Project Outcome 2
Three Reckless Souls
Three Friends! An odd triplet! Always arguing and opposing
one another’s view point, poles apart yet were inseparable.
Stephanie was a teen of seventeen, wore her black hair in
sort cut. She was bold, brave, straight forward, intelligent
and good at studies but too much talkative, and a bit tom
boyish. She was an adventurer and loved to explore places.
She was averse to fashion and would dress up tastelessly.
So, was always seen in simple jeans, t-shirts and canvas
shoes.
Rachel was beautiful, innocent, and nervous and seemed a
bit susceptible. She dressed up simply but nicely. She was
quiet and least expressive among the three. She was a true
nature lover and was fond of beautiful landscape. Her
hobbies were gardening, and flower arrangement. She was
only sixteen. She was very good at studies.
Hillary was easygoing, irresponsible and careless. The only
thing she cared about was her appearance. She wore her
blonde long hair in an exquisite style. She was always seen
dressed up after the fashion of the day. She used to watch
horror movies and read Fantasy stories and that is why she
believed in witches and witchcraft. She was average in
studies.
It was Rachel’s birthday so Stephanie suggested spending
the day out amidst beautiful nature as a treat for Rachel.
"Wow! That’s great. But we must start the packing and the
stuff right now" cried Rachel.
Hillary rejected the proposal and put in for a theatre. But the
other two forced her to give in.
In an hour, everything was packed and ready. They left for a
small but beautiful valley where they once camped last
summer.
They reached their destination in about two hours, and
chose a sunny place amidst trees and set things for a whole
day stay. After the job was done, they felt tired and thirsty.
Rachel looked for the water bottles, but could not find any.
“Hillary! Where did you place the bottle of water” she asked
Hillary who was occupied by a novel.
Hillary had forgotten them on the table. Stephanie shouted,”
You are good for nothing beauty queen. I’m sure; you didn’t
forget bringing you make-up”.
“Don’t shout Stephee! It’s not a big deal” said Hillary.
“Not a big deal! Are you in your senses? How‘d we do
without water?” yelled Stephanie.
Rachel intervened to calm them down and suggested to find
water in the neighborhood.
They got up to find some water from a house in the vicinity.
Together, and they were talking to each other while walking.
After sometime they noticed that they had come quite far
from the spot they had stayed. In fact, they had lost their
way. None of could understand the way, they were quite
confused. They sat under a tree, tired and perplexed.
"Now, how’re we going to reach home, we’ve completely lost
the way, I’m so hungry arrghhh!" said Stephanie.
"May be someone help us”, said Rachel.
"Who? These trees?” jeered Stephanie.
"I said may be" replied Rachel.
As they were arguing, an old woman with a stick in her
hands, wearing a long white overcoat, came to there from
nowhere. She had a wrinkled face, pointed nose, grey hair.
She wore a friendly smile and seemed to be a nice lady.
"Do you need any help?" asked the lady politely.
"Oh, yes! We have come here for camping but we’ve lost our
way", Hillary said.
"Don’t worry! I live at a short distance from here. Come with
me, I’ll help you" said the lady with sweet smile on her face.
Stephanie had a strange feeling about the old lady.
Although, the old woman was beautiful from all standards of
beauty yet Stephanie could not decide whether she was
beautiful or ugly. To her the old lady appeared to be a weird
old woman. So, she took her friends aside and asked them
not to follow her. But, Hillary wanted an adventure so she
had already started following the old lady. Stephanie and
Rachel had to follow them.
The girls followed the woman to an unknown place; They
were a bit confused, curious and thankful, too. They reached
a river to their surprise, the women touched water with her
stick and there was a gap in the water. She nodded them to
follow her and followed her as if they were in a trance. They
reached on Island where the landscape was unusually
beautiful.
Everything was bright, colorful and extremely beautiful. It
had a lot of greenery, long trees and different flowers of all
colours could be seen everywhere. They came to know,
later, that the Island was a work of medicate island was so
beautiful that it appeared to Eden,. The woman then took
them to a huge, great palace. The palace was a wonderful
piece of art, it was purple and turquoise colored. Its design
was just outstanding; it shined like silver .It had extensive
landscape gardens with excellent views of bays. It had many
fountains and waterfalls.
Rachel was taken in by the beauty of the place; she plucked
a flower and placed it in her book. After some minutes when
she opened the book, she found the flower rotten dead, she
didn't understand what'd happened. She simply ignored it.
She did not tell her friends about it.
Stephanie picked up a stone and threw it into a stream
passing by. She noticed that it did not sink. Instead, of
floating on the water surface. It seemed strange to her but
she did not bother about it much.
All of the three did not understand that in what kind of place
they were being taken. The old woman told them that it was
her palace. She took them in. She started showing them
different rooms one by one. Hillary saw that one room was
left, so she asked
"What’s in that room?"
"It’s the same room as the others are nothing special" said
the old woman.
Hillary got curious. She wanted to know what was in that
room. So, while the old woman was in another room with
Stephanie and Rachel, she stealthily went into that room.
The room was empty; there was nothing except a huge,
strange thing, covered with a dust covered white cloth. She
slowly came to it, and removed the cloth, as soon as she did
so, a voice came,
"Go, go away! Just go away from here! Go away for your
life.”
She was so frightened that she could not think whose voice
was that, she quickly put the cloth back and ran from the
room to her friends. The old woman was around so she
could not tell her friends about it.
After that, a grand meal was served to them. Every kind of
appetizers, roasted and steamed food was present there. It
looked delicious, tasty. So, they all started at once and ate to
their fill.
