Once upon a time, in a small town called Moontown, there lived an eleven year old girl named Ellie. Moontown got it's name from happenings in nights with a touch of moonlight. These happenings came from the Moonlife Mountains nearby, where numerous witches lived. Ellie loved living in Moontown, especially on nights with a glimmer of moonlight.

One Thursday night just after midnight, Ellie was lying in bed with the curtains open, moonlight streaming in through the open window. As she lay in bed she heard a soft, faint cat's cry. Ellie leapt out of bed when she recognised the cat sound. Outside her window lay a beautiful black cat. at once Ellie leaned out the window and the cat leapt up into her arms.
"Oh, what a beautiful cat!" she exclaimed. Suddenly the cat talked! He said
"Thank you for letting me come in, Ellie. I'm glad to meet you, my name is Moonstreak"
Ellie gasped, really amazed. "You can talk?"
"Of course," replied Moonstreak, "I belong to the Thursday Night Moon Witch. Tonight I was flying with her and we stopped on your roof to rest the broom as your roof has the best stream of moonlight, so the Moon Witches use it as a landmark. Then my witch, Mrs Thursday, took off very suddenly because she just remembered she needed two goldfish tails for her next brew for a spell. She had forgotten about me and as I ran to get on the broom, I fell off the roof and got such a fright I cried out."
"O.K. I see," said Ellie, "I'll keep you tonight and as long as I can. I suppose Mrs Thursday will be back?"
"I should think so,"  answered Moonstreak, "Because in the Moonlife Mountains, our home, I do all her chores and odd jobs."
Ellie and Moonstreak were both very tired so Ellie made a cosy little bed for Moonstreak in her little sister's dolls' cot.

When they were both asleep, there was a slight twittering outside their window. It was Mrs Thursday, looking for Moonstreak. Luckily she didn't see Moonstreak curled up in the cot blankets beside Ellie's bed. Mrs Thurday was worried about what she would do without Monnstreak. He was very helpful in her den in the Moonlife Mountains.
"Oh well," thought Mrs Thursday impatiently, "I will punish him when he returns."
As she went past, she paused hopefully to pause and look in Ellie's window again. At that moment, Monnstreak had just chosen to stretch and move into another position. Mrs Thursday tried to get in the window but luckily Ellie had locked it in case of Mrs Thursday's return.
Mrs Thusday was very angry that she couldn't get at Moonstreak.
"I will get Mrs Friday Moon Witch to bring him back!"

So Mrs Thursday went back to her den in the Moonlife Mountains. Even later that night, she decided that she couldn't wait for Mrs Friday to bring back Moonstreak, so in her small travel bag she packed her magic scissors and some food for Moonstreak. She really did care for Moonstreak, even if she didn't show it. She mounted her broomstick and with a whoosh, she was off!

Meanwhile, Ellie had let Moonstreak earn his keep by catching mice from under the house. When Ellie came home from school on Friday, Moonstreak was sitting proudly on the step with eleven dead grey mice beside him. Ellie gave Moonstreak his pay in food, with a lot of praise.

It took Mrs Moonstreak hours to get to Ellies' house. When she got there, Ellie and Moonstreak wre playing games on the back lawn. She crept up behind them and took out her magic scissors. Then as quickly as she could, she snipped afew hairs off the end of Moonstreaks's tail. Instantly, Moonstreak shrank to less than half his size!

Then as fast as lightning, Ellie snatched the pair of scissors off Mrs Thursday and snipped her to much less than half her size!
"Ah! You silly little girl!" yelled Mrs Thursday. But she couldn't call Ellie small now for she was only up to Ellie's knees and Moonstreak was almost up to Mrs Thursday's waist!

