I ran down the stairs whith such

Jovial nature,

I then went hurtling skipping three stairs thinking that my skull will rupture.

I thought that was the end and the last time I will see the bewitching trees over yander or the swathes of light,

Sound being expunged and the darkness of closed eyes, I fell with fright.

I prayed as I fell and hit the ground with the thud of the head and the splash of a tear,

My mother flummoxed on what to do, only time I saw in her eyes the patent fear.

I could feel the ruddy blood in my mouth with the faint taste of salt,

I realized that I made my loved ones affraid and it was all my fault.

After one hour of searching there was no medicinal provision,

I then looked in the mirror and could not believe my vision.

I was fine and there was only some blood in the jaw,

No blood anywhere else only my tooth got chipped and I stood there in awe.

This made me understand his role,

He was the saviour of my soul.

He cannot be seen or can be heard,

He is busy but even in the brevity of time strikes with his saving wings which he raps around us like a bird.

To me he is someone who works from above,

Showering us with blessings of luck and love.

He is a force of nature and the one who yanks the sun to make way for the moon,

Even if you dont believe in him, he will find you and help you soon.

Once I wanted to download black opps 2 so I decided to look it up on google and when I looked for a link it took me to 'No free Punjabi virus real black ops' it was fake and when I clicked it, it took me to Indian men building houses in the forest compilations. I later looked for spiderman ps4 on my mobile and it took me to Spider city: Superhero world. The images looked real but the game was dookie.

