A VIDEO GAME IN PYRAMIDS
Hassan was weeping loudly when he felt movement in
the bricks. The stone inside the walls were changing their places. All mummies
went back in the walls and all bricks of that room changed as deck of cards. He
could see faces of kings, queens, jacks and spades were moving at all sides.
‘I have seen all this before,’ Hassan tried to
remember something.
‘This pattern resembles my video game,’ he
remembered after sometime.
‘Come on Hassan, you can do it. It’s just like a
video game but be careful to earn at each level,’ he heard Zaka from somewhere.
‘Zaka, where are you?’
‘Just play, use your fingers. That wicked scientist
Sigma is stopping me from approaching here,’ Zaka shouted.
He pointed to
one brick with the king; it changed its position according to Hassan’s thought.
Hassan continued his game by moving his hand in air. He put 4 kings, jacks and
spades in a row but he couldn’t find the fourth queen on any brick to complete
his turn. He had no idea what to do now.
‘This king should marry four queens instead of
three,’ he said to himself.
SECRET FOURTH QUEEN
‘Fourth
queen,’ something flashed in his mind. He looked for that old book, which those
robbers left there. He tore its page with a picture of queen with code. He put
that page at one empty brick. That page merged into bricks at once and all card
bricks started to arrange themselves rapidly. Pattern was complete, every thing
went on calm, and room lit with light. Murtaza opened his eyes and looked at
Hassan.
‘Thanks god, you opened your eyes. Don’t worry the
curse is over. We should see a way to go back now’, Hassan ran to him. Just
then they saw a very beautiful queen appeared in the room and the room was lit
by sharp light.
‘She is just like that picture,’ Hassan looked at
her.
‘I am very thankful to both of you. You break my
curse. I am the fourth queen of King Khufu. He loved me a lot. He gifted me a precious gold bracelet on my
wedding. His other wives were jealous of me. They killed me to take that
bracelet but my loyal servants buried me in this room and hide my bracelet with
me, so I can use that in my other life. No one knew where I was buried, as my
rivals cursed my grave. I was wondering in these pyramids for centuries. Many
greedy robbers came here but they couldn’t go back. Now this world will also
know about the beauty and power of the fourth queen of Khufu. I’ll about to
rule the world now. I’ll take revenge. The king is only mine. The throne is
only mine,’ the queen laughed loudly.
‘Where is the king?’ she moved forward.
‘Please let us go, we are not here by our own,’ Hassan
requested her ignoring what she was saying.
‘No, you
can’t go; you help me to find my loyal slaves in this pyramid. They should also
wake up to serve me,’ she ordered them.
‘If the world outside knows about you, they will
take your treasures, specially your gold bracelet and your tomb will become a
public place like the tombs of your rival women. You will never find peace’
Murtaza tried to explain her wisely.
‘Let us go. We can’t help you anymore,’ Hassan
continued as they just wanted to get rid of her.
‘It’s always hard to explain a woman. No matter of
her status. She talks too much,’ Murtaza whispered Hassan.
‘Oh, you want this. I can sacrifice this to get my
king, my throne and my slaves back,’ she took off her bracelet and forward to
them.
‘Now help me.’
‘It’s mandatory that the queen present you her
bracelet with her consent.’ They remembered Zaka’s advise at that moment.
‘No, we don’t ….,’
‘Take this,’ the bracelet fell down.
‘No, not again. I have to take revenge. I’ll not let
my rival queens’ to rule again. The king is only mine,’ she got scared after
looking at the wooden coffin appeared from one corner.
She kept on yelling and arguing for while but at
last moved to that coffin.
‘I’ll awake again. I’ll awake again,’ the coffin was
closed and buried in the sand in front of their eyes. Every thing went on dark again. They were not
able to breath properly due to suffocation and sand. They fell down when they
saw Zaka in that room.
‘I’m grateful to help me out. I just needed these
stones to place their effect on wandering asteroids in future. This will change
the history of space travel in future. This bracelet is a deposit of that
queen. I’ll put back this here after my research,’ Zaka held that bracelet. After
sometime they found themselves outside the gates of great pyramids. Students of
Al Azhar were around them.
‘Are you ok? We came to know that some robbers
kidnapped you both and brought you here, thanks god you are all right,’ one boy
told them worriedly. Hassan and Murtaza looked around as it was a dream. They
saw guards were taking bodies of those robbers out of the gate. They were
unconscious.
‘Abdullah… happy to see you alive,’ Murtaza saw
those boys, whom the robbers threw in the Nile.
‘Thanks to that guy, he saved us,’ they pointed towards
Zaka.
‘Are you taking this bracelet in 24th century?
Can we tell about it in our time? Murtaza asked him.
‘I told you before, nature revealed its secrets by
its consent only. It has fixed its time to unveil its furtives. Times have
linked up automatically after the detection of this bracelet. The archeologist
in 24th century found the mummy of 4th queen. She is no
more a secret as she wished for. Let me tell you one thing, the search of this
mummy actually started from your time but it became a success after two
centuries.’ Zaka left them amazed.
‘Oh, we already have run of time. Your mothers are
looking for you at every corner. Meet you soon at any other time expedition.’
Every thing went on dark, before they could ask any other queries. After a
while, they found themselves in the library again.
MY THESIS, MY PASSION
The mobile bell was ringing continuously.
‘Where is my mobile?’ Hassan’s father pushed the
pile of scattered paper on his table.
‘By looking at your utmost efforts and experience,
we have decided to indulge you with SUPARCO( THE NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY OF PAKISTAN). You can go on with your research
and can complete your thesis about that precious stone which is most probably fall from space according to your research.’
‘Thanks a lot, sir. I already have found many clues
about the origin of that rock,’ he got excited after hearing from his GM.
‘Hassan and Murtaza are missing and you’re
celebrating here. Please look for them around,’ Hassan’s mother entered the
lounge after looking them in the lawn.
‘Open up, who has locked us,’ just then they all
listened at their voices from inside the library.
‘Sorry baba, we were just looking at this,’ Hassan felt
embarrassed, as soon as the door opened.
‘When you entered in here? I just lock the door of
library few minutes before after checking thoroughly,’ Hassan’s father got
amazed by looking at them.
‘Umm…we..,’
‘It’s ok. Thanks god you’re home. Let’s go for
dinner,’ Murtaza’s mother hugged him.
‘Off course, don’t panic the boys now,’ Hassan’s
mother covered her son too and took them aside.
‘I’m happy to continue with you,’ Hassan’s father
smiled at that stone and locked the library again, but he didn’t forget to
recheck it.
THE JOURNEY OF STONE
‘This stone didn’t reach under the debris of
Himalaya because of the movements of plate under earth but it entered from the
space after a long journey of 1000 years. A journey from earth to space then a voyage
back to earth again will remain mystery for the time being. Though your father
will not reach the real truth but definitely he will set footpath for the
future archeologist and scientists,’ Zaka thought by looking at the bracelet
and left one of the stone from that bracelet in the asteroid belt.
‘Get set start: from 11th century till 21st
century. Enter the earth from downwards,’ he set the code with that stone and
flew to 24th century.
THE END
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about author: saima nadeem is an educationist & a story writer