YEAR SIX - Modern Mayhem
3, 2, 1… Yay!
Finally, thought Sarah, Liz and Yasmin, the school term is over, we’ve got a whole two-weeks ourselves!
Everyone flooded out of West Willow High, shouting, giggling and jumping with relief that all the hard work was over! Now everyone can relax, sit back and enjoy the holiday, or can they?…..
Sarah, Liz and Yasmin all walked home, with linked arms, telling each other about their days and what they would plan to do in the holidays. What the nice, kind, loyal and clever girls didn’t realise was that nasty, mean, spiteful, jealous Amanda McOrr was behind them creeping up on them, planning to stick nasty notes on their backs saying ‘Kick Me Hard’!
All of a sudden the girls lent forward on their tiptoes and gave out a loud cry. They all started falling down the pavement into thin air! What on earth had happened? Amanda also stupidly lent forward (attempting to stick the notes on their backs) and fell with them! Oh No! What on earth was going to happen to them?….
“Aaaarrrrggh!” Screeched all the girls as they continuously fell through a strange, yellow tube with orange stripes swirled all around. Then came a heavy thud and they all landed on pink neon grass: All around them there were blue oval-shaped space ships, hovering about in the pale lilac sky with puffy purple clouds floating about.
“Where on earth are we?” gasped Yasmin, as she dusted down her white blouse.
“Don’t ask me” snarled Amanda. Yasmin, Liz and Sarah all jumped, with surprise. How did Amanda get here?
“Amanda, how come you’re here?” Asked Sarah, suspiciously.
“I fell down the pavement like you did, duhh…
“Replied Amanda in her usual charming (not) voice.
All of a sudden a strange man with thick white eyebrows and a long pointy beard, wearing a blue dress like item of clothing with a big yellow circle at the top, approached them.
“Greetings new comers,” he said – just like a robot “I am King Zorg. And you are….”
“Scared.” Sarah replied cautiously.
Ah, welcome miss Scared.” Sarah smiled slightly; was he joking, she though. Or am I dreaming?
“Listen,” said Liz, explaining the situation. “
We’re from the past, but we fell down a weird tube and ended up here. How do we get home?”
“Ah well, to open the portal to the past, you will need this key. The King Suddenly took out a golden key from his yellow circle on his clothes. WOW! Though the girls, so this is the future…
As King Zorg held out a golden key, an evil black figure swished past on a grey hovering scooter, and snatched the key out of the King’s hand! Then he zoomed off laughing eerily. The girls were all stunned.
“Oh Nooo!” Cried King Zorg, falling to the pink neon grass on his knees. “My Key! That opens EVERYTHING, from portals to my kingdom!”
“Who was that?” Cried Amanda, almost panicking as much as the king.
“That? That was my evil brother, King Anzulia. He is king of the dark world and admittedly has been jealous of me! Children, you know I can’t go or do anything without the key!”
“You mean, “ said Yasmin with tears in her eyes and a quivering voice, “We can’t go home unless we find the key?”
There was a deadly silence, which only the howling wind could fill, everyone’s face was as grey as the grave and everyone stared down at the ground. The atmosphere couldn’t be worse.
“Come. We can’t stand here and grieve,” protested the King.
“We can’t let someone like that steal our lives! We must go NOW!”
“Go where?” Liz asked, stunned.
The King replied, “Go and fight my brother to get that key back… and I know just what I need…”
“Hop on” called King Zorg almost sounding normal (less like a robot). Behind him, hovering about there was a green scooter, with a seat on, and behind that there were four more! Each of the girls, filled with nerves, less confusion and excitement clambered on to their hovering scooters. They were all ordered by King Zorg to push a blue button to make it go. Zoom! They were off!
“Ahhh! How do you steer it?” Cried panicking Amanda. It seemed obvious to everyone how you steered it, except Amanda, of course.
“You just use the front handle bars!” Sarah called back.
“Thanks” called Amanda. The girls were starting to like each other since they were in it together. Seconds later, they arrived at the dark Kingdom of Evil Anzulia. Decorated around the Kingdom there were black, scowling gremlins with sharp, nasty, stone teeth and scowling, menacing faces upon them. All of a sudden the Kingdom doors slammed fiercely open – it was Evil King Anzulia!
“Go Now, or you will BE SORRY! MUAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!” He threatened in his deep, mysterious voice.
“Anzulia”. Said king Zorg. “If there is no other way, I challenge you to a power battle.”
“Agreed.” Smirked Anzulia.
“Umm …” hesitated Yasmin, “What is a, umm… ‘Power Battle?”
Well, little clueless runt, “Anzulia said, insulting a shocked Yasmin in the progress, ‘A Power Battle’ is a battle between two Kings. But instead of using swords and old-fashioned what-knots, we use our powers. Now I will leave the key here, so you can present it to me when I win”.
”O.K.” said Yasmin. She looked cheeky, like she was up to something. There was a silence. Then she cried at the top of her voice “RUN!!!”
All the girls threw the key into the distance and opened a magic yellow spiral. They all ran as fast as they could and jumped into it.
Finally, they all thought, ‘we’re out of this crazy world, and time has stayed still.
We’ll never know what mysterious thing caused us to end up there, they thought. And we’ll never really know if the future will be the same.
But one thing they knew for sure was that they were safe and secure, and they’d made a new best friend.