Zac's Messy Room

• Benjamin Monger, Grade 2, St Patrick's Primary School -
• Short Story
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Horizon of Dreams 2018' competition

“Zac! I’ve told you a thousand times to clean your room!” shouted Zac’s mother. “Yes mum!” Zac groaned. His room sure was messy. He knew he wouldn’t be able to play XBOX until he cleaned it. He decided to start cleaning. Half way through his cleaning, he found a hatch. He tried to open it, but it just wouldn’t budge. So, he continued cleaning. It took him about one hour. After all that time, he needed a rest. As he walked towards his bed, he fell down the hatch!

Zac suddenly found himself to be in what seemed to be another dimension. “Hello there” someone said. Zac spun around to see a talking tree. “Oh, um. Hi.” said Zac “What is this place?” “This is the land of Wonder” said the tree. “Why is it called that?” asked Zac. “You’ll see. There are lots of surprises in this land. I can only tell you about one….An Octosaur! A flying octopus that sucks you up and then burns you to death! Make sure you don’t let it see you, ok?”. “Okay” said Zac with a tremble in his voice.

Zac set off on his journey and saw a really cute puppy. “How cute!” he said while patting it on the head. Then something strange happened. The puppy turned big, grew sharp claws and razor sharp teeth. He started to attack Zac! “AHHH” Zac screamed. He tried to run away but was too slow. Zac then saw eight hearts in front of him. Seven were red but one was grey. “That must be my health” thought Zac. He ran behind a tree. The monster puppy couldn’t see Zac anymore so it shrunk back into a normal puppy. “Phew” said Zac, coming out of hiding.

He kept on walking and saw a farm with a unicorn pen, a rabbit pen and guinea pig pen. He walked up to the unicorn and then another strange thing happened. The guinea pigs went into the unicorn pen and so did the rabbits. Then, Zac saw the guinea pig spit poison, the unicorn shoot an electric bolt out of its horn and the rabbit shoot lasers out of its eyes! Then they all combined and hit Zac in the chest. He got knocked to the ground and three more of his hearts turned grey. Zac screamed again while running away. The unicorn then shot another electric bolt towards Zac putting him on two red hearts. He ran as fast as he could from the farm looking down to the ground. When he looked back up again, he saw his worst nightmare “An Octosaw!!!” screamed Zac. After that, all he saw was fire and then nothing. Except for two words: “GAME OVER”. “Hey, I never knew this was a game” said Zac “How am I talking when I’m dead?”. “Zac! Have you cleaned your room yet!?” shouted his mum. It was all a dream!