Vaanya Tewathia

Children Stories

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Vaanya Tewathia

Children Stories

Mystery of the Royal Crown

Mystery of the Royal Crown

8 mins
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In Aurora Girl’s Hostel, the summer vacations had started. Four sisters, namely, Linda, Laura, Lucy, and Lizzie with their cute dog, Honey – a golden poodle – were very eager about their holidays. They crossed a hallway full of chattering girls and excited teachers. The sisters had not planned, what to do in these holidays. They boarded their train to reach home in Brighton, England. When they reached there, they rushed to meet their mother – Clare, who was waiting at the train station with a smile. She welcomed her girls and hired a taxi to reach their house near the beach. After reaching home, the girls rushed in and looked all around their sweet home, pleased to be back.


That afternoon, the girls decided to visit a history museum in their town. While they were exploring the museum, they came across Ms Olivia, their old history teacher. Ms. Olivia was a young, fair and gorgeous woman, with shiny brown hair. They enjoyed the visit together and had lunch, said goodbye to Ms Olivia and went back to their home after their shopping.


The girls gathered in Linda’s room and had fun playing games, quizzes and having snacks. It was soon dinner time, and their mother had an elaborate menu. She served a veg salad with mayonnaise, cold ham, scones, cheese cutlets and fruitcake. Nancy, the cook, had given Honey a bone to feed. Then the sisters went to their rooms and got busy with their own things, while Honey curled up in Laura’s room.


While Laura was writing her diary, her phone rang loudly in her pocket. She took her phone out and saw that the call was from Ms Olivia. Laura picked her phone, surprised that she would call at this hour. Ms. Olivia talked in an excited tone. In her call, she mentioned about a fantasy land – The Land of Stars – where the stars and clouds are made. She said that the land’s queen, Hannah, knew her. She informed Laura that she is a secret agent who researches about fantasy worlds. She wants the sisters to join her in this secret agency. Then she told Laura that Queen Hannah has invited her on her birthday celebrations in the Land of Stars. “I wish to take you all along!” said Ms Olivia. Laura was flabbergasted! She called her sisters and they all rushed in her room. Laura told everything to her sisters, but none of them believed her. At the same time, the phone rang again. It was Ms Olivia calling again. Laura picked the call in front of all the sisters and Ms Olivia told her when to come and where. After this call, the surprise changed into a delight for the all the sisters. They agreed to join the celebrations and started planning. When they realized it was late night, all of them went to bed.


The next morning, they got ready for breakfast. After the breakfast, Linda asked her mother if they could go with Ms Olivia to the birthday celebration. Their mother agreed and helped them to pack their bags. Next day, the girls dressed up, picked their stuff and got on their bikes to leave for Mcdonalds, the meeting place, which Ms Olivia told in the call. They had a quick snack with Ms Olivia there. Ms Olivia gave a different colored rose pendant to each of the girls. The pendants were a way to reach the Land of Stars. They all then chanted


“Pendant Pendant make us glow

To the land of stars we want to flow

Get us to the world twinkling and far

Shining land and bright with star"


The sisters along with Ms Olivia found themselves floating in the air and their pendants glowing. The next moment, they found themselves in the Land of Stars!


They looked around and saw lots of flowers with pixies fluttering around them. The sky was a pale pink with fluffy white clouds and the trees were loaded with sweets. The sisters were spellbound. Ms Olivia smiled and said, “Let’s go to Queen Hannah’s palace!” The girls looked confused. “How will we reach there?” questioned Linda. Ms Olivia winked and said “Let’s take the help of some locals!”, and saying so, she went over to some pixies and asked for their help. The pixies thought for a while, nodded and called three giant butterflies with all kinds of exquisite patterns. Each butterfly could carry two people, so Linda and Laura boarded the orange butterfly, Lucy and Lizzie boarded the blue butterfly, while Ms Olivia took the green one. They all set off and soon reached the palace.


The majestic masterpiece towered in front of the girls, as they stared in disbelief. The butterfly riders got down and headed inside the palace. Queen Hannah welcomed them, showed them around the palace, served them food and offered them to stay for the night. The sisters had a great, but tiring day. They couldn’t believe that they would attend the birthday celebrations of the Queen tomorrow. Ms Olivia suggested a good night’s rest for the big day tomorrow. All of them went to their beds and had a sound sleep.