Chapter-1

The future

The year is 2050 and internet is readily available to everyone. Homicide has never been easier to get away with but an adroit and talented Sleuth James Chat is back on another case. This time a man by the name of Blake Jonathan has been murdered in cold blood at the new Times Square skywalk. James takes the elevator to the skywalk where police officers are waiting for him. James asks the officer, “Where is the M.O.B. hub.” The M.O.B. hub is a new grid-based system which with the help of A.I. can rebuild anything that happened in a certain area with only some corroboration, it needs some evidence to work with and positions then it can give an 80% accurate environmental anatomy of a region with precise timings on when the action happened and how it happened. M.O.B. has surely made the life of policemen and detectives a lot easier. James connects his contacts to the M.O.B. hub with the help of a key issued to him by the mayor. He downloads the layout and gets to work; he checks the crime scene for clues. The killer might have thought he had left no trace but James finds a nail clipping commensurate with the size of an ant. He checks the clipping with his contacts and the M.O.B network analyzes it. M.O.B. also could analyze indents and even the most diminutive features of the nail and could compare it with every CCTV camera recording at light speed which helps James narrow down targets. The M.O.B. hub pins down 32 people in the whole world who may be guilty. Then James with his contacts asks the voice assistant to play the M.O.B. generated A.I. prediction on what had happened. Edward uses his voice assistant and says, “Play the holographic prediction from the start.” Then in a trice, the hologram was generated and it showed the victim walking down the skywalk at 12:15 a.m. A man approaches him from behind and used a knife to stab the man but there was no blood as the knife was specially designed with nanotech particles which prevented bleeding. Then the man walks nonchalantly towards the lift and escaped. James then pauses to think and says to the voice assistant, “Rewind till I say stop.” The hologram then rewinds and then when the knife enters the victim’s body James says, “Stop.” James walks toward the hologram of the victim and says, “Magnify and analyze the implement used.” The assistant zooms in on the weapon and shows what type of weapon it was. It generates a hologram of the weapon. James asks, “Tell me about the knife.” The voice assistant replies, “The weapon according to my assessment is a nanotech knife programmed to preclude blood loss after impalement. The nanotech gets injected into the victim and the entry wound gets stitched immediately. The nanotech blocks the blood as well which causes 0% blood loss. The weapon doesn’t have to target a crucial point as the nanotech can reach crucial points after injection in few seconds as it uses blood flow to travel.” Then James asks, “Where can you buy this type of knife.” Then the assistant says, “Scanning the city CCTV grid, I can confidently say that the knife was handmade.” James then asks, “You said it blocks the blood with nanoparticles so can we extract the nanoparticles from the blood to trace them to their source.” The assistant replies, “Yes, but you need medical-grade engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) to explore the bloodstream.” Then James perceives that the only way to get the ENPs was to ask the mayor. The next day James goes to the mayor’s office and the mayor asks him, “So how is the case going detective.” James replies, “Good, but I need medical-grade ENPs to explore the victim’s blood to come up with a cogent conclusion.” The mayor replies, “Sure pick them up from the city hospital.” James thanks the mayor and was about to move out of the door when the mayor says, “We have moved the body to the city morgue.” James heaves with dejection as he doesn’t have good memories of the morgue and leaves the room. James reaches the hospital and grabs the ENPs from the nurse. He asks her, “Can they be used for extraction.” She replies, “Yes, just simply hook them up with a computer and tell them to find whatever you are looking for and with the power of computer vision they can find it readily.” James thanks the nurse and returns home to program the ENPs. He uploads much magnified images of the nanoparticles used in the knife. Even if the image is hazy, with the help of A.I. predictions, the ENPs can find and extract the target with ease. ENPs which mean engineered nanoparticles can be stored easily and transferred to someone’s bloodstream. They can extract or analyze information and are useful for doctors as well as detectives. James reaches the morgue and while looking for the victim’s dead body he finds the dead body of his mother, he tries to ignore it as best as he can. His mother’s death was the reason why he became a detective, when his mother was killed nobody was able to find her killer, and to prevent that fate for others he became a detective. While James was mourning his mother’s death a man wearing a monocle approaches him from behind and says, “You know sometimes we cannot predict the future even though a pitfall may be right in front of us. Opportunity can be taken from those who deserve it readily.” James squats down and replies while sobbing, “Trust me; life went very harsh on me.” The man looks James dead in the eye and replies, “Believe me it can be worse.” The man then walks away and James focuses up. James finally finds the body and asks his voice assistant, “Can you show me locations on his body where I can inject the ENPs so that they enter the blood flow.” And the assistant replies, “Yes, marking them on your contacts.” James then sees many veins and then he punctures a vein with his surgical knife. He takes a syringe and injects the ENPs inside Blake’s blood. The ENPs then returns after a few minutes and James takes back the ENPs. The voice assistant then says, “Nanoparticles of the knife were found and extracted; I have a route to the source.” Then James replies, “Tell me the route.” Then the assistant replies, “Apparently the knife is located in North Dakota, Fargo.” James enters his car and says to the assistant, “Take me to the location.” The car then enters a self-driving mode.

