March PPOW

Never Ending

I don’t remember where I was or how I got here. I was in a tunnel with little light. There was a rusty old cage in front of me; its lock had been broken. Suddenly, I heard a screech that sounded very close.

I stopped moving, breathing; everything just stopped. Something walked past me. It was large and black. It resembled a spider that had eaten one to many flies. I let out my breath a little louder than I’d expected.

The thing turned around. I began running the other way. I ran as fast as I could, and the thing followed close behind. I had to lose this thing. I rounded the corner, and it followed. I kept turning, and it stayed near. I had begun to tire out. If I didn’t find a way out, I’d be toast. I kept going.

I rounded the next corner tricking the thing into turning the other way. There was a red light at the end of the tunnel. I sprinted as fast as I could; it was a door. Looking at the door, I tripped over a pipe on the ground, and my foot got stuck underneath. I yelled in pain realizing I had broken my foot.

The thing heard me. It turned around and ran towards me. I twisted and turned finally getting my foot out. I crawled to the door and grabbed the handle twisting it. The door clicked and I pushed it open.

As I crawled through the opening, relief flooded over me. Then the thing grabbed my broken foot pulling me back. I resisted, kicked, and yelled. My shoe was starting to come loose and I was losing my grip. My shoe came free and I went flying through the door.

There wasn’t a floor on the other side. I plummeted into nothingness. After a few seconds, I began to lose conciseness. I felt my eyes get heavy; I didn’t even have time to scream before I blacked out.

 I woke in a small room that resembled a hospital, but this was different. The walls were round and brown. The ceiling came to a point with many ridges. It also had an old moldy smell.

A few minutes later, a girl in a white lab coat entered the room. She had a clipboard in her hand and she was checking some things off. She walked over to the bed and looked at me with a smile.

“How are you feeling?” she questioned.

“Fine,” I replied.

“I am Anna by the way. You are Katy with a y, correct?” she asked.

I nodded. We talked for a while and I told her all about what happened in the tunnels. She explained how I had dropped from the sky blacked out.

“Some of the creatures had thought you were a bird,” Anna chuckled.

Creatures? What did she mean by that. I wanted to know when I could leave, and she told me around noon tomorrow.

“Your foot is healed and you can stay at the hotel down the road for a while. See you tomorrow,” she stated and turned to leave.

I looked up to say goodbye and caught a glimpse of a tail dragging on the ground. That was weird. I decided it was nothing and went to bed.

The next day I woke up to Anna walking through the door.

“Good morning Katy! I hoped you slept well because you are coming with me so I can show you the town!” she exclaimed. “I’ll be outside if you need me,” she said leaving the room.

I got up and got dressed in the jeans and a tank top that were sitting on the chair next to me. I walked out of the door and went over to her. She did have a tail, how?

“You have a tail?” I asked.

“Don’t you love it? It took me forever to brush it out,” she wined.

I nodded and kept walking with her. As I looked around the town, I noticed all sorts of crazy people. There were frogs, pigs, and even fairies. There were more to that list, but I was taking in everything. Then I noticed something falling from the sky. I pointed to it and she looked.

I suddenly realized that it was the thing. The door hadn’t closed when I fell through; it must have come after me. Oh no!

“Lisa,” growled a voice.

I looked up from my book and everyone was staring at me.

“Yes?” I asked.

“You do know that free reading time is over, right? I’m sorry to stop you, but we must continue with class,” Mr. Mathews explained.

I put the book in my bag and listened to the lecture about daydreaming.

Dreaming

Dreaming

Once upon a time I had a amazing dream. I had a dream, It was the the beginning of summer, and I woke up to be 6’5”. I was only a freshman and was trying out for the varsity basketball team. I had big hopes, because I was obviously 6’5”. I went out there first practice and posterized two people. I could also break peoples ankles by crossing them up, with my steller right hand crossover.

I had some height advantage but I could knock down three’s. My nickname was the machine and I couldn’t be stopped. I made the varsity team and had about 7 minutes per game. I think I still deserved to start because I was a 6 foot 5 inch baller. Our first game we played the Riverside Bulldogs, they were pretty good had a winning record of 2-1.

