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Now, the Spectacular Six had to bring in two more players into their team.
The Spectacular Six and their Quest for a Perfect Team They cycled for another two hours, after which the chains of their cycles broke.
They did not want to give up and so they decided to go walking. As soon as they
started walking, storm clouds started to gather and gusts of wind shook the
There was a group of boys who lived in a big city in the United Kingdom. trees. It also started raining heavily. They quickly took shelter inside a
Their names were David, Steve,Ronald,George, Benjamin and Charlie.Their restaurant. This gave them some time to rest. David played video games, Steve
group’s name was ‘Spectacular Six’. They were all 12 years old, in the same read a book, Ronald played monopoly with George and Charlie, and Benjamin
class and the same school too. Despite having these similarities, they were took a nap. They also ate something as they hadn’t even stopped to have lunch.
different from each other in many ways. They continued their search after it stopped raining. Walking ahead, the path led
them deep into a forest. The forest was full of trees and they were happy to
David was a skinny boy. He loved to play video games and watch spot deer, zebras, giraffes and also a few different birds. Entranced, they
television. Steve was short and thin. He loved to read books. Ronald too was tall. walked deeper into the forest, when suddenly they heard the roar of a lion. They
He loved to play board games. George was tall and hefty. He liked to participate got scared and ran unknowingly into a cave. Unfortunately, inside the cave they
in different activities and competitions. Benjamin was quite fat and very lazy. He encountered a bear. Turning around, they ran out of the cave too.
only loved to sleep all the time. Charlie was thin. He only loved to study all the Fortunately,there was no sign of a lion at that time. Thankful, they ran out of the
time. forest.But oh! They realized that they had now come back to the same place
from where they had started. They weren’t ready to give up yet. So they started
During their summer vacation, a football tournament was to be held in walking in another direction.
their city.The Spectacular Six were also participating in the tournament. Each
team had 11 players and they did not realize that they were only six when they Soon, they saw two boys sitting sadly on a bench on a football ground.
had enrolled their team’s name into the tournament. With full enthusiasm they The Spectacular Six went to them and asked the reason for being sad. They said
started practicing for the tournament. When they were deciding their positions that they were participating in the football tournament but they had got kicked
for the tournament, they realized that they were short of five players. As they out from the team by their captain because they were not doing well in
had already enrolled for the tournament, they couldn’t opt out now. practice. The Spectacular Six told them that they can join their team if they
wanted to. They agreed immediately. The Spectacular Six were happy to see the
Hence…started their search!Early next morning, they brought out their smiles on their faces. They were also extremely happy that their search was
cycles. After cycling for hours, they spotted three boys practicing on a football finally complete!
ground. The Spectacular Six knew that they were not participating in the
tournament because the participants of the tournament were given special The new team started their practice the next day.They worked really
jerseys but these boys were not wearing any such jerseys. The Spectacular Six hard. They played seven matches in total. Out of these, they won 6 matches and
went to the boys and asked them whether they wanted to join their team. The lost only 1 match. They made it to the finals and won the tournament. All their
boys readily agreed but they informed them that they were only 9 years old. efforts had paid off! Now they named their group “The Ernest Eleven”.
The Spectacular Six thought about this for a minute and told them that it would
be fine and added that they will train them so they did not have to worry.
Dhruv Andar (VII)
