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Rebecca Merrick

Lost in the labyrinth

Emily is sitting in the park thinking about the argument she had just had with her mum and how she didn’t mean anything she had said to her. She all of a sudden realised the time “oh no I’m ten minutes late now mum will be even more annoyed with me” she says. Emily quickly starts to run home trying not to run into people or things.

She arrived home but to her amazement there isn’t an angry mum waiting to tell her off at the front door. “Mum” Emily shouts “mum” but there was no reply so she shouts again “mum are you there”. Emily starts to look around the house but she can’t find her anywhere “ok then if she’s not here there will be a note” thinks Emily. So she begins looking for a note but there isn’t one anywhere. Emily then spots something on the floor “what’s this” says Emily. To her surprise it was her favourite book on the floor “I’m sure I didn’t leave this here” says Emily confusedly. Emily picks up the book and looks at the open page and there was her mum in the picture on the page and in shock she drops the book on the floor. Then Emily remembered the story in her book about the pixie king who desperately wanted a wife and who had a secret labyrinth. Emily starts crying and mutters to her self “why my mum out of all the people he could pick why my mum. When she had finished crying she turned around and there was the pixie king staring at her and laughing. “What have you done with my mum?” she cries. “If you really want to know ill take you there just close your eyes” says the pixie king. Emily closes her eyes.

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Emily opens her eyes and finds her self in a dusty field where all the grass is dead and in the distance she spots at the entrance of a labyrinth. The pixie kind returns and says “your mum will be turned in to my wife and will forget you and everything unless you get there in time which you wont,” laughs the pixie king. The pixie king vanishes “well how hard can it be” says the pixie king. The pixie kin g then reappears and says “oh and one last thing you have till 12:00 to get to my ...

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