Okay! I've been wanting to show you guys this story for YONKS and YONKS and YONKS! AND I'VE FINALLY FOUND THE DOCUMENT!!!!! So! Here is the fantasy story that I wrote in Year Seven, and got an A+ for. No, I'm not exaggerating.
The Blue Dog
A very long
time ago there was a kingdom called Cape Nort. In that kingdom there was a
castle. In that castle there was a garden. At the back of that garden was a
stable, and in that stable was a horse. This was no ordinary horse though. This
horse, Koryian, could talk and was the steed of the most famous and brilliant
knight in the country. Well, at least that was what the knight thought. The
actual situation was that the knight, Sir Frederick was the most hated person
in the whole kingdom. The peasants loathed him, the wildlife abhorred him, the
trees despised him, the sun and moon detested him and even his own horse
execrated him!
Sir Frederick
was completely unaware of this because he was too prestigious and special to
actually go and talk to people, animals, plants or astronomical beings. Koryian
was very sarcastic about it and Sir Frederick couldn’t comprehend sarcasm, so
he thought he was being praised.
One day Sir
Frederick and Koryian were at the top of the tallest tower looking out over the
kingdom of Cape Nort.
“ Isn’t it a
beautiful day, Koryian?” sighed Sir Frederick
“ Sure,
another one of those great days you set fire to everything,” Koryian replied “ I
mean you always do.“
“ Ha-ha,
you’re so funny sometimes Koryian.”
“ I’m not
trying to be funny.”
Suddenly
screams of terror rose up to the tower.
“ The people
are in danger!” cried Sir Frederick
“ Here we go
again.”
They ventured
down together to the sounds of screaming and saw a giant blue monster
terrorizing the town.
“ Rarrgh!!!”
roared the monster. It looked remarkably like a really really big blue dog.
“ To battle!”
Sir Frederick howled
“ Oh dear,”
thought poor Koryian.
“ Hello ummm
… what is your name?” Koryian shouted at the monster. He shouted because the
monster was so tall and because there was so much noise.
“ Scooter!”
the monster replied.
“ Scooter.
Right, Scooter what are you exactly?”
“ Why I’m a
dog, stupid!”
“ Well yes I
can see that. Why are you so tall?”
“ I am not
tall, everyone else is tiny.”
“ No, you’re
huge.”
This
conversation went on for a while until Scooter the giant dog flicked away Sir
Frederick because he was trying to chop up Scooter’s ankle and it was beginning
to annoy him. At this point Koryian had found out that Scooter had eaten a big,
green, seemingly dead, glow in dark spider and then felt sick afterwards.
Scooter had begun to walk around looking for help and meaning no harm, but
everyone was running away screaming.
After Koryian
had dragged Sir Frederick away and asked Scooter to try not to step on
anything, he had begun to wonder how to fix the problem. He decided to go down
to the wizard’s lab to see if Professor Heroni knew how to help. He also
decided not to take the knight with him because last time they were down there
together Koryian had almost been turned into a pumpkin.
“ Professor
Heroni! How are you this morning?”
“ Koryian!
You haven’t got that horrible knight with you?”
“ Oh no, not
after last time. He’s asleep.”
“ Good. Now
why are you here?”
“ I need you
to get me a specimen.”
“ What kind
of specimen?”
“ A green
glow in the dark spider I believe.”
“ Come back
in 25 minutes.”
25 minutes
passed and Koryian came back and was told the antidote to the poison.
“ The
antidote is a scale of the rare ice dragon Frostbane!”
“ Good, good.
Wait, what!?”
“ Sorry,
can’t help you there.”
“ Any
weaknesses of the most powerful and dangerous dragon in the country?”
“ His nose.
Hit Frostbane square on the nose and he’ll fall asleep.”
“ I’ll get
Sir Frederick to do it.”
“ The way to
the dragon caves is very dangerous. Take this potion. Koryian, it is only for a
last resort. Sir Frederick must be down for the count before you use
it.”
“ What does
it do?”