After the meal, the women told them that it was getting dark
outside. So, they should spend the night at her palace
because it wasn’t possible to find their camp in the dark. So
the servant made their beds and they all went to sleep for
they were very tired.
At midnight, a strange noise woke Stephanie but she could
not make out what the sound was. She opened the door and
saw a shadow of a strange creature. He had a hunched back
and was wearing a hood. She followed the shadow furtively;
she hid herself behind a wall, carefully holding her breath
tried to listen to the voices.
"I want the lives of these three girls to prolong my life and to
recover my youth I lost during the last month. Have an eye
on them; they should not get a clue about my plans. I am
going to sacrifice all the three girls to Satan tomorrow when
the sun rises’ the old lady gave the shadow the detailed
plan.
Stephanie was shocked. She slowly and warily went back
into the bedroom and woke her friends up and told them
what she'd heard.
The other two were frightened for a while but they calmed
each other. Then Rachel told about the rotten flower she
plucked and Hillary told about the talking mirror.
They all got very scared, their lives were in danger.
Stephanie suggested that they should go to the room again
to see what the talking mirror was.
The three went into the secret room again carefully. Hillary
removed the cloth from the mirror. The mirror started talking
again.
"Why’ve you come here, girls? Why do you want to risk your
lives? Run away or you'll regret later."
Hillary cried like a child said, “We came here for camping,
we lost our way, the old woman promised to help us and has
brought us here. Now, we are trapped and do not know the
way out.”
"I may help you but I’m telling you before that one person
can ask me only one question in his or her entire life."
The girls looked at each other, they were confused. What to
ask. Then they came up with three questions.
Rachel asked the first question, “Tell us what kind of world is
this and give a historical background with each and every
detail."
Mirror began, “This is an unreal world made by Zaisha, the
Witch. Once there was a queen named Angelina. She was
the most beautiful woman. She was pretty, nice and wise.
With her wisdom, she ruled this world excellently. But the
evil comes where the good exists. Zaisha was one of her
loyal servants. She was jealous of the queen’s beauty and
wisdom. Through evil ways and through black magic, she
captured the queen, took away her beauty and became the
queen herself. But the real and true beauty of this world
fades away in a short time due to her evil prevailing here.
Now, she has recreated this world but all the things in this
world are artificial and short-lived. Now she needs the life of
human beings to increase her life and beauty and to keep
her powers and this world in her control. She’s been taking
the lives of beautiful teenaged girls for many years. She’s
kept the bodies of the unfortunate girls in a dungeon in this
palace whose lives she has already taken."
This all was unbelievable for the three girls. They felt as if
they were in the middle of a night mare.
Then, Hillary asked the second question, “How can we kill
the witch and put an end to her evil?”
The mirror said, “To destroy her, take advantage of her
weakness and her weakness is that she cannot stand the
presence of moonlight at night. You can kill her by throwing
a beam of moonlight onto her. I’ll be glad if I’m of any use to
annihilate the witch.”
Stephanie asked the last question, “After finishing her, how
can we escape from this world?"
Mirror answered, “After she is finished, this world made by
her will also be disappear. You’ll automatically reach the
place in the valley, where you were before."
Now the girls discussed that there were two ways either the
witch should be brought into the moonlight or moonlight can
be directed on her. Hillary came up with the idea that one of
them should go into her room and she should at once throw
light onto the Witch. She’ll be finished due to the presence
of light. But it was a difficult job to do, intact the scariest one.
Hillary and Rachel were looking at Stephanie because they
knew that she was bold and brave and could do it. First,
Stephanie hesitated, but then she mustered up her courage
and agreed. She took the mirror with her and went towards
the woman's room. Rachel and Hillary stayed outside the
room so that if there's any problem they would help her.
Stephanie knocked at the door, the woman opened it and
asked, “what’s wrong, why are you here in the middle of the
night?"
Stephanie replied, “I heard some strange voices coming
from somewhere. I think someone has come here I’m afraid."
The woman asked, “Have you awake your friends up?"
"No, not yet."
The woman said, "Okay, I'll come with you, show me where
the voices are coming from?"
As the woman turned around, she tried her friends threw a
beam of moonlight upon the old women. The woman
screamed. Her appearance was changing, her face became
ugly, old and miserable, her fingers became thin, her nails
became longer, her voice changed, the beauty of her face
changed into horrible ugliness. Stephanie was stepping
backwards, she was not in her senses, she was extremely
frightened, and she did not know what to do.
The old woman grabbed her from her shoulders and tried to
kill her with a dagger she was holding. But, Stephanie
pushed her back and ran to the door. Zaisha was screaming
and was burning to ashes and smoke.
As soon as she died, the palace, the vegetation started
vanishing as if they were evaporating. The entire palace
vanished, all its rooms, gardens, fountains, flowerbeds and
everything disappeared and the three girls were transported
to the same place in the valley they had stayed.
After some time, a helicopter came to rescue them. Their
parents had reported their disappearance. So, the helicopter
took them away. All of them reached at their homes safe and
sound.
The media men were already present there; they asked
them the whole incident.
The three girls became known and popular overnight. For,
they had saved the lives of many teenaged girls who would
be killed by the Witch. They made their country proud. They
got a heroic status. All the time their interviews were
broadcasted on TV. They became quite rich with the money
they were offered for their interviews. They helped the needy
people a lot for they had a narrow escape from death. They
had done a wonder.
They are still fast friends and quarrel the same way.