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Story Time: A freaky friend
“What a peaceful day,” I thought, sitting in a beautiful park with no one by my side. This was miserable as I had no friend. “This world is not loyal!” I thought cursing everything I saw. Therefore I closed my eyes and only heard the birds chirping and the breeze blowing over the violets. I was, but, too restless to sit there, therefore I went back home.
It was already dusk so I prayed, then studied for a while. Not feeling like studying, I decided to look out of my window, at the cruel world.... But wait what did I just hear? A creak in my cupboard door. How come the door opened itself? There was no one in the room neither was there any air. I was already suffocating. There, there it happened again.
What is it? I looked inside to investigate and saw a little glow in the gloomy inside. Then it got stronger and stronger until it was too much for me to bear. I was dazzled so I shut the door. But then it was thrown back at me and there appeared a freaky friend, so scary, that I went “aaa!!”
The next moment, I was on my feet. I rushed to my bedroom door and tried to open it but it was locked and was too hard to open.
I grabbed my blanket and hid under it, quietly I lay there. The creepy creature came out. His face was green, with a long pointed nose and long ears. He had big yellow eyes similar to the ones of a snake. In fact, his whole body was green. He had feeble and thin legs and hands. He was wearing a weird kind of cloak. He shrieked “eek!” Then he came near me. He knew that I was hiding under the blanket. Then suddenly the blanket flew, and I was lying there cold and petrified. But then the alien spoke in a strange voice “No need to be afraid, friend, coz I won’t hurt you.”
“Please don’t; leave me, have mercy, I pray.” I beseeched.
“You should not be scared of me. I am a friend, friend, friend, friend,” and he kept on repeating it.
When I got a hold of myself I looked in his eyes which were friendly. “Okay, okay stop it” I shouted. “So how did you get here.”
We got more acquainted and I was now sure that he was completely harmless. He said that he landed on earth a few years before. He was scared of the strange, and not to mention cruel, world so he used his magical powers to take himself to a safe place after months of wandering and he eventually ended up in my cupboard. He told me that his name was Bazookim. Bazookim was now a very good friend of mine. He had magical powers to transform things into another, to make things fly, to move from one place to another and a time machine. He always stayed hidden in my room and my parents never came to know about it.
I never liked to befriend humans ‘cause they were unfaithful. I had many enemies and rivals. I never told them that I had a new bizarre friend. They would never believe me in the first place, even if they did, they would plan to surely harm Bazookim. They had already harmed me a lot, now it was my turn to do it to them.
I made a careful plan with Bazookim. He nodded his head to help me take revenge. I told him that if only I can wash my hands on Shumaine, I would be safe forever. Shumaine was the main source of pain to me.
Our plan begins from here, thanks to Bazookim:
“Hi Shumaine you are the most ridiculous of all. Are you not, you jack ass?” I ridiculed and mocked him. He raged suddenly and frowned like an angry dragon, ready to blow fire at me, and turn me to ashes. But it didn’t happen, instead he rushed after me and I ran towards the thin street of our area. There was a large tin can standing there behind which Bazookim was hiding quietly. When I crossed him he snapped his fingers and there appeared a thin invisible string which ran across the street. When Shumaine reached the string and his strong legs touched it, he fell hard on the ground hurting himself badly. Bazookim vanished too. But Shumaine stood up and kept on pursuing me.
I kept running as fast as my legs could carry me. Then we reached a lake, not very deep, so I plunged into it with a big splash and hid myself. Shumaine too entered the lake but he failed to find me, so he shouted aloud “Where are you, you freak?” He only had to say when I appeared in front of him. He wanted to approach me but I shouted out aloud “Shumaine it’s your last day.”
“Says who?” He replied. Then I shouted, “My alien friend. Never try to harm me again or else...”
“Or else what? Your stupid freak would harm me? You stupid one. I’ll kill you now forever..”
He was moving forward but I shouted “BAZOOKIM!” Shumaine thought it was Greek; he said “What was that?” The next moment all the trees bent down, prostrating and every man and woman and everything that moved, except me, stopped. The sky became dark as if it was already night at twelve noon. Then there were light waves in the lake which became stronger and stronger and then suddenly a wave rose too high, higher than Mount Everest with Bazookim’s large face in it blended with the colours of water. The wave spoke with a loud voice which ricocheted again and again, “Hey you nasty boy. Be prepared to drown. Ha, ha, ha!”
Shumaine was too scared to say anything. He shivered and was only able to say “Why?” “Because you have done much harm to my friend that you see behind me,” said the wave. Shumaine glanced at me and saw that I was standing peacefully at my place smiling away.
Then he said in a trembling voice, “Sorry, I won’t do it again. I promise.”
“Oh no, you don’t. He had told me everything about this world that its people are unfaithful and unreliable. I can’t trust you.”
“No, no please. Mercy. I promise that I won’t hurt him. I won’t see him again. Never, never. I promise, please.”
“Do you promise that what you say would be acted upon?”
“Ye... ye... yes, I will.”
“Okay then. But be careful. I’ll be watching you. Anything rude and you’ll see!” And then suddenly the wave dropped down and the lake was calm again. The trees were straight again, everything was back to motion and the sky was blue again and the sun shone brightly. It only took a few seconds. Shumaine then looked at me and ran away screaming, people seeing him in amazement.
Then I went home with a wicked smile on my face and hoped not to encounter any more trouble from anyone. Shumaine was now too scared of me and so were his friends. They shuddered whenever they saw me, and ran away. Good for me. Thanks to Bazookim. Now I and my freaky friend are happy together and now I have revealed the truth to mom and dad because Bazookim said it was too uncomfortable living in a congested cupboard. Now everyone is happy and all our wishes come true by the magical powers of my friend. We are safe from many dangers and curses and now we are the happiest family in the world. Thank you my Lord, who is above all, who has given me such a friend.
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