A Wondrous Adventure

Brooke Chesney

Age 9

A Wondrous Adventure

Bammm crash! It was a dark and stormy night, and the only thing you could see was the light of Darry the Dat’s glow in the dark underwear. Dats, if you may be wondering, don’t eat anything; they survive on only water. They have blue fur and slimy green eyes and a small yellow nose.

He wore the underwear every night because he lived in the stomach of a whalecorn, and a whalecorn’s stomach is dark. A whalecorn is one hundred yards long and 10,000 yards tall! But this one looked too small. You might be thinking: how did he get there in the first place? Well, when he was young, he and his mother were walking along on a dock. It was his birthday, so his mom bought him glow in the dark underwear. Darry loved them. But then he got swallowed by a whalecorn. Darry shook himself to sleep, and he closed his eyes and dreamt of what it would be like out of the whalecorn . . . He dreamt of mountains made out of ice cream, and he imagined him taking a spoon full of it! He imagined lollipop stew, his favorite type of stew sizzling in a hot pot, and his mom and dad eating it next to him.

Just then, he woke up to “Ahhhhh help!” What was that? Thought Darry. The wind was pounding on his face.

“H . . . hello? “ said Darry.

“My name is Penny, and I was walking along the coastline until woshh I got swallowed by . . .” said Penny.

“A whalecorn,” said Darry.

“So what are you doing down here anyway?” Penny said, looking around.

“Well,” Darry started to think, “I don’t know how I got here to be honest!”

“Well, we’re getting out of here, and I know how.”

“How?”

“Well, first we have to wait till the whalecorn goes up for air. Number two, we have to aim for the blowhole, and ta da we’re out of here!”

“Oh um . . . I can’t swim,” said Darry.

“Oh, don’t worry about it. I’m a natural. Just umm hold onto this piece of wood.” Penny then slowly slipped the piece of wood into his wet hands. Then, she dragged him over to the blowhole and pushed him forward. “Come on, the whalecorn is coming up for air soon!”

“I’m ready!” Darry yelled. And off they went. As Darry clutched onto the

wood, they blasted out of there. Then, they fell right back into the water. Splash!

“DARRY! DARRY!” yelled Penny.

“Penny, over here!” Just then, a giant candy tsunami started to rage toward them.

“Ahh ohh nooo!” they yelled as the Jolly Ranchers and jelly beans tumbled over them.

Cough cough . . . sand was pouring out of their mouths onto the hard rocky land. Darry got up slowly and steadily because the ground was so slippery and hard. Once he was up, he tapped his tiny feet on the ground and raised his chin up proudly and said “We’re not dead!”

Just then . . . “Hello!” yelled a meerkat hanging from a vine. “Welcome to Meer Island, the land of the meerkats.”

“Ehhhh hi?”said Darry shyly.

The meerkat hopped off the vine and stood up proudly. “My name is Simon.”

“How long have you lived here?” Penny said.

“Fifty years,” Simon said. “Now come on, we have nothing to lose, come on!” Simon then jumped on a vine tugging Penny and Darry on with him. “Come on, we have to go.” So Penny thought, Ok! And pulled Darry on too. They were swaying through the trees for like what seemed forever.

They landed at an oddly familiar dock that had faint purple paint reading, “Happy Birthday!”

“What!?” said Darry, “Could thi—”

Before he could finish, Simon interrupted and said, “Umm well, my house is right over here come on!” Darry and Penny looked at Simon mysteriously then went on walking. Once they got there, Simon told them to lay down in the freshly made beds. Almost like he knew they were coming . . . ? Penny looked at Simon and then fell asleep. Clash! Boom! Boom! Darry shot up like lightning, and looked around; Simon and Penny were still asleep. Just as Darry started to fall asleep, he saw some sort of blue paper behind a dresser, so he slowly but kind of fastly tiptoed over to the dresser. He picked up the blue paper, and it had a robot whalecorn and a note that said, “Reminder: go to dock on Darry’s birthday and use the robo whalecorn two thousand to go to swallow him!” Darry could not believe Simon was the one who swallowed him with the whalecorn!!

Darry remembered something and zoomed outside. What was he doing? He ran up a hill to a small cottage and calmly but firmly knocked on the door, and his mother was standing at the door! Darry hugged his mom and smiled. He was home.