The Death Flower(#Wattys2017)

The Death Flower

Chapter one - Her Death!!

She analysed her mistake after her death. It was too late at that moment. She realised her one step that went wrong, killed her for good.

It was a sunny day when Neha went out with her friends for a break from her studies. She had a great like towards her cosmetics, she was crazy about fashion, style, dresses and lived in her hair style and was beautiful though. Her hair was straight, long up to her waist and shined golden. She had some pies and a strawberry milkshake before going out to a picnic with her friends. She merely knew what was going to happen to her that day,the waves in the beach, were they visited were so enchanting and beautiful that she and her friends did not notice it's height. They enjoyed allot and it was sunny even in the evening on that day. She had a special love towards the nature and was surprised to see a lotus, red in colour in the middle of the sea.(beach). Though she was unaware of how to swim ,Her sudden likeliness towards the flower made her to go for it. The waves were tiding high, Her arms and legs moving in thin shined cold water and she moved towards the middle of the sea.So beautiful it was,she had never seen such a beautiful flower in her life, a lotus with red petals, long stalk, without leaf to support for floating , long carpel with pollen buds yellow in colour ...so attractive it was that she fell for it the moment she was getting close to it. It gleamed in the sunlight and it looked like magic to her. The time when she held its stalk to take it along with her,  a wave very high one came to her,, which she had never seen in her life just like the flower and took her to a land unfamiliar like the flower , a land which she never saw before- A land without life.

Chapter two -The Floating Island

She opened her eyes, found herself in the middle of an island and to her surprise found that it is a land with its boundaries visible. She walked to its end and was shocked to find it floating!. She feared whether some blasphemous devil has taken her away and this was it's magical land. She screamed for help,she wanted to cry but she didn't find a reason to do so as it may not be true what she thought. She gathered her courage and decided to explore the land, she moved to a part of the land where she found many of the same lotus, gleaming in sunshine. She was surprised there was no water but still there were many lotus growing all over that part of the land her fears slowly started diminishing, as she saw the flower from a closer look she thought it is not possible for such a beautiful place to be a devil's home, it must be a magical island. Making the decision to explore further, she made her way to the next part of the land, she wondered if the large wave had taken her to a deserted island then how on Earth was it floating?,she, finally, made her way to the last part of the place and peeped below to find only clouds to miles.Now slowly the atmosphere of the place started growing colder, a chilled air suddenly passed near her almost freezing her down. Now she was sure that the land was magical. She had to find out what was it really?, she decided as soon as she will get a way to get off the place, before leaving she would take  some of the flower with her, after all it was the flower that taught her to swim she thought it in her mind, suddenly a thought arouse in her mind,  was she dreaming!?  She pinched herself which was painful enough to make her realise that she was not dreaming anyway. Now a confusing thought came to her mind, was she saved by some aerial stranger? But there was no one to give answer, she made her way across the island and this time the way across looked very short, the distance from one end to another end was very less, the island was divided into small parts by tees and bushes growing in between, another end of the island was easily visible to her by standing at one end, the end where she stood right now, where she had got her consciousness back had fully grown trees and large wide bushes which was blocking the end. She thought that it must be the way out. But she wondered how will she land herself on the ground. She made a plan,that is ,she would find that person who got her into that mess and would threaten him to leave her safely on the ground. She suddenly thought weather was she kidnaped?! Her first suspect was her father's business partner. But if it was him then why would he carry her on a floating island? And from where did he get such a place? was it a technologically developed machine of some kind which looked like an island? So as to confuse her and if it was  then where was he now? She tried to touch the trees and bushes, expecting she won't able to do so as she thought that it was the kidnapper's plan to confuse her by a projector and it's false scenario​. But she touched it to her surprise. Now she was really scared, the land was real and she got more scared when a cloud passed from behind her hair ,it made clear to her that she was really on sky, the land was floating!. It was not a false scenary. She did not understand what to do ,a thought of dismay came to her, it felt to her as if she is trapped in that place forever. There must be some way out of there, which she had to find out. Thinking this she calmed herself. Another cloud floated right in front of her and she jumped back because of its speed. It was larger than the previous one and was bright white in colour. She felt that she might be now flying high up in the sky. She had to find some or the other way out of that place before it could take her high up in the sky, when it will be surely impossible for her to escape.