Chapter-2

Tricks and traps

James made his way to a gas station in Fargo and the contacts told him to go behind the gas station where a dumpster was located. James then asks the voice assistant, “Is this where the signal ends, inside the dumpster?” Just as James was about to open the dumpster the assistant says, “WAIT!” It was too late the dumpster had a bomb inside which explodes and on that day James was declared dead with his body lost. Months have passed and a new detective named Justin Michel has been hired who enters the mayor’s office. The mayor says to the detective, “Before James sadly passed away; he uploaded all the corroboration which he has gathered to me which I am sending to you.” Justin then replies, “I will analyze the data, sir.” Then the mayor says, “We usually don’t use tyros like you but due to James’s sad passing we have suffered a lot which has left us no option so don’t mess this up because we have one chance and one chance only. Whoever this killer is, he will be brought to justice.” After saying that the mayor pats Justin on the back and leaves the office. Justin heaves and also gets up. Justin spends nights analyzing the data and decides to go to the place where James was blown up. Justin arrives there and asks the policemen inspecting the scene, “Where is the M.O.B. hub?” A policeman replies, “Check atop of the gas station.” Justin goes inside the gas station where a man was wearing a monocle and a man was reading a magazine inside the store. He asks the woman working at the gas station, “Can I get a ladder?” While asking the question he shows his ID card. The woman replies, “Of course, let me get one from the back.” While waiting for the ladder the man wearing the monocle says to Justin “Shame the old detective was killed here.” Then Justin replies, “Yes, what a tragedy.” The man then brings his hand forward and says, “I am Gordon by the way, Gordon Loft.” Justin looks behind himself in a very leery way but only sees the man reading the magazine who seemed to be invested, then after perusing Justin shakes Gordon’s hand and says, “I am Justin Michel, nice to meet you.” The gas station woman brings the ladder; Justin takes the ladder and thanks her in return. Justin uses the ladder to climb up the gas station and use the M.O.B. hub. He connects the M.O.B. hub to his contacts and starts to investigate the crime scene. According to Justin’s study on James’s evidence, there was a nanoparticle knife for which James was after which most likely had the bomb strapped to it so if he could get a reconstruction of the environment he would know what had happened to that knife. Justin sees that there was a black imprint on the concrete so he scans the imprint which would help him know more about the blast. He then tries to find fragments of the dumpster that exploded. He found many scraps of the dumpster but no knife so with the scraps and the black imprint on the concrete he thinks he has enough corroboration to perform an environmental reconstruction. He plays the reconstruction from the start in which he sees James opening the dumpster. He says to the voice assistant, “Pause and zoom in on the dumpster.” The assistant zooms in on the dumpster where Justin sees the knife. Justin then says to the voice assistant, “Now track the knife and see where it goes.” As the nanotech knife blew up it got scattered into pieces and the voice assistant marked all those scraps on Justin’s contacts. Justin couldn't view the full reconstruction to know what happened to James's body. Justin starts to gather the scraps one by one and analyzes them. The knife was made by ENPs but something was different when Justin analyzed them with his contacts, the contacts couldn’t recognize them. Justin perceived that whoever made this nanoparticle knife had a good idea about ENPs. While analyzing the wreckage Justin finds a pen drive which by the looks of it is surprisingly intact. Justin was about to open his car door but he hears something behind him. He looks back but there is nothing. Justin drives to his motel and by now it has been midnight.

