Witch Crystal (Witches of Zrotaz Book 1)
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I have had the great privilege of working with a group of enthusiastic 9 year olds from my hometown.
They entered a competition of Best Fantasy story, with one winner, and two runner-ups. Here are their stories!
WINNING STORY
HAUNTED
BY DARIS
The wolves were howling and the trees were twisting and twirling with strong winds. Due to bad weather, we lost our way in the forest. Across the mist, we saw an abandoned mansion covered in entangled vines. We were extremely exhausted and required a place to rest for a while.
The mansion looked very spooky nethertheless and we cautiously entered the mansion unaware of the hidden dangers. The roof was covered in cobwebs and fungi. The stairway seemed to spiral up leading to nowhere. All of a sudden, the door shut behind us. We were trapped inside with no way out. The wall had a sign that read every 15 minutes one person dies. Everyone froze with fear. Five minutes had already passed.
Another ten minutes was left for the mansion to claim its first victim. Meanwhile my friend and I explored the place to find our way out of the mansion. The mansion appeared bigger than expected. We began to fear for our lives.
There had been rumours that the mansion was previously used as a mental asylum. The mental asylum was closed down when the inmates were massacred by one of the staff. It is since then converted into a mansion, but it has been said that whoever entered the mansion died in a mysterious way.
The mansion has been abandoned for a very long time. As we were pondering over the history of the mansion, the lights went off for a brief second and there was a loud menacing scream. The mansion had claimed its first victim. We had to get out of the mansion before it claimed its next victim. As we were exploring, we came upon a map framed on the wall. The map was a blue print of the mansion, which showed all the exit points which we explored except the one in the basement. Without wasting any time, we all headed to the basement, as we had little time before we lost another member.
There were many obstacles in our way and our journey was no way easy to the basement. At this moment, the map was the most valuable piece of information. According to it, the map was beneath the library.
The library was on the other side of the mansion and it looked like a never ending journey towards the library. We had to pass through the corridors that never seemed to end. Time was running out, it appeared as though the corridor was expanding. It took ten minutes to reach the library.
I recalled when we entered the house; there was a door that led to the basement. It was certainly a quick way but it appeared a bit risky, which had to be taken in order to get out of the mansion. The doorway led to the kitchen, which then led to the basement where we could escape. Having everything planned, we set off down the passageway which I found.
When we checked the map, we noticed it started to change as we went through the passageway. I wasn’t surprised. As we were walking we saw a trapdoor and heard a ring. Our fifteen minutes were over. Even before we realised it, we heard someone fall through the trapdoor.
We all shivered in shock. We had to reach the library as quick as possible. We ran as fast as we could, avoiding all the hidden traps. Later on, we noticed the library was on top of us, so we had to be in the basement. We searched around the place and saw a door. We went towards it cautiously and opened it. There was only ten more seconds until the mansion had its final victim. We all ran up the stairs, and saw daylight. We ran in relief. We were never going near that mansion ever again! THE END
RUNNER – UP
THE CROCOPISH CREW AND THE MISSION TO MARZIPAN
BY RIO AND JAYDEN
The Crocopish crew were a top space crew who were sent from Marzipan to study space. They had been to different planets such as Jupiter, Leiner, and Pluto! They had never been to planet Earth. One day, they went there but they weren’t not supposed to!
It was just an ordinary day, they had work every Tuesday, and they were just normal astronauts. Everyone on their home planet thought it was brilliant to be an astronaut but the Crocopish crew hated their job. They were very famous in their home planet, Marzipan. Everybody knew who they were but everyone laughed at their names. In the crew, there were five members: Wrecking Dave, Crocopish, S.N.O.G, Dr. Porkchopper and Bob Nuggets.
When a Tuesday came, they would get their space suit on and drive to the space launch pad, ready for their next mission.
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It was Tuesday. They all woke up and immediately went to the space centre, ready for their next mission into space. Their mission was to collect the magic potion from Mars. The Crocopish crew collected potions and magic from each planet in space, they only had one last planet to visit from Mars and Neptune.
They all had arrived at the space centre, just ready to get into the spaceship and they had all their potions and equipment ready for space. In the spaceship, there wasn’t much, only a long row of cabinets and seats with a control panel.
On the planet Marzipan, the Crocopish crew are human sized but when they are not on Marzipan, they have to shrink themselves so they cannot be discovered and seen. They keep themselves and their planets very secret.
* *
When they were all in the Hammerhead spaceship, Bob Nuggets made sure that all the potions were stacked and had all of their lids on because if the potions spilled, it would shrink the spaceship! They had to keep a gravity potion on them so they could exit the ship in space.
The ship went off. S.N.O.G had started it, while Dr. Porkchopper got the gas going. The spaceship went off but there was a massive bang! Crocopish and S.N.O.G saw the shrinking potion break and all the potion poured on them, shrinking them and the ship. The air turned blue and green. They were heading to Earth!
* *
There they were, stranded on Earth, with no spaceship and no source of flight. The Crocopish crew got up from some old, rusty pile of wood – it was a fireplace! They were lucky they hadn’t landed in fire! They slowly realised that they were in a house. In there home planet Marzipan, they had the houses but there were only like rooms. Here, it was like a palace! They were the same size as a small cup but without the potion, they were like a human size. The crew explored the living room by looking under the stairs and cabinets. There was an old tree in the house, an old Christmas tree decorated with lights. They were looking at it, amazed.
