A Collaborative Story by Our Summer Writers Club

Emma and Dusty's Magic Mushroom Adventure

By Our Collaborative Summer Writers Club

WHOOSH! The cold air from the mountain made Emma and Dusty shiver. Dusty is a fuzzy, warm, cuddly cat with white and black fur, and Emma is a silky-smooth, tuna fish mermaid with fuzzy rabbit fur. They are siblings who are best friends. They crashed into a planet with candy cane mountains and a sea of baby carrots.

Suddenly, there was a tiptoe from the shadows and a growl. A creature with three heads, red fangs, scaly skin, and claws appeared from the shadows! It chased them away through the candy cane mountain. The monster got distracted by a bird and red-cabbage cows.

Then, Emma and Dusty found a book given to them in their language by the candy platypus, that lets them know about the special mushroom that lets them fly so they can escape.

"Here's a magic book that has a slight sketching of the mushroom," said the Platypus. "But there are lots and lots of mushrooms, so pick carefully! Each one has a different power."

"Hm, this is weird. I wonder why this has never happened to me!" thinks Emma.

They look back at the book, and then Dusty says, in a hushed voice, "Better get moving because there are a lot of mushrooms to pick from!"

“BOOM BOOM BOOM!" The bird flew away so the monster lost interest in the cabbage cow. The big monster shook the ground as it chased them.

They tried to run to the top of the mountain, but the monster kept chasing them.

WHOOSH POOSH! The air whispered through the rocks. When the air whispered, it gave Emma and Dusty a clue about how to find the purple mushroom with blue dots and hearts. This was the mushroom that would make them fly.

The candy platypus went with them up the candy cane mountain, and the cold air made them shiver and shiver again.

Then the monster with red fangs and claws reached out and tried to drag them to a cliff. They used oil and butter to make the monster slip but the monster kept chasing them.

"RAWWWRRRR!" The monster barked and chomped at them as they got away from the monster.

The Candy Platypus gave them the book again, but then there was a new page that was talking about a special lock with a candy key that lets them get to the mushrooms. The key was a candy cane.

"And remember! Be careful because you can fall!" said the Candy Platypus.

They had to find the candy cane key because there were twenty gazillion candy canes. They found the key by looking through all the keys, and the right key didn't match with all the other ones. They tried to match all the pairs and finally got the key in time. They felt very proud because it only took them one day, although it was supposed to take a week. They only had a couple days before the mushroom disappeared because the super ants were going to wake up and eat the mushrooms.

They carefully opened the door and tiptoed towards the mushrooms. The mushrooms smelled like stinky socks, candy, fruit, and vegetables. Some mushrooms were like grapes growing and glowing.

The alarm went on. They realized there were so many mushrooms. How would they choose? They knew that they didn't have much time, so they looked frantically. Their eyes darted and their paws shuffled.

But instead of the purple mushroom with hearts, they grabbed the pink mushrooms. There was a rainstorm that washed away a day, so they had even less time to find the correct mushroom.

Then a pirate flying ship arrived on the island, and the ship pointed to where the mushroom was. But the person on the ship liked to eat tuna fish rolls, which was not a good thing for a tuna fish bunny. But Emma scratched her fin on a rock, so Dusty and the platypus had to get to the ship on a raft to get a medical kit to fix Emma's cut. They all got on the ship and flew away.

Suddenly, the ship crashed on a bow-headed flying whale. They hadn’t gotten far away, and they still could see the mushroom. So, they climbed off the wrecked ship and got the right purple mushroom.

When they finally got to the mushroom, they realized the ants had already devoured part of it! They fixed the problem using ant repellent. They knew from the book that the mushrooms let them fly and summon bunnies, but they stop working in

thirty minutes! The mushrooms are activated by bouncing on them until they are in the air.

They bounced on the mushroom. It was so powerful that the mushroom flew in the air with them on top.

The mushroom was so powerful that they couldn't control it. The mushroom was zooming too fast, and Dusty’s cat claws could not grab onto it.

Finally, everybody hopped off the mushroom safely, and Dusty went back to his home away from the tuna fish-bunny world. Everybody was sad without Dusty and decided to go back to Emma’s house so they weren’t separated. Luckily, a giant waterproof iPad dropped into the sea of baby carrots where Emma lived. The iPad could be used to call Dusty anytime. Then the sea of baby carrots turned into water so they could swim.