The Moon Shadow Crystal Ball By Gaayathri A Balikere

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The Development and production of this book was supported by Institute of Experiential Learning, Bangalore, India. Printed at Bangalore April 2012

Chapter 1: The Special Child This is the story of a girl who was a moon princess and how she defeated her cruel sister and got back the shadow crystal balls powers. In the kingdom of Moon, queen Topaz had seven daughters. Among those seven daughters there was a very special child called Pearl. Pearl had beautiful long golden hair, sparkling eyes and a moon birthmark. Chapter 2: The Murder One day the queen announced, The time has come for the shadow crystal ball to select the new queen amongst my seven daughters. On hearing this, the seven sisters started quarrelling amongst themselves in their room. Every one claimed they were the new queen of moon kingdom. But Ruby the eldest sister could see the future and she was sure that she being the eldest would be the queen, but when she saw the future she was very angry. She saw that when she would hold the shadow crystal ball it would not shine brightly but when her youngest sister Pearl holds the ball it will shine like how the sun shines in seven days. So, she made a plan of killing all her sisters and ruling the kingdom. The night before the ceremony she used a magical potion that killed all her sisters. But her friend Diamond saved Pearl. Diamond had asked guards to spy on Ruby, as she knew her from childhood. Diamond asked Pearl to go down to Earth planet and reborn. She agreed to do so as she had no idea why. Chapter 3: Its A Baby Girl!! On Earth, Pearl was reborn as a baby girl of Jenifer Johns. She was different from all the other babies. Years passed by and there was a lot of trouble on the moon. Ruby overthrew her mother and ruled the kingdom with lot of selfishness, greed and dishonesty. She never treated her people (subjects) properly. She was cruel and very mean. She absorbed all the power of the shadow crystal ball and became very, very powerful. On Earth, Pearl was living with peace and harmony, she was very intelligent and brave too. She had many friends and was loved by all. But at times she felt very strange, because on the full moon night her birthmark glowed very much.

Chapter 4: The Dream Many years passed and now Pearl was so beautiful that all the people loved the angle. She was the apple of every ones eye. On the Moon, Ruby came to know that Pearl was still alive, so she sent a few soldiers to catch her and bring her back on moon. But Diamonds spy was still there. He told Diamond everything and to protect her best friend she sent her charms in action. When Pearl was 25 Diamond came in her dreams and said You are the lost princess. You need to get back your throne. Chapter 5: Come Back Moon Princess!! On the next full moon night, Diamond came down to earth and asked Pearl to go back with her. But she refused to go; so then Diamond showed her the past story of what happened when she was the moon princess. Then she believed her and went to her mother Jenifer. When her mother heard this she was in tears. She didnt let Pearl go. Then Pearl gave her a string of her hair and told her mother to tie it on her arm and she will get a baby that looked just like pearl. Then Pearl and Diamond waving good-bye to Jenifer went into the sky. Chapter 6: Supreme Shadow Crystal Ball After reaching Diamonds house that was now on one of the stars she told everything her sister Ruby did. After hearing this Pearl was so furious that she wanted to punish her sister there and then. But Diamond said, Ruby can only be defeated on the day of the eclipse and she can be defeated by the supreme shadow crystal ball which was buried deep in the moon gardens. It could only be removed when the Majestic Maidens wand is removed from the crack.

Chapter 7: Shine Oh Ball Shine They traveled on their horses for many days and reached there safely. They saw the wand and Pearl pulled it out and the supreme shadow crystal ball came out and glowed very brightly. Pearl fixed the ball to the wand and set back to their house. But there was trouble on their way back home. Rubys soldiers were on their way back to the Moon. What if they tell that Pearl was not on earth so they fought with them and won? Chapter 8: The Eclipse On the first day of eclipse they made a plan to attack Ruby. They created soldiers and many war animals. They quietly sneaked into Rubys territory. In the castle, Ruby was celebrating as that was the day she was crowned as the queen. But then she saw the future that Pearl was still alive and she was going to attack. So, then Ruby stopped the celebration and prepared to attack. But it was too late . Pearl and her army attacked the castle. Chapter 9: The Battle A fierce battle took place between the armies. All the soldiers were fighting in the moon carters whereas Pearl and Ruby were fighting in thin air. Pearl waved her majestic maiden wand and formed a Pegasus. Ruby waved her devil wand and created a dragon. They kept on shooting magical stars at each other. They kept on getting hurt on and on. It took 100 days for the battle to finish. Many soldiers were wounded and killed in the battle. On the hundredth day of the battle Pearl had an idea. She mixed up her pet unicorn with all other magical creatures along with her Pegasus and formed a really pretty animal. The animal could do almost everything. She named it as Crystal. When Pearl set out for battle. Ruby was amazed to see her sisters charm. She was very jealous , so created a nasty creature and named it Jade. They started their battle but slowly Pearl was losing the battle. So she immerged into her charm

and fought with Ruby. Finally, Pearl won the battle. She sucked all the powers of the old shadow crystal ball from Ruby. Chapter 10: Back from the Dead Pearl and Diamond went to the prison and freed her mother Topaz. She imprisoned Ruby and was crowned as the queen. Many years passed by and Pearl was living happily, but she was missing all her sisters. So she ordered to bring their coffins and some stardust. Then she added little magical potion to the waterfall and added the stardust. When the coffins of her 5 dead were brought she ordered the soldiers to keep their bodies in the waterfall. Then she held the shadow crystal ball and chanted these magical words. Oh! Shadows and spirits of the crystal ball please come out and do your job. Please give me back my sisters and I shall build the castle for you all . The shadow crystal ball shined very brightly and shot a magical charm into the waterfall. And there came out one by one Pearls 5 sisters with so much of joy. Pearl got her sisters back and Topaz got her daughters back. Thanks to the shadow crystal ball.

Hi! Guys Im Gaayathri, I am one of the famous authors. Just Kidding. I study in Vidya Niketan School. I am 12 turning 13! I love reading books. I felt very strange coming to this course. But now I feel so happy. So, I hope you enjoy this book. Bye!

Gaayathri A Balikere wrote this book as part of the Creative Writing and Publishing Learning Lab facilitated by Institute of Experiential Learning.

There is trouble on the moon! The queen, Topaz has been overthrown by her eldest daughter Ruby. Ruby has killed all her five sisters except one. Pearl, the seventh daughter was suppose to be queen but now her evil sister took over.

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