Post 32- Nahla

"Oh great!! Now all of us are in Zyprinus. From Dino Land to Attenborough and now in Zyprinus.Thanks, to Ray, THE GREAT"said Ethan ferociously. "Hey, Don't put the blame on me, all of us are in this together, REMEMBER",said Ray."Look at me!!"cred Lizzie,"I look so worn out, so ugly, and...and...,"Lizzie looked as if she would now burst out into tears."Miss Fashion Freak, looks like Ryan won't be happy to see you like this."chuckled Ethan. "Cut it out guys, we need to figure out what to do now",suggested Abby."She's right, we need to-"Ray couldn't complete. The four of them heard a strange kind of speaking. The voices were getting closer. "Sounds like a ceremony,"said Ray. "Sshh!!Hide Everyone" said Lizzie. All of them hid behind a huge bush.They saw a crowd of similarly dressed, weird looking people. A beautiful girl was seated in a throne and was being carried away by by four gigantic men. The people at the back of the procession uttered loud verses of an unknown language. The people in the front were singing loudly
"Hoo-Ha-Hoo,Hoo-Ha-Hoo.....Hale Queen Zoah.....Hoo-Ha-Hoo,Hoo-Ha-Hoo......The Queen of Zyprinus....". The voices faded as the procession moved away.

The children crawled from behind the bush."I think. we better follow them,"said Lizzie."Are you insane?We better find somewhere to stay before it gets too dark,"said Ethan with a look of concern."What are you thinking Ray?"asked Abby. "The face of that queen, it remind me of someone....someone whom i know...it feels like a lost memory,"said Ray.

"I think we should go for Ethan's suggestion, let's find shelter,"requested Lizzie. The four of them agreed and began to stroll in search for shelter. They covered long stretches of forested land. They walked and walked. Abby was at the last. She dragged her feet behind them."Walk fast, Abby,"said Ethan who was in the front."I can't, I'm so tired", said Abby.They trod over dry leaves and it was about sunset. Everyone was tired, they were hungry and cold. As they walked further, Abby stopped,"I can't go any more,I just......"her voice faded into a distant cry...."AAAAAAHHHHHHH....Help!!!!!"..........

POST 31- RIDA

"Oh come on!! d'yu think we're as dumb as you think we are?", said Ray fiercely. "Before leaving to search for food, we heard to all that you both were planning to do to us when we return and that's exactly what we're seeing here!!". "Yeah, exactly! But one question. Where did you gals get all that paint? it looks so realistic; as if it were really someone's blood!" said Ethan and both Ethan and Ray started laughing flibbertigibbetily leaving Abby and Lizzie sobbing in before them.
Ray seemed to have noticed this and nudged Ethan to stop laughing. he felt that something was not in place. He went to Abby and asked her why she was sobbing. Abby told him all that had REALLY happened. After her fable was completed, Ethan and Ray looked at each other and starting laughing till thier teeth would fall off! "IT'S NOT FUNNY YOU GUYS!!!!!!!! WE'RE SERIOUS!!!!!!!", lizzie retorted. "It's tru. we had planned to do it, but it actually happened!!!", she said."and we have proof too! Take a look a t this." and they both showed Ray and Ethan the charms that man had given them."I think this is seriious Ray.", Said Ethan, and no more was he laughing. "Yeah i know. I think we should return to the class and figure out who the man was and what these charm bracelets are for?", said Ray.
So they returned to the classroom where they had first settled and sat down on the benches. The bench on which Ray was sitting had a book underneath it. Unable to hold on to his curiosity any longer, he bent down and picked it up to examine whose it was. "Hey guys! take a look at this!" he shouted out the others who were meanwhile resting their heads on the desks. All three of them rushed to the table where Ray was seated. On the front page of the book was some peculiar sort of writing in some other language which they could not interpret. On the book the following words were embedded- "THE LOST ISLAND OF ZYPRINUS". Something out of the unusual tickled Abby's mind. She turned towards Lizzie and said- "Isn't that the island that man had told us to go to?" "Yeah! said Lizzie. "Open the book you guys!" and Ray opened the book. As he did so, the book flipped a few pages and suddenly......
"Where are we?" asked Ray. All of them were in a worn out state and stood up and looked around. "OH MY GOD!!!!" screamed Lizzie. "We are in Zyprinus! The lost island of Zyprinus!!"...

