DBE56848-4A58-4118-9AFE-76263B2BEE9C 2020-12-11 12_57_06

The Magic
Robbery

It is Christmas night 2020, the night in which magic
happens. And that is something the thief Rob Bery
experienced. He lived in London and left for work.
His wife Maria Bery said: ‘Why always, always you
have to work at night.’ ‘Can’t we spend one single
time a Christmas night together?’ Rob responded:
‘No Maria, at Christmas night there are less guards
around, bye.’ ‘Bye….’ Maria responded.

Rob silently walked past the National Gallery.
A beautiful building he thought. This would
be a building with much expensive things in
it. And all the guards were away because of
Christmas! He went in by breaking the door.
Nobody heard him!

He went in and saw beautiful paintings. But he
walked trough. He first needed to see where the
alarm was. He saw where the alarm was and
avoided. He walked through the museum and took
some small paintings which looked expensive. But
he wanted to take 1 big painting.

He walked through the museum to find a
beautiful, expensive, big painting. And there it
was! He walked around the corner and saw a
beautiful painting. Rob had never seen a
painting like this beautiful. He walked to it and
saw that it was called the Death of Actaeon. He
definitely had to take this painting!

But when he started thinking how he would take it,
a Christmas miracle happened. First he did not
hear it, but the second time he did hear it. A scream
from the painting. He listened better and he heard
they were talking a language he did recognise. It
was old Greek! He came closer to the painting and
touched it. Because of this something magical
happened.

He was blown away to the ground. But now the
people screaming were louder. It looked like they
were in the museum! He stood up and watched to
the painting. There was something missing! At that
moment he saw something move on the corner of
his left eye. He moved his head and he saw the girl
from the painting running towards him with her bow
in her hand. He stepped away just in time so the girl
won’t walk over him. But then he heard another
noise and he turned his head. There, on the right
side was Actaeon with the dogs. He was in the middle
of fight between the girl and Actaeon!

He was standing still for a minute when he
realised what happened. He should stop
them before they would demolish the whole
museum! Or worse cause that he will go to
jail! He followed the noise and then he found
them. The girl pointed her bow towards
Actaeon to shoot him. ‘Stop!’ Rob Said, ‘don’t
kill him!’ The girl was distracted because of
Rob and Actaeon escaped. But he fell over a
cable. A cable of the alarm!

The girl and Actaeon ran back to the painting. And
Rob was alone again. He ran to the exit but the
door was closed. He was fully in panic. He ran back
to the entrance but he realised that the police
would go in via the entrance. He could go
nowhere. He waited inside until the police came.
‘Where are you?’ someone screamed. Rob kept
quiet. ‘Where are you?’ someone screamed again.
‘He is closer,’ Rob thought. ‘What are you doing
here?’ asked the police officer. ‘I walked in here to
watch the paintings,’ Rob responded. The police
officer asked: ‘who are you?’ ‘I am Rob Bery,’ Rob
responded. ‘It’s Rob Bery!’ the police officer
screamed. The police officer asked: ‘What
happened?’ ‘I was here and the Death of Actaeon
came alive,’ responded Rob. ‘The death of what?’
the police officer asked. Rob responded: ‘The
Death of Actaeon this painting!’ He tried to explain
it to everyone, but of course nobody believed him.

He was put in jail directly. The police called
Maria Bery and she was angry. ‘How could
you do this! I wanted to spent this Christmas
together with you! But now you are in Jail!
Again!’ Maria screamed. She also did not
believe him. When Rob got his own cell he
asked for one thing. A picture of the Death
of Actaeon.