The Oshlay Origined

Yet another bright day at the Oshlay University, where every rising sun feels like the rising knowledge and intelligence of its students, none of who sulk even on Mondays. Each person looks forward to bringing about change in society, helping the needy, and spreading love, peace, and harmony in the world through their education.

A few students assembled in the chemistry lab of the university with Professor Kinton, a middle-aged science expert, scientist, and successful teacher who believes in the power of knowledge. He was a tall man with black eyes and sparkling teeth. His head would always be risen with self-confidence. The students were considered the eight most intelligent ones, as their results would end up in straight As each time and their skills were fascinating.

They were all trying to build a friendly being using science. “This will assist us to fulfill our dream of helping society reform and live in harmony. It will make lives easier as it would help people from daily chores to challenging tasks. It will also give them a very friendly company and be their trustable.” said Professor Kinton.

They had been working on it for the past two years but every time they had encountered a sour result. Finally, for the first time in a long time, they saw a ray of hope. They had created a little something that was alive but had no definite shape, nor could it talk. It was kept away under special conditions in a room at the university, that no one else knew about.

Professor Trevor was Kinton’s rival. A man with hefty shoulders and a bold voice but a short temper. He would always engage himself in some argument with him and they would take forever to calm down. All the students really liked Prof. Kinton since he did not teach just for the sake of the job or salary, but to build capable future minds. Trevor got really jealous of him seeing the students’ behavior. A cleaner, Joe at the university was Trevor’s special reporter. He would give him bulletins about Kinton’s actions for the exchange of some money; what he did, and where he went… all of which he noticed while cleaning the corridors.

He had once heard about what Kinton and his group of eight students were secretly up to when two of them were discussing it unnoticed, in the school canteen. They would have never thought that a cleaner could be trouble for them. Trevor definitely had to do something to alter their creation.

"I think you should just go and destroy whatever they've made.", said Joe.

"No!", shouted Trevor. "Rather than destroying it whole, we should do something that would make it a trouble maker. That's how Kinton's name will be ruined out of reputation.", he said with a negative smile.

At around midnight Trevor went to the secret room, Joe had found out about and did things he shouldn't have done. There rose a monster, a fire-breathing monster one couldn't underestimate because of the size. It seemed small but was capable of great destruction. As it screamed and breathed fire from the burner beside it, Trevor laughed thinking about what would happen to Kinton and his students. But before that, he should have thought of what would happen to him. The monster could also blow out fire from his mouth. Trevor became his first victim. Within a second he was burnt to ashes. It was dawn. But the monster did not go out of the room. With his powers, he could become as small as a ball and as tall as a giant. With a burner in his pseudo hand, he sat down on the floor waiting for activity.

After a few hours, two of the eight students entered the room, and before they could even blink the monster took a huge shape and screamed. The two then ran away from the door and bumped into some other students of the group. They all fell down. The two were saying, "Mons...monsterrr..!" They couldn't even speak properly due to the horrific site they had seen. The others lay confused. Kinton arrived the next moment. "What are you guys doing sleeping on the floor?" "Sir..sir there is a very big monster in the room" "What! Nonsense! Come on get up now."

Then the monster came out of the room in his false feet changing shapes at every moment in his slimy body. He blew out some fire to which they all responded with great leaps shouting loudly. The monster ran up and down the staircase of the building blowing out fire from his mouth. The university was filled with horror and terror. All classes were emptied. Crowds of stupefied students were standing in the field under the burning sun. The monster then shouted. Huge balls of fire blew out with every cry. The students and teachers assembled in the field and were trembling when they saw the monster howling and growling at the terrace, so huge that one could see from a distance. Since the university was on top of a hill there was no one else other than those, part of the university. The staff, the teachers, the students, everyone was on the ground and the building was on fire. The fire brigade was called but till they arrived the fire extinguishers were the last straw. The building was in bits and pieces above which the monster stood.

Even in such chaos, Prof. Kinton found out away. "The monster needs to breathe. It needs to breathe fire to live. We need to stop the fire fast. Then the brigade arrived. It got into action under Kinton's supervision and the destroyed building was left with no fire. Till then only Kinton and his eight students were left on the hill. Others had been asked to leave earlier. The fire brigade put water with such great force on the burner that is not only extinguished but fell down from the pseudo hand and broke into pieces. The monster grew angry. It was going to attack with fire but now it was time to breathe. But the burner was gone and there was no fire around. It was growing breathless. The group of students and Kinton held hands and prayed for it to die.

Then the monster saw a huge ball of fire, the afternoon sun. Looks like the brain wasn't that ready. It did not know the distance it had to travel. Moreover, it wasn't capable of traveling that distance in such a short time. Putting huge force on the Earth it jumped towards the sun and soon reached space. But it still had a long way to go. Till the time it could reach the sun, it died of breathlessness in the universe. Meanwhile, Kinton and the eight students were honored by the government for having saved the huge crowd from ‘The Oshlay origined’.