But we were 3-0 and had a great chance of winning. Before the game in warm ups we did layups, I would do a layup every time but my hand was already in the hoop. Then we start backing up for jump shots. I started shooting three’s along with my good buddy Kyle. He was a great three point shooter and averaged about 4 a game.

There was about 5 minutes left until tip off and I could tell I was nervous. My hands were shaking, and I had this sick feeling in my gut. Then the buzzer rang, it was tip off. Caden who was a 6’11” center was tipping off, he had an easy chance because the guy he was tipping off against was only 6’5”. Caden got the tip off and Kobe drove up the court.

He came up to the top off the key, and I splashed a three. Later on in the half we were getting beat 21 to 17, and needed someone to get us the lead before half time. Lebron drove up the court passed it to the right, and Caden went in for a two handed wind-mill dunk. We were only down by four points, and Michael our 5’10” shooting guard got hurt. So coach called my number and said,

“Go in for him.”

“Ok,” I said.

I went in with a jerk in my stomach.

“Here we go, I guess.”

We got the ball, and I was lining up on the right by the three point line. Lebron passed me the ball, and I went in for a 360 dunk. We were only getting beat now by two in the 3rd quarter. The score was 31 to 29; then I got the ball and drained a three from the corner.

It was 32 to 31; our lead with two minutes left in the 3rd quarter. Michael finally came back in, but I stayed in at the other shooting guard spot. Because right now I have 12 points, three rebounds, and two steals. They had the ball, and Michael came up with a steal and alley ooped it to Lebron. We were winning 34 to 31, with the buzzer ending the 3rd quarter.

It was the other teams possession and the point guard drove up the court. He called this play called double wing, and I had no clue what they were doing. They started running circles around the top of the key. This kid snuck away from the group and was wide open in the corner for three. It was now 34 to 34, tie ball game.

I got the ball and drove up the court to the top of the key. I started to hesitate a little, but then I crossed up this kid up. I called Caden for a ball screen, and I rolled right then pulled up drank. It was now 37 to 34, with only 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter. They started driving up the court really fast.

He passed it to the guy to the left, and he drove to the lane and got destroyed by Caden. Caden got the rebound and passed it to me, I drove up the court and swinged it to Lebron for the dunk. We had a good five point lead and went on to winning the game 40 to 34. I had 15 points, five rebounds, and two steals. I went to the locker to wash up, and coach came in and said.

“ Heck of a game son.”

“Thanks,” I said.

Later on when I got in the shower everything started to go away. I started to shrink back to my old height 5’1.”

I started yelling, “No, No this can’t be.”

Everything went back to normal I opened my eyes, it was all a dream.

“Crap,” I said.

I can’t believe this was just all a dream, I thought. I walked outside and started shooting hoops. At least I still have my ball handling skills. I started splashing every shot I took, so I raised the hoop up to 10 feet.

I looked at hoop for a while then, I started dribbling to the hoop. I looked up at the rim and jumped. I never jump so high in my life, I was almost to the rim then, boom I dunked it. My hand was still hanging on the rim when, I felt the touch of someones hand on my leg. It was the coach for Duke.

“Congratulations son you earned a scholarship, to play for Duke.”

“I don’t understand sir, this is my first time dunking in my life.”

“Thats ok son, you are good and I think you will do great things.”

“Thank you sir.”

Jordan went on later that year to play for Duke, and got MVP every year. He set the record for having the most points recorded at A-H-S-T, he had 3,069 points. One last record, he set the record for the shortest dunker.

They're Coming- February PPOW

They’re Coming

Chamberlyn was an ordinary girl, so she thought. She had her everyday routine, wake up, go to school, and then she had piano lessons after school. Once she would get done with piano lessons she would ride her bicycle out to the tree on a hill. She would lie down on a blanket and watch the clouds slowly pass by. When she was out on that hill, looking up into the sky, she felt like the whole world was silent, no existing of it. She would get lost into the clouds, but she knew they would be coming very soon.

