Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Chapter 4

“So it is true. Shafiq cleverly managed to type out the whole message clearly without them knowing…” Zahira reminded them. “What was the place name again?” Legolas asked. “Urm…Naboo, Tatooine Desert”, Zahira replied, checking the message in her phone. “Where the hell is that?” Legolas asked the rest of the gang. “There are no deserts in Singapore. And definitely no place called Naboo. So it definitely can’t be here…” Nisa said. “Well, then it must be abroad! My god! He expects us to go abroad with Deb to see him by this week? Abroad!” Zahira groaned. “How did he manage to escape abroad when the police are after him?” Vikram asked. “Oh ya…good question Vik. Hmm…I seriously don’t know…” Baihakki apologized. “Come on, there are many who have escaped to another country without getting caught. He could have got onto a ship from the island and escaped…there are many ways” Deborah replied. “Well, no point wasting time. Come over to my house. We can use my computer to find out where this desert is located” Legolas said.


HAHAHAHA!!

“No wonder! It was just 8 km away! All he had to do was, just like Deb said; get a ship…or even run back to Singapore and get a ferry from there before we had even reported to the police about this issue! That would allow him easy access and the police would not have known anything at that point! That means we can definitely reach there in a day!” Vikram cried out in relief. Everyone was relieved. “Our problem is, what do we do now? We can’t just leave. We must make up good excuses to both our parents and teachers. And since we are being spied on, (once again, they glanced around, looking out through the window) if we want to get help, we must approach someone we see often so as not to get them suspicious. They spy us from a far. They can only see where we are going and who we are talking to. But not what we are talking about!” Zahira shouted with glee. With this, everyone felt assured that there is something that can be done.

“Hey, it’s getting late. I think we should go home and have a good rest. So that tomorrow, we can think clearly. Girls, meet us same place, same time” Legolas suggested.

“Hey Vik, can you meet me at the hardware store? I know it’s early in the morning but I need to get some things for my bike. Then you can come over to my house to help me fix it” Baihakki asked Vikram over the phone. Vikram agreed and took his bike to meet Baihakki at the store. Baihakki got off from the bus, with cheers from the passengers in the bus. “Man…this is why I don’t travel in public transport. I attract too much attention” Baihakki groaned, as he and Vikram walked into the hardware store. “Haha…at least it shows that you are a good soccer player. But anyway, it’s been a long time since you played. Why is that?” Vikram asked. “Oh well, after the previous adventure, I called the coach to call me off for a while. But now he’s torturing me to join back. But with this problem…I am just trying to avoid him…” Baihakki replied, as they walked past the beautiful 16inch rims, making their way to the wheels. Vikram continued, “Well, be careful. Make sure you don’t upset him…hey, wheels? What’s wrong with your wheels?” Vikram asked. “Oh, skidded on a slippery road and the wheel plus the plate around it got seriously scratched…thank god nothing happened to me. Don’t tell the others, especially Zahira. They’ll get very upset.” Baihakki replied as he picked his wheel and they made their way to the decorative stickers.

“Ow! Why yoummm” Baihakki got muffled as Vikram placed his hand over his mouth. “Shhh! Look…” Vikram whispered. Both of them, layed on the ground, looked through the small gaps in between the shelves towards ‘camp items’ section. “Isn’t...isn’t that Senthil? Buying ropes? And…man I can’t see…woah…this sticker’s cool” Baihakki whispered and kept it in his hand “Ya…oi! What should we do?” Vikram asked.

Chapter 3

“Speaker speaker!” Legolas whispered in fear, forgetting that she has not answered the phone yet. She put the handphone in speaker mode and placed it on the table. All fell silent.

