Six short stories from pupils involved in the Chilwell School transition project
(with thanks to Rachel Marshall for sending them in)

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ARPOTHACYTE

Bill groaned as the bell rang for end of break. He and his best friend Samuel trudged inside bringing with them many leaves and twigs. They were both desperate to get home and go on the computer. But the lesson started in the usual fashion. So after ten minutes a majority of the class were always half asleep, staring ahead of them with a dazed almost silly expression on their faces. It always came as a surprise to everyone when the bell rang, but today Bill was ready; grabbing his bag, he raced home.

As he turned on the computer, Bill heard an eerie noise rather like an inexperienced violin player. Then, as Bill hid behind the sofa, an armoured shape emerged from behind the computer screen. "Arpothacyte!" breathed Bill.

As Arpothacyte ripped through the genetic force field of the computer screen, his eyes glittered as they adjusted to the 21st century. he was here at last! He switched on his radar (as a robot he had many gadget and abilities) and though it had been battered during his encounter with the computer's force field, it picked up the body heat of a small boy. he investigated. But the boy ran screaming from the building so Arpothacyte abandoned the attempt and set to destroying the city.

"AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Yelled the townspeople as Arpothacyte calmly but tauntingly approached wielding his flail over his head with the air of a man (or robot) thoroughly enjoying himself. Suddenly Bill and Samuel finished their debate; they had a plan that would unfurl very soon and very quietly. They raced to Bill's house and switched on the computer. They then alerted anti-virus 5,4,4, there was a magnificent BOOM!!! 2,1 Screams echoed around the dark, sewer-like streets. DING! Instantly Arpothacyte froze, then he seemed to merge from silent mourning. "NOOOO!!! I AM THE KING OF SATAN, DRAGONS AND DEATH; YOU CANNOT DELETE MEE." His voice trailed away. "How can we repay you?" moaned the townspeople in relief. "One thing," said Bill "Install Anti-virus!

by Andrew, College House Junior School

CHEMICALS!!!

Once upon a time there was a maze in the middle of nowhere, and a factory right on the edge. Inside the factory lived a disgusting master called Professor Chemical with an assistant called Rat but Professor Chemical calls him Ugly Rat. A knight who is Professor Chemical's worst enemy was sent on a quest to capture him and kill Rat.

"Come on Ugly Rat, you lazy freak" gurgled Professor Chemical, "I'm coming I'm coming" replied Ugly Rat.

Professor Chemical and Rat had three chemicals a blue one a red one and a green one to destroy the knight. Every night when there is a full moon a wolf would howl, bells would ring and blood would trickle down out of the bells when they were ringing. That night Ugly Rat was coming back from the pub after a great night out with his mates when he saw Professor Chemical lying on the ground with a puddle of blood next to him, Rat was absolutely shocked but because he wasn't balanced he fell down next to him. The next morning the knight set off on his quest when grey clouds flew over the top of him, "Oh please don't do what I think your going to do," pleaded the knight.

And then there it was the rain pouring all down the knights ?100 armour so, the knight walked through the maze to capture Professor Chemical and kill Ugly Rat but when he got to the harassing factory there was no sign of Professor Chemical or Ugly Rat. When BANG it was coming from the chemical section all three chemicals exploded at exactly the same time, when the knight heard a voice it was saying "Knight, Knight your not going to capture me or kill by assistant no, no, no" said Professor Chemical we are going to capture you and kill you.

"Stop these voices it's not my fault I'm not doing anything it's my boss he sent me on a quest to capture you and kill your assistant Ugly Rat" replied the knight in a sad voice. So Professor Chemical changed his name to Mr Excellent and excellent he was Ugly Rat made his own beer bar up drinking beer 24/7 the knight turned the maze into and adventure park for families all over the world.

by Cameron

The Demon's Lair

The heat from the blazing sun scorched the tropical trees in a near by forest, the orange leaves shrivelling into nothing. "Come on lazy." called Luke, laughing to him self. "Why don't you carry it?" retorted Max. "Because I'm busy," Said Luke coolly. Luke's long silky hair blew in the slight breeze of the desert morning, His deep blue eyes reflecting the suns powerful rays. They were about to reach their destination.

