THE THREE DARES

CHAPTER 8

THE THREE DARES

They were still not aware what happened to the desert ; they only saw glitter in the surroundings of the pegasus. Then all the things started to float in the air , the checkerboard and it's stairs disappeared and now they were standing on the desert which was now a very beautiful point. All that happened so smoothly that they didn't even shake. Wow , that is so aesthetic ! Has all this happened since you were freed ? Autumn asked. Yes ! Pegasus replied proudly. They were all wondering , by every move of the game.

The game was behind the pegasus. Your name is Pegasus ? Violet asked. Yes ! and I am a Unicorn , I was cursed for many years , and you all freed me. Cursed ?? Violet asked. You will all know that as soon as you finish the game. Let's throw the dice , Pegasus said.

Parker's turn was next , he rolled the dice and got double four , 912 "find the pearl in the sea." Extra turn , Brooklyn reminds him. He threw the dice again and once again he got a double four , 2112 : Put the pearl on the crown.

How will we put a pearl if we haven't even found it , Parker said.

The evil kid appears in front of them and tells them , you have to complete these both dares together because you got double four twice , and also because of it , the person whose turn was after you will also throw dice now , and you all will finish all three dares together , and she disappeared after saying it. But it wasn't written , said Autumn. The rules of each dare will be explained along with it , remember ? Violet said. My turn will be with you , she said further , grabbed the dice and threw it and got double two ; 212: Solve the maze. Where will we find all these things? Violet said irritably. They were all still very sad , it was looking as if they didn't want to play , they were devastated because of losing one of their companions. The view was quite attractive: the sea , light rain , so nice and cool weather. But in such beautiful weather , they saw their friend's body , helpless , lying on the ground. They all walked closer to her , shook her , but she was cold. Maybe it's the sea , we have to go into it , Leo said. They all walk closer to the sea.

But how will we breathe in ? We will

die , Parker said. My brain is shutting down , Violet said. Let's do one thing. We will be divided into three groups. Two people will be in one group , Brooklyn said. Yes , one group will find the pearl , one will find out where the crown is and the third will solve the maze. Then after that , we will find each other. So if one finds a pearl and another gets a crown , then we will go and put the pearl in the crown , and the maze , it will be known only after going in , Clara said. So , who will go with whom? Violet asked. Autumn and

Clara , Brooklyn and Leo , me and Violet , said Parker. And who will I be with? A voice came from behind , Wan !! Everyone jumped with joy , how did you survive ? Violet asked , smiling joyously. Pegasus was standing beside him , he was smiling and he got a little emotional watching their happiness. Wan looked at him , everyone looked at him and Violet said , oh yes ! Unicorn's horn have purification properties that can dissolve poison , they have healing powers , they hate impure things.

She then hugged Wan and they all hugged each other. They all wiped their tears and looked at Pegasus , and hugged him.

Now , may I give you some advice ? Violet said. Yes , said Wan. Don't go in groups this time , don't you all remember what happened in the jungle? First think about how we will get inside , won't we drown? Wan said.

What are you thinking , Autumn ? She was lost in her thoughts so deep that she didn't reply. Autumn ! Violet shook her , yes ! Autumn replied. What are you thinking ? I'm thinking now the time has come to use the crocodile's tooth. I can make any wish with it and my wish is " All of us friends can breathe in the water , we can swim and talk until our dare is done " She said this and everyone fell down and their lower body started to turn in a fish tail , what did you do ? Violet said panicking. I just made a wish according to the crocodile which I can make , but I don't know what is happening , Autumn said who was also panicking. Don't be scared , nothing will happen , Pegasus said , easing them . Everyone was terrified. They all shut their eyes and felt normal after some time , then they opened their eyes and slowly looked at each other and seemed normal. They were smiling while looking at each other , when suddenly Violet's eyes went to Wan , her eyes widened , Wan !! Look at you , you've turned into a mermaid now , she looked at her and said look at you , you too have turned into a mermaid , Parker you're a merman look at you , Clara said. We all have turned into mermaids and

mermen , Wow !! That is amazing , they have beautiful fishtails on half of their bodies , gills on their necks to breathe under the water. Now that is not a difficult task , let's jump in. They all jumped in the water to find the maze , they kept going into the water, but they did not find anything , it was getting dark , they were in a very deep blue water that looked extremely beautiful , in which their tails were shining , their tails , which everyone got according to the color of the rainbow were were emitting light which were colliding and making light rainbow in a deep blue water. They didn't even feel dark , the light came out and they were swimming easily. They kept going down and

down , the color of the water was purple now which was very soothing ,

Wan pointed at something , everyone started swimming at that side , they reached the ocean floor , where a very big decagon shaped structure was built. They swam down , went in front of it.

