The Goodgame Empire Challenge

The Goodgame Empire Challenge

By Jack Mattingly.

“I bet I can level up more than you!” I challenged Micha, my dad's brother.

“Oh, it it is on!” he replied nastily.

We were at Kiawah Island and I had just introduced Micha to the game because I begged him constantly until he said yes, so he tried the game and he liked it.

We both launched three attacks over and over again against the Robber Barons and other good players. We stopped when all our troops died and started to train more. In the next five minutes or so I was in the lead at level 5 and he was at level 4. The ferocious and exciting challenge went on for an hour until I called, “Time! Let's go take a mini break and have a snack.”

During the snack we had 2 or 3 hot dogs and a bag of chips because we were starving and I mean STARVING! We talked about about the game and what level we were. To my amazement he was in the lead and I felt like I was going to lose but during that moment a plan formed in my head. The plan was to sabotage him and attack him so his building would catch on fire. I could easily look at his screen and see his troops and his level. He did not have very many troops so then I searched up his name to locate his castle. By luck he was near me so I sent the attack. It would be there in about ten minutes but it felt like three. When we were done eating we went back on the computers I tried my plan and it worked so, it slowed him down a little bit because he had to put the fires out.

“HEY, YOU CHEATED!” yelled Micha very frustrated at me.

“Nope, that is the game, HA!” I responded back to Micha proud that I was in the lead.

We went on after that and the challenge lasted a few, hot, summer days, but at the end I won. It was so close I ran around the house waking every one up because I had just beat uncle Micha! The score was 26 to 25 and he was so close to leveling up because he was 3 experience from leveling up. He cheated and launched an attack while I was not looking and leveled up but I had already seen his level.

“Good game,” he said sorrowfully to me but I was already out the door riding my bike like a madman. “Jack, get back here right now or we will not go to the beach,” he yelled over my screaming so the whole neighborhood could hear it, but I could not hear because by the time he said it I was out of view.

The Big Bike Race

The Big Bike Race

                                                                                        

                                                  By Jack Mattingly

CRASH!!

“AHHH, MY KNEE!” I shouted in pain not like any other. It felt like a knife stabbing me in the knee. I had fallen off my bike when I was sprinting on my bike going downhill and scraped my knee very badly.

“Are you alright!” Lowe turned around to say as quick as she could because she was worried.

I did not answer because I was in a lot of pain. I got back on my bike slowly  at first and still silent trying to avoid the pain but when I got used to it I started to go at normal speed and talked to her. The first thing I asked was if I was going to get a scar. After a moment or two she answered, “NO, or I do not think so.”

Micha soon caught up with us and I got off my bike to show him what happened. We rode our bikes together for a while together checking on my knee every so often and kept seeing blood drip down from my leg and stained my clothes on. At the last 500 meters or so I exclaimed,“Let's have a race!”

Once they both said yes I started to count down, “3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . GO!!!”

The race was on and I was in the lead. Lowe and Micha slowly came up next to me. Micha dropped out of the pack saving his energy so it was me and Lowe. Micha started sprinting on his bike right next to me, and I wanted to sprint but it was too big of a risk because that was the same way I had hurt my leg. I was going as fast as my legs would take me and I caught up with Micha and Lowe who was in last place. Micha and I were right next to each other for the final 100 meters. I started to take a big risk by sprinting but it lead me to victory!

“I WIN!” I shouted forgetting all about my knee for a moment or two until a cloud of sadness went over me. It stayed that because we did not have the key, our parents had the key so we could not get inside the beach house.

I saw a lizard and chased after it and soon caught it and showed it to Lowe and Micha but then it hopped out of my hands and ran at top speed for its dear life. It ran under the car. I searched under the car forgetting my knee for about ten minutes and found it and then it ran out the other way and climbed up a tre,e or, that is what I think it did. I gave up and soon heard a shout and then I began to cheer. It was my parents and I yelled out to him, “Hey, guys, what took you long?! I have a very bad scrape on my knee.”

My dad rode over to me as fast he could. and told me to get into the bathroom as quick as possible and try not to drip blood everywhere so he could clean my knee out. It was not as bad as I thought it was going to be and asked Micha if he wanted to play a game called Goodgame Empire and he said,”Yes!” and the game was on.

