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The Craziest Day of My Life

January 31, 2020

By Julian B.

Sometimes I think I'm a part of something bigger, like a have a special job somewhere that I don't know about. A few years ago, my dad was working on a time travel device or whatever. I didn't think it was possible. I mean, if time travel was real, we’d all have seen some evidence, right? My dad said he'd nearly perfected it, but I didn't believe him. Until the day Dad had a big ceremony to start his trip through time. Only friends and family came because people think he's nuts. When he powered on the machine, it sparked with lightning and vanished, and no one has seen him since. It's been five years since then, and I, Kevin Carter, have gotten over it.

That was until yesterday.

It was my first day of 8th grade. I was getting ready for school, brushing my brown hair, and putting my blue framed glasses over my brown eyes. As I was heading out to walk to school, I saw something in the sky hurling fast, with a trail of lighting following. “Holy cow…” I said in awe, I began chasing it, I don't know why but I did. At last after 5 minutes of running, I saw it crash down into an alley way.

That's Dad's machine!!! I thought as I took a good look at it. It looked like one of those submarines from sci-fi movies, but with a huge thruster on the back.

A figure emerged from the crash site, “Kevin... “ he said.

“D-dad?"

“Yes, um, Kevin we need to talk…” my dad said.

“Why?” I said my mind racing, I could only think to say why. Where had he been? Why come back now? So many questions that I wanted answered.

"I'm afraid I don't need you any more, K.E.V.I.N, I went back in time. Now I control here, and all the other continents. You see, you were an experiment using artificial intelligence, but with time travel I achieved greater things,” my dad said.

Standing there still in shock, I saw him take a blaster out of his coat. Run! my mind said, so I did.

As I approached my house, I thought, Something's different. The American flag usually flying by the door was replaced with a flag of my Dad's pale crinkled up face and brown hair.

I sat down on the stairs leading up to my house. I'm a robot, I thought. I thought I would pass out, my brain, or I guess mother board, was processing so much information. My dad who was gone for 5 years is now evil and is trying to take over the world using time travel. Most importantly he made me, a robot, to take over but instead used time travel. Could it be true? It must be... how else to explain the flag?

Two soldiers rounded the corner, “That's him!” one shouted, but at that instant, the two soldiers where tangled up in ropes. Three figures emerged from an alley next to my house.

“We are the resistance,” the leader said, “and we need you.”

To be continued…...

The Elemential Part Seven

January 31, 2020

By Keira S.

Behind the door was his sister, waiting. They both looked like they were waiting for her to get home.

“What are you doing here?” asked Evalyn, recognizing Griffin and Asta immediately from last year’s beach trip. “I’m so confused. Why are you here?”

“We know about you,” answered the brother.

“What do you mean? I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Evalyn felt the most anxious at that moment than she has ever felt in her life. “They can’t know.” she thought. “They can’t be able to know.”

“I think you do.” It was the sister again. “I think you know exactly what we’re talking about.” The sister looked about 14. She had long, light brown hair, light brown eyes, and fair skin. Evalyn could tell that they knew about her and that they did for a long time. “Listen,” Evalyn said almost sweating. “I have no idea what you’re talking about, and you better get out before I call the cops.” The brother quickly came over and grabbed Evalyn by the arm. All of the sudden, her arm was on fire! He let go and stepped back. Out of instinct, Evalyn sprouted water out from her hand to put of the fire.

“What the heck Griffin!” Evalyn screamed. “You could have killed me!”

“Now you see what we mean,” Griffin, the brother, said in his soft and mysterious voice. Griffin had short brown hair and dark brown eyes. He was about 5ft 9(2inches taller than Evalyn) and was very tan. He was also about a year older than Evalyn. When she met him last summer at Virginia Beach, she never would have guessed that he was like her.

“You remember Asta don’t you?” raising a hand to indicate his sister who was, by now, snacking on crackers in the kitchen.

“Yes. I remember her,” Evalyn said with a hard glare.

“Sorry about the burn,” Griffin said with an apologetic glance. “I had to show you we were serious.”

“I see that.” Just then, Evalyn tried to run out the door, but Asta, who had apparently also checked out the freezer, projected the ice she had in her hand and froze the door shut. “I’m not leaving yet am I?” Evalyn asked.

“No. We still need to explain why we’re here,” Griffin said. “And It’s not for the reason you think.”

The End

The Scribbler is proud to present the very final chapter in a story that represents 5 months of creative work on the part of one of our writers. All of the the fragmented worlds have come together, so enjoy reading how all the loose ends are resolved. To find the earlier parts of the story, check the archives!

