"The Rift"
Story by Toni

, for Jackie USA

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I was walking in the woods with my friend, Janice because this is a field trip to the forest and we were on a nature walk. Janice go tired and leaned against a thick tree. She chipped some bark off and the tree suddenly got suckeed into the ground and something that I would thought to be a dimensional rift opened up. Janice was sucked in and I jumped in to help her.

We were in a wonderful meadow filled with flowers and trees. Janice (being more childish than I,) ran off to play romp in the blossoms. I sat down thinking what could happen if we didn't find our way back. Our parents would send a serch party to look for us and they could get sucked in, no one can find them and they'd think aliens to....

" Yaaaahooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!" sceamed Janice at the top of her lungs. Sho probably didn't know the dragon she was riding on was real. Wait a sec, did I say dragon? I looked up. Uh-oh.

I looked for the nearest animal with wings. I saw a winged unicorn and jumped on it.

"Go get Janice unless you want the biggest whopping of your life!!!" I yelled at the startled thing. It started flying slowly. "C'mon you!" I mumbled through gritted teeth.

VVVVVVRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was the best feeling I've had since I tasted my first ice-cream. I was flying!

The unicorn was soon head to head with the dragon. It shoot a column of fire at us. The unicorn easily dogded it.My shirt got slighty burnt though. Janice and I were still enjoying the fun and that's why we were bucked off so suddenly.

"I'm too young to die!!!!" Janice wailed. I suddenly spied a blast of fire break a hole in the rift below us. WE were going back to our own world! Closer, nearer, almost there and...

BLOOM!!!

I fell out of bed." Wow, what a dream!" I said, until I saw a burnt piece of cloth on my nightgown.

"MOM!!!"

The End

Story by: Toni, age 11, Canada