Treasure of Ali Baba and the Sixty Eight Thieves

Chapter 15 : Help

The Palace, Persia...

Outside the palace, the three friends hiding saw Prince Derek's guards outside the gate waiting for someone.

"I think everything didn't go as planned," Akash said.

"Vikram cannot escape like this," Rohan said. "We need to do something."

"Wait for me here," Ujaas said. "I will be back in a minute."

After few minutes, Akash and Rohan saw Vikram escaping the palace. As he started running away from the palace, Prince Derek's guards saw him and started chasing him.

"Oh no, I don't have time for this," Vikram thought. "And I can't pass the scrolls to my friends like this. Someone stop them."

Vikram had no other option to face them. He started fighting the guards. He knocked two or three down but couldn't continue to do the same. He would have defeated them easily but they were too many for him to handle alone and he was even guarding the scrolls. They held him down and didn't let him move at all.

His friends couldn't help him because they had to stay low but they couldn't bear seeing their friend in that condition and were about to reveal themselves from behind the bushes when they saw something unexpected.

One of the guards was about to take Vikram's mask off when Giant came running towards them and collided with the guards like a bowling ball. Vikram escaped the guards.

"Thanks Giant," Vikram said.

"Anytime, lucky for you Ujaas came running and asked me to help you," Giant said. "And I was ready as always."

"That was a close one actually," Vikram said. "I need to go now Giant."

"Don't worry, I can handle these guys myself," Giant said. "You can go."

"Thanks again," Vikram said and left straight to his friends.

As he reached near the bushes, Rohan pulled him inside the bushes. Vikram almost screamed.

"Woh woh woh, calm down," Ujaas said. "Its just Rohan in a cockroach disguise."

"Holy shit," Vikram said. "You scared the hell outta me. Anyway, thanks for helping Ujaas."

"Its fine, I predicted the situation like always," Ujaas said proudly.

"Here, look these are the scrolls with the maps to the treasure," Vikram said. "I found them pretty easily, escaping was the difficult part. Now hurry, I need to head back into the palace."

In the palace, Prince Derek reached the king and told him about the robbery. The moment he promised him that he will bring that thief back, Malika reached there too.

"How did she escaped those guards?" Prince Derek thought.

"Brother Vikram is on his way to catch the thief himself," Malika said to the king.

As she said this, the king decided to wait for either Vikram or guards to bring the thief to him.

"No one else can spoil my plan," Prince Derek thought. "Where are those stupid bastards?"

After some time, someone made it to the king. Prince Derek got surprised.

"Sorry, I was not able to catch the thief but I brought back what he stole," Vikram said. "Unfortunately, the thief escaped."

"Its alright," the king said. "At least nothing got stolen from the palace and the festival was not spoiled."

"Yes and I think its better for the thief to escape," Vikram said. "It kept the atmosphere of the festival calm as it was and none of the guests got to know about the incident except for Prince Derek."

Prince Derek was asked to keep the secret but Vikram went to him and silently threatened him to keep silent. He got scared and left.

When Malika asked why he brought the scrolls back with him, he explained her the whole situation. When he handed those scrolls to Akash, he copied the maps on to another paper as planned for safety. Then, Vikram told them that he and Malika would not be able to leave the palace for few day because of the incident and resulting tight security. Ujaas, Rohan and Akash then left with the maps and Vikram returned to the palace with the scrolls.

Malika and Vikram were glad to help their friends.

"But is it over now?" Malika asked Vikram with sad face. "Can't we help them more until they find the treasure?"

"Don't worry," Vikram said. "I asked them about this and they said we are welcomed anytime. So, its not over yet."

Malika got really happy and said, "I never had such interesting friends. They are amazing and fun and weird too. But anyway, its gonna be a lot of fun. I can't wait for it."