The Ghost In Black Dress

THE GHOST

IN

BLACK DRESS

Edida Meher Manish

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© copyright 2011, Manish Edida
This is my debut book. Please share your valuable thoughts. I am grateful to my parents, uncle and grandparents for encouraging me to write books.
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1

I can’t forget this day. Hello, my name is Alex and I am 10 years old.

I was going to my friend’s house to have a chat about his health as he had not come to school. When I reached his house I saw a man who had covered his whole body with black clothes. I could not see his face as he had also covered it with a black mask. I heard the sound of a door banging opposite my friend’s house. After some time it stopped. I was afraid to go up and see what is happening so I did not climb up the stairs and go up.

After an half an hour I guess, when no one came out of the house. I took some courage and went inside to find out what had happened when the man went inside the house.

The door was open, so without any hesitation I went inside the house to find out what had happened.
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2

I saw blood all over the marble floor of the beautiful house and thought of leaving the house. I saw a horrorible scene first time in my life. The heads are missing from the bodies of the residents of the house. It was neatly cut out. I could not find the heads of the people near the body nor in the room.

At once I sprinted to my house without a backward glance. I think I ran faster than a Ferrari.
When I was sleeping I had a dream that the man who had covered his body with black clothes had come to me. He slowly opened his black mask which he was wearing. To my horror he had no head and it was as if his head was invisible.

I woke up in the middle of the silent night because of the nightmare. I saw a man who was wearing black clothes banging the window. I quickly switched on the light. I neither saw nor heard anything after switching on the light till I was completely asleep.
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3

When I woke up in the morning I heard my father telling my mother in the other room that 7-8 mysterious deaths have taken place since yesterday. The investigators couldn’t identify their faces as their heads chopped off and were not found.

I went to my grandparent’s house. I told my grandpa who is 84 years old about my yesterday’s experience and the news.

He said, “I think it is King Musta”. I asked him who he was. He told me the whole story.
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“Once upon a time, when the world was ruled by kings and queens. There lived a good, wise and best of all he was very handsome king named Musta. He was the most handsome man ever lived on earth. He was so renowned for his beauty, all the eswanted to marry him. All the other kings were very jealous of his beauty that they all plotted to kill him. They assigned a courtier of King Musta to kill him in return of a huge sum of money. The courtier silently went to the bedroom and gave some money to the bodyguards. As the bodyguards were corrupt so they let the courtier go to the king’s room. Without waiting for another second the courtier dragged out his sword and killed King Musta.”

“Then what happened”, I asked grandpa.

Grandpa said, “I did not finish my story. His body was destroyed but his spirit did not die. His spirit separated from his body and killed the courtier with his powers. His spirit went to the forest where an evil magician lived. He wanted to get back his life by whatever means. So without any second thought he went to the evil magician’s cave. The evil magician accepted to give his life but the king had to accept his three conditions. First condition was to become very evil. The second condition was to sacrifice his head. And the last and deadliest condition was to kill any human with his head cut exactly at his beginning of his neck everyday or his body will get self destroyed. He agreed to these conditions as he was helpless and he was ready to do anything to get his life back. After getting back his life his hunger and thirst had vanished with his head. He then imprisoned his bodyguards and some of his courtiers who proved to be unfaithful and kill one of them every day. He started harassing everybody in his kingdom. As everybody was afraid of him now they left the kingdom. King Musta could not kill anyone now as there were no people left in the kingdom to kill. So to save his life he left his kingdom and went to a forest and killed everyone who came to that forest. After a year or two everyone believed that the forest was a haunted by some evil spirit so no one came to that forest”.
Then I asked, “Then again in fear of his life he might have settled in another place and after some years he might have changed his place and must have settled in another place and after many changes he might have landed in New York. Can this be true?”

“May be,” guessed his grandpa.
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I half believed and half doubtful. But I did not know what could have happened really. Nothing is in our hand. I thought that we must believe some myths or legends in a situation like this. At that moment, I suddenly saw a man dressed in pure black clothes. He had covered his face with some black cap or something. I started screaming. One person came to me to know what had happened. I pointed towards the man covered with black clothes and shouted, “He is the murderer”. The man covered with black clothes and looked at me and pulled over his black cap and to my astonishment he was just an ordinary man, not the ghost which I was expecting.

