Unicorns (He He He)

   He, he, he, he, he!! Ha, just typing 'unicorns' makes me laugh even more...I don't really know why. Anyway, the title of this post is 'Unicorns' (he, he, he, he, he!) because I've decided that due to lack of posting material I am going to blog my sixth grade creative writing stories, which happen to be about...(long pause here while I giggle uncontrollably). Wow, I can't even type it anymore while keeping a straight face. UNICORNS!!! (more laughter)
   So, in sixth grade my writing/ELA teacher had us write a story every Thursday that had to be at least 150 words long and use correct grammar, word usage, etc. Well, one Thursday, I had run out of ideas to write about (so sad! I was struck down in my youth) when I glanced over and saw that my neighbor had a unicorn on her binder. Not a real unicorn, but a picture of one. Obviously. And ding! I had an idea that led me to create a whole series of stories about two best friends and siblings named Sally and Bob who stumble upon a world of unicorns who happen to own a circus, a burrito place, and a fashion house, among other things.
   And so, without further ado, I present the first story in my series of unicorn stories: 'The Unicorns Own a Circus--Wait, Did You Say Unicorns?'

The Unicorns Own a Circus--Wait, Did You Say Unicorns?
     It was a warm summer day like any other. Sally and her brother, Bob, were in the backyard of their house in the suburbs of southern Florida playing catch.
     It was Sally's turn to throw the ball. She tossed it, but it went too far to the left and sailed over the wooden fence. Bob was angry, as this was their last ball. "You throw like a girl!" he shouted, trying to be mean but being unsuccessful, as anyone who knew Bob knew that he wouldn't hurt a fly.
     "Genius, that's because I am one!" Sally retorted. She was much more hotheaded than Bob.
     "Well, we need to get the ball, because that's my last one and Mom said she wasn't going to get us another one if we lost this one," said Bob, setting down his catcher's mitt and standing on tiptoe in an attempt to see over the fence.
      "Do you think that board is still loose? Maybe I can fit through it and go get the ball from the other side," said Sally, referring to the loose board in the fence they had found a couple weeks ago.
      "Probably. I don't know if you'll fit, though. It was only a couple feet wide." Bob walked over to the corner of their fence and began feeling around. "Here it is!"
     The board lifted up to reveal the yard outside the fence. It was rough and wild, covered in swampy grass and large trees from the nearby Everglades. It had just rained, making the ground a sticky, muddy marsh.
     "I'm sure I can fit," said Sally, "I just need to turn sideways"--she did so-- "and duck like this"--she gracefully demonstrated--"and there we go!" Sally had made it to the other side of the fence.
     "Be careful," said Bob. Sally stepped across the overgrown yard, her feet making a squelching sound as she lifted them, one by one, out of the mud. Soon, Bob lost sight of her as she went in search of the ball.
     Suddenly, Bob heard a small scream. "Sally?" he called. There was no answer. "Sally, where are you?" He waited a couple seconds, and when there was no answer, he maneuvered through the hole in the fence to the other side to look for his sister.
     As he was walking, there was a sudden loud squishing sound, and Bob tripped over a root. The world went black, and he lay there, unconscious, in the mud.

     When Bob woke up, he saw Sally sitting next to him. "Are you okay?" she asked, pulling him to his feet.
     "Yeah," Bob replied, "I just tripped over a root."
     "Me too," Sally said.
     They were about to turn around and go back to their house without the ball, but a sudden noise stopped them. It sounded oddly familiar--almost like...
     "Circus music?" Bob asked.
     "I didn't know they were having a circus here," said Sally, looking around. "Come on, let's go see!"
     The two ran off in the direction of the music. They jogged until they came to a wide, grassy clearing where they saw large, colorful tents and circus equipment. But they were very surprised. It wasn't because they hadn't known about the circus. It was because they had just ran into a large clearing full of unicorns.
     The unicorns were all pure white. Some had white hair, some had silver hair, some had blue hair, some had gold hair, some had rainbow hair. They walked on their hind legs as if they were human. Some were holding clipboards; some wore glasses; Sally and Bob could see unicorns in leotards standing near the tents. There were even unicorn clowns.
     When the unicorns saw their two visitors, they all stopped and stared. One unicorn wearing a black top hat stepped forward.
     "Welcome to the Totally Awesome Super Majestic Inventive Radical Unicorns' Circus!" he said in a deep voice, waving hello. "Or just TASMIRUC for short. My name is Tutu, Master of the Ring, and these are my circus companions. Are you here for the five o'clock show?"
     Sally and Bob were speechless. "Um, I guess," Bob said. "But we don't have any tickets."
     "Are you sure?" asked Tutu. "Did you check your pockets?"
     "I don't think we have anything in our pockets," said Sally, but she checked anyway. To her surprise, there was a large golden ticket in there. She showed it to Bob. "See if you have one too," she said.
     Bob checked, and sure enough, there was a large golden ticket in his pocket. They showed their tickets to Tutu.
     "Step right this way," said Tutu, leading them to a roped off section where a few unicorn families were waiting.
     Sally and Bob waited until five o'clock, feeling very out of place as more unicorn families began showing up. Then the circus doors opened, and the crowd flooded inside to take their seats. The lights dimmed, and rainbow spotlights appeared on the ground, illuminating Tutu, Master of the Ring.
     "Welcome to the Totally Awesome Super Majestic Inventive radical Unicorns' Circus!" he said to the audience. "We hope you enjoy the show!"
     Then a song began to play on the loudspeakers. At first, Sally recognized the tune, but she realized it was a bit different. Instead if 'Firework' by Katy Perry, it was something different. "What song is this?" she asked the unicorn next to her, who was nodding in time to the music.
     "Um, it's only the most popular song ever!" she answered, seeming annoyed that Sally didn't know the song. "It's 'Unicorn' by Lady Cherry."
     The trapeze artist came out in their rainbow leotards, doing all kinds of amazing acrobatics that Sally and Bob had never seen before. Below them, there was a ring of fire. A unicorn on a rotation table had knives being thrown at it by a unicorn in a black suit and a dark mullet that resembled flames blowing in the wind. Several unicorns payed more attention to him that the act.
     The circus went on for several hours, ending with a unicorn being fired out of a cannot at the sky above. Then the audience applauded, screaming praise, and hurried out of the tent. Sally and Bob were pushed out by the crowd.
     Once the unicorns were all out, the unicorn maintenance crew pressed a button on the side of the tent, and all of the circus equipment and materials were immediately squished into a tiny clown car. The circus unicorns piled inside and on top of the car, with Tutu at the wheel. He honked the horn, waved to the crowd, then sped off into the orange sunset.
     The crowd dispersed, and Sally and Bob headed home. Sally had the lyrics to 'Unicorn' stuck in her head, and sang it the whole way there, much to Bob's annoyance.
     "'Cause, baby, you're a unicorn, so much power in your horn, show off all your flair, flair, flair, as the windmills blow your hair, hair, hair..."
     When they reached the fence, they climbed through and headed inside. Their parents were watching TV.
     "How was playing outside, kids?" their mother asked, looking over at them as they came in.
     "It was great. We went to a unicorn circus and met a unicorn named Tutu, Master of the Ring. Oh, and I learned a new song called 'Unicorn' by Lady Cherry," replied Sally, before Bob could say anything that didn't make them sound crazy.
     "That's nice, honey," their mother replied, amused, and wondering where she had gotten such a great imagination.
     The two ate dinner and went up to bed. Both of them pinned their tickets up on the wall to remember the day when they visited the unicorn circus, and fell asleep, with no idea that their adventures had only just begun.
**THE END (FOR NOW!)**