Once upon a time there was a girl named Penelope. She was a step sister to two other girls that were never nice. She was always waiting to have a chance to prove that she was better then everyone said she was. Everyone said she was always a mean person and never wanted to help anyone and always pushed people away that needed her help. Well…. She is nothing like that. She is a kind and generous person that helps anyone that she can. Her step sister’s names are Kaitlyn and Sarah. Sarah was the youngest one and Kaitlyn was the oldest. Sarah was a little nicer than Kaitlyn but you really couldn’t tell.                                                                        But they never let poor little Penelope do anything. They would make her do all the chores. When she wanted to go somewhere with her friends, they would always keep her home and have her do their chores. They would always keep her locked up in her room when boys came to the house to visit her. Her step sisters would always keep the boys in the living room and talk them into liking them instead of Penelope.                                                                  There were only two guys that would never like Penelope’s step sisters. Their names were Matt and Jessey. Matt has known Penelope almost his whole life and Jessey just knows how hard her life is at home and likes her for the person she is. Penelope likes both of these guys too. Penelope, her step sisters, and the boys are all seniors in high school and can’t wait to graduate. But before they graduate there must be a dance and everyone in the school shall pick a homecoming king and queen. Well, when the dance came along her step sisters went and bought brand new dresses. The dresses were beautiful. They made Kaitlyn and Sarah look like they were princesses. The dresses had lace all over and had puffy sleeves and silk gloves. Sarah’s was green. Kaitlyn’s dress was pink. She asked if she could go. They said no. They said she had to stay there and clean their rooms and scrub the floors. They gave her a list of chores that was a mile long.                                                                          When the limo came to pick them up and take them to the dance, they jumped in and were gone that quick. Penelope sat scrubbing the floor crying.                                                                                                Then all of a sudden, there was a noise at her window. It was Matt and Jessey! They had come to take her to the dance. She was telling them about the list of chores and how she could not go to the dance because of her step sisters. They said they knew about the chores. They would have her back at her house before midnight. (That is when the danced ended.) Matt and Jessey finally got her to go.                                                                                                                   “But I don’t have anything to wear except these old dirty rags.” replied Penelope.                                                                                             Jessey’s mom and dad had recently bought this big box of costumes. He had brought her a beautiful dress. It looked even better then her step sisters’ dresses. She looked at it and gasped.     “How did you get this?” she asked.                                                       “My mom and dad got these costumes. I brought it for you to wear to the dance. So get out of those rags and change into this”.                                                                                                           She ran into the bathroom and got the dress on. She came out of the bathroom a few minutes later. The boys just stared.                      Do you think it is too much?” she asked.                                          “No” they both said at once.                                                                     “Here.” Jessey said “I brought you a mask also so no one can recognize you.”                                                                                      “OK” she said. The mask was also beautiful.                                      Well, are we ready?” Matt asked.                                                            “Yes” they said.                                                                                                    So they all climbed into the car and went off for the dance. They got to the dance. The boys helped Penelope out of the car. The boys walked down the stairs to the dance floor. Once they got to the bottom of the floor they looked around. Everyone was staring at something. They turned around and noticed it was Penelope. She slowly started walking down the stairs.  Matt helped her onto the floor.                                                                                            “May I have this dance?” asked Jessey.                                                         “Yes you may.” Penelope said.                                                                                So they danced. They waited until the song was over. Then they got some punch out of the punch bowl to drink. Penelope realized that this was as much fun as she has had since her father died. Then Penelope’s step sisters stared at her.             They started whispering to each other. “She looks familiar.”                They said Penelope realized that a lot of people were looking at her. She didn’t realize that in that crowd that her two step sisters Kaitlyn and Sarah were staring at her. Then what happened to Penelope next would amaze her. The most wanted and cutest boy in 12th grade asked her to dance. The cutest boys name was Jon.   

