Thoughts From Atreyo

‘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. ‘Look, look, who is here... the Kangaroo Scouts and Pally and Kenton!’ said one of the guys. ‘Daddy!’ shouted Pally and she hugged the accomplice. ‘So... you’re mixed up with those kidnappers’ muttered Mike. ‘What kidnappers! Dad and Henry aren’t kidnappers!’ shouted Kenton, enraged. ‘They help people in and out of the woods!’ ‘So that’s the cock-and-bull story you fed little Pally?’ asked Emily under her breath. ‘Wait, wait. We aren’t kidnappers. Don’t take up on our appearances either; I know we look evil, but we just sneaked off from Harris and Louis, The Evil T...

‘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 tha...

He fell unconscious, but could sense someone dragging him by his two foot and two hands. He woke up with a start. There stood a toothless shabby guy with an evil-looking smile. He was in trouble. As he started to panic, he heard a LOUD call. ‘John! John!’ someone said. He half-expected to find himself in bed. But, no, this was the reality, not a dream. He heard the toothless guy say in a whisper ‘What do we do? Run?’ as the calls continued. ‘No. Drop him. We’ll get back to them later. I know where they’ll end up. I am sure of that.’ replied another person. It was then that John realized that there was another person, probably an accomplice. He felt himself being dropped in the ground. Someone came nearer. His vision became firmer, they were John’s team who were calling loudly to John. There was someone with them. That person looked helpful. ‘We were in the station when two guys came and hit you in the back. You were a little far away from us; they probably thought you were all ...

 As John entered the train with his Scout group, he thought that nothing could go wrong now. How very incorrect he was. In the train, the Scouts had a compartment for themselves. There were many rooms in the compartment, each with six beds, as there were six members in each scout group. Every room had the name of the group and the members in it written in a paper and stuck on the door. John found his group’s compartment. He read the paper: The Kangaroo Scout Group -   Mike (Captain) -   John -   Emily -   Peter -   Susan -   Edgar He gestured Edgar and his elder sister Emily to their compartment, where Mike was already helping Peter with his luggage. A minute later, Susan joined. ‘Hi!’ she said excitedly. Then a boy, who looked like about four years older than him, entered the room and gave something that looked like an oversized phone. ‘Sir Nick, our teacher-in-charge for this trip, invited the captain for each group to join us ...

It was the first of April. John was packing his bag. Tomorrow is going to be a big day. Tomorrow, for the first time, he was going on a trip as a scout of his school to France for a month. This was going to be really amazing, because he had never travelled to foreign countries, and this was the first International Trip of the Scouts. John double checked his things; he did not want his big day ruined. Mom called for dinner. John went down – today was going to be his last dinner with his family for a month. His mother laid down the dinner. ‘Good luck for tomorrow’ she said. His elder brother, Jim, asked ‘Packed your bag right?’ ‘Yes,’ John replied, ‘You?’ ‘Yes!’ Jim replied. Since John would not be home, his parents and Jim would go on a trip too. The dinner was very tasty. After dinner, he went to sleep at 10:00. Tomorrow he’d have to get up early at 6. He had put up an alarm for 6 on his watch. ‘Wake up! Wake up!’ John heard someone shouting. ‘Whoa!’ He woke up wit...