The Quest for the Shiny Rock
Aarav came home after an adventurous day with dino friends. He came home hiding something behind his back. His sister Aarna was waiting for a while to play with him. She saw him and got excited, started asking the question “what is going on? what are you hiding?” He refused to reveal and changed the topic to distract her.
When Aarav went to sleep, she sneaked into his room and started looking for the thing. She was not sure what it might be so started looking everywhere. Something caught her eye, a thin light ray was coming out of one drawer, she opened it and to her surprise she found a shiny rock.
She kept staring at it for sometime, it was mesmerizing. She kept thinking that she had seen this somewhere, she placed it back and went to her room. She couldn't sleep as she kept thinking about it. Suddenly in the middle of the night she woke up with a smile as she remembered where she saw that rock. Ohh I forgot to mention, she loves reading books just like Aarav. She had one book ‘The Long Life of Magical Objects’ and there was a picture of the rock similar to the one she saw in Aarav’s room.
The next day she asked Aarav about it, he said that he found it in the garden. But Aarna knew that he was lying as the rock was too clean to be found in the garden.
She decided to find out more about it, so she took the book and started reading. It said that the rock has magical powers, but it didn’t have more information about it. There was mention of the rock from millions of years back in various places. The person who holds the rock becomes very powerful and can do things which are not imagined in their wildest dream. She was excited and surprised to learn that Aarav has got access to such a rock.
Next day was Sunday, Aarav woke up and was still in kind of shock from the events of yesterday. After getting ready he headed towards a jungle to meet his Dino friends.
Once he reached there he saw a group of dinosaurs who were fighting with each other. Aarav tried to stop them but they didn’t listen to him. He didn’t know what to do, then he saw a big rock near him. He picked it up and threw it at the dinosaurs.
The dinosaurs got scared and ran away. Aarav was surprised to see what just happened. He didn’t know that the reason they ran away was not because he threw the rock from the ground, but because the rock was in his pocket.
He didn’t know what to do with the rock, but he knew that it is very powerful and can be used for good or bad. He thought of experimenting and learning more about its powers. He decided to keep it with him and use it for good only. As they say ‘Great power comes with great responsibility’.
But he wanted to share this secret with someone, so he chose to share the information with Ace the T-Rex, Bruce the Brachiosaurus and Tops the Triceratops.
The news about the rock spread like wildfire in the jungle and soon everyone wanted to get their hands on it. But Aarav was very careful and he knew that he had to protect the rock at all costs.
As Aarav and Dino team was trying to figure out the power of the rock and to do good with it, on the other hand Spin the Spinosaurus, Bill the Dilophosaurus and their crew. They are now working together to claim the shiny rock to gain power in the jungle.
From that day onwards, Aarav and his team became the protector of the jungle and all the animals and birds started living in harmony, but they knew that it’s not going to last forever as they can sense something is bad brewing in the jungle.
To Be Continued…