An Original story written by our student Abhigyan Bhatt.

Abhigyan is 10 years old young writer and speaker from Gurugram. We are proud to have him as a student of the Little Kathakar Program, an Online Public Speaking & Creative Writing Program using Applied Storytelling & Applied Theatre tools under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Abhigyan for this exemplary true self-expression.

Mimi And The Trees

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mimi. She was very brave and confident. Yet she had only one mystery thing in her that she had yet to be discovered. She had only one weakness, she loved fruits. She lived in a tribe called Ranchi. She had many friends and a pet wolf too. Mimi found him drowning in a river in the mountains and luckily, she managed to save the little cub.

One day she went hunting with her tribe and parents as it was too risky for children to be alone in the mud–huts with no protection if a snow leopard comes. As she went on, all of the women of the tribe saw pear trees. Mimi exclaimed, “What a rare sight! Pear trees growing in the mountains!” They started plucking them and putting them in their natural fiber baskets, the men had hunted two snow tigers and one wild boar. The leader of the tribe announced, “we will have a great feast with all of this porkchop!” everyone started cheering. But Mimi suspected danger nearby.

When night fell, six men of the tribe found a huge rock to place for a table as the feast was about to start. Mimi was still suspecting danger; the feast had begun. Everyone chatted, ate and drank till they were full. Mimi heard something hiding in the bushes then she saw were two bright white eyes, and she realized what “it” was. She screamed, “Everyone! Run for your lives! It’s a snow leopard hiding in the bushes!”.

The great leopard leaped onto the tribe. the tribe warriors fought bravely, but the leopard was too fast for them and then they fell to their feet. A woman shouted – “it’s the Chinau!!”. The Chinau is a fierce leader of the leopards, he was given the name Chinau because there was a deadly tribe leader named Chinau. He died while fighting the same leopard that attacked. As he died, he took the body of the leopard and wanted revenge that no one had saved him. As the leopard attacked, Mimi was petrified of the leopard. She was so scared that she unlocked her hidden powers!

The wind blew, the leaves shed, and new ones came out faster than ever. Then, a flash of light came behind Mimi, everything was still very still. The leopard was blinded from the light, quickly Mimi shouted while pointing at the leopard, “kill it! Now is the chance!”. When Mimi pointed at the leopard, three vines from the trees came rushing towards the leopard. Those vines caught the leopard’s neck and tightened it every second like a snare, until it had died.

Mimi had unlocked her hidden power; she could control trees! Everyone gasped in awe and cheered for the brave Mimi, and they all shouted, “long live the great Mimi!”. All of the tribe members had thought she was a god, but she was given a gift by God, to control the nature. She was an acquaintance of a great warrior of king Arthur Javenos they fought bravely side by side, and the most important thing in life is a gift from God himself.

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