The next day, they all dressed up in glamorous gowns, frocks, dresses and awaiting the Queen to join them. There was a lavish meal setup for everyone. The girls enjoyed the meal and then had fun while dancing and meeting different people. When the main crowning ceremony came, Queen Hannah appeared wearing a glittery, golden and elegant gown with little silver stars and balls on the border of the dress. She had curled her wavy blonde hair and tied them with a golden shiny band and a matching hairband. She wore golden heel shoes and looked simply lovely and beautiful.


Every year, on her birthday, the queen would wear the crown with golden and silver stars, and then it would be put back safe inside its case. The case was brought. With everyone gathering for a look of that crown, the case was opened. And to the shock of everyone, there was NO crown!!

“Where is the crown?” thundered Queen Hannah. Everyone looked around in dismay but no one had an answer. Nobody had any idea about where the crown would have vanished. The sisters also were quite rattled by this. But Linda thought of something and proposed. “Queen Hannah, we should search the guests first and make sure if any of them is a suspect”. The queen felt bad but she had to accept this as the crown was to be found. So, Linda, Laura and Ms Olivia started searching the quests with permission from the queen.

“And we can search the case”, said Lucy, holding Lizzie’s hand.


So they started searching. They had suspicion on three of the guests and also found a note in the case. The sisters took the suspects and the note inside the palace with permission from the queen. Then they opened the note and it said,

1st of January

1st of October

5th of March

3rd of June


At first no one was able to understand what it meant and tried to unleash the code. Then Lucy said that maybe the code had the thief’s name. The suspects’ names were – Jane, Peter and John. Who could it be?? The sisters started thinking again while Ms Olivia and Queen Hannah were inquiring the suspects. Suddenly Linda jumped with excitement and exclaimed with joy, “I know who the thief is!” she declared gleefully. “Who?” everybody asked curiously. Queen Hannah and the sisters burst with curiosity. “John”, Linda concluded. “How do you know for sure”, asked Lizzie. “Observe the note carefully, John’s name is there. The note gives us the hint”


“1st of January means the first letter of January – J, 1st of October means first letter of October – O, 5th of March means the fifth letter of March – H, and 3rd of June means third letter of June – N. Voila! That makes it J-O-H-N, John! He is the thief”, expressed Linda. Everyone understood. Queen Hannah ordered to imprison John and the royal crown to be returned. John was punished for his deed and Queen Hannah thanked the girls for helping her catch the thief and save the Land of Stars. As a reward, the queen offered them a ride in her royal, enormous chariot. The sisters hesitated at first but soon accepted the grand and friendly offer. That day, they toured the land of stars and saw glistening waterfalls, ponds, rivers, cute and beautiful creatures, magical forests and pixie and fairy villages. They also saw attractive unicorns, butterflies, birds, multi-color flowers, and strange but interesting plants on their tour. Finally, the jolly and merry girls had a lavish meal. With their tummys full, they thanked the queen and started their journey back home. with Ms Olivia. On their return, Laura saw some luscious fruits and mouth-watering sweets growing on a gigantic tree.


That night, after dinner, Ms Olivia told the sisters that on Queen Hannah’s birthday, we can witness a royal, mind-blowing, and amazing spectacle of stars and fireworks in the palace’s flower garden. “We have the VIP seating in the huge flower garden!”, exclaimed Ms Olivia. The sisters’ jaws dropped and a wide grin appeared on Lucy’s face. “Yay!” the girls said together. They enjoyed the spectacular show that night and happily went to their rooms for a good sleep. The next morning, before they went, Queen Hannah gifted big star shaped boxes to each of the girls. The boxes contained priceless and beautiful gems of different colors. They thanked Queen Hannah for her hospitality and bid her goodbye. They chanted their words and soon found themselves with Ms Olivia at Mcdonalds.


The first superb adventure of the secret agent sisters ended. They resumed their normal life but kept their secret a secret.

    


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