Carl Cabana’s
adventures
Carl Cabana This clumsyhead dreams of being a real superhero one day. Doink! Oops…
Bo
She is such a drama queen! When she starts crying, you’d better run … well … swim!
Emanuel His (not so very useful) inventions always look spectacular, but are usually not very … useful.
Catrina
Daydreamin
g about ‘the one’ doe s not only put her heart on fire. Woops! Fire!
Carl Cabana’s
adventures
Bjorn Van den Eynde
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Chapter 1 BAD NEWS!
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! When my watch went off, I knew that it would bring bad news. My bed was so comfortable and I thought it would be an ordinary, regular school day. NOT. Bummer …
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEP!
such a noise
That stupid thing made that even our neighbours would soon be awake. So I jumped out of bed and clicked my watch open. The tiny slip of paper with the even tinier text on it got me wide awake. “Help!? Right now!?” I tried to remain calm … but panicked 5
immediately! I got dressed in a hurry, but my sweater got stuck on my head and I couldn’t see a thing. Whooo! My knee hit the bed and I stepped on Julius’ tail. Meeeoooow! Well why does that cat always have to be either near or in my bed? This was its own fault! But Julius did not agree. He jumped up and started scratching my leg. “Auch! Hey, stop that, will you?!” I stumbled downstairs in a hurry and smelled breakfast. Oh no! Mum was already up. But no worries, as a professional spy I sneaked to the front door. I had to get out quickly! I grabbed the handle of the door and just at that moment, Julius shot between my legs
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and stumbling I bumped into the coat rack. Did I tell you that I am super handy? “Ah Carl, you’re awake!” Mum walked out of the kitchen. “You weren’t planning on leaving without having breakfast again, were you?” Oh no … I couldn’t tell mum that I was in a huge hurry because she didn’t know . She didn’t know that I was a that we – my three friends and I – tried to save the world from time to time. She didn’t know that we called ourselves either and that it were the letters of MY name that were in front! Cool, right?!
superhero
Ca-Frabo-Ca
Ca-Frabo-Ca But I didn’t want my mum to find out, so I crammed my breakfast into my mouth as quickly as I could. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Burp! Oops! 7
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Chapter 2 BILLY THE BULLY I obviously ate too quickly. on my food, Or rather
gorged
devoured put away
tons
my breakfast,
in no time!
So when I ran through town, of course I got the
hiccups
.
‘Hic!’ Oh great! I didn’t have time to get rid of them. Someone needed my help! I tried to act as ‘normal’ as I could, but I’m afraid some people on the street might have noticed that … how do I say this … something might have been a little ‘off’ about me.
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superhero
Being a , I had of course superpowers. The only problem was that I wasn’t sure on how to use them properly. Quite the annoying detail! At the most unfortunate moments a heap of earth would suddenly appear. When I sneezed … when … I So I did understand why people would think that I was a bit clumsy. But that didn’t mean they could call me or a ‘bandit’, right?! Billy the bully used to tease me a lot with my powers. He was, without a doubt, the most sneaky piece of s…tinkysocks that I have ever met! And he was about twice my size and three bums bigger than me. When he was around, I tried not to be! Sometimes I dreamt that I would be
hiccupped
strange’
proper superhero
a one day and then I would teach him an unforgettable lesson!
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He he! That would be great! BEEP BEEP! But I didn’t have time to teach him a lesson just then. I had some stuff to do that was waaaay more important.
Chapter 3 DRAMA QUEEN BO I walked past my friend Bo’s house. She too had received the alarming message. I could even hear her watch from the street.
Bo was the third member of Ca-Frabo-Ca!
Frabo-Ca
Ca-
Hehehehe. I told you that MY name came first!
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Bo was a nice girl and a real heroine. She had superpowers too and did all kinds of strange things with water. But she was rather clumsy… just like me. Oh, and she could be a real drama queen! “Noooo, my costume is horrible!” I heard Bo scream and ran quickly into their yard. She stood in front of her mother with about ten rolls of toilet paper wrapped around her. Man, that was a unique sight! “This is the worst mummy costume EVER!” she screamed. Oh no, storm’s coming … When Bo set her mind to something, she got it. And when she couldn’t have it … well then she cried … a lot … And ‘a lot’ means
A HUGE AMOUNT OF WATER, SEAS AND OCEANS WERE JALEOUS, WAVES CAME GUSHING OUT. “I won’t go to aunt Frieda’s like this!” she said. “You ARE going to aunt Frieda’s like this!” said her mother. “No! This is the worst costume in the history of mankind!” “We worked on it for so long, Bo! What else would you wear to the party?”
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Even Bo’s mum was not aware of her superpowers that would pop up unannounced and uncontrollably.
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The worst thing for me was that she got my socks wet with her crying, so I took her by the arm and pulled her into her room. She was still raging. “Did you ever see anything like this?!” she asked. “I feel like the stupidest moron on the planet in this costume!” “Why?” “I can’t go to the party like this! I’m the ugliest mummy ever!” “Yes well …” I tried to calm her down. “Why don’t you go as a toilet paper monster?’ “A toilet paper monster??? The theme is Egypt!’ Woops, wrong answer. Talking to girls was not a superpower of mine, as you might have guessed. So I quickly took her watch off her nightstand and clicked it open. On the little paper roll was printed the exact same thing. Bo jumped up
(about a meter high!) “Help?! Who needs our help?” she asked. We ran down the stairs together. “I don’t know either. Come on!”
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