If I Had One Hundred Dollars

If I Had One Hundred Dollars

By Sarah Rose

If I had a 100 dollars I would buy a giant bookshelf I could nail onto the wall, 8 books, and 35 notebooks.

First, I would buy my bookshelf so I could put all the books and notebooks onto it. Also, it would give me more storage space. I could decorate the bookshelf in any way I pleased. I would probably decorate it in gold, and write “I’m a bookworm” in star stickers. Finally, I would make a wooden bar to hold all my stuff on the shelf.

Then, I would buy my brand new Land of stories books, 2 of each to be exact. First of all ,I would need something to take up all that shelf space. Also, it would give me backup books in case of an emergency ( mainly, my little sisters, who are always an emergency).

Finally, I’d get my notebooks. Where else would I store all of my ideas!

If I had a 100 dollars I would buy a giant bookshelf I could nail on to the wall, 8 books, and 35 notebooks. And, now you why.

If I Had 100 Dollars

 If I Had 100 Dollars

By Sophia Caneira

If I had 100 dollars I would buy a Star Wars Rey costume, a Lego Rey Speeder, and a stuffed animal named Pusheen.

     I would buy the costume because I want to become Rey because I think she is brave, and beautiful and adventurous. She is also my favorite character in the new movie, The Force Awakens.

     I would buy the Legos because I love Legos especially Star Wars ones.

I also love looking at the Lego magazines.

  I would buy the Pusheen (cookie) stuffed animal because the stuffed animals are super cute and cuddly!!  The stuffed animal is so lovely and adorable!!!!

           If I had 100 dollars I would buy a Star Wars costume,  a Lego Reys’ Speeder, and a cute Pusheen stuffed animal!!!!!!!

Lost in Space

 

   Lost in Space  

 By Eddie Choi & Jack Mattingly

ROOOOM, ROOOOOM!!! Rainbow Boy was playing with his toy rocket ship and all of a sudden he came up with a good idea. His mom and he were in Cloud Cuckoo Land when he thought of the great idea. His idea was to build a very high tech rocket ship. It took a lot of work but they finally finished it in about 1 week. They were so tired of working but the second they finished it they sprang to joy!

Rainbow Boy was so excited that he wanted to fly around the earth.  He and his mom got into the rocket ship to try it out but when they got in Rainbow Boy accidentally pressed the wrong button and they shot up into the air!

They zoomed through space and then there was a black and purple circle thingy and they were heading right toward it! They tried to turn back but it was too late! They both closed their eyes and thought they were going to die.

They soon saw planets that they did not recognize. When they looked at the controls and it said that the ship they built was damaged so they went to the nearest planet they could get to. They tilted the controls near the planet but they knew it was going to have to be a crash landing! They tucked back into their seats and then made a ball in their seats and then the rocket hit ground. Luckily, the rocket ship was built very safe.

They looked through the window of the ship and it looked like a huge sandy place. Rainbow Boy went outside to see if the oxygen was clear, and, in fact, it was! They wandered around for miles until they found a cave that looked like it was part house too. They wandered inside the cave and then they saw something moving in the dark! They asked “Who's there?”

They heard an evil cackle. They thought if they should go out or stay in and ask for help. They decided to go ask for help. They asked if the creature who lived in the cave if he had any parts to rebuild the space ship. All he answered was, “My parts!” They asked again but all he answered was, “MY PARTS!” even louder than before.

They decided that they should go find shelter and come back at midnight and try to steal the parts. They left the cave and soon found a village.   The creatures at the village were big, crazy aliens with masks on but seemed nice and let them stay for a while. They asked the aliens if they knew about a creature that lives in a cave. They said, “Yes.”  They also said, “It is a goblin named Bob and he is a scavenger for parts. He will never give up his parts.”

“That is why we are going to steal them,” said Mommy.

“Good luck with that,” said the alien.

They left and went to steal the parts for the rocket ship, “Bye” said Rainbow boy and Mommy to the Alien.

They were finally there and the cave was pitch dark. They tried their flashlight but it was out of batteries so they bumped into the walls a few times but until their eyes adjusted to the dark they did not know where they were going. They saw a little skinny path that kept going down. Then they crashed into something and it made a loud BANG!  

