Month: May 2022
Princess detective stories: The Lost Tiara (Part 1)
In the kingdom of Roseberry, there was a king who had three daughters. Their names were Catherine, Kelly and Priscilla. One day, the king became seriously ill. His three daughters called the best doctors from all over the kingdom. None of the doctors could find a cure to the king’s strange disease.
One day, when Catherine and Priscilla were speaking to the doctor about the king’s condition in his chamber, one of the king’s faithful ministers entered the room and panted, “Your highnesses, I am sorry for disturbing you. I have some important news to share and it can’t wait. Doctor, can you go out of the room for a few minutes, please?.
The doctor stammered, “I’m done he-ere. I’ll tr-ry to find a cure to the king’s disease. Go-good bye” and he walked out of the room and left the palace.
Catherine smiled. “Okay doctor. Thank you”.
Priscilla asked the minister, “Minster why did you interrupt us in such a manner while we were busy talking to the doctor?”
The minister, Jake answered, “I am sorry for interrupting, your highness”.
Priscilla replied, “It’s fine. What is that important information you wanted to share with us?”.
Jake replied, “Your highness. While I was taking a stroll around the kingdom, I met a scientist. That scientist seemed to know the remedy to the king’s disease”.
Catherine answered, “That’s wonderful! What is the cure?”.
Jake responded, “The cure to the king’s disease is a rare tiara. You need to find that tiara and show it to the king. He will get cured in an instant”.
“Did you tell the scientist that the king cannot open his eyes?”, asked Priscilla.
“Your highness, I did tell. The scientist told me to sprinkle a little water on the king’s eyes. The king will keep his eyes open for two minutes. You have to show the tiara within that time as the tiara won’t have an effect on the king the next time he opens his eyes “, Jake responded with full of anticipation.
Catherine asked, “Oh, okay so should we use some magical water and where is the tiara, Jake?”.
“Just regular water. Hill stations monument”, Jake cried.
Priscilla chuckled. “You have to be joking. There are no tiaras in -”.
“Hill stations”, Catherine finished. “Please listen properly. It’s hill stations monument”.
Priscilla said, “Oh, sorry. Carry on minister”.
Catherine replied, “It’s okay, Priscilla. Minister, can you describe the tiara?”
“Well, I think it is a star-studded tiara with a ruby on it”.
“Alright minister, we better take your leave. We have some work to do”, Catherine replied.
Jake cried, “Hold on. Here’s a map of this entire kingdom. It will be useful for you princesses as you’re not allowed to go out of the palace”, as he gave the map to Catherine. Catherine thanked Jake, again and left the royal chamber.
Catherine asked Priscilla, “Where is Kelly?”.
Priscilla replied, “She is probably in bed. Why?”.
Catherine said, “Oh, nothing. She told me that she’ll meet me outside the chamber but she’s not here. I wanted to show her the map and tell her about the tiara”.
Priscilla spoke angrily, “Please don’t show her the map or say a single word about the tiara to Kelly”.
“Whoa! Calm down! What’s wrong with Kelly?”.
“Kelly is such a bad girl. She is only gonna tell us to stay out of it. She doesn’t care about our father’s health”.
“Don’t talk ill of our sister. She obviously cares about dad’s health”.
“If she really cares about dad’s health, then why is she avoiding our father?”.
“She is not avoiding our father”, Catherine protested.
“Thank you for supporting me, Cathy”, a girl standing in front of a pillar yelled.
“Why are you saying these things about me behind my back, Priscilla?”. Priscilla and Catherine stopped talking and saw Kelly.
“I’m sorry”, Priscilla lied.
Kelly replied, “It’s okay. Let’s go to my chamber and look at the map”.
“Sure”, Catherine smiled.
Priscilla asked Kelly, “Did you clean your room? If it’s untidy, I am not going to your chamber”. Kelly nodded her head in a way of saying yes.
Catherine shouted, “Stop it Priscilla”.
“Let’s go”, Kelly said and they went to her chamber. Kelly closed the door of the room once she and her sisters got inside the room.
She told Catherine, “Cathy, please spread out the map on my bed”.
“Ok!”, Catherine replied and she spread out the map on Kelly’s bed. Catherine, Kelly and Priscilla stared at the map with earnest interest.
“Where is the, ‘Hill Stations Monument’ in this map?”, asked Kelly.
“Here it is”, Catherine cried as she pointed at a large building in the map with the term ‘Hill Stations Monument’ written just below the building in bold letters.
Kelly replied, “You’re observant, Catherine. Let’s visit the monument and search for the tiara”.
Catherine nodded her head and Priscilla grumbled, “I am not going with you”.
