Magic Wand

This is a story about the day that I found a magic wand.

I just got dropped off on the way to school when I saw something on the ground. I walked over to it and I could see that it was a magic wand! It was purple with pink polka dots on it. I jumped for joy! I didn't know what to do first. First, I decided to wait till school was over to use it. So I waited for 6 whole hours.

After school I told my mom that I was going to go visit a friend's house.

"OK. Be home at 8:00," my mom said.

I agreed to that, and started walking to my friend, Odyssey's house. I knocked on the door and her mother answered.

"Oh hello, Arianna," she greeted me.

"Hi, is Odyssey here?" I asked.

"Yes. She is in her room. You know where that is right?" she said.

"Yes thank you."

I ran to Odyssey's room and shut the door behind me. I walked over to Odyssey.

"Hi Arianna. What are you doing here?" She asked.

"I found something at school today." I said.

"Really? What?" She asked.

"I think it's a magic wand." I told her.

I actually kind of yelled it. She looked at me like I was crazy. "I'm not joking." I said.

"OK. Where is it?" she looked at my backpack.

I got it out and showed it to her. She snatched it away from me. "WHOA! That is a magic wand!"

I snatched it back. "Be careful. I don't want you to break it without even using it."

Odyssey had a history of breaking stuff. Last week, she was at my house and she broke my moms' favorite 800 dollar vase! My mom is making her pay for it. Odyssey only gave her 5 bucks so far. Last year, Odyssey broke the goldfish tank in 5th grade. Just yesterday, Odyssey broke my phone and now I don't want her to break the happiest thing that has happened to me this week.

"Let's use it" she was very excited.

"What are we going to use it for first though?" I asked.

She thought for about 5 minutes and then she finally said something. "We should go back in time for when that time I crashed my dad's car. He's still very mad at me," she suggested.

Two years ago, Odyssey's dad let Odyssey steer the car for a little while and Odyssey sneezed, which made her crash the car into a tree. Odyssey's dad is still pretty upset. I don't get why he doesn't just buy another car. He's a very good lawyer who gets a lot of money. "I guess so.

I told the wand to send us to June 5th, 2007, the day that Odyssey crashed her dad's car.

WHOOSH, WHOOSH! The wand started to vibrate and then before we knew it, we were in an old cabin.

"It worked! YIPPEE!" She laughed.

I looked around. I could tell we were in Odyssey's old room. We walked outside.

"I have to hide. I wasn't here when it all happened. Your dad is going to wonder what I'm doing here." I hid under Odyssey's bed.

"Right. I'll be outside not crashing my dads car." I heard Odyssey walk downstairs.

10 minutes later, she was walking back upstairs. "I didn't crash the car. Woohoo! Now my daddy won't get mad at me." She jumped up and down.

"I'm sure your dad forgave you. You are his daughter." I said. She smiled.

"Where are we going to go next?" she asked.

"I have always wanted to see the underwater world of Atlantis," I told Odyssey.

"Is that place even real?" she asked.

"Of course it is. My mom said so. Plus I read a book on it and the book was 100% true," I said.

"Let's go!" I told the wand where I wanted to go and we were there in about 5 seconds. I couldn't breath all of a sudden. I was in total pitch blackness. I looked around for Odyssey but I couldn't see her. I couldn't see anything! Then I opened my mouth to scream her name, when I was breathing. I could breath underwater! Then I couldn't feel my legs. I looked down and instead of a pair of legs, I saw a blue fin! With scales! I screamed at the top of my lungs. I was a mermaid!

"Arianna!"I hear Odyssey screaming my name.

"Odyssey, where are you!" I screamed back.

"I don't know!" I started to follow her voice when I felt something touch my arm. I screamed.

"Arianna it's me." Odyssey said.

"Oh." I saw her.

"Where are we?" She looked around.

"I think we are in the ocean." I answered. Then I heard her scream.

"What!" I screamed.

"I have a green fin! AHHH!"

I looked down at her fin .

"Me too."I said. She looked at mine.

"Oh. I thought it was just me."

She calmed down.

"We have to find our way out of here." I said.

"I know." I started to swim. I made it a little ways but Odyssey's screaming made me stop.

"Arianna I don't know how to swim!" she yelled.

"Oh no." I swam over to her and pulled her along with me.

"We need to get to the surface." I started to swim up.

"But I thought you wanted to see Atlantis?" Odyssey said.

"I know but I don't know where it is. We are in Pitch blackness here."

I looked around. I had forgotten whitch way was up.

"I'm sure we can find it. Didn't it sit where it was in your book?" she asked.

"Yes I think it said something about Atlantis being at the bottom of the ocean." I thought a little longer. "Yes that's what it said.

"Okay then swim down." she said.

I started to swim down. As I did I could see a little light coming up. Finally, I got to the bottom. The bottom was so beautiful. There was fish everywhere; seaweed, starfish. I loved it.

Then I saw someone at the corner of my eye. I turned around and there was another mermaid there staring at me and Odyssey.

"Who are you?" she asked us.

"I'm Odyssey. And this is Arianna. What's your name?" Odyssey asked.

She looked at us for a couple seconds.

"My name is Rosalie. What are you doing here? I hadn't seen you guys here before."

She looked at our fins. "Those look brand new. Where did you get them?" she asked.

"We found a magic wand and we came here. Arianna wanted to see Atlantis," Odyssey blurted out.

She looked at me. "If I show you Atlantis, then will you leave?" she asked. She has asked a lot of questions but only half of then we have answered.

"Yes. Right after you show us." I said.

"Follow me," she started to swim. "I grabbed Odyssey's arm and pulled her after her. It took a long time. On our way there I saw a dolphin.

"Oh look." I pointed to it. Rosalie swam over to it. She grabbed the fin and the dolphin swam away. Two other dolphins showed up. I grabbed the fin of one, and Odyssey grabbed the fin of another. They started swimming really fast.

"Whoa!" Odyssey said.

We had caught up to Rosalie and then the dolphins started to slow down. I hopped off and started to follow Rosalie.

"Ahem! Arianna! You forgot something." Odyssey said.

I swam over to Odyssey, grabbed her arm and pulled her. Then that's when I saw it - Atlantis City. My mouth went open and my mouth started to hurt.

"Whoa! That's a big City." Odyssey said.

Then Rosalie started to push us away.

"You saw it, now leave," she said.

"What?" I asked.

"You can't stay here. Go."

"Why?" I asked.

"LEAVE!" She yelled.

"Okay, okay. We're leaving."

I gave her a look. I told the magic wand to bring us back to Odyssey's house.

I looked down at my legs and the slimy fin was gone. I looked around for Odyssey. She had landed in the closet.

I looked at the wand. "This wand is awesome but..." I stopped.

"What are you thinking about?"