He frowned a little and said. “What did you say? I look as if I am a murderer?” Sorry sir I just thought you were…,” I stopped. All the people nearby were looking at me as if I was mad. The man covered in black cloths said, “ I was what?” Nothing sir, but forgive me.” I said this as I was ashamed in front of many people around me. They thought I was suffering from some phobia. After some time, an uncle of mine came there and heard about all the commotion I caused, so he took me home in his car.
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I was feeling miserable at home. I couldn’t think anything except the ghost. I lost my appetite and thirst. I couldn’t sleep properly. Wait a second; I said that I couldn’t sleep. That was wrong. I had a very sound sleep undisturbed.

I woke up early the next morning and left to school. Today I decided to change the route for the school. I decided to go to school through a small forest, which was a shortcut to my school. There was no good path in the forest and the ground was very marshy.

I could tell by the condition of the forest that it was not visited by any one for more than thousand years.
I went into the forest so carefully that I couldn’t hear any sound such as the sound of the birds chirping or the sound of branches rubbing with each other.
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Suddenly I saw something. It looked like a model of a pyramid built by someone who lived thousands of years ago. I went nearer to it to see it clearly. I bent on it and touched it.

After barely half a second, the whole pyramid started to rise. I could see a structure emerging out of the ground. When it completely emerged from the ground, it looked somewhat like a old haunted castle.

I was scared and ran fast towards my school. I think I did not hear a thing said in the class as I had been thinking about only two things at that time. One about the castle and the other about the ghost.

I told my friends about the castle but they didn’t believe my story. They all asked me to show the castle to them then only they will believe my story. I told them that they were doing something very wrong but they insisted. I couldn’t do anything but to go with them. One of my friend was a son of a captain of Army and he was gifted a gun by his father on one condition that he wouldn’t harm anyone. He had accepted the condition and had got that gun on his birthday. He brought that gun with us as he was afraid of wild animals (not so wild enough as a tiger or something but still dangerous).

We all went intothe forest and I showed them the castle but to my surprise the castle did not appear haunted as it was in the morning but a neat, clean and royal castle. It was as if the castle was cleaned in no time.

There was a big gate which was widely open. So, we went inside it without any hesitation. As soon as all the children were inside the castle, the gates were closed by itself with a bang. All the nerves of our bodies have become straight.
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Then we heard the wild laughter. It was coming from the staircase ahead of us. A man dressed in black clothes was seen by all the children. He said, “Ha ha ha.. so you have all come to the castle of almighty king Musta also known as THE GHOST IN BLACK DRESS. Do you have any last wish?” By the time he was saying this I went under a dressing table to hide. He came down flying and in a second and all the bodies of the children had dropped on the floor and their heads were cut at their beginning of their neck. The gun fell right opposite to me. The ghost was saying. “Where is the cute little leader of this batch hiding.”

The gun which had fallen from my friend was lying a few centimeters away from me which gave me some confidence so without any second thought I picked up the gun and stood up as a hero and said, “ The person you are searching is in front of you.” So there is the confident child, who is thinking that he could kill this almighty with that stupid gun,” said that ghost. I shot him several times but only heard the laughter of the ghost.
The bullets in the gun got over. The ghost started walking towards me, I started to walk backwards. I went on backwards and backwards. And then suddenly turned around and started to run towards a door, which was the closest door to me. He said, “ You are going to die as you are going to the door of the death.” He stopped at that moment itself and stood watching me. I kept on running and pushed the door and I suddenly could not feel the floor beneath me.

At the moment I thought I was flying so I watched my foot. To my horror I saw that there was water beneath me and I was falling into it. I panicked as I didn’t know how to swim. A second later, I came to know that the room was filled with poison as the air in the room was green in colour and my body turned into blue. I was dying with the poison, “ No it can’t be” I said “nooooooooooooooo…”

Not the END
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“Noooooooo….,” I was screaming. My mother came to my room and said, “Don’t say you had another nightmare. You have been having nightmares for the last two years. I think you shall be seen by doctor. Here drink some water and sleep.” “Thank you, mom. I will try to sleep well and good night,” I said. “Good night son,” said my mother.

I woke up in the morning. I looked at the newspaper and I sat frozen. 7-8 mysterious deaths have happened and their couldn’t be identified as their heads were missing from the bodies.

THE END
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