Chapter-3

The Crackdown

Justin arrives at his motel and was about to plug in the pen drive but then he heard the door quickly open and close. Justin looks behind himself to see a man rushing towards him with a knife and he was about to stab him. The man plunges the knife forward and Justin closes his eyes but then hears an uproarious thud like someone was hit by a metal pipe. Justin opens his eyes and sees James in front of him and the murderer on the ground knocked out. Justin couldn’t comprehend what was happening. James says to Justin, “Don’t tell anyone what happened today and take this filth to the mayor.” Then Justin asks, “Are you just going to leave without giving me an explanation.” James replies, “I can’t keep following this vocation so I faked my death to leave this job and help you solve one last case.” As James was about to exit the motel through the window Justin asks him, “Don’t go I need answers, how did you survive and how on God’s green Earth do you know my location or how does he know my location? As a matter of fact, why would you quit now of all times?” Then James replies, “All I can say is I can’t keep jeopardizing my life for this trifling job and I am not a detective anymore. This wasn’t the murder of Blake Jonathan but rather an attempt to lure me out for an assassination. You need to carry the weight of New York now detective; I have faith in you detective, prove you are not a tyro, goodbye.” Justin then says, “Before you go can you—.” before Justin could complete his sentence James was gone. Looking at the murderer Justin perceived that he was the same man he met at the gas station and when Justin shook his hand, he must have put a tracker on him. The next morning Justin brings the culprit to the mayor. According to the mayor's government files, this man’s real name is Tyler Jacobs. The mayor shows Justin the files on Tyler and the mayor asks Justin, “Do these match your hypothesis?” Justin replies, “Everything is correct according to me. He is an ENPs specialist.” The mayor adds, “He endeavored to become a detective and he was in the same batch that James was in.” Justin says in an inquisitive voice, “That’s odd.” The mayor asks Justin “Is something wrong?” Justin replies, “No but can you arrange an interrogation session with him.” The mayor assents to an interrogation session. The next day after interrogation, Justin was called to court to give the final crackdown. Justin says to the judge, “I believe that this wasn’t the murder of Blake rather the murder was just a feint to draw out Detective James and assassinate him. Our culprit also wanted to be a detective and was in the same batch as James. Tyler mastered in ENPs and used them to make one of the most high-tech knives designed solely for murder. This was another story of revenge. James became a detective but Tyler didn’t and most likely James became the reason why he didn’t succeed.” After giving the crackdown James told the mayor to meet him outside the court after the case is done. The mayor came behind Justin while he is watching the sunset and says, “You sure have become the new greatest detective in NYC.” Then Justin says, “That’s great but I am here to talk about the old one.” Then the mayor replies, “So you found out.” Then Justin asked, “Why did you just let him walk away?” The mayor then replies, “He was a coward in my opinion and I even tried to convince him but he opted for a life where he could live away from society. But yes I do understand his pain; times have changed and so have the intentions of people. When you serve 30 years unflaggingly to such a tiring cause eventually it will catch up to you, he let his mother die and then knowing your own life is not safe is hard so I thought I should let him go and help him in faking his death. I apologize for calling you a tyro before but I see that you are ready to be the Sleuth of 2050.”