POST 30- SANIA

The boys moved towards the door. Suddenly they heard a noise. It was just the creaking of the door. But Lizzy and Abby ran and held Ethan’s and Ray’s hand. Abby asked “Y…y…you r…really have tu…to go leaving us a…alone here?” she was shivering from head to toe. “Especially when there is a FORBIDDEN WASHROOM with a dead teacher right next to us” Lizzie said, faintly smiling. “Girls! That might just be a tale. You expect a school to be still running in the same building where a teacher died and that too hold classes next to it?” asked Ray. “Umm…no…but still…don’t leave us alone here. Ok?” asked Abby. “Ok” chorused Ray and Ethan. The boys turned to the door…and smiled. A wicked smile you can call it. They had something else in mind. They looked at each other. “Are you thinking what I am thinking?” asked Ethan to Ray in a whisper. “I guess I am. Heh. But no. I can’t do that to them!” Ray replied. “Come on!!! Don’t be such a kid! Just follow me” Ethan whispered back. “Girls, why don’t we explore the FORBIDDEN WASHROOM?” Ethan asked with a smirk. “You really want to?” asked Abby. “Yeah! Coming with us?” he asked. “Abby, Ethan is smiling his wicked smile. I am sure he is up to something bad.” Lizzy warned Abby. Abby just nodded her head. “Ray, you want me to go?” Abby asked. “ummm… go if you want” Ray said. “Ok. I know he isn’t up to any good. But let us go. After all, what can he do?” Abby whispered, laughing it off.

The four kids walked outside the classroom. Ethan tried opening the door of the washroom. It was sealed tight. He pushed it hard but it didn’t budge. “It’s no use” he said finally. “Let us go to the kitchen. I hope something is there for us to eat” Ethan said and moved down the stairs in search of the kitchen. “Find the kitchen and bring us back something. We will stay here.” Lizzy said. “Are you sure Liz?” asked Abby. “Yup. I am. You guys continue.” She said and the boys went down. The girls went back into the class and Lizzy said “I am really sure that Ethan was going to do something bad to us. So why don’t we fire him back?” ”I don’t know. If that is what you think and if that is what you want…then okay. We will do something.” replied Abby. “Ok. I have an idea. We will act as if we went inside the forbidden washroom. Okay. And then, we will leave some red paint and some blood handprints all around. When the boys return, we will act like we are really scared. Then after sometime, if we have good fun scaring them, then we will tell them the truth. I am sure the boys won’t find the kitchen fast. So we have time.” Lizzie said with her secret smile.

What the girls did not know was that the boys had heard all this. They had come back just to know why the girls stayed back and they heard all what Lizzy said. “haha. So after we return, we will laugh seeing fake blood. And they will be wondering why we are not scared. Haha!” Ethan said. Ray just smiled and went down to REALLY search for the kitchen as they were REALLY hungry.

In the mean time, the girls were searching for paint. “Oh god! Can ANYONE give us some red paint?” asked Lizzy loudly.

“Is real blood enough?” a strong male voice was heard. Lizzy and Abby turned around suddenly. Anyone would have screamed. But Lizzy and Abby were veiled by such power, wrath and fear that their voice was equivalent to a squeak next to the man’s voice. “I asked…is real blood enough?” he asked again. Both the girls couldn’t answer. They just stood there…fear gripped. “I ASKED…” the man was about to continue fiercely when Abby did her usual interruption and said “yes, sir” Lizzy cast a look at Abby and whispered “what?” “If blood is what you want… Blood is what you get” he said, now with a smile, but not a gentle smile. He moved towards the girls and held Lizzie’s hand tight. “aah!” Lizzie moaned. Her hand was trickling with blood. “Please. Please. What do you want? Who are you?” Lizzie asked in pain in a low voice. She was getting weaker. “I want just trying to help.” He smiled. “We will do anything. Just leave my hand. It hurts” Lizzie cried. Abby nodded in agreement. “So you girls agree to do what ever I ask? Good. Good.” He said taking out a small charm from his pocket. He said “you shall wear this till the sun may set in the lost island of ZYPRUS and this charm should never be seen by any one else than yourself and her highness queen Zhoah!” he said. The girls took the charm and tied it around their upper arm and hid it under their sleeve.

