Megan the Mystical & Her Magical Adventures

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Megan the Mystical & Her Magical Adventures

By Zoie

                                                                          

     Far far away, in an old castle standing in the Land of the Extraordinary--People, (otherwise known as LEPP World) there lived a girl who had 3 magical possessions:  1.) the power to fly;  2.) the power to make children’s dreams come true; and 3.) best of all, friendship.  Megan had a sidekick and best friend by the name of Fliza the Flying Pony.  The folks of LEPP World knew about Megan and her powers but regular people, like us in the human world, really didn’t.

     Most everyone in LEPP World loved Megan the Mystical except for one nasty, evil warlock by the name of Cranemato.  Nobody liked him because he was so negative and mean.  You see, everybody in LEPP World was positive and very nice, and that’s probably the main reason why nobody liked the evil Cranemato.  Unlike Megan’s magnificent castle, Cranemato lived in a lonely, damp and gloomy cave somewhere under LEPP World.

     Now, since Cranemato hated love and niceness and loved hate and evil, this evil warlock not only hated the love-loving people of LEPP World, but he especially hated Megan, all of her good magic, and all those good children here in the human world. 

     One evening, while Megan was preparing to take Fliza into the human world, she got a phone call…

RING! RING! RING! RING!

     Being in such a hurry, Megan answered and switched to speaker-phone. 

     “Hello, Miss?” said a strange voice.  “Did you know that you won a free pizza?”

     It was really Cranemato, disguising his voice.

     “Wow!” responded Megan.

     “Soooo, what kinda topping would you like on your free pizza?”

     “Mmmm… I think I’ll have pepperoni, please,” said Megan while brushing her pony.  Fliza began to shake her head like crazy. 

     “Ugh.  Fliza!” she said with a scowl.  “We are getting pepperoni!  Last time we got what YOU wanted, HAY, GRASS, and CARROTS!  YUCK!!!”

     “Sooooooo…” continued Cranemato, “you’re going to stick with the pepperoni?...”

     “Yes, sorry for any confusion here.  My pony’s being rather difficult,” replied Megan staring crossly at Fliza, who kept shaking her head.

     “Your free pizza should be delivered in about ten minutes, Miss,” said the sly voice.

     Little did Megan know, that, when the knock on the castle door came from this mysterious LEPP-Pizza delivery guy, it was really Cranemato.  She also didn’t know that the evil warlock had sprinkled sleeping-powder on top of the garlic powder. 

     “Thank you, Mr. Delivery Guy,” said Megan.  Opening the box, she cried, “Hey!  I didn’t order any garlic powder on this.”  Fliza would not stop neighing and shaking her head.  “Oh, well, I guess it’s better than all that horse stuff we got on it last time.  Will you stop acting crazy, Fliza!”

     Megan held up a slice and took a big bite.  Suddenly, things got blurry and she dropped her pizza, collapsing on the floor. 

     That’s when Cranemato burst through the door. 

     “Ha-ha!  There it is!  That magic necklace!  It’s finally mine!” he laughed.  “Now I will take all the magic it contains and turn its good powers into evil!  Ha-ha!”

     “Neigh!  Neigh!!” shrieked Fliza, pressing her nose up against Megan’s cheek.

     “Get away!” yelled Cranemato.  “I have got to make this fast before she wakes up.”  He then pulled the magic necklace off of Megan’s neck and put it on himself.

     “Neigh!  Neigh!”

     “Shut up!” said Cranemato.  “Now that I have this magic necklace, you are under my power!  Ha-ha!”

     A tear rolled down Fliza’s cheek and dropped onto Megan.

     “Oh, boo-hoo-hooey!” cried Cranemato in a mean voice.  “You are going to help me find the way to the human world so that instead of making the children’s dreams come true, I will, instead, make their awful NIGHTMARES COME TRUE!!  Ahh-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

     Cranemato jumped on Fliza’s back and flew out of the castle, and the people of LEPP World could hear Cranemato’s evil laughing across the dark, purple sky.

    

     A few minutes later, Megan woke up and realized that Fliza was missing.  She felt her neck.  Her magic necklace was gone, too. 

     “Who would do such a thing?” she cried.  “Everyone is so nice here in LEPP World.”

