One day, the postal carrier came to my counsulate with a very strange package. It was addressed to me but there wasn't a return address. I tried to recognize the handwriting but it was a magazine cutout.
The package was shaped like a box and its wrapping was old and torn. The wrapping was brown and shaggy. I tried to rip it open but even though it looked old, it was very tough. I got a pair of scissors and cut it open. A box was under the wrapping. The box was a metal one. On top of the box, there was a note - a mysterious note. Again, I tried to recognize the handwriting but it was computer printing. I felt the crack and tried to budge it open. It couldn't open. Then I spied something at the bottom of the note.
By the way, the note said,
BEWARE. THE PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOCANOCONIOSIS WHEN OPENING! The thing that I saw at the bottom of the note was this: !#$%& @ ~**&^!
I had no ideas of what to do so I went to the library to do research. I found a book of codes but I didn't find that secret code. There were other codes like the Morse alphabet code and the substitution code. I looked in every code book there was but I couldn't find it. I sighed. It was hopeless. I went back home to think about what to do. I didn't tell my parents about it. I took out the metal box that I've been hiding in my closet and investigated it. I got out my mini magnifying glass from my detective kit that I made with a Nike shoebox. I inspected the box and found nothing. Then I took out the note and I inspected it. I inspected the code part too. "Hey! These two letters of the code are the same! The second word must have double letters!" I exclaimed. Then I heard a voice in the living room. "Lunch time!" my mother called. "Coming!" I yelled. I ate as fast as I could. Then I hurried back to my room.
I also tried to crack the code myself but I didn't know that one. I asked my friends and they said that they didn't know that one. I took a break and watched T.V. It was about a person who hired a detective to solve who stole her purse that had 2,000 dollars in it.
Suddenly, I snapped my fingers together. "That's it!" I cried. "I'll also hire a detective to help me solve this mystery! I borrowed my mom's cellphone and dialed a number. "Hello?" said the other end of the phone. "Hi! I need to hire your best detective," I said. "Oh. My name's Jonathan Dennis and I'd think you'd want Wayne Fitzgerald. He cracks every mystery." Jonathan explained. "Sure! How much money?" I asked. "Twenty dollars," Jonathan said. "Checks only! The address is 4710 17th Oak street." "Gotcha," I replied as I wrote it down. "Oh, and one more thing," Jonathan said. "Wayne will come 2 hours later." "Okay!" I said.
While I was waiting, I read some books. After I finished, my dad let me borrow a check for the $20 fee. I wrote it and sent it to the agency. Soon, the detective came. I led him to my room and showed him the package and the note. Wayne grinned when he saw the code. He got out a notebook and drew the code detector. After he figured it out, he laughed. "Looks like you've been tricked by one of your friends! Look at the calendar and tell me what day today is." I looked and laughed too. "April Fools Day!" Wayne said, "The code says April Fools." After he left, I felt goofish, "All that trouble for nothing!" Then I ate dinner.
THE END
9/18/2008
9/11/2008
A Zoo Adventure
Yesterday, I went to the zoo but instead of seeing animals, mysterious sculptures stood in its place. I went with my friend, Lucy. the sculptures looked the same as one another. they all had greedy-looking eyes, a beady little nose, a lit for a mouth, their body looked like the body part of a suit of armor and in one hand, it held an ax, and their legs liked like gigantic toothpicks.
We walked on anxiously to find an animal to look at because we had to do a report on a zoo animal. We walked all around the zoo but there were just sculptures everywhere. We stopped by the kid's zoo in the zoo and looked at the hamsters' place.
We were expecting to see hamsters but there were just tiny little sculptures. Lucy sighed. Suddenly I slapped my forehead. "We've been dumb all the time! We could just read the caption that's underneath the cages!" Lucy looked down. She scratched her head. "Huh?Where are they?" I looked at what Lucy was staring at. There wasn't any signs.
"Do you know what this means, Amy?" Lucy asked me. "What?" I replied. "This is an invasion of these sculptures!" Lucy answered. While Lucy turned around to look at other people, I saw one of the sculptures move. It took a tiny walkie-talkie out of its toothpick legs and said in @#$$%&^*$%(HDBEN - an alien language), "Are ya ready to take the earthlings?" I poked Lucy and pointed inside the cage. Lucy turned around and saw the "sculpture" put its walkie-talkie back. Then it froze again. Lucy and I turned around and saw a big "sculpture" raise its ax and chopped it down again. As soon as that was done, the woman who was standing nearest to the "sculpture" disappeared. "They must be planning an attack!" Lucy whispered. "You're right!" I agreed.
