Students in 4M 2000 wrote their own fairy stories.......

but some have a familar ring to them.

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The Warrior's Armour by Ted

 

Once upon a time a young warrior lived in a castle with the King and Queen, servants and soldiers.One day a great army of soldiers attacked the castle. No one was hurt but the castle was badly damamged and the warroir's armour was stolen. When the worrior heard that his armour had been stolen he was very distressed. He was very eager to get his armour back because it was not just any ordinary armour it was made of gold. He won the suit of armour when he tamed the dragon of fire whose name was Incediary. With that he set off on his journey in search of his stolen armour. When he got to the enemy base he found some armour, and put it on so that he could get inside. He had started to look for his armour when he overheard 2 soldiers talking about the golden armour. One of them said: "It was hidden in the cave of darkness." So he stole a horse and went to the beach where the cave was. When he got to the beach he put on the armour that he found so he could get into the cave. There were 2 men guarding the armour so he said to them,"I need to take the armour to the Lord !" So the 2 men let him take the armour back to his castle. When he got back, there was a big party.  

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The Ice Dragon by Nic

 

Before the earth was made the sun was half ice and half a blazing hot desert. On the blazing hot desert there was no life. On the ice side was a land of ice creatures all types like fuzios, lupes and even dragons. One day an ice dragon mysteriously disappeared into the desert land. This became a ghost story. Three years later, God started to make the earth. Every day the ice half slowly became desert. And the desert part turned into gas lava steaming hot. The ice animals could not take it. The seven days ended and the dragons turned into fire breathing dragons. The dragons could fly so they got away and the lupes and fuzios left the Milky Way. The dragons got to the earth at the time the king’s lived in castles. The dragons were slayed many years past. In a village there was a mountain, on top of the mountain was a great statue of a dragon. The statue was made out of ice. One day a man found a diamond on the ground. He dropped the diamond in his crops and it suddenly grew and it brought wealth to him with money and rice it was really great. When he was travelling on the mountain he saw the dragon statue which had a hole underneath its tongue. He knew what he had to do. He got the diamond and placed it in the dragon’s mouth. The statue broke and out came a dragon. The last ice dragon. It made the sky fill up with rain clouds and all crops grew long and bright. The dragon went underground till the summer passed and the dragon came out. Surely the dragon was the one that mysteriously disappeared into the desert...?

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 The Piano Dragon by Alf

 

Once far away in the dragon land there lived a big mechanical dragon called Zotto. All the other dragons teased him because he was made of metal and had piano keys for teeth. One day Zotto ran away from home (he had no wings you see) he came to a clearing surrounded by forest where he saw the newspaper man who was on his way to a village. When he saw Zotto he backed away but Zotto just gave him a dollar fifty and sat down to read.The newspaper man hurried on, but Zotto saw the front page had a picture of a golden feather on it.It said the feather would whistle to the right music. Zotto put the newspaper down and went to look for a castle. He found an old one and made it into a house. He went to look for food and saw a big tower. He had an idea and he used the tower to plug the volcano that was about to erupt. The lava squirted out the windows and burnt up the tall grass so the berries stood out. Zotto picked up the berries and went to have a picnic. He thought about the gold feather and about having no friends. He played a tune on his teeth and heard someone calling "I’m here! I’m here!" Anyone else would have heard a faint whistle but Zotto could hear the voice loud and clear. He climbed a hill and saw the gold feather. It had two little eyes near its tip. It told Zotto it was lonely and he said his name was Shiny. Zotto wished he could fly home to his mum. Shiny told him to hang on and in a split-second they were flying. When Zotto got home his fellow dragons were very sorry and wanted to play with Zotto and Shiny. Zotto was a nice dragon and said yes and they all lived till the rise of Fang but that is another story.

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Snowhead Mountain by Haydn



The Tisanels lived on Snowhead Mountain. For 400 years the Tisanels never had problems with harsh weather. A blizzard began blowing which was 10 times colder then normal. The Tisanels had to do something about it. Boltens, Averlanch and Decurama went to attempt to stop the blizzard. Day after day they looked for the cause of it. After 6 days of searching they found it! It was created by Zorax's cold breath. Zorax was a huge giant who lived on Icebore Mountain but it shattered when an avalanche occurred on Stonehigh Mountain. Zorax's breath was cold and icy and when he breathed out cold chilly winds blew across the village where the Tisanels lived. Decurama asked Zorax why he had come to this area. Zorax said that he was looking for a place to rest. Averlanch told him he could stay at Tisanel's cave. The Tisanels liked Zorax so much that he could stay with them as long as he liked. He promised to not breathe in the direction of their village any more. The Tisanels brought food to his cave everyday and everyone lived happily and safely together for many generations.

