The Dream Giver

In Year 4 (3rd Grade), our class was told to write a story based on a clip that we were shown. It was called 'The Dream Giver'. This was my story:

On one of the darkest, grimmest nights, everything was strange and deathly silent. The light of the brightest stars were dim, while others were as bright as knives of blood, trapping and pinning the night to the sky. Weirdly, the clouds were floating in the sky, but in squares. All you could hear was the whistle of the air, working its path through everything in its way. Every house was silent, and all the lights were turned off.

Just then, as quick as a flick of a bat's wing, a mysterious creature soared through the air. Cautiously, his long, bony fingers crept through an old, brown shutter. He was bald, with an enormous head for his size. He was as big as half a window, but no one knew he existed. The creature had wings as long as three cobras, and goggles as big as ten snail shells. The legs were as lengthy as spider legs, and were as fast and as quiet as a whisper.

Thinking, he looked at a book in his hand. Was this the orphanage? Yes, 2655 Kenzington avenue. He flew of the window sill, and was just about to take something glowy out of a sack. He froze, as the child stirred. Luckily, he didn't wake up. So back to work; He lifted a glowing egg out of the sack, and cracked it. Surreptitiously, he poured a goldish liquid into a pair of ballet shoes on the bed. As the liquid spread across the shoe, an elegant, graceful dancer started pirouetting on the bed.

She leapt onto the end of the bed sheet to see the sleeping child. Then the real magic started. The child had a dream about becoming a ballerina as elegant as a swan. Another egg was cracked on a book about an astronaut, floating slowly around as if it were really in space. Next, the goo was on some baseball cards. But there was a child so engrossed in his dream, that he thought he was actually playing jazz music (which was what his dream was about)! The creature was as happy as the children when he saw a smile

Suddenly, when he was about to . leave, one child took a slow, accidental kick onto an egg the creature had left. It landed on a book called, 'Chantico, shadow serpent'. Just when the creature heard a puff, he went to see what it was. Then a purple light that looked like a whirlpool thrust him back. A cool frizz crept around his body as he eyed a cyclone of...well...death. The spaceman gazed as the cyclone spun round his body until he was swallowed into the book of nightmares.

There he lay, apparently...lifeless. Curled like a snake, still as a brick. Something looked slimy and gooey on a red, hidden scene behind him. All you could see was a scrap of hair in the helmet.

Just at that moment, he woke up to a dry but attractive desert. The tall, brown trees were covered in moss. Butterflies were fluttering with the rays of the yellow sun. But, as the astronaut wandered on, there were scary skulls and skeletons in sigh; as well as troll headed statues. They were lying on the trees, although the spaceman hadn't noticed. He was to busy looking for navigation for a direction in which he heard a low noise. The object got clearer and clearer. It was a statue that looked like a pharoah. He was leaning on a stone, gazing at the temple, when the stone fell from the column on which it stood. A beast with eyes like pits of green lava stared at him like a hawk. As soon as he observed the eyes of the beast and heard its growl, the boy turned on his heels and ran at the speed of a moth. Soon enough, he came to a drop. He slowly swivelled to come face to face with the horrid creature with teeth like cactus spines, and black, shiny, scaly skin, which drooled like slime. His roar was like a stampede of all carnivores. Suddenly, the boy realised he was surrounded by pure danger.

It was at that moment when some white acid fell on the ground. The creature gave a huge roar, as he felt branches and leaves surrounding him. It was the Dream Giver. Without warning, he dropped some eggs on a growing plant. The plant grew and grew until it strangled the creature. He let out one last breath and collapsed on the ground. A tree had evolved on top of him. As quick as lightning, the child woke up (on earth). He saw the book had completely changes since the Dream Giver had gone in. As he was reading through, a shadow appeared on the toy box, then the child heard the flutter of wings as he stared at the old, brown shutter.