Otter Tales Volume II E-Book

• Herausgeber: Dancing Lemur Press LLC
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 97

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

It’s an Otterly Amazing Adventure!

Don your armor and prepare for adventure!

From the far reaches of space to the North Pole, you’ll set off on a quest filled with the exploits of princesses, heroes, and real life journeys.

From the imagination of children, these stories will delight and inspire with their originality, courage, and heart.

Speak with animals. Fly on a robotic dog. Shift into a unicorn. And even battle some zombies along the way!

Leseprobe

Edited by

Michelle Rutledge

and Lorie Tillman

DANCING LEMUR PRESS, L.L.C.

Pikeville, North Carolina

http://www.dancinglemurpressllc.com/

Copyright 2018 by Michelle Rutledge

Published by Dancing Lemur Press, L.L.C.

P.O. Box 383, Pikeville, North Carolina, 27863-0383

http://www.dancinglemurpressllc.com/

ISBN: 9781939844590

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system in any form – either mechanically, electronically, photocopy, recording, or other – except for short quotations in printed reviews, without the permission of the publisher.

This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Cover design by C.R.W.

DEDICATION

These short stories are dedicated to every parent, caregiver, mentor, and teacher that has ever and will ever teach these authors. Thank you for seeing their potential, never giving up on them, encouraging them, and pushing them further.  It is because of every one of you that these authors are able to accomplish what they have and what they will.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Tale of the Green Alien Ooze by Zaid De La Rosa

Annie the Elf by Kiara Ballantini

A Trip to Remember by Levon Brewington

A Voyage by Kenai Alexander Black

The North Pole Catastrophe by Makenna Hoffman

The Magic Ink Pen by Kellen Graham

A Crown at All Costs by Arcadia Meinecke

Reality by Walker Ingram

The Dream by Reilly Novchich

My Only Friend by Daniel Zou

The Hero of Coolsville by Dominique Cook

Aura by Athena Wireman

Lewis the Dragon by Isaac Hagley

Swan Princess by Dasia Gray

Love Story by Samantha Munasque

Ro-Dog by Isaac Messer

Alondra by Melany DiazCarballo

The Scooter Kid by Camdyn Weaver

The First Boy by Erynn Varner

Don’t Do This by Emily Bronner

The Tale of the Green Alien Ooze

By Zaid De La Rosa

In the future, scientists will build a rocket and send it into outer space.

It was looking for life on distance planets. When it returned, it came back covered in a strange green slime. It crashed down on earth and lost all of the data it had gathered upon impact. The green slime seeped into earth. It began imitating the world around it, becoming the mirror image of trees and all living things.

Meanwhile, the scientists, Tom and Jeff, were looking for the rocket. A random local man found the rocket on the coast of Hawaii, buried in the sand near some palm trees. He posted a picture of the rocket on Instagram.

The scientists, Tom and Jeff, saw the social media post and went to retrieve the rocket. They got the pieces of the broken rocket and took it back to the lab. At first, they found no traces of the slime and without any data to recover, they were afraid that the whole mission was for nothing.

They chose a very talented fencing team to search the impact sight and make sure nothing else was there. The team was the best duo fencing team in the world. One was a girl named Rebecca and the other a boy named Jay. They got special protective armor made of black obsidian and ruby, plus diamond swords. The black obsidian was for Jay and the ruby for Rebecca.

When Rebecca and Jay arrived, they scanned the area. At first they found nothing. They stayed on the Hawaiian island for a week just to make sure nothing strange happened.

After a few days however, their fears came true. Strange things were happening. Miracles were happening. Some of the endangered animals in the area doubled their numbers in just a week. Also, in the same place that the rocket landed, a lush forest was growing. This was very suspicious. They sent news back to the lab that these things were happening They were asked to collect data.

At first they just tried to watch and observe, but they started to set traps for the animals. They would need to see what was going on and test them to find out. They set up several traps and started taking clippings off the newly grown trees and vines.

After they collected several samples and caught a few different animals, they sent back everything to the lab. The scientists tested the data while Rebecca and Jay stayed to watch and observe. When the scientists cut into one of the vines, a strange green substance oozed out. Also, when they extracted a vial of blood from one of the animals, its blood was green instead of red.

The endangered animals were just replicas all along!

Rebecca and Jay noticed something else strange was happening. Vines had sprung up everywhere. They were growing across the forest floor, across the tree tops, and over the roads into town. However, they only spread during daylight hours. At night everything would shrink back under cover. The replicas had a weakness! They were sensitive to the moonlight.

All of a sudden, the strange new population of animals started attacking people. More than a hundred people were sent to the hospital from the animal attacks.