Epilogue

1 day after the case of Blake was solved two teenagers by the name of Jonathan and Marcus are researching the disappearance of James Chat. Jonathan says to Marcus “I don’t think James has been killed yet there is something more to this.” Marcus replies “We both have been reading articles about the legend since we were eight and he has gone through thick and thin so he can’t just disappear like magic.” Then Jonathan says to Marcus “There is something deeper maybe James just wanted to retire due to the amount of pressure on him by which he was encumbered. Walking away and retiring is very hard due to the public’s keen eye on cowards.” Then Marcus replies “Such a top-class detective retiring, how is that possible.” Both Jonathan and Marcus read files and articles to find anything about the case. They use AI technology to sift through over one million documents with an industrial-grade computer. Jonathan says to Marcus “I found the motel where Justin stayed the night before the case was solved. I believe Justin couldn’t have solved the murder himself so he must have met with James inside the motel and we have found exactly the room in which Justin stayed due to the industrial-grade computer which we built when we were thirteen.” Marcus replies “Let’s drive there shall we.” Then Jonathan says “Let’s make it quick so we can return in the morning because my parents will be mad if they found out that we are meeting up at our hideout instead of sleeping. Both of them go to the motel in which Justin stayed in their car which they won in an international science fair. They made their way to the motel which was currently open. Marcus says to the receptionist “Is room number 4 vacant.” The receptionist replies yes and Marcus asks her to show them the room. While following the receptionist to the room Jonathan uses their jargon to tell Marcus to distract the woman. When Jonathan enters the room Marcus says to the receptionist “Mam can you tell me something.” Saying that Marcus begins a conversation with the receptionist while Jonathan closes the door and looks for any vestiges. Jonathan pulls out an A.I fingerprint finder. Jonathan looks for fingerprints and finds many but according to the software; none of them match except the one on the window pane. The fingerprint was of James and Jonathan becomes shocked to see that. Just then the receptionist was about to open the door but Marcus pulls her arm and stops her. Jonathan looks inside the closet where he finds a bent metal pipe with James’s fingerprints. On the coat hanger, there were Justin’s fingerprints. Now Jonathan had all the intricacies he needed but the receptionist opened the door and just as Marcus thought they were going to get caught. Jonathan quickly hid everything and said to the receptionist “Unfortunately I don’t like the room.” The receptionist replies “Well that’s fortunate because you are being kicked out because you good-for-nothing kids are perverts.” The woman kicked both of them out of the motel and Jonathan asks Marcus “What did you do?” Marcus replies “I don’t know, try to help you.” Then Jonathan replies “I wonder what you did to that woman that she called us perverts but anyway, I got the information we need and James is alive.” Jonathan then says that most likely Justin came back to his motel and hung his coat but then was attacked by Tyler. James came from behind and knocked out Tyler saving Justin. James then finally escaped through the window and landed on the roof. Marcus then asks “So we are going to check the roof for more corroboration?” Jonathan then replies “Yes, just boost me up there.” Both then sneak to the lawn where Marcus boosts Jonathan atop the roof. Marcus says to Jonathan “Careful up there.” Jonathan replies “You should run as the receptionist might come back. Jonathan gets atop the roof and finds miss placed tiles. He examines them and concludes that James slid down the roof of the lobby from the first floor into the parking lot. Jonathan then calls Marcus to help him get off the roof. He says to Marcus “Here I come, please catch me.” When Jonathan falls Marcus catches him. Jonathan says to Marcus “We need to analyze the parking lot for tire marks.” Marcus then says “I found out that James drove an old Harley Davidson and since I am sort of a car guy I will be able to find them.” Then Jonathan replies “It’s a shame we don’t have those M.O.B contacts, we would be real detectives if we had those.” Marcus then finds faint tire marks and says “It looks like his bike went to the left of this parking lot, do you have your phone so we can click a picture so that the A.I can track those tracks.” With the help of Jonathan’s phone, both get in their car and follow the tire marks. The tire marks stopped at a bridge. Both of them go under the bridge where Marcus by his movie knowledge presses a lose rock. That opens the doorway and both of them make their way inside where they go down a flight of stairs. Inside they find a fully furnished house. They hear the TV so they go to the living room. Jonathan from behind a wall peeks inside the living room where he sees James watching TV. Marcus says to James “Hello?” James quickly gets up and grabs his pistol and aims it at Marcus while Jonathan also makes himself visible to James. James says to both of them “Tell me one good reason that I shouldn’t shoot you two.” Jonathan replies “Because we are kids.” Then James replies “You know what you two are very smart for kids, I will give you that.” Marcus then says “We are your partisans and we just want to talk.” Then James allows them to sit on his couch and says to them “First of all you don’t tell anyone what is going to happen and second of all how did you find me.” Marcus then replies “We accept the first thing but for the second thing we want some answers.” James then tentatively says “Fine but don’t tell anything.” Jonathan then asks “How did you exactly survive.” James replies “Just as the bomb was about to go off, I jumped and saved myself.” Then Marcus asks “Why did you fake your death.” James replies “There was too much pressure.” Jonathan then adds “Pressure? Many people tried to assassinate you many times.” James replies “I won’t elaborate but now you hold your part of the promise.” Then Marcus asks “Elaborate first.” And then both of them keep saying the same thing. James tired of their nagging gets up and pulls the realistic mask off his face and reveals his real mutilated face. Both of them look away in disgust and realize that the blast had blown up James’s face which made it hard for him to see and hear. James says “Now you understand my pain. This body, face, stalkers, murderers, and ultimately this life is too much for me. Both of them tell how they found him and return home. They learned one lesson that day; you shouldn’t try to question someone who doesn’t want to answer as his/her answer will be too much or too little.

I saw him smoking weed and said to him "I am sorry sir but your time has come." The man replied "Honey is it already Halloween because Jimmy's costume looks so good." His wife replies from outside the bathroom "I am leaving you, you can go die!" I say to him "I am the grim reappear." He replies "Oh! But sorry I am the king of rock and roll. Too young to die!" I reply to him "Dude I don't care who you are maybe if you wanted to live longer and keep your wife and kids you should have thought about putting that weed down." The man replies "Bro you dont get it, I can't leave this profession." I start to wonder how I will get this stoner off the Earth because he just ossified but then I got an idea and I said to him "In hell we have a rock band I would love you to play music in the depths of hell." The man replied "A band to all myself hell yeah!" I then took him to hell where he is still playing his little song in eternal torment and suffering but he is the happiest person in hell.

