Amelia's Medieval Adventure
Amelia’s Medieval Adventure.Amelia is a little girl with an active imagination. However, today Amelia isn’t feeling overly imaginative. Why? Because her cousin Christopher is coming for a visit. Cootie Chris, as Amelia likes to call him, is 9 years old and he has no imagination. He’s always nosing around in Amelia’s adventures, and he always ends up ruining them.
Amelia heard a knock at the door. Her dog Seamus jumped up off the floor beside her and ran downstairs, barking all the way. Amelia’s heart sank. It had to be Cootie Chris. Amelia’s mom called her downstairs, but when Amelia got down there she saw it wasn’t Chris, it was her best friend Emily!
"Amelia, Emily’s mom asked if Emily could spend the day here while she goes out of town." Amelia got a smile that spread from ear to ear. Maybe today wasn’t going to be so bad after all.
Amelia and Emily ran off into the back yard in a squeal of giggles. Seamus was hot on their heels, nipping and yipping as he went. The girls ran all the way to the big oak tree. Amelia flopped down on her stomach, and Emily sat down beside her.
"So what do we want to do today?" asked Emily as she took out a bag of cheesies from her backpack.
"I don’t know. My stupid cousin is coming today," Amelia huffed, "Think we can hide from him all day?" Amelia rolled over onto her back and closed her eyes. "Hey Emily? Haven’t you ever wanted to go back to the time of the knights and dragons?"
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
"You mean medieval times?" she replied, smacking the cheese from her fingers.
"Yeah."
"Well, I guess so. Why?"
Amelia took Emily’s hand and scrunched her eyes. Suddenly the backyard started spinning. Emily dropped her bag of cheesies and covered her eyes. But just as quickly as the yard started spinning it had stopped. Emily slowly lowered her hands. When she opened her eyes she saw Amelia standing by the backdoor to the house. Wait a minute, that wasn’t Amelia’s house!
Instead of Amelia’s house it was a big huge medieval castle!
Amelia was looking at Emily with a huge grin on her face, "Isn’t this exciting? We get to explore a real castle!"
Emily stood up, grabbed her bag of cheesies and stuffed it back into her backpack. She gave her fingers one last lick, wiped her fingers on her pants and then walked over to Amelia.
The two girls looked up at the huge oak door. Amelia put her hand on the door handle and gave it a tug. "Wow, that’s a heavy door." Emily spit in both her palms and put her hands on the door handle and helped Amelia tug. It wouldn’t budge.
From behind the door the two girls heard the sounds of horses hooves and whinnying. Emily pressed her ear to the door while Amelia kept tugging. Suddenly Emily gave Amelia a shove, and both girls went crashing to the ground. Just as the girls hit the ground the doors banged open and a rush of knights and horses went galloping through the doorway.
Amelia waited until the knights were out of sight before she stepped into the doorway. As she stepped into the castle she heard something under her feet. She looked down and saw a wanted poster with hers and Emily’s faces on it! "Emily, look at this! We’re wanted by order of Cranky Count Cootie!"
As Emily examined the poster Amelia stepped further into the castle, "Hello?" she said.
Helloooo-o-o-o
Amelia heard her echo. She motioned for Emily to join her. Amelia put a finger to her lips, "Shhh, we have to be quiet. We don’t want to attract the attention of the Cranky Count Cootie."
"But who’s Cranky Count Cootie?" asked Emily.
Amelia pointed to a portrait on the wall. The caption underneath said ‘Cranky Count Cootie.’ He looked exactly like Amelia’s cousin!
The girls were amazed at all the neat things inside the castle. There were suits of armor, swords on the walls, marble statues, and a spiral staircase. Amelia couldn’t resist going up the stairs. As the two girls were walking up the stairs, Amelia heard barking. Seamus came running up the stairs behind them.
"Seamus! Shhhh!" But it was too late. Someone heard them.
"Who’s there? Answer me!"
Amelia looked at Emily, who looked at Amelia, who looked at Seamus. Amelia turned to face the top of the stairs and listened carefully. She couldn’t hear anything…
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
"What was that?" said a big booming voice.
