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THE RED PLANET The Hidden Treasure

Once upon a time, when there were no humans on Earth, there was Once upon a time in the south east of India; there lived a man named

one more planet almost same as earth. The difference between the planets was Vinayak. He was very poor but honest. One day he was passing through a jungle and was
very tired so he sat under a tree for rest.There he saw a small stone. He took the stone in
that the earth had animals and plants had live but the other planet had the his hand and observed it. He could see some letters on it but he was not able to

elements like water, air, fire, etc. had life. The elements living in that planet were understand those letters because the language was unknown for him. He went back to his
very peaceful and shared a friendly relationship amongst them. Everything was house in the village and told his father about the stone.So father advised Vinayak about

going on well but one day the fire emperor died. There was a major change in the the old man and his knowledge.
fires. In that planet to choose an emperor was very innovative. They search the Vinayak went to an old man’s house because he heard from his father and the villager’s

thoughtful person in empire or kingdom. One person was selected to be the that the old man is genius and knows many languages of the world. He went to the old

emperor. The royal judges tested him and they were impressed by his wisdom. man’s house and told the whole story that had happened in the jungle. Also Vinayak gave
The royal judges declared that he should be throne as the new emperor of Fire that stone to the old man to understand the words written on it. Old man told Vinayak that

Empire. this is the Chinese language so Vinayak decided to take the help from him to understand
the Chinese language. The Old man told Vinayak that this is the way of the fort where the
Many years past by, everyone was happy in the kingdom of new king. treasure was hidden in it. Vinayak requested old man to come with him for searching the

Though he became greedy with his position and wanted to conquer the whole fort. So Old man agreed with him and decided to help Vinayak.
planet. He always think about war, bloodshed and brute. One day with his army he The next day morning Vinayak and old man went to the same forest in the search of the

secretly attacked the frost kingdom and easily won the battle. Everyone in the treasure. When they were crossing the middle part of the jungle; old man saw a river so
kingdom was upset to kill the frost with their king. The people were disheartened they both decided to go towards the river because they both were thirsty and very tired.

and demanded the royal judges to change the king. But the judges had no choice Old man found another part of the stone near the river so they got exact way of the fort.

except to keep him as it is. This move nothing harmed him. After taking some rest they decided to go for further journey. They have taken lots of
efforts to find the fort but it was not easy for them. They crossed few rivers, mountains
In a few years he slaughtered other kings and till now he was not satisfied and stony routes to reach the fort.

by killing them and wanted to destroy the Earth and other foreign planets as well.
Each galaxy has a godmother or father, this galaxy had a godmother. She was After few days of hard work they found that fort and they were very happy when they saw

furious about his thoughts because he had killed many kings on the planet.Many the fort. Vinayak and old man entered in the fort and found the treasure with the help of
the stone. They collected all the wealth and went back to their village. Vinayak was very
people have committed suicide because of the king. When she declared that the happy for getting too much of wealth so he decided to donate some wealth to the villagers
“Fire king” should be sentenced to death. Due to this the king gave a curse to his so they can also live happily.
planet that ‘’No one can survive on this planet and this planet should always to be

red.’’ From that day the mars was red and was called dead planet.

Shreya Walunj (VI)

Amey Joshi (VI)