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Prity Jha

Children Stories Fantasy Thriller

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Prity Jha

Children Stories Fantasy Thriller

Pollumon

Pollumon

2 mins
227


When S.S.P. Rajesh Kumar with his team arrived at Kadampur at around nine at night, he found some young men sitting around a bonfire at the village square with some locally available weapons in their hands. Two of them were playing a large rough-leather drum the sound of which could be heard from miles away. They told him that for some days a strange animal. looking like a half cat and half human, had been visiting the village at night and attacking the villagers if they happened to come out of their houses.. So far it six people and more twelve cattle had been killed in the village. All the people were in fear of getting attacked and losing their life.


Rajesh Kumar patiently listened to the villagers and assured them of providing all possible help from the administration. He then ordered his men to spread all around the village and take their position. He told them that now they had come and whatever animal it was, it would not escape from them. Soon its game would be over.


Just when he was talking to the villagers, they heard heard rustling of leaves in the bushes beind them at some distance. It was followed by a loud noise and scratching of the hard ground. They all strained their guns in that direction. The villagers too picked up their weapons. They remained in that position for quite some time, but that noise was not heard again.


Rajesh Kumar was an intelligent police officer. Most of his life had spent in dealing with hardcore criminals. He knew their tricks. This animal , he thought, was also not less tricky than those criminals. He also felt that two large balls like things were fixed at them from behind the bushes. Not taking much time to assess the danger, he quickly took out his revolver and fired at it.


It all happened in a fraction of seconds. Later when the searched the place in the light of the torches made of rags, they found nothing but a few footmarks of the animal.

" Perhaps, the bullet has hit the animal. We've to wait for the morning to search for it, " the S.S.P. was heard saying to his team members.

The incident shook their courage. They knew that the next day was going to be very tough for them, as a wounded animal would be more dangerous for them.


" Now that it has got a hint of what we can do to it, it may not attack from the front. We require to be extra-careful tomorrow, " he warned them.


Next morning, soon after the daybreak, Rajesh Kumar and his team entered the jungle. They took Sukharam with them to lead them in the jungle. Other villagers had been warned to keep in their houses as the animal might attack them from anywhere. Might be it was still hiding somewhere in the village.


The S. S. P. and his team ransacked the entire jungle, and at last, they found it lying flat in a ditch. The S. S. P. 's bullet had hit it right in the chest.


The dead body was dragged out of the jungle and hung from a tree at the village square for the villagers to see their culprit.


Later in the day, they took it to the city. Since such an animal had never been sighted before. It was like a half cat and half human. A special team of biologists were formed in order to find out about it. After a hard reasurch they they unanimously arrived at a conclusion in accordance with that it was the result of the increasing pollution. According to them, it was a demon born out of the increasing pollution in the world.


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