A Small Diversion

Scion

This has nothing to do with SW, Earth, or anything really. Its the rough draft for the children's book i have to write for English, and I am bored so I am posting it.

Im highlighting text since we don't start new paragraphs for children's books.

Horatio Goblin and The Hammer of Tremendous Virtue

Once, there was a large land called Globinada, where billions of bugs lived. But that’s not important, since this story isn’t about bugs. There were thousands of goblins though, which is important since this story is about goblins. Globinada is a big island surrounded by two mountain ranges with a huge forest in the middle, The Forest of Magical Importance. On each mountain range lived a different group of goblins who did not like each other at all. It was a custom for goblins to venture into the Forest of Magical Importance to look for the item that would one day be their profession when they grew older. The only trouble was the two goblin groups had to share the forest, so problems there were many and frequent.
One day, a green goblin named Horatio was heading into the forest to look for his magical tool. He was excited about discovering his future, but somewhat disappointed that he couldn’t choose himself. As he was walking he met up with two other green goblins named Benzy and his sister Menzy, who were also looking for their magical tools. “Hi,” said Menzy. “Hello, are you from the right side of the forest, or the left?” asked Horatio, who was from the right side of the forest. “We are from the right.” Benzy replied as two red goblins came around a tree. “We’re from the left side of the forest.” The bigger red goblin looked angrily at the group of green goblins. “Well, we don’t want a fight, so we’ll just leave you alone.” Menzy said. As the green goblins turned, the big red goblin threw a rock at Benzy’s head. He fell down and started crying as Mensy turned back, picked up a rock and threw it at the red goblin. The rock sailed feet passed the big red goblins shoulder and hit a large blue tree.
As the goblins started picking up more rocks, Horatio remembered there are no such things as blue trees. “Run!” Horatio yelled as he turned to pick up Bensy off the ground, the rest turned towards the blue thing and the little red goblin screeched at the top of his lungs, “It’s the Horrendous Troll of Erroneous Deeds!” The horrendous blue troll was one of the only real dangers besides other goblins, and he was noted for his amazing strength. The blue troll lifted a tree right out of the ground and threw it at the goblins who dispersed. Bensy, who was bawling by now, ran faster than any other goblin, spotted the hole in the ground first and dove into it. Horatio and Mensy dived in after him. The two red goblins ran past, no doubt because they were from the other side of the forest and did not want to be in the same room as three other sided goblins. The blue troll was still chasing the red goblins and hurling tree trunks at them.
“Wow, that one was close.” said Mensy. “Really close.” Said Horatio, who was watching Bensy, who had finally stopped crying. Bensy was staring at a small object in the corner of the small cavern. It was a brilliantly gold magnifying glass. “Hey guys, I think that magnifying glass is for me.” Bensy said. All of a sudden it hovered over to him and fell into his hands. “This is the Gold Magnifying Glass of Spectacular Sights!” Bensy announced happily. Mensy looked confused. “I thought whatever you were supposed to do found you, but you just thought that was for you and it came to you.” Bensy looked down confused also, but about something completely different. “Maybe I’ll be scientist, I always wanted to be one of those.” Bensy said as Horatio added, “It looks like the coast is clear.” Climbing out of the hole, they continued on with their adventure, Bensy deciding to continue with them.
Soon they reached a waterfall, that led into a wide river with a fast current. “Wow,” said Horatio, “It’s the Waterfall of Water-Flavored Gatorade!” Bensy reached down, cupped his hands and took a long drink. “You can really taste the water!” Bensy proclaimed. Mensy jumped into the Gatorade excitedly. “I always loved being around water.” Bensy and Horatio were about to jumped in afterwards when they saw a group of mean looking fish off in the distance. “Oh no! The Sharks of Semi-Dangerous Proportions! Mensy get out of the water.” Bensy cried as Horatio began throwing rocks at the oncoming sharks. Mensy was heading towards the shore when she saw something glint under the water and dove down to get it. Horatio and Bensy were throwing rocks to keep the sharks off of Mensy, who resurfaced just in time to notice the sharks. She screamed and at first Horatio and Bensy thought it was because a shark got her, but then they realized a giant turtle’s head poked out of the water and roared, scaring the sharks away. The turtle went underwater and lifted Mensy to the shore. “Hello, I am the Great Turtle of Wise Cliched Sayings.” The turtle said. Then Mensy showed all of them what she had gone for. “The Magic Whistle of Wise Cliched Sayings!” Mensy said excitedly. The turtle spoke again, “Ah yes, that was my favorite whistle, but you seem to want it more,, as you know, you get what you give.” Mensy looked up at him, “Mr. Turtle, aren’t our careers supposed to find us and not us find them?” Turtle replied by saying, “You are your own person, you can be anything you want to be. Now I will give you a ride across the river, and when you need a ride back, just blow that whistle.” After the Turtle gave them a ride to the other side, he sunk back to the depths of the lake.
Mensy and Bensy decided to stay with Horatio as he looked for his career item. They had thought about what the Great Turtle of Wise Cliched Sayings had said and they said that Horatio should find what he liked to do and maybe something would come to him. “Well, I always liked building things.” He said. Just then a branch fell and hit him on the head. As Bensy and Mensy helped him up, he noticed a beautiful hammer lying in the middle of a clearing. He ran over to pick it up and as he did, he knew right there that this is what he had come for. The Hammer of Tremendous Virtue. He oddly knew it’s name and couldn’t explain why, he was about to turn around and show Mensy and Bensy when he got hit in the head by a rock. He got up and turned to see the big red goblin from earlier getting ready to throw another rock at him. “That’s my Hammer of Tremendous Virtue.” He said as he threw the rock. It missed Horatio by inches and hit a purple tree. Horatio was about to pick up a rock when he remembered there are no such thing as purple trees. He started to run without warning as a purple elephant smashed down on several trees. As Horatio slowly curved around the other way, the red goblin cried, “The Purple Elephant of Raging Outbursts!” just before he was crushed by the said elephant. Horatio told Mensy and Bensy to run toward the river and they did. They ran for 2 straight hours with the elephant directly behind them the whole time, and Mensy used the last of her breath to blow her whistle to cause the Turtle’s head to poke out of the water. They jumped on to his back and the elephant stopped at the shoreline. On the opposite shore, they rested for a day before heading home, their decided careers and items at hand.
Bensy became a scientist who ended up discovering 40 new types of leeches. Mensy became the head lifeguard at the local pool, and Horatio opened his own carpentry shop. So instead of there future’s being chose for them, they got to choose their own future.

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