Chapter 6 :: Mysterious Tales of Modern Dubai :: The Ring From The Dark Sand Dune

Chapter 6

The Ring From The Dark Sand Dune

"So finally did all the treasure that was lost with Savannah came back?" asked Lily.

"I thought the same in the beginning. I thought that oil was the entire treasure. And with the oil, the ring will be found soon and this will bring an end to my long journey. But No, the story didn't end there. Oil was just a small percentage of the treasure. The real treasure was and is still lost. It is such a big treasure that can keep Dubai rich for many centuries."

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"So where is that treasure?" asked Lily

"But I am hopeful this time that it will be found very soon." replied happy Dijinn.

"And why do you say that?" asked Lily

"Because, the ring is finally found" replied Dijinn.

"What! Really!" said Lily. She became so excited on hearing this. "Why didn't you tell this to me before. But you said there was no ring in the oil. So how was it found?"

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"When I lost all my hopes of freedom, I started cursing the ancestors and their gods. I started cursing Sultah for trapping me in this statue" said Dijinn.

"Shouldn't you be happy about it? You were just a lifeless statue before, Sultah gave you life. And isn't it a blessing that you don't die or grow old?" asked Lily

Dijinn became sad on hearing the questions from Lily. After a big pause he broke the silence and replied "Lily, I was happy in the beginning. But my happiness didn't last long when I realized that I couldn't leave this desert. No life ever came to this land for the more than 80 percent of my life. I was built to protect treasure, but I never saw the treasure. I did not know the purpose of my life. And I was tired of waiting"

"Sorry if I hurt you." said Lily

Dijinn continued his story "When I was cursing Sultah, at my worst times, magic happened."

"M-a-g-i-c" said amazed Lily.

"I was in the desert that time. And I saw small snake coming out of the sand. It was followed by another one. And soon, one after the other many tiny snakes came out of the same spot. I was surprised tiny those snakes were and how they came out from the same spot. They came out of one spot and scattered in all the directions, forming a big oval around me.They went back inside the sand at the circumference of the oval. I kept looking at the site in silence, but could not understand anything.

After when all snakes were gone, I started feeling a pull on my head from the spot where snakes had come out. I started getting pulled by the ground. It was strong pull. I pulled myself back, but the force from he ground was much stronger than mine. My face touched the ground and soon my whole head started to go inside the ground. I thought I made ancestors really unhappy and this is the end of my life

I was upset because my life didn't achieve what it was meant for.

After sometime the pull stopped and I was lying there with my head under the sand. I felt that this pull was exactly like what I had felt 3900 years ago, when I lost my ring. I took out my head immediately from the ground in happiness thinking that this is the signal from ancestors. Ring is finally calling me.

I started approaching the hole on the ground from where snakes came out, to dig it further, but as soon as I approached, the suction started again, I moved few steps back. I thought of trying yet again. This time, when I moved my foot and tried to move forward, the suction started again and I moved further back. I was out of the oval that was created by the snakes.

I thought of trying once again and the moment I went inside the oval, suction started to pull me again. I withdrew myself and stepped back behind the oval. After that, I tried various times entering the oval, but failed due to suction. I couldn't go inside but I knew there was something under that spot. And it needed to be dugged.

I created a sand storm and blew a strong wind over the spot to remove the sand, but nothing happened to the sand inside the oval. It stayed where it was. All my attempts failed to uncover the secret underneath the ground. So I decided to attract the human attention to the spot.

But no human ever passed that spot.

Then one day I noticed the helicopter of the king flying over the spot and thought of getting his attention to the spot. So I made the sand of the spot darker than the remaining sand, making the spot easily visible from the helicopter.

Destiny helped me and my plan worked. The king noticed the dark sand dune from his helicopter and soon sent his team of trusted men to the spot to dig out the secrets hidden under the ground.

I was so happy. I started to wait for the ring as the sand to give back the treasure. Beautiful artifacts one after the other were dugged out of the ground. I was stunned to see that every artifact had snake engraved on it. These were the snakes that came out of the hand of Sharr when he wore the ring. Snakes had run towards the treasure and had gone under the ground along with the treasure. Snakes became permanent on the treasure to remind the destruction of Savannah due to greed.

Not much has been recovered so far. Only about 12,000 items, which is like a drop of the ocean. The low valued items have been kept for public display at the Saruq Al Hadid Museum. All the high valued treasure that was recovered is safety hidden at a secret place built 3 storeys under the palace of the king.

But to much of my interest, they dugged out what I had been looking for, for centuries - The Gold Ring with 20 heads on the inside and outside.



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