A normal rainy evening in Mumbai, Krishna was on his way back from office with two of his colleagues. Stuck in traffic thrice within a stretch of 5 km.
“Romantic! My ass, rains in Mumbai are bloody pain” Krishna in frustration.“ This city is never ready for monsoon… don’t know why the hell I pay so much money on taxes” colleague adds. “ hey by the way Krishna, u are off to Hong Kong, Disney-land next week for a vacation right!”
“ Its not happening this time mate, project meeting is scheduled for next week. I don’t want to give another chance to that ass licker Sharma for scoring brownie points.”
“ Oh man! You are going to have an epic at home” another colleague teases…
“ Not really! My wife understands, son will be disappointed but he will be ok within couple of days” Krishna replies.
Conversation interrupts as traffic moves by few centimeters till it halts again. Krishna on a driving seat looks out of the car window… A stray dog standing on a side staring right into his eyes, moment freezes for few seconds and every sound around mutes down… it was just that dog and Krishna as if they are going to start a conversation… Then sudden honking “ Krishna move, where are u lost!” colleague blurts out… The car finally moves…
Dinner table at home-
“You always do this, last year you did the same… Just say we will never go!” Kshitij, Krishna’s 8 year old son shouts in disappointment.
“Kshitij, I am sorry, I promise we will go next year”
“ You promised if I came first in my class we will go to Disneyland, you never keep your promise”
“ behave yourself” scolds Krishna
Vidhi, Krishna’s wife interrupts and takes Kshitij to another room.
After dinner Krishna was in his bedroom reading as his daily ritual before going to bed when Viddhi arrives.
“has he slept” he asks
“ Yes finally after crying for almost an hour” she replys
“Are you too angry with me?”
“Honestly, a bit”
“come on, you know whatever I am doing is for you and Kshitij”
“I don’t think so Krishna”
“What do you mean”
“You are doing all this for that ass licker Sharma” Vidhi in a loud voice.
She switches off her side of lights and sleeps as he looks on in surprise.
It didn’t go as smooth as Krishna expected it to be, but he thought it will all be fine in few days… With many thoughts of work he falls asleep…
“Ah.. Switch off those lights” he shouts… no one answers, as he slowly opens his eyes and finds sun directly shining at him… “Holy shit” he cries as he wakes up. It was some strange jungle place with just trees around.
“ Ww...where am I, Honey Vidhi you cant be doing this to me just for a vacation” only thing he could think of.
"Wassup dude!" Havey voice from the back, shocks only to see the same dog he saw last night on road. “Who is it” Krishna shouts,
“Its me Mr. Bravo, don’t you know me… we just met yesterday!” same voice from the dog.
“WWHAT?”
“Listen I’ve had enough this morning… who is it hiding there” Krishna in frustration.
“Why are you searching for something that doesn’t exist and believe in something right before your eyes?” Dog says.
Krishna now terribly spooked just runs…as fast as he can. Only finds that he is lost… he sits and starts crying in frustration.
Dog appears again… Krishna gets up “ No no no don’t come close to me… who are you? Wwwhat do you want?”
“ I told you my name is Bravo, don’t be scared of me of all the things here… I am here to help.” says the dog.
“This cant be true, Dog… I mean dog? How can u talk and where am I? what is this place? Why am I here?” Says Krishna
“Relax! And take a deep breath… You are going to thank that this happened to you all your life.” says Bravo
“Last night, Kshitij was so disappointed that he prayed god to make you so rich that you don’t have to go to office again, so you are being sent here.”
Krishna in surprise “ All this… God! Where is God? Are you the God? How he listened to my son when he never listened to me?”
Mr. Bravo says “No, I am not God, and god listens to these young people with innocent and pure heart. Now you can go on asking questions and I will go on replying, or lets get to the point.”
“Ok” Krishna relaxed for the first time this morning.
“This place is called Treasure land. You can win lots of treasure here but as anywhere you will have to compete for it. Let me show you”
Mr. Bravo takes Krishna to a cliff, which showed a magnificent sight of flying cars. Krishna couldn’t believe his eyes as he felt he was living his sons story book. The sight was grand, scenic and organized. There were mountains, huge trees and fresh air.
“This, Krishna is a treasure land and you will have to win this race to get that.” the dog pointed.
“Freakin crazy!” Krishna shouted. Those were pots filled with gold coins.
“Do you know how much is that worth on earth, I mean our land?”
“Well, thats for you to evaluate”- Mr. Bravo replied.
“I am ready to race, But I don’t know how to fly these things.” Krishna said.
“You know, You drive it everyday” bravo said.
They went and filled the contestant form and soon Krishna’s number was announced.
It was Krishna‘s own car, white color i20…“wow, now that’s unbelievable”
Krishna and Mr. Bravo both sat in the car, Krishna on the driving seat.
“You sure this will fly” Krishna while starting the car.
Bravo just nodded.
As he started, car just jumped from ground and took its position among the racing lanes around 200 mts above the ground.
“ Don’t you want to meet your fellow contestant” Bravo asked.