Meanwhile, in a far of galaxy the devil Demon known as MORBAZAN plots his deadliest scheme on mankind yet. "Start praying puny earthlings the demons in town and he isn't going to spare anyone!" Back on earth, Luke and Max had finally reached the capital of the world...Lorem. it was getting warmer still so the pair decided to have a rest. After a short walk they arrived at the city hall ready for the conference.

They were greeted by the High Councillor who showed them to the meeting room. Luke and Max both gasped in amazement. Vorag Lord of Suldinesilar, Iarre Queen of Halasar and many more rulers they didn't recognise. "Silence!" yelled a smartly dressed centaur. In a flash they all went back to their seats to listen to him. "LET THE SESSION... BEGIN!" An Ameboid entered Just as the words where spoken, "Ahem ahem," coughed the Ameboid pompously. "Inelegance suggests that the convicted criminal Morbizan will strike this city in a matter of days."

"We need somebody to assassinate him before forty eight hours. If the mission fails millions of lives will be in mortal peril. "I will go." Luke called nervously. "Very well then. Here is a disintegrator cannon and here is a teleporter." The Ameboid with a hint of anxiety in his voice. The centaur rose from his post. "THE SESSION IS CLOSED." "Come on Luke. We better get started." Max said seriously. "I'm sorry Max but you're not coming." And without a second word Luke loaded his disintegrator cannon and teleported to where Morbizan was hiding.

"Just as I suspected. Sending a solider to try and kill me. Well I'll be ready." Morbizan cackled ferociously. Luke had just appeared in a corridor swarming with guards. He tried to fire at them but before he could he could he got knocked out by a gas bomb.

"Where am I?" Whispered Luke dreamily.

"Hello Luke." Said Morbizan. His blue tongue flickering like a nest of vipers.

"Guards go away. I want to deal with him by my self." "So they sent you to assassinate me? Get up and fight me like a man!" As quick as lightning Luke reached for his disintegrator cannon only to find it broken. Morbizan grabbed his sledge hammer and whacked Luke across the room. Momentarily stunned Luke got up thinking of a way he could fight back. Morbizan charged at Luke but he dogged it and started to strangle him. Moments later Morbizan lay dead on the floor.

When he got back he suddenly turned into a national hero because of his noble and courage's dead. Nobody ever found out what was in the safe.

by Peter, John Clifford School

the haunted house

Chapter 1 the dare

This is may terrifying adventure of the haunted house. "I dare you to go inside the haunted house!" Anna dared me. I replied: "okay". On Saturday morning, me and my friends went down to the haunted house. As soon as I saw it, my spine suddenly went cold. It was tall and dark. The windows were broken, and there was slates missing from the roof. When we got to the door, I was shaking like a vibrating phone. "Go on then" Chloe said. I was about to open the door but it creaked open by Itself. I stepped inside, onto the creaking floorboard.

Chapter 2 inside

I suddenly heard a 'drip, drip, drip!' then I saw it. There was blood dripping Off the ceiling onto the floor. I stood there shocked. I carried on to the next Room. I saw some stairs, and as I went up them, I heard an organ playing. I Was still trembling with fear. When I got upstairs, there were loads of dry and dusty cobwebs. I suddenly heard a 'tap, tap, tap' on the wall. And that was when I saw it....

Chapter 3 the killer

The person stood there with a gleaming dagger in its hands. "Hello Bethany" It said "W.wh.who a..ar.are y..yo.you? and how do you know my n..na..nam.name?" I asked shakily. It didn't answer, all it did was bring its arm up. "AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" I screamed.

Chapter 4 RUN!

I ran for it. I ran down the stairs, fell over on the broken floorboard, got up, then, and ran through the door. "RUN! THERE'S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE! IT WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T RUN!" I screamed. Every one ran except Rebecca. She stayed. Then we heard a scream. I turned round and Rebecca was dead. I went back and said: "Kill me too! Because you killed her kill me!" I screamed. The killer just went away, back into the house. I said to myself: because she won't kill me, ill do it myself. I got the knife, and stabbed it through my heart.

I am writing this in my grave and Rebecca is next to me!!!!!

by Bethany, Beeston Rylands Junior School

The tic-tac tyrant

It was just a regular day on sweetie planet, everybody was minding their own business; when suddenly the two o'clock alarm sounded, everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the sky. They seemed to see what they were looking for, because everyone started screaming and scattered into their houses slamming doors and banging windows shut. After all the commotion there was only one person left standing puzzled in the deserted street, it was Jimmy the normal astronaut. Jimmy the normal astronaut was a visitor to sweetie planet, he knew nothing of the two o'clock alarm, this is why a little girl was looking at him from her window. "What are you doing?" She shouted down to him, "what? I'm standing in the street" he answered. "Well get in here. QUICKLY!" She shouted out to him desperately, "why." but before he could finish she had pulled him inside and closed the window behind him.

