The Black Magic

By Xixi Yu

I’m a little ant. Nobody can see me, but I can what happens.

It was a cold, dark, and gloomy night. I walked on a street. Suddenly, a

black cat ran from a house. It

caught a mouse, in the woods

and ran back inside, through the

open door.

I followed it into the

house. It was a dark house. Every

morning the sunshine was

shining, so the witch was close the window curtains, and stay in the dark house.

It didn’t have light. In the dark, I saw two big eyes and a long nose. Oh, this was

a witch’s house. This was a wicked witch. The witch is making something, like a

magic potion. I’m scared that she wanted to make people turn into mice!

She thought that if the mice followed her, then she would become the

queen of the country, and put the king under a spell. He is a good king, and we

all like him. I needed to tell people this news! But it was too late, because the

witch took these magic potions, and dropped them to the street.

Suddenly, a lot of mice ran from houses. The witch and the black cat

would go to the palace, to cast the spell against the king. I followed her. She

went to the palace.

When the king slept, she cast the spell.

“I hope the king can’t move.” The king couldn’t move. After then, “Ha, ha!” she

cackled. “My project will win!”

She told all the mice to take the king to the dungeon. Of course, not every

mouse liked the new queen! These mice made believe that they liked her, and

helped the witch take the king into the dungeon. Some mice didn’t follow the

witch, so they stayed in the dungeon, to help the king run away.

Two weeks later, the spell was broken. The king could move, and he

remembered who cast the spell.

At the same time, the queen was sleeping. She was scared of sun, light,

sunshine, so the palace didn’t have light, and the window curtains were closed.

The palace was very gloomy and very ghostly. Nobody could see inside the

palace. The palace was turned to a haunted house. The black cat scratched the

home furnishings. There were a lot of spiders, bats, skulls, and ghosts in the

haunted house. The witch

and her staff were sleeping. The

old king piloted his staff into the

palace. The king drank the magic

potion, and turned to a mouse,

but he was the biggest mouse of

all the mice. These mice climbed

on the witch’s bed. They saw the witch had sharp fingernails. They ate her dress

and stole the magic wand. They went back to the dungeon.

The next morning, the witch couldn’t find her magic wand. She got very

angry. She thought the king stole the magic wand. She went into the dungeon,

but she didn’t know where the king was. One mouse ridiculed the witch. The

witch was very angry, so she wanted to kill the mouse. She commanded the

mice to find the king, because a mouse’s nose was very clever, it could find all

things.

She returned back to the haunted house to made two different magic

waters. One kind of magic water could make these mice die, because she was

angry these mice didn’t follow her. The other magic water could turn these

mice into zombies. She put some toads, spiders, skulls, and flies into the big pan.

She wanted to make the first water. She blended the magic water. The magic

water’s color turns to green. She put the magic water into a bottle, and made

the second magic water. When the water was finished, she put it in the other

bottle. She climbed up a ladder, and I followed her up the ladder. She dropped

those magic waters to the floor. If we didn’t climb the ladder, the magic water

could kill all the people or animal on the floor. After that, she said, “Oh my god, I

forgot my black cat!” She wanted to go down stairs, and took the black cat,

but was too late. I heard the black cat and a lot of mice screamed, and they

were dying. She got very repent to kill her pet. Suddenly, she remembered,

“I forgot the magic water can make mice turn to zombie, my cat will turn

to a zombie, I can see my cat!” she was happy. When she said, the cat zombie

was come here. The zombie is the black cat. It had cat ears and cat tail, so the

witch could easily to find the black cat. The cat zombie was under the floor. It

makes a cemetery, so those zombies could through the floor. There were a lot of

zombies through the floor, and went to the haunted house. In the zombies, the

king was in there, but the witch can’t find him. The king was looking at these

real zombies, what the king did. The witch couldn’t feel this zombie is the king.

The king glanced up the haunted house. The witch was staying on a broom, she

didn’t see the king.

These zombies slept in a big cemetery, so they could talk at the night. At

the night, these zombies were turned to people. And this news, the witch didn’t

know.

So the king at the night asked these zombies. “Do you want to kill the

witch, and make me the king of the country again?”

“Of course, we want to!”

“Yes!” The king whispered. He hoped next morning they could kill the

witch. He was slept. This morning, these people turn to zombies, and they forgot

the king said, because zombies couldn’t speak, couldn’t remember, and not

smart. The king and those zombies were going to the dark haunted house. The

witch was touching the black cat. She saw these zombies. She put the cat onto

the floor, took the magic wand, and walked in front of these zombies. She

glanced up these zombies. She found a different face in these zombies and he

was the king. She took the king in front of her, the witch was talking to him, but

he knew, if he answered, the witch would know him, so he didn’t answer. The

witch didn’t feel something wrong, and she returned back to the room, to make

a magic water, to fix the magic wand. When the witch wasn’t careful, the king

stole the magic water. The magic water could make zombies turned back to

people.

During the night, the king put the magic water into the zombies’ food.

These zombies ate the potion, and turned to people. They remembered what to

do. They needed to open the window curtains and make sunshine and light

shining. They planned the project well, and they slept.

When the witch slept, they went into the haunted house. They opened

the window curtains, and made the sunshine shine, and I heard the witch

scream. The sunshine hit the witch, and the witch turned to a tiny speck, and

dropped onto the floor. Those people stepped on the tiny speck, and there was

nothing on the floor.

One week later, the old king became the new king of the country.

Xixi Yu, the author of this story, was born in Beijing, China in 2001. Now, Xixi

is lives in Quito, Ecuador, and studies in Academia

Cotopaxi School. Her family has three people, her

mom, dad, and herself. She is the only child in her

family.

Xixi enjoys playing the piano and taking math

tests. She likes to take math tests, because she is a

good math student.