The Other World - Aaditya Shah (best short novels of all time .txt) 📗

honour of giving us food Jen?’ asked Roger hungrily.
‘OK. Fine. I’ll take it out for all of us. Let’s sit somewhere and eat.’
‘OK!’ exclaimed Ben, Roy and Roger together.
They had their food heartily and now they were filled.

Chapter 8:- They Now Know the Planet’s Name and Secrets

They were walking back in the direction from which they had come. On the way, Roy found out a piece of a paper.
‘Look. There is a paper over there. Why would there be a paper in this planet where we can’t see a soul?’ asked Roy as though he is a detective. A famous detective.
‘Good job, Roy.’ said Ben cheerfully.
They ran towards the piece of paper. Ben picked it up. It read:
This is the planet Jelilah. I am Ronald from Earth. I am a space explorer. Please save me. The aliens have captured me.
‘Looks like a SOS message to me.’ said Jenny.
‘We have to save this man. Wait… did he mention aliens in the letter?’ asked Ben with fear.
‘Yes. You read aliens.’ said Roger.
‘Do we have to fight aliens for saving the man?’ asked Jenny dreadfully.
‘Yes.’ said Ben.
‘OK. What shall we do now?’ asked Jenny.
‘Sorry guys. It is all my fault. It was my plan to bring you all here. Please forgive me.’ said Ben with a sad face.
‘Come on Ben. We all have to work as a team to get outta here. You with me?’ asked Roger.
Everyone agreed and the put their hands on Rogers and they lifted it in the air.

Chapter 9:- They Meet A New Friend

They were all very sad. It was 5:30 p.m in the real world. They wanted to return home.
‘Any plan, guys?’ asked Roy.
‘I don’t have any.’ replied Roger with anger clearly seen on his face.
‘Don’t… be… angry Roger’ said Ben with still more anger than of Roger’s.
‘OK. Cool down you two. We have to work in a team. Did you forget that?’ asked Jen with sadness on her face.
‘OK. Now what shall we do? Any ideas now?’ asked Ben.
‘No ideas but s-see t-t-there B-Ben. It is a a-alien.’ said Roy stammering.
‘What is it Roy?’ said Ben.
‘It is maybe an a-alien Ben.’
‘WHAT?’ said Ben shocked when he saw a green goblin-like thing.
All saw the alien and they were very scared seeing it.
‘W-W-Who are y-you? Answer us.’ asked Roger stammering.
‘Zim-zom lam pam?’ asked the alien.
‘What are you saying?’ asked Ben.
‘Oh so you speak English.’ said the alien.
‘Do you understand us?’ asked Ben shocked completely.
‘Yes. In our planet many of them know English. And every body calls me Zinging.
‘Would you hurt us?’ asked Roger.
‘NO!,’ yelled Zinging, ‘I am a kind alien. There are two categories: Kind and Evil and I am one of the kind aliens. Understand?’
‘OK. Let’s be friends.’ said Jenny.
‘OK!’ exclaimed Zinging.
‘Hurray. We got a new friend guys!’ exclaimed Roy.
Ben told the story to the alien about how they had come to this unknown planet.
‘Hmmm.. I see.’ said Zinging.
‘And we found this piece of paper.’ said Ben taking out the paper which they had found on the way from his pocket.
Zinging read it. ‘It is the evil aliens again. They always capture people usually scientists of the time travel laboratory. I think he’s one of ‘em. We had warned the evil ones not to do it again but I guess they didn’t understand us. And if you find this explorer who has been captured, he can help you go back to…’
‘Earth.’ completed Roger.
‘Yeah. Earth.’ said Zinging.
‘OK. So Zinging, your goal is to destroy the aliens and our goal is to find the space explorer.’ said Roy with a grin.
‘You are right.’ said Zinging.
‘Do you know that Zinging sounds like singing.’ whispered Roy to Ben’s ears giggling.
Even Ben giggled a bit.

Chapter 10:- The Alien Palace

‘OK. We’ll now go to our palace.’ said Zinging excitedly.
‘Really? Do you aliens have a palace?’ asked Jenny shocked.
‘Of course we do.’ said Zinging.
‘OK. So let us go to your Palace.’ said Ben excitedly.
‘Follow me guys.’ said Zinging wlking away.
All of them ran until they came up with Zinging. They walked and walked and walked. All of them felt like it will take ages to reach there. Finally they reached a beautiful place. It was like a castle.
‘Wow! I’ve never seen such a place before. It’s just beautiful.’ said Roger excited very much.
‘Let’s go in then.’ said Zinging.
They all walked to a huge door which was the entrance to the castle-like palace. There were two guards standing at either side of the huge wooden door.
One of them asked, ‘ZoinRinoiPine?’
Zinging replied, ‘AllionMeDorsaFuty.’
And now the two guards pushed open the huge door which led to the palace.
‘Let’s go friends.’ said Zinging.
‘OK.’ everyone agreed.
They went inside and the first thing they caught site on was the giant chandelier hanging high above the wall. It was very beautiful. Everyone except Roy bowed to the King as he was just staring at the beautiful chandelier. Ben was standing next to him and without lifting himself up he pushed Roy’s head such that it looked like he bowed.
‘WenortaPolige?’ asked the Goblin-Like-King.
‘They speak English your Majesty. And they are from Earth.’ said Zinging and explained the whole story about the four of them.
‘You are always welcome here.’ said the kind King kindly.
‘Thank you, your Majesty.’ Ben replied. Ben had heard Zinging saying “your Majesty”, so he said it just as Zinging had.
The king clapped his hands twice and dinner was served.
‘So you want to find the scientist, huh?’ asked the king to the four of them expecting one of them to answer.
‘Yes, your Majesty.’ said Ben politely.
‘Oh, stop calling me Majesty. Call me Jinos. I’m very young. My age is just 25. My father had passed away last year so I had to become the King of this planet.’ said Jinos.
‘What?,’ said Roy shocked, ‘You rule the planet? On Earth the King rules a particular country or Kingdom. But the Monarchial system has ended in our country. Now there are Prime Ministers or Presidents ruling a country.’
‘Oh, I see. This is a far smaller planet than Earth. So only one King rules the whole planet.’ said Jinos pretty interested in the talk.
‘Do you know where the scientist is?’ asked Jenny anxiously.
‘Yes. He is captured by the evil aliens of this planet. They always try to take over us and expand their territory. Take my best man, Zinging if you want to go their palace.’ said Jinos seeing at Zinging.
‘I agree.’ said Zinging.
‘You can also take our best soldiers there because we have to stop evilness in the planet.’ said Jinos.
‘OK your Ma-Jinos’ said Roy forgetting that he had to call him Jinos.
They left for the exciting and dangerous journey.

