Young Authors Chapter 2

Chapter 2 by Sarah Booth

A  few  seconds  after  Vicky  had  put  her  arms  around  the  blob  like  alien,  something  strange  started   to  happen.  The  blob  started  to  rap  itself  around  her  like  a  second  skin,  then  very  slowly  started  to   seep  deep  into  her  skin,  until  you  could  no  longer  see  the  blob.  "Vicky",  I  say  quietly,  "are  you   OK?"  Something  about  her  just  didn't  seem  right  anymore.  Well  of  course  not!  She  just  injested   a  blob  thing.  All  of  a  sudden  something  unexpected  happened.  "Your  sister  is  gone  now"  said   Vicky,  but  I  am  not  quite  sure  if  it  is  Vicky  or  the  blob  anymore.  Then  Vicky  vanished  into  thin  air.   "Where  did  she  go"  I  thought.  "Note  to  self,  never  trust  an  alien".  
The  door  opened  and  mum  walked  in  to  the  room.  "Oh,  no!"  "What  am  I  going  to  do,  mum  is   going  to  freak!"  "Matt?"  said  mum,  "what  are  you  doing  in  here?"  "Ummmmm"  is  all  I  can   manage  to  say.  Then  mum  looks  worried,  "where's  Vicky?"  I  had  to  tell  her  the  truth,  so  I  did,   even  though  I  knew  she  wouldn't  believe  me.  "She  got  taken  over  by  a  weird  blue  alien  blob  thing"   ,I  say  as  calmly  as  possible.  "Ya  sure  she  did,  and  now  next  your  going  to  tell  me  that  you  saw  a   flying  pig."  Well  of  course  she  doesn't  believe  me.  
BOOM!  "Matt  what  was  that?"  asks  mum.   BOOM!

 "I  don't  know,  but  it's  coming  from  outside."We  both  look  out  the  window  and  on  the  grass  was   Vicky  blowing  up  the  lawn.  "WHERE  IS  IT!"  yelled  Vicky  "  IT  SHOULD  BE  HERE!"    "What  does   she  mean  by  where  is  it"  I  think.  Then  the  ground  started  to  shake  as  something  slowly  rose   from  the  ground.

Chapter 2 by Grace Heagren, Year 8 Student

The floorboards groaned as my quivering feet collapsed on the cold wooden floor. My eyes roll back and forth to the sound of Missa’s howling sobs.  The white lace curtains swayed in the draught coming from the approaching storm.

I lifted my head to see Vicky comforting Missa.

“Missa scared, Missa needs help”, she said in her shrill voice. “Missa long way from home.”

Vicky clasped Missa to her chest and held her tight.

I wonder what we could do? She seemed so lost and scared.

Missa snuggled into Vickie’s shoulder, and made soothing gasps as she lay there. Vicky leaned forward to wipe a salty purple tear that was trickling down the side of Missa’s face, with her finger. Suddenly Vicky gave a sharp yelp, “OUCH, I think Missa bit me” I reached across and tried to pull Missa away from Vicky, but she was firmly attached. From the middle of her blob like body a tube had entered Vicky’s flesh and the outer parts where starting to stick to her freckly skin.

“GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF, GET IT OF, ITS STINGING”.

I tried to pull it away, but the purple jelly just slipped through my fingers and reattached itself more firmly. We had no clue what to do!

After a while the purple jelly part dissolved and withered away leaving, a small pin prick mark. A short time after Vicky laid her head back and her eyes rolled up into her head. Her skin began to turn purple and I could see a strange thing happening beneath her skin. She let out a small sigh and her body contorted and there before my eyes stood a large intimidating purple creature.  “Who are you? I said and where is Vicky?”  “I AM MISSA FROM THE PLANET PLUTO AND OUR MISSION IS TO TAKE OVER THE PLANET EARTH.  Millions of us are ready to invade, now I have established a gate way through Vicky”. 

“You can’t”, I said.

 “Watch me”, he said. Just then I felt a small tickling sensation on my check. My hand reached up and I felt a jelly like substance on my face. I started to scream. Just at that moment I felt a sharp prick into the side of my face.

Chapter 2 by Carys Budding, Year 8 Student 

 I stared at the blob, unsure what to do, as my sister held it in her arms. Finally I knew we had to get to the spaceship and help fix it. "Where is your spaceship?" I asked, but the blob just stared at me like I was crazy. My sister quietly giggled and this made the blob laugh loudly too. It wasn't like a normal laugh though, it sounded like a mixture between a cow and a pig. It was also VERY loud! My sister quickly whispered "shhhh shhhh!" into the blob's face and the blob started to wail even louder than it did before and made too much noise. The blob wiggled out of Vicky's arms and started throwing everything it could. It looked right at the lamp beside Vicky's bed, but I grabbed it before the blue blob could.

This Lme my Mum and Dad woke up and I could hear them moaning and groaning as they got up out of their old, creaky bed. Their footsteps were geNng closer and closer. We had to hide the blob! I Lghtly grabbed the blob into my hands and it started throwing a tantrum. "Missa I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to put you in a box for a minute so you don't get seen by my parents. Okay?"
"Missa don't want to get caught by p-­‐p-­‐parents!" I found a box under Vicky's bed next to where the strange blue blob was and put it in. I saw a tear in Vicky's eyes, but just as I was going to ask why, the door opened widely and my exhausted and very annoyed parents walked in.
"What are you doing!" cried my Mum.
"Vicky had a nightmare and I came to see if she was okay", I replied. Everyone looked over at Vicky and she slowly nodded.
"What was all that noise then?" asked Dad not to convinced.
"I...... tripped over Vicky's dolls. They are always all over her floor and they never get Ldied up!"
"Okay, just go back to bed now. And no more noise!" said Dad just

wanLng to go back to bed to get some sleep. I stood up and followed my Mum and Dad, but when I got to the door, I turned back and winked at Vicky. She knew what that meant.
I jumped back into bed and my mum came in to kiss me goodnight again. I waited for 5 minutes to make sure my Mum and Dad had gone to sleep. I opened my door and I could hear my Dad snoring like he always did. Even though the hallway was very long, I could hear the snoring as loud as a lion's roar! I Lp-­‐toed past the bathroom. I could hear the branches from the big oak tree tapping the bathroom window, like it wanted to come inside into the warmth.
I tried to open Vicky's door quietly but her door wasn't like mine so it creaked loudly. I turned the light on and looked around Vicky's room, but there was no sign of her. The box that I had put the blue blob in from Pluto was in the middle of the floor on top of the rainbow mat and the lid was next to it. Where were the blob and my sister?