“Nisa, I know that’s you. And I’m sure you have put your handphone on speaker. Listen up all of you. You’re lucky I have not decided to come back to kill you. You must be having a lot of fun with Mr. Philip. (They looked at each other, wondering how he knew). Where is your beloved friends Faeez and Shafiq?” he asked. Baihakki was about to reply when Vikram stopped him. He signaled the rest to be silent and signaled Nisa to reply. Legolas gave a hint by putting his hand on his forehead. “He’sss…ssick” Nisa stammered, nodding her head at Legolas. “Hmph…don’t try to fool me Nisa. U have put your handphone in speaker mode. Well, whatever. Being caring friends of them, you must have tried to call their handphone and home? Shafiq’s…I believe...” Ghazali sniggered.
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THEM!!!?” Firduas shouted, unable to bear it any longer. Nadera burst into tears. Vikram put his hand around Nadera, calming her down. Zahira and Deborah sat closer together, controlling their fears. Baihakki and Legolas sat next to Zahira and Nisa respectively. “Woah…chill man. Go grab some ice-cream to cool yourself down. I can wait” Ghazali said, laughing. At the background, they were also able to hear Senthil laughing. Deborah grabbed Firdaus and squeezed his hand to calm him down. Legolas suddenly got an idea. He grabbed the phone and pressed the record button. “What is it Firdaus? No reply? You’ve got to thank yourself. If you had died that day, they would not be suffering right now. But you escaped! And you took my Debbie with you! I knew I had to run before the police catch me. While they were too busy finding us and you guys enjoying your holidays, I sneaked into their houses and grabbed them. Too bad, their parents were too persuasive. So I grabbed them too. I was the one who asked Shafiq to sms in that manner…idiotic *******. Managed to sms without us knowing…HEY!”

There was suddenly a lot of commotion. There was the screaming of a lady, a very loud ‘thud’ sound, Senthil screaming and then one final ‘thud!’. All went silent. “You idiot! What the hell were you doing! They almost got away!” Ghazali screamed. In The background, Senthil’s apologetic voice emerged, “I’m sorry. It’s just that girl. She kept winking at me and…distracting me…” he replied…giving a small smile. “Urrgh! Right, all of you! Listen up! I don’t care what you do. Ensure the police or anyone does not know about this. And I want Deborah by the end of this week. I don’t care if it’s school time. Any of these and other funny tricks up your sleeves, and you would see two families’ photos in the newspaper with the title ‘Dead’!”

Toot…toot…The phone was hung up. “Did it get recorded?” Firdaus asked. Nisa checked her phone and said, “Ya…but you heard him. If we tell anyone…” “Come on! We can’t get scared of that! How would he find out anyway?” Firdaus said. “He managed to find out that we are in trouble with Mr. Philip” Nadera replied. “And he knew we are together now…” “Oh my gosh! He has someone to follow the police and us!” Deborah cried out. They started glancing around to see anyone behaving suspiciously. They sat there, unable to say anything else. What are they suppose to do? They dare not got to Mr. Philip. They can’t give Deborah to him either. It would also be difficult to bring Deborah there with a plan to nab them. No police. So how to catch them red-handed? Bring Deborah there and then put up a fight? “It’s 8 of us and only 2 of them…we could hide weapons in our shirts or something…” Vikram suggested. “Vik, this is not the movies. This is real. You don’t even know if it’s only 2 of them in the Desert. How can 2 of them alone kidnap 2 families? They must have some back-up…just like how they have people to spy on us and the police…” Legolas replied intelligently. “Man…what are we going to do? By this week? We can’t skip school! What do we tell our parents and teachers?”…”That’s it Zahira! Teachers! Our parents!” Deborah pointed out excitedly. “No way…they are sure not going to believe us. Even if they did, they are sure to report it to the police. And if it’s true that there’s someone spying on us, they can easily know who we go talk to. Haha…but still, you think our parents and teachers would actually come along and fight with us? Haha…I can imagine the scene…” “Nad…stop joking. This is Deborah’s life!” Firdaus said.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Chapter 2

