The Quest For A Cursed Diamond.

The Diary...

Tales of his mischief were often heard from his school. Till now, hardly a day has passed that the complaint of Haider's mischief has not reached his house. But Haider was at the forefront of his class in terms of studies, which was probably the reason why the schoolmates never fired him despite his mischief. The night was long gone Niharika called Tannu and Shehnaz to eat. Both sat down to eat at the dining table in the front hall of the dinner. After eating the food, Tannu wished Shahnaz "Good Night" like everyday and in his room after a while, Niharika kept a jug and glass of water like daily. Tannu did not see Niharika coming and keeping the water while he was thinking about that skull and half-baked skeleton. He was thinking about Zakir and his relationship with the skeleton , he was wondering what would have happened that Dr. Zakir may have suddenly left for London while knowing about this alive corpse, why did he suddenly applied to teach at the University of London and his application was accepted. Quite a night passed as soon as Tannu thought that Then suddenly the sound of big loud " boom" was heard, like someone has kicked at the door very hardly and the door has opened.

Tannu gets up from his bed as soon as he heard the voice and rushed towards the place where this voice came from. His eyes were wide open when he again saw the British officer walking in the hall. Who was moving around from one corner to another . He was looking for his head without which he was probably incomplete. Tannu was hiding behind a cupboard and looking at the whole scene. This man was enough to shock anyone's heart, but Tannu has made his heart stone. He was hiding and watching that skeleton circling back and forth. Tannu thought in his mind "If so much power exists in this skeleton, So why does it not reach its head on its own? When it can move around alive even after dying, it must have so much power to locate its skull. " Tannu stood there for a long time thinking seriously about all these things then suddenly the clock hour is reported to be three o'clock and rings three times, as soon as it rings, the English skeleton goes into his coffin box and lies down

"In terms of time, there is nothing more certain than the British. This dead skeleton also proved it. It reaches its coffin at exactly three o'clock. The door of the cellar also closed on its own", All these things were going on in Tannu's mind, Then he made up his mind to go to his room and relax, because there was a lot of rush throughout the night.

Tannu woke up at around eight in the morning. He arrives at the dining table and started having his breakfast like every day, where he learns that she had been called from the village of Niharika this morning and had to go because her mother's health was very bad, perhaps taking her last breath.

Tannu regretted this and looked at Shahnaz and said, "Now Ammi's responsibility came on both of us, Niharika's stay brought some relief".

"Why do you worry, today Haider is coming and with him Savitri aunt is also coming, The arrival of one who had handled Haider so far will help a lot, she is well aware of medicines and take care of patients well, Your mother will have no problem ", Shehnaz said with assurance.Tannu was now a little bit free and had his breakfast, both of them went to his ammi's room, as it was time for her medicines.

In the room Tannu opened Ammi's cupboard to remove a clean sheet for her where he found an old diary that belonged to his father. Keeping that diary in his coat pocket, he takes out a new sheet from the cupboard and lays it on the bed and both of them lay down his mother cleanly. After a while, she gets into sleep because the medicine was showing its effect .Tannu goes straight from there to his room and takes out that diary and reads it, in that diary it was written "May 18, 1972, me and my friend Dr. Zakir has made an incredible discovery. We have found a very old cave here in the Himalayas in which an English officer has found a skeleton deposited in the ice, Whose half-throat body was loaded with precious jewelery worth billions of rupees . Not only that, while digging in the place of that skeleton, enough precious jewelry, gold sculptures and diamond jewels have been received. We have carefully placed the skeleton in one place and have also ordered a coffin box from a nearby village. The most surprising thing in all these things is the half-throat of the skeleton was placed in his hand. Seems that someone might have cut off its head and separated it and its skull which has been halved has something like a red ruby precious stone instead of its eyes, Which makes it completely different from the common human skull. "

Then suddenly the fast horn of the car rings and Tannu hides that diary under his pillow, exited his room and reached the hall.

