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Akash and Abhas Nath

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Akash and Abhas Nath

Drama Thriller

The Mysterious Key

The Mysterious Key

4 mins
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Once upon a time, there was a boy named Arjun, who was a good observer. One day while he was returning home from school he found that a golden color key just stroked his head as it fell from the sky on account of a fight between two birds. He found the key interesting as he noticed that usually keys are made up of two spokes or some curvatures in between. However, he marked that the key did not have only one spoke and a hole beside it. He decided to take it home. After investigating thoroughly the whole key he found nothing. Become bored and listless he kept it up in the storeroom. After a month when her mother asked for his help to tidy the storeroom and make it free of all the useless materials his eyes again caught the key. But this time not due to its golden appearance of the whole key but due to only a part of it. He found the key to be full of dust except in the middle which was glowing.


He brought the key again to his room and after noticing it under a microscope he found that something was written on it. The line was - "The place where books have an oceanic look and act as lord of words." He decided to solve the riddle and after prolonged thinking he finally came to the conclusion that the answer to the riddle should be Library and the dictionary. He decided to visit the only library in the whole town, which was built during the colonial period, the very next day. After visiting the library he started looking for the oldest dictionary because it seemed to him that the key was of old times. He found a dictionary which has complete yellow pages. Then he took the dictionary home by issuing a card on the library. After returning home he found that it was written on the cover page of the dictionary that - "H2: Choose the color red and make others fed." Now upon opening it he again noticed that the dictionary consists of some words in red color and the others black. He then sat with a notebook and pen and tried to note down all the red marked words on it. After completing the noting down of all the red words he again found a sentence.


Moreover he also found the same golden color spoke at the last page of the dictionary. He thought about both the sentence and the key simultaneously for a prolonged time and then came to the conclusion that the spoke must be entered into the hole of the key. Then he started solving the sentence that was - "The place where Trees are free,but be careful try to maintain the bond between the strongest and weakest" He then thought for a while and decided that forests are the only place where most trees can grow according to their own desire, however some are tall who are strongest as they get the most sunlight and on the other hand the shortest one would receive less sunlight. He then visited the lonely less dense forest at the outskirts of the town the following day. After searching the forest he finally found the longest and the shortest tree. He then again recalled the sentence and started digging the region between them. Soon he found that there was a covering of metal with a lock at the middle. He inserted the key into it and opened the lock. Upon opening the lid he crawled into the hole.


And then, the moment he enlightened the torch he was amazed to see a place with many machineries and other equipment. Not only that he even found that the machines were connected with plugs that signifies that there was supply of electricity too which oozes out the fact that the machines were sometimes used before. He also found some ammunitions and a big poster on which the old Indian flag was drawn and there was a writing in hindi - " Bharat Mata ki Jai , Jai Hind!" He then come across the fact that it must be an ammunition factory which Indians had built during the colonial period and was kept a secret. He also remarked that might be the group of Indian revolutionaries had anticipated that they may get betrayed one day or another and so in order to keep this region secret they might have made this whole papers of riddles. Arjun then thought of diverging this secret to others but later he thought that it might be harmed by others. So in order to keep this unique record safe, he decided to not bring this place in front of others and clicked some pictures of it to make it a memorable day of his whole life. So this is how the mystery of the key was solved.


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