A collection of stories by the students of the creative writing class at Marin Montessori School.

The Adventures of Gorgen

by Nicolas

Gorgen was a magical wizard who had a long beard and dressed in a tall, pointed hat and robe, blue with stars and moons on them. He was going to make a potion that cures all diseases. He opened the ingredients cupboard in his two-story house made of oak trees.

"Oh no, I'm all out of newts' legs from the medieval ages," he said. Gorgon went down a long list of ingredients for his potion. "I must travel through time to the medieval ages to get newts' legs," exclaimed Gorgen. "So I'm in the 19th Century London on 777 Magic Lane, so if I make for 990 years ago I'll be there," said Gorgen.

Boom!!! He was gone. Whoosh!!! He whizzed through time.

"90, 93, 96, 99, 70, 80, 200, 300, 900, 990 years ago. Good, I'm in the medieval ages now," said Gorgon. "Now where am I?" wondered Gorgen. As he looked down he frowned.

He saw he was on top of a very tall tower where an extremely longhaired princess was being kept. She was at the second window up and a prince was climbing up the tower even though her hair touched the ground. And then he fell off.

"Okay, now how to get off this tower," said Gorgen in a western accent.

"Uh, Gorgon," said a voice in his pocket, "LET ME OUT!!!"

"Huh, what was that?" said Gorgen.

"I SAID, LET ME OUT!!!"

"Oh, it's my pet shapeshifter," said Gorgen.

He pulled it out of his pocket just as it changed into a parrot. The parrot said, "Gorgen, try that trap door over there."

"Thanks Gedir," said Gorgen. He walked to the trap door and pulled on the handle. "It's locked," said Gorgen.

Then Gedir turned into a key and opened the trap door.

"ROAR!"

"That trap door opens in a pit of golems!!!" said Gorgen.

"Uh, what's a golem?" said Gedir.

"Oh, it's a giant with two eyes and another eye socket."

"Oh.... Where's the third eye?"

"Uh, the wizard who controls it keeps the eye so he can control the golum."

"Oh.... Now how do we get off this tower?"

Meanwhile, the already closed and locked trapdoor was almost busting the crossbeam into the air. Then it did. A giant head popped up.

"ROAR!!" growled the golum.

"AHHH!!" screamed Gorgen and Gedir.

"ROAR!!"

"AHHH!!"

"ROAR!!"

"AHHH!!"

"ROAR!!"

"Ahh!"

"ROAR!"

"Ah."

"Okay," said the golum in a girly voice, "um... SHUT UP!"

"Why?!" said Gorgen.

"Because... WE NEED OUR BEAUTY REST!!!" said another golum.

"No," said Gorgen.

"Argh!" said the golum as he and his partner started throwing rocks that were conveniently placed next to the trap door at Gorgen and Gedir.

"Ouch, eh, ahh, oh ow," said Gorgen.

"What, this isn't effective," said one of the golums. Then he picked up both Gedir and Gorgen and threw them off the tower.

"Ahhhh!!!" screamed Gorgen and Gedir as they flew into a grove of pine trees.

"Well, at least we got off that tower," said Gedir as they hung in the branches of a tree.


To Be Continued...