FINISHED STORIES

Story 2

I found it

I found it in the cupboard under the stairs, in the dark, at the back.  I’d volunteered to tidy the cupboard - anything to put off doing my homework - and there it was in the dust. Torn and crumpled. If I hadn’t shone the torch at that exact spot I wouldn’t have noticed it, wouldn’t have picked it up, wouldn’t have known what I know now. 
But would I have been happier?

Julia Jarman

1.  What could it be, this strange creature with parchment like skin. Why is it here? What does it want? And what am I going to do with it? I slowly inched towards it…. it suddenly made a noise; a noise I’ve never heard before! It was a squealing noise that pierced my ears with pain. It crawled closer on unsteady feet, so I stepped back. Now I saw that…. thing in the light, I was amazed. Its skin was torn, crumpled and dry; it was short, about 1 foot. It also had 4 eyes; its head was shaped like a small aliens head like in my books. It was in a frog like stance. It laughed in a high-pitched squeak and did a little dance. I thought it might be friendly and hungry so I gave it a jelly like substance called JuJu, which was supposed to be my lunch. It seemed to like it, so I gave it more. Then suddenly in a gigantic burst it grew and grew and grew until it was taller than me!

Caitlin and Ben, British Int School Jakarta

2. It swelled up and trapped me against the corner of the brown, battered door. It got bigger and bigger and when I thought I’d die from being suffocated by the thing’s enormous belly it popped like a balloon with too much air. Purple goo splattered my old jeans and pale blue T-shirt. It got in my ears and eyes and plastered my streaked blond hair to my pale face. I was covered head to toe in it. From the wreckage a creature about the size of me emerged. Suddenly in a low growl it said:
“I know everything and everyone. Every secret desire. Every misdeed. Everything. Fear me!”  At that moment I knew the world was doomed. It slunk away from the cupboard and up the carpeted stairs. My Mum was up there…
“Mum! Mum! Look out. There’s this thing coming.” I yelled up the stairs. I was too late. I heard the scream and the sound of lifeless weight hitting the floor with a thud.

Molly and Ben, Werneth School Stockport

3.            Suddenly, a low grumbling sound from above me reached my ears. I looked up at the ceiling, startled. To my surprise and relief, there was nothing there. I hurried downstairs and found open boxes of JuJu completely empty and crumpled. Panicked, I ran outside to find a giant purple blob blocking my way. I craned my neck to find the creature, whatever it was, higher than a three-story building and as wide as double my house. It roared again and again. My house was in the middle of the woods in a field so nobody was there to help. I saw the goo and, inspired, I searched for a packet of JuJu I had hidden from my mother. I threw it at the monster and it made a gleeful sound. ‘I need more JuJu!’ I thought.
            “JUJU!” the monster cried. “MORE MORE MORE!!!” I jumped, startled. Then, I broke into a sprint towards the nearest super market. I ran as fast as my feet could carry me, tripping and stumbling along. Finally, I reached the store entrance. My heart plummeted. The store closed on Sundays. Desperate, I clambered into a window and took a couple dozen boxes before throwing random cash onto the counter. Climbing back out, I threw the boxes at the monster and it devoured them until, out of nowhere, there was a bolt of lightning. It struck the monster and smoke obscured the giant form. Once the smoke vanished, I saw the monster turn from purple to dark blue to bright green. To my amazement, it shrank and shrank until the only thing left was a square inch of jelly. Then, a pop, squeak and screech. The jelly burst into flames and a girl appeared from the smoke. I saw the silhouette first, then the round, blue eyes shine out like a cat’s eyes. Her cheek bones were fairly high but not in a creepy way like my grandma’s. They had pink spots on them. Her hair was a fair golden-brown colour, like an angel’s, but more beautiful. Her petite, curved body appeared with the rest of her  and my mouth dropped. Her fingers were green and purple like the different flavors of JuJu.
She spoke to me. Her voice scared and surprised me. It was deep like a man’s and screeching like a cat. “Like, Oh My God! What did you, like, put in that, you know, JuJu stuff??? It’s made me sick! I look like so gross! Now I’m human!” Her mean tone sounded like the girls at school. Snooty and mean. Pompous and gross. I stared at her.

