Story 6 Chitra Soundar http://www.chitrasoundar.com

5/11/2017

Sanket and the Magic Bean
Sanket tiptoed into the guest bedroom. Uncle Jaldev’s snoring sounded like a rhino wheezing. Sanket knew that his uncle wouldn’t wake up even if there were an earthquake.Sanket searched with his eyes. There! Jaldev’s silk vest was draped over the armchair next to the bed. The vest had a pocket on each side and they were always filled with evidence of his travels - foreign coins, key tags from his hotel room, old stamps, crunched up maps to ancient temples.
Sanket squinted in the dark and knelt down in front of the chair. He put his hands into the left pocket. It was empty. Then he tried the right pocket. There was nothing there. It was unusual. No keys, no coins, no scrunched paper with secret codes. Sanket checked the right side pocket one more time.
There was something under the stitches. His fingers teased out it out. Sanket rushed out of the room without looking at the object. There will be time for that later......

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Emma-Louise Newton

6/11/2017 02:32:53

Matthew Tang, Evan Patridge, Bryan Lim
Garden International School

He hurried down the stairs, like a rampaging ox, and bolted out of the living room, slamming the wooden door behind him. His eyes yielded onto the bright green garden, which lay beneath him. Dazzling in his hand, the bean practically emitted with mystery. A fog of fear eluded his mind. How did Uncle Jaldev get his hands on this bean? And why keep any random bean?

The bean began to vibrate uncontrollably. It started to get hotter and hotter. Its rolling, seemed light and free. Sanket didn’t understand. His palms got sweaty and he dropped it, and it slowly sank into the soil. Suddenly, a bang of light went off, blinding his vision, and he found himself hurrying down the stairs once again.
He took two steps back. He was confused. Perplexed. What on earth just happened? It just felt like the all the fog in his mind had just condensed, and completely flooded it. Additionally, his brain had just sublimated, and created a mixture of fog and cerebrospinal fluid. Out of pure curiosity, he drove himself out onto the garden, and took the bean out of his hand. His palms were as fatigued as ever. He slowly crouched down, and drove his left hand into the soil and pulled furiously. He advertently planted, and the ground started to rumble with terror. He hung his head with regret...

He blasted his eyes open. After he got a good look at his view he noticed “Wait I am not in Angónia anymore!” The sky was a bright twilight and there was a dark cloud looming over what seemed to be a town in the distance. It was quite far away but, he was curious so he decided to head to that town. As he was sauntering to the town he heard strange noises he had never heard before coming from the forest. He had to decide where to go to. The town? Or the forest?

Ollie, Isla, Katie, Alex, Elliott- Cockwood School

6/11/2017 10:11:30

As soon as he stepped foot in the forest, he heard the faint rustling of leaves and trees dancing in the gentle breeze. Vivid green colours blinded him as the sun shone brightly through the gnarled branches.
Suddenly, he realised he was being watched. Amber eyes slowly blinked through the undergrowth. Without hesitation, he began to run. Faster and faster....breathless and panting he could feel his heart racing...
The bean appeared to have a life of its own and amazingly jumped out of his hand and flew through the air in the direction of this unknown beast. ..

Lewis metcalfe, Isobel Turner

6/11/2017 11:33:35

As the bean lunged through the air with accelerating speed, Sanket was startled by the bean’s sudden leap. Now that the bean had finally hit the beast it fell on to the leafy floor, the beast wondered what had just happened and knelt down to pick the bean up off the floor. As he was just inches away the bean suddenly jumped up and hit the beast in the face. The beast was furious.
Sanket rushed to the bean and snatched it of the ground. The beast was about to make an escape when Sanket stopped it to get a closer look. The beast was wearing a dark hood and the beast’s fur was shaggy and sticky.
Sanket wondered had this beast been eating honey or rubbing against the trees? Suddenly the creature pulled down the dark hood and…. it appeared to be a girl.”Eww a girl” shouted Sanket! The beast/ girl roared slightly. The bean was bouncing on the ground- what was happening to this bean?
Sanket picked the bean up and put it in his left pocket. The beast and Sanket were now quiet, until the beast /girl broke the silence by speaking!! Sanket was amazed. She asked why Sanket was here in the forest, and Sanket said he didn’t know and asked the girl her name.
Just then, a loud rumbling started up in the distance…..