“ Trust me,
you’ll find out, and when you do it will wear off in 2 days. I’ll give you 1
potion.”
So the knight
and the horse prepared to go to the caves of the dragons. It was a 5-day trip,
so they packed fully. They put in the works: healing
potions, protection talismans, spare amour, jousting sticks, etc. Koryian secretly stashed the secret potion in his personal
rucksack.
“ Koryian
lets go, I want to slay some dragon!” Sir Frederick whined
“ I’m coming,
gimme a sec.”
“ Well, HURRY
UP!” screamed Sir Frederick.
“ Chill out.
I’m just getting my lucky baseball hat. You know it turns me invisible.”
“ Not that
stupid thing Koryian, I will not ride a horse wearing a baseball cap and that’s
that.”
“ Well too
stinking bad, you have a sword which is pointy and annoying; I have a cap which
turns me invisible.” Koryian stuck out his tongue.
“ My sword is
a symbol of power and makes me invincible, your hat makes you look goofy,”
before Koryian could cut in he continued, “ I mean a horse wearing a hat, a
baseball cap?”
“ Well if I’m
wearing it they won’t be able to see me, will they!” a compromise was made so they
both got to take their possessions of magic power.
They traveled
in a horse cart with a stable attached to the back. Koryian and 8 other horses
took shifts of 3’s to draw the cart. But soon they came to an old brick bridge.
Koryian unhooked himself from the cart and began to walk over the bridge.
KLIP, KLOP, KLIP, KLOP.
“ Who goes
there?” rasped an ogre in a terrible voice
“ It’s me
Koryian, Gerald.”
“ Oh, hi,
mate. You haven’t got that horrendous knight with you?”
“ Oi!” Sir Frederick scowled.
“ I’ll take
that as a yes.” murmured the ogre, “where are you headed buddy?”
“ The dragon
caves. Any advice?”
“ No but
watch out for Trolls. They’re a doozy.”
They crossed
the bridge looking out for trolls. The day dragged along and the sun spoke with
the travelers when he was close enough to the ground.
“ Hi guys, how did I do today?” the Sun began.
“ You did a good job Sun. It was
nice, bright and warm.” Koryian replied. They had set up
base camp for the night and he was keeping watch.
“ Thanks for letting me know. I
mean, hardly anyone talks to me anymore.” The temperature dropped.
“ Hey don’t get sad, when you’re sad it gets cold, everyone feels it.”
“ Thanks man.” The Sun sniffled. He gradually sunk bellow Koryian’s line of sight. Koryian went to bed and thought about how Scooter
was doing.
The next day
they set off again. They traveled along the path
until they came to the edge of the Black Woods. They stopped so Sir Frederick
and Koryian could have an argument. The result was that they agreed that
Koryian was to wear his baseball cap into the forest to see what the dangers
were. Koryian was also to take his rucksack in case of emergency.
“ I’m not sure about this.” Koryian Muttered as he shrugged
his rucksack over his shoulder. “I’ve heard that the monsters in there can smell fear and track it.”
“ That’s ridiculous Koryian,” Sir Frederick continued, “You shouldn’t be scared. Where is that
knocking coming from?”
“ Sir Frederick.”
“ Yes.” Sir
Frederick played along puzzled
“ That’s my knees, all 4 of them.”
“ Oh. Nuts.” Sir
Frederick remarked.
“ My point exactly!”
“ Those are rumours, fictional,
untrue.”
“ Riiiight. I’ll get back to you on that.” Koryian whimpered.
Koryian tried to trot through the woods but ended up in a nervous canter. He
cantered through the forest looking around at every sound. He went until he saw
a house. He looked in the window and saw a girl with curly golden locks of
hair. She was eating porridge and not looking too happy with what it tasted
like. It reminded Koryian of something, but he couldn’t remember what. He
knocked on the door. There was a small scrabble and eventually the door opened.
“ Who’s
there?” she asked. Koryian had forgotten about the hat.
“ Oh, right,
sorry gimme a sec.” Koryian realized.