Catherine asked Priscilla, “Why do you have so many problems with Kelly?’.
Priscilla sobbed, “I’m sorry. I’ll not behave like this, anymore. I was acting like this because I found it was funny”.
Kelly said, “Oh, c’mon! Stop crying, Priscilla. Anyways, back to the monument topic. It’s best if we change our clothing and remove our royal jewelleries. No one should know that we are princesses”.
Catherine cried, “I just remembered. We are not allowed to go out of the palace without anyone’s permission”.
Kelly responded, “We’ll go out and come back real quick. No one will notice”.
Catherine and Priscilla looked at each other and agreed with Kelly . The girls removed their royal robes along with their jewelleries. They wore some ordinary frocks and dressed up as commoners. Priscilla grabbed a shoulder bag and kept a water bottle in it. Kelly, Catherine and Priscilla walked out of the palace and headed to the monument as Catherine read the directions given in the map.
Catherine said, “According to the map, the monument is supposed to be right here”. Kelly then tapped Catherine on her shoulders using her index finger and pointed at the monument.
Catherine mumbled, “Am I blind? The monument was right next to me”.
Kelly laughed, “No, you’re not blind. Why is the monument barricaded?”.
Catherine replied, “I don’t know. Let us ask the security guard standing outside the gate of the monument”. Her sisters nodded their heads and walked towards the security. The security guard was wearing khaki uniform and had a badge pinned on her outfit which read, ‘Michelle Patterson’. She wore a cap with the term ‘Police’ written on it. The security officer looked at the kids and raised an eyebrow.
Priscilla asked, “Hello officer! Why is the monument barricaded?”.
The security replied, “Little girl, there has been a theft in this particular monument. A precious tiara has been stolen from this monument. The cops are investigating”.
Kelly whispered in Catherine’s ears, “Are you thinking what I am thinking?”.
Catherine replied, “I think I am”.
‘Is the tiara that is stolen the tiara we’re looking for?”.
“Maybe”, Catherine replied and asked the officer, “Can you describe the tiara that is stolen?”.
“Okay, it’s a diamond-studded tiara with a blue sapphire on it”.
“That’s not the tiara we’re looking”, Catherine said in a satisfied tone.
Priscilla told the security, “Lady, we are princesses. You have to let us in”.
The security mocked at the girls. “How dare you call me ‘lady’. Anyways, find another place to play weird princesses. This is a dangerous crime area”. Priscilla, Kelly and Catherine left the place with a long face.
Kelly cried, “The security officer was mean. Father’s not going to last long. What can we do?”
Catherine replied, “Yes, she was. Don’t say that! We’ll figure something out”.
Priscilla said, “I have an idea. Why can’t we sneak in to the monument at night?’.
Catherine asked, “Sneak in to the monument and do what, Priscilla? The tiara’s stolen”.
Priscilla continued, “We can look for footprints and be one step ahead of the investigators. To be honest, the investigators wouldn’t have started looking for footprints”.
“No, you won’t. I was listening to you guys from the time you arrived at the monument. I am going to make sure that you won’t sneak in or do anything of that sort”, the security standing outside the monument, replied. She grabbed Priscilla’s hand and told the cops to take her away.
The security said, “Good luck saving her!”.
“Priscilla!! Oh, security. She said it for fun. Why were you eavesdropping on us?”, Catherine cried.
To be continued . . .
Magic tales: Hannah becomes good – Part 3
Sasha regained her consciousness and stood up as she had fallen on the floor. She started looking around the room which was covered in ice. She spotted an ice statue in one corner of the room and walked up to it.
She thought, “Why does this ice statue look so weird?” and touched it.
The ice statue turned in to a human being and gasped, “Where am I? What am I doing here? Who turned me in to an ice statue?”. Sasha was taken aback when she heard all these things.
She replied, “You are in an ice palace. I don’t know what you’re doing here and who turned you in to an ice statue”. The human turned its head towards Sasha and answered, “Okay, I am Ashley. Nice to meet you” and asked, “Were you the one who freed me from this horrible spell?”.
Sasha responded, “Nice to meet you, too” and asked, “What spell?”.
Ashley answered, “The ice statue spell, a filthy goblin turned me in to an ice statue as I refused to work for him. She told me that she will give me a lot of money If I do what she wants. For some reason, she thinks she can win a person’s trust by bribing them”.
Sasha sighed and replied, “Yes, I freed you from that spell. I think, Hannah, the evil lady who sent me to this ice palace transformed herself in to a goblin and troubled you. Not the point, though. Do you know a way to get out of this palace?”.
