Michael's Mystery Mission by Maddie

With a start, I suddenly woke up. Sweating like a pig, I carefully sat up in bed, reclaiming my thoughts one by one. I remembered my nightmare. When the blackbird fed my sister until she became stronger and stronger. Then she flew above the trees out of the nest to the garage roof. Mina was there, she stared at me from the garden wall. After that she began saying, “STAY AWAY!” “You’re danger!” All of a sudden, I heard the baby bawling and that’s when I woke up. I could hear mum and dad saying, “SH!” “We are here now.” It took a few a minutes until they were asleep and by then my eyes had adjusted to the pitch-black darkness of my room. The atmosphere was so quiet and strange that it sent cold shivers shooting down my aching back. I tried to pull myself out of my uncomfortable but warm bed, but it was no good. I still didn’t know if my parents were asleep but luckily I soon found out. Mum started snoring loudly like a whale so I started my daring mission. I found my torch and quickly put some clothes on which were lying around. I crept out of my room and down the hallway and stopped. Thinking what to do I crawled on my hands and knees the rest of the way to the bathroom door so nobody could hear me.

Steadily, I stood up after finally reaching the bathroom door. As I tried to open it I realised someone was in there. So I quickly hid behind the clothes basket.

Five minutes past and the bathroom door swung open. It was my dad. Sleep walking like a zombie. After he finally went back to bed I quickly went in to the bathroom. I had to make it quick so I got the jar of aspirin and started to climb down the stairs trying to dodge the creaking, bare floorboards. I walked down the hallway to find the kitchen. It felt like hours to find the key but when I found it I checked my pockets. Oh no… the jar of aspirin fell out my pocket as I was coming down the stairs. I darted to the stairs; the jar of aspirin was now rolling down it. CLICK, CLICK, CLICK!! I picked it up and carried on with my mission.

Cautiously, I grabbed the worn out old back door key and headed for the wooden hinged back door. Then I stuck it in the lock. My hands were trembling with fear and the coldness. I turned the key softly in the lock; to my relief it opened very quietly. But, then I thought this is stupid! Why am I doing this? There is no going back now.

Michael's Mission by Tegan

I lay there in the darkness wondering if it was all a dream about the baby. I lay thinking about what to do next. I sat up with an idea to give the man in the garage some food. I got up, but I started to fall back to sleep so I started to drift back into a nice sleep but all of a sudden I heard ‘WWWAAAHHHH’ the baby had started to cry so I sat up doing nothing I could her Dad snoring like a pig and Mum cooing and hissing to the baby to calm her down. Soon after the baby and mum fell back to sleep, and dad was still snoring like a pig. I got ready to do a mission I knew that had to be done. I wandered to the bathroom to get the aspirin.

I snatched the aspirin from the cupboard in the bathroom. Cautiously, I made my way to the old, oak staircase. I stepped on the first step and a creak bounced through the hallway I heard mum mumble, “Who is that?”

I knew I was in trouble. I whispered back, “It’s me, Michael. I’m going to get a drink.”

 “Okay,” she said and went back to sleep. I got to the bottom of the stairs and a question was racing through my mind. Slowly, I reached for the keys and a torch and I unlocked the door and cold air hit my face as I opened the door.

Regretfully, I stepped into the garden and stared up into the beautiful sky filled with stars. I stepped into the wilderness and I remembered the 27 & 53 still in the bin. I went and got it and stepped back into the wilderness. Brambles and thorns tugging at my bed clothes and tearing holes during the process. I stubbed my toe on a brick and I started jumping up and down in pain; my toe started throbbing. I grabbed the cold char sui off the floor and carried on my journey to the garage.

I arrived trembling with fear in front of the bluebottle infested garage wondering if it was all a dream about the man in the garage, but I opened the door slowly and slowly stepped inside the old dark garage…

Michael’s Midnight Mission by Stuart

As fast as lightning, I sat up gasping for air. Beads of sweat rolled down my face as I shuffled out of bed. I thought I was in Antarctica, the air was freezing! As I froze to death, I tiptoed out of my room. Then I heard dad snoring and the baby’s breath rattling like a rattle snakeAs I headed to the bathroom I heard a thud. It was my dad falling out of bed. I hid and I had an excuse. Then, a few minutes later I grabbed the aspirin jar and…

I tiptoed downstairs; I could hear the aspirin jingling in my pocket. My heart raced as I tiptoed away. I tried to make as least noise as I could but also rushing so I didn’t get caught. All of a sudden, the stair started creaking. Holding my breath, I waited for the noise to stop. I grabbed the key and walked over to the door I proceeded to open the door. Then I saw the jungle that my parents called a garden.

