kids bedtime story - yasmine begam

                               THE TREASURE OF THE TINY SEA HORSE

                                         yasmine begam

 

One cold winter morning, Mac, a boy lives in a small shed with his poor mother near a seashore.  One day he went to the Seashore looking for the sea shells.  At once he came across a mysterious egg, he took and keeps it, in his shed.

 

Sometimes later, he heard the cracking sound of the egg breaking. The egg was hatched and there came a tiny creature outside.

 

It was a yellow, beautiful and shinny, a baby sea horse. Its body covered with tiny spiny plates, all the way from their head down to their curled flexible tail. The Boy was surprised to see the creature and feels happy.  It blinked his eyes and was in search of his mother.

 

“Hey…..boy….Can you help me to get my home” said tiny sea horse.

 

“No….I can’t… my mother will scold as she does not like any pet at all cost.” said the boy.

 

“Please….I lost my way to home.  Some predators has kidnapped me and left in the seashore” cried the tiny sea horse.

 

The boy was pity for the tiny sea horse and agreed to go in search of mother sea horse.

 

       At last the boy found the mother sea horse under the deep blue sea.

 

     “my dear baby…..where are you?” she hugged and cried.

 

   “some predator kidnapped me and left in the seashore….this boy only saved my life” said the tiny sea horse.

 

“Thank you my boy…..said mother seahorse with tears on her eyes,.

 

“My boy…..as a debt of gratitude…..Take this with you.  This is a Map to a treasure of Great golden castle” said mother seahorse happily.

 

“What……Treasure to a Great Golden Castle……” astonished the boy.

The boy agreed and told “ ok then you both join with me we all together will go in search of the treasure to the great golden castle.”

 

 All of them agreed and started the journey in the deep blue sea to find the treasure. After an hour, the boy, mother seahorse and tiny seahorse reached a Treasure the Great golden castle.

 

 “hey…… we have found the treasure” said the boy happily.

 

They knocked the door and waited.  The door was opened.  There was a witch inside.  The witch was kind and helpful.  She wore a beautiful headress which is studded with diamonds. They were surprised to see the beautiful witch.

 

“Welcome to the great golden castle…..I can let you to take treasure but you have to complete a challenge” said the beautiful witch.

 

All of them were happy but the boy also feel what the challenge would be?.

 

Witch smiled and said “In the deep blue sea there will be a huge oyster, inside it there will be a heavy big white pearl which is guarded by a sea slug.  Whoever pickup the heavy pearl in an oyster and  hand it over to me, I will grant you to take the treasure chest.”

 

The mother sea horse, tiny sea horse and the boy accepted the task and went to the deep sea again.  After a long while they found the huge oyster and a old sea slug was sleeping next to it.  

 

“hello….we are here to take challenge of big pearl from this huge oyster Can we?” said the boy pleasingly.

 

“Yes…..but no one can do this.  But you may try If you want the treasure chest.” said the old sea slug.

 

The Tiny sea horse and the mother sea horse tried to open the shell but they could not do it.

 

The boy tried to open it carefully.  He thought and acted intellectually. He tried…and tried… at last it opened.

There he found sparkling shinny big white pearl.  They all wondered to see it.

 

They took the pearl and thanked the old sea slug and went away.

 

The boy, hand it over to the witch.  When the witch touches the pearl at once witch changed into a beautiful mermaid.  

 

The boy exclaimed “what a wonderful mermaid, How you changed from witch to a mermaid” he asked.

 

“I was a cursed by a sorcerer anger, who came to intended to be take the treasure and I never let him without completing the challenge.”

 

“But now you have completed the challenge which gives me Abandonment.  the pearl to me, Is the way I got the cure.” said the mermaid anxiously.

 

Now the mermaid gave the treasure of the golden chest to the boy.  And also make a magical golden house for the mother sea horse and tiny sea horse under the sea.  

 

The boy was thankful to the mermaid, the mother horse and tiny horse who helped to get this golden chest.

 

The boy went back to the home happily with the golden chest.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Wealth will find its own way to the person of un falling energy.