January 30, 2020

By Akim G.

When Sally leaped on Sarah I realized that Sarah’s life meter just went down from three to two!

“ Why are you doing this!?” Sarah asked while pushing Sally back off of Sarah’s body.

“L wants us to eliminate all of you so, that really explains all of it!” Sally said

Quickly, I realized that Sally was taken over by L. I decided to return my glance to Lance who had a confused look.

“Dude, what is going on!” I asked quickly as I started looking back and forth from Lance to Sarah.

“ I don’t know, I don’t even know how I ended up here!” Lance said as he was pulled up into the air by a crab claw.

“Why must you torture us!” I heard Tyler say as his arm quickly jerked, throwing Lance from the air and slamming him into the ground. Then, Lance got up from the ground lifting up his robotic arm and aiming for Tyler. BOOM! Lance’s robot arm fired a laser that blaster Tyler back right on impact. There was something odd about all of this. Tyler was still himself, like he was being forced to do this. Then I saw it. There was a glowing red chain. It must have been controlling him to do L’s bidding. That would explain why Tyler could not control what he was doing. So, I thought of a way to free Tyler.

“Lance!” I said, “ Aim for the chain on his leg!” I said pointing towards the chain on Tyler’s leg. Then quicker than a cheetah, Lance pointed his arm at the chain on Tyler’s leg and fired. Soon after the smoke from the explosion cleared, I saw Tyler sitting on the ground looking at his leg.

“I’m free, I am free!” Tyler said as he jumped up and down for joy. The claws on his hands that were forced on with stitches fell off to reveal Tyler’s hands. They looked very weak and frail. Though there was still one more problem. Sally was still an insane beast that showed no way of being turned back on our side. So we did the most intelligent thing that we could do. We ripped off the red glowing life bar. I know it could kill her, but what else we’re we supposed to do? Leave her! Of course she kinda just froze there.

“So what do we do with her now?” Sarah asked as she looked at me.

“We could leave her here.” Lance said looking at me, looking for an answer. Now I had two choices here I could either leave Sally here, or try to help her. Well I’m going to try to help her of course!

“What do you guys think would happen if I gave her my life bar?” I asked Tyler.

“I…… I don’t know. The last thing I remember was us being trapped in a sort of lab room and when I looked down, my hands were crab claws.” Tyler said as he began to rub his hands together.

“Well I’ m going to try it!” I said quickly ripping off my life bar and putting it on the hole were Sally’s life bar was. I felt my body start to freeze after that and soon I couldn’t move my arms, then my legs, and then I froze and blacked out.

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“I have done it! Matt is no more!” L laughed, as he looked through what seemed to be a giant camera screen, "See, stories don’t always have good endings!”

“But, that’s not your choice to make L,” A said as he broke the chains that held him to his chair.

“It’s all in the mind of the writer!” A said as he threw his pencil into the screen that L was watching Matt on.

“No! What have you done?” L said angrily.

“I have given Matt the power to make his own ending,” A said as he slammed L onto the circuits on the computer breaking the screens that L would watch Matt on.

“Nooooooooooooooooo!” L screamed as he threw A across the room.

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“Matt, you now have the power!” I heard A say. I felt a pencil drop on top of my head.

“What do I do with this?” I asked. Then pieces of paper fell on my head. When I looked at the papers the titles were “The Apocalypse Survivors”, “Hypnotic” , then lastly “Fragments.” Suddenly, another piece of paper fell on my head titled, “The End.”

“What do I do now?” I asked A.

“Make your own ending,” A said, his voice slowly disappear.

When A left I began to write: "Matt is freed from the frozenness and able to regain full consciousness. Then, he appeared back into the same place where Sarah, Tyler, Lance, and Sally had been waiting for him, or waiting for something to happen. They were clearly panicking. Sarah was crying, Tyler was walking in circles, Sally was sitting there confused on what was going on, and Lance was freaking out."

As I wrote, everything happened exactly as I described. “Guys it’s ok, I’m back.” I said as everyone turned to look at me.

“ Matt oh my gosh! You’re ok!” Sarah jumped up and hugged me. Even Tyler and Lance joined in to hug me. Sally was well, still confused, but I was glad to be back with my friends.

“Ok, seriously? What did I miss?” Sally asked as I looked at her.

“The end of L that’s what!” I said as I pulled out the pencil and pieces of paper.

