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   When I woke up that morning I had no idea that by the end of the day I 

would have experienced life in a new world.

   I was doing school trying hard to focus on my work but a pesky fly would 

not leave me alone. It finally landed on our bulletin board. I tried to 

squish it with my thumb and in doing so I smacked my sister’s smiley face 

picture on the wall. 

   Each time I touched a smiley face trying to squish the fly, I heard an 

odd clicking sound. After touching four smiley faces I heard something 

moving behind me. I quickly turned around, the bookshelf had slid open. I 

had discovered a secret passage. 

   I cautiously stepped through the opening. To my amazement there was 

a golden brick path beneath my feet which lead me to a sign that read... 

  I instantly thought to myself, I must be dreaming, so I pinched myself, 

I felt the pain. This was no dream. 

   I had always dreamed about flying. As soon as the thought entered 

my mind I took off flying. It was like gravity didn’t exist. I was gliding 

through the air. I could see everything from the tips of the tallest 

trees to the golden path winding below. I thought to myself, How do I 

land? At that moment I pictured myself landing, and voila I was on the 

ground.

   I decided it was time to head back home. I quickly ran through the 

passage to find out that no one had been looking for me. After looking 

at the clock, I discovered that not a second had passed in the real 

world. It was like time had frozen while I was in Dream Land.  

   When I went to my room I wondered if I would be able to enter 

Dream Land again. When my mom called me to dinner I ate in silence 

as I thought about the new world I had discovered. 

   The next morning I walked into the schoolroom, and when no one was 

looking I typed in the combination. I held my breath, to my amazement the 

bookshelf slid open. 

   As I walked into Dream Land I thought of riding a dragon, at that 

moment I saw a dragon in the sky. Then I saw an empty saddle on the 

dragon. I thought, is that saddle for me? Only one way to find out.

   So I flew up in the sky going slowly so I didn’t startle the dragon. But it 

was too late, it was already blasting fire balls at me. I was constantly 

dogging the flames. 

   I finally calmed the dragon and got on the saddle. It was the best thing 

ever, it was like a super fast roller coaster! When I decided it was time to 

go back, I dropped from the dragon and walked through the passage. 

   That night I was too excited to sleep, I couldn't believe I had my very 

own Dream Land.

   The next morning while I was doing school I heard a huge thud coming 

from the bookshelf. I thought, what was that?...The Dream Land!

   I jumped up and grabbed my survival backpack. I always keep it packed 

and ready to go for my next adventure. I typed in the combination to enter 

Dream Land. When I got to Dream Land everything was dark. I looked back, 

the passage was gone! In a panic, I ran back to where the passage was. 

Desperately I felt all around, my heart was racing, hoping to find the 

passage way. It was no use. My way home was gone. My heart sank, would 

I ever see my family again? Tears began to well up in my eyes. I fell to my 

knees and started to cry. 

   I don’t know how much time passed before eventually I stopped crying. I 

walked down the path to find the Dream Land sign was gone and replaced 

with a sign that said...

   I recognized the name and remembered that Zodo was an evil 

sorcerer. I had read about him in my comic books. At that moment I 

knew it was my quest to save Dream Land.

   I could see the tip of Zodo’s castle over the bushy jungle. I set off 

to Zodo’s castle and I prayed for a safe journey. As I entered the 

jungle a wave of courage swept over me.

   After two hours of walking through the jungle I heard rustling of 

leaves in front of me. I yelled out, "Who's there?” A man jumped out 

of the bushes. I asked, “Who are you?” 

   "I am Josh." he said. 

   "Do you want to help me find Zodo?” I asked.

   "I guess I could tag along." he said.

   "Alright, let's go.”

   As Josh and I walked through the jungle we heard footsteps getting 

closer and closer. Soon we began to run. Then a soldier jumped out from 

behind a tree. He grabbed our arms, we tried to free ourselves but it was 

no use. What looked like the leader of the group came into view from 

behind soldiers. 

   "I am Lamarke the king of the Jungle. You will be my prisoners until 

Zodo hears about you." 

   We were being held at a camp somewhere in the jungle. We were 

guarded by two guards. They were big burly men with helmets. 

   Josh and I were tightly chained together around a big tree. We were 

whispering a plan. When something caught my eye, a piece of paper fell 

from one of the soldiers pockets. I managed to grab it but it was quite 

difficult being chained to the tree. 

   When we had a strategy we called to the men, “Hey, why doesn't your 

master kill us? It would definitely please Zodo.”

   The guards looked at each other, "Why don’t we? We would probably 

become king." They replied.

   "I will take the honor." one of the soldiers said. As he crept towards 

us he held his ax high in the air. As he swung his ax down at us we 

pulled the chain in opposite directions as the ax came down the chain 

broke. Then we ran as fast as we could towards the volcanoes in the 

distance.

