He attached the wind gadget to the end of the rod and aimed it at the glass box, but the lion tried to attack him at the exact same moment. The bolt of wind hit the lion instead. The blast of wind sent the lion flying into the glass, shattering it. While he was fighting the lion, Jared realized that another gadget was on a chain around the lion’s neck. Was the piece in the glass fake? The lion hadn’t moved from the spot where it had landed. Jared went over to the shattered glass box and picked up the piece from it. Then, he looked at the gadget around the lion’s neck. There was a heart symbol on it. Jared compared the symbol to the heart on his own arm, which had been experimented on by the team of scientists. The matching symbols told him that the gadget around the lion’s neck was real. He took the gadget from the lion and pointed it towards a wall. A door opened up. The smell of fresh air and grass wafted through the door. He could see a big puff of smoke outside. Jared breathed a sigh of relief and walked through the door.
Collaborative Stories: Jozef, Ashley, Melissa, Maia, Izzy, and Joan Taken Hostage by Aliens I'm scared. I've been taken hostage by aliens at the age of fourteen. I've been imprisoned for five months. The prison is damp and cold. Puddles are slowly forming outside. The prison has high-tech security, and it is located on the edge of planet Orb sixty-three. I wish I had listened to my mom when she told me not to go on a solo mission. "It is dangerous, Selah. Anything could happen!" she had said. "I will be careful." My mom sighed in frustration and worry. I wish I could go back in time and start from the beginning. As I think this, I hear the door unlock with keys clanging. An alien is coming to take me out. I am scared, but am trying to act confident so the alien does not think I am a weak person. My heart is pounding and pumping. I’m breathing in a lot. The alien opens the door and pulls the arm out the door. And then I ask fearfully what the alien is doing, “What are you doing . . . Where are you taking me?” But the alien ignores me and acts tougher. The alien drags me through a damp, dark hallway to the main room that is a little bit cold. The room is all stone with cracked brick walls and the smell of fresh rain. The footsteps echo, so it’s really loud. I look around for a place to escape somehow. Suddenly, I see a large gap between one side of the wall, but I don’t catch attention. I make the alien explode, then smash the wall where the gap is. I haven’t escaped the prison yet, though. I’m in a maze in a garden. It smells like fresh flowers. I explore the garden first and somehow find a different door and enter through there. Alien guards are on the other side. The guards are wearing very special uniforms and look different than the previous aliens. They are talking about donuts. The guard aliens don’t seem to recognize me, even though I walk past them, wave my hands in their face, and tap them. Still, they don’t seem to see me! I feel surprised, exhilarated, worried, doubtful, and chill because I got away. There’s a cliff that drops down thousands of feet that I stumble upon. I almost fall in as bits of rocks fall and I hear the long distance of rocks falling. I use a levitating spell to walk across mid-air. There’s land across the cliff and I see glowing crystals on the other side that will grant me a wish. I rub the crystals and say, “I wish to get back home!” The crystal floats up and disappears. The crystal takes me to the entrance of the prison, and I know I have more to do.
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