     Then she remembered the warlock who lived in the underground cave.  Cranemato!  She sat down on a chair next to the pizza mess and wondered what she was going to do.

     Meanwhile, in his creepy underground laboratory cave, Cranemato was busy hatching an evil plan with all the magic he had stolen from Megan. 

     He hopped on Fliza’s back and ordered the pony to fly through a cloud circle, right into the human world.  It was here where he planned to find innocent sleeping children and make their worst nightmares COME TRUE!   

     Cranemato and Fliza flew over rooftops searching for a terrifying nightmare and then dropped down onto a house.

     “Oh, look Fliza!  How sad...” he said.  “A creepy crawly nightmare full of tarantulas!  I hope this little girl doesn’t get too scared, ha-ha-ha!”

     After casting his evil magic with a handful of his evil dust powder, he flew off into the clouds again.  When Little Suzie woke up that morning, she screamed and screamed, seeing hairy spiders crawling everywhere.

     “Mommy!  Mommy!  Spiders are attacking me!  Help me, please!  MOMMY!”

     Cranemato gazed into the bright stone hanging from the magic necklace and laughed as he watched Little Suzie’s parents swatting at the spiders with magazines and newspapers.

     “There.  I’ve done my evil for the night.”  The boulders to his secret cave under LEPP World rolled back.  “Inside, Fliza!  It is time for my beauty sleep.”

     

     Meanwhile, Megan was still back in her castle, crying.  She was so sad without the friend who always helped her make kids’ dreams come true.  And then, all of a sudden, as she was staring out the window, she saw something flying through the morning sky. 

     “Fliza!” she shouted.

     When the pony landed at the front door of the castle, Megan ran out and hugged her best friend as hard as she could.

     “What happened to you, girl?  I was so worried.”  She let go.  “Was it that evil Cranemato?”

     Fliza nodded her head up and down.

     “Oh, thank goodness you got away!”  She bent over to pick up the evil pizza.  “You know what, Fliza?  That evil warlock needs a taste of his own medicine.  We need to give this pizza back to him in exchange for my magic necklace!”

     Fliza smiled and nodded her head up and down.    

     Just then, somewhere under LEPP World, Cranemato was waking up in his cave, discovering that Fliza was missing. 

     “That little flying PUNK!” he shouted.  “Ha!  I know.  She is under my evil power.  I’ll just force her to come back.  Ha-ha!”  He looked into the shiny stone hanging from the necklace and saw Fliza being hugged by Megan.  “Fleeza-flooza-flaza-flow!  You must return under this spell of woe!” 

     Back at Megan’s castle, Fliza began shaking her head and walking backwards.

     “Fliza!  Where are you going?  What’s going on?”

     Running out of the castle, Fliza took off to the sky again.

     “Noooo!  You can’t leave!” she screamed, running after her.  Megan ran so fast after her pony that her red hair blew back behind her like streamers.  Her bright ocean blue eyes blinked and sparkled as she continued running and trying to keep Fliza from leaving her sight.  After a while, she finally watched Fliza land and go into a dark cave, giant boulders instantly rolling and clashing together like thunder.  Megan jumped.  She was blocked out.

     Megan waited outside for a long while wondering how to get in.  All of a sudden, the boulders rolled open and Cranemato shot out of the cave riding on Fliza’s back, soaring into the sky.

     “Bwa-ha-haaa…”

     Megan then quickly walked into Cranemato’s cave.  She looked up and saw mold growing all over the ceiling.  She then walked into a laboratory that had notebooks scribbled-in and glass jars with weird things floating in them.  In a corner, she saw a dusty snack table where she placed a slice of pizza she had brought with her.  The dust made her sneeze. 

     “Achoo!  This place is disgusting,” she said looking around at the walls that had some kind of clear goo oozing from the cracks.  “And creepy, too.”

     Cranemato flew over another neighborhood looking for another nightmare when he finally found a boy having a bad dream about giant Boa Constrictor Snakes. 

     “Well-well-well… what have we here?  Oh, look Fleeza, Flyza, whatever your name is.  Wonderful dreams of snakes!  Ha-ha!” 

     They flew into the window.  Cranemato sprinkled the evil nightmare dust over the little boy and then flew out the window again.

     “Soon, snakes will be slithering all over him.  Maybe he’ll even get squeezed to death!! Ah-hah-ha!!!”

