An original collection of short chapter stories on fantasy, written by our student Sashrika Prasad.

Sashrika is 13 years old, a young writer from Gurugram. The beautiful colors, flowers, and sunsets encourage her to write about deep emotions and feelings. We are proud to have her as a student of the Little Writers Program, an Creative Writing Program under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Sashrika for this exemplary true self-expression.

Chapter 1: Dream or Reality?

“Davina and Rebekah had a perfect life. They couldn’t remember the last time something went wrong in their life. The same routine every day with perfectly neat corners of sheets on the bed and nicely aligned furniture. There was nothing that could go wrong………”

Just then a sound of a click deleted all that was written on the laptop. Sandra got up from her chair and lay down on her bed. The sun was starting to set and stars were starting to shine just from the dome-shaped skylight of her room. Just as she took a deep breath and closed her eyes, her phone started vibrating. Sandra picked up and a polite voice spoke, “Hey, Sandra I just wanted to call to ask how it was going on with the book. Not to pressure you but I set up an interview for you next Friday for the last book. Is that ok?”

Sandra agreed to take the interview. She had been writing a series of novels forever but after a while even she ran out of ideas. She was trying to think of a plot or storyline just so much of even a problem but nothing came to her. Slowly after a little brainstorming of ideas, she fell asleep. The next morning when she woke up, she started writing the ideas that started coming to her mind like waves. As days passed it was Friday and it was just an hour before her interview. She sat in front of the mirror and started getting ready. When she was done, she stepped outside her room and fortunately took a step back.

To her surprise, her house wasn’t there. Outside her room was a cliff, but the view was astonishing. The waterfall was echoing noises as soothing as starlings chirping. The wind brushed against her cheeks while the trees swung from side to side. She forgot all about how half of her house was missing. ‘Wait no’, she came back to her senses and slapped herself thinking it was a dream. Nothing changed, so she pinched herself but the waterfall was exactly where it was and the trees were just as green as they looked before. She looked down the cliff to see a bird but it was breathing fire. Sandra took a closer look and realized that it was a dragon just the size of a bird. Suddenly a shadow fell on them so Sandra looked up. It was pink and orange, had a beautiful pattern on it, and looked like a butterfly. It was one. Sandra was amused by the world she was in. The only problem was that she didn’t know where she was. Sandra now looked back with a start a certain stomping sound made her jump, behind her were elephants but not the ones you think. They were small, like the size of a puppy, you could just pick one up in your arms.

Crossing the side of her torn-apart room she started walking on a path, starving she came across a tree house. It looked unbelievably beautiful but it was also the one proof that she was not the only one stuck on the mysterious island. Not knowing what to do she went inside the tree house, Sandra was so relieved to know that the tree house wasn’t deserted. Taking a few more steps she greeted the two girls who were sitting on one side of a room each with a book in their hands.

Chapter 2: The Girls Wrote

The girls let out a shriek but they weren’t scared they were welcoming and sweet girls and so they greeted her back. Sandra knew she had seen them before. There was something similar about those dark brown hair worn in loose waves and those blue eyes, full lips, rosy cheeks, and lightly tanned skin. Along with the pale, fair skin, blue eyes, and wavy red hair. They introduced themselves, The girl with brown hair was Davina Campbell, and the one with red hair was Rebekah Moors. Suddenly Sandra remembered something. Those were the charters from the book she was currently writing with the excitement of discovering where she was a sudden disappointment on her face uttered the words, “ I’m Sandra Blackwell and currently I’m stuck in a book.” She took a minute to process everything and then exclaimed, “Ok, so no time to waste, we have to find the conclusion.” Davina and Rebekah clueless of what Sandra meant asked, “The conclusion?”

Sandra took a deep breath and started to explain, “I think I’m currently stuck in a book, my book that I was writing and I think that to go home I have to bring this book to an end so first we have to figure out the problem and then we have to solve it.”