Crazily, I explored the garden. I dropped the aspirin in front of the shed so I new where it was at all times. Without taking a step I saw bushes with caterpillars. I took a few more steps and saw rats eating the 27 and 53 so I grabbed it and scared the rats away. Fortunately the street lights were on and I could see perfectly. I could see the leaves, branches and a tree dancing in the wind .There was a trail of something so I followed it and it lead me to a bush. It had thistles so I looked through and saw a group of birds in their nest feeding their babies. They did their danger call like I was danger. I stepped back and tripped over a stone. Then I heard my dad opening the door so I hid around the corner. Then I figured that he was sleep walking so lucky me. I headed through the bushes and thistles and got to the shed it felt like hours but it was 10 seconds. Then I realise I forgot the 27 and 53 so I go back and forth and put the key softly into the hole and…

Eventually, I reached the shed and there were bluebottles, centipedes, spiders and much more creepy little bugs. Before I put the key in the lock I thought, should I really do this? I mean he did save me so. I put the key in the hole and it wouldn’t budge so I tried harder and broke it open. Tentativly, I stepped in.

Michael's Mission by Scarlett

Disorientated, I awoke, hearing the baby’s breath rattling violently in her sleep. I remembered the nightmare, about my sister as a blackbird, looming above my head, but could not grasp what it meant. I was sure it had a reason. Now, there was something I had to do, begin my midnight mission…a mission I knew I couldn’t avoid. Silently, I left the loving warmth of my soft duvet, and entered the cold attic. Immediately, a blast of icy wind hit me from the hole in the roof. Before I could change my mind, I put my feet into dad’s old slippers and bravely climbed the ladder down to the upstairs hall where my parent’s room was.

Although I couldn’t see much in the gloomy darkness, the sound of dad snoring like a pig in the distance, lead me the right way. Once I reached their room I carefully peered in to make sure everybody was asleep. Then I tiptoed towards the bathroom and reached out my hand. I gripped the silver handle for the cabinet which stored our aspirin. It swung open and I swiftly grabbed it with my sweaty hand.

I yearned to be back in my warm bed, safe from the cold, underneath my fluffy duvet. I was tired and couldn’t see a thing, but I had to succeed and that meant I had to go on. I slowly scaled the ancient staircase. Creak! I stepped on the creaky step! I stood still as a statue, my heart pounding, but I didn’t dare breathe. Did somebody hear me? Did I wake them? After a minute of waiting, I tiptoed the rest of the way down, utterly relieved. Steadily, I stepped onto the cracked tiles of the kitchen floor.

Michael’s Midnight Mission by Millie

Chapter  1

As fast as lightning I sat up, gasping for air. I felt like I was sweating like a pig. I sat wondering, why I was awake, what happened? I finally figured it out after some time. I had a nightmare. I remembered it was my sister in the nest Mina saw.  I was so confused yet…scared. I could hear my little baby sister’s soft breathing and my mum and dad’s heavy breath. At first I thought my mum and dad breathing was something else, and I got scared. I felt a bit shook. I then remembered my mission and I thought I would be a scared doing it after being scared bybreathign.  I remembered about Skelig, the man in the shed. I got so nervous about him sitting there waiting, getting impatient. I didn’t know what to do so I needed a plan. After about 15 minutes I can up with a plan thought of.  I crept out of my room peeked round the corner and snook out. As quite as a mouse I leant over to reach the door.

Chapter 2

Finally I lifted my hand to the handle and twisted it. I opened the door hoping it wouldn’t creak. Luckily, to my relief, it didn’t. Slowly, like a snail, I crept in. I started looking around for the aspirin.  I sated to panic but after some time I found it. I crept round the door to see if anyone was there. No one was luckily. Swiftly, trying to be quite, I snook down the stairs. I had the key this morning, but couldn’t remember where I put it. I started to tear the kitchen to pieces in a rush. After what felt like hours, I found the key. I tried opening the door but it was the wrong key. Later on I found it, and it was 1:00am. Nervously, I opened the door and felt the cool ‘Midnight’ breeze.

Chapter 3

I crept outside and snook around the house. Before I could get round the house, I couldn’t fit round the gap. I started worrying, but then I sucked my stomach in, and went the gap. I carefully opened the lip to the bin and got the left overs of 27 and 53. I tried not to get my hands sticky from the cold, red and gooey char sui.  I snook back round into the garden, and stopped. Is there really a man in the shed? Am I going crazy? Am I dreaming? Am I sleep walking? I soon stopped asking myself and kept walking. I got to the door. Should I go in?

Chapter 4

I just stood there in silence. I didn’t know if I should go in. I was scared yet confused. I was a few steps away from the door, opened it and he was there.