“Really you want to dance with me?” she asked.                                   “Yes” he said.                                                                                       “Okay” she said.                                                                                           She was so excited. They danced and then all of a sudden she heard the clock chime.                                                                           “OH NO!” she said. She ran and grabbed Matt and Jessey. They ran up the stairs. Jon come shouting behind her.                                             “Come back!” he yelled. “What is your name?” He shouted 2 or 3 times.                                                                                                              But yet, she ran and hoped to get home in time to make sure her step sisters and step mother wouldn’t realize she had left. Under all of this chaos, she had dropped her necklace. Her necklace had her initials on it. Her initials were P.R.O. Her initials stood for Penelope Rose Osmond. Her father had made this for her 10^th birthday.  She has had it ever since. Jon found the necklace on the stairs. He looked at it and noticed that those letters were engraved into it. Well, she got back to her house and made it back just in time to find her step mother and her step sisters just driving down the street. She had time to get out of the dress and back into her other clothes before they got out of the car and into the house. Matt and Jessey left just in time also. Her step sisters asked her what she had been doing this whole time. She told them she had been doing the chores on the list and scrubbing the floors.                                     They said, “We thought we saw you at the dance?”  “Nope, I have been here or I wouldn’t have gotten all the chores done if I would have gone to the dance.” Penelope replied.                                     “Well, we are going to bed and getting our towels ready for in the morning when we take our showers!” they yelled as they went up stairs to bed.                                                                                         Penelope slept in the basement as much as she wanted her bedroom back but her step sisters were sleeping in there now.

The next morning they woke up, took their showers, and they were off to school. When they got there, they realized that there were flyers and banners everywhere. “What is all of this?” complained the step sisters.                                                                                          “This is to help me find my soul mate that I danced with at the dance and all of a sudden she ran off.” said Jon. When Penelope heard this news, she was so excited. But she thought that if Jon found out that it was her, he would drop all of the soul mate talk and say never mind. So she was scared to tell him who he danced with at the dance. Well, as you might as well know the step sisters were so excited they ran to try to tell Jon that it was them. They met him in the lunch room tables.                                                                     “I am the one” Sarah said.                                                                   “Oh really” asked Jon. “If you the one then I have a question to ask you. The girl I was dancing with at the dance with dropped something, what was it?” he asked them.                                                 “Easy” they said. “It was a cell phone.”                                                   “No,” he replied.                                                                                           “A bandana?”                                                                                              “No”                                                                                                               “A wrist watch?”                                                                                          “No, How about you girls go on. I need to find my true love that loves music as much as I do” He exclaimed. He looked at Penelope “Haven’t seen you around here to much, are you new?” He asked.                                                                                                            “No” she said. Then when she turned around, the boy saw something in her backpack.                                                                    “Hey” he yelled at Penelope. “Come back.”                                          She remembered like it was last night. “Huh” she said. “That mask in your backpack it was the one that the girl I danced with was wearing,” he told her.                                                                                She sat down with him and told him the story about everything that has happened and the reason she had to leave the dance early.                                                                                                          “Oh my goodness it sounds like you are worked like a slave.” He said.                                                                                                          “Yep” she said “Ever since my dad died.”                                                “I am sorry." said Jon.                                                                            “It’s okay” she said. “I thought that you would be disappointed when you found out it was me who you danced with at the dance” she told him.                                                                                              “No” he said. “Why would you think that?” he asked.                          “I am not a popular girl and I don’t have a whole lot of money.” She replied to him.                                                                               "That doesn’t matter. What matters is what is in the inside” he said. So they began dating and they graduated together. And they lived happily ever after. What happened to her step sisters, well, let’s just say they don’t like the place they are working to earn daily allowance. 

Natosha Slaven   

      Miguel said, “Now, son I want you to go back home and bring the rest of the family here.”                                                                                                                                 Jose said, “Okay, dad I will.” And so Jose went back home and got all the rest of the family and their belongings. Then they came to the new city where they would live for now. They lived happily ever after.        

                                                                                 Alexis Lazalde

The next day he acted evil and he screamed

“Help, help, a woof is eating my sheep’s!”

       The workers heard the kid and came running to see what was happening. And the worker said, “Where is the woof!”                                              The kid started to laugh and said,” Ha, I was just kitting.”  

