The Strange Second Day

The Strange Second Day

By Gilly Woolsey

         The first day of school was pretty normal.  The teacher was pretty normal.  The kids were pretty normal.  The room was pretty normal. Wow, was I ever surprised when on the second day of school I opened the door and saw that all the students were gone.  The teacher was gone.  And the walls were coated in slime.  I panicked and made a mad dash for the next classroom.  The same thing happened in that class.  All of a sudden, a giant praying mantis emerged from behind the teacher’s desk.  

“Are YOU the creature that kidnapped my classmates and coated the walls in slime?” I shouted. “ What?  No!  The scientists sent me out to chase that wretched beast and stop it from multiplying and ending life itself! Plus, praying mantises do NOT make slime.”  The insect said, folding his arms.  “I’m Experiment 6113, but you can call me Gib.” “I’m Gilly,” I said.   "I’m surprised you survived the attack," Gib said.  Then I realized that this monster needed to be taken down and taken down fast.  I strapped a backpack onto Gib as a saddle and used string as a rein tied to Gib's antennas.  I then sharpened a pencil sword and grabbed a privacy folder shield and I said," If you want to defeat that monster, I'm coming with you!"  I rode Gib like a horse, following the slime.  

We soon came to the gym... and saw a GIANT MAN-EATING SLUG! ROAAAAAR!!!!!! It went. And behind it were the teachers, students, and staff encased in a cage of dry slime.  I threw my pencil at the slug and the pencil stabbed itself into the slug's side.  ROOOOOAAAAAAARRRR!!!!! The slug roared in pain.  "Got any more pencils?" Gib said. "Um, no." I replied.  "Let's get out of here!" Gib said.  We bolted out of the gym and the slug oozed through the doorway.  "Think, what could possibly defeat a slug?" Gib asked. I thought for a moment and briefly said, "Salt."  I once saw my cousin put salt on a snail, which killed the snail.  It had to work on a slug.  "But where can we find salt?" Gib asked.  "The commons of course!" I replied.  I led him there using the reins.  When we got there, Gib and I searched all the tables, but no salt.  The slug was rushing closer and closer.  Gib and I ducked behind the kitchen counter for cover and I saw salt! I grabbed the salt and yelled, "EAT SALT SLIMY!" And I tossed the salt on the slug's back and I ran.  

ROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR! The slug sounded.  It made some gross noises as it shriveled down into a 1-foot pile of flesh.  Gib picked up the flesh and showed it to the captured people and freed the victims.  We were hailed as school heroes and I got a week off of school due to cleanup of the slime.  It was the strangest second day of school I've ever had.

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