2. They Got It, But..!

What happened..?

 

The car at last stopped at the church they desired to reach.

“Hey Betsy, Betsy! Wake up. We are at the destination! Come on.” Rhodes tried to wake up Betsy.

After several attempts she at last woke up rubbing her eyes and looking at Rhodes confusingly,

“Are we done?”

“Yes dear. We gotta go look for the tomb” said Rhodes by taking his bag.

“Oh. Hush,” exhaled Betsy and looked at john, “You know, I have a dream earlier-Two guys shown up in the middle of the road and they just ruined our journey, um something like that.”

“Betsy, that’s not a dream. Two guys asked for a lift and we just gave them. You are sleeping. And....they didn’t ruined our journey” said Rhodes to Betsy.

“Oh..Is it? I missed then” Betsy felt insulted, “So, where is the tomb?”

“There must be a way under the Cradle rock. We will see,” said Rhodes and went inside the church. The church was so pleasing and peaceful. They entered the big prayer hall with lots of chairs. They slowly went to the religious altar on the left side of prayer hall. There was a small bell room at that altar. They entered in to it by scanning the surroundings, to ensure that no one’s watching them. Then from the bell room they went to stagfield pillars, where they crossed to see the big cradle rock. Betsy followed Rhodes up to the cradle rock. Rhodes looked all around the cradle rock. There were beautiful historical carvings and paintings on that big rock. He then took his map and looked again. There was a small hook-like-thing on a lion’s face over the rock. He slowly caught that hook and turned it anticlockwise once and clockwise twice. Then amazingly, a small door opened up under the rock which leads in to a dark tunnel. Rhodes smiled to Betsy and she stood unbelievable.

“Come on, Betsy, let’s go inside before someone sees us” said Rhodes. Betsy entered the tunnel after Rhodes, with a weak heart. And he couldn’t close the tunnel door, as it should be locked from outside only. So they entered into it by keeping it open.

 

The tunnel was very dark inside and it was filled with dust, insects and spider webs. Rhodes took the light from Betsy and switched it on. Still Betsy had cold peripheries. They went deeper in to the tunnel by clearing webs. She started talking to eliminate some amount of fear.

“Rhodes, tell me about that diamond. Why nobody ever tried to reach it?”

“This diamond has a curse, Betsy. It says so. Or may be it was not interesting.”

“What is the curse dear?” asked Betsy with a dry tongue.

“ The curse?......um..yeah…it was like �" BACK FROM THE GRAVE in the book”

“What does that mean? She was coming back from the grave for revenge?” puzzled Betsy.

“I don’t know what it means……,” said Rhodes and stopped suddenly. He looked forward and muttered, “……Hey! Hold on. There are skeletons ahead. So, don’t be afraid. Okay?”

She also looked forward by using her torch; there were plenty of skeletons in a small room ahead of them. On seeing that, Betsy asked

“Why on earth you don’t tell about this before?”

“It was written that along with the witch, some of her maidens were buried, but I didn’t expect them to be like this here in the cave.”

“Oh jeez” sighed Betsy.

 

They slowly crossed ‘the-room-with-skeletons’. The skeletons were reclined to the wall with their hands tied with chains to the wall. There were about ten skeletons in that room. That room led into another room bigger than the previous. Its walls are made up of bricks, but the previous one is of sand. The center of the room has a big tomb. It was dusty, grey- colored, and scary.

Rhodes felt very happy on seeing that tomb. He exclaimed, “At last, I found it.”

“Is this the Cerr Hanley’s tomb?” asked Betsy by pointing the tomb.

“Yes. It is. Let’s get the diamond now!”

 

They went nearer the tomb and looked at it for a minute. There were several symbols and Carvings on the tomb and a cross was tied with a chain to the tomb. Rhodes arranged the torch over the wall to give enough light in the room. Then he sighed to Betsy to lift the tomb’s top.

Betsy came up for the job, and along with Rhodes she lifted the tomb’s top. What staying inside was really terrible; mummified Cerr Hanley. She was dressed in her natural robe and there was jewellery all over her. And something caught Rhodes’ eyes- her witch stick. It was lying next to Cerr’s body. On the top of that stick, there was a reddish-white diamond dusted up. Rhodes slowly took that stick and looked at the diamond amazingly.

“I never thought I can get this so simply!” said Rhodes.

“Yeah, this one looks beautiful” said Betsy watching the diamond by keeping it in front of the light.

Then Rhodes touched that diamond. Suddenly the jars and the vessels start vibrating. He stopped for a while and looked at Betsy.

Then he suddenly plucked that diamond from the stick which was attached to the stick by glue.

Within a moment, the whole room started vibrating and there was a heavy noise of wind. Both of them looked at Cerr Hanley’s tomb as it was vibrating at a higher rate. A red colored smoke was coming out from Cerr’s body, specifically from the heart. Rhodes was terrified and he signaled Betsy to get out of the place. Then both of them rushed towards the exit of the room. As they were leaving the room, a strange voice of an old lady came from the tomb. The voice said-

“Bring the diamond back, otherwise the curse continues”

But they just ignored those words, as they became panic of the whole situation. The skeletons in the sandy room suddenly started moving. And in no time all the skeletons were trying to be free of the chains, they were pulling the chains violently.