I wrote: ”Suddenly, Matt and his friends were teleported to A’s creation room, but it had been turned dark and evil because of L."

“Well, well, well,” L said staring at me.

“You’ve done it, haven't you?” L said. Then, L started to walk towards me.

“Don’t come any closer or I’ll erase you from existence!” I said lifting up the pencil and point out the eraser.

“You know kid, some things are really... fragile!” Then L shot a fireball at the pencil. The pencil turned to ashes.

“So what are you going to do now?!” L said, laughing.

“Hey L,” I said.

“What?!”

“Why do you need a pencil when you can use your imagination?” I said.

I quickly thought of an ending. Then the paper glowed as golden words started to appear on it.

“No, stop, please! I’ll do anything!” L pleaded. Then I stopped for a second.

“Anything?” I asked with a smug look on my face.

“Yes, anything! I can give you power, money, everything and anything you could want!” L look at me with hope in his eyes that he would be spared.

“I want... you to perish!” I said, as I thought, "L disappears never to return."

L's final words were "Nooooooo!" before he dissolved into nothingness.

“ Matt... two more problems,” Sarah said as I turned to her to see what was wrong.

“What are they?” I asked.

“How do we get Jackson and Max back, and how do we get home?” Sarah asked with worry on her face.

“Oh that, no problem.” I said. I swiftly thought of Max and Jackson appearing and immediately, they were hugging each other and apologizing to each other for all the fighting that they had done.

Next, I teleported us back to the world. No zombie apocalypse, no crazy monsters, or insane people, and no problems for a mile. After this, Tyler went to college and got himself involved in football, even became a jock. Max and Jackson moved away to California to go make a business. Sally, stopped worrying about her ex, and her ex-best friend and became popular. She also got herself a new boyfriend, and she forgave her ex-boyfriend and her ex-friend. As for me and Sarah, I’m 15 years old and Sarah is 18 years old. She says that next year she’s going to go across the world to go to college. I asked her how we’d keep in contact and be together and she said.

“Don’t worry babe,” she said, “I’ll be out of there in three years, and I’ll call you every month ok,” she said kissing me on the cheek.

“ Ok, see you then,” I said shedding a tear.

I survived an apocalypse, but then, I had to survive with such great friends.

The End

Fun Pennsylvania Facts

January 30, 2020

By Isabella P.

MInecraft Part Two: Into the Unknown

January 30, 2020

By Miles O. and Julian B.

“Oooof!” they all said.

"W-where are we?” Jack said.

“This is bonkers!” Bryan said, his mind racing. As the trio pondered, they looked at their surroundings. There were scorched red stones all around them with some speckles of white. There was massive oceans of lava surrounding their area.

“Well I guess we can’t turn back,” Amanda said after the mysterious portal they came through disappeared.

”Hey guys there's someone down there!” Jack shouted. The group turned to look at the direction Jack pointed.

“Hmmm…. Maybe they're friendly,” Amanda suggested. The group nodded, gathered up their courage, and jumped off the 6 foot tall mesa. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt at all.

They walked over behind the being.

“Uh-Hello?” Bryan said nervously, Amanda and Jack gathered behind him.

“Are y'all some type of smart mob?” asked the mysterious being.

“What do you mean?” Jack asked intrigued and nervous.

“This is Minecraft and mobs are what are in the game, so I assumed you must be one.” the being said. The trio nervously looked at each other. They were IN Minecraft?

To be continued…

The Elemential Part Six

January 30, 2020

By Keira S.

Finally, it was December. Five weeks had passed since Halloween. With that time, came a lot of events. Thanksgiving had passed with flying colors, literally. Every year, the town hosts a giant celebration with parades, parties, and dancing. The parade is very colorful. A sea of reds, oranges, purples, blues, and yellows sweeps through the streets. Thanksgiving at Evalyn’s house, though, was pretty normal. Evalyn, Scarlett, and their moms go see the parade, and then have dinner together that night. Scarlett’s dad has to work on almost every holiday, so he can never come. School was pretty normal for the girls. Evalyn learned more about water and the other three elements. Scarlett was working on her math. Both were getting a lot of homework. Scarlett’s foot was healing well, and now she didn’t have to walk with her crutches. Evalyn was also counting down the days until Christmas.

“I absolutely can’t wait till Christmas comes!” exclaimed Evalyn as the girls were walking to school.

“You say that every year,” answered Scarlett. “You absolutely love Christmas. I mean, it is your favorite holiday.”

