B for Bandicoot

He had hardly switched off the light when he heard someone knocking at the door. He opened the door but there was no one outside his room.

As he was closing the door, he heard the knock again. Then he heard someone calling in a strange, squeaking voice, “I am here, at the window; please open the window.”

The boy felt slightly scared. But he opened the window. He saw a large rat standing on his hind legs, his front paws were on window-sill.

“A rat!” blurted the boy.

“Don’t insult me. I’m not a rat. I am a bandicoot. I have message from your grandfather.”

“Dadu? Where is he? He vanished….…...”

The bandicoot quickly interrupted him. “I know everything. But he is very happy wherever he is.  He wants you to send him his tooth-brush and glasses.”

“But why doesn’t he come back from wherever he is? I miss him.”

“I don’t know. If you give me the magic wand and tell me the magic word, I could try sending him back.”

The boy took out the magic wand from his school bag and gave it to the bandicoot and said, “The magic word is…...”

“You think I am a fool. It is not a magic wand. It is just an ordinary pencil,” the bandicoot glared at the boy.

“No, it is the magic wand.”

“Prove it.”

The boy touched the bandicoot with the magic wand and said the magic word, “Abracadabra!”

Nothing happened. The bandicoot laughed, “Funny, isn’t?”

There was a knock at the door.

“Don’t open the door,” cried bandicoot. Before the boy could say anything, the bandicoot snatched the magic wand and ran away.

“Stop! Thief!” the boy shouted but the bandicoot had vanished.

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A post for A to Z challenge

Today’s letter B

You may like to read my earlier post   A for Abracadabra