Krrring Krrrring..... The phone kept on ringing but no one answered. Polo tried to call Sandy at his office, but they said, he had not been to office since yesterday. "Where has he vanished", thought a bewildered Polo. His last words kept lingering in her mind,"....it was Unearthly". The day passed by and still Sandy was missing. Polo was now getting scared , she sensed something must be terribly wrong with Sandy.
Far away, in Paris , something odd looking men were unloading a truck. Looking at them one would say they were wearing makeup, such was the colour and texture of their skin, smooth chocolaty.Among the many crates they were unloading , there was a big crate with the tag, "Handle with care". A scuffling sound was coming inside the crate, as if there was someone trapped inside the crate. A big guy came along to check the crates. His subordinates were addressing him as "The Munch". "The Munch" then ordered the odd looking guys to mount the crates in the ship along with the big one. At midnight, the crates were loaded in the slanting elevator on the east leg of Eiffel Tower. On the top level of the Eiffel tower, suddenly a huge flat disk shaped object had arrived. The color of the object was exactly like the night sky. The thousands of tourists out there looking at the gorgeously illuminated Eiffel tower will never realise the presence of the hovering disk on top of the tower. Slowly and steadily the men started loading the crates from the elevator to the ship from the top of the Eiffel tower.
The constant jerking woke up Sandy. He felt claustrophobic inside the small damp crate. He could feel moving up against the gravity . Sandy was confused, the cranking noise surely came from an elevator kind of a thing but where was he? He remembered listening to Aswini, the Martian Pop singer, suddenly a bell rang, he opened the door and saw some funny looking people , then everything went blank.
Sandy had a feeling he had stumbled upon something which he was not supposed to know. Everything started with the mud cake. He had loved it and had gone back to fetch some more. But when he reached the shop, the shop was open but no one was there, the shop owner Mr. DivineDisco had vanished. What was strange that he had left the shop open. And all the mud cake was also gone. And then there was some kind of a hastily written note on the floor which said...."mars will come to us". All this was pretty confusing but Sandy had thought that currently with the Martians negotiating with the Earth people and all the craze about the Martian Pop queen, maybe Mr. DivineDisco was another Mars frenzy follower who wanted to settle there. Sandy had returned home and then all the mishap started.
Inside the crate Sandy was confused and trying to solve the jigsaw when suddenly the elevator came to a hault. He felt the crate being pulled up and was thrown in a corner. It hurt him, he was cramped inside the crate, felt sick and was terribly hungry.He had no idea for how long he was trapped there.He waited and waited, then finally fell asleep. Suddenly a huge jerk woke him up. He felt his heart plunging down in his guts and felt an incredible pressure. He felt nauseating and felt bile come up in his throat. Suddenly he had the feeling of being pulled in a whirlwind and within moments calm had returned.
The entire process was so tiring he felt asleep again only to be woken up by a thud. He could hear voices and after some wait his crate was pulled up and opened. He found himself in broad daylight in a place where everything was the colour of chocolate. He looked up and found himself staring at the earth in the sky. Suddenly Sandy realised and was overwhelmed by the fact.....
He had landed in the Chocolate city of Mars.
The Hero’s Journey
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