Sacha Oqvist, Lyla Mason, Charlotte Pawson

6/11/2017 12:24:26

The girl made eye contact with Sanket and indicated he should follow. He hesitated as he imagined the consequences but followed regardless. Sanket struggled to keep up with, what he now realised was a complete stranger. she sharply stopped to catch her breath as Sanket fell in an attempt to slow down resulting in a sore knee. As he scrambled up he noticed a small town at the bottom of the hill but as he took a closer look he realised he was wheezing with the thick but familiar sent of smoke. This took him back to his childhood with his heart pulsing and mother screeching at him to run as a burning beam crashed down making it even harder to breath. He came back with the girl shaking him with a cloth over her mouth, he had passed out.

Harry, Tom, Max, Kai

6/11/2017 13:57:00

Sanket woke up with a sudden gasp of air. A random girl walked into his room and said, “Do you not remember you were with me last night? You passed out.”
Sanket was confused and started to remember what happened the night before. For some reason, he still didn’t remember the girl.
Sanket questioned, “Were you really there with me or are you just lying?”
The only thing Sanket remembered was the magic bean. Sanket checked his left pocket for the bean but it was not there. He was worried and asked if the girl had stolen the bean.
“No,” said the girl, “did you drop it.”
I couldn’t even remember where we were the last time I was conscious.
The girl said “I remember where we were. Let’s go to the outskirts of the forest. If we look together we will have a better chance of finding it.”
Sanket and the mysterious girl headed towards the edge of the forest. They searched the leafy ground for the magic bean. The girl found a small, glowing ball in the grass and then realised it was the bean.
“I’ve got the bean! I’ve got it!” she yelled.
Sanket ran to the girl, snatched the bean from her hand and put it in the safety of his left pocket.
“Thanks for the help!” and off he raced further into the forest.

Isla, Leo, and Kyle

6/11/2017 15:22:59

As Sanket ran deeper into the forest, he heard strong noises. The noises sounded like strange hissing and it got closer by the second. Sanket stopped, he asked the girl what the noises were.
'I don't know , I've never heard anything like that before...'
All of a sudden two sets of emerald green eyes stared at them, the hissing stopped.
'Run!'
Shouted the girl, they ran through the forest as quick as they could. Sanket looked behind to see two raptors chasing them! Since when did dinosaurs exist in the world? They kept running until the girl pulled Sanket to a hard stop and looked up.
'We have a problem...'
There sitting in front of them was the biggest t-rex ever...

Allison Painich

8/11/2017 06:30:03

Will J, Brayden T, Marc P, Zoe A
Robert E. Lee Jr. High School

As Sanket ran deeper into the forest, the bean seemed to have had the life sucked completely out of it. It had no vibration or even a faint gold hue. At that moment, he ran into an open field and realizes that the bean is his ticket out of this foreign place. He leans over to plant the bean when all of a sudden, Sanket heard quiet footsteps emanating from the forest. He does not know what lives in this strange new world, so he quickly scans the edge of the forest for any sign of movement. The footsteps continue to surround him until they get awfully loud, but then they stop suddenly. When he looks back down to plant the bean, it is not in his hand.

He sees a dark figure running off towards a small village and tries to catch up with it. He is running with all of his might, and he starts to think it is useless chasing after the thief. Ahead of him, he hears a crash on the ground, and when he catches up to it the beast/girl has him pinned on the ground. The girl is standing above the thief with the bean in her hand.

The two companions notice the same dark cloud form into something dark and mighty. They begin to rush to plant the bean to return to his world when suddenly he hears loud thunder echoing through the forest. He turns to look at the ominous cloud looming above only to see nothing but a bright spark and hear very loud ringing. Then nothing but black. His eyes begin to adjust to the darkness only to find himself standing over his uncle’s silk vest with his hand outstretched for the right pocket. He quickly pulls his hands back and runs out of the room.

Allison Painich

8/11/2017 15:58:06

Abby S., Bryce D., Kei C., BreElle M., Lennox W.