Ashley snapped, “I don’t know, really. Hold on. I can see a small door from where I am standing. Perhaps, that’s the way to get out”. Sasha agreed with Ashley and walked up to the door with Ashley and opened it. She saw a treasure chest, a bed and a cupboard.
She told Ashley, “That’s it? A treasure chest, a bed and a cupboard? How is this going to help us get out?”
“Open the cupboard”, Ashley whispered in Sasha’s ears. Sasha nodded and opened the cupboard. A bunch of clothes fell to the floor.
Sasha said, “Oops! I didn’t see that coming. Now what, Ashley?”.
Ashley lied, “Clean up the mess”.
Sasha shouted, “What? Really?”.
Ashley laughed and said, “Just kidding. Leave the mess. Now, touch the back side of the cupboard, you will feel a handle, push the handle towards the right. You will find a secret passage that no one knows. The passage will lead us to the main gate”.
Sasha listened to her and followed her exact instructions. She found a path way that led to the main gate when she pushed it open using the handle. Sasha was astonished.
She said, “This is amazing! How do you know about all these things?”.
Ashley replied, “I don’t know. Must be an intuition. Now, c’mon, let’s get out of here. I don’t know how I stayed here for so many days”. Ashley and Sasha ran through the path way and began walking to the main gate.
Sasha frowned, “Why were there so many spider webs in the path way? Doesn’t anyone clean that place?”.
Ashley replied, “Like I said, no one knows about that secret passage”.
Sasha asked, “Including Hannah?”.
Ashley responded, “Not at all” and was about to open the gate when someone from behind locked it. Ashley turned back and saw Hannah pointing her magic wand at the gate.
Hannah said, “You think it’s easy to get out of this place? I don’t think so and told Ashley, “Ashley, I am going to turn you back to an ice statue” and she turned Ashley back to an ice statue.
Sasha cried, “Aaaah! What’s your problem, Hannah? Why are you hurting people like this?”.
Hannah answered, “I don’t have an answer to your question”.
Sasha whimpered, “Isn’t there a way to stop you?” as she took a step back and touched the ice statue on its shoulders.
“Nah!”, Hannah replied and left the place. Sasha wiped a tear from her cheek and mumbled, “Is there a way to defeat or teach Hannah? She’s so cruel”.
“There is one way”, Daisy, Sasha’s best friend answered. Sasha looked at her and was startled.
She stammered, “D-Daisy, how-w diddd you get here?”.
Daisy replied, “A kind wizard helped me. I couldn’t find you and decided to consult a wizard. He told me where you were and used his magic send me here. He also spoke about someone called Hannah and how troublesome she was. I didn’t understand when he spoke about, Hannah that time but now I do. I watched the entire scene from a hidden position”.
Sasha answered, “O-okay. Where are your parents and Sid?”
Daisy responded, “I told my parents and Sid about your situation and they were okay to send me here which was shocking”.
Sasha replied, “Right so how are you going to help me defeat that evil cow?
Daisy said, “Oh, I forgot to tell you this. When I came here, I had some time to go through the books in the library and guess what, I found Hannah’s personal diary. Maybe, if we tell her about her childhood memories, she will let us go”.
Sasha cried, “It better work. Do you have that diary for proof just in case Hannah doesn’t believe us?”.
“Yup”. Daisy answered. Sasha and Daisy entered the palace and saw Hannah sitting on her throne.
Hannah asked, “How did you get here, Daisy?”.
Daisy lied, “I don’t know. I found myself in your library when I woke up in the morning”. Hannah grumbled a little on hearing that.
Daisy said, “I found your personal diary in your library and I read it. You were a really good person when you were young. What happened now?”.
Hannah replied, “That’s rubbish! that diary contains nothing but nonsense”.
Daisy laughed and answered, “Look, I am not gonna fall for these tricks anymore. Have a look at the diary yourself if you don’t believe me” and she handed over the diary to Hannah.
Hannah opened the diary and burst into tears on seeing her sister’s image. She narrated, “My sister used to love snow. She has been wanting to stay in a snowy region all her life. She doesn’t exist anymore so I wanted to fulfil her last wish so I decided to stay in a snowy region”.
Daisy asked, “I am okay with you staying in a snowy region but why are you hurting people?”.
Hannah cried, “I couldn’t bear my sister’s demise so I started hurting everyone thinking that they are responsible for my sister’s demise. I’ve understood now. I’d like to thank you both for letting me know of my past”.
Sasha replied, “Okay, Now, how did you get magical powers?”.
Hannah answered, “Oh, that.. You see, I discovered a weird object and I got magical powers out of that thing”.
Daisy said, “Fine. Turn Ashley in to a human and send us home”.
Hannah replied, “Alright!”, and she turned Ashley into a human and sent them home.
The end