Now Jimmy is not at all normal, his parents just called him that because he looks normal. He has mouse brown hair and misty blue eyes, what makes him not normal is he is always up for adventure and has never got angry. If that was you or me we would have probably have stared angrily questioning the little girl. However Jimmy just turned around to face the girl, "what was that all about?" he asked her calmly. "I'm sorry" she answered "it's just. oh there's no time to explain now. I'm Julia by the way". Jimmy gave her a brief smile whilst saying "hello Julia, I'm Jimmy the normal astronaut. but you can call me Jimmy". "Well Jimmy you'd better follow me before we get squashed alive". With that they both stood up and Julia scurried across the dark room. She pulled at something from in the darkness. When suddenly, light flooded into the black room revealing a tunnel in the floor. Julia clambered in followed by a puzzled Jimmy. When suddenly the room behind them crumbled as a huge green rectangular shaped thing landed on top of it. "Hurry" shouted Julia "quickly!" As they ran through the tunnel they came to a junction and Julia silently slumped down onto the floor, she took a few deep breaths and said "that was a tic-tac". "What that big thing?" laughed Jimmy. "Yes that 'thing'. that just squashed my house. It's not natural - the tic-tac hail storms the evil tic-tac tyrant who has taken over sweetie planet makes it happen". "a tic-tac tyrant?" exclaimed Jimmy sarcastically, "yes! A tic-tac tyrant" croaked a dark spooky voice behind them. Jimmy swung around to see a tall towering dark man. "For I am the evil tic-tac king!" With that the man let out a deafening cry and charged at Julia and Jimmy. Just in time Jimmy pulled out his veg diet gun, he pulled the trigger and the tall figure of the evil tyrant shattered into a thousand pieces. From then on the people of sweetie planet lived in peace and sweetness for ever more.

by Grace, College House Junior School

Untitled

"Green 1."

"4."

"Blue 4."

"Yellow 4. Uno, I suppose."

The four huddled around the campfire for warmth, scowling. Who'd had the bright idea to go camping anyway? It was cold, damp··· spooky.

"I'm bored", announced brown -skinned girl somewhat rudely.

"Good. Go boil your head, Zina."

The girl rolled her eyes, got up, and walked away. Boil her head indeed. She stuck her hands in her pocket and brushed against a pack of playing cards. Ugh. At least they weren't Uno. After a while, she came to a small silver switch set deep in the ground for no apparent reason. She couldn't see a single thing it would trigger, except more trees. She pressed it, and suddenly there was a lot less floor. In fact, there was none at all.

"Think we should go find Zina?"

"Guess so."

Zina was recovering. She'd never seen a trapdoor open so suddenly··· And her surroundings seemed less than sweet. Everywhere she looked, sickly colours bounced from bubbling test tubes, and dark corners gave suspect shrieks. "Hello?" she offered, glancing around nervously. Something gave a raucous squawk and she ducked down, hiding her face as something - something huge - ripped past and tore her coat away. Not daring to look down, Zina fled.

"Hey, what does this button do?"

"Probably opens a trapdoOOOOOOOOOORGH- ow. Why did you do that?"

Zina was now very worried indeed. She'd hit a wall face-on in her hurry, and looking back her coat had been discarded in a pool of green liquid. All the things previously inside her pocket were sizzling in it, and something very wrong was happening. She watched, horrified, as the joker at the top of the deck of cards warped into a melancholy face. Her torch collapsed into itself and the area started to lose its light as it was sucked into the torch-hole. Her spare tissues became oozing masses of phlegm and, surprisingly enough, Zina did not like any of it one bit. She tries to run again, and this time managed not to hit the wall but instead run up a flight of stairs, and into a new problem.

"Cor, I don't like the look of this place."

"Neither do I. Good thing this ladder's here."

"You bet. Fancy Zina not seeing that, eh?"

Zina gulped. Pitch black··· and a voice.

"GOOD TO SEE IT'S A GIRL; THEY HAVE THE TASTIEST ARMS."

by Annie