       The workers went back to work. Then again the boy screamed “Help, help a woof is eating my sheep.”

        The workers came running and said, ” Where is the wolf?”

        The kid laughed again and said, “ I was just kitting.”

        The workers went back to their work. Once again the boy screamed and said, “Help, help a wolf is eating my sheep.”

       And the workers said, “ He is just lying.” 

       They didn’t go. The boy was screaming and screaming. The workers said he’s screaming a lot. They said, “Let’s go check.”  When they got where the kid was, there was a real wolf.  He had eaten all of the sheep.

           Once upon a time a there was a dog named Cookie. She was very nice and helpful that she work very hard on the fields with her framer. One day Cookie went to the fields by herself because she heard a loud noise. When Cookie got there she found a dog that was hurt Cookie run to get her framer. The framer run to see the dog, the framer carry the dog into the house. The framer said that the dog had a broken leg than the framer left Cookie to take care her of the dog. Than the dog woke up and Cookie asked the dog what was its name, the dog said that his named was Freddy. After two weeks Freddy’s leg was fine that soon Cookie became good friends with Freddy they both helped the framer on the fields. They liked working on the fields everyday but the framer told Cookie and Freddy to take a break for working so hard on the fields.

          After six weeks Cookie was pregnant she was going to have puppies the framer was so excided for Cookie and for Freddy. But what Cookie couldn’t work she couldn’t do the things she likes because she was pregnant and had to be careful. The day came when Freddy became a daddy it was so cool said Freddy. A month after that Cookie was able to go back to work while her kids were playing around. They meet some other puppies to play with everyday

          One day the puppies were playing outside and soon a wolf appear and the puppies started to run all around the place. Soon Cookie went to see what was going on she side “what do you want you big bad wolf” but the wolf just kept on running after the puppies. The big bad wolf only got to eat one little puppy but he said “I will be back for more you’ll see.” The next day the big bad wolf came back but what was surprise that the farmer was going to kill him so the wolf run off and never cane back thought Cookie was never going to forget about one of her puppy. The farmer, Cookie, Freddy, and the puppies were sad but the farmer said that he could adopt another puppy. The other puppies were saying “yes we are going to have another brother”. And the next day they were excited to play with the new puppy and they lived happily ever after.

     One day a servant from the castle was sent by the prince to go door to door and announce that there would be a big ball. That the prince was searching for princess to become queen. Victoria was thrilled about the ball. She was hoping that she would finish her chores on time so she could attend the ball.

     A week had pass since the announcement had been announced. Victoria had been working on her dress she would wear to the ball. Victoria dedicated all of her time on the dress when she finished with her chores. Finally, Victoria had finished with her gorgeous white dress. Victoria was proud of herself. She couldn’t wait to wear the gorgeous dress to the ball.

     One night while Victoria went to gather wood for the fire before she would leave to go to the ball. Jane and Marie had looked through Victoria’s wardrobe to see the dress Victoria would wear to the ball. Marie found the gorgeous white dress. Victoria had worked to wear to the dress to the ball. Jane could not stand the way the dress looked so gorgeous and especially imagining Victoria wearing the white dress. Both Jane and Marie decided to destroy the gorgeous white dress Victoria worked on. Jane started to rip the bow on the dress while Marie grabbed the scissors and starting cutting the bottom of the dress. Jane and Marie both quickly destroyed the dress before Victoria got back form gathering wood. Until, the dress had no were else to destroy Jane and Marie left for the ball already having their ball dressed on, so it would not look like they had destroyed the gorgeous white dress.

     After Victoria arrived from gathering wood and kept the fire burning she went to her to give her dress the last details, so she could wear it to the ball. When Victoria saw what had happened to her gorgeous white dress a small tear tolled down her check. She started sobbing and saying, “Now I can not go to the ball!”

     Victoria stopped crying until she cried the last drop of tear out. She was terribly upset that now she had no dress and no chance to have a dance with the prince. Victoria tried to fix the dress but she knew it would be impossible and  too late to fix the dress. Victoria had no idea what was in front of her when a white beam of light started with a lovely white night dress. Victoria thought she was dreaming and pinched herself, but the beautiful woman was still there. Victoria was scared and shocked to speak.