After Koryian
had taken of the hat and introduced himself the girl she said that her name was
Melissa. They had a small chat, looked at some chairs (one of which they broke
by accident) and beds when they heard a roar.
“ WHO BROKE
INTO MY HOUSE?!” bellowed a loud greasy malevolent voice.
“ Who broke
my favourite chair?” cried a softer, kinder, but still quite angry voice.
“ Who (sob)
ate (sob) all my (sob) porridge?” whimpered a very young child’s voice. Melissa
and Koryian shared a look. The look for Melissa was one of utter horror;
Koryian’s was one of realization. He was standing next to Goldilocks. He
motioned for her to get on his back. She did and when she was sitting on
Koryian’s back she breathed in his ear.
“ What do we
do now?”
“ We wear a
hat.” He replied. He put his baseball cap on and galloped straight through the
startled bears. They rode swiftly through the forest and into Sir Frederick.
Goldilocks
returned to her home in a nearby village alone. Then Koryian spent the night in
the stable before awaking at dawn.
“ Sir
Frederick, I would like you to come with me this time, okay?”
“ Do I have
to?” Sir Frederick whined.
“ Yes you do.”
“ Blech.” Sir
Frederick grumbled.
This time
Koryian managed a steady trot. They travelled through the Black Woods in no
general direction, until Koryian smelt something unusual.
Gingerbread.
“ Mmmmm, that
smells goooood.” Koryian drooled.
“ What, what
smells good?” Sir Frederick asked, savagely. They hadn’t eaten anything for
about an hour.
“ I can smell
gingerbread (sniff) and frosting and icing sugar and gumdrops!” Koryian
Sniffed, “ Follow me!”
They galloped
for around 30 seconds. Then they stopped and gasped. In front of them was a
mansion of sweets. The first impression of the place was that the building was
a 3-storey glittering masterpiece of candy. The walls were gingerbread. The
windows were solid see-through sugar. The knocker on the door was a barley sugar;
even the chimney smoke was chocolate dust. Everywhere they looked was another
delicious kind of candy. Koryian stepped back aghast, the sight was
overwhelming. Sir Frederick, on the other hand, could not contain himself.
Koryian began chewing on a licorice fence-post painted in mint whitewash. Sir
Frederick launched himself at the house. Sir Frederick bit the knocker, sunk
his teeth into the flowerbed, chewed the doorknob, munched, crunched and
chomped just about everything.
A little
while later Koryian was about to say that Sir Frederick was a big, fat pig when
a cackle of laughter streaked across the sky. The was a blinding flash of light
and then everything went back to normal, only something was different about Sir
Frederick. The knight was changing slightly, like when you watch a lunar eclipse.
The red ball of light covering the moon gets bigger and bigger until you
realize that it’s gotten bigger. Koryian figured it out. Before the flash no
matter how much Sir Frederick ate, he remained the same size. Now he was
growing rapidly and Koryian couldn’t think of anything to say. Soon the knight was
so big he could nibble at the top of the chimney! At that point Koryian found
his voice.
“ Stop
eating, you big, fat, gorging pig!” Koryian yelled at the top of his voice.
“ What’s the
matter Koryian?”
“ Have you
noticed that you’re nibbling the chimney-pot?”
“ Yeah, what
about it Koryian?”
“ The last
time I checked, the house was 3-storeys TALL!”
“ I really
don’t see your point, Kory-. Oh”
“ Yes.”
Koryian grumbled. Suddenly the cackle returned. A witch appeared right before
the pair’s eyes, shrank and stole away Sir Frederick into the house (the door
of which had miraculously stayed intact) and left Koryian in silence with no
idea what to do.
Meanwhile,
Sir Frederick was being carried to what he thought was his certain doom. The
witch stopped and turned around, muttered something and knocked the knight out.
When Sir Frederick woke up he saw nothing but food. Only the food was healthier
this time, no candy or sweets. There was roast chicken, hams, lamb chops etc.
The only thing Sir Frederick could think about was how hungry he was and how
good the food smelled. He began to eat.
