Essay- Beware of the unknown gift.

Beware of the unknown gift

Ríona Flynn 4^th, class 2020

 

It was just a normal day, the sun was shining, and the birds were tweeting as if they were singing a song. I got up, got dressed, had breakfast and set off for school. Then the weirdest thing happened, my best friend Samira was walking beside me and then suddenly, she said “uh Liza do you that you are FLOATING!” I was like “what, how am I?” She replied, “I don’t know, did anything weird happen this morning?” I shook my head. Suddenly, I remembered looking at my little sister Emma and she looked at me as if I was a ghost. Then Samira explained, “Maybe she was looking at you because you were floating,” I agreed with her and we went on.

 

          Then I had this thought that this was a gift for doing something. Well I remember seeing a bird falling out of a tree so I helped it back up, then the bird winked at me and I thought I was just imaging it all but I couldn’t have.

 

That was a long day of people staring at me. When I went up to my room, I saw a scroll that was glowing. I opened it and read it and it I read

“Dear the gifted one, you need to go and cross the great desert and find the crystal of the ice dunes.” I was confused, why should I have to go into the desert.

 

          The next morning I told my parents and straight away, they said that I have to go and find the crystal. I flew all the way to Samira’s house and she was just coming out of the door. She said, “hold your horses, what are you doing here so early?” so I told her where I had to go. When she heard she was like “OMG, you get to go on a mission. That’s so cool” I thought she would have reacted differently. Then I set off on my journey.

          I had been in the desert for days when I said “I wish there was a shower of rain” then I saw what looked like an oasis. That gave me more confidence. I flew all the way, to what looked like an oasis. When I actually got there, there was no oasis at all. It was just a mirage. I had a complete meltdown.

 

          Then when I thought there was no hope left this happened; I was hovering over the ground when I tripped over a big rock and then I saw a symbol of a mountain with a crystal on top. When I pressed down on the symbol, a giant mountain emerged from the ground. I muttered, “That was unexpected” So I started to fly to the top of the mountain.

 

          When I got to the top, I saw a trap door. I squeezed through the trapdoor and I saw a light shining through.  As I came closer, I realised that the light was coming from the crystal of the ice dunes. I floated towards the shimmering light and as I came closer, I saw the crystal. It was snow white with little specks of silver. I can tell why it call the crystal of the ice dunes because the crystal looks like ice and snow. When I touched it, it felt like I was holding a ball of ice. I then saw a hole that looked like it was for the crystal to go into. Then I put the crystal in the hole and a slate with words on it. I read, “Thank you for restoring the crystal to its rightful place, unfortunately we now have to take away your powers”. Suddenly, I dropped to the ground.

 

When I woke up, I was at the bottom of the mountain. I walked back to my neighbourhood and told Samira this “Hi Sammy, I’m back” she said excitedly “OMG, you’re back Liz, I missed you so much” I thought she was going to ask me what was it like. Then I went back to my house. My parents were delighted to have me back.

The End