The Mysterious Garden

Wow!!! I couldn’t stop myself from telling this whenever I went to my grandfather’s garden. Oh, I almost forgot to introduce myself I am Katherine, a student of a very boring school with a very boring life, doing the same things every day. Until my father received a transfer and now here we are in my grandfather’s house in Bangalore. We have just shifted here about two days ago. I am always wonderstruck looking at my grandfather’s garden, there are mango and apple trees surrounding it and many bushes scattered here and there. There is a flower bed at the entrance and ooh the most important thing there is an old banyan tree in the center of this garden. My father always tells me that this tree is very special, but I don’t know why, all I see are squirrels, rabbits scampering here and there, but I sort of feel magical around this tree. “Katherine”, my mother was calling me for dinner. After dinner I went straight to my bedroom. From my room I could see the garden, that night in full moon’s night I was not feeling sleepy. I was starring out of the window…….. Suddenly I saw some movement in the garden, I strained my neck to see what is was and what I saw, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. From the banyan tree’s roots, I saw small creatures climbing up; they all were wearing green hats, vests, shoes, everything in green! I couldn’t believe my eyes, so I mustered up courage and went downstairs and I opened the door and to my shock I saw……

PART 2:-

I saw a very bright green color glow….it was so bright that I was unable to open my eyes. Slowly the light started to fade away and when I managed to open my eyes I saw the glow disappearing behind the banyan tree!!! I started to walk towards the tree and what I saw made my heart skip a beat…….There was a door in that tree! I decided to go through the door and I found myself in a completely different world. There some sort of green dressed creatures with pointed ears and noses were hurrying here and there. Although their expressions were gentle all of them looked tensed…none of them were paying attention to me. I cleared my voice and said “Excuse me. Could you please tell me what this place is and what is going around here”? As soon as they heard this all of them stopped their work and started looking at me. I felt hundreds of eyes looking at me at the same time. One of them said “I think she is Harold’s daughter…maybe she can save us…let us take her to Her Highness”. I couldn’t believe what I heard those creatures knew my father, but how? Many questions started to arise in my mind. After that four of those creatures came up to me and asked me to follow them. I did…and after a couple of minutes I found myself in a magnificent castle. There on a throne sat a very gorgeous lady. I thought to myself that could somebody pinch me. OW! I cried one of those creatures had pinched me. Now I stared at it in utter belief.” You can read my mind”.”Yes,” the creature replied. Now that lady came up to me smiling she said “You are Harlod’s daughter”. I couldn’t take it anymore my brain was bursting with millions of questions as I was about to open my mouth, the lady told me “Welcome to Enchansia, I Queen Isabella and your father were good friends. He has helped our kingdom in several ways and I am pleased to meet you Katherine and I would have showed you our kingdom but….” She trailed off. “But what I asked”? Isabella told me that now their kingdom was in great danger and perhaps I was the only one who could help them. I was taken aback in surprise and before I could ask her anything more, she told me “come with me”……

To be continued in the next part…..

Written by:
Isha(Reporter)  Grade 8  M.C.G.S
as a part of NARRATIVE WRITING  {Done as a club activity}