The Magic Powers

• Haylee Batchelor, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2019

BANG! FLASH! The thunder roars again and again outside the little house.
Inside that little house is my family of four - there is my sister, named Baily and I’m Sophie. We live with our Mum and Dad.

At 7:00 pm my sister and I went out without our parents knowing.
Baily was scared, she said, “I don’t think we should be out this far from home”.
I replied with “bla, bla, bla”…
“That’s all you ever say, you never take me seriously!!” Baily shouted, shortly after she left to find her way back home, so I went off on an adventure all by myself.

That’s when I saw a strange man, hunched over, scary looking. He was wearing an old fashioned big, black, ripped coat.
His voice was mean, and loud - “YOU SHALL NOT PASS THROUGH THIS PORTAL!!”
I didn’t understand – Portal? What portal? I could only see two trees bending over and touching each other. I slowly walked through the trees, but he was right, it was a portal! It was a portal into a strange world. A world with no ground, I thought I was falling, but then realised I was flying!

I couldn’t believe my eyes – there were people floating, and flying past me.
Then I heard a voice call out “THE QUEEN IS BACK!”
I was shocked. The queen was now behind me. She started pulling at my arm. Trying to drag me away. Yelling at me, saying I was an impostor!
“You have it wrong, I’m not supposed to be here. My name is Sophie, I come from home.”
“THIS IS YOUR HOME NOW - THE SPIRIT WORLD IS NOW YOUR HOME.”
There was chaos. Everyone started yelling, “cover your ears now.” So I did, then they started chanting, “Why would you lie, why would you lie?” Over and over, then….
BANG!!!!!

Oh it was just a dream. I was in bed. My bed. Thunder was still rumbling, lightening was still flashing. It was raining heavily and mum was yelling at me to get up.