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Our first place Elementary School entry was written by Luke Zhang (Southwood Public Shcool, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) |
One cloudy Halloween, the air was full of chatter as people went around trick-or-treating and comparing what they got. Nobody seemed to notice a few dozen more alien “costumes” roaming around trick-or-treating.
“The edibles are ready, sir,” said a lieutenant alien. He looked like a large, scaly dog. The thing it was talking to was completely shrouded in shadows.
“Excellent! Get our minions to bulk up for the next day,” the shady monster replied. “We’ll be leaving tomorrow.”
It was Halloween yesterday. So, people didn’t understand why there was a huge army of scaly, spike-tailed mutts, thirteen-foot tall crystal cyclops golems, gigantic flying leopards and a colossal one-eyed booger with wings and a mouth marching towards the White House. When the army of monsters arrived at their destination, they spread out around the White House, and the flying booger, flanked by two crystal beasts on either side, entered the building. They walked in on the mayor and the important government people doing important government paperwork. The flying booger monster hopped towards the President’s desk and placed a metal box full of wires on it. The box was labeled “Translator”.
“Greetings, people of Earth. I have come from far away; from the planet you call Mars. My name is -” At this, the made a short series of rude snarling noises through his huge, gaping boars’ mouth. “Give up this planet willingly and none will be harmed. Do not, and we will take this planet by force.”
The President stood up and said, “We? Our defenses are surely able to fend off a flying blob of gunk and two rock-men on their own!”
One of the crystal golems opened a curtain to reveal the amount of the minions with nearly fifty thousand scaly dogs, forty-eight other crystal golems and ten forty-foot long leopards with scaly wings protruding from their backs. The monster mob all faced towards the window. The President gulped, turned pale and sunk into a chair.
“Will you give up this planet, or will you not?” snarled the booger beast.
The President managed to stand up and shouted, “We will not give up this planet! This is our own planet! Go back to where you came from!”
The booger beast seemed to listen and left them. The President and the other important government people thought they were in the clear and were about to start celebrating when a thunderous blow shook the building. Smoke smelling of rotten eggs immediately filled the White House. A dozen other blows knocked the building off its foundations and collapsed it. A gigantic flying leopard snatched up all of the important government people and threw them aside like rag dolls.
Soon, the entire town was engulfed in smoke and flames. The entire military and Air Force was attacking the monsters, but not a single alien had fallen. Bullets and bombs just pinged off of the monsters’ skin and scales. Meanwhile, the dogs were leaping about, smashing cars and walls with their clubbed tails and spitting poison liquid all over the roads and lawns. The golems simply strode through the town, smashing apart whatever happened to be in their way. The leopards crushed helicopters and planes by the dozen and knocked over skyscrapers with their feet. The booger beast’s roars shattered windshields and tore wings off planes. It gushed pungent steam from its mouth whenever it was open, and its single eye was pure red.
Soon, there was only one skyscraper standing. The booger beast flew towards it, laughing menacingly. Suddenly, there was an incredibly loud, high-pitched shriek and the clouds parted. With another shriek, a swarm of aliens dove in from the skies riding gigantic parrots. They appeared like stone gargoyles with paint on them, and they were waving around flaming swords. They dove towards the army below, stabbing and hacking at the demons and reducing them to dust.
The loudest scream yet sounded. The largest gargoyle dove towards the booger beast, shrieking like a banshee. This one had wings. The booger beast’s claws extended into three-foot-long talons and it charged at the gargoyle. The flaming sword and the claws met, grating against each other. Then, they both slashed and sliced at each other, weapons clashing and smashing against each other, adding to the general din. The flying gorgon kicked the booger beast back, who responded by blasting billowing hot smoke into its enemy’s face. The flying gargoyle sliced it all apart with its sword and shot fireballs at its adversary’s eye through its hand. The booger beast knocked the fireballs aside and roared. Then, claw and blade met once again, and glowing-hot energy traveled up the booger beast’s claws, vaporizing the beast as the gorgon screamed, “For VENUS!!!” The gargoyle raised its sword and a glowing force field of light thundered across the wrecked city, turning Martians to dust and repairing buildings, and a sudden flash of light went off. When the spots cleared from everyone’s eyes, the gargoyles were gone.
No cleaning up was required, as everything had already been fixed by the gargoyle’s force field of light. The invasion had obviously been a worldwide news story, but nobody had any idea who or what any of the aliens were, or why they came, and it still remains a mystery.
THE END!
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