Malaika & Natcha (St. Andrews Int. School Bangkok)

4. Before I could say ‘who are you?’ she leapt out of her skin and darted down a black dingy alley as fast as the lightning that struck her, searching for more victims to kill. I couldn’t quite understand her, yet I felt her anger and sorrow of being netted in that crimpled-up creature and being so far from home. I followed her but couldn’t keep up, every tragic squeal she let out I knew I was getting closer, closer and closer until I could feel her pain once more and those of the victims she had savagely killed. Seeing her in the distance sent a shiver down my spine and I breathed in continuous fear. She stopped abruptly.

Help.

She looked at me and saw the fear in my eyes; she knew that I was weak - after all she knew everything. She had a smug look on her face again, just like the girls at school.

Written by Jazmin  and Emily at Hadleigh High School, England.
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5. She darted towards me, but in a split second I grabbed the bin next to me and tried to use as some kind of shield. It wasn’t good enough; she tore the bin in half and grabbed hold of my throat. I could feel her razor sharp claws digging into the back of my neck. I panicked and tried to get her off me but still it was no use. I started not to feel anything. She was cutting off my blood supply. I thought I was going to pass out. But then suddenly I heard a voice. “Stop” it said. The freakish lady let go of my neck. She glared away from me to try to see what it was. It was another alien. Her father. He had a knife in his hand and he put it towards his heart. He pulled it back and stabbed himself. All of a sudden the girl crumpled in a heap and lay on the ground, was she alive?

Paul ,Warblington (Havant, England

6. I tried to hear her heart straining my ears.  I heard nothing just silence. Cold empty silence.  I touched her cold shivering body lying there.  Still like all the victims before her.  BANG! I heard rattles like snakes and her body started shrinking.  She seemed to be getting younger.  It was weird, scary and I felt sympathy for her.
Then I thought “she killed my Mum!”  Then I realised the father was a human! An ordinary human.  The girl had gone back in time and was now just a baby lying there. She morphed, her skin evaporating before my eyes.

Written by Antonia and Rebecca from Walbottle Campus Technology College.

7. As she laid there she looked so sweet and innocent, but I knew the real her and whether she was a baby or not I would get revenge - she wasn’t going to get away with it! I felt so suffocated, pictures endlessly kept coming into my head of my dear mum lying there pale and blue, with skin like marble. The more I thought, the angrier I got and so I picked up the vile baby and ran so fast and so far that I didn’t know where I was going, I just wanted to get away from it all. As I ran, the wind blew against us and I felt the baby shiver. Unconsciously, I pulled it closer towards my chest. I stopped and stared. I was in the middle of nowhere with a creature that had just turned into a baby.

What was going on, why was this happening to me?

As the baby started crying, the wailing pierced my heart and I felt a sudden connection as I stared into her big blue eyes, they made my heart melt but I couldn’t feel this way about it! It had just killed my mother for goodness sake! I just felt like abandoning it and leaving it there to rot, exposed to the elements like it had done to my mother. No matter how much I tried to block it out, the connection was still there. Yes, it had done some evil things in the past but it was still a baby.

What to do next was the question, do I take it or do I leave it?

By Sophie and Jemima. Oasis Academy Enfield.

8. Suddenly, the baby took the form of a black blur-I was getting horrified, I did not know what to do, I stared hard at the thing-I remembered a mythical film’ Lord Of The Rings’ - the thing formed a fire eye like the mystic Sauron.

My sight went scarlet and my eyes blazed over from the heat, something was taking over my soul. ”AHHH, get the heck out my of head!!” I exclaimed in pain, I coughed and blood spurted out and the black blur consumed me.
The blur growled something weird” uxanes purregger!” I don’t know how but I understood it, was I the only one? It was probably the blur taking my soul saying words to the effect of “This soul is mine!” My head was hurting like mad. What was happening? 
Power! It was running through my veins-the blur had completely taken me over-a thought came over my mind like a revelation, of course, the Juju made the thing bigger and because the thing is inside me it’ll make me bigger, I stormed into the supermarket and used my dark powers to break into the shop, I saw the Juju-it was mine. As I ate it I grew larger and larger, I was colossal. My power was exquisite I was too powerful. I did not want to do this but I was forced. Was this the end…?

