Isabella is an 11 year old girl who is going into the 6th grade. Isabella enjoys playing soccer, clarinet and hanging out with her friends. She enjoys her time writing comedy and fantasy stories. She has been attending Writopia for the last 4 years and looks forward to returning in the fall.
“I was alone in this cave for the next 3 years of my life. But I made some friends. I have Rocky (he’s a rock) and I have Sophia the squirrel. I think she’s alive. She doesn’t like to move around much. For food, I eat these berries in a bush around my cave. Sometimes these moving objects come toward my cave and a living thing comes out and starts staring at me. It’s creepy.”
Hi I’m Cookie the bear or you can just call me Cookie. I live in a cave and I’m 3 years old. My mom and dad left me in this dark cave when I was really young… I was alone in this cave for the next 3 years of my life. But I made some friends. I have Rocky (he’s a rock) and I have Sophia the squirrel. I think she’s alive. She doesn’t like to move around much. For food, I eat these berries in a bush around my cave. Sometimes these moving objects come toward my cave and a living thing comes out and starts staring at me. It’s creepy. At night I look up at the shiny things in the sky and count how many there are, but there’s just way to many… Then I just go to sleep. I wake up and I go to the lake and get some fish for breakfast, then I go back to my cave. That’s my daily routine until one afternoon… I woke up from my nap and I see a piece of fish on the ground. “Oh free fish! At least I don’t have to go all the way to the lake for lunch.’’ I reach for the fish but it moves back. I reach again but it goes back. Then I started chasing after the fish until a tall living thing put me in a net! I tried getting out but I was stuck! Don’t forget me, Rocky And Sophia! I’ll come back I promise!” Then they shot something at me and I fell asleep.
***
*Yawwwnnnn* I opened my eyes and saw a cave, trees and bushes. “The living things (humans) probably felt bad and let me go back to my home!’’ I ran to my cave until I hit my head when I tried to go in it. “What!? I can’t go into my own cave?” It was a flat surface, no place for a home. It was like a wall. I started scratching it until little pieces of paper fell off. “This isn’t my cave! It’s not even a cave!” Something wasn’t right.
“Well if my cave isn’t a cave, then that must mean the trees are fake and the bushes are fake!” “Dun Dun Dun!”(Dramatic effect) “I have to get out of here! I need to survive! How am I gonna eat or sleep or most importantly PLAY!!!” * Ting ting ting* “What’s that noise?” Then when I turned around I saw a round flat thing (a plate) that had berries on it. “Food!” I was sooo hungry. I ran to the berries and ate all of them in three seconds. “Yumm that was good. But I have to focus on getting out of here. Hmmmmm let’s see, there are 3 see through squares (windows), a tall wooden rectangular board (a door), and a hole where they drop off the food…. Wait! A hole! I can go through the hole where they drop off the food so I can escape! Wow I’m so smart.” So I made my way into the hole and I actually got through! “Wow I never knew it would be this easy!” Then as soon as I stepped out of that hole, there was this noise that went sort of like *beep beep beep beep BEEP!* It was so loud! I turned to make a run for it while the living creatures (humans) were making it out of a rectangular opening (a door) So I was running and running until I looked back and saw 2 living creatures (humans) catching up to my speed with huge nets. I knew that if I didn’t try hard to make it out I would be stuck here, in this place, alone, forever. So I ran and ran and ran and “FREEDOM” I was so happy I made it out. But I had to hide so I made a quick turn to a dark narrow space (alleyway) filled with metal cylinders with stinky food in it (garbage cans). “Ok at least the living things are not chasing me anymore.” I was walking toward the end of the narrow space (alleyway) until a small round animal with pink long tail (rat) jumped in front of me.
“AH! Who are you!?”
“Oh the name’s Ruby and I’m a rat! Tada!” said Ruby.
“Ummmmm okay, well are the tall living things (humans) chasing you too?”
“ What tall living things? You mean humans?”
“Humans, what are those?” I asked.
“The tall living things!” Ruby told me.
“Ohhhhhhh that makes sense.” I said.
“So what is a bear like you doing in the big city?” Ruby asked.
“Well you see I live in the woods and I’ve been bearnapped by humans and I need to get back home so I can be with my friends Rocky and Sophia. Without them I’m just a bear with no friends.”
“Well I’ll help you find your home,” Ruby said.
“Really? You would do that?”
“Of course, everyone deserves to have friends.” Ruby said.
“Yay thank you so much!”
***
“Ughhhhh we’ve been walking for hours! Where are we?”
“We are in the big city!”
“Ummmmm reality check, but we’ve been in the big city the whole time! All this time we’ve been walking in circles!” “
“Oh uh whoops.”
*sigh* “I’ll never get back home.”
“Don’t think like that. I’ll get you home but which woods?”
