My name is Gabrielle Coffee. I am twelve years old, and am basically an ordinary teen trying my hardest not to be the weirdest kid ever, but also trying to be myself. You may be thinking this is going to be a boring story simply because I'm so ordinary, and you'd probably be right if it weren't for Abracadabra my extraordinary trizele. A trizele is a uniorn mixed with a gazelle. It has three horns up on it's head arranged kind of like a triceratops' horns would be. I happen to be very lucky to have one because trizeles are so rare. I got mine cheap because she was such a trouble maker for her old owner [probabably because her owner was so terribly rude.] Oh, trizeles can also use telepathy to communicate with a spare few people. I happen to be one of those spare few. We live on a farm with quite a few other animals including four other horses Buffy, Foxglove, Magic, and Da Vinci [like Leonardo Da Vinci the famous artist] anyways all the horses live on rolling green grass, [since that's the only kind Abracadabra eats] and their stable is enourmous painted completely white. The other pets we have are Jolly my rabbit, Butterscotch my cat, Max our dog, and Bob our rat and a whole lot of fish, and even though I consider my siblings animals it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense in a book. I have four brothers I'll name them off from oldest to youngest. Joshua, Campbell, Garett and Matthias. I also have two sisters one of whom is a newborn. Ariel is the older and Katriel is the newborn, but luckily I am the oldest of all six.
Friday the 1st of April ended as any normal day would, pretty much anyway. I mean Abracadabra did warn me that she felt something weird, like something really bad was about to happen, but I didn't worry about it. Abracadabra liked to tease me with stuff like this, because I always believed her. Apparently, she thought that this was very funny. Oh, yes Abra I am very amused....NOT! Anyhow, Friday the 1st of April started out like this:
"April Fools! HA! HA! HA! I really got you that time Sister" [Sister is the name my brother's call me. Don't ask me how they decided to call me this because I don't know.] GRRRRRRR!!!!!! My brothers had been playing jokes on me for hours. "If you are not out of my sight in..." I couldn't even finish for they had already fled. "That is better" I remarked to myself.
The jokes went on without fail all day long. So I was really relieved when it was finally time to go say hi to Abracadabra and go to bed. As I went out there I noticed a dark sillhouhette running from the barn. Hmmmmm..... That's odd I thought, but probably just the neighbors kids acting up. However I decided to ask Abra about it, to see if she thought the same as me.
"Why would the neighbors kids be out so late?" Abra asked me later. "No I don't think it was the neighbors kids. I think this is something much more serious. Maybe Aaron back at his old tricks again"
"No it can't be" I said in a shocked voice. "Oh you're just trying to scare me Abracadabra." Abra gave me a disconcerting look. I was a little scared but I wasn't going to let her see it. "Well it isn't going to work Abra, not this time" I gave her a good night grooming said goodnight and went back to the house to go to bed.
I woke up at 1:00 the next morning because I smelled something foul, like burnt toast. Dad goes to work in the morning pretty early so it was probably just his cooking, but I couldn't go back to sleep for some reason. Since I couldn't go back to sleep I went out to the living room, to finish my lph.
The living room is right next to the kitchen so I went to the kitchen to get a drink, but when I touched the door I screamed out in pain. It was burning hot. OWWWWWWW!!!!!!!! I of course ran around in circles, screaming until I stopped. By the time I got calm again dad had come out into the living rom looking for the noise.
"Jeez," dad said. "I thought the cat had been stepped on or something." I did not comment on this because I was too busy trying to decide what was going on. If the smell hadn't been dad's cooking then what had it been, and why was the door so hot.
"It was a joke, you know a joke."dad said I ignored him. "Dad why is this door so hot." Before I could say anything dad had touched the door. OUCHHHH!!
He didn't scream and run around like I did but he did scream pretty loud. after he had calmed down I had figured something out. i had learned it in first grade: Hot doors means........ FIRE!!! Oh! No!
"Dad I think there is a fire in our house." I said "What are we going to do?"I asked frantically. I didn't wait for an answer I ran outside and to the stable. As I was running I saw the flames spurting from the windows of the kitchen.
"Abra!!! Where are you?" I yelled out with my mind. Abra came trotting up. "Abra the kitchen is on fire!." I explained hurriedly. "What are we going to do?!" She began sniffing the air.
"Evil is afoot" she said, "and no I don't know what we are going to do." "However I would suggest going inside and seeing if you can start evacuating people and animals." "I'll stay out here and see if I can find the evildoer."
I agreed with the first part I should go back in and see if I could do anything to help get people out. However I did not agree she should go looking for this evil person all by herself. "You know that....I mean...What if.... " I stammered. "What about you?" I finally managed to say. "What if the evil person sees you and hurts you?"
"I'll be fine." She cut me off. "You however need to run right now." She was right the fire did seem to be spreading, and fast.I told her to "be careful". Then I ran as fast as I possibly could back to the house. What was I going to do? What was I going to do? I kept asking myself. When I finally reached the house I was handed a baby. [my newborn baby sister to be exact.] and told to run outside to the front.
I did as I was told but as I was running the timbers on the ceilng fell right in front of us "AAAAHHH!! I screamed as soon as the burning timer hit the ground I started running again in a different way through the kitchen. Once around I saw the door right in front of me and ran towards it.
Whhewww! I made it. Once outside I ran to the nearest house and told a person inside the house, to hold the baby and I also told heer that the parents would be here in no time.
Once I had done that I took off running again. Only this time to the house, instead of from the house. Out front I saw the fire department spraying the house down while they weren't loooking I slipped back inside but not quick enough. Mom caught me by the shirt "Gabrielle I told you to go and run." is what I expected her to say, but what she surprised me almost as much as the actual fire happening did "Gabrielle make sure you don't forget any of them." "I won't mom." I replied.
She let me go and I slipped inside. "First animal to get: Jolly my rabbit. I went to his cage and grabbed it and handed it outside to mom who was waiting outside. It went like this for a while. I had a little bit of trouble with the cat finding her but then just when it seemed like I was going to get out I realized that I still hadn't got Abracadabra Oh! No! I started speeding toward the back door but I had forgotten about the fallen timber.
There had to be a way to get past it somehow. I couldn't think of anything at all. As I was thinking I heard a soft noise like a saw cutting wood I wonder what that sound is I thought. It came from the ceiling.
Slowly, slowly I turned around to look at the ceiling Ilooked up and tere was a boy clinging to the wall cutting down another timber I screamed. He didn't care he just kept sawing away The boy looked kind of familiar but I wasn't thinking straight and couldn't remember who he was.
All too soon he was reaching the last bits of wood, and I couldn't do anything about it. I felt for sure I was going to die for eh had reached the last bit wood it ws teetering now but before he cut it he said "It's too bad you ahd that great big fight with me on Wednesday Otherwise you'd probably be safe and asleep in your bed right now.
Right at that second I realized who that person was it was Aaron Black.my worst enemy but before I could say anything he was gone and the timber had fallen I screamed again but just as I felt the sting of flames Abracadabra came out of nowhere and saved me I was out of the house and was safe. Thank Heavens
The End.