Rhodes and Betsy were shocked and petrified. They then ran like horses to the exit in the tunnel.

 

At last Rhodes and Betsy came out of the tunnel gasping, where the red smoke followed them. On observing the smoke, Rhodes closed the door of the tunnel. The smoke was slowly mixing in the air and was expanding. Rhodes looked at it confusingly and asked, “What do you think that smoke is?”

“Toxic gas? Or cursed smoke?”

“Not toxic or else we should be dead by now. May be not cursed even, as we are not suffering from any curse.”

“Good god, shall we move now. I want to be home” said Betsy.

 

 

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At the gas station/ super market;

Stanley was wandering at the gas station with a beer bottle in his hands. Bob was discussing with John about TOM HANKS,

“I cannot say that tom hanks will give life to Angels and Demons this year. What do you say?” asked John.

“Oh come on, you know whom are you talking about? It’s tom hanks man. I think you never watched Cast away, Forrest Gump or terminal or Apollo 13, huh?”, said Bob.

 

“Oh yeah, what’s so great in Forrest Gump? Acting crazy?”

“That was an Oscar movie dude! He did ……” they were involved deeply.

Stanley took a sip of the beer and looked at john. They were almost fighting each other for TOM HANKS. Disgusted, Stanley looked at the road- someone was coming distantly on a bike.

 

As that bike was coming nearer and nearer, Stanley stood surprising. There was a beautiful girl with blonde hair and deep black eyes, dressed completely in white and white- riding the bike.

Oh god, she was Lucy…a.k.a. the Fairy

 

{   Lucy , the most beautiful name in the life of every boy from South Ramond college. She was a big shot, daughter of ‘Sir major Bill Robert Horton Edward Garold  Gates’- the name is derived from his ancestors.  Stanley was also in the line of boys of Ramond college, but luckily he got ticket in the hot bus of Lucy’s. Obviously her father Sir Major Bill Bullshit…… do not like Stanley. They just didn’t care, and now their journey begins….!         }

 

Seeing Lucy, Stanley went in to dreams and stood staring at her. She came towards Stanley and stopped the bike.

“Hey Stan, are you here?” asked Lucy moving him.

“Oh sorry Lucy, you are so beautiful today…” said Stan after awaking the dream.

Hearing the bike’s engine sound, Bob and john came towards them.

Seeing john distantly Lucy asked, “Why is he here? You didn’t say me he is coming.”

“No no.. He is not coming. He just came to drop me by. He will leave as soon as we leave.”

“Hey lucy..” shouted john from distance and as he approached nearer he stopped and looked amazingly and after a pause he exclaimed, ” Oh My god, exciting and beautiful and um..tempting ! I’m gonna kick this bi*** on road! ” exclaimed john.

Everyone just stood shocked for john’s words. Lucy and bob was just staring at him. Temper Stan looked real hot and was about to go and kick John.

But before then, John realized and said, “ um…uh..That was actually a Syntax error. I am talking about that Bike, really. Really excited about that.”

Then everyone understood and relaxed. John was saved.

“Hmmm. You said you will bring the car. Where did you get this bike?” asked Stanley to Lucy.

“My Dad! He disagreed to give me the car today. And you know what I did? I escaped with this bike. He was supposed to give me this on my Birthday. I stole the keys from his Bedroom and now I’m here. Oh, I should see the look on his face now… ha ha” laughed Lucy. Stanley also started laughing.

“You stole YOUR bike! That was crazy Miss Lucy” interrupted Bob. Reminding of Bob, Lucy shouted “Oh Bob! Glad to see you Movie man” and hugged Bob. Bob also gave a small kiss over her cheek.

“Stan, this is Bob. He helped me a lot yesterday, I already told you”

“Yes yes…We met” replied Stan.

John was still looking at the bike and went nearer to it and started to feel it.

“Hey Lucy, will you please give me this bike for a smoke run. I am gonna kick the roads with this cheetah.”

“No way john. That’s very complicated.”

“Owh come on Lucy, what’s so complicated?” asked john.

“MV AUGUSTA F 1000, 100 kmph in 3.4 sec, top speed-301 kph, a 998cc 4-cylinder, 4-stroke,

16-valve engine of 166bhp of power, 11.1kgm of torque and with six-speed gear box

and hydraulic fork suspensions and lastly with twin steel floating discs. Enough? And this thing works with remote completely, an extra fitting, not like a regular bike.”

Everyone just gazed at Lucy.

 

Author's Note

How now?

Reviews

[ScarlettTheDreamer]

Interesting. I'm wondering how Stan and Lucy are related to this story. But the contrast is refreshing. One part being the scary curse and the other a cute story. But I surely can't expect the same I guess, cause there are really no telling in your stories with all those twists you put in!