Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Fall. A story written by 11-year-old Orestis

   (digital art by Natiq Aghayer)


It was a sunny day. I woke up and got dressed. I thought that it would be a simple day. I took my breakfast and I got out. It was Sunday so I thought I should relax and have a bit of fun.
After double-locking my door I started to walk. For ten minutes everything was going all right; a lot of people were walking on the pavement and in a little open-air market people were selling their products.
Suddenly, everyone disappeared and the buildings started to fall.
 I ran as fast as I could because I was afraid that if I stopped somewhere even for a minute, a big stone would crush me.

After hours of running the buildings finally stopped falling. I sat down breathless. I looked around me and I couldn't believe that London had just turned to ruins. It was just wrong and I was lost in the middle of it!

I started walking again with nowhere else to go to and with no one to help me. I was thinking about what I should do. I was scared. I kept walking until I finally reached the end of the road. With a big disappointment I saw that there was a big cliff full of blood, bones and rotting bodies. It was so disgusting! But I was ready to jump....and I did.
I knew that the feeling would be terrible and that I would die but I didn't care. I thought that my life had been destroyed!
 However, I found myself in another dimension.
There was fire everywhere and a lonely, empty, feeble path. I didn't know what I was going to face but there was something that was attracting me. I followed the path. It was very long and dark. After hours I sat down to get some rest and that was when I got scared the most.
I heard a strange noise and then something hit me on my head. While I was falling down senseless I heard someone scream.
When I woke up I realised that I was in a cell. The cell had a powerful lock with a fingerprint combination. Suddenly the cell opened. There was a door which they probably used to bring me here but it was locked.
I walked towards it. Suddenly I heard footsteps. I was terrified. I saw a trapdoor on the floor. When I got inside I saw an old man sitting on a chair.
I asked him how I could escape from there but he gave me no answer.
"Perfect" I said "You don't know my language and I don't know yours."
"Who told you that I don't know your language Mr. Someone?" asked the old man. "Do you know who I am?"
"No" I answered
"Neither do I" said the old man.
"Anyway, how can I escape from all this nonsense?" I asked
"You can't, my boy. Now you are trapped in the smallest part of your mind."

I realised then that I was dreaming very deeply inside my mind.

"Now, you can't escape from here" said the old man "In the real world you're something like dead. You can only return to your world if you kill yourself again. But it's very dangerous because you might never wake up again" said the old man who suddenly disappeared...

Monday, January 3, 2011

How lovely, sweet Adeline became their Queen. A story written by 10-year-old Ageliki.

Ageliki wrote the prelude to the story you'll find if you scroll down about River Fleet and Lovely, Sweet Adeline.
Knowing Adeline, I must admit that this story is very close to what really happened to her, how she became the Queen of the Vampires and came to dwell under River Fleet.




It was a very warm night and a man was walking alone.
10 minutes later he arrived at a square and he saw a girl; she was a young girl in the village square, all alone and she was shouting a single phrase" "asaka Tirana kila etoua"
The man went to her and asked her a question.
"What is your name?" Then the girl stopped.
"My name is Adeline"
"Can I ask you another question?"
"Yes" answered the little girl.
"Why are you shouting this phrase and why are you alone?"
"I am here alone because my parents died a year ago when I was 4 in this square. Their blood and flesh are here. I am saying this phrase when there is a full moon because then I can see my parents. But only on one night...only on one night.." she whispered.
For two minutes they were looking at eachother's eyes. Then she started walking and accidentally she pushed at a stone on the square floor and a trapdoor opened.
They went down and walked along. They saw skeletons, a lot of blood and some skulls. Then they saw a door half red and half white. Adeline put her eye in the keyhole to see what was on the other side. She looked but nothing was there. Then she opened the door and went inside.
After a short time they heard a noise. It was the Vampires!
The first to enter the room was Tirana. The Vampire Queen! The girl asked Tirana:
"Why did you kill my parents?"
Tirana thought for a moment and then said: " I killed your parents because I am a vampire and I need blood to live."
"But why my parents?"
"Because your parents had royal blood and so do you."
Adeline became so angry she started hitting the powerful queen. Then the man picked a pointed piece of wood and drove it to Tirana's heart.
Tirana, the vampire queen was dead. Then Adeline's parents appeared and told her that she must become the vampire queen now.
"But why me?"
"Because you have royal blood!"
"Ok, let's do it!" answered Adeline and then her parents hugged her. The man was very tired and frightened. Perplexed, Adeline wondered what will happen to the man.
The vampires let him free to go because he had helped her and they had become friends.
Once a year on the same day they meet at this square.