hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh i i i i i i i i i i A PUBLICATION OF 826MICHIGAN PUBLISHED BY BLOTCH BOOKS, MICHIGAN A Collection of Stories Written by Writing for Adventure Writers Club Find Out–Our Mystery Bookof the Magical World
Contents About Our Story .................................................. Our Beginning ....................................................... The Hunt for Reddy The Gummy Pit .................................................... The Mysterious Ring
Contents .................................................. 1 ....................................................... 5 Reddy .......................................... 7 .................................................... 9 Ring ........................................ 13
About Our Characters
Our Story Characters & Setting
Character 1: A tall human female red hair, brown eyes, and fi re powers world. Her fi re powers and her she wears adventure cloth and herself and prevent herself from Her relatives have fi re powers. all her stuff, she found a magic When she puts on the ring, she unlocks flying powers. She is still control her powers. She never she puts on the ring, she wants lives with her aunt and her uncle.
2 female named Red with bright powers lives in a fantasy her hair correlate with her outfit; and a black face mask to hide from breathing in smoke. powers. When she moved and packed magic ring that gave her powers. she gets fi re powers and later still trying to learn how to knew her parents, and when wants to fi nd out who they are. She uncle.
She is an adventurer who travels helps the people and animals she powerful that people go to her for being helpful, powerful, and has a heart of gold. Character 2: An eight-year-old human boy and half-orange. He with superpowers, like super strength, when he touches an orange. He's time, so he's used to it and he just Setting: Magic cat and food land! no people; only cats, unicorns, cats can walk on water! The primary ocean! There’s also a cat school.
3 travels to different places and she sees on the way. She's so for help. She has a reputation and brave. She is very fi re-y but eight-year-old Native American, halfHe shapeshifts into an orange strength, when he is scared or He's had this power for a long just fi nds it a bit annoying. land! A magical universe with caticorns, and kittens! The primary water is a rainbow school.
Clouds are made of cotton candy are made out of donuts. There are gingerbread houses. The sky is different colors. Salad with ranch cheese, and catnip make up the rains, it rains tiny diamonds that force field around them! The climate feels different for every what kind of animal you are! Water Sunday at 3am. Cheese quesadillas say, “Cheese quesadilla!” and these when you eat them.
4 candy and crystal candies. Cars are gummy trees and is fi lled with sprinkles of all ranch dressing with tomatoes, the grass. And every time it that smell like catnip, and has a every animal—it depends on Water skiing happens every quesadillas appear whenever you these give you magical powers
Our Beginning
Beginning
T here once was an adult named Red and Jimmy McOrange, an eight-year-old American boy who was orange. They were in a far, far away. The clouds cotton candy, cars made made of gummy bears. could walk on the rainbow unicorns and caticorns, unicorn horns.
6 adult human woman Jimmy caticorns,eight-year-old"Orangey"Nativewashalf-boyandhalf-averymagicalplacecloudsweremadeofmadeofdonuts,andtreesbears.Therewerecatsthatrainbowoceanandwhicharecatswith
The Hunt for
for Reddy
R ed's sister, Reddy, Jimmy and they both Reddy. Red and Jimmy was at the house and they powers to fi nd Reddy. She coffee. Red and Jimmy and to help her. They found to cure Reddy.
8 got lost. Red ran into both tried to fi nd Jimmy found a house. Reddy they had to use their She drank poisonous Jimmy wanted to fi nd a cure found a magical apple The End
The Gummy
Gummy Pit
T hey met a unicorn, "Neigh, neigh!" A portal them. They flew into the unicorn went with them. inside the portal, they mountain of gummy bears, be saved with the donuts. wanted to eat them, and off of gummy watermelons.
10 unicorn, and the unicorn said, portal opened above the portal and the them. When they went landed inside a huge bears, and they had to donuts. The gummy bears and they only survived watermelons.
There was a crocodile hated people, but he wanted and do something nice screamed at the top of Rob said, "Come on guys, Orangey and Red believed donut with a little hole squiggled through the Twizzlers to help them Rob fi nally rescued them full of sticky gummies,
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crocodile named Rob who wanted to save them nice for once. They their lungs, and then guys, I'm friendly!" believed him. He had a hole inside, so they donut's hole. He had them get out of the portal. them out of the portal gummies, and Rob said, "OK, I
helped you, so now I'm Red said, "No, you have said, "OK, fi ne." Red accidentally used melt Gummyville, and sad. They grabbed onto and mashed them all together up together again. So now fi xed again. The caticorn a different planet.
12 I'm going to go." have to help us," and he used her fi re powers to now they were very onto the melted gummies together to build them now Gummyville was caticorn flew them away to The End
The Mysterious
Mysterious Ring
R ed and Orangey were they found a huge horn and dragon wings, river they were fishing brown, black, and white. fish and made a big splash!
Orangey got nervous orange. Then, a unicorn Orangey into the river too! In the river, there was who was trying to turn
14 were fishing. One day, huge dog with a unicorn wings, and it fell into the shing in! The dog was white. It slipped on some nervoussplash!and turned into an unicorn came and knocked too! Red got freaked out! was a candy monster turn them into gummies.
Then, the ring came alive candy monster into a lifeless ran off to get help from caticorns, and while Red remembered it had wings the river with the ring its back. When Red came tried to explain that his when Red went to look, normal ring again.
15 alive and turned the lifeless gummy. Red from the unicorns and Red was gone, the dog wings and flew out of ring and everyone else on came back, Orangey his ring came to life, but look, the ring was just a The End
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