Chamberlyn finally rode her bicycle home. She has a little brother, Jack, and has two older siblings, Cece and Stefan, they’re twins. Chamberlyn is 16, Jack is 6, and Cece & Stefan are 18. She is the daughter of Damon and Elena Salvatore. They live in a small town, Mystic Falls. The town had always been mysterious, that’s where the name kind of get its. There was always random deaths, Chamberlyn knew it was a sign that they were coming, in fact there were many signs. Chamberlyn didn’t want to think they were coming, so she blocked out the world.

Everytime Chamberlyn would get home from the tree, she would go straight to her room and do her homework, if she had any. She would always stop doing her homework and just read. She loved reading, especially about the gods. She would try to talk to her friends about her book, but they just thought she was crazy.

Chamberlyn woke up bright and early; she got dressed and headed to the tree. She had to finally talk to them, she needed to tell them that they can’t come today, not yet. After she talked to them she rode her bike to school.

Once she got to school she ran to her friends screaming, “They’re coming, they’re coming!”

Caroline, Chamberlyn’s best friend yelled, “Calm down, who’s coming?”

“They’re coming, they’re coming!” she screamed again.

“Bonnie, Chamberlyn’s other friend says, “Come on Chamberlyn, stop being crazy. Nobody’s coming; enough with the games.”

“We have to go, let’s get out of here!” Chamberlyn exclaimed.

Bonnie questioned, “Where are we going?”

“I don’t know, but we just need to leave this town. We’ll all go home and pack our stuff, then we’ll meet at the bank,” Chamberlyn explained.

They all left their separate ways and headed to their houses. Chamberlyn rode her bicycle home and rushed into the house. She grabbed clothes, her laptop and phone. She was running out of the house until she figured she would leave a note for her family. On the note she wrote “I’m so sorry, my friends and I left, we don’t know where we’re going yet. I took the car keys, and a bunch of food. I’ll call you when I can. All I can say is that they’re coming, leave soon.”

Chamberlyn hopped in their family van and drove as fast as she could to the bank. She got to the bank and went inside. She went to the ATM and took $1,000 out of their family account; she would explain to her family later. She waited, and waited, and then finally Bonnie and Caroline showed up. They all hopped in the car and Bonnie asks again, “So now what do we do, where are we going?”

“Where do you want to go?” questioned Chamberlyn.

“New Orleans!” shouted Caroline.

“Why New Orleans?” Bonnie asked Caroline.

“Because Niklaus is there, he can help us,” answered Caroline.

“Great, lets get to going then!” clapped Chamberlyn.

They all hopped in the car and headed to New Orleans. It took seven hours to get there; they got there around 5 o’ clock in the evening. They had no idea where Klaus would be, so they went around looking for clues. All of a sudden Chamberlyn’s phone started to buzz; She was getting a call from her parents, Damon and Elena Salvatore. She hurried up and answered it.

“Where in the world are you!” Damon shouted through the phone.

“Don’t worry, we’re here in New Orleans with Klaus. We’re trying to find him and his witch friend so they can help us,” answered Chamberlyn.

“What the heck is happening, who’s coming? And Klaus is very dangerous, don’t go near him!” Damon said angerly.

“We found Klaus, got to go. Talk to you later.” quickly said Chamberlyn as she hung up the phone.

Damon thought to himself, I need to go find her. So Damon listened to his mind and left for New Orleans as soon as possible without letting anybody know. On the way there he ran into Rebekah, Klaus’s evil sister, an original vampire.  

“Hello there Damon. Haven’t seen you in a while, what’s the hurry?” asked Rebekah.

“My daughter is with your brother, he’s going to hurt her! Now can I go save her?” Damon said eagerly.

“I already knew that silly. Why do you think he called me and told me to make sure you don’t come to save her?” Caroline said like a genius.

Before Damon got to say anything, Caroline twisted his neck and down he went. “You’ll be just fine here with me while Klaus does his business,” she said to herself, knowing that he wasn’t concious to hear.

