There were four of them Tom, Gilbert, James, and Johnny were these children, and there was also a girl, Tipsy, and the funny thing was that even though she was a girl, she was not afraid of anyone and always planned these mischiefs.
Tipsy’s father was an officer of the Archaeological Department. One day, Tipsy happened to visit his father in the courtyard of an ancient fort built on the outskirts of the city. That day, Tipsy's father had gone to the ancient fort with his department's team for some survey work, and coincidentally, Tipsy also accompanied them. But Tipsy's father had made Tipsy sit in the guard room built inside the fort wall because the entry of minor children was prohibited inside the fort.
After her father went inside, Tipsy innocently asked the guard many questions about the fort. And that guard, considering Tipsy as a child and considering childlike curiosity, told Tipsy some true and some false things about the fort. And when Tipsy asked why the children were not allowed inside the fort, the guard told him that people believed that the spirits of the men and women who lived inside the fort lived in the fort, which only kill children. And to scare her, he was also told that the guards doing night duty have often heard the voices of these ghosts and spirits coming from the fort.
Tipsy asked the guard, "I have heard that in such old forts, the treasures of kings and emperors are also hidden."
The guard jokingly said to her, "You have heard it right; very precious gold and gems are hidden in this fort, which is still being searched by the archaeology department, and perhaps your father might have come today for the same purpose."
Hearing all of this from the guard's mouth, Tipsy’s mind was filled with evil thoughts, and she was thinking that very soon she would now have fun with her friends by discovering the treasure of this fort.
On returning home, Tipsy went straight to her friends and told them that today she had gone with her father to the old fort on the outskirts of the city, and there was a lot of treasure hidden in it; if we tried to search, we could find that treasure there.
We can get away with our poverty with it, and then we will all have fun with that money. Those four friends were also listening to Tipsy's words, and they started dreaming of getting the treasure out of there. But Tipsy didn't tell them that children were forbidden to go there and that ghosts and spirits also came out there at night.
She thoughts in her mind, if they all get scared hearing about ghosts, they will not agree to go there.
When Tipsy told all four of them, Tom, Gilbert, James and Johnny about the treasure, those four also got greedy for the treasure.
But still, Tom asked Tipsy, "How do we get into the fort, I hear it's heavily guarded."
Tipsy said "No it's nothing like that, I found out, there are only 1 or 2 guards at night, they sleep quietly in their rooms because no one dares to go there.
Gilbert said, "But how are we going to get over that 15-foot-high wall, and we don't even know the way in."
Tipsy suggested, "We'll take a rope ladder with us and one of us will climb a tree and hang the rope on either side of the wall, Johnny, who is the tallest of us, will do it."
James said, "We will carry some torches, food, etc. to go inside, and we will also carry a sack to bring the treasure.
After making all the other plans, they all fixed the program to go to the fort at 10 o'clock the next day.
And the next day at the appointed time, they all reached the back wall of the fort and entered the fort easily, till they entered inside the fort, they did not face any obstacle.
But what happened after that none of them had imagined, after opening inside none of them knew which room they had to go to, where the treasure would be found, then Tipsy remembered that the guard had told them The treasure was probably kept in the middle room.
Somehow, after spending a lot of time and effort, all of them were able to open a door of the fort and enter its main building, inside was the kingdom of darkness, but they had brought battery torches with them, in the light of which they moved forward, only then someone's loud voice was heard speaking, inside the rooms.
The most fearful of them was James, his condition worsened due to fear, his heart was beating very fast, he almost started crying and said: "Just don't go any further, there is someone inside, we will all be caught".
But no one listened to him, and they kept on entering, then on entering the second room, they all lost their senses, they saw a severed head hanging on the wall, and blood was oozing from it, immediately and one more thing happened.
A loud alarming voice came, "Come on soon in room everyone, we are waiting for you we kill all of you."
James started fainting, and now the rest of the friends were also very scared, then a black shadow jumped in front of them, and all of them lost their bravery .
They all ran back from there to save their lives, and somehow fell to each other and reached their homes.
Then all of them took an oath among themselves that they would not participate in any such campaign again.
After a few days of this incident, Tipsy innocently asked her father, "Daddy, are there any ghosts living in that old fort?" I was told that someone had seen them inside.
Her father smiled and told that "Actually some valuable government property has been kept safe in that old fort, and that's why we have spread the rumour that there are ghosts there, and yet once some thieves entered inside that Inside fort, that's why if someone enters now, we used to scare them by showing a film of ghosts from our fine 3D projector.
Tipsy's father continued, "There are no ghosts there, but there is definitely an army unit stationed inside."
What a clever way for the fort to maintain security, rumors are very powerful. The dialog here flows smoothly between the group. However, it would have been nice to see some more development of your characters and emphasis on the action.
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Thank you for sharing your story with us, and for your engagement with other members of the community!
@theinkwell Now I would like to tell you that it has been 14 months since I joined this community, and I have learned everything about character building, dialogues, the story's background, timeline, and the story's ending, etc. Due to business involvement, I am deprived of your total praise every time. I don't mind, someday my luck will also rise.
Heartfelt thanks for your cooperation and support.
I loved your story. Tipsy was very clever in convincing her friends to go to the fort, what a surprise they got when they got there.
@kzxixs Thanks a lot for your valuable comments.
Ahahaha!!!
Tipsy is such a kid. She took everything that the guard told her, the spirits, ghosts and gems.
I got scared for the kids as I read this piece.
Thank you sir @mrenglish, I can understand your worries, only a sincere and kind person can think so.
This was an awesome story. Tipsy is quite the smart one 😂
@madamnaomi Thanks .
I really enjoyed your story my friend @fantom22. It was very good that lesson to the kids. Excellent ending, I imagine that after that experience they will not commit so many pranks again 😀
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@popurri Thank You very much for appreciation.