Tiffany’s Adventure

Janie Shi

Age 8

Tiffany’s Adventure

Chapter 1: Where It All Started

“Donk, yay! I won against my sister again!” I said loudly, making a small earthquake. Wait wait . . . This is not even the start of the story! Back it up! Back it up! Well, it all started on December 5, 2001 in Alaska when this girl called Tiffany Steiger was born. She lived in a little house made out of the finest wood you could ever find. It was teeny tiny. It looked like it could only fit two people from the outside, but when you go inside, it looked like you were in a castle. Now that is called magic. That was why they kept a secret, which was their magic. Now Tiffany was a lucky little girl. She had the power of water, which was really scarce in Alaska. So what I mean by that is that if they do not have any more water, they could get some from Tiffany as well . . . that was about thirteen and a half years ago. Now Tiffany is fourteen and a half, and her father died from a disease called leukemia, and her mother had no energy to spend time with Tiffany. So what Tiffany does is make her power stronger and stronger.

Chapter 2: The Tsunami

You all know this water monster caused by earthquakes that happened a few weeks ago. I was worn out from it. Gladly, it was a small one, because if it was two times larger, I would have died. I found out my powers were pretty weak, and I could have just left it instead of battling it. I figured out it was better to move than just staying here, but I knew we did not have any money. I checked on my little sister Samantha while I waited to go outside before mother and father came back, but when I called her to come downstairs, she was worn out from her homework as if she did 1,000,000,000 jumping jacks. While on the other hand, my older sister Melody, who was at the back of an apartment, remembered we were born in Alaska. I forgot to tell you that my sister was invited to her friend’s house, so she had to go all the way to Japan. That’s why she looks like she is not in Alaska. While she was in a warm nice place, I had to protect my family. We had a small family, we only

had Samantha, Melody, Mother, and Father. Mother and Father had come back from work just in time. Since we lived in Alaska, the only food we could afford was fish. And that WAS REALLY boring. So one night, on April 4, 2014, I used my water pallet to fly around the Catskill Mountains, which were the closest mountains to us. Once I got there, I saw a black cave, and I went outside to take a peek. It led me to a big pile of lava, but I wasn’t scared because my main power was water, and lava + water = stone and ash, so all I had to do to cross through the lava was just jump on it while I shot a blast of water across it. It was fun because I hadn’t done it for a while this month because there was rarely any lava in Alaska. Only one percent of lava could be found. When I passed and found an exit from the cage, it led me right into the Catskill Mountains. It was extraordinary. I was starting to wonder if I could live here because I had never moved away from Alaska. When I found a cave, I saw a black shadow from the cave. It was a little girl, holding a stick and wearing a red jacket and thick snow pants, which were gray and very dark. I said “Hello? Who are you?” She answered in a language that I couldn’t understand. I think it was Russian because I heard Russian before. I used all of the things I learned in Russian, and I replied in Spanish instead. Was I stupid? Why did I say that? The girl just looked confused as she ran away to collect wood for fire. I followed her and saw our house. I found out that I literally walked a circle around the Catskill Mountains. I was so mad at myself for doing such a stupid thing that I literally dropped my phone. I wondered what my sister was doing, so I checked my Instagram and found out she was coming back. She had just posted a video of her on the plane, so I guessed it wasn’t going to be a good day today . . . she is such a big bossy pants, always a big bossy pants. While I was walking through the mountains, I accidentally tripped over on an old dusty book. It had a cat on the cover with a birthmark of the dragon. I picked it up and I shoved it in my bag, and I thought it would be better to go to Olivia’s house, but just as I stepped back, I realized that I forgot to bring my power belt. It was the only thing that could give me powers in the weak seasons. “Gosh dang it,” I said awkwardly as I kept walking. Every step seemed like magic, every step, every step.

Chapter 3: Levitation Forest

I saw myself in a mirror. Everything was the same in the mirror, but somehow it turned into a portal to a forest. When I put my hands on it, it glowed so brightly that I had to cover my whole face, so I wouldn’t see the brightness. When I went through the portal, I was levitating, and I was in the forest. But

the first thing I saw was my stupid old sister.

“Soooooooooo, you sent me here to say hi to ya, y’all with your stupid friends doing the flamingo dance, and do you know how to do a axel on ice?” I said suspiciously.

“Look Tiffany, it isn’t just me being jealous of all the good powers, and by the way what’s the square root of 120?” said Melody with a grin that I couldn’t stand. And I’d tell you that I made a bad choice. I punched her as hard as I could with my fist. Nobody knows why I’m always the one who is the strongest. I had to carry this stupid elephant all the way home. Mother gave me some soup made out of celery, carrots, lettuce, and unicorn tails, which were the main ingredients for curing a person. But my stupid sister just couldn’t stand the gross looking tails, so she lied to Mother by saying that it needed to cool down. Mother went upstairs to talk to me. While Mom wasn’t looking, Melody took all of the tails and threw them outside and drank the rest of the soup. When Melody was drinking the rest of the soup, Mother called me, and I knew she was going to punish me, but instead she got out a dusty box from the garage and inside was a spell book.

“You are independent from now on.”

“Wait . . . WHAT? Melody is older than me, and she still isn’t a grown up!”

“I want to show you how hard it is to live by yourself as a punishment.”

Chapter 4: Shadows in the Light

I opened the spell book, and I was sent right into the World of the Lost. I panicked, but at least I had my power belt. WOOSH. There came a monster. I freezed it with my icy water power and BOOM, here came another one. I literally spent the whole time killing monsters in the Land of Lost, and I arrived at a house that said, “Welcome.” I knew I passed whatever monster thingy test, and now I’m a grown up? I walked into the house. It was a mansion compared to my old house, and I was in a whole new world. It was filled with flowers and green trees. Nothing like Alaska, nothing like Alaska. From now on, I stayed outside looking at the children playing down the street, everyday, everyday, I never went inside ever again. It’s a whole different world when you are outside versus when you are inside. I’d never ever go back inside again. My powers kept growing while I got more trustworthy and stronger. I knew it had helped. I never went inside again.

The End