TO BE CONTINUED

A Wild Dream

A Wild Dream

            Last night I had a dream that felt like a lifetime. I was only asleep for three hours, but it felt like 100. It was one of those dreams where you just don’t want to wake up and if you do, you start to daydream about it. The ones that last forever and that you just want to be real. I didn’t sleep very long, but the dream lasted all day.

            It started out with me going to bed at like two in the morning. I feel asleep thinking of my dad. He had just passed away the week before. We were sitting under a lot of oak trees that were on the edge of a lake. We were on my private island that I had bought for a million dollars. I had so much stuff and much money in this dream that I don’t know how I would get the money.

            While we were sitting there, we were fishing. My dad and I went fishing a lot together. We went ice fishing a couple times too. It was a lot of fun because we would mess around and tell jokes to each other. Sometimes he would tell me stories of when he was a kid and went fishing.

One of the stories was that his dad took him fishing in a blizzard and the ice was fresh, so it wasn’t thick. He ended up falling through the ice into the water. My dad and I would do a lot together. We went hunting, fishing and everything else outdoors. In the dream he was young and ready to have fun.

We went to the middle of the island after fishing. We agreed that we should climb trees and see if we could get back down safely. Instead of just climbing down, we both jumped and we landed in a pool. Remember this is a dream, so anything can happen. By now it was four in the morning.

After we hit the pool more people arrived. My two kids came to swim and so did my three brothers. My oldest son jumped in and splashed me, and that was when I woke up from the dream. I started to get ready for my day at work. I am a veterinarian and thank god I didn’t have many things planned for today.

It usually takes me five minutes to get ready, but when I was going to walk outside I didn’t have my keys, shoes, or my schedule. My head was going crazy because I wasn’t prepared and didn’t have everything I needed. When my first animal came in, I started dreaming that my dad and me were on a farm.

We owned our own farm in this and had millions of cattle. We had a huge place for all of them to eat and everything else. We had our own pet cow, who was named Rammer. I think we named him that because he always ran into the fence. I’m surprised he never broke it because of how big and strong he was.

He kept running into it harder and faster each time. Finally one time he hit it and just fell over. It was kind of funny until he started shaking. It was just like the dog in front of me. It started shaking and then I gave it a shot to make it stop. I have never had something like this happen to me and never thought it would.

I saw it in a movie once that everything the kids say comes real but right now its like everything I dream in some way is real or was real. I wish I could understand this. After that it started to get better with me dreaming about living in a mention. I would have parties all night every night and have fun. I would have a lot of fun with my friends.

The first party I had was with all of my high school buddies. We stayed up all night and trashed the house like we used to. We were playing video games and acted like we were teenagers again. We had a blast and didn’t want to stop.

The next party was with my brother that was really just my really close friend in school. We went out to eat at the pizza hut and then went to the park where we used to hang out all the time. We finally went home around four in the morning. The next day we went out mudding and took my rock crawler out to have fun. The bad thing is that we don’t talk anymore so I just have memories of it.

Back in real life, it is like five at night now, so I have to do all the chores. I have never messed up on these. I always feed the animals and then go do paper work. I didn’t feed the animals the right amount and didn’t clean the cages. Then I never did my paper work.

I went home and went back to bed. The dream kept going and seemed to never stop. When I feel asleep again I was skydiving. I was by myself and when I looked up there was nothing I fell from.  I was picking up a lot of speed.

I went to pull the cord for my parachute and there was nothing on my back. I started to panic. I couldn’t stop and didn’t know what to do. I was falling and was starting to see the ground. It was getting closer and closer.
            Then all of a sudden, I stopped right before I hit the ground and I woke up from a dead sleep.

Abnormal

                                                                                                                       

Abnormal

Everything was normal in Casablanca. Everyone lived there life very normal, well everyone except for Rose. Not that she wasn't normal because she was, but she could see things, things no one else could see. She tried to tell people, even warn people but they wouldn't listen, because something like that could not happen in a touristy beach town. Sadly, it was true, but no one would be prepared what was ahead.

