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THE OLD TREE

by Haven | 4th Grade

Purple Glow

CHAPTER 1

 

“Come on Venis!” Sammy shouts.  

“I’m coming!”  

“I know but come faster!”

 Sammy was eager to look around the place and explore! The air smelled fresh, the wind was gentle, and the view was like looking at the Amazon rainforest. Sammy ditched Venis and started walking into the woods. Then… WHOOSH! 

“What was that? Venis if that’s you, it might be a good time to show up!” She saw fire rising, but the color wasn’t the color you see all the time. It was a swirling color of blues. She couldn’t do anything but stare at this wonderful sight until the trees fell. She swirled right to dodge the falling trees. She swirled left to dodge the trees. She was finished… She hoped that Venis was next to her not so far away from her but then,”Why is the fire surrounding me?”

 

CHAPTER 2

“Ummmmmm, why is the firing so uncomfortable but again so comforting?”  She found herself seeing Venis walking towards her.

“Venis! DON’T TAKE ANOTHER STE-“ But it was too late. He started to walk over to her, but what she saw was shocking. Instead of him turning into ash he was walking through the fire easily!

”Oh, thank God you’re alive!” Sammy hugged Venis.

”Uhhhhhhhhh, what are you doing in the tall grass?” asked Venis.

”What do you mean!? We’re in the middle of blue fir-“She saw an old tree and the leaves were all sorts of colors other trees were falling and burning by the fire, but this tree was different. It wasn’t burning! Venis was going on and on about how Sammy had lost her marbles, but instead of listening to that she walked over to the invincible, non-burning tree. When she took the tiniest step in her life, the fire started to disappear!

 

CHAPTER 3

She walked over to the old tree.  

“Hello?? You even listening to me?” 

“Ummmmmmm, yes?” Venis starts worrying about Sammy. But again Sammy paid no attention, then again started walking to the old tree. TING!  Everything was black. She could only see little purple lights in that darkness. 

“Venis!!!”  As she called Venis’s name she heard it echo and bounce off everywhere. Then Sammy attempts to go follow the purple lights. It felt like her brain was commanding the body to go follow it, but her thoughts were the chances of her dying… 

 

CHAPTER 4

“What is this light?” she thought over and over in her head. Then she caught the light, but instead of staying in her hands, it burst out! It seemed like a mentos being put into a coke bottle, or a giant volcano! She was rushing to catch but… It was too late. It had run off and hid in the darkness.

What she saw next was crazy. In the distance she saw the purple light again. She predicted it would run away but it came closer.

”What the?” She slowly walked over to the purple light and then- FLASH! 

“Blah, blah, blah, blah” she saw Venis.”And that’s why you should listen next time.” 

“Oh! Ummm uhhh yeah I learned my lesson.” 

“Good” To be honest all Sammy heard from Venis was,”Blah, blah, blahhhhhh” She went back to the campsite and then Venis was behind her, looking at her as if he had seen a ghost!

“Hey are you ok?” Sammy asked.

Venis’s voice was trembling as he responded,“Y-y-your he-head…” 

She looked at her own head, and then realized she had purple devil horns on her head!!

“OMG! OMG! AHHHHHHH!” 

“Ok, ok, deep breath, deep breaths.”

Then Venis panicked and quickly grabbed Sammy’s horns! Then, TING!

“What was that?

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CHAPTER 5

A light came from the horns and then the horns started to glow!! But again Sammy’s hands started to glow too! Venis who was still grabbing on to Sammy’s horns, was so confused.

“Huh? What? Wait what’s going on??”

Sammy who was aching in pain, went and thought of a circle. Since she was young she always thought that she’d be safe in the middle of a circle.Then her hands drew a circle.The glowing of her hands was leaving a trail of glowing purple in the air, then-SHING! A lavender colored shield. Venis went flying through the air.

“Venis!!!” 

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CHAPTER 6

“NO!!”

Then Venis and Sammy’s parents came running. Sammy drew with her hands a rectangle and amended it so Venis was on it. Sammy lifted the arm she drew with and kept it up and then started running faster than she ever wanted to.

“Sammy!”

Venis suddenly opened his eyes and what he saw was him floating on top of a outlined purple, glowing purple, and even saw Sammy’s hand glowing purple! Sammy arrived to the campsite then carried Venis in to the sleeping bag. Venis blacked out once more. Then he woke up in a hospital.

“W-wh-where am I?”

“Venis!”

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CHAPTER 7

Before Venis can even talk Sammy grabs Venis’s hand and somehow starts floating on something. Then they arrive at a campsite. Venis has been trying to remember what happened and why Sammy looked like a teen. 

Sammy asked,”Do you remember this place?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

Sammy says that Venis has been in an a coma since he was 9, and has been diagnosed with cancer, but what he couldn’t understand was that it seemed like Sammy wasn’t talking to him.

“Hey can you see me? Hello?”

Sammy starts to cry ignoring Venis. Sammy starts to do something with her hands then a picture, but a movie like thing showed.

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CHAPTER 8

          Venis saw it all. Him crashing into the tree, him in the hospital, him in an a coma. Sammy moved to New York, Sammy got in to college and was planning to get married. Venis stood there stunned. What Venis kept thinking was why am I here? 

Like Sammy was talking to her twin brother Venis she says,”I’m sorry you were the one who died with cancer.”    

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What really happened: Venis has gotten cancer from a fracture that grew bigger making a tumor in his brain. Sammy would wait all day and night, but Venis would never wake up from his a coma. He sadly died in the hospital on his birthday. Sammy cries ever night asking for forgiveness to God but no help. Jesus spoke to Sammy and told to move on. She decided that she did need to move on. So she moved to New York getting planned to get married and got in the highest college!         

 

 

                                   

To be continued in Book 2: Venis’s Path

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