Chapter-1

The Siege

Vikings based in England decide to go on a raid and their leader named Sojourn is leading an army to a castle of an Anglo-Saxon king named Stuart the Third who was one of the enemies of Sojourn. One of the men in Sojourn’s army by the name of Rudolf was quite tentative to fight and was mostly peaceful but was forced by his mother to join the Vikings. After the kings gave their speeches, the siege was instigated. Stuart thought his defenses were impregnable but his sewage system was not defended and that’s where Rudolf was deployed. They told him to enter the castle and open the main door. He was deployed with some others and asked one of them “Aren’t you filled with trepidation on what’s going to happen to us.” And the Viking replied, “One day you will die but that day should be the day all remember and for me, there is no honor in any other vocation.” They all went into the sewage system, it had a fetid smell but they continued. They then in an intersection split into groups of five. As they were going through the tunnel meticulously to circumvent haphazard they saw some enemies in the tunnel. They waylaid Rudolf and his group, and a fight broke out, Rudolf tried his best and killed one enemy by blocking his attack and hitting him from behind but there was a glut of perpetrators and then Rudolf with some others started running. Everything had gone awry and while running they reached a dead end. The Vikings who were left and were with Rudolf started fighting against uneven odds just to die a hero but Rudolf saw a dirty river of garbage and muddy water so as a way to escape he jumped in it but before he did he was slashed by one of the Anglo Saxons and he passed out. He then woke up in a verdant forest and saw a black creature which looked like a demon dog standing on his body and sniffing him. It had red flaming eyes and a black body; it had a tall and robust build with sharp claws.

Chapter-2

The Demon Dog

Rudolf threw the dog away and started running but the dog caught up to him and bit him on his leg gently so Rudolf kicked him on his face. Rudolf ran far away and as it was night time started looking for sticks to build a shelter for the night which could handle him but while finding sticks he encountered a bear. The bear in a trice got on top of him but arbitrarily ran away when it saw the demon dog. Rudolf thought to himself “Why is a bear afraid of this enigmatic dog.” Rudolf got up and held a stick to scare the dog but it just ate the stick and approached him happily. He wasn’t the most endearing dog as he looked like a demon to Rudolf but he tentatively started to fondle the dog. The dog was taller than Rudolf and had flaming eyes so he wasn’t a dog so then what was he and why was he so feared? Rudolf let the dog sleep in his shelter for the night. He woke up in the day and tried to ask the dog where the nearest village was through sign language. The dog told him where it was by just barking in that direction, whatever he was he had great communication skills. Rudolf rode on the dog to a village. When they reached the village they saw a farmer, before the farmer could say anything he became petrified and started screaming. In a trice the whole village became alarmed and forthwith started routing, a man started screaming “Run the Black Shuck is here with his master.” Seeing the commotion and haphazard Rudolf felt respected and he felt like he mattered. As he saw the terror in the people’s eyes he felt like he mattered in life even if others saw him as the perpetrator. He had more respect than he could ever get in the army, now he wasn’t just another soldier who would throw his life away for the Vikings. He felt august as the rider of The Black Shuck. After the people started running Rudolf got off The Black Shuck and drank some water. He also ate food from a bakery. Then he got on The Black Shuck and started riding to Sojourn’s castle. While traveling on a road The Shuck saw a runner from the village The Shuck also needs to eat, he pounced on the runner and ate him. Rudolf who was still on The Shuck was rather apathetic when it came to the brutal death of an innocent man at the hands of his pet as he sort of let go of the trait of being peaceful and munificent because of a change of heart as he liked this new found respect that people gave him.