We are very sorry to call all of you here. But we hope you can co-operate with us” Mr. Philip explained. The gang just stared at him impatiently, unable to believe the situation they are in. “Look, I have already told you. With no evidence, I cannot assume anything. Therefore it’s my job to weigh all possibilities! This, for all of your information, was my final guess” Mr. Philip replied apologetically. “Fine, we will co-operate. But we are telling you once and for all, we did not plan it just to kidnap them and for goodness sake, My Friend Was Kidnapped! They are also not ******** who would poison a friend!...me!” Vikram said, half wanting the urge to pounce on him. Mr. Philip sighed and replied. “Alright, we take that as your statement. Investigations will continue and until we have further evidences to proof all of you right, you all would have to come by the station whenever required, understood? Or it would be taken that you are running away and we may have to bring you here by force.” Mr. Philip warned.

“What the hell! Who does he think he is! Sherlock homes!?” Firdaus shouted in anger. “If he was Sherlock homes, he would have some evidences by now” Nisa replied. “Zahira, you have been silent from just now. What’s the matter? Is it about this problem? Don’t worry alright, it will be fine.” Nadera consoled Zahira. “…I know what I’m saying sounds very bad…but…Shafiq didn’t come to school. The two are missing. He’s our friend. You don’t think…” Zahira gulped, unable to say out the worst. “No way!!” Nadera exclaimed. “Come on, don’t listen to her. Remember when we were planning how to rescue Firdaus during the weekends? Then I said to rescue him on Saturday and come back by Sunday night?” Deborah asked Nadera. She replied, “urm…ya…then Nisa said that it’s impossible to find him by one day because it takes almost a day to get there and a few hours to find him…”. “And Zahira suggested to go to the cave on Saturday and search for the place where Firdaus is, give him food and return on Sunday to rescue him as we would already know where he is” Nisa continued. There was silence for a few seconds. Then Baihakki, “Hey…both are the same!” he exclaimed. “…but we all believed it blindly as we were too confused to realise that she was talking nonsense!” Deborah ended.

“Oh man…and I said it would take about one whole day to get there when it only took about 5 hours…” Nisa said, not able to believe what a big mistake she had done. “And I said that it’s school time…no holidays…but it was true! Holidays were 2 weeks away. We couldn’t wait 2 weeks to rescue him! Our parents were away on holiday in KL so didn’t need to worry about them. But like Nadera said, our teachers? So maybe that’s why I ended up suggesting weekends again…but what are you coming to Deborah? You telling me that Nisa and I talk rots!?” Zahira burst out in rage. “NO! I am saying that in times of panic, we tend to talk nonsense without thinking through carefully. So I am telling to stop jumping to conclusions. Why would they want to kidnap him compared to all the other closer friends we have!” Deborah replied, shouting back. “Like who?” Legolas asked, trying to make them change subjects. Deborah was about to shout again, when she realised…

“See? Our next closest friend is Shafiq! So you don’t think they escaped and kidnapped Shafiq to…well…lure us?” Zahira explained calmly to Deborah. “What about Faeez?” Deborah reminded them. “Oh my god! He didn’t come to school today either!” Nadera cried out in fear. Nisa immediately took her handphone and was about to dial Faeez number when it started ringing. She immediately turned pale and just stared at her handphone. “What are you waiting for? Pick up the phone” Zahira said. Nisa showed the screen of her phone to them. They all came closer to look. It was Ghazali trying to call her.

Chapter 1

From previous book:

Just then, Zahira got a sms. It said, “Help! Help!!! I’ve been captured! They are going to torture me! Come quickly to Naboo, Tatooine Desert”. They all just stared at each other, shocked. It was from their classmate Shafiq. Surprisingly, they started grinning at each other with a cheeky smile. “Why bother?” they said in unison. He was a naughty boy anywhere…..’