“I know, it’s just that Christmas has always been a fun time for me.We’re off from school, me and my mom and you and your mom have Christmas dinner, and then the very next day, we open presents! What can be more fun than that!”

“My dad being there. He always has to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.”

“I’m sorry Scar. It slipped my mind, but this year, maybe you can join in on one of my family’s Christmas traditions?”

“Oh yeah, and what tradition is that?”

“The one where we eat some of the candy in our stockings for breakfast.”

“I don’t think you’ve told me about that one yet.”

“I don’t think I have.”

The girls continued on their way to school knowing it was going to be one of their last days before break. On their way, they were laughing and telling jokes like they always do to get their spirits up before their long day at school. Today, there was going to be an assembly that would be very interesting for the girls.

“I wonder what this assembly is about?” said Scarlett.

“It’s probably about break and the holiday,” answered Evalyn.

“Most likely.”

All the kids piled into the autatoriam for the assembly. Mr. Tarsey started it off by talking about the history of Christmas and asked a few questions about the student’s holiday traditions. Then, he started talking more about holiday break and that it would be extended this year by a couple of days. There apparently wasn’t much to the assembly. It was just all about break, but it was nice for the girls to get a small break from class.

Later in the day… “I’m so tired,” exclaimed Scarlett at the girls’ lockers. “School is almost over. Just one more class period,” Evalyn said with a fake yawn. Both the girls started laughing and walked to their last class of the day.

Once the last bell rang, Evalyn headed straight for the door. She quickly knew that she was being watched. Evalyn looked around but saw no one. She texted Scarlett that she had to leave in a rush because she forgot to wash the dishes last night, and her mom was going to ground her if they weren’t finished. Lies. Evalyn didn’t have to wash the dishes until tomorrow night, and she’s never been grounded in her life. Evalyn took off in a rush, but this time, took a different way home. I know it’s him. It has to be. Why would they be here? The million dollar question is, why did he follow me and my mom back here? To many questions at once. What do they want? I only met them last summer at that beach when mom and I went to on vacation. Did they know I’d be there or was that just luck? I’m so confused. Just get home Evalyn and then hopefully everything will be fine, for now. Once Evalyn felt that she wasn’t being watched, she went straight home. She burst through the door and found an unexpected surprise waiting in her living room. It’s him, she thought. But what is here doing here? Just then, the door shut behind her.

To be continued...

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Fragments Part Two: An Apocalypse/ Hypnotic Sequel

January 20, 2020

By Akim G.

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“He’s too smart, he’s figuring it out too fast!” L said sounding angry and confused.

“Well, we can’t make it any harder for him it might destroy everything!” A said with a serious look on his face.

“Well, we must make it harder for him, that Sarah girl has already figured it out somehow!” L said sounding angrier. “If he breaks the fragment that I’ve trapped him in, he might figure out his true power!” L pushed A down to the floor. “Now tell me how to keep that idiot trapped!”

“He will figure it out eventually, and when he does it’s game over for you!” A laughed. L’s aggressive look faded to a look of fear.

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“Ok, this is unnatural. Why did I see that? That mirror vision was odd, yet familiar. Well, good thing my mother fixed up my glasses so now I can go to school and not look like a psycho,” I thought.

Then, I walked outside and saw it. For a mere second, I saw an apocalyptic world filled with zombies and destruction. And then, I remembered something. It all came rushing into my mind. Sarah, Tyler, Max, Jackson, Sally, and A. I swiftly turned around to see my “Mom” standing at the door smiling as she saw me by the bus. I ran towards her, and I pushed her out of the way, ignoring her startled confusion and surprise. I ran through the living room, tripping over toys while my “ mother” kept staring at me. But, as I closed one eye to look out of the broken side of my glasses, I saw not my mother, but a horrifying parasite looking thing. I ran up the stairs towards the bathroom where the mirror had previously been shattered. Now the mirror was repaired?! And of course, there she was. Sarah was standing there in the mirror with a smile on her face.

“I knew you’d realize it was fake.” Sarah said, as she giggled and turned her glance towards me.

“Well ,how could I have forgotten about you guys?” I said responding with a smile. I hopped in the mirror just as the horrific parasite came running in after me. As she tried to enter through the mirror, she was vaporized and turned into dust. Then Sarah grabbed me by my shoulder and turned me around.

“ Hey dweeb look over here I found someone,” Sarah said as she punched my shoulder.

“Who could you possibly find her-......” I paused when I saw him, I thought he had died.

“Lance?!” I said sounding astounded. Long before this entire surreal experience began, Lance had been my best friend.