In the blink of their eye, the man disappeared. They burst out crying. There was blood everywhere. And there were fingerprints too. The girls just kept on crying. Just then, the boys returned. “Ray!” screamed Abby and ran towards him and hugged him tight. “I am really scared Ray. You don’t know what happened. Look around. Look at all this blood” wept Abby. Ethan started laughing. “You think you can fool us? Heh” Ethan laughed. Lizzie and Abby looked surprised. “Don’t you believe us?” asked Lizzie. “No way!” said Ethan.

Post 29- Nahla

The day was quite dull. The gang of four staggered through the fast moving crowds of the city. The city was like a pandemonium on that specific Monday. Finally they reached the very place where they first met the group of girls, the backyard of the Attenborough American Academy.

"I guess all the children have left the school", said Lizzie. "Perfect, now lets move in guys. Let the game begin", said Ethan in a heroic style. "Oh! stop all that nonsense Ethan. We have to get serious. Get it. When I tell serious, I really want a job well done,"said Ray with a frown in one of his brow. "Stop instructing us ok,"said Lizzie in a querulous tone. "SHUT UP!!!!!!!," screamed Abby her face going red. A quite descended upon the whole school. "Ok that was bad, let's just shut up and find a way to get in." said Ray. The children moved slowly. It was growing darker by the minute. Finally they saw an open entrance behind the school backyard.

One by one they sneaked into the school and the reached the corridor in which they followed the fat girl. "It--It's quite dark in here,"Lizzie was quivering with fear. Suddenly a matchstick was lit up. Lizzie screeched on top of her voice. "Oh! Lizzie you're causing an ear attack, Chillax it's just me Ray." He was holding up a candle and his head looked as if it was floating in mid air."Now where the hell did you get that candle from?", asked Lizzie still shivering from the shock. "I always carry it", said Ray with a nonchalant smile."Let's continue,"said Ethan. Ray lead the way. The gang reached the footsteps of a long flight of stairs. They quitely followed Ray up the stairs and finally reached the second landing."Not again, another confusing place",said Abby with a deep sigh. There were two directions to which the landing lead. On the right there were three classes and on the left there were two classes and a passage that lead to the terrace. They took the left and followed the passage that lead to the terrace. "Hey, this school is giving me creeps,"said Lizzie, still not recovered from the shock. They found three classrooms in the terrace area and another room which was sealed with a black cross. There was another band also that was tied in the front with the words "ENTRY NOT PERMITTED" written in it. "I s'pose this is the forbidden washroom in the third floor'" said Ethan. "Yeah," said the others in unison. "We better find somewhere to settle down," suggested Ray.

After a while or so, they got into a classroom quite close to the forbidden washroom. As they sat on the benches, Ethan said "Hey Ray, why don't we catch up some food, my stomach is grumbling". "Yeah, we better hurry." said Ray. As the two boys got up and moved towards the door, they heard some sound.......

POST 28 - NAHIDA

With their faces glowing with happiness, they walked forward. Suddenly Lizzy stopped in her track, but the others seemed not to have noticed this. Lizzy shouted,”But guys.......we have to go back to the school to get some clue the ball’s whereabouts!” The others halted.
“Oh great! Now we’ll never find the ball” Abby exclaimed.
“We have no time for you negativity” Ethan remarked, “How can we be sure if the ball is hidden in the school”
“Guys, something tells me that the ball is somewhere in the school” Ray said.
“Is this another one of your prophecies, Ray?” Abby asked in an undertone. “No!” Ray shouted. “Why don’t we send Ray into the school because no one can see him.” Lizzie said suddenly.
“Yes! Now I can see Zoe again!” shouted Ray not realising that he had yelled out his own thoughts in full volume. The others looked at him, grinning. “eh……..So that we can find something about the ball…..”Ray continued, stammering. Abby was still giggling and had to act as though she was sneezing to hide her laugh. Ray put his head down to cover his embarrassment.
“Anyway” Ethan carried on, changing his grin into a serious look “Ray can go into the school and find some empty room for us. We can’t spend the night in this NOWHERE! I’m damn hungry……we’d have to steal some food from the school kitchen.” The others agreed including Ray who was glad that the topic was changed.