Michael's Mission by Grace N

Chapter 1

The Dream

 Desperately gasping for air, I rapidly sot up from my sauna like bed completely drenched from head to toe in sweat. Then the feeling of what just happened hit me… This horrifying dream with my sister surrounded with blackbirds, and then she turned into one. Right after that my mind went completely blank, like crashing waves turning into smooth-waters. Just thinking about it made me petrified and confused what was the dream? Why was my sister there? What caused the dream? These thoughts where all I could think about…

Chapter 2

The Plan.

I decided to get up and do the mission that I had been planning all day, I got on my dull (damp) slippers and walked to the bathroom. With one hand, I grabbed the dusty, old bottle of aspirin and reached to put it in my pocket.

“What if they jingle around in my pocket too much?” I whispered to myself. I decided to take 5 out of the bottle and then put it back into the old, wooden cabinet. I avoided the middle of the landing, because that’s where the floor boards creak the most, and I had to avoid the loose nails on the 8^th, 4^th and 2^nd step. I went around the rug and came to the stairs. Without one thought I stepped onto the first step without remembering that it creaks,

“CREEEEEEEEEEAAAAK!!!!!!”

Chapter 3

Where are the keys?

I squinted my face tight up as I hear the fidgeting of mum and dad’s damp bedsheets moving around, suddenly it stopped.

“Phew…” I mumbled. I carried on, I got to the eighth step not realizing that…

“OCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”

“Michael! What are you doing?” Mum bellowed.

I said nothing. I waited for about 30 seconds. Then carried on (REMEMBERING) for the loose nails. I look over to where the keys are but...they were gone. I quickly went down the remaining stairs and opened the door to find the keys, staring at my face. So I grab the old, rusty key and twisted it into the dark key hole.

 Chapter 4 

Get to the shed.

I opened the door to a wet, dark environment.  I was only in my old slippers and they were not strong enough for the wilderness, I made my way over to the trash can and…

“SQUELCHH”

I stepped into a big pile of mud…I hope. I went over to the wall and sat down, took my slippers off and wiped them all over the wall. The majority of the mud was gone but some was still there, I put them back on and went back to the trash avoiding the big puddle. I came to the trash and saw that they had put the baby’s dirty diapers on top of the Chinese boxes, “Oh come on!!” I said. I picked up the end of the diaper and chucked it onto the dirty floor, luckily nothing “spilled” so I was okay. I reached out for the mouldy Chinese container with the left-overs inside, I looked inside and…. “SPLOTCH!”

The gross, soggy noodles and the disgusting spring rolls fell onto the damp, dirty ground. “Eww…” I said. I figured Skellig wouldn’t mind so I just picked up the gross food and put it back into the container. I walked over to the shed hearing the, “squelch, squelch, squelch,” of my slippers against the wet mud, I got to the door and went inside.

“Finally, boy!” he exclaimed. I reached over and gave him the “food.”

He ate it all in one gulp.

Michael's Mission by Ben

“NO NO NOO,” as fast as lighting I woke up gasping for air, “What happened? Where was I?”  I slowly started to lower my head on to my pillow and remembering the nightmare of my baby sister slowly flowing back to me. I could hear her slow breathing and my dad snoring loud as an elephant. My nightmare was about my baby sister being raised by birds and every day she got stronger until one day she could fly. After getting used to the pitch black I slipped on my old stinky slippers and slowly tiptoed to my bedroom door and down the corridor to the bathroom door but as soon as I got to the door I stepped on a loose floor board CREAK!!!

Listening to see if anyone heard me I cautiously opened the bathroom door and stepped inside. I searched for ages only to find it was in the cupboard which was full of cobwebs. I didn’t know how much he wanted so I took the hole jar of aspirin. With the aspirin jingling in my pocket I tiptoed down the stairs and in to the kitchen or as I know it as the (cobweb heaven). Knowing the door was locked I desperately searched for the key. For at least 10 minutes I searched only to find it was in the door already, “GGGGRRRRRR!” I roared in my head. I turned the click I pulled the door Bang oopps forgot the safety lock click ok now let’s try this one more time. I opened the door into the garden (jungle) as I called it.

Walking carelessly, I searched for the bin totally forgetting I have the torch but all of a sudden SQUELCH.  I had stepped on the grass, oh yeah my torch, click. Shining my torch everywhere in search of the bin but I remember it’s in the front so as quick as I could I ran through the back door and quietly shut it and ran through the corridor but crack I made a hole in the floor. Knowing there was a rug near me I dragged it and covered the hole and opening the front door I tiptoed to the bin and grabbed the blue bottle infested bag with the Chinese in it and shut the front door and went to the garage door.

