Fireman’s Adventures by Ms. Gooel’s Second Grade Class

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A Collection of Stories by

Ms. Gooel’s Second Grade Class Martin Luther King Jr., Elementary A PUBLICATION OF 826MICHIGAN PUBLISHED BY BLOTCH BOOKS, MICHIGAN

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Our Beginning ..................

Rose & Fireman’s Secret

The Powerful Diamond .

Dragon Eggs Rescue .....

Single Grain of Rice .......

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t Mission ......................... 4

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Our Beg

ginning

A cat dressed as a

dogman with fire-

breathing and flying abilities named Fireman is in a castle in the middle of a field of flowers. The field is in a magical forest with lots of odd plants. The king

and queen of the castle tell Fireman to find a friend.

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Rose & Fi Secret M

ireman’s Mission

Fireman hears that

there might be friends on the other side of a volcano, so he flies over the volcano with no problems. His friend can’t cross over the volcano, so Fireman has to go get him. The wizard pigeon, Rose, is Fireman’s new best

friend. The king and queen want Fireman to shoo out of the castle because he is being annoying. There’s a secret mission that Rose and Fireman have to go on. They want to find a map that opens up a secret part of the castle. When they

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get back from their adventure, they notice that everyone is asleep, so they have to be quiet.

To get to the secret part of the castle, they have smoke bombs and plungers to walk up the walls. The secret part of the castle is on the very top floor. Inside the secret part of the castle

they find a chest. They have to go on another adventure to find the key. Inside the chest there is some gold and a crown, and under the chest, there is a pathway. The pathway leads to their very own kingdom.

The End

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The Powerf

ful Diamond

Long long ago,

Fireman was walking in a giant field of flowers, and he was looking for a friend. Then, a robot dragon and Dr. Pigeon came out of nowhere!!!

Dr. Pigeon says, “Fireman has an appointment

scheduled!” Fireman has a doctor’s appointment to test if Fireman’s powers are still working.

Then, Fireman asks Dr. Pigeon, “Will you be my friend?”

Dr. Pigeon says, “I am a doctor, but I have a

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friend that is a pig.”

Robot dragon says, “I like Dr. Pigeon too!!!”

Dr. Pigeon says to the robot dragon, “I want to be your friend.”

There’s a reason why nobody wants to be friends with Fireman and that’s because they are afraid he will accidentally light

them on fire. Fireman decides to show them that he isn’t harmful by getting a diamond that tells you all your powers. Fireman thinks the diamond will help Dr. Pigeon think he is harmless. The diamond is at the top of a mountain with lots of snow and ice.

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He’s going to distract the people at the top of the mountain, so he can grab the crystal and run down the mountain. He melts the snow and ice. Then, he starts running down the mountain, but it was icy. He has to make sure not to go too fast and also not too slow

because the wind will catch him if he goes too slow.

Fireman goes to find Dr. Pigeon and the robot dragon, but can’t find them. Fireman goes to the palace, and Dr. Pigeon was hiding there the whole time! It turns out that Dr. Pigeon was the

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one who planted the diamond after all!! The robot dragon goes to a secret lab to make Dr. Pigeon invisible.

The whole time Dr. Pigeon wanted to see if Fireman would look for them. Fireman has an issue though. He can’t see Dr. Pigeon! Fireman then creates invisible

glasses that can see Dr. Pigeon. Now Dr. Pigeon and robot dragon trust Fireman!!!

The End

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Dragon Eg

ggs Rescue

Fireman goes into the

cave to find a dragon.

The dragon has red

eyes and has cannons on its body. It can transform into a robot.

Fireman goes to fight the dragon and the dragon breathes fire on him, but it doesn’t

do anything. Fireman goes underwater while the dragon remains above. However, they almost crash into each other. Fireman needs to rescue a person in the cave but must defeat the dragon first. The person, whose name

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is Bob, was kidnapped by the dragon and kept in the cave. While in the cave, Fireman finds some dragon eggs. Instead of being destroyed, the dragon flies away. Then, Bob and Fireman go back to the castle with the dragon eggs. They defeat the dragon

while they’re at the castle. They protect the kingdom and decide to raise the dragon eggs as their own to guard the castle. They live happily ever after!

The End

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Single Gra

ain of Rice

Fireman is looking for

a friend per the king

and queen’s request.

The castle is filled with odd flowers that make Fireman sneeze. In order to stop sneezing, he must eat a single grain of rice without touching any other

pieces. Fireman knows that the rice must be inside the kitchen of the castle. The guards see Fireman and think he is a bad guy. In order to get away from the guards, Fireman must go up the long five story staircase,

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sneezing all the way up.

His fire breath made it hard to go up the stairs. Fireman finds a worker that looked just like him, except they breathed water instead of fire! Their name is Waterman. Waterman wants to help Fireman by getting the rice for him.

Oh no! The guards are still after them, so Fireman goes to let out a roar of flames, but he can’t breathe fire because of the sneezing. Waterman, knowing that the guards love to swim, makes a swimming pool for the guards to have fun in. Fireman

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and Waterman rush toward the kitchen, but they stumble into another pair of guards!! The guards want to bring Fireman and Waterman to the pool, but Fireman, still sneezing, needs to go to the kitchen to get one piece of rice. But where is the rice? They

look everywhere, but there is no rice, not even in the rice cooker!

They decide to go to the next level because Waterman knows there is a food storage room that might have extra rice. They look up and down and thought there was no rice in the room, but they both

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look under the table and find . . . One piece of rice!

Fireman eats the rice and his sneezing stops.

Fireman and Waterman are happy that his sneezing stopped.

Fireman is jealous because Waterman is friends with the guards.

But Waterman assures

him that it’s okay, and they both go introduce him to the guards and swim with the guards in the new pool in the field of strange flowers!

The End

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