Chapter-3

The Castle

Rudolf and The Shuck continued their journey to Sojourn’s castle. They ultimately reached the castle and the guard standing at the drawbridge asked Rudolf’s name and called Sojourn to ask questions about The Black Shuck as the guard didn’t understand what it was. The king asked Rudolf “What is that creature you are riding on; it has the eyes of a demon and the body of a monster.” Rudolf replied, “I found him in the forest; they call him The Black Shuck.” The king let both of them in and then Rudolf slept with The Shuck at an inn. In the middle of the night, The Black Shuck felt a preternatural feeling of biblical energy. The Shuck got up and went outside the inn to sniff this palpable feeling with his powers. The Shuck then reached a house and entered with dark magic. Inside the house, there was a nun and her son praying and The Shuck brutally murdered them both. The Shuck then returned to Rudolf. The next morning as people got wind of what had happened they discovered vestiges of black magic which was discovered by the shaman. The shaman tracked the black magic to the inn in which Rudolf and The Black Shuck were staying in. Soon an inordinate rabble was engendered outside the inn. The shaman brought Rudolf and The Black Shuck out of the inn. The Rabble was dumbfounded to see such a creature and they were also surprised by the fact that Rudolf had developed Black eyes which had black veins surrounding them. Somehow by staying with The Shuck, Rudolf was becoming more queer and tainted. Sojourn when he saw this, ostracized Rudolf and threw him and his pet out of the kingdom. Rudolf was now impecunious and was vexed over the injustice that the king had done to him. The dog was purportedly demonic and responsible for a murder, Rudolf thought he was framed.

Chapter – 4

The Bandits

Afterward, Rudolf and The Shuck became itinerants who after traveling for a prolonged time reached a bandit camp, Rudolf thought they would be belligerent and didn’t want to make an encroachment so they treaded meticulously. One bandit saw them and alerted the camp, when the others came they all arbitrarily became docile after gazing into The Shuck’s eyes and it was like The Shuck could see the deep desire of evil inside them and transmute it into using it for his gratifications. Rudolf saw this as a perfect opportunity to take revenge. He would use the bandits as an implement to attack Sojourn’s fort, the same people who kicked him out. The Shuck commanded the bandits to prepare for a raid and when everyone was ready, the army started to trudge towards the fort. The army was ready at the dead of night for a siege on the fort but was not wearied in any way due to The Shuck’s black magic. The army then attacked by putting ladders on the castle walls and climbing them. For the receivers, this was a bolt from the blue and soon there was a lot of haphazard throughout the fort. Rudolf saw that gluts of innocent people were being killed and he had this split second of contrition. He then remembered his jovial mother’s face when she sent him out to the Vikings and now Rudolf was killing those his mother thought he would protect. He tried to stop the bandits from impairing the people with what little humanity he had left. Then out of nowhere The Black Shuck struck from behind and in that moment Rudolf perceived the fact that he had been changed by The Shuck; he went from a noble and peaceful Viking into an ignoble killer just because he wanted respect; Rudolf wasn’t the master of The Shuck, The Shuck was the master of him. The Shuck stared into Rudolf’s soul and saw all that thirst for respect and glory which could be slaked by bloodshed. The Shuck then took control of Rudolf and he tried to resist but The Shuck was too strong to resist. The Shuck then made Rudolf kill an innocent woman and then aim the blade at himself and slowly move the blade towards his chest but just before the blade could penetrate Rudolf’s body he saw the shaman cast an incantation which broke the imprecation. In a trice, Rudolf’s eyes turned normal and he regained control over his actions and with another spell, the shaman had put The Shuck into a trance. The shaman then told Rudolf to run to the top of the main tower. Rudolf ran as fast as he could and ignored the battlefield. He ran up the tower where he met Sojourn who said to him “You traitor!” Before Rudolf could explain his situation, Sojourn put him against a railing and was about to push him off but before he could do so, The Shuck attacks Sojourn and kills him. The Shuck then pounces on Rudolf but Rudolf dodges and gets ready to face the demon. Rudolf attacks with his sword but his sword bounces off. The Shuck then strikes blow after blow and makes Rudolf moribund. Just as Rudolf is about to die, he feels himself regaining energy. The shaman had done a summoning in which he summoned an angel to give Rudolf powers. The shaman wanted Rudolf to cause a feint which would give him time to summon an angel who would give Rudolf angelic powers. With his newfound powers, Rudolf gets up and starts to fly with his wings, he dives and kicks The Shuck off the tower and forthwith drops down on him with a powerful attack from above. He then strikes blow after blow with his sword, sapping The Shuck’s powers. The Shuck as a last resort looks into Rudolf’s eyes endeavoring to transmute any evil left inside him. Rudolf feigns a look of struggle but then in a trice, he uses his eyes to look into The Shuck. This time Rudolf had no greed of glory in him but The Shuck himself would get a taste of his own medicine. The impairing gaze of Rudolf penetrates The Shuck weakening his powers and ultimately banishing the demon from existence. At that moment, the bandits regained control and stopped fighting. The bandits then left the castle and everything was nigh back to normal. The Shaman found Rudolf and said to him “The people who you trust may be perfidious to you; you need to learn the difference between bad and good company. The moment I saw you at the inn you looked corrupted and knew you were the only person who could stop such a creature.” Rudolf replied “Thank you for trusting me but with the king dead there will be a lot of haphazard but I think someone like you is fit to handle the onuses of this kingdom” Then the shaman said, “I grow old and weak unable to give the provision this place needs so some young and zealous adult would bring the Vikings glory.” Then Rudolf replied “I am fraught with the need to matter and be respected so I must reflect on myself and meditate. Until I don’t find myself I am not fit to rule. Giving me the throne would just give me more power” Saying this Rudolf went to the jungles to introspect, meditate and make himself a more competent human being.

