Welcome to our series featuring stories written by students in our Common Room classes. Our course instructors provide feedback at every stage of the writing process, ensuring it’s suitable for their age.
We value and celebrate each child’s unique writing style, ensuring minimal edits to their stories to preserve and showcase their creativity. Here’s a wonderful story written by 9-year-old Advay from Miss Shikha’s class. We’d love to hear your thoughts—do share your appreciation in the comments!
About the Author
Advay Jain, who uses A.Jay as his pen name, lives in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, with his family and grandparents. He loves reading thick books but doesn’t enjoy the thinner ones as much. He is scared of heights and what might be in the dark, but not the dark itself. Advay feels happiest when it’s sunny and pleasant outside, especially when he gets to meet his friends. Playing his favorite video game also makes him happy. He is passionate about drawing and dreams of becoming an artist one day.
Once there lived a boy named KAI, he was 9 years old. But even at 9 KAI was no ordinary boy. He could talk to animals. One day on a school trip to the zoo, he was trying to talk to monkeys for fun. But soon, he realized, he could actually understand what the monkeys were saying, and so could they. KAI was shocked!!! He never knew that he could talk to animals. This changed his life forever.
KAI loved to take a walk in the forest nearby his city. Somehow, he always felt comfortable, and at home when he was in the forest. One day while he was strolling in the forest, and was just following the path for safety, all of a sudden, a BALL of LIGHT came out of nowhere. It was the most MYSTICAL thing he had ever seen in his life! By some strange force, he felt a sudden urge to follow the light. After following it for around 5-10 minutes, he came across a WHITE TEMPLE covered in weeds and reeds. The temple was surrounded by tall white marble pillars, which had smooth, polished surface, and they exuded elegance and timeless beauty. The pillars were adorned by long and intricate mirrors.
When he approached the temple and took a good look at it, he realized that it was an ANCIENT KIWI (a tribe) TEMPLE. He had come across it in his school history book. While he was lost in his thoughts, out of the blue, a giant beam of light appeared out of seemingly nowhere, as if by magic. As the beam came down, it hit the strange but complex mirrors. The light was reflecting off the mirrors, as if it was bouncing on a trampoline, and couldn’t stop. It looked to KAI somewhat like an ancient ritual.
While he was trying to figure out everything, he finally spotted a tiger. But it was not just any tiger!! Its fur was pale as snow, but its stripes were black as ink, its eyes were so enchanting as morning sky, its claws were as sharp as diamonds, and its coat was as soft as clouds. He was the LEGENDARY TORA!!!
Kai had read about it in his school history book. The KIWI Tribe used to worship the GREAT TORA. His thoughts were interrupted by the tiger. TORA said – “You KAI, are the TIGER PRINCE!!!” It also told KAI that, he was its son. But KAI refused to accept the fact. TORA said – “KAI, show me your birthmark!” KAI thought out loud “How does the tiger know that, I, have a birthmark?” And then KAI showed it to the tiger. But when he himself looked at it, his birthmark had changed into the TIGER symbol of the KIWI Tribe. It looked like a tiger, roaring fiercely. Within a flash of a second, TORA also showed KAI the same mark it had on its body, and said – “The Dynasty of Tigers, they all have it.” KAI was astonished and dumbfounded!!! It asked KAI to roar, and so he ROARED. And suddenly KAI TRANSFORMED, he transformed into a tiger. It was the most MAJESTIC sight. “It feels amazing” – KAI blurted out. TORA said – “You can transform anytime you wish to, just like all the members of the Dynasty of Tigers.”
