I Was Wandering About In The Desert

• David Benveniste, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2007

Sand. Sand was all I could think about. Everything else creased to exist out here, except for a cactus. What could that cactus be hiding? A secret lair? A ninja? Snack food? Nothing?! I wandered over to it, looked behind it...Nothing. Absolutely nothing, when would this stop? Just as I got up, a black ninja hiding behind the cactus came out of a secret lair hole with nothing in his hands but snack food crumbs on his costume, snuck up and....! Gotcha! Just wanted to see if you were listening. But there was a ninja on the other side! And I think he didn't have anything in his hand. Aaaand I think he had food crumbs on his chest. I tried to punch him. That didn't work. He dodged it (what do you expect? He's a ninja!) He tried to punch! I jumped him and whacked him in a soft spot. "Ooohhh", he cried, curled up on the ground.
I ran towards a building that only just appeared in front of me. I entered through the window and looked for the key. I found it and used it on the door in the room. It opened of course and I moved through the area to the next level... of the building. I knocked down another ninja and continued through the building, looking for why someone would make a building so expensive-looking and huge in the middle of the desert! Why right here?
I wandered past a sleeping guard and threw him out a window. Luckily, he was guarding a secure room. I picked up the special package and read it. It had a key glued to it. I ripped it off. "Oh nuts, it broke!" I exclaimed, loudly. I thought I was all right when a guard came in, also having crumbs on his suit, nothing in his hands and a ninja suit! Was he the same goon as before? No he was way too small. I whacked him with a pole and ran past him. I didn't want to but he probably would have done the same to me and by the way he's grovelling, that hurt.
I saw the building's boss, so I though, but he was the boss's head guard. The real boss ran off with a brief case, a very seemingly heavy one at that. I just pointed out a window and said to the grunt "Look, a flying penguin!" "Where?" he replied.
He looked and I pushed him out. "Aaaaahhhhhh!!!" he yelled. I ran towards the window the boss went out of. Surprisingly, he killed himself. This area was easy! I jumped out and landed on him. Oh no, a huge robot machine was reloading! What would I do?
"David! Save and get down stairs for dinner now!!!" Dad said. "Ok dad!" Oh, did I forget to tell you I'm playing 'Armour Project 3'? Oh well!