Luckily, the diamond swords that Rebecca and Jay used reflected the moonlight and made them even more useful. At night when the animals and plants had retreated to the shelter of the forest, Rebecca and Jay went hunting for them.

They knew that it would take a long time to gather all of them but they started trapping the animals. However, the animals weren’t the biggest problem. The vines were taking over the island. The vines came to life during the day and were making things very difficult. At night they were hiding undercover. The only thing that seemed to work against them was the diamond swords and the moonlight. It wasn’t enough though!

Back in the lab, Tom and Jeff were working hard to come up with a solution. They were building a laser that would gather up big amounts of moonlight and shoot it across large areas to kill off the vines. They were working hard but over a week had passed, and the vines were now completely covering up people’s houses.

Finally, the laser was finished! Rebecca and Jay met Tom and Jeff at the docks. The laser was so big that it had to be transported by boat. They had to break it down into pieces and take it to the top of the mountains where it could gather the most moonlight.

Once everything was put together again, the giant laser worked! They shot moonlight beams all across the Hawaiian island, killing everything that had been created by the slime. The original slime seeped out of the vines and pooled together in the space of the crash landing. They would have to work fast to get it all before it just started again.

Jay and Rebecca put their diamond swords together, crossing them high to catch the moonlight. They had twice as much moonlight power to shoot down upon the slime pile. They all stood and watched and the mysterious alien ooze dissolved into thin air.

The End

Annie the Elf

By Kiara Ballantini

Once upon a time, in a little village called Nuit Blanche, lived a brave girl named Annie.

Annie was not a regular teenager. In fact, she was an elf and lived in Alaska with her family. Annie’s parents were doctors and they owned their own elf clinic. Needless to say, they were very rich, yet strict.

Annie was an exhilarating and very sunny girl. However, she could become spiteful when she got mad. Despite this little flaw, she was brave, kind, and careful. She even liked to sing and perform martial arts, even though she has two left feet. In fact, she held a black belt in karate. In addition, Annie had ambitions of becoming a veterinarian and taking care of animals, specifically unicorns and reindeers, and so she took extreme pride in her studies.

But that all changed when the elf life was abruptly interrupted by the wicked witch whose goal was to capture the unicorns.

You see, the witch needed the horns of the unicorns to make her magic spells and magic potions for humans. For this reason alone, the witch was driven to capture the magical horses.

In a hurry, all the elves roused around the Oracle for advice on how to defeat the Black Witch and save their precious unicorns. The Oracle revealed that there is only one way to defeat the Black Witch—find the White Water. The White Water was a pure water that flowed into a special river, and if evil people come in contact with this water, they die. However, there was one big problem: the water was located in the human world, specifically Canada where no elf had ever been.

Losing hope, the elves were desperate as they did not know what to do.

Annie on the other hand was furious because nobody was trying to save her unicorn friends. If you remember from earlier, one of Annie’s strengths was bravery. Not much scared her, let alone the Black Witch. Annie, determined to get her union friends back, hiked into the forest to hunt down the witch, tie her down, and demand directions into Canada.

Even though Annie was brave, there was still a little part of her that was scared. As she walked into the forest, she hoped the witch would have pity for seeing a child and help her out with her quest.

Annie walked for miles on end with no luck in finding the witch’s house. She became extremely upset as it started to become very dark. As a result, Annie decided to camp out for the night and start back up at first dawn.

When Annie awoke the next day, she discovered a light inside a cave. Lo and behold, the light was coming from a door. Could it be the witch’s house?

As Annie strode towards the door, she continually motivated herself by saying that she was not scared and nothing scared her. Determined to save her friends, Annie opened the door and immediately slammed it.

But what happened next was truly magical and not what she was expecting. She found the human world! The door in the middle of the cave was a portal into Canada

Annie was very surprised. She’d made it! She arrived in Canada on a really terrible day—the rain came down like buckets, the wind whipped on her face and hands, and the cold penetrated right into the bones. On top of that, it was very noisy. It was not quiet like her village. She’d just arrived, and she had to cover her ears from different noises, screaming kids at the exit of the school, a roaring airplane in the distance, and blasting car horns in the background.

“Wow! What a strange world,” she said.

She needed to keep going because she had to gather information and make a plan to find the White Water. But how would she do it with this bad weather making everything more complicated? She didn’t give up, so she waited for the rain to stop, and then she ventured through the streets. She started to look for children to ask about the information she needed.

And here they were finally! Children of all ages were playing. Someone kicked a wet ball while others ran with the bicycles trying to get into as many puddles as possible. Others had even brought chalk to draw something on the pavement of the field, but it was wet everywhere, and you could draw nothing. A little girl, however, stood aside. Annie approached her.

“Hello! I'm Annie, and I’m an elf. What's your name?” she asked.

“Hello! My name is Tara.”