Sanket began to feel light-headed, he was so confused. Lots of thoughts raced through his mind, making him even more confused. As these thoughts raced through his head it was slowly pushing him to his breaking point. However, he still kept running, no matter what. He ran to the woods, he didn’t know what to do, so he kept running. His eyes started to blur, he tripped over a stone, hitting his head.
When he woke, he was in a dark room, with a shadowy figure staring at him. The shadowy figure kept creeping closer and closer to Sanket. He was very confused and as equally terrified. Sanket did not know what to do, he saw a light and runs to it. He looked out of a crack in the wood, but just saw green, he fell and yelled out, “WHAT’S HAPPENING!?!”
As he fell, an odd sensation, as though he was falling through a thick, tar-like substance that was suffocating him slowly. Until he saw another figure showing up in the dark room. He heard a familiar voice; it was Uncle Jaldev ,”At last I finally got you back.” he whispered. All he saw was his uncle, swing, then the world went black and stayed like that...forever…

Abrafi

8/11/2017 23:41:18

It really wasn’t like that forever, but that's what many believed however I'm here to tell you the real story. The same feeling of the tar substance came back to Sanket and he found himself looking into the bright ominous eyes of the T-Rex once again. Its scaly skin looked like something right out of ‘Harry Potter’. A bone trembling roar escaped from the gaping vacuum that somewhat resembled a mouth. The heavy footsteps of the raptors neared, getting threateningly close.

“What do we do!” Sanket yelled, his voice panic arisen. He was barely audible over the chaos that had suddenly emerged from the forest. His first instinct was to run. As his little legs scrambled forward he felt a hard knock against his foot and he watched helplessly as the leaf covered ground slowly neared his face. Before he hit the floor he threw his hands out in front of him, and stopped the fall. Sanket watched as the bright bean became airborne and as it slowly approached the T-Rex he felt the atmosphere shift.

The sound of the dinosaurs’ became drowned out by an incessant whirring sound. Suddenly all went silent and any trace of dinosaurs or unusual behaviours disappeared. They were back in their normal forest with the bare vegetation and not one sound of the unusual.

He turned to look at the beast/girl and she stood there, a look of shock absorbing her face. So I wasn’t just imagining things, she had seen it too, he thought to himself.

“What just happened?” the beast/girl whispered, as if waiting for the dinosaurs to emerge again.

“I-I I don’t even know,” Sanket stuttered, trying to take in his surroundings. What the hell was going on? He asked himself.

“Let’s get out of here,” The beast/girl suggested. Sanket quickly nodded in agreement and sprinted towards my bedroom, desperate to escape the madness.

Once Sanket was back under the safety of his own bedroom he and the beast/girl sat in confusion, contemplating the prior events of the day. As he sat convincing himself of some ridiculous explanation, he gazed out the window and saw a bright object soaring towards them. Before he knew it there was the breaking of glass and the bean was suddenly atop his bed.

An all too familiar roar broke out from the thick trees of the forest. The outline of a large creature could be seen, strutting stealthily through the maze of trees. They didn’t need to go to the forest to know what it was.

Immediately, a look of realisation took over Sankets face. It was as if a lightbulb had appeared over his head.

“We need to bury this bean away, NOW!” Sanket yelled hastily crawling off his bed like a scared rat.

“What? Why? Whats going on?” the beast/girl called after him. She followed him as he ran towards the hill that lay just before the forest. He began to pull out the undergrowth of the hill like a dog digging for a bone.

“Come on, aren’t you going to help?” he yelled, still pulling out soil. The beast/girl kneeled down and joined in.

Sanket digged in his pocket and pulled out the shining bean which he had grabbed quickly before leaving his room.

“This bean has been taking us to another world. Making us see dinosaurs and all that. THAT’S why the forest was full of weird creatures one minute and then it was fine the next, because when we have the bean we’re in another world, but when we don’t have it we are back here,” Sanket explained.

“You genious! How’d you figure that out?” the beast/girl said in awe.

“I don’t really know,” Sanket said, smiling as he shoved it forcefully into the brown earth which had found its way all over his palm and within his fingernails. With the beast/girls help they covered the bean with the soil they had dug up. When they were finally done they got up and ran back to Sankets home, looking around suspiciously as if they had buried a body.

The roars from the forest had stopped as they walked into the house. Relief washed over them, however this comfort short lived as before they could even speak they watched as two young boys ran towards the hill and began digging aggressively.

“Oh no,” Sanket and the beast/girl said in unison. And that’s how the story really ended.

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