The Lost Scouts - Part 4

‘Here it is...’ Mr. Smith said.

It was a big hotel with five floors and at least 50 rooms.

As they entered, John had a creepy thought that the hotel looked like the ginormous old-fashioned mansions in horror movies.

John and his team lived in Mr. Smith’s hotel for a three days and two nights with no news or unusual activity. But, on the third night, something rather unexpected happened.

 

John was sleeping in their room. It was past midnight, around three. Suddenly, he found Emily hitting him with a pillow in his head. Her face was paper-white and, her eyes looked wide open and her mouth was trembling with fear. It took no genius to say that she was panicking.

 

‘What happened!?’ John said. He started realizing things; an alarming was blaring and screeching; everyone was tense. Then a vision popped into John’s mind.

‘There will be this screeching alarm that I would turn on if there’s a fire.’ he remembered Mr Smith saying. They hadn’t put much thought on it that time.

‘Is there a fire?!’ enquired John

‘YES!’ shrieked Mike.

‘Mr. Smith saw the fire and ran towards the alarm and hit it. But the fire engulfed him along with the whole of the reception. He said so in his screams.’ wailed Peter

‘Poor Mr. Smith! He died saving us! We might end up the same way if we don’t come up with a brilliant idea! Wait... I have an idea! Mind you, it is truly crazy! But anything better than dying, right?’ said Susan

‘What’s the plan?’ asked Mike suddenly springing up.

‘John! Look over the window facing the back garden and tell whether there’s fire in there or not!’ Susan instructed.

John did as he was instructed to. The garden was burning bright.

‘Yes, there is!’ said John.

‘Oh no! If there was no fire, we could’ve used the way to go!’ wailed Susan.

‘Wait... The Passageway is out of danger! Its first window is open, and it looks just safe inside it, though the fire is surrounding it fiercely!’ exclaimed John, noticing. The Passageway was a tunnel through the back-garden that led to the gate of the hotel. It had many windows on top; the window closest to the Kangaroo Scouts was open.

‘YES!’ said Susan, ‘Now, get a rope!’

Mike took a rope and threw one end of it right into the window. They climbed down through it without a word. They crossed The Passageway and left the hotel. They saw the fire was unable to escape the boundaries.

‘Let’s find the exit from the Jungle, Scouts!’ said Mike encouragingly.

When they came over some distance, they saw fire escaping the hotel.

‘RUN!’ screamed Edgar. Everyone started running.

‘We’ve got to guess the right way to the exit! If we get the wrong guess, we are dead! I say we go straight and test our luck.’ said Mike

They ran and ran and ran and ran. They saw the sun rising. They then spotted the wall.

‘Pray for the right guess!’ said Emily.

And they were so lucky... they got the right guess. They ran out of the jungle. The fire was completely trapped by the long walls of the jungle. It was the longest wall John had ever seen.

‘Is someone there!’ said a voice, who probably heard the gate opening.

‘Who’re you?’ asked Mike.

‘I am Pally and here’s my brother Kenton. We escaped the forests some time ago.’ she said as she and a boy came into sight.

‘I think I heard a voice...’ said a man.

Then two more people came into eyesight; the shabby guy who had kidnapped John and the accomplice.

‘Gotta get ready for a fight!’ muttered John.

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-- Atreyo 😀, 

29th December, 2020