The decagon was made of lots of colorful flowers , and there was a long empty space to enter. When they all entered, there were many colorful flowers inside , but the flowers were making a maze , smacks of jellyfish were swimming , shoals of fishes , lots of starfish on the seabed , the view was aesthetic. Oh ! Here is a maze , I thought we would swim at the top of the maze and solve the maze easily but it is covered , said Clara. It's too big. How are we going to solve it ? Autumn said. The pegasus was waiting for them and a tear came out of his eye.

The tears went under the water and went very deep to them and those tears turned into the alphabet.

𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔣𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔪𝔶 𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔫 ,

𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔢𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔢. 𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔶 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔭

𝔶𝔬𝔲. 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔰 𝔪𝔶

𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔫 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔣. 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔰𝔬

𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔠𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰. 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔩𝔩

𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔠𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯

𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔢 , 𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔩 ,

𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫 , 𝔰𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔵𝔱

𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔫 𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔠𝔲𝔱 , 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔰𝔬

𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔠𝔲𝔱𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔰 , 𝔡𝔬 𝔫𝔬𝔱

𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔣𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔠𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔩 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔯.

And those letters burst into colors and spread all around the maze , the color of Autumn's tail was red , Brooklyn's tail was orange , Clara's was yellow , Leo was given a green tail , Parker was having blue , Violet was having indigo and Wan's tail was violet in color. Follow the red color , hurry up ! Brooklyn said. The red color was going straight and turned left , all the seven colors were entering on separate ways but they went with the orange , they go around all over on the next cut they follow the yellow color following all the colors of the rainbow finally , they enter the very last small decagon , a great hole was there , inside was another sea.

Shall we go into it? Leo asked. We have no other choice , let's jump , Parker said. The water was flowing into another sea like a waterfall , they went to another sea , this sea was barely three or four feet deep , when they swimmed to reach the bottom of it , there was a seashell below. It was the regal queen conch sea shell about 10 inches in length. Shall we open it ? Clara said. No , there will definitely be a conch under it , Autumn said. Let's dare to open it , so far not even a single animal has harmed us , Leo said.

You're right , Violet replied. So come let's open it , Wan move ahead and start to open it which easily opens without anyone's help , they are amazed watching this. Is there a conch there , Autumn asked. Wan was staring at the sea shell , everyone swimmed closer to her , there was an oyster hidden under.

Shell under the shell , Violet said , open it too , when they all opened it a bright light came out , and there was a very small and beautiful rosaline coloured pearl under it which was shining. Everyone's eyes sparkled when they saw it. Show me I want to see it up close , Violet said. And she picked up the pearl , as soon as she picked up the pearl from the oyster immediately the ground exploded and under was a very big regal queen shell shaped palace.

The palace was under the water but the water was not going inside the palace , looking at all this , their mouths remained open. A palace under the sea with such a weird shape , Wan said wondering. No I think it's beautiful , yeah but the water is still , like there's nothing but the ground only , Parker said. So , even from the above the water has been constantly flowing but still it's not full , Violet said.

You are wrong , there is water now. Look carefully , Leo said. They swimmed and entered the palace. The palace was very deserted. When they went inside , there were mermaids and mermen but they were stoned. They moved on , a mermaid on the end of the palace was sitting on the throne which was placed at a height , beside her two mermaids were holding flowers who were also petrified. When they got closer to the mermaid sitting on the throne , they saw she was wearing a crown on which the same rosaline pearls were fixed , they were six in number and a pearl in the middle was missing. Look, the pearl will fix here , Brooklyn said. Violet put the pearl on the crown. Immediately after the fixing of the pearl on the crown , the queen came to life. Gradually the whole palace became bright , and all the mermaids and mermen started to breathe. A moment of joy spread , " we recovered, we came back to life " , these slogans began to resound. Those children came into the world. Are they talking about us ? They all looked at each other in amazement. The queen mermaid swimmed closer to them and said ,

𝚒 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 , 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚡 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 , 𝚒 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚞𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 , 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚐𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙. The game was on the throne. How did you know we would come here to set you free? Brooklyn asked. 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠.

Whoever we ask this to , he says you will know , Wan said irritably.

𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 ! 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎. 𝚒𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 , 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛.

Wan's turn was next so she threw the dice.