The Magic Girls

In the busy, crowded city of New York City, nobody knew that 7 magical girls wielding superpowers lived above the clouds. Meanwhile, things were not going smoothly in PowerSecret Castle. There was a power outage as a result of Thunderbolt’s electricity problem.

“Oh, dang it! I forgot to refresh the castle’s energy before putting in the new wires into the wire box! Now there’s a power outage!” she wailed as everyone was frantically running down to the secret electrical basement that they had built last month.

“Just keep running! We only have 1 minute left until the castle explodes!” Dark shouted. Once they got to the basement, they started untangling the wires and refreshing the energy. A few minutes later, the castle made a beeping noise and the power was restored. Relieved, everybody went back upstairs.

Once they had settled back into the futuristic kitchen, the 7 sisters started eating their specially prepared breakfast.

“Sorry, guys.” Thunderbolt said as she ate her electric salad and steel cheese.

“It’s okay, Bolt. Even I forget to freeze the fridge sometimes.” Frosty replied as she drank her ice cold slushie. A bit later, everyone finished eating and started choosing what they wanted to do today. Suddenly, a deafening roar disturbed their conversation.

“W-what was that?” Lava spluttered nervously as the castle began to shake.

“Look over there! It’s a cursed emerald dragon!”

Oceanic alerted her sisters.

“Guys, if we want to defeat that blasted creature we have to suit up!” Float said as the girls ran back into the castle. In no time, they reappeared on top of the castle's lookout tower wearing boots, armor and headsets to match their element.

“Phase 1 begins!” Wind exclaimed loudly as she used her finger to summon a tornado that made the dragon dizzy.

“Light Mode!” Dark shouted, and a bright, blinding beam of light shot out from her eyes, making the emerald foe back off due to the brightness.

Lava, Frosty and Thunderbolt formed a dark energy orb by combining their elemental powers together and threw it at the dragon, who was now gradually losing health.

Oceanic produced an awfully sharp spear made out of water and using Wind’s help, hurled it at the dragon’s diamond eye, which was extremely sensitive.

Suddenly, the giant creature made a shrieking noise and to the girls’ shock, regenerated its health.

“Oh no! Do we have to fight this guy over and over again?” Float complained.

“We should get our war machines from the secret lab on the 5th floor!” Oceanic suggested. The 7 friends dashed into the lab, which was loaded with dark energy lightsabers, cannons firing lava, ice swords and much, much more.

“We should get our strongest weapons so we’ll defeat the dragon really quickly.” Dark recommended.

Once they were done selecting their weapons, they continued battling the mighty dragon.

“Time for Phase 2!” Thunderbolt said with excitement. While Oceanic shooted the dragon with her Octopus arrows, Frosty summoned her Snowling ball and Wind used her signature attack, the Forest’s hurricane. Thunderbolt used her teleportation power to get onto the dragon’s body and electric - shock its mouth, which was very fragile and delicate. The dragon roared and burning, scorching fire shot out of its gigantic mouth! The fire hit Lava but luckily, she was immune to fire because it was her superpower.

“Invisibility!” Float shouted as she turned into an unseeable cloud. She stole the dragon’s emerald gem in his hands using her magnet hands. Without the emerald, the beast felt powerless. Thinking quickly, Oceanic formed several sharks made out of water.

“Find a shark and steer it!” she told the others as everybody scrambled to find a shark. 7 magical, mighty sharks burst into action and were swimming rapidly to the dragon. Once they had reached the dragon, the sharks bit the creature very hard.

After a few bites, the sharks swam back to their huge, decorated fish tank.

Everyone thanked them and went back to fighting. After 3 dark energy orbs, 5 shock arrows in the face, 9 water spears and a fire arrow in the eye, the dragon was going down. Suddenly, the dragon started roaring and malice shot out of body.

“What’s happening?!” Frosty asked.

“I don’t know!” Dark shouted. The dragon started shrinking and fading away. Soon, it was nothing but a speck of dirt.

“ Yes! ” The sisters cried joyfully as everyone started celebrating.

They had done it, they had finally defeated the emerald dragon. It was because of their excellent teamwork that made the dream come true. They knew they could do it.