But suddenly, a human came into the room. The Crocopish crew dived under the sofa, and waited until she left. Wrecking Dave noticed something in the other room. It was a toy rocket. All they had to do was to get it with some magic.
* *
Now the Crocopish crew had a plan, they would get the rocket and use their gravity potion and they can float as high as it wanted. They could use a different object but a rocket size was perfect!
All members of the crew had a spare potion but Dr Porkchopper always had two, so he could give the rocket more gravity.
They did it! They stole the rocket and dragged it outside into a bush and then everybody got on it. They were going up in space. Hopefully, nobody saw them.
* *
The toy rocket floated higher and higher until it reached Space. All they had to do was tilt it. The gravity potion will always reach up to Space as there is no gravity, so it will float and won’t get any higher. But now, how do they go down? How would they go down when there is no gravity?
The crew all had a spare potion – water. The water would stop the current potion. If they drank the water, the gravity potion would be gone! So the crew drank the water potion, and they fell to Marzipan. Wrecking Dave got his rope ready to swing to safety. Yes, wrecking Dave did have a rope, after all his whale body was attached to a rope.
He swung his rope like a construction truck, his rope clipped to a sign, safe and sound and they got down on land. Mission accomplished but failed after all as they were supposed to go to Mars, but they were back on
Marzipan...safe and sound.
THE END
RUNNER – UP
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bsp; THE HOLY GRAIL
BY MOHAMMAD AND ROHAN
My name is Leo. I am from London, England. In the forest, I found my magical best bud, Spike, a miniature dragon who can fly at 105mph. His neon blue fire can light up a whole city of darkness. My pet horse, who I love with all my might, has steel claws which can climb anything. Her name is Speedy.
I am obsessed with the Holy Grail, a cup with power to make you immortal. For the past few nights, I have had the same reoccurring dream! A voice kept saying it is real and showing a cup. When I wake up, a map is on my desk. I knew it was a map to get the legendary Holy Grail...now that has brought me here...
NEEEEEIGH! Speedy jumped on to her hind legs and off he went! Across the rocky path towards the mountain where the Holy Grail will be. I always travel with Spike on my shoulder because as long as I help him he will help me. The whole forest was light and calm, nothing was out of place, the trees swayed from side to side, the wind gently blew the leaves, and the relaxing rays of sun peeked through the clouds.
SUDDENLY, an arrow flew across my face! Attached to it was a tag. It read ‘Watch out!’ signed The DEVIL.
CRASH! Down the mountain, came a huge boulder. Quickly, Speedy turned around and ran like lightening striking a tree. Spike fell off my shoulder! He was about to get crushed by the boulder! Speedy skidded around! Despite being petrified, she ran over for me to pick Spike up, but Spike ran up my arm to my shoulder. We turned to gallop into the bushes.
“Phew!” I said, gasping for breath.
We missed it by an inch. I thought back to the arrow, was it the mythical devil, his mighty Cyborg Minotaur and their undead army?
We carried on, however, now the pathway had been wrecked by the rolling boulder. The eerie forest glared at us. It looked like someone was watching our every move. Silently we crept through the forest, keeping a close eye on everything that surrounded us. Then it suddenly became very hot. Behind, is was daylight which had not been there before. It was coming closer! Like a fire maybe!
WHOOOOSHH! As soon as Speedy heard the word Fire, we shot like a cannon ball whizzing through the air. Over the grass and under fallen trees, which nearly took my head clean off. All of a sudden we stopped! The fire had surrounded us! WHOO! Someone flew across my face grabbing me! Another grabbed Speedy and Spike off the ground. The third one poured water over the fire. I thanked the strangers and they told me their names. The leader spoke in a deep male voice.
“My name is Ceaser and this is Colt and Dnok. We are centaurs from the planet Xonek.”
“We’re looking for mount Shantine,” I said nervously.
“This way,” he replied.
We followed them to the edge of the mountain.
* *
We were half way up the mountain using Speedy’s steel claws. We looked down to say goodbye but they had vanished! Quickly, Speedy scrambled to the top and we took it the most astonishing views before skidding down with a colossal crash landing! In front of us was a huge dimensional portal. Without a thought, we stepped inside!
A massive volcano was barfing out rocks and lava. There was the Holy Grail and next to it the DEVIL! His large Cyborg Minotaur towered over us!
“BWA HA HA HA! You are doomed!” cackled the DEVIL. “Not yet!” I shouted.
Just at that moment, an army of centaurs rushed towards the devil’s army. I thanked Ceaser for helping me out. Suddenly arrows rained over us. A battle had begun! The battle was deadly and many soldiers died! Swords clashed together as the faint cries of hurt warriors disappeared into the distance...it was me and the DEVIL left. He pulled out his sword and charged towards me. I picked up a sword but Spike saw him and breathed a blast of neon blue fire. The DEVIL burnt to ashes. We had won!!! I rushed over to the grail and poured my bottle of water into it. I had become immortal. I helped some of the injured centaurs by pouring the Holy Grail’s water into their mouth. I turned around to help Ceaser but he vanished just like when we were at the mountain! I stepped through the portal once again and I was transported to the top of the mountain. It was over!
THE END
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An enthusiast in reading, Malika Gandhi is a homemaker and in between caring for her family, she writes her books and dabbles in a little oil and acrylic painting. Malika was born in India but moved to England at the age of two.
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