A strange Journey

Once upon a time in a far off jungle, lived two best friends – Mr Chameleon and Mr Centipede.

            One day, Mr Chameleon came across a book about Egypt. The friends put on their reading glasses and dreaming mind, and with great interest read about the great Pyramids and Pharaohs who built them. They read about how marvellous they were, and how people from world over would come and visit these every year. They felt eager to see one for themselves and started packing up.

            After an arduous but largely uneventful journey they finally reached the land of river Nile, mysterious mummies and sphinx- Egypt.

Just as they were approaching one of the pyramids, they met a lady with a luminous dress. Lady saw that the two friends looked tired, and she offered them some marshmallows and suggested them to take some rest. They gratefully looked at her, and quickly gobbled it up.

Since it started getting dark, friends paused and decided on next course of action. Since it won’t be easy to move around or see anything in the darkness of night, they decided to call it a day and hit the bed.

Next morning, the Chameleon and Centipede started their journey again, and slowly inched towards their destination. Finally when they reached there, they were awestruck. From the book they could never imagine how extraordinary and marvellous those structures were in reality. They couldn’t get enough of it looking from outside. So Mr Centipede asked his friend,” Shall we see it from inside?” Chameleon responded, “Why not?”

They found one slightly loose stone, and squeezed inside the pyramid. And they froze in shock and started shivering at the same time! Standing there in the dark, was the same lady in luminous dress they met earlier, but she was strangely bloated now.

“I think this place is haunted! Let’s run for our life”, shrieked Mr Chameleon. Mr Centipede also started to run, but could not, however hard he tried. Suddenly he felt a ticklish feeling inside him. He turned around and - because of his clumsiness and fear-fell down unconscious.

When he regained consciousness, he heard a voice telling him, “Wake up! Don’t want to be late for your office, do you?”