Treasure of Ali Baba and the Sixty Eight Thieves

Chapter 16 : Cave

Persia...

Ujaas, Rohan and Akash were at Akash's shop trying to figure out the maps.

"Rohan, am I the only one who wants to beat the shit out of him," Ujaas said looking at Akash.

"No, I am also ready with this iron rod in my hands," Rohan said.

"Wait wait, what happened?" Akash asked.

"You didn't drew one of the maps correctly," Ujaas said. "Its half drawn."

"That's not the case," Akash said. "The original was half drawn too."

"Alright, we believe you," Rohan said. "But why is it half drawn?"

"We can't follow this one," Ujaas said. "We should follow the another one. Maybe treasure would be there."

"Yes, lets see," Akash said and they started following the map which was fully drawn.

After walking for sometime, they reached a deserted place where they could only see sand and rocks. On following the map, they reached a place where they saw a huge boulder covering a cave.

"This is the place with x mark on map," Ujaas said. "I think this is the famous cave of sixty eight thieves."

"Yes, its so exciting that we are one of those few people who saw this cave in reality," Rohan said.

"Yes, it is cool," Akash said. "So, how do we enter the cave?"

"Rohan, come on, say those words," Ujaas said.

"I love beating kids..," Rohan said without even thinking.

"Not those," Ujaas said. "The secret words to open the door to the cave."

"I don't remember," Rohan said. "We read that story, I thought you remember the words."

"I don't know," Ujaas said. "I was expecting you to remember."

"You both are idiots," Akash said. "We can't go back to read that book again. Try to remember it."

"Let me try," Ujaas said. "Open the door."

The door didn't open. Ujaas and Rohan continued guessing the words one by one.

"Open the gates" "Let me through" "Open the path" "Make make way away"

"Its gonna take forever," Akash thought and sat on a stone.

After few minutes...

"Your prince is here, princess," Ujaas said.

"I am here to kidnap you," Rohan said.

"Let your oni-chan in," Ujaas said.

"Let me in or I will blow this whole cave," Rohan said.

"Hail the mighty," Ujaas said.

"Hail Hitler," Rohan said.

"Who the hell is Hitler?" Akash thought.

They continued guessing.

"Gotta catch 'em all," Ujaas said.

"Hah, that's what I say outside school gate," Rohan said.

"Stop you guys," Akash shouted. "This crap isn't gonna change anything. The rock will remain same as forever."

"Remain same," Ujaas said thinking hardly. "Same, see same, sesame. Open Sesame."

As Ujaas shouted those words, the door opened. Ujaas and Rohan fist bumped and then bumped their fists on Akash's face and ran inside. Akash followed them.

Inside, they saw the empty cave. The only thing they could see was a wooden chest. They opened it and saw two scrolls inside. Akash read those scrolls and explained everything to Ujaas and Rohan.

"Now it all makes sense," Akash said. "After stealing back all the money from Ali Baba, the thieves took that money to this cave. After that, they shifted all the treasure to another place to change its location. When royals found out about this cave, they entered but found no treasure. But got their hands on the map to the new location. They reached the new location but couldn't enter the new cave. Then they returned and only left half the map in this cave and took the other half with them to the palace so that no one else from palace or from outside could find the new location."

"So that's what happened," Rohan said. "Then what should we do?"

"I think we should go back for now," Ujaas suggested. "We should wait for Malika and Vikram."

"Yes you are right," Akash said. "Lets head back to Persia."

They went back to Akash's shop and tried to figure out the new map they found.

"So there are two scrolls," Ujaas said. "One has the information Akash told us about and the other has another map which is half drawn."

They looked at both the half drawn maps but couldn't figure out how to how to merge them to full map.

"These both maps are half drawn and they both are distinct," Rohan said. "How they hell are we supposed to merge them?"

"Lets ask Vikram and Malika if they know anything about this," Akash said.

"We have to wait for few days," Ujaas said. "Then can meet them on the night of full moon."

"Sounds right to me," Rohan said.

And this is how friends planned to meet on the next full moon.