The Tortoise Praguezi
The Night was dark and long, on the fated day.
The three great youngsters voyaging through the seas, to the Island of Wisdom; to obtain The Weapon, which was powerful enough to burst a mountain, to protect their beloved Kingdom, which was in the clutches of an evil mind.
The Three great men, were brave, courage and determined to get what they needed selflessly.
Shaan was the son of the Great scholar. brown skinned, optimistic, and wise.
Eesha was the daughter of a priest of the palace. Red haired, with cat eyes, very intelligent, that no one could outwit her.
Alan, had belonged to a very rich family. A White, with a cunning heart.
The three were 16 years old, with a hunger of adventure.
Everything was normal, untill Eesha spoke out of fear.
"Isn't it Scary, sailing in a small broken ship".
Shaan, did not respond, as he was looking around for the island through his binocular.
A rash voice, sounded from the doorless cavern;
"You're happy Shaan, aren't you? Because, of you're foolishness, I'd to come with you, in this broken ship" Alan said aggressively.
"Stop being rude, to him"
said Eesha, with a weird look to Alan.
"Nevermind, Eesha" said Shaan sounding optimistic.
"Why did you decide to sail in this ship? If you would asked my father, he'd give you a very large cozy ship, with beautiful girls."
Alan said in a arrogant tone.
"Now, enough! I'd cannot bear anymore, and For your kind information, you're father was the one who helped that evil..." said Shaan sadly.
Eesha said "Stop! You two, would you both stop fighting each other, we'd got other things to do. Please.."
"Listen to her, Alan, that's good for you" said Shaan.
Alan face glowing red, and a volcano, getting ready to burst up..
For the right moment, Eesha took Alan to the cabin, however formally.
And the night ended, Alan and Eesha still sleeping in the cabin with no pillows.
Shaan had fallen asleep, with his binocular in his hand on the deck.
Eesha woke up'-
"Wake up you two, I can see the island" said Eesha seeing the island through Shaan's binocular.
No sooner, as she said, Shaan woke up and snatched the binocular from Eesha's hands.
"We finally did it!" shouted Shaan with an excitement.
Alan walking out from the cabin, still half asleep, and yawning said, "Finally! We did it".
However, everything seemed to be pretty well, until the sea turned black.
"What's the matter, Eesha? You look worried". said Shaan with a sandwich in his right hand.
"There's something beneath the ship, isn't it? said Eesha anxiously pointing her hand towards the sparkling eyes in the sea."
"What is it?" said Alan.
And the waves seemed very dangerous, the sparkling eyes slowly raised up and
"AAEERRGGGHH"!
Shouted three of them.
It was a giant, green Tortoise.
Shaan's heart beating fast, was in surprise, and fear of meeting such a giant Tortoise.
But, the Tortoise seemed not harming, instead of dashing the ship, it spoke few words.
"I see, three kids, never seen anything like this."
"The Tortoise is speaking??" said Alan astonishingly.
"Ah, my name is Praguezi, and I'm the first Guardian of the Island of Wisdom".
The Giant Tortoise seemed to be pretty friendly. So Eesha used her intelligence and moved forward.
"Praguezi, nice to meet you,
Lemme introduce myself, I'm Eesha, and he is Alan , and he is Shaan"
"Very unlucky to meet you", said Alan.
Ignoring Alan, Shaan said, "Mr Praguezi, what does it mean to see you here?
"Nice question boy, I'm guarding the island. I think you'd come here to take the Weapon, hadn't you?"
"Well, yes!" said Shaan sensibly.
"Bravery, three kids, trying to get the weapon. Well if you want to go further, you need to defeat me." said Praguezi.
Three of them staring each other, went inside the cabin and started to talk.
"How can we do it? said Eesha.
"I'd told you, better let's go back, shouldn't we?" said Alan.
"We'd not come so far to just go back , did we? Our parents are still in the hands of evil. We cannot wait, a miracle to happen, we must do it" said Shaan with tears in his eyes.
The three came back outside the cabin, and
said courageously, "we'll fight you!".
"I'm shocked! After a very long time, seen someone so brave.
All you must do is to just solve a riddle". said Praguezi boldly.
There was a slight relief in their faces.
"It won't be easy as you think, tell me do you accept?" questioned Them.
Eesha walked front, and said, "We accept!"
There was a slight confusion in Shaan's and Alan's face.
And Praguezi continued
"The rules are..
You get unlimited time to answer the riddle, and there's only 2 chances to answer. And if you're wrong, You all will meet a terrific end".
Gulping saliva to their throats, finally were ready to the question.
Praguezi..
"Listen carefully, the riddle is..
'Which has the warmth, but cannot be seen nor touched, which creates and destroy, which makes us smile and cry?' said Praguezi sounding serious.
The three looked bewildered, and thought for a while, and suddenly Alan, split the wrong answer.
Alan said "Trust".
Praguezi shouted, "WRONG" and Shaan spotted a smile in his face.
They'd only one chance, if they're wrong, they could die.
The three again went to cavern, and Eesha started shouting at Alan, "what did that mean?" asked angrily.
"That was not wild guess, when he said, it can create and destroy, that moment, I thought it's Truth which can create happiness and destroy sometimes too". said Alan confidentially.
For the very time , Shaan's face seemed to be happy, and he said "Well done ! Alan".
He went immediately and said"I know the answer".
The Two of them, ran quickly towards Shaan and Shaan, said , "Love".
For a moment, the sounds wave stopped, everything was so serious, if this was wrong, they could meet the death.
And after a moment, Praguezi smiled, and said "Correct!"
The three, gasped..
And shouted, hurray, hugged each other, dancing and jumping.
"Shaan, can you explain, why the answer is love?" asked Praguezi.
"Mr Praguezi, Love is what creates us, we exist due to Love, and there's nothing which is more powerful than it. Love makes us smile and it also makes us to cry". said Shaan.
Praguezi's eyes were filled with tears.
With an honour, he left the way which he was blocking and said,
"Good luck".
The three of them waved their hands, and started to sail the ship again.
It was the delicious sunset, which made the three of them more happy.