By 5th Grade Students at Washington Open Elementary
December 2014
The alien stood by its spaceship. Bob, the llama, watched.
The alien was about the same height as the llama. It was neon orange and super skinny. It looked a lot like a fish only standing upright, and it had a very large fin on its back. The alien had a rainbow unicorn horn on its head. Bob thought that the alien’s ship was a little on the small side for the alien’s size.
Bob thought the alien would feel hairy to the touch, and he thought the horn was almost cardboard-like. He thought if he touched it, it would bend. When the llama sniffed the air, he smelled the sour smell of lemon. The alien reeked of lemon. It was gross.
The alien was singing a song. It had the words, “Jingle Bells,” in it. Bob thought it was an epic dub-step song.
The alien was eating a pile of vegetables. Bob didn’t like vegetables. He thought they tasted too bland—like nothing. He liked spicy food. He also preferred food with lots of calories so he could keep his figure fluffy. Maybe the alien was so skinny because it ate so many veggies.
Bob was beginning to think he wasn’t where he had expected to be. He had taken a plane to Tahiti, but this place didn’t feel like Tahiti to him. Granted, he had never been to Tahiti, but it was his impression that Tahiti was warm and this place was freezing. Also, there were some little waddling birds that didn’t seem Tahitian at all. He thought they might be penguins, and he thought penguins lived in Antarctica.
Had the plane dropped him in Antarctica by mistake? Uh, oh!
Just then, the alien stopped eating its vegetables. Instead, it took a cone out of its ship and started to shave ice into it. Once the cone was full, it poured red liquid over the ice.
Bob walked over to the alien. “Hello, I’m Bob. What are you doing?”
“Hi back! I’m building a snow cone. What are you doing?”
“Is this Tahiti?” asked Bob.
The alien said, “No, this is Antarctica.”
“Oh,” said Bob. “Can I hang with you?”
“Sure, we almost have the same name. Mine’s Bobby. Pleased to meet you!” The alien took another bite of the snow cone. With a loud bang, Bobby the alien transformed into a coconut on legs.
The llama drooled and spit in fear, turned tail, and ran into the ocean. He gasped. The water was freezing! Why had the alien turned into a coconut-creature? Was the snow cone ice magical? Bob looked for the alien. It was flopping around on the ground like a fish out of water. The creature popped eyes and a mouth out of three holes and developed a uni-brow.
It yelled, “Bob, run and get me some yellow snow!”
Bob grabbed some mountain dew from his pack. With his mouth, he opened it and poured it over the ice. He grabbed the ice with his mouth and raced to the alien. The coconut dude ate the ice and with a loud pop, turned back into Bobby, only now it had a uni-brow.
Just then, another llama trotted up. Before either Bob or Bobby could yell out in warning, the llama stepped on the red ice remnants from the snow cone. With a loud pop, it turned into a small, round human wearing snow clothes. The little round man ripped off his jacket and shirt and started to dance.
“Oh no, that poor creature. We have to save him!” said Bob.
Before they could save the llama-belly-dancing-dude, a giant spaceship arrived and a deep voice said, “We are the Poob Empire, and you are now our test subjects!”
Bob felt himself being sucked into the spaceship. He could not resist. It was futile. He and Bobby and the dude all ended up inside the Great Poob Spaceship. Oh no! What was going to happen now? How were they going to save themselves? How would Bob ever save the dude and turn him back into a llama? Why oh why didn’t the plane bring him to Tahiti?
To Be Continued.
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