Ellie picked them up and took them into her room and sat them both on her bed and then she went out of the room. When Ellie came back intot the room, she had an idea. She shared it with Mrs Thursday and Moonstreak.
"My idea is to bring in my big doll's house and put it beside the window. Then I will make a ladder going up through it and onto the roof and also a tunnel going under the house. At night I will allow you to climb up onto the roof and chat with the other Moon Witches."
Mrs Thursday asked "What will you feed me?"
"Well, what do you like, Mrs Thursday?"
"I like foxtail soup with pansy leaves in"
" And to drink?" asked Ellie.
"Black current and oxblood"
Ellie made an inward face! Yuk! Where was she to get foxtails and oxblood? She decided to use oxtail soup with pansy leaves and black current raro. That night she used those certain ingredients and Mrs Thursday was satisfied. She even commented that it was tastier than her own recipe.

In the evening after dinner Ellie sewed some blankets for Mrs Thursday's bed. When she had finished she went to put them into Mrs Thursday's new house.
"Why did you do that Mrs Thursday?" Ellie asked.
"Witches fashion, it makes me feel more at home," said Mrs Thursday. Ellie let her be. She went to find Moonstreak. She fed Moonstreak and put him in his new bed beside Mrs Thursday.

In the night Ellie heard some knocking on the roof. She opened her eyes and saw a small dark shape climbing up the wall.
"It must be Mrs Thursday, talking and serving the witches on our roof," thought Ellie.

Each day passed in a similar way and  Ellie never tired of the pair's constant surprises. They were fun to keep and Mrs Thursday liked living in the doll's house. She never tried to run away like Ellie thought she would. And so they lived happily ever after!

I was asleep in bed, dreaming I was flying on a magic carpet. Suddenly I woke up! I started flying out of my bedroom window - a magic carpet, I thought.
"Are you a magic carpet?" I asked the carpet.
"Yes, I am" said the magic carpet. "I am going to take you on n adventure into a spooky, scary castle." We flew through the window. It was a freezing cold night. I covered myself with my blanket.

In the distance I could see a huge castle. "There is is, Hartley," the magic carpet said proudly. When I got up to it, I saw hundreds of blood sucking vampire bats surrounding the castle.
"Where is the entrance?" I asked the carpet.
"Just wait and see!"

We dived straight for the wall. We screamed through the air, heading towards the wall, we went straight through the wall!  It was just like going through air.We flew into a room full of fierce monsters. It included dinosaurs, dragons, vampire bats and many other scary creatures.

Suddenly the magic carpet disa ppeared from under me and I fell to the floor. The monsters closed in on me fast. I was terrified. The dragons were breathing fire and coming closer each time they breathed. The vampire bats dived at me, each time coming closer and closer. I ran around the room, hoping for some way to escape this monstrous place. In my panic I fell down a thousand foot pit straight into a whale's mouth. The whale swallowed me whole and I lived happily ever after in the whale's tummy.

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Hocus Pocus

By B (12)

Once upon a time there was an old witch in a creepy house, she grew tall rose bushes that just about reached the sky, they had deadly thorns which squirted poison at the speed of light.

Her name was Hocus Pocus ,the meanest and ugliest witch to have lived in Pleasantville.

It was a stormy day and Hocus Pocus was mixing one of her new potions up for the Witches' Reunion that happened every one thousand years. This year it was the celebration of the best potion to get children under the spell of the evil knifing witchy powers.

As Hocus Pocus was preparing the potion her siamese cat Albert had spotted a quite disturbing fly and at once leapt into the air and fell straight onto the potion, missing the fly.
"MEOW, MEOW!"
"What is it Albert, you can't be hungry already, I fed you just 1000 years ago!! Oh my potion its totally ruined!" complained Hocus Pocus in the most air-racking voice ever.

Albert rolled around and played while Hocus Pocus sat in grief,
"Oh what am I going to do now, Albert?  This is all your fault! I am so disappointed in you that I am going to send you to Cat Prison."

And so Hocus Pocus did that.

She didn't go to the Witches ' Reunion because of the disaster that had just been caused by her cat, Albert.

As the years went by Hocus Pocus became very lonely. But one day out of  nowhere,  Hocus Pocus had an idea, she would invent the perfect friend ever.

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