“What do you mean?”
“There are many woods in the world but which one do you live in?”
“Oh, I live in the Canadian woods.”
“WHAT!!!??? Wow that’s very far, that’s like north. Well we’re going to have to take a little trip up north but we’re never gonna make it by foot. So we’re gonna have to get on a plane and go to Canada.”
“How are we gonna have to get on a plane? I don’t think that they even allow animals on planes not even bears.”
“Well they allow PETS like birds, cats and dogs. So all we have to do is dress up like one of them.” Ruby said enthusiastically..
“Yeah! They will never notice that its a bear or a rat!” I said happily.
“Okay here’s the plan. First, we go to a shop and steal some kitty ears and dog ears the whole animal fake stuff. Next, we run to the airport and make our way into one of those pet cages. Then, the people at the airport will assume that we’re just ordinary pets, so they’re going to put us in the plane where all the pets are. Lastly, when the plane lands we are gonna land in Canada and we’re going to get out of our cages and make a run to the woods and boom your home.”
“Yay! But what about you where are you gonna live?” I asked.
“Umm save the questions for last let’s go buy some animal stuff. We have a plane to catch!” Ruby said happily.
“Hey what are those other animals behind the trees they kind of like you-”
“Ummm it’s probably nothing, maybe it’s from all that walking we did you must be very tired.” Ruby said suspiciously..
“Yeah you’re right” I said believing her.
So we walked all the way to the closest store and bought-technically stole some kitty ears, dog ears and stuff like that.
***
“Wow you really look like a cat, a small one though.” I said.
“Yeah you look just like a dog we are gonna nail this” Ruby said.
“So now since we’re all ready we should be heading to that airport” I said.
“Yeah” Ruby said.
***
We were on our way to the airport but we were still kind of far so we were talking about our past and what we do.
“So where are your parents?” Ruby asked.
“Well they left me when I was very little so I can take care of myself in my cave. I was lonely at first but I met some friends I met Rocky and Sophia and they’re my best friends, like you, your my friend too because you helping me get home.”
“Well you know what they say you gotta help a friend in need.” she said kind of guiltily.
“Well how big is your cave? You think it’s big enough to fill 100 rats.”
“Probably more it’s really big. Why?” I said.
“No just asking,” Ruby said.
“Okay. Look there is is the airport!” I pointed
“We made it yay! So now all we have to do is sneak in through the door when someone’s coming out and not get caught. But when we get in we have to sneak in one of those pet cages.” Ruby said.
“But will we fit in the cage?’’ I asked.
“Yeah they’re big. But in order to get in the cage the owner must be distracted so we can open it and get in.” Ruby said confidently.
I turned around and saw the rats again.
“Ruby?” I asked.
“Yeah,” Ruby replied.
“I think those pack of rats behind the trash can are following us,” I said suspiciously.
“Ummmm probably from all that walking. Now come on no fooling around we have a plane to catch!”
***
Now we just have to wait until a person comes out of the door so we can sneak back in.
20 minutes later…
“The perfect moment… And… 2 more minutes… ” Ruby said.
“By now we probably missed our plane. Why not we go through the back door when someone comes out, like now!”
We ran and ran and ran and we finally made it inside. We quickly found a cage to get into until Ruby had to go to the bathroom.
“I have to go to the bathroom ill be right back,” Ruby said in a hurry.
“You’re a rat! Just use it somewhere else!” I replied.
But she already left.
10 minutes later…
“What took you so long! I’ve been waiting for ten minutes come on!”
We quickly got into a cage and waited for the owner to drop us off we’re the suitcases go. Although it was kind of hard because Ruby and i got into two separate cages with some rude cats that tried to scratch us, we just dealt with it until they got tired out.
*Bang* The people that worked at the airport threw us inside the bottom part of the plane where all the pets go.
Ruby and I quickly got out of our cages so when we land we jump out of the plane and run to the woods. But we were gonna land in the next 5 hours. So we decided to wait and talk it out. But then Ruby and I got really hungry and we didn’t have anything to eat before we got on the plane. So we tried looking in seperate directions of the plane for food. But the only place where they had food was where all the people where, and it would take a miracle for us to sneak up there.
*grrbrrgle* “Soooo hungry yyy,” Ruby said.
“Me too but just 4 more hours,” I said sadly…
“Ya know what I’m going up there, and I have a plan.” Ruby said.
***
“ Okay, so now we have to sneak in the snack bar and bring down some food where the animals are so we don’t get caught!” Ruby said excitedly.
“Ok so let’s go now since no one’s looking.” I said.
We were going to get a little bit of the food and bring it down to eat but, I saw that Ruby was getting a lot of food for like an entire pack of animals but I just ignored it. She was hungry… Right? But as soon as we were gonna turn around to go down, a flight attendant caught us and held us both from the tails. We were gonna run but she was just too fast.