Standing there for at least a solid 15 minutes I thought about this. Will he accept it, will I have done all of that for nothing? Well let’s hope he likes it because he will be living off bugs, flies and blue-bottles for the rest of his life. Finally coming to my senses, I opened the one hinged door into pitch blackness. I shone my torch and I saw cobwebs with dust and dead animals stuck in them. Well time to go in.

Michael Midnight Mission by Lily-Mai

As fast as lightning, I sprung up from my bed, from my terrible nightmare about my annoying baby sister. I dreamt about Mina, that weird girl that I met the other day, taking my baby sister away up into a high tree and feeding her off worms and stuff. Then I put my uncomfortable smelly slippers on, and slowly and gradually walked out of my room and into my mum and dad’s room to see how my baby sister was, I was hoping that she wouldn’t cry and moan, and that was another thing that woke me up, to her crying. So once I had seen and checked on her, I went into the bathroom and leaped over the creaky floorboard, safely. I froze to make sure that she wasn’t crying in case I made a noise.

 Then after I’d checked my baby sister wasn’t crying, I went into the bathroom on the tip off my toes so if I stood on a squeaky floorboard it wouldn’t make a noise, I opened the door and searched for the aspirin jar which was behind all the other tablets in the bathroom cabinet, the bathroom was full of dust and cobwebs, I thought that the bathroom was where you get clean and not get dirty. I grabbed the aspirin and went to the top of the stairs, I put the lightweight aspirin in my pocket and went down the stairs, halfway down the stairs I had to hold my pocket because the aspirin was shaking and jingling in my pocket and I didn’t want to wake anyone up. I walked through kitchen which had stuff everywhere like paint and wallpaper rolls because dad is going to decorate it soon. I slowly opened the door to go outside because everything in this house was squeaky. So I had to open it slowly, it seemed like ages trying to find the key then I remembered that there was a spare one under the door mat, I lifted up the door mat that was thick with dust once again. I turned the key and opened the wooden door. I wedged the door open a little so I didn’t get locked out.

Michael's Midnight Mission by Clara

As fast as lightning, I sat up, sweating. What happened in that dream? I remembered the baby… and blackbirds. Suddenly, I realised I had a mission… a mission I had to do. For a couple of minutes, I listened to Dad’s soft snoring and the baby’s hissy breathing. Dreading getting out from my warm duvet, I stuck a foot out of bed. My room was freezing cold! Taking a deep breath, I kicked the covers off and had to stifle a scream. The cold trickled down my back like running water. While my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I searched the room for my oak wardrobe. Once I had discovered it among the murky gloom of midnight, I grabbed whatever my hands could find. Luckily, it was a woolly jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a bobble hat. After dressing as silently as I could, I snatched my wiry, ancient slippers to wear on my feet. I inched slowly to my bedroom door. I hoped the baby didn’t wake up, or I would be in BIG trouble. I crept along the corridor, until CREAK! I had forgotten about the groaning floorboard. Mum muttered in her sleep, and I froze. I dropped to the ground and crawled the rest of the journey to the bathroom.

In the bathroom, everything was pitch black. I switched on the lights and started looking through the cupboards, desperately trying to find aspirin. Eventually, I found the small, white bottle. Despite there being twenty pills in the bottle, I decided to take them all just to be sure. Tiptoeing to the top of the patched-up staircase, I took a deep breath. This was by far the most exciting (and equally nerve-wracking) thing I had ever done in my life. As I descended the staircase, my pockets jingled because of the aspirin. “Was it really a good idea to take all the aspirin?” I thought. At the bottom of the stairs, I thanked my lucky stars I had gotten this far. Creeping to the kitchen, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn’t know where the keys were. No! Now I would have to blunder around looking for the keys for who knows how long. Thankfully, the keys were by the stove in the kitchen. Fearful of what was to come; I shoved the keys into the door, twisted them around and opened the door…

Stepping out into the messy overgrowth my parents called a garden, I soon spotted a monstrosity of a building looming over the estate: the garage. Beautiful stars glittered in the sky; moonlight paved the way along a long, winding path to the garage with a secret. To my right, 27 and 53 were lying in a bag on the bin. The char sui was really sticky, red and cold (it was so disgusting). Tipping the spring rolls in with the char sui, I grabbed the tray and continued my journey. My clothes were tugged at by brambles, I must be careful. What would Mum and Dad think if my tracksuit had holes in it? Before I knew it, I was outside the door of this stranger’s makeshift home. Should I do this- I don’t know…

Standing with my hand on the garage door’s handle, I contemplated my decisions. Is this dangerous? The stranger won’t even be pleased. Why am I risking getting into trouble for some old ‘person’ I don’t even know? And now I have wrecked my favourite clothes on brambles. Afraid, I pushed the one-hinged door open...