Koryian sat
there thinking until he remembered the potion. He got it out and drank it. He
felt himself changing. He felt a shot of pain and doubled over in agony. He
felt his hooves splitting, getting thinner, rounder and softer. He writhed
around until the pain stopped. Then he got up, only differently. Everything
looked further away. He staggered over to one of the windows to see his
reflection and what a reflection it was. Koryian was a human! Koryian didn’t
understand what he was meant to do. He looked around feeling giddy and sick
when he saw something glinting in a pile of rubble from when Sir Frederick had
disappeared into the house. Koryian picked it up out of the debris with his
brand new opposable thumbs. The gleaming item was Sir Frederick’s sword.
Koryian picked up his hat and checked his reflection before he put his hat on.
He had chestnut brown hair, icy blue eyes, and a light tan. In other words, he
was the handsome knight in shining
armour. He was wearing a light green T-shirt, slightly torn at the knee jeans
and a shark tooth on a necklace. He saw on the ground the armour Sir Frederick
had taken off to allow room for more food.
“ Koryian
where are you?” cried Sir Frederick as he stuffed his face. He could feel
himself getting bigger and bigger, yet he still felt like he was the same size.
The witch could hear the chewing from the other side of the gingerbread house.
She said to herself that he would make a very good fondue, except the meat
would be tough. Koryian, on the other hand was thinking about how to use a
sword when he heard Sir Frederick eating.
“ I’m coming
Sir Frederick, and please don’t scream, it will let the witch know where we
are.”
“ Koryian? Is
that you?”
“ Yep. I’m
almost there, and please… don’t act surprised!”
“ Surprised
about what?”
“ You’ll see
Sir Frederick.”
“ See what, I
get really bug-. Oh, um, you’re a-“
“ Don’t get
me started, fatso!”
“ Oi! I’m not fat!”
“ Try looking
in a mirror, pig face.” Koryian sniggered, “ Now, lets get outta here!”
They ran out
together, well Koryian ran and found out that he was quite fit and fast, whilst
Sir Frederick sort of bounced. They got into the horse and cart and rode into
the forest, getting in and out in 8 hours and kept going. The next day’s travel
was uneventful (excepting when they ran into some pixies- nasty!) until they
reached the side of the mountain.
“ You know, I
kind of like being human.” Koryian sighed
“ Shut up.”
Sir Frederick scowled
“ Why? What
did I do?”
“ What did
you do? You turned out to be a really hunky human and I’ve gotten fat since you
became human, so your not exactly helping.”
“ Well I’m
sorry I’m so fabulous.” Koryian said. Sir Frederick continued to grumble. The
cart could not make it up the steep mountainside, so they sent the horses back.
They started
to climb up the mountain. When the 2 men reached the top they walked to where
the temperature was coldest until they saw an icy blue creature. Sir Frederick
drew his sword and whacked the dragon sharply on the nose with the hilt of the
sword. After they were sure that Frostbane was unconscious, Sir Frederick
carefully prized one scale off the creature. Koryian noticed something
underneath the dragon. It was a Returno-globe. The concept of a Returno-globe
is to return extremely rich travelers (Returno-globes are extremely rare and
expensive) back to where they started. They used it to get back the castle. Koryian
ran back to Professor Heroni’s lab. The antidote was made and Sir Frederick and
Koryian went to Scooter and fed him the antidote.
“ Thank you
very much. Could you please help with another problem,” said Scooter, “I don’t
have any family, could you find me a home, Koryian?”
“ I know the
perfect place.” Said Koryian “The king loves the colour blue and his favourite
kind of animal is a dog. I’m sure he would love to have you live with him.”
The King was
delighted, except that Scooter’s ankles were badly damaged. Not unfixable, just
temporary. But still the king was angry because he was an extremely passionate
animal friendly man. He was so angry that he banished Sir Frederick, who had
done the damage, from the Kingdom. For Koryian’s birthday every year he was
given a potion from Professor Heroni. Everyone (except the knight) lived
happily ever after.