Chapter 1

Though they all just sat down together like nothing had happened, the sms was disturbing their minds. “Maybe we should you know…” Nisa said. “…Ya, after all, he’s our friend. We can’t just…leave him” Zahira added on. Then, her handphone vibrated again. “Quick quick! Maybe it’s Shafiq again!” Nadera cried out. It read, “If you got frightened by the message, it means you care for me! Send this to all your friends to see if they care for you”. SHAFIQ!!! They all cried out in anger. “What an idiot! He scared us so much!” Nadera shouted. “Hey Deb, you seem to be the only one who is very calm…and you’re…smiling??!!” Firdaus commented. “I knew it could not have been real. He had the time to type out the whole message…and further more…add 3 exclamation marks after his word ‘help’. Someone who’s been kidnapped, like you for an example, would not have the time to add 3 exclamation marks and repeat the word ‘help’ twice…and etc ”she replied with glee. “That’s my smart girl” commented Firdaus and gave her a peck on her forehead.

The gang had plenty of fun during the holidays, playing games and going out together. But fun never lasts long. School holidays ended quickly and it was time for them to go back to school to study hard for their final year exam. Once the bell rang for end of school, the girls made their way to Tampines Mall to meet up with the guys.

“Ghazali and Senthil didn’t come to school today.” Nisa told Legolas. “Yup, they have been locked up in the Boys Home for good” said Vikram. “But…it’s kinda sad. I mean…the exams are coming…and just for a small matter of love…such a big punishment…” Nadera said. Then Deborah stared at Nadera and said, “Small matter? SMALL? Kidnapping a person and keeping him in a cave to kill him is small??!!. Then Baihakki chuckled and said, “By right, you should be the one to worry. He did all this for you”. Immediately Deborah jumped off her seat and ran to Baihakki and started strangling him. “Why you little…!!!” “Hey Deb! Stop it! He was just joking!” cried Zahira, pushing Deb away. “Woah woah…cool off you two. You can’t get tensed at Ben and Jerry’s. Just sit down and enjoy your ice-cream” Legolas joked. Even Deborah stared laughing. “Hey, but Shafiq didn’t come to school today. He is rarely absent from school…” Nadera informed the guys. “Oh, he didn’t?” Baihakki asked, massaging his neck. “Did you try calling or smsing him?” Vikram suggested. “Ya, we tried both. No reply. We called his home. There was also no reply” Nisa said.

“Hello, Firdaus speaking” replied Firdaus on his handphone. “Firdaus, this is Mr. Philip speaking. The two boys, Ghazali and Senthil, were not found in the cave you mentioned. We are sorry for informing you late because investigations are still going on and we wanted to confirm before informing you. Furthermore, even if we did find them in the cave, unless they admit it themselves, there is no evidence or proof that they are the ones who kidnapped you. It could be assumed that you and your friends planned this to frame them. Things have been made more difficult as they were not found in the caves” he said. “So you think Vikram purposely poisoned himself just to frame a bunch of idiots?!” Firdaus said with anger in his voice. “Firdaus, we are not saying that. But we cannot proof you and your friend’s innocence either. We cannot assume anything. We can explain more in detail if you could come by the Neighbourhood Police Post at Tampines. I am there now with the other officers.

Firdaus hung up his handphone in rage. The rest looked at him, frightened. Firdaus explained the issue to them.

Introduction

Welcome to the next production of 'The Adventure Of 4'; Book 2. In this 2nd book of The Adventure of 4, Tatooine Desert, there will be a new member to help out with the gang. It depends in the end if that memeber would want to carry on hanging out with the group. Or else, it shall remain as The Adventure of 4. I really hope that, since I am doing this by myself, i don't end up repeating all the time and that my story is different. Because compared to the previous book, it was the ideas of 4 different people and so, each chapter had a different way of writing. I raelly need all of your support and you are more than welcome to visit my blog and comment, on my tagboard, of the story and give any suggestions. To my old authors, anytime you wish to create a chapter in the story, or add in your ideas, do tell me. I shall let you do so. (Don't worry, i will mention that is was done by you...haha...).

I have also changed the template...don't make it same like the previous one la...make it different.

Okay everyone, enjoy the story! :)