"On a full moon night , I was walking

Author: Tangela
From: Bangalore, India
Age: 15
Date: 14th Aug 2000, 9:13 AM
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Title: "On a full moon night , I was walking

On a full moon night I was walking down the lane to my
house when I heard some noises. The dark trees looked ghastly in the
midnight black, the place was deserted, and the night was eerie, the
sky was an endless expanse of black dotted here & there with stars and a
pale ceramic like moon. The cold bit into my skin & I pulled my overcoat closer, the wind rustled up the trees. The swaying of the trees and the sound of the wind seemed like the calling of a ghost stretching out his arms to me.
I felt the chill rise up my spine, my throat tightened, and my hair stood on end. It was there I heard the noises, at first it seemed that the wind
was still playing around with me, teasing me, frightening me, but then they
became louder, clearer and ............ mysterious.

I could hear a low and continuous rumbling, I looked up and saw the sky was clear, no sign of clouds, no sign of thunder, then it increased slowly and slowly , increasing in pace, and increasing in volume, faster and faster, louder and louder. My heart was in my mouth, but wait! I had seen a flash of white, followed by another and another and another and another. Was I hallucinating? Was I being paranoid? But no! I could have sworn I had seen a man, I had had a glimpse of his face, dark and hidden. I was sure I had seen him take of his mask, wipe his brow and put it back on and he had done with human hands, he was not a ghost. So if he was not a ghost then neither were the others, but what were they doing dressed up like that? At night? And here all of places, near the cemetery. Why? I ran to the first tree I saw and hid behind it. I could see nothing save a blur of white, so I ran further to a group of trees, which hid me but enabled me to see them. Being small of size, I had no problem, I could see the

They were dancing it seemed, around a fire, I counted twenty of them in all. There was some sort of leader there, he too was dressed like the rest of them with a white flowing garment, a black belt like a priest's with tassels at the end, a white hood which covered his hair & nearly all of his face, he was the one who was wearing the mask, it had a white background and green and red and blue stripes all over it, it was hideous. All the others were dressed like him except for the mask. All of them were barefoot. Now they had stopped, all of them in a circle facing the fire, the leader got up on a rock in the middle near the fire, and raised his face and his hands to the sky, he started chanting something, slowly and almost inaudible at first, then slowly rising in pitch and speed. The others in the meanwhile were silent and looked up to the sky with their hands raised to the sky. Initially they did nothing except raise their hands, but when the leader started increasing the pitch while he was chanting they st

I thought it was finally over and I turned to go, but I was wrong. all of them including the leader lit torches from the fire, then they did
Their dance over again, this time holding their torches in their hands, they
did the same sequence except without the clapping but the chanting
increased rapidly, they added a new sequence now, they threw up their torches and caught them again and this continued on for some time. I was held
Spellbound by this, I was frightened & fascinated at the same time but I wasn't leaving until the end.

Suddenly one of the people dropped one of his torches and the person in front of him caught fire. I screamed, and then twenty pairs of eyes turned to the trees behind which I was hiding. I heard one of them say, "I can see her, I can see her, she is behind those trees" and the leader shouted, "three of you stay here with the Monk, the rest catch her".

I was horrified; I ran for my life, I didn't know were I was going, but I still kept running. I could hear the twigs breaking behind me, the leaves rustling, the screaming, and the cursing. Never once did I look back. I was small and I easily tired, I could feel the strength slipping away from
Me. I saw a large, solitary tree ahead of me. God be praised! They hadn't
caught up with me yet, so I climbed up the tree in the twinkling of an eye. I was safe here, high up in the branches. I saw them stop under the tree and one of them said, "she must have climbed up this tree."

I went cold with horror, when another said, "don't be silly, she is a little girl, little girls don't climb trees." "Well then, where is she?"
"I don't know." "Let's go back and tell the boss we lost her." "I'm warning you , he is going to be furious." " I know, but we can't help it." I heaved a sign of relief. I waited for them to go back, every single one of them. In the distance, I heard cars start; I waited for a few more minutes before I jumped down from the tree. I ran all the way to the main road and did not stop till I had reached my home. I closed and bolted my door, I was thankful to be alive ................and I hadn't left till the end, the very end.

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About the Author:
Name: Tangela
Grade: Tenth


Tangela is a sophomore at a High School in Bangalore, South India. She won third prize this summer out of 103 schools that participated in a story-writing contest sponsored by the literary festival in Bangalore, India. She conducts the choreography for Christian music for her school choir and church choir. She loves reading, writing poetry and short stories and wants to be a missionary doctor when she grows up.

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