Spy Girl Sadie Hann

Spy Girl

One day Lizzie was walking home from school when she heard a sound in the bushes nearby. She stopped and stared at the bushes. Suddenly, a fox came bounding out.

“Flamie!” cried Lizzie. “Come here, girl!” Flamie was Lizzie’s pet fox, but Lizzie had not seen Flamie for a while. “Wait,” said Lizzie. “What’s that in your mouth?”

Flamie dropped an envelope into Lizzie’s hand. It said “To: Lizzie—From: Spy Detective Agency.”

“Hmm,” said Lizzie. She opened the envelope. There was a letter inside. It read, “Dear Lizzie, Unfortunately, we need your help yet again. We are sad to inform you that TimeTeller, the villain, has stolen the Gem of Creation and is planning an evil plot. We don’t know what it is yet, but please help us to stop TimeTeller. If you don’t want to, we understand. Yours always, Spy Detective Agency.”

“Of course I’ll help,” Lizzie cried. “Come on, Flamie, let’s go and get our spy gear!” Lizzie ran home with Flamie behind her. She burst into her house and ran upstairs into her room. “Let’s find that spy gear Flamie!” She searched all around her room. “Aha! Found it!” She put her spy gear in a bag and thundered down the stairs like lightning. She raced into her garage and hopped onto her bike. Then she put her gear into her basket and Flamie, too.

Lizzie pedaled as fast as she could to the old shed in the woods. She jumped off her bike and laid it in the grass, then ran up to the shed and knocked on the door. Knock. Knockknock-knockity-knock! “Come in!” called a voice. Lizzie

poked her head in. There was a talking portal. She stepped in and put on her and Flamie’s spy gear.

“Hi,” said the portal. “Why don’t you come through?”

“Where are you taking me?” asked Lizzie.

“To the mountains where the TimeTeller lives, of course,” answered the portal. “Where else?”

Lizzie picked up Flamie and stepped through the portal. “Brr,” said Lizzie. The portal was cold as ice. THUMP! Lizzie landed on the ground. A nut bonked her on the head. “Ow!” Lizzie cried. She looked up to see a sloth holding nuts in the tree. Hey, stop that!” said Lizzie.

“Stop that, Silver!” shouted a voice.

Lizzie turned and saw a girl about her age behind her. “Sorry about Silver,” she said.

“It’s okay,” Lizzie replied. “My name is Lizzie. What’s yours?”

“Echo,” said the girl. “What are you doing here?”

“Well, I have to find the mountains of Ice,” replied Lizzie. “Do you know where they are?”

“Yep,” said Echo. “Right behind you.”

Lizzie turned around and saw the most majestic mountains she had ever seen. “Whoa!” said Lizzie.

“Well,” said Lizzie, “I’d better get going.” Lizzie grabbed Flamie and Echo grabbed Silver. They headed towards the mountains searching for a secret tunnel. Suddenly, Lizzie shouted, “Found it!”

“Oh, no,” moaned Echo. “When you make loud noises, there’s an AVALANCH!” Echo screamed the last part!

“Ahhh!” Lizzie cried when she saw the snowballs. They were the size of gigantic pool floaties and they were rolling straight towards them! “Quick!” yelled Lizzie. “In the tunnel!” Lizzie, Echo, Flamie, and Silver all dove into the tunnel and waited for the avalanche to be over.

“That’s a very wise thing to do,” said a voice. They all jumped, even Flamie and Silver. They turned around and saw a beautiful ice crystal bunny behind them. “Sorry for scaring you,” the bunny said. “My name is Roselia. I was following you to give you this.” Roselia handed Lizzie an old map. “Good luck,” she said and then winked at them and disappeared.

“What is that?” Echo asked.

“I don’t know,” said Lizzie. She opened the map. “Oh, wow. It’s a map of the TimeTeller’s secret base.”

“Let’s see,” said Echo. “We’re pretty close. All we have to do is keep going through the tunnel.”

“Sounds pretty simple to me,” said Lizzie.

Suddenly there was the flapping sound of wings. “Yip!” barked Flamie.

Echo pointed toward the ceiling. “Oh, my gosh!” cried Lizzie. There were millions of fruit bats everywhere. “Quick, look for a piece of fruit!” Lizzie and Echo frantically started searching for a piece of fruit. After about five minutes Echo suddenly cried out, “Found one!” She tossed it down the tunnel far behind them. The fruit bats flew past them, and they both sighed a sigh of relief. “Come, let’s keep going,” Echo said.

Soon they reached the center of the of the tunnel. “Look,” Lizzie said. “There’s the Gem of Creation.”

“Wow,” said Echo. “That’s really the Gem of Creation?”

Lizzie stepped towards the Gem of Creation, and then glanced around to see if there were any booby traps. She kept walking towards the Gem and finally grabbed it. TimeTeller leapt out of the shadows and lunged at Lizzie. Echo leapt forward and tackled TimeTeller to the ground while Lizzie ran with the gem. Echo pushed TimeTeller and ran after Lizzie. They ran back through the tunnel and outside to the clearing where the portal was. They jumped through the portal and Lizzie poked her head through just in time to see TimeTeller. She and Echo closed the portal just as he was about to jump through it. They turned the Gem into the Spy Detective Agency and Echo became a spy as well.

Sadie Hann, Grade 3 Southview Elementary School, Waconia Teaching Artist, Stephen Peters