“ Yeah, now let's go get your new friends and beat that fool L or as I like to call him Loser!” Lance said, lifting his fist truimphantly.

Lance looked a lot different than he looked before. To start with, he had a robotic arm and an eyepatch on his face and it had a cybernetic eye in its center that was glowing blue. The weirdest thing though, Sarah actually looked particularly human. Well her hand was still stitched on, as well as her leg, and half of her face was pretty infected with a scratch on her eye ,but besides that she looked human.

“Why do you both look like that, and why are you wearing those weird suits?” I asked confused.

“Heh, look at yourself,” Lance said as Sarah and him both laughed.

That’s when I looked down and realized that my cool apocalyptic themed chained armor looked more like a super hero’s suit and it had a giant blue circle in the middle that started flashing.

“What is this!?” I said staring at Sarah and Lance with a puzzled look.

“It’s… we don’t know exactly ,but we know that you have at least three lives,” Lance said as he pressed the circle on his chest and a number popped out that was glowing orange. I pushed my own circle and realized that my number was a three, but Lance’s was at a two.

“What happened?!” I said looking afraid at the fact that he already lost a life.

“When I realized that my world was a fragment I didn’t escape quick enough and I got… I think it explains itself.” Lance said as he lifted up the robotic arm and used his left eye to gesture towards his right eye that had an eyepatch on it.

“Ok, so where are the others?” I asked looking around to try to find Tyler, Max, Jackson, and Sally.

“We heard that Tyler, and Sally lost all their lives and might have been turned evil by L, as for the others. We don’t know what happened to them.” Sarah said as a few tears began to form in her eye. When I saw this I quickly went to hug her as she began to cry in my arms.

“Matt,” I heard a weakened voice say as if it could only whimper. Somehow the voice sounded familiar. Then I realized it was Tyler, but instead of being a buff zombie he looked like a weakened, drained of life person with a red glowing chain on his leg and crab claws sewed on his arms.

“Run!” He screamed as a thing from behind him ran towards us.

“Here I come!” The thing screamed as it showed how its arms were larger than its entire body.

When I got a better look I realized it was Sally , but she was corrupted. Then, she leaped at Sarah and….

To be continued...

The final chapter of the Apocalypse/Hypnotic/Fragments universe will be published next week! Don't miss it!

Blizzard Dilemma Part FOUR

January 20, 2020

By Avery G.

This adventure story is in diary form. The dates and times below are part of the story.

Jan 6, 2009

Outside it was still very cold from the blizzard, but the storm itself had faded away. It was beautiful. The ground was covered in a thick coat of white snow about 7 feet deep at some points. Over many of the covered areas, there was more ice than snow.

We walked around the village, both of us stopping at our own horses to check the damage. Our people would definitely come back up to the surface, but we knew it would be a ton of work to clear the snow.

Seeing the results we climbed back into the ditches. Once we told the chief about the good news he dismissed us to our families.

First, the men came out and cleared as much of the debris as possible. Next women and children came to pitch in. After the cleaning was done life went on as if nothing had ever happened.

My family is fine. We moved out of Canada and to North Carolina. Juniper and her family are still living in Canada, but we still visit each other a lot.

It has been very fun to write in this diary but I don't have much more to say. If anything bad ever happens again then I promise that I will write in here again.

Goodbye!

-Adeline

Hamilton: The Big Reveal

January 17, 2020

By Anthony V.

A few weeks ago on December 12, I published an article right here on Scribbler Creative about the Hamilton soundtrack. I launched a poll with that article. Though the poll is now closed, the article is still in Scribbler archives. The results of the poll are in! The Top 3 Hamilton songs in WAIS have been chosen.

Coming in third place, with 3 votes, is the Act II song “What I Miss” sung by Daveed Daniele Diggs as Thomas Jefferson.

There was a three way tie for second between “My Shot” sung by Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton and “Non-stop” sung by the characters of Angelica, Burr, Eliza, Hamilton, and Washington were both chosen for second. The third song, my personal favorite, that was tied for second was “You’ll Be Back” sung by Rory O’Malley as King George III.

Finally, the winner you’ve all been waiting for is “Burn” sung by Phillipa Soo who plays Eliza Schuyler. This is the top song of all of the options, according to WAIS students.

The top singer in Hamilton from the perspective of WAIS is Phillipa Soo as Eliza Schuyler, since she sang in two of the top songs: “Non-stop” and “Burn.” Thank you so much for voting!