The Mysterious Gate

Once upon a time there was an old temple and many children came there to learn Magic. It was like a Gurukul and they taught two types of magic. First was of Supreme God and Demons and the second one was of Mirror World and Dark World . There were two big buildings with many many rooms, each building was for the students who were learning
different types of magic.

One day a boy came there to learn the magic of the mirror world and the dark world. The main teacher asked some information about him. He told that his name was John. The teacher showed him the building and his room in that building. Teacher also showed a room and said don’t even try to unlock this door because its locked from thousands of years , by our ancestors and no one knows about what is inside this door.

The boy asked him : “Do you also not know about this?”
The teacher said “I only know that this room is fully covered with mirror from inside but don’t forget my words, don’t open it .The boy was full of curiosity on what was inside that room.

Few days passed !

It was a sunny day & the boy was passing by that room. He saw some light coming out of that room, his curiosity to open that door was at its peak stage, but somehow he consoled himself and passed by that door. At that night he couldn’t sleep and was thinking about that door only. He decided to open that door, he went near that door and as he touched the door’s handle the alarm rang “tun tun tun” and all the teachers and the head teacher came and scolded him a lot, and locked him in his room for that night. 

Three days passed…….

It was the night time and the light was gone. That night also the boy was thinking of that room only. Suddenly an idea struck his mind that when that day he tried to open the door the alarm rang and he was caught, now since there was no light, alarm would not ring. He planned to go and open that room. He took a torch and a small ball like thing given by his mother which was very precious to him. Then he quietly went and open that door easily. When he entered the room it was very dark so he opened the torch light.

Then his feet suddenly got stuck in something and he fell down.The torch fell on another side and the ball in his hand fell on another side. So he picked up the torch and searched for that ball. He moved the torch he saw the full room and as the head teacher told him the room was fully covered with mirrors. When he saw in one of his mirror image the ball was lying right behind him, when he looked backward the ball, was not there. When he again looked into that mirror image, the ball was there so he went closer to the mirror image the image came out of the mirror and pulled him in the mirror world.

As he entered there, he moved one step forward with fear on his face and he fell in the dark world. There was no one from miles-miles away and it was totally dark.
The boy shouted – “Please someone help someone help”. Suddenly a sound came out of nowhere “hey boy you have entered this dark world but you can only go when I wish” The boy pleaded please let me go. Again the voice came “uhh I will let u go if u will get out of a maze and I will ask you three questions and you have to answer minimum two answers correct. The boy said that “ok I will do it”. Suddenly a maze came in front of him. Then he entered the maze somehow with a great difficulty. And then the voice said “Oh great kid u have crossed the maze but wait it’s the time for the questions.

My first question: How we can enter the mirror world?
The boy thought and said: By the mirror room
The voice said: Correct answer kid Here’s my 2 question: Who is the king of the dark world ?The boy thought a lot and said: I don’t know 
The voice said: So I will consider it as wrong
And here’s my third question, if you will get it correct so you can go home & if can’t, you will be stuck here life long. Here’s the question: Pronounce this word correct SSENKRAD.

The boy was very much confused so he used the little bit of magic he has learned in the temple so he used that and he came to know that it is a jumbled word then he stressed his mind and he realized that I have entered from the mirror world so it must be a mirror image and he said: The word is Darkness.

The voice said: Oh great child you have got it correct so I am sending you to your room. And a great blue light came towards the child and took him to his room. And then the boy rushed to his head teacher and told him the whole story and came to know that it was 10 days passed. And his teacher was proud of him that he solved a very big mystery but he was little angry because he disobeyed him, but still he was happy that he came out of that world. And when the child grew up he became a great magician and solved many mysteries. 

A Story by Rishit Sahni