Shahnaz had already reached the main gate and stood there to welcome Haider , Tannu also stood next to her . The car stops and a small boy from it comes out speaking "appa" and clings to Shahnaz's throat. An old woman from the car also walks out and stands in front. Tannu thought by looking at her that she must be Savitri Devi, mentioned by Shahnaz last night. After meeting each other, everyone comes inside the mansion and sits on the couch of the hall and started talking.

Tannu was overjoyed to meet Haider and Savitri, he presents Haider a toy car. Haider gets very excited seeing this. Shehnaaz had given all the information about Tannu's mother to Savitri Devi, even she had already been told by Shehnaaz's father, but Shehnaaz and Savitri Devi were talking about Tannu's mother. After a while both of them went from there to Tannu's mother's room. Tannu and Haider were sitting next to each other and playing with the car.

Soon, a lot of time had passed, now it was evening and the light of the sun's rays had slowed down.

Due to the presence of spiritual power over the mansion, the dinner was completed by nine o'clock so that the servants could also take leisure and rest in the cottages built behind the mansion.

All the servants did not come early even around the mansion during the night.

However, that spiritual power had not harmed anyone till now.

Shehnaaz gives strict instructions to Savitri and Haider not to leave their room after 12 noon.Savitri and Haider's sleeping arrangements were made in the same room.

At first that half-throated English skeleton was confined to the cellar only and the servants had seen it only from the ceiling light of the same cellar, but since Tannu and Shehnaaz broke the lock tied with the talismans, that spiritual force was enraged around the hall. He also roams around the corridor and sometimes around the stairs.

Savitri became very frightened on hearing this but Haider was making fun of Shehnaaz after hearing her words.

"Little one , you will know when you encounter him”, said Shahnaz, looking at Haider.

"Oh this ghost, nothing happens, how many times I go out in the dark where everyone says there is a ghost but I don't see anyone, on the contrary, I have scared many people by becoming ghosts", Haider said in an innocent manner . Savitri and Shahnaz started laughing at this.

After having dinner in the night, everyone went to their respective rooms to rest.

Tanveer also went to his room and, wearing his night suit, was lying on the bed reading the rest of the diary -

“A day after the half-throat skeleton and treasure were found, one of our teammates died strangely, with eyes bulging outwards as if they were swollen and thick. He died of a heart attack. It happened, but we all did not understand that what he had seen so that his eyes had burst out, there was a sense of unintentional fear on his face. It was a sad event for all of us and one big loss also because the same colleague who discovered the cave first, he was a very promising young man who discovered many mysterious places for Dr. Zakir. The excavation work was going on continuously as I didn't have that much time and no time. To Dr. Zakir, therefore, keeping aside the grief of his companion's passing, the whole team was busy in extracting the rest of the treasure, because by now the news about the treasure had spread around, such was the case with those nearby. This happened because of the workers of the area who were hired by Dr. Zakir and my team members to dig in. However, the cave was about 300 km away from the nearby village and was known to be a rocky road. And because of the rocky road, no means of transport was available except horses and mules.

We had also hired a lot of horses and mules from the nearby village and the members of Dr. Zakir's team were waiting for us to return with carts in the village itself. Horses and mules are the best means of transport on hilly areas.

Another day passed which was very tiring, we have lost a lot but what we have gained is enough to heal the wounds of our life.

The next morning also began with a lot of noise, after coming out of his tent it was found that another mysterious death had occurred, Jacob had died just like his first mate Suresh, his eyes also bursting out and had a similar look of fear on her face.

We all could not understand that what was the reason behind the mysterious death of these two, there were four other people along with Suresh and Jacob who had found this cave or else the lives of the remaining four people were also in danger. I thought of this and mentioned it to Dr. Zakir in private so that the rest of the team members do not create panic. Zakir also agreed with this, but there was more work to do for one day, so we both decided to keep quiet on this matter, although both of us decided that tonight we both will unveil the secret that after all, what is the secret behind these two deaths, after that both of us went to dig towards the cave.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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