We ran out of the kids' zoo and stopped at a cafe. We took a sandwich and a smoothie for lunch. After we finished lunch, we went to the monkey house. We stood far away from the cages so we won't disappear. Whenever people weren't looking, a "sculpture" would raise its ax and chop it down again and the person who's standing nearest to the "sculpture" would disappear. I said, "We've got to do something about this." Lucy nodded seriously. "Yeah, I think so too. " I thought for a moment. "We have to find out where the people are disappearing to."
Lucy and I walked to the Grizzly Gulch place and looked in the windows. We watched more people disappear and then Lucy perked up. "I know!" Lucy exclaimed. "We have to disappear to find out where it leads to." I smiled. "Great idea!" then we made our plan.
We walked up to the windows and looked inside. Then Lucy started our plan. "I wonder where are the grizzly bears? I came here to look at animals, not these sculptures!" I nodded in agreement. "Yes, this is very boring, I am going to leave." We took a step forward and we also disappeared.
We looked around. "Where is this place?" Lucy wondered out loud. I shrugged. "Beats me." The people who had disappeared earlier were also looking around, wondering where they were. Then we walked around. Then I saw lots of cages. "Hey, look!" I said. "What?" Lucy asked. "The zoo animals!" I answered. She looked at where I was pointing. We raced over. "Wow," Lucy said quietly. Then i saw an ax lying on the ground. I picked it up. I tapped Lucy. "Cool," she said. "I wonder if this can bring everyone back," I said. "Well don't just stand there, do something!" Lucy said impatiently. I raised it up and I chopped it down.
The next thing I knew, we were standing in the kids' zoo! It was like nothing had happened!
Lucy and I wrote our reports and went home. The "sculptures" just gave up and returned to their distant planet.
THE END
We walked on anxiously to find an animal to look at because we had to do a report on a zoo animal. We walked all around the zoo but there were just sculptures everywhere. We stopped by the kid's zoo in the zoo and looked at the hamsters' place.
We were expecting to see hamsters but there were just tiny little sculptures. Lucy sighed. Suddenly I slapped my forehead. "We've been dumb all the time! We could just read the caption that's underneath the cages!" Lucy looked down. She scratched her head. "Huh?Where are they?" I looked at what Lucy was staring at. There wasn't any signs.
"Do you know what this means, Amy?" Lucy asked me. "What?" I replied. "This is an invasion of these sculptures!" Lucy answered. While Lucy turned around to look at other people, I saw one of the sculptures move. It took a tiny walkie-talkie out of its toothpick legs and said in @#$$%&^*$%(HDBEN - an alien language), "Are ya ready to take the earthlings?" I poked Lucy and pointed inside the cage. Lucy turned around and saw the "sculpture" put its walkie-talkie back. Then it froze again. Lucy and I turned around and saw a big "sculpture" raise its ax and chopped it down again. As soon as that was done, the woman who was standing nearest to the "sculpture" disappeared. "They must be planning an attack!" Lucy whispered. "You're right!" I agreed.
We ran out of the kids' zoo and stopped at a cafe. We took a sandwich and a smoothie for lunch. After we finished lunch, we went to the monkey house. We stood far away from the cages so we won't disappear. Whenever people weren't looking, a "sculpture" would raise its ax and chop it down again and the person who's standing nearest to the "sculpture" would disappear. I said, "We've got to do something about this." Lucy nodded seriously. "Yeah, I think so too. " I thought for a moment. "We have to find out where the people are disappearing to."
Lucy and I walked to the Grizzly Gulch place and looked in the windows. We watched more people disappear and then Lucy perked up. "I know!" Lucy exclaimed. "We have to disappear to find out where it leads to." I smiled. "Great idea!" then we made our plan.
We walked up to the windows and looked inside. Then Lucy started our plan. "I wonder where are the grizzly bears? I came here to look at animals, not these sculptures!" I nodded in agreement. "Yes, this is very boring, I am going to leave." We took a step forward and we also disappeared.
We looked around. "Where is this place?" Lucy wondered out loud. I shrugged. "Beats me." The people who had disappeared earlier were also looking around, wondering where they were. Then we walked around. Then I saw lots of cages. "Hey, look!" I said. "What?" Lucy asked. "The zoo animals!" I answered. She looked at where I was pointing. We raced over. "Wow," Lucy said quietly. Then i saw an ax lying on the ground. I picked it up. I tapped Lucy. "Cool," she said. "I wonder if this can bring everyone back," I said. "Well don't just stand there, do something!" Lucy said impatiently. I raised it up and I chopped it down.
The next thing I knew, we were standing in the kids' zoo! It was like nothing had happened!
Lucy and I wrote our reports and went home. The "sculptures" just gave up and returned to their distant planet.
THE END
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