposed her by giving her his own valuable ring, but when she rejected him telling him about her love, he killed her lover. She gave us that ring and we left that haunted house. We could smell the ring and reach the black magician "Juda" as soon as possible using our super powers. But to reach him early, we decided to part our ways. Everybody was moving in a different dirrection to get "Juda". John was running like a wolf when he saw a beautiful witch, he got distracted by her beautiful scent and long hairs and he started following her with hearts in his eyes. Ellie was running and digging like a rabbit but not as fast as me because I had the powers of a lioness. I was running but in dark when I see ghosts, I get scared so I dedided to run with Ellie matching her speed. Drake was the fastest among us as he could fly and he founded Juda earlier. With his strong eyes and mind, he could see a place in the middle of the jungle which was not jungle but empty as if something is there which is hidden by magic. He sees a black cat, walking and showing his necklace to enter inside. A black owl was also coming near to the house, wearing the same necklace but he was unable to go inside as Drake got him. Drake kidnapped the black owl, took his necklace and interrogated him to know more about Juda. The owl told him that Juda is a very powerful black magician, he keeps black animals as his servants by giving them this neclace. This necklace hypnotizes its users and the users becomes slaves of Juda. The moment you took out this necklace, i got released by his black magic and now I am not his servant anymore. Drake asked him if there is any way to wear this necklace and not get hypnotized? The owl replied that there is only one way to not get hypnotized and that is to dip this necklace in cold water. Cold water and sunlight are unfavourable to black magic. Drake asked if there is any way he could get Juda out of his house. The owl replied, "Hahaha, this is impossible. Juda never comes out of his house because he knows he's secure in his house. His powers are like other magicians outside his house but inside his house, he is the king. Drake asked the owl that there should be any way, any weakness or anything that can force him to come outside. The owl replied that yes there is one thing that he loves the most, its the painting of a women in his room that he keeps on stearing. One day, when I was cleaning his room, I accidently touched the painting and he suddenly appeared in the room chocking my neck that how did I touched the painting?, although he was not there in his room, still he got to know that I touched it. I don't know how? This much information was enough, so he let the owl go. Meanwhile me and Ellie reached there too and we found Drake. Drake told us everything and we decided to find a black magician who can help us in this matter. Well, but John was missing so, we had to find John first and we did found John but not alone. He was holding the hand of a witch who was beautiful surprisingly. I couldn't resist myself and I asked her that how come she is pretty when the others are horrible? Oops. The witch replied, "Hi, I am Amanta. I am a new comer and I haven't started my witch schooling yet in which we eat animals, drink blood and do other black magic, which spoils our look but makes us powerful". John kissing her hand, "Baby, you'll not go to that school. okay??" Drake interrupted him to tell him about Juda which was also heard by Amanta and she dedided to help us. She took us to her granny and told her to convert us in a black animal. Her granny did a black magic on 4 rings, so that when we wear it, we can turn into black animals. The granny said that we'll have to hide our rings from Juda otherwise he'll recognise us. Wehen we told granny about the painting, she told us that black magicians keep their souls in other non-living things, this is why they are immortal. So, he might have kept his soul in that painting. Our plan was to go inside and bring that painting out or destroy that painting. In this whole time, we forgot that we have only one necklace, so all of us cannot go inside. Only one of us will go. Drake wanted to go inside as he was the one to get that necklace, so he dipped the necklace in cold water and kept some cold water inside his clothes as he knew it was Juda's weakness. He wore the ring and the necklace and converted into a black owl and entered in Juda's house. He could see all the animals were working in his house like servants, no animal was talking to each other, no animal was fighting or making any noise. Suddenly, Juda comes out of his room and walks on the stairs, the animals bent and stopped working. He called the black cat and asked her to arrange the dinner for him. She replied, "Okay Master". All the animals were calling him master with their heads and eyes down. Nobody was looking at him. This was strange. Juda ordered the cat to send the owl for cleaning his room. The cat sent Drake to clean his room while Juda was having dinner. He went to his room but couldn't see the painting. This was his first and last chance to find the painting, if he couldn't, Juda will take his one life and run away. He started finding the painting and he saw something very strange. One wall was quite different from the other as if it is covered with a cloth. He could see an end of a cloth which he tored and he found the painting. As soon as he uncovered the painting, Juda appeared. He chocked my neck and asked me how I found the painting. Drake replied, "Master, I was cleaning this wall, it was dirtier than other walls. I wanted to make you happy." Juda believed him, threw him down and ordered him to leave his room. He couldn't leave the room so he threw the cold water and took a big candle. He kept the candle close to the painting and threatened Juda to go back or he'll burn the painting. Juda was already sweating as if the fire was on him and not the paiting, so he stepped back and asked Drake to leave the painting. As Juda stepped back, Drake took the lantern too and kept lantern on one side of the painting while candle on the other side. Then drske asked Juda, "Now, tell me where did you burried Robert?". Juda was so cunning that he denied recognizing Robert. But when Drake bought fire nearer, he told him that he is burried in her garden near the grave of Marry's beloved dog. Drake told Juda to go outside his house otherwise he'll fire or tour the painting. Juda was a self loving person, so he came outside with Drake, but when he stepped out of his house, he turned into an old man. Drake told us to reach Marry's house while he was carrying Juda on his back and holding the painting in his hands. We reached Marry's house but John was again missing. This time, we couldn't wait for John and we decided to take out Robert's death body. We took Robert's skeleton inside Marry's house and handed over the painting to Marry. Marry burned that painting and killed Juda. She hugged Robert's skeleton and told us to burry her death body (which was in her bedroom) with Robert's death body in her garden near her dog's grave. When we were burrying them together, John came losing his one more life as the witch wanted him to die and live with her forever but John ran away. The witch was still after him, so we speed up the work and burried them together. After burrrying them, a bright light came from their grave and we could see their happy souls saying, "you helped us find our love, we'll take you to the next level of this game. Hold our hands." We all held their hands and reached the 3rd stage of the game which was "modern world survivor".