“Well no, I am coooooll… Holy crap!!” Krishna shouts as he sees towards his right.
It was Krishna’s old rival that ass licker Sharma! And as expected blood ran on to his face.
“What’s he doing here?? His son prayed the same for him?” race signals to start as he turns towards bravo for an answer.
Without bothering too much, Krishna starts his race. Starts with a jerk but soon settles down. Now with all his focus and energy drives on with a single motive to win the race from that ass licker Sharma.
He had to save himself from giant rocks flying around, go through giant tree tunnels which were thankfully well lit. And then he realized his fuel got over, as per Mr. Bravo’s advise he waited at a pit-stop close by for refueling. Finally came that usual moment when it was just the hero(Krishna) and Villain(Sharma) racing for victory, way ahead of everyone else. Krishna just by few millimeter WON THE RACE!!!!!
Krishna had beaten that old rival Ass-licker Sharma:-D
Victorious Krishna accepted pot filled with gold coins. “So now Krishna since you have won, you would like to go back home to your family.” Bravo asks.
“Of course my dear friend Mr. Bravo” Krishna all thrilled. Then he notices “ hey wait a second where is Sharma going”
“How does that matter to you, u won and now you leave” Says Bravo.
“No no no Mr. Bravo, tell me where is he going, I want to know”
“ He is going for another treasure hunt, since he lost.” Bravo
“Really where, what treasure hunt? I want to know” Krishna said.
“well ok, lets see where is he going Krishna”
They follow him and find out that he is going for a tree climbing competition. These tree’s are no ordinary ones, they are huge and have fruits of gold and silver. Each contestant has to climb and go on plucking these fruits. Each time they pluck, the fruit would disappear and will automatically land on to the respective bags allotted.
“wow! it’s a great stuff, just like a video games. Fruits of gold and silver… this is crazy!!! Hey Mr. Bravo, I am liking this place and want to stay here for some more time. Can we please fill contestant form for this one”
Bravo gave a look as if he expected this…
“Ohk” Mr. Bravo sighed.
Krishna’s turn arrives, this time again he is competing with Sharma and others. Climbing starts, Krishna hurries this time too. With full focus and strength he starts climbing and plucking the fruits. He was carefully trying to grab more of gold fruits than silver ones, material value u see! They finally reaches the end, however with much of Krishna’s disappointment Sharma wins this time!
“No no no, this cant happen. Now who’s ass did he lick this time” gutted Krishna
“C’mon, you have to accept defeat some times Krishna. You cant win all the time. Any ways guess you have plucked enough fruits to be really wealthy, now I think you must return to your family.” adds Mr. Bravo.
“ No Mr. Bravo, not yet. I can take this defeat so easily. And look that Sharma is moving for another treasure hunt, we must follow him.”
“But Krishna”
“I have decided Mr. Bravo” adds Krishna even before bravo could finish.
Next treasure hunt was running, just racing by foot. You just had to run till you finish.
Winner would be awarded this time….it was a surprise!
The race starts, Krishna totally humiliated with last defeat was totally determined to win over Sharma. The race starts, this time Krishna feeling a bit tiered. He again puts all his force and starts racing towards the victory and Mr. Bravo racing with him.
All of sudden Krishna starts feeling really tiered, his legs starts aching, “You still have an option of quitting and leaving for home Krishna” says Bravo. “No” Krishna shouts.
He keeps running… further ahead he starts going out of breath, feeling totally drained as he looks down and sees his thin legs had developed wrinkles.
“What’s happening to me” Krishna asks.
“You are getting old Krishna” Bravo tells him.
“what!” Krishna collapses.
“This cant happen, I cant get old so soon”
“Life is short, don’t you watch movies?” says Mr.Bravo
“No, where is my wife? I want her here”
As turns to his left he sees a wrinkled old women lying besides her.
“Its me honey, Vidhi” old women says.
“No” Krishna shouts “ You cant be her, my wife is beautiful. Where my son, where is Kshitij? We need to go to Disneyland”
“Time doesn’t wait for anyone Krishna, and it changes everything. You have got old and so is your wife. Your son is a young man now and has moved out. He would be planning his vacation with his own family now.”- Mr. Bravo says.
“I don’t like you dude, I don’t want your treasure… keep it, keep it and give me my life back. I want my beautiful wife, my son back. I want that age back. Please, please! I want it all back.”
“What do you want back” a voice
Krishna gets a jurk, and sees his young beautiful wife in front of him.
“what do you want back?” she asks
Krishna gets up rushes in front of a mirror… “I am back” he shouts
“Where did u go?” Vidhi says
Krishna runs towards her and hugs her. Then he looks at her and says “Honey you are beautiful”
Vidhi with a strange look, “what have I said something wrong” he asks
“No, but its been quiet a while since you’ve said that” she replies
“ Tell Kshitij we are off to Hong Kong next week” he says
“Really? What about that meeting and what about Sharma” she asks.
Krishna smiles with contentment, feeling really thankful for what he has for the first time.
“Let him have his treasures darling, I am cherishing mine” He smiles and kisses his wife.
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