Nabeel and Ryan,Woolwich Polytechnic

9. All of a sudden I heard a voice in my head,  “NO!NO!NO! This is not the end” , the mystery voice came out of no where.  Then I saw a bunch of people on the ground looking at me.    So then I stretched my hand and grabbed one of them and ate the person.  The people started running and screaming.  I chased after them and then I noticed I started to shrink smaller and smaller.  Will I get back to my human form…?

Anthony  and  Delvin  from PS 161 Don Pedro Albizu Campos Elementary, Harlem, New York

10. No, I did not go back to my human form, I just became smaller and faster. Now I am able to catch the people. I couldn’t control my actions as well as I was able to before. My rage was building, and I wildly jumped onto the running people. I unwillingly ate another person. Unable to control myself, I ran toward another person. This time I felt the desire to eat them. The evil sprit inside was taking over. Now, I wasn’t just acting like it; I was thinking like it. It had completely taken over my mind. I still had a thirst for the running human souls. I felt like I couldn’t fill my stomach, it was a bottomless pit of nothingness.
     Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a small figure run behind me. I turned. I saw that it was my best friend. I saw fear in her eyes as she stared at me. No, no. I can’t do this. I have to stop. I couldn’t take my best friend’s life. It took everything in me to resist the monster inside. My own mum is already gone; who else do I have left? I resisted the urge long enough for her to escape. I let out a relieved sigh.
     I walked toward our small school. I saw that everyone was panicking when I looked through one of the windows. When I looked through the window, I caught a glimpse of my reflection. I was purple and green, spotted all over. My teeth were sharp as knives. What could I do to change?

     Nothing. I realised this in seconds that I could be like this forever. I can’t be this forever. I can’t. I just can’t. What I am now, is what is killing all these innocent people. My own mum. Who next?

Madeleine , Claire , Allison  , J.T. , Matt  from Lee Jr. High in Monroe, Louisiana. :]
    

11. As I was leaving I felt a jolt. I felt myself shrink, and I turned into myself again. I then saw my friend Susie cowering behind a tree. I felt hungry, and the creature was back inside of me. I then felt like eating flesh. I ate half of my friend, and I left a lot of blood. Then my math teacher was coming to her car and slipped head first into the blood infected by the evil spirit inside of me. This then gave her the disease.

I couldn’t watch. It was too overwhelming to see my teacher change from a human into a monster. (How cool would that be? No more math problems!) We then went around school biting everyone in sight. That then started a trilogy.

, Emma, Meandrea, John, Carlos, and Amber J.S.Clark Magnet Monroe, Louisiana, USA

12. Eat, eat, eat. That’s all I could think about as I steamrolled through the school corridors. Why couldn’t I stop?  The scream of the terrified students and teachers pierced my heart like daggers, but I couldn’t stop. Then I froze, thinking about Susie.  Then I thought about what I was doing, rampaging through my own school, mass murdering my own classmates and friends. Then I thought about how I even got here less than an hour ago, I was sitting at my desk, writing an essay on Roman battles, with my mom upstairs, BAM, Mom, Susie, Math teacher. Everyone else who lost their life because of me. Hell, I shouldn’t be controlled by some monster freak. I’m my own person, for God’s sake. I can do what I want. 

I had enough - I grasped the sides of my desk and stared at the mirror in front of me. What was happening to me? My hair was a mess and my eyes had red lines all over. Suddenly there was a bang at the door and an army of men ran in. They held guns, spears and a box full of JuJu. Wait JuJu? My tummy gave a big rumbling and the evil dark monstrous feeling rose up again. I made a loud roar that I never had done  before and I lunged at the box full of jelly, knocking that box out of the man’s hand. Startled, the army dropped their weapons and stood paralysed as they watched me tear open the box and stare at the pyramid of different coloured jellies. 