All of a sudden Rainbow Boy hit something. He was taking a risk and picked it up. He moved his hand around the object and it was shaped like something he felt before and then he realized it was a flashlight. He turned it on and tested it out and it worked! He shined the flashlight around and all he saw was a bunch of junk. They split up and looked for the parts for  the rocket ship. It took them a while and then luckily they found the parts.

All of a sudden they heard the cackle that they heard the day before. They shined the flashlight at where the sound was coming from and they saw Bob. Quickly, Rainbow Boy and Mommy got the parts and sprinted outside of the cave! They went to their rocket ship and attached the parts they got from Bob and they knew that they didn’t have much time. Then, when they were done adding the parts they locked the door of the rocket ship and slept in their little apartment with two beds.

While they were sleeping Bob snuck near the rocket ship and tweaked it a little bit so that it wouldn’t work  and Rainbow Boy and Mommy didn’t hear a thing.

The next morning when they woke up they tried to get back to Cloud Cuckoo Land but the rocket still did not work. Then they saw some footprints that looked like footprints they saw in the cave. It took a while for them to find out what happened and then they fixed it. It was too late at night to take off so they had to stay one more night because they were afraid that Bob would sabotage the rocket ship so they waited till midnight and they set a trap. They wanted to see if he would come back and tweak it. They were hiding behind their rocket ship and waited till Bob was trying to tweak it. Finally, Bob came and they had  bubble gun and they blew it and then  Bob was trapped in it. Then Rainbow Boy and Mommy pushed him back into the cave. They blocked the cave with a rock to make sure that he did not escape.

Rainbow Boy went to a rocket ship camp before on Cloud Cuckoo Land  so he knew how to fly a rocket ship. So, when they got back to their rocket ship they flew it back to Cloud Cuckoo Land.

They promised not to fly their rocket ship ever again.

ZOMBIE ATTACK

By Jack Mattingly

Kapow!!! Jack hit the thing square in the jaw while watching him fall back to the ground and he was starting to feel proud of himself for taking down so much of the crooked zombies. He was at a junkyard where there was a crooked metal and  very rusty building  that got attacked by zombies over the ages covered with junk. Zombies were everywhere hiding in all the junk and they kept popping up.

Jack had to retreat to the base. While he ran through the junkyard it felt like it was never going to end. He finally reached the Mystic Forest where his base was. None of the zombies dared to come into the forest unless there were a lot of them. There were some fairies flying in the distant so that meant the base was near because the resistance troops protect the remaining fairies. The only place left in the world with living things from their calculations was their base. Fairies, unicorns and other mystical creatures lived in the forest.

The freshly-polished, iron, huge, underground base was in view and General Ed was outside to greet him with a smile on his face. Jack looked at the new base they built after the zombie apocalypse. It still had no scratch except for the unicorn that had charged into the base because it was afraid of a zombie that got lost in the woods.

He looked around at the 15 feet high ceiling which was about a mile long hallway because of all the people who lived here including fighters and families that needed protection. There was about 300 rooms or so and the first 50 doors lead to the rooms where the fighters lived. All the rooms except for Jack’s, Ed’s and Fox’s room were an average size of 20 feet in all directions. There were rooms on top because there were 2 levels. There were children running up and down and everything seemed right.

Jack was the leader of the resistance troopers and would do the best he could do to save his friends. When he got to the base he explained to his teammates that they have a base near the south of the town.

“Come on let's go kick some mindless zombie butts!” Max screamed to cheer on the team. Max was also Jack’s little brother.

“We should wait and send out a couple more spies out,” Ed said from the back of the room.

“Okay, it is settled, we are going to send more spies out. Jake,  A.J follow me. I need you two to get some reports on the zombie base, your mission is going to be tomorrow at 9:30 meet me and I will fill you in,” Jack replied.

“Okay, cap, see you tomorrow,” A.J responded in an unsure way because he thought everything was a trap.

“General Ed, We are going to send two attacks to the base to create a diversion for Jake and A.J. Get Eric, Morgan, Trev and Steve. I got Gorge, Justin, Zack, Fox, and Ben.”

“Sir, we are under attack by 25 zombies or so!” Eric yelled but he was ready because he was fearless and ready for an fight.

“EVERYONE, BATTLE POSITION, THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY! THEY ARE BREAKING IN!” Jack screamed to everyone.

“UuUuUuUhHhHhHhH, BRAINS, MUST DESTROY!”The zombies were breaking in and there was no hope to survive.

