Chapter 17
Game Over!
Now the Four hadn’t eaten anything for a long time, so they were ravenous. The Four went on a fruit hunt, and devoured the fruit as soon as they had got it in their hands.
For some days, the Four practiced the Lynton science of self-defense, and had some practice fights among themselves. The Four had become experts in this, and Charlie Lynton would’ve been proud of his martial art if he could see those Four, who could now fight like young tigers. It turned out that the Four were outside the ‘ring’ right now.
Priya’s proposal to go to the police station was discussed again. And the Four decided that there was no reason for not informing the police immediately.
The Four were to go down to the foot of the mountain, were Priya left them and resumed the walk to the village.
The walk was pleasant, and the Four joked and chatted along.
“I’m glad the two men are going to be caught at last,” said Sumit, “I was afraid they would succeed in their dirty work.”
“After Priya informs the police, we’ll pay Mr. Sonu and his wife a visit and say goodbye.”
“Then off we’ll go earn some money, and then to Africa after ‘the great secret’.”
“And then we would’ve enough money to last our whole lives!”
The Four were in high spirits and were turning a corner in the path when, lo and behold! The two foreigners were coming towards them! Evidently the two men hadn’t noticed the children.
The first impulse was to rush back, but it was too late, Pip had looked up and was looking at the Four as if he had seen a ghost.
“Good gracious!” Pip was saying, “Look at those idiots! They are as alive as you, Bill!”
“Catch them!” Bill shouted.
Pip produced a pistol, and Bill followed suit.
“This time I’m going to make sure you’re dead!” Pip threatened.
The Four stood rooted to the ground. The men were just three or four feet away!
But before anyone could say Jack Robinson, Harshit had kicked off Pip’s pistol! Lynton science of self-defense was certainly getting useful now!
Bill fired, but his shot went wide. Sumit sprang forward and performed a good Lynton feat of a kick! Bill’s pistol was down.
Katrina moved in with blazing eyes! Her small figure seemed even smaller when she got close to the big brawny men. Pip in a fit of anger, tried to get hold of Katrina’s neck. But Katrina ducked deftly.
Now before Pip knew what was happening, Katrina had land a blow on his face that stunned him for a moment. Here Sumit came to Katrina’s aid.
Meanwhile, Priya was having a fierce fight with Bill. Bill was no baby! But seeing that it was useless to fight with his hands and legs against these experts of the Lynton Martial art, he tried biting Priya’s wrist. Bill suddenly got a good tight grip on her wrist and Priya screamed, which brought Harshit to her side.
Unfortunately for Bill, Bill had a rather large ear, which afforded a good hold. As Priya struggled with Bill, her hand accidently came in contact with his ear. Priya pulled at Bill’s large hearing organ hard! Bill yelled and shouted and wriggled for all he was worth! But Harshit gave a blow onto his head and Bill fell down senseless. Then Harshit went to Pip, Sumit and Katrina. Those three were still having a grand struggle, but Harshit terminated it by giving a blow on Pip’s head, just like he had done to Bill. And the two men were powerless.
Now, do you remember the “secret lair” that the Four had found accidently? Well, the “secret lair” was quite near, and the children dragged the men to it and dumped them in, taking care that none of the two will be killed.
“Game over,” said Harshit, looking down into the Secret Lairs.
The Four sat down right where they were standing and gave long gasps as they were tired. Priya lay down flat on the ground and watched the sky.
Suddenly Sumit sprang up with yell and totally went mad. He put his hand inside his t-shirt and felt all over his stomach and chest, all the time he yelled and shouted. The other three were startled and looked at Sumit alarmed.
“Hey stop it!” yelled Sumit, “Don’t tickle me! Ho! Ho! Ho! Please don’t! Ha! Ha! He! He!”
The others laughed. They now noticed a bulge under his t-shirt which was moving up his back to his neck.
“It must be a squirrel or a rat,” laughed Priya.
At the word rat, Sumit yelled even louder and began to feel about his back with his hands frantically.
The bulge now came to his neck and the creature whatever it was came out and sat on Sumit’s left shoulder.
The others looked to see what creature it was and… Whoops! It was Snippet!
After resting a while Priya resumed her mission of informing the police, and the other three left at the foot of the mountain, and then returned to guard the two men. Priya continued her walk and presently, the police hurried to “the secret lair” and caught the two men, who were just coming to their senses.
As the police came, Harshit, Sumit and Katrina, who were on guard, drew out of sight. Priya hadn’t said a word about the other three, and had managed to get through without telling any lies.
Priya was asked to stand as a witness against the two men in court, which she agreed. By the advice of the other three, she asked pardon for the two foreigners, and the two hard-hearted men were touched with Priya’s forgiveness. However, the police wouldn’t let the two dangerous men go so easily. But Priya managed to reduce the capital punishment to just forty years imprisonment. You may be glad to know that the two foreigners have repented their bad doings, and after serving their term of imprisonment (they were really old men by then), are now leading an honest life in India.
After the trials the Four went to visit Mr. Sonu and his wife again. And you remember how the Four had decided to earn some money to make that trip to Africa for that huge diamond? Well their very first employer was Mr. Sonu. Mr. Sonu wanted to give them fifty thousand rupees as a gift (and that wouldn’t have been enough for an African treasure hunt anyway), but Harshit wouldn’t hear of taking it. He said on the behalf of the other three that the Four are willing to work for three months on Mr. Sonu’s farm for fifty-thousand rupees. Mr. Sonu insisted but Harshit wouldn’t take the money for free. So Mr. Sonu gave in and accepted Harshit's offer on the condition that the Four would stay at the farm for those three months and won’t insist on paying for the board and lodgings. Harshit accepted and so that was settled.
Three months later the Four said goodbye to Mr. Sonu and his wife and set out for Delhi, India’s capital by train. They had bought four strong backpacks for each of them and carried all their belongings in them.
The Four kept good care of the “gorilla-ring”, the one that was to be used as a token to get that diamond in Africa. They also took great care of the book on martial arts. They wrapped it up with lots of cloths and sheets of leather with a layer of sponge between the cloths and the leather, and then wrapped the whole thing with a thick sheet of rubber. ‘Course, they can’t open the book now but they knew the book by heart by now; so it wasn’t any great inconvenience.
Harshit was in charge of the book and the ring and so he had put those two things in his backpack and carried them with him wherever he went.
And so the Marvelous Four set out to try their luck at making some money for an African treasure hunt. The next book to be called: “Marvelous Four 2 – Hunting the Predator!” will tell you how they did it!
Don’t worry, it won’t be just working under an employer and making money. There’s gonna be a pile of hair-raising adventures!
How can any money-making work turn out to be an adventure?
Well, here’s a hint: The sort of work that they’re going to do is
CAPTURE A (SOMETHING DANGEROUS, HUGE AND HUNGRY) AND WIN THE REWARD OFFERED FOR IT!
I guess you got the idea. All right then, good bye! See you later!
THE END
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Marvelous Four – In and Out of Danger Zone!
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