“Ah, AH let go of me!” Ruby and I said.
Then we struggled so much that we got loose and ran all the way to the bathroom and locked ourselves in until we had a plan.
“What are we gonna do?’’ I asked.
“I don’t know” Ruby said worryful.
We were so nervous that we thought this was the end of finding my home until the Pilot said, “Welcome to Canada!” We were so happy that we finally got to Canada but the flight attendants and co-pilots we’re trying to knock down the door so we thought fast and there was an emergency escape pod on the top of the bathroom with paraschoots hooked to it. So we put on the parachutes and jumped off the plane. We landed on a small building and slowly went down.
“Okay well at least we made it out.” I said.
“Yeah but now we just need to look for the woods and then your home!” Ruby told me.
“Yes!” I said
“Wait the woods!” I said enthusiastically.
“Yeah. What about it?” Ruby asked.
“The woods I can see it! We just got to run a couple more blocks and we’re there. But Ruby I think those pack of rats are following us! I see their tails behind those trees.” I told Ruby.
“Ummm your probably sick from all that running Cookie that’s why we should get you to your cave.” Ruby told me.
“But I don’t get sick,” I told Ruby.
“C’mon let’s get to your home, aren’t you excited?” Ruby asked me.
“Yeah I really am but where are you going to live?” I asked Ruby.
“Ummm i’ll tell you later okay?” Ruby said.
“Okay,” I replied.
***
*Pant, pant, pant, pant, pant*
“We’re here! We’re finally here! My home!” I said happily.
“Yeah your home” Ruby said weirdly
Then I turned around to look at my cave and I saw the pack of rats that were following us and I think they knocked me out cause everything after was a blur.
***
I opened my eyes and I looked around. I was home. But when I wanted to move, I couldn’t. I looked at my paws and feet and they were tied with thorny flexible branches tied to a tree. I couldn’t move.
“Ruby help! Ruby help!” I yelled for help.
“Well, Well, Well,” Ruby said in an evil voice. Well not really she sounded like a baby hahah.
As she turned around sitting on a throne of rats in MY CAVE! Not even helping me!
“Hey what are YOU doing in MY CAVE, and why’d you tie me up!? Are some kind of crazy psycho rat!?” I yelled at her.
“*chuckle, chuckle, chuckle* You are so gullible and naive Cookie. I can’t believe you never noticed.” Ruby said.
“Notice what?” I asked.
“See what I mean? This is what i’ve been trying to do the entire time! I wanted to take your cave in the first place when you asked for help. You think you could actually trust a rat? Why live on the streets if I can just take your home all to myself and rats,” Ruby said.
“Well I don’t know. I never knew a rat or saw one before. I don’t know most things because I’ve never went anywhere else except here. But what I do know is that you’re not my friend and you’re crazy!But why would you do this? To me?” I asked sadly.
“Because living on the streets is for other animals but not me. I always wanted a home so now since I have this cave I am never going to let it go, not even to a nice, gullible, nieve bear!” Ruby said.
“So this was the plan. The question of how big my cave is, the rats following us everywhere, the long bathroom break, and all the food you we’re taking to the animal section on the plane? Why not we share the cave?” I asked persuading.
“What?! Never this is my cave, my food, my home!” Ruby said angrily.
“But you have a choice. You either become one of my slaves along with the rats, or you’re banned from this cave forever!”
“I’d rather live on the streets, because I never ever want to see you again in my life!” I yelled.
“Well then your loss. No wonder your parents left you. You don’t know anything. But thank you for giving me this cave.” Ruby said evilly.
“Hey it not your cave it’s my cave!” I yelled.
But it was too late. I had lost everything. They threw me on the side of the road, with no home. And I have no one not even my parents. But when I turn my head I see these two big bears. I feel like I’ve seen them before. Mom? Dad? I ran to them so happy.
“Mom, Dad, I missed you so much.” I said tearing up.
“Why did you leave me?” I asked.
“Well we were caught by zookeepers or the humans and we finally escaped looking for you. We missed you so much Cookie. Now let’s go to your cave.” My mom said.
“Well a mean rat took my cave and 100 of her rat friends and they banned me from my cave.” I said sadly.
“Well no one steals our cave!” My dad said.
So we all went in and kicked some Ruby—i mean rat, butt! Then I said to Ruby, “Who’s the gullible one now?”
“Rocky! Sophia!” I said.
“I would like to introduce you to my parents. Mom this is Rocky and Sophia and dad this is Rocky and Sophia. They’re my best friends.”
“Well it’s good to be home.” Dad said.
“Yeah I’m never being friends with a rat.”
Then after that we lived happily with no rats.
THE END
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