     Down below a boy began screaming,       “MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMY!!!”

     “What is it, Tommy?  Are you okay?”

     “No, Mommy!  Snakes everywhere!  Help!”

     “Poor Little Tommy!  Oh, well!  See you later alligator, or should I say see you later Boa Constrictors… ah-ha-haaaaa…..”

     When Cranemato arrived back at his cave he was hungry after another night of evil.

     “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse,” he said.  Fliza backed up blinking, thinking he meant her, and bumped into the dusty snack table.  “I didn’t mean you, you silly horse!  Mmm, but I will take that leftover pizza.  Look out, out of the way!”

     Cranemato took a bite and gasped.

     “Oh, no!”

     He got very sleepy and started to fall into a deep deep deep sleep.  That’s when Megan popped out of a shadowy corner of the creepy laboratory. 

     “I’ll take that back, thank you,” she said snatching back her necklace from Cranemato’s neck.  Fliza nodded feeling happy and excited at the same time.  Megan kissed Fliza’s nose.

     “Good girl.  Oh, look, Fliza!  Cranemato’s having a bad dream!” she said holding up the magic rock hanging from the necklace.  “But bad is good to Cranemato.  Hmmm…”

     Megan watched his bad dream.  It was about all the evil things he had done in the human world.  Megan sprinkled her magic dust over the warlock and suddenly a dark think bubble appeared over his head with all kinds of creepy things going on with spiders and snakes.

     “Cranemato, AWAKE!”

     Suddenly, Cranemato’s think-bubble turned into cotton candy! 

   “Oh, my favorite!” he said eating away.  “This reminds me of when I was a little boy, before I became wicked and evil.”  He stopped eating and looked at Megan and Fliza and then he began to sob.  “But why?  I’ve done nothing but bad things to you.  Why are you being so nice to me?  This does not make sense!”

     “Well, you used to be good and nice when you were little.  There’s no reason why you can’t be nice like us and be our friend!” 

     “Hmmm.  I guess you’re right.  That would feel better than being mean all the time.” 

     They all smiled and then all of a sudden Cranemato remembered something.

     “Megan!” he said, “we must go back to the human world so I can fix all the evil I did there to Little Suzie and Little Tommy!  Can we use your good magic to do it?”   

     “Yes!  You can be my new assistant, and the three of us can all fly to the human world and make good dreams come true.”

     “I would be honored, Megan, but really, we got to go NOW!”

    

     Megan, Cranemato, and Fliza all flew to Little Suzie’s house.  There, Megan turned all the hairy spiders into eight-petaled rainbow-colored flowers.  It was so great to see Suzie stop crying.  Instead of swatting spiders, she could pick flowers in her room and smell them.  Suzie walked over to her mother and gave her a whole bunch of these pretty flowers. 

     “Hey,” exclaimed Cranemato, “I think that I kind of like feeling warm and fuzzy.”

     Next stop, Little Tommy’s house.

     There, with the wave of Megan’s hand and some magic dust, another evil spell was broken.  Suddenly, all the slithering snakes turned into eight-foot gummy worms. 

     “Yahoo!” yelled Little Tommy.  When Tommy’s mother looked at what had happened, she told him not to eat too many gummy worms because they might give him a tummy ache.

     “Oh, sweetie, leave him alone,” said the father.  “He just had a bad dream and almost got squished by giant snakes.”

    

     Once they all flew back to LEPP World, they went to Megan’s castle. 

          “Why don’t you move out of that disgusting cave and move into this sunny palace here with us,” said Megan. 

     “Neigh!!!”

     “What did Fliza just say, Megan?”

     “She said that she’s glad you’re good now.”

     “Neigghh…”

     “And she says that she’s glad you got her name right.”

     “Fliza,” said Cranemato, “here, have a gummy worm.”  He pulled one out of his pocket.

     Fliza shook her head.

     “What’s the matter?  You changed your mind about being my friend?”

     “No,” said Megan.  “Fliza doesn’t like gummy worms… but she does love flowers!”  Megan held out a handful of rainbow-colored flowers and Fliza ate them fast.  “And I’ll take that, Cranemato!” said Megan, taking the gummy worm out of his hand and slurping it down.  “Yummy!” she cried, and they all laughed.

THE END