When They Truned 16

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WHEN THEY TURNED

16


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The development, production and creation of this book was supported by

Institute of Experiential Learning, Bangalore, India.

Printed at Bangalore

April 2012

ThisstoryisdedicatedtomySister,Mom

andDad.


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WHEN THEY TURNED 16

Once a very long time ago there was a family named The Munroes. They were brave,

bold, valiant warriors and were always just in everything they did. Each family memberof the Munroes had a special power. It varied from each member-to-member. The

Munroes had an enemy clan named The Surge. Many people had come forth to

defeat them but had failed. They could kill only some of the Surge clan and not

everyone. Somehow they managed to kill almost everyone but never the leader. Will

there ever be someone who can defeat him forever, this was a question that haunted the

Munroe family.

It was just a typical school day. James and Amanda Munroe got up as usual, ate

breakfast and were really excited for the day. James and Amanda lived in Michigan

USA with their dad. James had short, brown, silky hair. He had blue eyes, a sharp nose

and was little tall. Amanda had long, brown, silky hair. She had blue eyes and was little

short. James and Amanda were twins. They were excited because it was their 16th

birthday and could finally get their driving licenses.

That evening for their birthday party they invited many friends of theirs and had a lot of

fun. They danced to music, played video games and ate a lot of food and enjoyed. After

the party got over they decided to open all the gifts given to them. First they opened the

gift given by their dad. It had two swords and two battle armors. The twins were

flabbergasted and did not understand why their dad had given them these and what were

they suppose to use them for.

Their mother had passed away due to cancer many

years ago and since she knew that she wasnt going to

survive, she wrote a letter to her kids for their 16th

birthday and had left it with their dad. When theyfound this letter with the other exciting gifts, they were

disappointed. So they did not read the letter and just

kept it aside and opened the gifts given by their

friends.

The next day they went to school as always. That day a boy called Luther had joined the

school. He was very peculiar. Luther kept staring and murmuring things at James and

Amanda. James and Amanda felt it was strange but chose to ignore him.

The next day their father was cleaning the house. While he was cleaning he saw a pink


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envelope. He took it and saw that it was the letter from their mother and it was not

yet opened. He then called James and Amanda to come down stairs and open up the

letter. Finally they did so.

The letter said,

Dear Amanda and James,

I wish you a happy birthday. I need to tell you something that we have hid

for a long time. Your ancestors had this enemy called the Surge, whom we could only

defeat partly and there is still the powerful leader remaining of the Surge Clan. Your

ancestors, the Munroes were really powerful and brave. From this day onwards

please be careful. If anyone stares at you mysteriously that means your life is in

danger and that he is going to kill you. Please go to your grandparents house

immediately, there is a secret passage under the carpet in the living room. Go thereand hide. You have got to be strong and brave and should not be scared.

Love Mom

Just then Amanda and James realized that the new boy Luther had been staring at

them at school! Grabbing their new driving licenses and keys they quickly drove to

their Grandparents house. But before they could get to the underground passageLuther caught up with them. Luther got to know thatthey were in their grandparents

house as he has the power to read peoples mind and could track people. He then

turned into a magical creature. He had a baldhead, gigantic black wings and an arrow

pointed tail. He threatened them to get him the powerful crystal ball which can

control people mind and the key to unlock it from the Amazon. If they refuse to get

him the ball and the key, Luther would kill them and their father.

James and Amanda were thinking only about their lives and how not to get killed.

They were not thinking about the other people who are going to get affected if they

got the crystal ball to Luther.

So they set off to the Amazon. They took a flight and landed into the green Amazon.

In the Amazon it was dark and creepy and many leaves were falling on their heads.

Many worms were there.

The worms were crawling over their shoes and some of them even came up to theirnecks. They were very crawly, slithery and slimy things. In their journey suddenly


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they saw a huge rock python standing right in front them. It was also blocking their

way so they couldnt even run away. Then James had an idea. He told Amanda to go

slowly behind the snake and hell distract it and told her to hit the python in the neck.

Amanda went slowly behind the snake and hit it with the sword their father had

gifted them. James also helped her after she did the first hit. They killed the Python

and carried on with their journey with a sigh of relief.

But there was a voice which was stuck in

their mind saying Dont think only of

yourselves, think about the other people out

there. In the middle of their journey when

they were very close in getting the crystal

ball they saw that they had to cross over a

river. They thought it was a piece of cakebut then the twins saw more carefully they

got to know that they were ugly piranhas in

the river. They looked around to see if there

was something to help them and they saw a

motor boat. James went near it and put it

near the river and they both got into it. They started the boat and the blades of the

motor just sliced the piranhas. After they finished crossing over the river and were

about to get the crystal ball a tribe was guarding it. The tribal people were dark incolor and pointed a sharp spear that had a green tip at James and Amanda. The green

tip was nothing but poison. If the tribal people had stabbed them then in one second

they would have died. They pointed it more toward the twins faces and they covered

their faces with their palms faced backwards.

Unexpectedly James saw a small spark coming out of his hands. James saw it first

and knew that they had powers. They took his hand back and saw the spark growing

and growing and became a plasma ball. He separated his hands a little bit from eachother and the plasma ball grew more and more. James with all his force threw it at

the tribal people and they died. Amanda instead of creating a plasma ball made a

fireball. Soon James was shooting plasma ball out of his hand and Amanda was

shooting fireballs out of her hand. Then they realized they could create any magical

power out of their hands.

They finally reached out for the crystal ball and the key and got it safely. James took

the crystal ball and gave the key to Amanda. But Amanda wanted to carry the crystal

ball because she thought she was more responsible. But James did not give it to her.

So they had a big fight and were throwing water balls at each other. Then they just


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started to ignore each other. They got out the Amazon safely and took a flight back to

Michigan. Their dad was eager to know what happened but they related their entire

adventure to him.

The next morning they saw Luther outside their window and he told them to come to

their school with the key and the crystal ball. Finally James and Amanda got to their

senses and thought that if they ignore each other no one is going to get benefited. So

while eating breakfast they came up with a plan. James with Amanda drove to the

school and found Luther waiting in the front gate. Just when they were about to give

the key and the crystal ball they both just ran away with the things. They ran and ran

and they reached a forest. Luther had wings so he just easily caught up with them and

again asked pulling out his sword, but still they refused. Slowly Luther went next to

James pointing the sword. James and Amanda pulled out their swords given by their

dad. So it was two against one. First Luther attacked James but James ducked then

Amanda went behind and tried to stab him but he turned back at the right time and

blocked her from doing so. James from behind

tried to hit him in the leg but he jumped up

high. When he landed Amanda stabbed him

right at the middle but he seemed unharmed.

Both Amanda and James were very surprised.

They did not know how else to destroy and kill

him.

Far in the distance Amanda saw a golden

flower and leaf shining to the sunlight. She

thought that the flower and the leaf would help to kill Luther. So she ran towards it.

James seeing what she did just believed in his sister that she is doing the right thing

just kept fighting with Luther by throwing plasma balls at him and James enjoyed the

most of it. Amanda took the flower and leaf and squeezed it to the tip of her sword

and a liquid came out. With the liquid on the tip of her sword she went back where

James was shooting plasma balls at Luther and with all her might just stabbed Luther

and alas the leader if The Surge was killed.

They went back home and narrated the entire story to their dad and also that they had

a great experience. He was very proud at James and Amanda for defeating Luther the

leader and told them that their mother would be too. From that day on they had

victory on their side and had many adventures.

THE END


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