Chapter 2 by Alex Wood, Year 8 Student 

The Blob under the Bed

I stood there my mouth opening and shutting like a gold fish's. I was gobsmacked. Eventually the sound of "Missa's" wracking sobs brought my glazed eyes back to focus, and I was vaguely able to distinguish words in its broken childish sentences.
" Missa get punished, sob, but Missa not trained for this, sob sob, Missa being touched by enemy, sniff" and with that strange sentence the strange little blue blob started to wail even louder, bounded out of Vicky's arms, flung itself to the ground, and started banging its transparent fists on our creaky wooden floorboards, smooth from decades of socks and feet shuffling across its dirt ingrained surface.
He ( I was sure that Missa was a boy now, judging from his actions) was making such a racket now, that I was almost certain that he was going to wake up my lazy parents.
"Missa!" I whispered "Please Missa, it's ok, we'll help you, please don't cry!" With my frantic words he paused, I sighed with relief! and then he started throwing his little tantrum again, if anything even louder. It took several minutes for Vicky to quieten Missa down, maybe it was her calmness and quiet manner, or maybe it was because her mind worked slightly more like his, but eventually his fists stopped beating on Vicky's dusty bedroom floor.
"What," I questioned tentatively, afraid he was going to burst into tears again, "did you mean by getting touched by the enemy, we are your friends, not enemy ? ".
M-Missa has to do what p-Pluto commander says, otherwise M-Missas family get... He trailed off, his huge flashing purple eyes sparkling with tears, and made a brisk grabbing gesture with his long fingered blue hands, and promptly burst into tears again, the what- looked -like computer circuits flashing brilliant colors that would not be found on this planet. Although this time Vicky did not rush forward to comfort him again.
Vicky was sitting cross legged in her rainbow striped onezie and fluffy pink slippers staring into space, a pained, horrified expression etched across her pale, usually rosy cheeked face. Her wide tear filled eyes were fixed on her purple fairy poster plastered wall, yet that was not what she was seeing. She did not even notice when Missa stopped blubbing and was now staring at Vicky like me.
"Vicky", I started unsurely, "are you, are you feeling ok?" I waved my hand in front of my little sister's face, she did not even blink as I clicked my fingers. As I looked more closely as her, I saw the strange reflections in her pale brown eyes. Flashes of bright light against a black sky, blue figures darting around it, falling as they got hit by the flash's beams.
Suddenly Vicky gave a shuddering gasp, and her eyes found mine. It was only then that I saw she was touching the lumpy, circle shaped birthmark on her collarbone. Was it just the strange blue light that the alien was emitting, or was it glowing? No! I shook myself. Honestly, how could a birthmark be glowing?. Vicky always made silly stories up about her birthmark. One time she said it was where an angel kissed her. Another time she said that was where a unicorn healed a cut. What with the events that have happened in the past hour, anything could be possible.
"Vicky," I said sternly, "what did you see?". 

Chapter 2 by Amber Hodgson, Year 8 Student

The wooden floor creaked tightly as I tip toed into Vicky’s room. I slowly open the door and see her curled up in bed with Missa.

“Pssht,” I whisper, I still wasn’t quite so sure about letting a monster living with us but Vicky sure seemed comfortable!

My whisper awoke little, tired, grumpy Vicky. She wiped her eyes,

“Matt? Is that you? What are you doing in my room at..”

She checks her clock.

“3am!!”

“Sorry, I was just making sure you’re okay, you know, sleeping in the same bed as a monster,” I answer quietly knowing by her red baggy eyes and facial expression that she is very grumpy.

I start to walk out of her room.

“Wait. Matt, I’m scared. Missa might have to leave,”

I look at her with a surprised look.

“Well of course Missa will have to leave Vicky, that’s the plan,”

I see tears form in her big blue sparkly eyes. They glimmer with shiny water filling them.

“But, I don’t want Missa to leave,”

“Missa don’t want to leave either. Missa miss you!” says Missa.

“Missa, I didn’t know you were awake,” I say.

We chat. Of course I was on track about wanting Missa to leave, and I thought Vicky was too, but now that I know it would upset her, I’m not so sure, maybe Missa needs to stay. The window was covered with steamy condensation dribbling down the window pane. It was irritating me, so I wiped it with my cold hand. As I wipe it, I see something extraordinary, a spaceship! The spaceship was purple covered with gooey, shiny green slime and silver, sparkly stars around the edge, it was magnificent!

But Vicky and I both know what happens next isn’t so glamorous. The spaceship opens with a loud clank and steam. Two monsters, similar looking to Missa, approached us.

“Wissa is my name. This is Lissa. We have come for Missa,” Wissa says.

Tears fill up in Vicky’s eyes again, but this time, in mine too.

“Missa gonna miss you Vicky, and Missa miss you too Matt,” Yells Missa from the spaceship door that is slowly closing.

We are going to miss you too Missa, we’ll miss you too.