Part two Emily's Robot

                         Part 2 of Emily's Robot

Sadness filled my whole body. Sure, the city was saved but what was the difference? My mum was...I don’t know where she was and whether she was dead or alive. Then I thought of something. What if she was captured? I climbed back into the robot and pushed a lot of buttons. Suddenly, I heard a sound behind me. Turning around, I nearly fainted. “Mum...Mum!” It was my mum. Except, she wasn’t like my mum. She had metal arms and legs, and a metal face. She was a robot. “What happened to you?” She just stared at me. What happened next was crazy. I am still freaked out till this day. She reached out and...Strangled me!? Why would my mum do this? I knew then. She was transformed into a robot, and now she didn’t have a mind of her own. She was controlled by...Emily?

I was starting to choke. Before I fainted, I caught a glimpse of Emily. I understood everything now. Emily wasn’t dead, she was a robot, so that was why she came back. She was made of metal. She was immortal. Just then everything turned black. When I woke up, I found myself in a dark room. Then the lights were on. It was Emily. But that wasn’t what made me gasp. Her assistants were. Dressed in black dresses were Brooke and Carys. They weren’t robots. “What, why are you with her? Are you captured as well?” Carys scoffed. “Wendy, you do know that we were pretending to be your friend all along?” Then Brooke spoke. “Yeah Wendy. It’s such a good job being the assistant of Emily, We earn so much money.” I could not believe my ears. I could not believe anything! Anger ate me up from the inside. It gave me energy, power. I released it. Screaming and shouting in their faces, I said, “You two! Betrayers! Traitors! How dare you turn on me? What about all those times when I was kind to you? Remember all those days when we were happy? And you do this?” Brooke and Carys were shocked. Even Emily opened her mouth. But then she said, “You will be a very good robot Wendy. You two! Put her into the robot machine!” But I couldn’t. I will not let them do this to me. I pushed them with all my strength, and managed to jump out the window. I fell. And fell. The next thing I knew, I landed on the ground and ran to the library. When I arrived, I immediately went to the robot section.

Pulling out a book, I flipped through it until I found the page. I had read this before. The only way to fight a robot or turn it back to a human is to get some mint leaves. Robots hate that smell, and it is the only way to turn them back to normal. I ran home, and pulling out some mint leaves from the garden, I ran all the way back to the robot. Climbing up high, I hopped in again. “You again?” Said Emily, glaring at me. I pulled out the mint leaves and… “Ahh! Emily shouted as she slowley turned back to a human. I punched her right in the face. She fainted. Then I went to find my mum. Before she could strangle me again, She turned into a human at the smell of the mint. Everything was turned back to normal. I turned to my ex-best friends. “You two! How...Dare...YOU!” I grabbed a rope from my bag and tied them up. Later on that day, Brooke, Carys, and Emily were all sent to jail. My mum and I went home happily.

The End

Emily's Robot

 The ground shook. I looked out the window, and to my horror, I saw…”Mum! There a giant robot outside!” It was true. A robot with the words 28 on it was stomping in the streets and passer bys were running everywhere. “What?” My mum came into the living room carrying a basket of laundry. When she looked out the window, the basket came crashing down and the clothes tipped over. Her face became pale as she whispered under her breath, “Emily’s robot.” I asked her what was Emily’s robot. But she didn’t seem to hear me. She shoved some water and food into her bag and ushered me into the car. I was confused. Suddenly, a big rock came down on us. It wasn’t a rock, a boulder. It hit our car and made a big dent on the roof.

“Run!” My mum grabbed  me and we ran. Dodging rocks and boulders that fell from the sky, we sprinted through the city. Towers were falling, and their was only screams of people that were hurt or captured. Finally, we stopped behind a bush and took deep breaths. “Mum, who is Emily’s robot?” My mum stared at me. “You see, Emily was my childhood best friend. Once, there was a competition of who can build the best robot. I won. But Emily was always arrogant and always got what she wanted. She became angry, and started to spread rumors that I had cheated. I hadn’t. So the next day, I confronted her and at the end of our argument, she said, “I will build it robot. It will be better than yours. It will rule the world.” Of course I didn’t believe her. How would a 6th grader build such a thing? But I guess I was wrong AHHH!” Out of nowhere, a giant boulder fell. A shadow loomed over us. The last thing I saw was my mum’s terrified face before she disappeared in a blink of an eye. I don’t know where she went, and I never will. At that moment I looked up and stared right at Emily’s robot.