   When we thought we lost them we climbed up in a tree. Then I 

remembered I had the paper that dropped from the soldier. I pulled it 

out. “What’s that?" Josh asked.

   Looking closer I realized what I was holding. "It’s a map!" I replied, 

"and we are only 5 miles away from the Volcano Twins!"

  When we thought the coast was clear we climbed down the tree and 

started walking toward the Volcano Twins. As we were walking we heard 

a strange rumbling noise, Josh and I stopped in our tracks. We both 

looked up, we saw bright orange liquid using out of the volcanoes! 

   “Hurry run”! We took off running between the volcanoes. We needed to 

get to the other side of the volcanoes to get further away from Lamarke 

and closer to Zodo’s castle. As the orange liquid came slowly down the hill 

we darted for the opening. I shouted, “Come on Josh we need to get to 

the other side.” Tiny specks of lava came flying through the air hitting us 

on our shoulders. As the lava drops burned through our shirts it caused 

excruciating pain. 

   We were making our way towards the other side, we were almost there 

when Josh tripped and fell between 2 boulders. 

   "I can’t move my leg, its stuck!" Josh shouted.

   I quickly ran to him. I tried to move the bolder but it was too heavy. I 

looked around for something useful. In the direction of the jungle I saw a 

log buried in the rocks. I sprinted to the log trying not to twist my angle 

on the razor sharp edges of the rocks. Luckily I did not trip.

   I grabbed the log and ran back to my buddy who was in 

unbearable pain. The lava was only 10 feet away! Hastily I put the 

log in place and slowly lifted the boulder, the lava was creeping 

closer!

   “Josh get up, I can’t hold it much longer.”

   Josh slowly scooted himself out from under the boulder. I could 

feel the heat of the lava getting closer and closer. I dropped the log 

and picked up Josh, and ran past the volcanoes.

   When we were safe from the lava I set Josh on his back and 

looked at his leg wound. After examining Josh's wound I knew we 

would have to wait a few days until we could continue our journey to 

Zodo’s castle. I went over to a nearby bush and took a large green 

leaf and carefully wrapped it around Josh's leg.

   After two days Josh's leg was feeling better. “Come on lets go, we need 

to get to the Tents of Terror before sunset. I folded up my map and put it 

in my backpack. When we were about 3 miles into our trek when we saw a 

dragon up above the tree tops. We quickly darted behind a tree hoping 

that the dragon had swept over us but instead we felt a huge thud that 

made Josh and I practically fall to our knees! 

   As we got up we slowly turned around to see the dragon using its 

powerful razor sharp tail spikes to cut down trees! We assumed he was 

looking for us, But we didn't dare move for the fear of him seeing us. I 

slowly pulled out a sword out of my backpack. I whispered my plan into 

Josh's ear, he nodded slowly and looked frightened. My plan was for Josh 

to distract the dragon while I sneak around the back side of the dragon and 

stab it in the back hopefully killing it. 

   As our plan unfolded we soon found out that the dragon had fire breath! 

The leafless trees gave us nothing to hide behind so the plan worked 

automatically because Josh was seen by the dragon immediately. Luckily, I 

was far enough behind the dragon that he could not see me. As Josh was 

jumping behind trees to dodge the flames I thought to myself, this is my 

moment.

   I ran towards the dragon, who was towering over us, my heart was 

racing! With my sword held high above my head, I plunged the sword 

into the dragon’s back. He screeched in pain, closed his eyes and 

smashed to the ground. The dragon was dead! I couldn't believe it, I 

slayed a dragon!

   Due to the dragon’s fall the ground started to rumble and then cracked 

open. “Josh run!!!” I screamed. When the ground stopped moving I 

peered into the 10 foot wide crack that was 200 feet deep. Josh and I 

walked a good distance away from the crack to be safe. Judging by the 

map Josh and I were coming up on Zodo’s prison camp called The Tents 

of Terror. 

   The next thing I knew something sharp was poking me in the back. I 

heard a voice, “Don’t move. I am Katooa, Zodo’s bravest warrior and 

head guard of The Tents of Terror." Before I could say chocolate pudding he 

had us marching towards Zodo’s castle. 

   It was still a full day hike until we reach Zodo’s castle. At 

midnight we stopped for a rest. When everyone was asleep Josh and 

I tried to sneak away. As Josh and I were tip toeing around the 

soldiers Josh accidentally bumped one of them. The soldier opened 

his eyes when he saw us escaping he yelled, “The prisoners are 

escaping!" We quickly bolted into the thick jungle. As the footsteps 

got closer we new we had to do something and fast! So we climbed 

up a large tree.

   When we were safely high in the tree we saw the men run right 

under us. After the footsteps faded we got down. I opened up my 

backpack which I managed to grab on our way out of the camp. I 

noticed that we were only 5 miles away from our destination. 

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