     “Who are you?”, asked Victoria with a high pitch voice.

     “I am your mother. Elizabeth. You don’t recognize me because you never knew me, but now here I am to help you.”, replied Elizabeth.

     “How can you be my mother, when my mother passed away when she gave birth to me?”, asked Victoria.

     “I might be gone physically, but spiritually I’m always with you to protect you.”, said Elizabeth.

     “Oh”, said Victoria.

     “That is why I’m here to help you, so you can go to the ball and have that dance with the prince you want.”, said Victoria’s mother.

     “I could never go to the ball with a dress looking like that.”, pointed Victoria to the dress.

     “And besides it would take a miracle to fix the dress!”, Victoria kept saying.

     “Well sweetie like I said that’s why I’m here to help with that. Just close your eyes and count to three.”, said Elizabeth with a ware smile. Victoria did as she was told.

     “Okay, now open your eyes”, said her mother.

     When Victoria opened her eyes she was speechless. She could not believe that the white gorgeous dress that had been destroyed was not the most beautiful dress she had ever seen. The dress was long lavender dress with beautiful designing on the bottom part of the dress.

     “Thank you so much mom”, said Victoria for the first time.

     “You are welcome daughter of mine”, replied her mother.

     “Now hurry. Put the dress on the then you shall leave for the ball that awaits you.”, said Victoria’s mother.

     Victoria put the dress on and then made a face that her mother noticed.

     “What’s wrong Victoria? Did you not like the dress?”, asked Victoria’s mother.

     “No, No, No, it is not that. I love this dress you have given me. It’s that I won’t make it on time to the ball if I go walking”, said Victoria with an upset face.

     “No, need to worry for that Victoria. I got it all taken care of. You will be riding a Spanish Horse that is waiting for you outside”, replied Victoria’s mother with a smile.

     “Wow. I do not know how I will be able to ever repay mom”, said Victoria with teary eyes.

     “There’s no need for you to start crying because it will ruin your make-up. Do not worry about repaying me Victoria. All I want is for you to be happy. But promise me something Victoria.”, asked Elizabeth.

     “Okay. What is it?”, asked Victoria.

     “ I want you to wear this gold necklace with a charm shaped as a heart. Inside the heart it will have an engraved letter, V.”, said Victoria’s mother.

     “Okay I can do that”, said Victoria.

     “But if the necklace falls off your dress will turn into the torn up white dress”, said Victoria’s mother.

     “Okay”, replied Victoria.

     Victoria turned around for a second, but before she knew it her mother had vanished out of thin air. Victoria wished she could have talked longer with her mother but she couldn’t because it was getting late for the ball.

     When Victoria arrived with her beautiful dress riding the Spanish horse all eyes were on her. Jane and Marie didn’t recognize who the beautiful girl had been. The people of the town didn’t know who this beautiful girl was or where she came from.

     Later that night Victoria looked down to see if her necklace was still there. Victoria was relieved because she still had enough time to still dance with the prince. Victoria did not know if to wait for the prince to ask her for a dance or if she would go up to him to dance. But before Victoria knew it the prince had been heading her way to ask her for a dance.

     “May I have this dance?”, asked the prince in a soft voice.

     “Of course you may”, replied Victoria blushing. The prince and Victoria headed to the middle of the dance floor and started dancing. Victoria didn’t know what to say during the prince and her dance. Victoria thought the dance would never come to an end.

     Until finally the music stopped. The prince kissed her hand and again Victoria’s cheeks were bright pink. The prince asked her if she wanted to accompany him to the garden of the castle. Of course she didn’t want to pass up on an opportunity that she would never get.

     Victoria followed the prince to the garden.

     “I enjoyed that dance with you.”, said the prince. Victoria blushed and looked down. But when she looked down she noticed that her necklace was missing.

     “Oh no!”, gasped Victoria.

     “What’s wrong?”, asked the prince.