My body shook, with mingled anger and sadness. I didn’t know what I was doing. I ran and grabbed onto its leg. Of course, it resisted and started shaking it. But I was determined to get revenge. As it swayed and shook, I jumped onto the head of the robot. I held on and felt a button. Opening it swiftly, I swung myself in. And I saw Emily. I walked quietly towards her, not making a bit of sound. Then I lunged myself at her. I kicked opened the window and threw her out. “I will get revenge!” She screamed as she fell. But I doubt she will. I pushed the red button and immediately the robot stopped moving. All I needed to do was to find my mum. But little did I know...

TO BE CONTINUED

Water

 

Camp Diary

 

Back to school

 

I feel very happy about coming back to school. At home in lockdown, there was three things that was the same as school. The first one was that Whaea Annie was still teaching us. Even though we stayed at home, we learnt a lot through google meets with Whaea Annie. The second thing was that we still did our todays slideshow. Every morning, Whaea Annie would cast onto google meet our today slideshow, and she would ask us each Kei te pehea koe, which meant how are you feeling today. We did the routine everyday. The last thing that was the same was that we did work on the class website. There was a lot of work to choose from and to keep us busy in lockdown. 

For example, on the class website, Whaea Annie made a Writing Slideshow which was very interesting. There was still some things that was different from school at home. We had no face to face talking, as we were on google meets. And we also didn’t have to finish at 3:00, as we could choose to keep on doing our work. Lastly, school didn’t start at 9:00, it started at 9:30. 

There were two things that I missed about school. The first is Whaea Annie. I missed having face to face conversations with her. The second is that I missed seeing my friends. During lockdown, I couldn’t see them, only on google meets. School has changed a little. We have to sanatise our hands when we come into class. There is another change, and it is that Artsplash is cancelled. I’m a bit disappointed about it. I enjoyed sharing on my blog and also doing as much maths as I like. My favourite activity from lockdown is planting. We were weeding in the garden, and also sprinkling some grass seeds on the dirt.

Overall, lockdown was a great experience, but I love going to school a lot more.

Corona Virus

 

Erased from my life

 Yawning, I went down the stairs. "Mum! Is breakfast ready yet?" Silence. I frowned. Walking faster, I entered the living room. I stood in shock. There was no one, and the furniture was gone. I quickly ran to my parents bedroom. The bed was empty, and there was no one. My heart started pounding, where are they? Going back to the kitchen, I made myself some food, and sat down on the bench. They probably had just gone to a work meeting. But why had they taken the furniture? I waited. The day passed, and they sill hadn't come home. Then I spotted something on my dad's desk. 

A ticket. It was a plane ticket. Had they...Then the door opened suddenly, as my dad rushed in. Looking around, he saw the ticket and ran towards it. I was so relieved. "Dad, where have you been?" But he just grabbed the ticket and said to himself, "Oh no, we won't get to the airport in time!" "Dad!" I shouted, trying to get his attention. He didn't even look at me. I reached out, trying to grab him, but I fell over, as my hand went right through him! I was so scared. Then something caught my eye. The family picture on the wall. It had always been there, a picture of my parents and I, taking a selfie. But I wasn't there anymore. There was only my dad and my mum. Horror washed over me. This isn't real, this isn't! I kept repeating to myself. How could it be? Yesterday night my parents could still see and hear me, and now they can't. But then, I remembered something. 

That night, my mum had gave me a big lecture, and I was very angry. I went to my room and opened up my computer. I opened up Siri so I could just have someone to talk to. "HI Siri." Hello, how can I help you?" "I want to be erased forever, because I don't want to be here anymore." I said, as I was still very angry. "Ok." Said Siri. I didn't take it seriously. What could a robot like Siri do? And the anwser was, a lot. Because now, I was actually erased from my life. No one remembers me anymore.

A stranger

 Cold sweat covered my hands. I grabbed my bag tightly. I could hear the sound of footsteps behind me. I wished I had listened to my mum, how I wished. But it was all too late. I started jogging. Then running. I did not want to see who was behind me. The empty streets were silent, except for the footsteps of the person behind me. They had started running too. What did they want to do with me? It all started that morning.

“Mum, can I please go to the park after school?” “No Wendy, it’s winter now. The day is shorter, and there is no time to go to the park. It will be very dark by then.” I did not listen to her. I thought that I could manage myself. So after school when I was supposed to go home, I went to the park. I played for so long that I didn’t notice it was dark. No stars shone in the sky. No moon was hanging in the sky like normal. No one in the streets. I grabbed my bag and started walking home. 

Home was not that far away. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw a man. He was dressed from head to toe in black, with a hood over his face and hands in pockets. He was sitting on a wooden seat in the park. I had not noticed him then, but I did now. And that was because he had stood up and started walking towards me. Immediately I knew something was wrong. I started walking fast, afraid that it would be too obvious that I was scared of him if I ran. It was completely dark. I was nearly home, nearly...Then,  a hand reached out and grabbed me.

Long Finned Eels