discovered a trail of melted ice cream and decided to follow it. The trail they followed soon lead to an old abandoned farm house. They went inside the unlocked farm house to find all the ice cream sitting on the floor. Jeremy decided to grab the ice cream bags, but it was all a trap. As soon as he touched the bags, the two guys came out with the ice cream guns and fired a lot of shots at them. Luckily they were not hit, and they ran out the door. The two thieves decided to follow them with their ice cream guns, but to their surprise the six employees and eighteen customers all had their own ice cream guns and fired back. The ice cream war had now begun. The employees and customers hid behind bushes and trees and fired their ice cream guns at the thieves as they passed by. Ice cream was going in all different directions. All six employees and eighteen customers assumed they won the battle because they outnumbered the two thieves. Suddenly they heard a whistle from a side building, and they moved in closer. They gathered five more people that were standing around, but as they all moved closer to the sound, it turned out that the thieves were the ones that blew the whistle. The six employees, eighteen customers and five other people plus the two thieves starting shooting their ice cream guns at each other. Jeremy stood up on a rock and yelled out, "Stop!" Everyone stopped, and Jeremy stated, "What are we fighting for? We know they stole the ice cream, but we have been wasting all the ice cream just to prove a point. We need to stop with the ice cream war and save what is left of the ice cream for others." The thieves were forgiven but they had to work at the restaurant for free for three months and one day. Jeremy and the two thieves walked down the rocky road, over the moose tracks, and back to the restaurant that now has the historic name of Baskin Robbins with the thirty-one different flavors of ice cream because there were thirty-one people in the pointless war of ice cream. Riley Covington 5th Grade Boyd Buchanan School Mrs. Bowling
Horror of a Wildfire The wind blows hard as dark storm clouds roll over a group of small homes in the middle of the woods. Lighting strikes a group of dead trees and sparks fly everywhere. The trees catch ablaze and soon the wind is carrying the little wildfire like debris being washed over a waterfall. Soon, most of the forest is burning. Small rocks in the middle of the fire burst from the intense heat, embers are flying everywhere and more trees catch fire. A few smaller homes in the middle of the woods are in danger in the fire’s path. Suddenly the lights in one of the smaller homes turn on, then screaming can heard and the door flies open. A woman and man run out toward the other homes to give them warning. People pack their clothes and valuables quickly and run toward their cars not knowing the road ahead of them has been blocked by fallen trees. During the confusion people forgot to bring their phones and call 911, so no one knew the danger. As the people drove away they could see fire engulf homes and knew there was no turning back. Into the air hundreds of birds flew out of the forest and on the ground deer and other animals were running to escape. When the people reached the blocked part of the road they got out and used a chain saw that was in someone's truck and started to cut the fallen trees to clear the way. They drove to next town called Oak Valley, which was also the woods. Oak Valley residents could not see the smoke or fire when it started. By the time the people in vehicles arrived the embers were shooting all over. Women and children were screaming, “We are going to die!" and "Don't talk, just run!" Fire 151