I couldn’t help it, I ate and ate. NO! I could help it. I am a free person. Do I want to be stuck in this disgusting alien. Harder, harder! Suddenly, I felt light inside, then a blinding light filled my eyes. When I opened them, I was in a hospital bed. Beep…beep….the sound of one of those machines next to me. Wires were stuck to my skin and tubes everywhere. How did I get here?? I looked around; was I dreaming. No I wasn’t, purple goo was still stuck to my forehead. I looked at my hands and smiled. I was back to normal.  “How are you?” a voice soft and calming. I turned and gasped. “D-dad?” I stammered.

Naomi, Erin and Elizabeth year 7 – Harrow International School Beijing

13. “Am I in heaven?” I asked.
            “Don’t worry honey, you’ll be fine,” Dad comforted me.
            This is wrong. My dad shouldn’t be alive. Mum said he committed suicide ten years ago for an unknown reason. I slowly scrawled out of the bed with tremendous pain whirling in my body. Dad showed no motion as if he was frozen twenty feet away. I trudged to him. I called out as loud as I could “Dad! Sebastian! Help me!” Somehow, my throat wouldn’t allow me to make any sound. In spite of what was happening, Sebastian remained glaciated. A flash of light stroke down from above and blinded my eyes. I struggle in the intimidated darkness. Somehow, somewhere in the depth of my soul, the monster is still screaming and growling, looking for a right opportunity to take over me once again. A voice abruptly interfered with my concentration.
            “Andrea! Sweetheart! It’s morning already, you don’t want to be late to school!”
            I slowly opened my eye lids. The sunshine shined through the window, exposing the tiny dust particle floating in the frost air of the late winter morning. A sign of relief expands in me.
I sighed.

By Nguyen (Alice); Duong (Chloe); American International School of Vietnam

14. I stared up at my mum’s face, there seemed to be something different about it. But what could it be? I looked up at her eyes, they were changing from a light blue to a dark purple. I then looked at her hands which were changing to a light green. Without warning I heard a familiar high pitched scream. In the meantime, my mother started to grow claws out of her bony fingers. What was happening to her? Suddenly without any notice she dug her claws into my chest. “Not again” I screamed. I was turning back into a juju monster. I looked out of my window. Where had the woods gone? All I could see were ashes and monsters demolishing the city. Was the world doomed? No it couldn’t end here! My eyes began to droop. I found myself falling asleep. I collapsed. I woke up a while later to find myself on hard ground. Faint music played in the background. Where was I?

Megan and Jamie Lord Lawson School, Gateshead.

I breathed deeply, consciously feeling the oxygen enter my lungs; I checked each of my limbs, registering the pain. Pain was good; pain meant I was alive; pain meant I could feel. After all my experiences that was the thing I was scared of. Having changed so much I wanted to be sure I was still the same person inside, the same fears, the same loves. Pictures ran through my head: my father; my mother; my first friend; the people I hung out with; the people who bullied me; the first person I kissed.

I stretched myself out and raised my arms, lifting myself off the floor. I stood tall looking around for an exit. Locating it immediately behind me, I lifted my foot to move towards a small opening. Stretching out my leg I felt a shooting pain erupt behind my knee. The pain crippled me and I feel to the floor. The impact on my hands was so severe that it caused my wrists to shatter. Expecting to see bone and blood, I looked at my arms. Yet, my eyes widen with shock and I became sick as I saw on the ends of my arms tentacles slithering out of my shattered wrists supporting my weight. The knowledge that they were inside me, whilst I could neither feel or control them, disgusted me.

My eyes blurred suddenly, I struggled to regain my vision but the blur increased. My picture of the world was shrinking. My world was shrinking, unable to control my body and no longer able to see. This was it. I closed my eyes, with a single tear falling from the corner of my eye. For the last time I curled upon the floor and closed my eyes.

Mr M Senior Woolwich Polytechnic School