     “I have to go now.”, said Victoria and ran out.

     “But wait, I don’t even know your name.” said the prince, but it was to late Victoria had already left. When the prince looked down at the ground he noticed a golden necklace with a heart shaped charm. The prince then figured out why the girl he met had left.

     The next day everyone was talking about the mysterious girl that came to the ball and left running from the castle. Jane and Marie asked Victoria if she knew anything about the mysterious girl that was at the ball.

     “Oops, never mind you know nothing about the ball since you didn’t go because your dress was destroyed.”, said Jane. Jane and Marie just walked off laughing at Victoria.

     Victoria did not say anything.

     Later that day someone knocked at Victoria’s house. The same servant that worked at the castle was asking that if any girl was missing a golden chain with a heart shaped necklace.

     “Yes, I lost my necklace yesterday and I don’t know were I lost it.”, said Victoria.

     “Well it doesn’t happen to be this necklace would it”, said the servant holding Victoria’s necklace that her mother had given her.

     “Yes it is”, she said with a smile on her face.

     “Dear prince we have found your princess”, shouted the servant to the prince that was next door.

     “Found who?”, asked Victoria in a confused voice.

     “You are the girl the prince is looking, and now you will become his queen. Unless you do not wish to marry the prince.”, said the servant.

     “Of course I would”, said Victoria.

     “Well next week there shall be a wedding”, said the prince coming toward Victoria.

     A week later passed. Victoria and the prince married and they lived happily ever after.

   Once upon a time there was a mouse named Alexis. He always went to peoples’ houses. The people did not like the mice. They always put traps to kill them. But he did not care. He always fed his family and sacrificed his life for them. One day he did not come back. Yazmin, his oldest daughter, went out to look for him. As she was there, she ran into a cat. The cat was teasing her. But he did not eat her because she was a vegetarian.

       She helped her find her dad but there was no sign of him. The only clue was that the owner was talking about a mouse that was in her house. In order to get there she has to go through the grass and it was as long as them. They ran into them and the cat said, “Let us thru,” but the wasp would not let them. He said, “In order to go thru, you have to solve the puzzle.” It was difficult but they figured it out. They finally got to the house and went thru the doggy door. In that house, there was a dog as big as a lion, He would not let them through and the mouse had to explain every thing that happened. The dog understand and took them to the cage and she found her dad. At the end they got their whole family together at the lady’s house and lived happily ever after at the cage.

The Dragon and the Two Knights

Once upon a time there were two knights that were trained to destroy their opponent. On the far side of the village there was a silver dragon that killed anyone that trespassed in his cave. It breathed fire and turned into a flaming ball  when he got mad. When the first knight went to defeat the silver dragon, he started taunting it. The dragon was really a nice one but when it was being taunted, it got angry. The first knight died from the dragon.

The second knight was the nicest one the village has ever had. All the rulers thought he wouldn’t make it out alive. But when he went to defeat the dragon, he was nice to it to see how it would react. The dragon put him in his mouth to carry him somewhere else. The knight thought it was trying to eat him alive. It spit him out in a magical part of the cave that was filled with a thousand tons of gold and diamonds. He was so happy. He thought the dragon was still going to try to kill him but it gave him some gold and let him go out. The dragon went to the village with the knight. The knight told them about how nice the dragon was and how much gold there was in the cave. The amazing dragon never fought anyone again and lived happily ever after with the knight.

Scott Hofer

     Once there were two chickens that lived on a farm. The farmer always forgot to shut the gate so it was their job to do it. The chickens would shut the gate so the fox would not get in.   One day only one chicken left the  gate open and forgot to shut it.The other chicken shut it in time right as the Fox   showed up. He asked the chicken if she   would open the gate. She told him no. After he left the other chicken came back from the barn and asked“What did I miss?” The other chicken then told her what happened.That night the fox came when the farmer was sleeping and dug his claws through the chicken gate. The chickens woke and began to scream in terror. They ran around trying to escape the fox. Just then, the

farmer woke up and got his rifle and shot at the fox, the fox got scared and never returned.  And the chickens were never harmed again.