The Patron Saint of Desert Lady Love by Bry McVicar

Temple of Secrets

It was a cold, windy night. The street lights flickered on and off. The wind silently whispered to me. I can feel

something breathing heavily on my neck. I look back and form a silhouette of a tall man, and in the blink of an

eye he is gone.

I look down and notice my necklace with my key is gone. I rush down several streets. I find the man and dash

after him. Suddenly he throws down a device and it makes a portal. Unable to slow down I bump into him and

we are both knocked into the portal.

Suddenly I am launched head first into a stone wall and I hit the ground. I look around. There are cobwebs and

bats everywhere. I am in a cave. I reach into my backpack and retrieve a torch. I sit for a moment and then set

out to find an opening, then suddenly my torch turns off and I try to turn it back on but I can’t. I crawl into a

corner and I hear an eerie screech. Then suddenly I see an opening.

I climb out. The first thing I see is the giant brick castle. I look to my right and see him. The dead grass dances

in the wind. The trees are brown and have no leaves on them at all. This place is as dead as the Dead Sea.

I walk into the castle pursuing the man. Well lit medieval torches sit on the walls. A red carpet lies on the

cold, stone floor. I walk down the hall. Suddenly the torches burn out and I am left in the pitch black. At that

moment a knight in shining armor violently swings a sword at my head. I duck down and run.

I open the door and enter a room. I can see a bed with a mix of purple, pink and velvet. In the middle of the

room is a blank, circular tile. I walk on the tile and the entire room transforms. The walls are violently ripped

off and transforms into a vast expanse of desert. The once beautiful carpet turns into rough, yellow sand.

For the first time I can see that he isn’t a man but a kangaroo. My key dangles around his neck then suddenly,

he drops dead.

I grab my key and look around. I find a small cavern in a mountain. I fit my key into the keyhole and surprisingly

it fits. I turn the lock and open the large doors and I see the most amazing thing ever. I am back in the dark

street on that cold, windy night.

The Patron Saint of Desert Lady Love by Bry McVicar

Story by Jaydon Watson

Treasure Plague

The howls echoed through the night sky as the moon shines through the dark, desert sky as the animals slept

throughout the land. A plague swept across the desert as screams filled the air. Weird creatures came to help

but did no good, animals got taken away in strange things as it made sounds like a lion’s roar.

5 MONTHS LATER

A jackal pup was born in an enclosed area and the child was elegant, gentle and whenever you saw her, you

would fall in love, so she was called Luna. Her mother died slowly, painfully, exhaustedly after 3 days had passed,

Luna cried for ages and because of it she had an antidote for every sickness except for 1, the plague. She

would need a key for a chest of spices.

The egar of this chest was growing every day, every minute an animal was dying sick or hurt. Luna went to find

the key; she looked at the streets, fields, seas and jungles. Luna was wandering over the plain, hot, desert land

and was dreaming of water, she had saw a temple and thought she was dreaming, Luna rubbed her eyes and

saw the temple and ran to it, she entered the temple seeing a chest and a key, she ran to it and fell into a trap

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The Patron Saint of Desert Lady Love by Bry Mcviar

Written by Lauren Cohalan