Suddenly, a one eyed cyclops rose from the ground. Frosty sighed. “And here we go again.”

School’s Name: Shrewsbury Int. School Bangkok City Campus

Student’s Name: Emily

Category: Year 5 - 6

Theme: Dreams

Smile

I flicked the light switch and my bedroom lit up. I opened the door to my bathroom, and brushed my teeth, pulling on my pyjamas at the same time. Dad came into the room and sat down on my bed, turning on the lamp. He gave me a wink, and I leaped onto the bed. He picked up the book on my bedside table, and I burrowed into the covers, my head leant against his chest. The warm, comforting glow of the lamp shone on the book, and Dad started to read. I hadn’t realised how tired I was until then. My eyelids felt heavy. I tried so hard to keep myself awake, but it was no use. I fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up to the sound of birds chirping. The sunlight burst through my open curtains, and I yawned. Today was the weekend, and I couldn’t wait to do activities with my parents.

As I got out of bed, I felt that something was wrong. There was no clattering of dishes downstairs, as there usually was. I thought Mum and Dad must still be asleep, and giggled to myself.

I tiptoed down the landing, my mind set on waking them up. I managed to stifle another giggle before silently opening the door to my parents’ bedroom. But when I got inside, I found that their bed had been made, as if it had never been slept in. I frowned. They had to be downstairs. So I rushed down the stairs, and looked in the kitchen. There they were! Dad was sitting at the table, and Mum was standing at the counter. Neither of them were moving.

‘Mum? Dad?’ I said. Still no movement. I walked up to Dad. Slowly, his head turned to look at me. He was smiling. I took a step back, and bumped into something. I turned. It was Mum. And she was smiling. I started to back out of the room, my eyes still fixed on my parents. And as I started to move further away, they started to follow. Slowly. Beaming smiles spread across their faces.

‘Dad? Mum? You can stop now. This isn’t funny.’ I stammered. They didn’t stop.

I started to panic. They were advancing, still smiling. I didn’t know what to do, but I thought I should just run. So as quick as my eleven year old legs would carry me, I dashed out the front door and out into the street. It was chilly outside, and I started shivering. But I sprinted down the pavement, not daring to look back. But as I reached the end of my road, I noticed it was… changing. I wasn’t in a town anymore, I was in a vast, humid jungle. That’s when all my troubles came flooding into me. I fell to my knees and wept. I remembered all the happy memories my parents and I had shared together, splashing in the sea, laughing and smiling. There was that word again. Smile. I thumped the ground and tears fell onto my fists. But then, I felt something. It was stroking my back. I looked up and saw the face of my mother. She wasn’t smiling. She was bent over, comforting me. I jumped up and hugged her, harder than I’ve ever hugged anyone.

‘Oh Mummy, oh Mummy!’

But then she straightened up. The corners of her mouth pressed upwards. Her eyes were wide and unblinking. I jumped back in fright, and closed my eyes, huddled up into a ball. I could hear my Mum giggling. But it wasn’t a normal giggle. It was high pitched and sarcastic, as if she didn’t even care that she was frightening me out of my mind.

Then I started to spin. I opened my eyes, and gasped. I was turning at great speed, my mother nothing but a blur. I started to shrink - no, I was drilling into the ground. I started hyperventilating. Then I blacked out.

I was lying down. On something soft, and strangely familiar. I couldn’t hear creepy giggles. My eyes shot open. I looked around me, and I realised that I was back in my lovely old bedroom. I was sweating, and my heart was going crazy inside my chest, but I was back home. It had just been a silly old nightmare. I slid my legs off my bed, and ran down the stairs. I checked the kitchen. There they were! They were behaving normally too, my Mum washing up some plates, and my Dad was reading a book, his hand reaching out to turn the page a few times.

‘Mummy! Daddy!’

They both came forward and embraced me. My parents were back. Suddenly, they stiffened. I looked up, and screamed. They were smiling.

School’s Name: Garden International School, Sathorn, Bangkok

Student’s Name: Noyna

Category: Year 7 - 9

Theme: The Mystery