POST 27- SANIA

Ethan and lizzy jus looked deep at ray and asked him to continue. Ray continued “I already told you that I loved Zoe’s eyes and I will never forget them because they were really beautiful! It was light blue forget me nots! That fat girl we met…she had the same eyes. The same blue eyes that attract me! It looked exactly like Zoe’s. Do you think…” Abby interrupted and said “you mean…Zoe and that fat girl are the same?” she asked. “I don’t know. The ball, coming to the past…everything seems magical. So can’t anything happen in this magical world?” he asked.

The 4 kids continued talking. Suddenly Ray said “wait! Silent. Be silent” everyone stopped talking in shock. “What happened?” Ethan asked. “Silence. please.” he said covering his both ears with his hands.

Ray started moving and everyone followed him. Suddenly Ray stopped walking. “At least now you mind telling us what is happening?” Ethan asked. “eah! Ok. Actually…I heard a noise. Something buzzing. It sounded like the last time. You know…when we had the ball in our hands.” he said. “Oh! That sound you said you were hearing that day. hmm. You can hear it now?! That means…” Lizzy stopped abruptly. And everyone else screamed “THE BALL IS HERE SOMEWHERE!” Everyone’s face beamed with a smile.

POST 26 - AFREEN

Ethan exclaimed,"Oh yes exactly!! your right Abby. So it means that she could see Ray when others could'nt see him !!" Lizzie said,"There, its another mystery to find out who that girl is." Abby said,"So what are we going to do now? I have no idea. everyone was quiet for a minute. Then suddenly....

POST 25 - VANTHANA

Abby who went forward said, "Hey defatted girl, will you stop running from us?". Then suddenly, she stopped running. Then they saw the girl who was trembling in fear, her eyes were flooded with blood and she was sweating like hell. She was a short girl. She was chubby cheeked and was looking like a teen for the reason that she had lots of pimples....Ray went in front and asked, "Who are you? Why are you spying us?" The fat girl replied,"I wasn't spying you, well I was just rushing to....to.... "She stammered for a second and said," to go to the washroom." But why did you start running after we started walking towards you?", asked Ray. '' Excuse me! I said I was rushing to the washroom and anyone in my state won't listen to you!" Ray was about to ask her a question when Lizzie interrupted and said "Let's go and find Zoe." The fat girl ran upstairs like an ox escaping from the lion.
While returning, Ethan remembered something in the course of his journey and conveyed, ''Guys, do you remember the thing which the man in the ELEVE cave told. He told us not to talk loudly because there are many suspicious characters spying around." Then Ray said, "Yaaaaaaaa......Now I get it.Thanks for reminding me Ethan." Then Abby said, "It is just a possibility but not a surety. So, let us first get some more information from those girls."
Then they heard the school bell and went to the playground to find for the girls. Ray was the first one to find that group in which "ZOE" was there!!! They went up to the girls and Ethan said,"Well, we have something to ask you." he then said, "Do you know anything about a fat girl with lots of pimples on her face, of your age?" Then Kelly said, "There's no girl in our grade, whom we don't know, even if she was a newly admitted child." Abby asked, "Do you know something about any washroom located in the 3rd floor of your building?" Then Kelly,"A washroom... in the 3rd floor. No, there isn't........." Then Daryn interrupted and said, "There was one, but now it is closed because our ex-class teacher Mrs. Kate died in that washroom." "Oh no! I hate mysteries. I think I won't sleep today....What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"said Abby tremendousely horrified. "So it is completely sealed now", added Daryn. Then the girls said that they had to leave and went away.
On their way from the school they came across the busy roads with smoking vehicles and people which they had never seen in their lives. The 4 kids were all thinking about the fat girl, they had seen. Then suddenly, Abby said, "Did you notice that the fat girl responded to Ray, while he was invisible and unhearable to all the others except us 3......."