Note: This week’s featured story is from Grade 6 young author Bonnie Xu. Her vivid imagination and love of storytelling inspire Bonnie to put so much effort into her work. Relatively new to Canada, she has struggled with writing foundations such as homophones and verb tense. However, this week she took some big risks writing a mystery that was a bit out of her comfort zone. It turned out a wee bit scary and really fantastic.
The Scariest Trip
By Bonnie Xu
My class went to the famous dark forest for an adventure trip. Mostly, I just wanted to explore new creatures. It didn’t turn out how we imagined it would be.
It was the scariest trip ever—so creepy and mysterious. That day will live forever in everyone’s memory and I shall be the girl who lived.
The night was so silent we could hear our own breath. I stopped and all of the footsteps stopped. It was weird, but I could still see my two best friends in front of me in the distance.
“Amanda and Sarah!” I yelled.
It was no use, they kept on moving.
I was very weary and chose to stay behind to rest for a minute and then catch up to them. I slowly turned my head a little and . . .
“Ahhhhhhhhhh!”
They were no longer my classmates but instead turned into walking skeletons.
“No, no, this can’t be happening,” I thought as I trudged along. “Now what? I have to salvage my two best friends just in case they also turn into skeletons.”
How would I do it? Not in the gloomy night! There was no way to rescue my friends and get out of there. I didn’t even know where they were. At that second, I heard a familiar scream and could see a strange looking house not far from me. Sarah, I realized immediately, was in danger.
I felt like I was running faster than a jaguar, even faster than a rocket. I zoomed past where I was before, sprinting toward the house without blinking. I kicked the wooden, cracked door open with a BOOM!
“Enter will die” was written everywhere on the entrance wall, but I felt brave. I was not scared anymore.
I saw something handing in the middle of the hallway—a bloody head. It made me fall on the floor. I noticed who it was the first second I saw it. I couldn’t stand it anymore. My heart broke and I began to bawl. Poor Amanda.
“Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,” said a creepy voice. I looked to where the sound came from and saw a wicked witch.
“What did you do to Amanda and Sarah, you ugly fool?” I shouted at her, eyes full of tears.
“You don’t address your queen like that. Otherwise, she will also be dead,” commanded the witch.
I turned around trying to figure out who the “she” was. I saw a girl hanging from the roof by a rope. A sparkly, sharp knife was right in front of her neck. I dreaded losing another friend.
“What do you want then?” I asked, confused.
“That! Power!” answered the witch.
“What on Earth are you talking about? My necklace, power? All that I want is my friend and to leave this place right now!” I shouted at the witch.
“Hmmmm. You give me the necklace, I’ll let you go,” she said slowly as if she didn’t care.
I was never going to give her my necklace. My parents gave it to me before they died in a plane crash. The necklace was the only thing I have to remember them.
“Have you decided yet, you fool?” the witch spoke.
“Bonnie, don’t!” Sarah called out.
That just made everything worse.
The sparkly knife poked into Sarah’s throat. Her blood splashed everywhere.
“Noooooo!!!” I roared and turned to the witch. Flames of fury appeared in my eyes.
“You shall be dead!” I shouted, holding my necklace tightly, hoping there was real power. I closed my eyes and concentrated.
“Flash!”
The red lightning came from my necklace. That was the most powerful magic I had ever seen.
And, I survived.
I woke up in my bed two days later. All of that crazy stuff seemed like a dream, but I knew it was not.