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Lilly and the Lily Pond by Sefan

 

One morning Lilly was dancing around the pond on all the  lilies. One morning Lilly woke up early to see her neighbour walk her dog. It is called Wally because it ate lilies. As Lilly was waiting for Wally to come out for his walk, it started to rain hard. It rained harder than it had ever done before. Soon it was pouring and the pond was flooded so Lilly jumped out of the lily flower onto a rock but the rock was so slippery she fell off and got washed under the patio and into the drain. She was washed away. Lilly found herself in the storm water drain with a big dog looking at her. It was Wally the dog so he picked Lilly up and took her back under the patio. Wally was about to have his bath but it stopped raining and Lilly got up and on the count of three Wally, Lilly and even the neighbour cheered. So we had Wally barking, Lilly cheering and also the neighbour joined in. From that day on Wally would always go over to Lillie's pond and Lilly would always go over Wally's house for a play.


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The Three Tasmanian Devils by John

 

Once upon a time there were three little Tasmanian Devils. They were growing up and their parents told them to build themselves a house. They were told to watch out for the TIGER because he was very strong and liked to eat Tasmanian Devils and lamb chops. The Devils set off to build their houses. The first Tasmanian Devil built his house of grass. It was very easy to build. It was also weak. The first Devil wasn't even tired. He went out to have afternoon tea with his friends. The second Tasmanian Devil built his house of big leaves and sticks. It took a little while to make the leaves stay together but it still wasn't very strong, and the Devil wasn't very tired. He went inside and made himself a cup of tea. The third Tasmanian Devil built his house under the ground. He spent a long time digging and stamping on the floor and patting the walls so that it was safe. He lined the hole with sticks to make it extra strong. He was exhausted. When his house was finished he crawled inside and went straight to sleep.
Later, the fierce tiger strolled along and came to the house of grass. The first Tasmanian Devil had come home from his afternoon tea and was playing Game Boy.  The tiger liked the smell of the Tasmanian Devil and thought, "I'm hungry. I could eat a Tasmanian Devil or something."  He called out, "Oh, Devil, let me come in." The Devil replied, "I wouldn't let you in if my life depended on it." The tiger started to tear down the house of grass. It didn't take long and the Tasmanian Devil ran very quickly to his sister's house. The fierce tiger chased after the Devil and arrived at the second little Devil's house. He called out, "Oh, Devils, let me come in."  The Devils replied, "We wouldn't let you in if our lives depended on it."  The tiger started to tear down the house of leaves and sticks.  It didn't take long and the two Tasmanian Devils ran to their brother's house. The three Devils were happily playing Pokemon Stadium when the tiger arrived. The tiger called out, "Oh, Devils, let me come in." The three Tasmanian Devils were so busy playing that they didn't hear the tiger. The tiger came straight into the Devil's underground house. He watched the Devils play and became interested in the game. "Can I have a go?"  he asked. The third Devil replied, "Sure, straight after we've had our lamb chops for dinner." The tiger loved lamb chops and they all had lots of fun playing Pokemon Stadium. They lived happily ever after.

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The Ugly Duckling by Peter

 

Once upon a time there was a duck sitting on her eggs. Suddenly the eggs started to hatch. The mother duckling jumped up as the eggs started to hatch. Out came four ducklings, but there was still one egg that had not hatched. So the mother duckling sat on it for a while. Suddenly the egg started to hatch. Out came an ugly duckling. The others said to see if he could he could swim and it did swim in the water. The other ducklings didn't let him play with them. Some days later the mother duck took them to the barnyard to live. The chickens, roosters, cows, horses said he was ugly so the ugly duckling went off to the big world. It came to be winter soon the ugly duckling went duckling went into a hollow tree for winter. When it was spring he went out and saw three swans and the ugly duckling wanted to be dead so he went up to the swans thinking they were going to kill him. So he put his head down waiting for an attack but when he looked in the water he was not a duck. He was a beautiful swan, all the time and one of the swans came over and put his wing over him and some children came and said: "Look there is a new one and he is the most beautiful one of them all."

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PINOCCHIO by Markian



Old Geppetto asked Pinocchio one day to paint his fence. Pinocchio and his cricket friend Jiminy went outside and started to work. But from around the corner came two tricksters, a crafty fox and his cat friend. They decided to play a trick on Pinocchio. They offered to paint the fence for them, but what they did was to paint noughts and crosses. Then they began to paint big faces up and down the fence.  Pinocchio was very angry but Jiminy told him to leave them alone. The two tricksters ran away laughing. They were pleased with their work. They thought this would get Pinocchio in trouble. What it did was that it made Pinocchio's job easier.  He now had to fill in the gaps and the job was done! When Geppetto came out to have a look he was very surprised and happy to see that the job was finished.  So the fox and the cat had really helped Pinocchio even though they hadn't meant to.

 

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happy endings are possible.

 

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