“One down, oh that must have hurt, another one down wait we need medics. General Ed is hurt!” Max was saying at the top of the base.

It was a deadly fight but they survived the attack with a few wounded ones and Ed was one of them

“Ed’s going to be in the hospital for a while because one bone in his arm almost got shattered from a piece of falling metal. Spread the news that we are going to launch the attack when Ed’s better. That will take about a week and we are launching it 5 days after. Jake and A.J are still going on the spy mission but they left during the attack so let's hope for the best.”

Jake and A.J started off to go to the zombie base but they never got filled in because they escaped during the attack.

“Get ready to go in,” whispered Jake who is very sly and a very pleasant but annoying friend.

They both started to climb up the rusty old building with suction cups, hiding in the shadows so they do not get found. When they got to the top they snuck into the ventilation system and crawled through it until they heard some talking. They crawled to the area were the talking was and looked through and saw the zombie general and sargent looking at a map. It had three bases, the one they were in, one on the other side of the Mystic Forest and one 30 miles in front of the forest. They were planning to send an attack from all the bases and conquer the resistance troops once and for all. They started going the way that they came in and climbed back down the building. When they got to the ground they were spotted and they had to make a run for it. They got away from the zombie and headed back to the base to tell the news.

“Then we have to beat them first,” Jack said frustrated.

They organized their troops for the fight to take out all three building one by one. They asked the innocent if they want to train and a lot and the men said yes. Once Ed was better Jack told him to teach the men special moves and hand combat.

“How are the soldiers doing?” Jack asked 3 days latter.

“Very good, We have some very good soldiers and they have some big potential,” Ed responded harshly after getting beat by one of the soldiers.

“Lets test it out, soldiers come at me with your best,” Jack challenged them.

They all ran at him with their fists up and Jack dodged a lot of them and blocked the rest. He got them tired and then he attacked getting everyone except three of them who had hid in the back and waited for all the others get knocked out. Jack tried to attack them but then they got him from behind. It tricked Jack out and they were ready to punch him in the face when Ed told them to stop. They stopped dead and Jack got right back up after .

“Wow, I see what you mean, they are good, especially those three!” Jack said surprised how powerful they were and how they were the first people to knock him out except for  Fox or Ed. “What are their names?” Jack said questionly.

“Josh, Tiger and Liam,” he responded.

“They should come with us, so you got Tiger and Josh and I will take Liam.”

Everyone could not sleep because they were ready for the fight. The next morning the headed out the fortress with tons of good men and a few woman to help heal the hurt. They headed into the wrecked building and destroyed the door which made all the red-eyed creatures look at them and come at them but they could not do it fast as all because they were as slow as a 4 year old walking. Jack, Liam and Fox ran up to the top of the building to place the bomb down that would blow up the building and destroy all the zombies once and for all. They raced up the crooked stairs and soon they saw the zombie sargent and general.

“I got the sargent and you two get the general.” Jack said ready to fight.

They rushed toward their foes and were ready to fight.  Liam and Fox double teamed and knocked off the general and helped Jack with the  sargent. Jack punched the sargent close to the edge and Fox and Liam lifted him up and dumped him off the edge.

“Fox, you and Liam place c4’s everywhere and blow it all up. We need to get everyone out,” Jack said anxious to get this over with.

Fox and Liam did what they were told and placed the explosives everywhere and rushed everyone out. There was still a hundred or so zombies still in it and a couple soldiers dead or tons wounded. Everyone was out except for Fox, Jack and Liam. They were surrounded by zombies except for a little gap to the entrance. Liam handed Fox the destination charges and Fox told them to go told them to go. They did what they were told and ran out leaving Fox in there and was ready to press it.

“Take cover!” Jack screamed as the fortress was about to blow up. BOOOOM, pieces of rusted metal flew through the air the size of boulders that felt like when it was never going to end. When it ended 3 minutes later I screamed out forgetting what happened to Fox for a second,

“Is everyone okay from the----- NOOOO!!”

“What happened?” asked General Ed.

“It is Sergeant Fox, as I looked into the big crater in the ground I started to talk again. He did not make it out in time. He saved everyone’s life except for his own. Now that you know that we must get back to the base to help the injured,” Jack responded.

Max asked as soon they got to the base to tell them what happened during the battle and soon he realized there was no Sergeant Fox in sight.