It was just a normal day in Casablanca.The girls were getting ready to go to the beach, and the guys were playing sand volleyball. Rose was going to the beach with her friends. She was trying on swimsuits. She glanced out the window, and she could see black clouds rumbling towards  her, but she knew it was just them. She saw it almost everyday, and by now she was use to it. So she continued to try on swimsuits until she found the one  that she wanted. So,she put it in her bag and headed out the door. She met Kate outside, being that she lived next door. They headed to the beach and met Bella and Katie, but Bella  didn't end up showing, which was kinda strange for her because she never just doesn't show up without letting us know first.

Kate,Katie and I decided to play sand volleyball. I served to Katie, but she got distracted when Kris came up behind her. Finally Kris left us and as I looked up to the sky I dropped the ball. We had no time, everything as we knew it was about to be destroyed.

“Guys, we have to go now,” I said

“Rose, stop being such a buzz kill,” said Kate.

“I’m not trying to be, but you know how I was telling you about them the other day,” I said.

“Yes, I know, but that is just stuff you're seeing in your head,” said Kate

“Yeah, do we need to get you some mental help?” said Katie.

“No, guys I’m trying to tell you something, but I just don't know if i can or how to tell you. Its not easy but if you come with me to a place where we are safe then I will tell you more,” I said.

So the girls agreed to come with me to my house in the basement.(Which I know will not protect them) As we enter the cold dark basement i began to tell them what was going on.

“Ok, so one day when I was a little girl I always knew that I was different from everyone else. I could see gods, gods that no one thought where real nor did they think existed. They always told me they would come and destroy the world, but we would not know  the day nor the time. I believe that day is today and that time is now. I dont know what to do nor do i want to but all I know is this. They kill anyone who has a power that they need in the kingdom.

“ So are you trying to say that you live two lives?” said Katie

“Yes, but thats not the point, I said

“Then would you just get to the point because I gotta go to practice soon,” said Kate

I began to speak but was interrupted by a big shaking but I knew it was not the ground. We all ran to hid in the closet and put the extra roll of carpet that I had laying on the floor on top of our heads to cover any falling debris. The shaking finally stopped, as we walked out I saw that everything was destroyed. Kate had her hand over her mouth in shock,  I looked over to Bella’s house across the street and saw Bella beginning to cry and Katie started running, looking for Kris. We followed Katie, as we got to Chris's house there he was and he was not prepared and there his body lay. Katie dropped to the ground and hugged his dead cold body. I already know this would happen, they wanted him, because he had a special power, they needed him.

A couple of days after the strike was his funeral, they held it at the St. Lawrence church. We all came and Katie made a special speech. Then it was my turn:

“We all knew Kris as a great friend, but I am hear to tell you why he is gone. There is a god called Triton and he looks for kids to kill who poses a power in which they need up in the kingdom.  He is the god of healing, during this time they needed him and just know that he is not dead but that he lives another life. He is in a better place now. Thank you”, I said  

Everyone stood up and began clapping, they had smiles on their faces. No one smiles at funerals.

I walked out of the funeral home in shock of how well it went. I knew there was one more person that I needed to address about something. They needed to know that they were next and its sad to say because she is my bestfriend. As I approach the house I stop, I began to think of what I was going to tell her. When all of a sudden I felt a vacuum like wind start to pull me up and I grabbed to the nearest tree, but it was too strong.

The next thing I knew in front of the entrance to Triton’s castle. I walked in was surrounded by gold  everything. I looked to my left I saw mermaids in a tank and to my right was big piles of cash and really fancy cars.When I got inside he started talking to me and telling me that he wanted me to be the message sender, which just means that I tell people that they are going to go to the kingdome.  

“Mr. Triton, I don't know that I can do that ,” I said.

“ Why is that Ms.Rose,” Triton said.

“I just don't know if I am comfortable with that,” I said.

“You will do it and you will love it or else I will kill you for good,” said Triton

I agree and then everything gets silent all of a sudden I can smell Persefoni. She is the  most evil god off all. I turn to see her lift her mask off . Im in shock, this is unbelievable.

“ Bella?” I ask