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“It’s so boring,” said inquisitive Indu. He wanted to find something new to play. He walked around the garden and found a little button.
“Wow! I’ve never seen this before,” Indu shouted.
He pressed the button and found a secret room. He jumped in and saw there were just clothes.
“Is there a magic coat?” he thought.
He took the coat out of the room and used the sand to hide the button.
“I hope the coat can help me.”
He wore the coat and suddenly turned invisible.
“Oh! I’m invisible!”
He wanted to go tell his friends about it, but when he opened the door, there was a cave.
“It isn’t a boring day now,” said Indu. “I wonder what is in the cave,” he thought.
He went into the cave. The cave was very dark. Indu needed to use his flashlight to see.
In the cave, he found a pair of glasses. He cleaned them and found out they were robot tech glasses named Sumi.
Woosh! A big red dragon flew towards Indu and Sumi.
“Oh, I think we’re in trouble now,” said Indu quietly. “I think I need to go home quickly, but there’s no way back.”
There was just a dark tunnel ahead of him.
The dragon was very angry. It used its sharp teeth and wanted to bite Indu.
“Oh no! The dragon is angry! How can I escape?”
Sumi said, “You can try to talk to the dragon. It will calm down if it knows why we are here.”
“Good idea, but can it understand?” replied Indu.
“Just try! You won’t know the answer if you don’t try!” shouted Sumi.
Indu stood up and said, “Hello, Mr. Dragon.”
The dragon angrily said, “I am a girl, so please use Mrs.”
“Okay! Mrs. Dragon. We don’t know why we’re here, but trust me, we just want to go home.”
The dragon replied, surprised, “You don’t want to steal my treasure? Everyone comes to my cave to find treasure, and it makes me so angry.”
Indu said, “Of course not. I don’t want any treasure. Please tell me how to go back to the human world.”
“Alright, first you need to find a magic wand. There’s only one in this world. Its owner is a dark wizard called Deka. He is very bad. You need to take the wand and imagine your home, then you can go back,” Dragon answered.
“Sounds easy,” said Inquisitive Indu.
“Oh, it’s not,” replied the dragon.
Indu didn’t answer and went to find the wizard’s house, which was on top of a small hill.
“Where is he?”
“I’m here! Ha ha ha! Let me see who comes today,” the dark wizard replied.
“I want your wand,” said Indu.
“What? My wand? Is this a joke? I will tell you the answer: never!”
“If you don’t give me the wand, I will fight you,” said Inquisitive Indu.
Then he called Sumi to drop a big box over the wizard and took the wand.
“Thank you,” Inquisitive Indu laughed. Inquisitive Indu took the wand and imagined his home in his mind. The next second, he was standing in his room. He had come back safely.