Chapter 3: ‘The Caritatem et Pacem’

Davina and Rebekah were at first confused but after a little explaining they were catching up and they remembered how just the day before Megaira, the fortress of the evil side had stolen ‘The caritatem, et pacem’ When Sandra asked what it was the girls told her that it was the jewel of love and peace it was embedded in the statue of a dove. The jewel kept the island at peace and its people kind. Megaira stole the Jewel to have power over the entire island and not only just her side. If she keeps the stone away from the dove’s eye for more than one week the island and its people will go rogue. Shadow will take over; flowers will turn into thorns and the people will turn into monsters craving for greed. The trio thought that that must be it. They had to steal back the Jewel from Megaira and put it back in the dove’s eyes. They set out on their journey not knowing what they will face ahead. Two days had passed by since they started their trail, so far the only things they had faced were begs and insects. The next day they decided to camp out near a river. Sandra for the first time paid attention to the sky. It wasn’t the normal shade of navy blue, instead, it was purple with tints of pink and green shining stars. The moon was larger than usual it looked like a faded reflection of a planet. The next day went the same until the sound of a crack. They didn’t realize but they had been walking on eggs of a spider.

Davina looked up and saw a pair of eyes open, It was a spider but since all the small animals were big and the big were small, the Spider turned out to be huge, They screamed and started running but the spider kept catching up to them. Rebekah with her fast thinking mounted a butterfly, since they were huge they were easy and fun to fly on Sandra and Davina did the same and they flew off. They flew over hills and rivers for the next whole day. The one thing they didn’t realize was how they were on a journey to darkness.

Chapter 4: The Fortress of Evil

The three girls realized how big of an island that was, It was taking them forever to reach Megaira’s territory. The butterflies got tired and so when they landed to rest The three girls got off and decided to walk they were getting closer to the evil side but they were also worried about how only two days were left before the island was going to be taken over by evil.

After a few hours, they finally reached. The place was different from the rest of the island it was dark instead of flowers there were thorns and the roots looked like ropes while hanging from the trees were skulls. They managed to sneak into Megaira’s castle and when they did, they saw that it couldn’t be that hard to destroy her with no security or help around but what they didn’t know was that she was great with swords, so when they attacked her she picked up her father’s sword. Sandra was the closest to the stack of other swords and so she pulled one out too. Putting on a face of confidence even though she had none she started fighting Megaira. Davina and Rebekah snuck to the second floor of the castle where they saw the Jewel, they put it in their backpack and were headed out but they saw that it would be difficult for Sandra to get out of the fight, she already had cuts on her arms which were bleeding nonstop. Davina took out a blade and shot it at Megaira. A thousand cuts appeared on her body. It was the devil’s star, one throw could make a thousand cuts. Sandra thanked Davina and they rushed to the dove statue. They took the butterflies and it took them six hours to reach there.

Chapter 5: The Countdown to Midnight

It was two minutes to midnight which meant after those two minutes the island would be in danger. Davina and Rebekah started feeling weird, their blood vessels started to pop out like one of a vampire’s. Their eyes started bleeding. Sandra rushed and grabbed a rope from Davina’s bag she started climbing the statue and just thirty seconds before midnight she put the Jewel back in the dove’s eye. The skies started clearing up and Davina and Rebekah started looking as beautiful as they looked before. The thorns turned into flowers and Davina, Rebekah, and Sandra bid their goodbyes. Sandra faded away in front of the girls and ended up exactly where she was before.

Chapter 6: No Place Like Home

Sandra found herself in front of the mirror. She looked at the clock and only 5 mins had passed even though it seemed like a week in the book. She drove to her interview. This time she wasn’t stressed about her new book instead she was happy. She had it all figured out. This time her thoughts were not about what the plot of her new book would be but instead about how much fun she had when she was in the book. She wanted to believe that it was a dream or maybe just a dive in her subconsciousness but it wasn’t. She realized she was stuck in the book. Whatever it was her readers seemed to love the new plot and Sandra decided her next step in life to be more adventures and traveling.

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