“Where is Sergeant Fox?” Max asked ready to cry.

Jack answered his question by telling the part of the story he left out. After Jack was done Max ran away crying.

We started to plan out for attack number 2.

The Big Zipline (small moment)

By Jack Mattingly

“Dad Watch me!” I screamed through the air about thirty feet high.

My dad got out his camera from on the course and aimed it at the zipline and was ready to take the photos.

“5… 4… 3… 2… 1… GO!” My dad bellowed from the platform under me.

I jumped off the platform and sailed through the air on the zipline. It felt like I was on top of an airplane while it was 1,000 yards up in the air. My dad took three photos as I glided through the air and soon there was a big crash.

“Jack are you alright!” my dad yelled from the platform.

I answered and I said I was all right and that I just crashed into the tree. It hurt for a moment or two but because the ride was so awesome I forgot about the pain.

“That was awesome!” I yelled to my dad which seemed like a mile away because the zipline was so long it went across the whole parking lot.

“AAAAHHHH!” I yelled in fear as I almost fell off but then I remembered that I had a hanes on so I could not fall off.

Should Kids Follow Rules of Visiting House?

By Jack Rider Mattingly

I have found that kids should follow the rules at others people’s house and follow their rules whether you like them or not. Sometimes in life I forget to follow the rules at someone’s house and I end up in trouble. Many people follow the rules at another person’s houses but they do not realize how respectful they are being to their friend and their parents. My  first reason why you should follow all the rules of the person’s house you are visiting is that the person's house you are visiting has gone out of their way to make you feel welcome. My second reason why you should behave yourself at someone else's house is that you might break something valuable or important to their family doing those different rules and they might get mad at you so you will have to pay for it. My third and final reason why you should follow every single rule that the housekeeper has is that it might be disrespectful or rude to them and they will not invite you back. This is all advice you are going to see down below in these following paragraphs.

                                                                                                                                                                                            

My first reason why you should follow the rules at someone else’s house, is that the person who has invited you over and has opened their house and has gone out of their way to make feel welcome and treated like you are at your own house. For example, when I went over to Eddie’s house, his mom made us a delicious lunch of hot dogs and cantaloupe. She also made some other extremely delicious food and at least 3 glasses of milk for me to dip the cookies in scene I kept emptying the cup every ten seconds. For the awesome tasty dessert, homemade sugar cookies designed perfectly with a Christmas tree right in the middle, which tasted so good that I had ten of the best cookies I had ever put in my mouth. If Eddie’s mom can go out her way to make me homemade cookies, hot dogs, cantaloupe and tons of glasses of milk, the absolute least I could do, is be respectful of her house rules, am I right?

My second reason why you should behave yourself at someone’s house, is that  you might break something valuable by not following the house rules. If you are playing a sport like football or baseball in someone’s house, you might make a mistake and knock something over that is very valuable.  I don’t have a  thousands of dollars, or even close to that much money to pay for the valuable item that broke.  So maybe I should just follow the rules and make it easy for my bank account it let it relax. If that ever happens is that if you are playing something in the house you might accidentally break something very voluble of theirs and you might also shake the ground to much by stomping or something, so it might fall. One more thing is that you might make your friend bump into it on accident. Their parents will have to go out of there way, again to clean up the mess which would make there life harder what it is already.  You would not want to break something priceless to them, would you?

My third and final reason why you should follow the rules at someone else's house is that it might be disrespectful or really rude to them, and they might not invite you back. The TV shows you watch might be too inappropriate to their son but you get him to watch it when his parents tell you not to watch any inappropriate stuff. Also you might be disrespectful to his  parents but that does not mean you have to treat their parents badly too. Do you like Someone forcing you to watch movie or something you do not want to watch but you have to, because I would not like that and you will probably not too. One more thing is that you can say inappropriate words at your house but that does not mean you can do it at your friend's house because this will be disrespectful to them. Do you want their son to get in trouble by saying the bad words you said, would you?

I truly believe that you should behave yourself at the person’s house, who has invited you over for a few hours. You also might break something valuable for theirs, and get in trouble. The last one is it might be disrespectful to them. I hope you can see why I believe that you should follow the rules at someone else's house or you can even follow these rules at your house. If you want to get invited back, well,  follow my advice on what to do and what to try to avoid doing.