Amelia jumped, turned around and saw Emily frozen in position, a cheesie partway in her mouth. The girls looked at each other and then ran down the stairs as fast as they could. Behind them they could hear thundering footsteps coming down the stairs.
"What do we do?" squealed Emily.
As Amelia was thinking she felt a tug on her leg. She looked down and she saw Seamus standing there wagging his tail. He turned around and ran towards a giant doorway at the end of the hall. Amelia smiled, "Let’s follow Seamus!"
The girls ran down the hallway after Seamus towards the giant door. The girls tugged on the door handle and ran out into the middle of a huge courtyard. Seamus started barking wildly. Amelia turned around with a gasp.
Emily looked at Amelia, "What? What’s wrong? Why do you look-?" and then Emily saw it. A huge, towering, smoldering, firey-red dragon.
Emily dropped her bag of cheesies, but this time she didn’t notice. Both girls couldn’t take their eyes off of the dragon. Seamus wasn’t sure if he wanted to bark or if he wanted to hide. He decided to stand beside Amelia and growl quietly.
The dragon suddenly moved its wings and snorted smoke out of its nose. The girls jumped and squealed. Seamus hid behind the two of them. The dragon started to move closer to the girls. Amelia and Emily backed away from the dragon until they felt their backs against the door. Amelia whipped around and tried to open the door. It was locked! It must have locked behind them!
Amelia turned back and stared in horror as the dragon got closer and closer. Amelia and Emily could smell the smoke of the dragon’s breath as it stalked towards them. Both girls closed their eyes as the dragon stopped right in front of them. They waited to be eaten.
They waited.
They waited some more.
They heard a strange crinkling sound.
Finally Amelia opened one eye and looked to see what the dragon was doing.
Amelia started laughing. The dragon was eating Emily’s cheesies! He didn’t want to eat them he just wanted the cheesies! Amelia nudged Emily, "Emily, the dragon’s eating your cheesies!" Emily opened her eyes. When she saw the dragon she couldn’t help but laugh, "I didn’t think dragons ate cheesies!"
Both girls kept giggling as they walked closer to the dragon. The dragon looked up from its business of licking cheese off the inside of the bag. It gave the girls a big cheesy grin and nodded. Amelia and Emily went over to the dragon and touched it. "You’re not such a bad dragon. You just look scary."
The dragon nodded at the girls again and lowered itself to the ground. All of a sudden a loud booming voice crossed the corridor. "Hey! You!" Amelia looked around to see where the voice came from. She couldn’t see anybody! A couple of seconds later the door burst open, and there, standing in the doorway, was CRANKY COUNT COOTIE!
Amelia screamed. Emily screamed. Seamus ran up to Cranky Count Cootie and started barking and growling. "Amelia! Get your dog off! What are you doing out here? I heard giggles." Amelia stopped screaming. She looked around herself and saw her backyard. Cootie Chris had done it again! He had ruined her adventure!
"Chris! You ruined it! Emily and I were playing with a dragon in a medieval castle and you ruined it!" Chris looked at both girls like they were crazy. "No you weren’t, you were in this backyard the whole time. I saw you." Amelia snorted, "No, we were playing with a dragon, right Emily?"
Amelia looked at Emily. Emily shrugged, "Well, you do have an active imagination, Amelia." Amelia let out a loud groan, "But we did play with the dragon! We almost got hit by knights on horses, we saw our faces on a wanted poster, we saw the picture of Cranky Count Cootie, we got chased into the courtyard where we saw the dragon. You were there, you saw all of it!" Amelia saw the look of disbelief on Emily’s and Chris’s faces. Amelia sighed and turned to walk into her house. As she stepped towards the door she felt something under her feet.
Amelia looked down and saw hers and Emily’s faces staring up at her. She let out a loud "HA! Look!" Amelia picked up the poster and showed it to Chris and Emily. Emily looked at Chris, who looked at Emily, who looked at Amelia. "But, how-?"
Amelia smiled sympathetically at her best friend, and glared at her cousin and said, "Just an active imagination I guess," and walked into the house.
The End.
Copyright Sara Janssen 2005. All Rights Reserved.
posted by Sara @ 11:25 p.m.
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