Chapter 11:- They Reach To The Evil

They reached a almost-similar palace to the one the had visited earlier.
‘Let’s find the scientist.’ said Roger.
‘First let us enter the palace, dumbo.’ interrupted Jenny giggling.
‘Yeah. Right.’ said Roger a bit angry because Jenny made him a kind of a small laughing stock.
They entered the castle and they saw ugly aliens more looking like goblin slaves.
‘These are the evil ones.’ whispered Zinging to Ben’s ears.
‘DenituRaholiDeriu. WenortaPoliga?’ asked the very-ugly King.
‘Would you speak English?’ asked Zinging to the King.
‘Oh. I see. These unknown people speak English. What are these fools doing here.’
‘We’re not fools. Do you understand you ugly-man?’ said Ben very furious with rage.
The king got angry when he was called “ugly-man”. ‘Put them in the dungeons,’said the King looking into their eyes, ‘and let this be your punishment unknown-creatures.’
‘Earthlings is a better, maybe the best name which can suit us. And we ain’t going to your dungeons.’ said Roy.
‘Yeah we ain’t going.’ agreed everybody.
‘But you have to.’ said the king looking towards his servants with a spine-chilling look.
The servants came forward and they tried to tie them with thick ropes. All of them struggled to get out of the grapple of the aliens. But they lost the mini-battle with them and they were put in the dungeons.
They saw a man sitting with his back in front of them.
‘Are you the one who had left a SOS letter, sir?’ asked Roy anxiously.
‘Who are you guys? I think you picked up the letter I had left while I had been picked up by the aliens.’ replied the man.
They introduced themselves to the man.
‘What’s your name sir?’ asked Jenny.
‘My names Danny.’ replied the man.
Danny got scared when he saw Zinging.
‘Don’t worry sir. He is from the good side.’ said Ben making Danny pleased enough.
They four of them explained their story to Danny.
‘What can we do, sir?’ asked Ben.
‘Whenever you enter a portal and enter a new world there is always a black-floppy thing from where you entered the planet. We have to jump back there and you will be on Earth.’ said Danny.
‘OK. But what about your promise to kill these evil aliens?’ asked Zinging.
‘We didn’t say that we won’t help you.’ said Roger.
Everyone laughed.
‘First of all we have to escape from here.’ said Ben.
‘Oh, don’t worry about that. I stole the key hanging around the aliens waist when he put me in here. The key is a bit slimy and strange.’ said Danny removing the key from his pocket.
‘Yeah it’s truly strange. And why didn’t you escape when you had already got the key?’ asked Jenny.
‘I feared escaping alone.’
‘Oh, I see,’ said Jenny, ‘Let’s start our journey then.’
Danny gave Ben the key. There was a strange-monster-face lock. Ben put the key in the keyhole and it fit perfectly in it. He turned it clockwise, twice. The lock opened and they were out.
‘I know that there is a weapon room to your right, Roy.’ said Zinging.
‘You sure?’ asked Ben.
‘You doubt me?’ said Zinging dramatically.
‘OK. Sorry.’ said Ben.
They went in the room of weapons. In the room there was nothing else except weapons. But they looked very strange.
‘Ben and Roy, you take the slime bombs.’ said Zinging.
‘Sounds disgusting.’ said Jenny with a frown.
‘And the rest take the poison arrows. And do wear a mask which is kept beside the arrows and bows. The arrows stink. Even I take the bows and arrows.’ said Zinging as fast as he could, but in a limit so that everyone could understand.
They were now ready with the weapons. They met two guards on the way and Roger attacked on them both.
‘Well done, Roger.’ said Ben.
‘Thanks.’ said Roger feeling proud of himself.
Now they went in the hall. Zinging whistled and the army broke into the palace. The hundred goblin-like aliens charged towards the minor soldiers.
Their main target was the King. They made their way through and they reached the King’s throne, but Zinging was still back and the King was not on his throne.
‘Look out!’ yelled Zinging as the King was behind Roy. He hit Roy with a hammer-like thing. Roy fell unconscious.
‘You… What did you do? You killed my brother!’ said Ben very angrily.
Ben threw the small slime bomb in the King’s mouth as he was laughing with his mouth wide open. Ben thought that it would poison him and he would die but no, he didn’t.
‘What did you think little boy, this will poison me? This doesn’t effect my body.
I’m harmless.’ said the King laughing still louder.
‘That is harmless,