Title: The Black Shuck

Genre: Adventure Fiction

Age Range: 12-18

Words: 2,075

Name: Dilshan Singh

Why my book is a good fit: It is about

an urban legend called the Black Shuck which is found in England and thw potrays the adventure between that creature and his master but this book is a good fit because not only is it an adventure story but a story which has a great plot twist and an important moral. The creature first accomponies the master in a cordial way but as time goes on the creature uses his master and shows his malevolent side. The Shuck gave his master all his deepest darkest desires of power which blinded the master. It shows the importance of good company and how power blinds people and in the mordern day world many powerful people in the thirst for more power lose their morals as when you have power you can only see ahead not where you came from.

Hook: Seeing the journey of The Black Shuck and his master. Seeing the master of the Black Shuck slowly corrupt as the creature shows its dark side and feeds his master power to the point where the Black Shuck was the master as the power blinded his master. Also on a side note I use he to reffer to the Black Shuck as I want to insinuate he is a demon.

Audience: Mostly teenagers because this book is a lot about discovering yourself and picking the right company also it uses a difficult language.

Platform: I post on poetry soup and wattpad

Synopsis: A viking by the name of Rudolf is in the viking army. The army was raiding a castle and Rudolf with some other soldiers was tasked to infiltrate through the sewers of the castle but everything goes wrong and Rudolf escapes but ends up in a forest where he meets a demon dog like creature. First he attacks the dog but then builds affection. Both go to a village where everyone starts to run and seeing the power Rudolf had as the master of The Black Shuck made him jovial even though it made others scared. Both of them go back to their kingdom where both sleep in an inn. At night The Black Shuck kills a nun and her son which gets both Rudolf and the shuck kicked out. Rudolf thought that that action was injustice as in his mind he trusted The Shuck more than anyone and he developed dark veins around his eyes. Both of them find some bandits who The Shuck controls with his dark magic. Rudolf attacks his own kingdom with his bandits as revenge for exiling him. The Shuck makes Rudolf commit atrocities and realises he was a peaceful viking not an ignoble killer as he was killing his own people because of the power that blinded him. He fights the shuck and in that fight just as he was about to die the shaman summons angelic powers to protect and help him. He then banishes the shuck and realises he was blinded by power.(I did not cover everything)

Bio: I am a writer and a poet. I have been writing since I was 8 and have got many medals in IEO for first place. I have got a pretty good track record in English

Hometown: Amritsar, Punjab

Writing style: I like writing adventure stories with a metaphor or moral and with very high vocabulary

Hobbies: Story writing and poetry

Education: I am in 7th grade

Experience: I have many popular stories on Wattpad

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