Brock King
429 Edmonds
Ketchikan, Alaska 99901
5th grade, Age 11
The Story of Mercury
Once upon a time there was a little black lab. His name was Mercury. Mercury has a red collar. Mercury is Santa’s dog; he helps the reindeer know where to fly because he knows how to talk reindeer talk. It was the day before Christmas Eve and all the elves were working very hard on the presents.
Meanwhile, there was this guy that really hated Santa with all his heart. So he made this plan……...
“Santa, Santa wake up!! We have a problem,” said Jim the head elf. “Mercury is gone” “What!? Show me the video footage.” “I know who that is,” said Santa. “It is Mr. Mean! Get me the spies!”
Meanwhile, Mr. Mean had Mercury in a cage hanging over boiling lava. Then Mercury started barking when he heard footsteps. The door busted open and five little black balls the size of bowling balls rolled in. Mr. Mean went over and poked one. It jumped up and kicked him in the stomach. One of the little black balls said, “Break”. All the black balls spread out in a circle around Mr. Mean. “Mr. Mean we have you now” said one of the black balls. Two of the black balls jumped onto Mr. Mean’s legs and one jumped on his back, the others started tying him up with magic licorice ropes. One of them jumped on the cage and unlocked the lock. He grabbed Mercury out of the cage and ran out the door. They all jumped in their car and while they were driving back to the workshop, they heard something beeping. One of the spies asked the other, “Do you hear that beeping sound?” “Yeah, I do.” Replied the other spy. “It sounds like it is coming from Mercury.” One of the spies looked at Mercury’s red collar and there was a little red flashing light on it. One of the elves took off Mercury’s collar and threw it out the window. As it fell to the ground it blew up in a black mushroom cloud. “That was a close one,” said one of the spies. “Now let’s go tell Santa the good news.”
They got to Santa’s workshop and ran up to Santa and said, “We found Mercury and Mr. Mean.” They went to the elf cops and turned in Mr. Mean. During the interrogation, that involved a lot of sugar and spice and everything nice Mr. Mean finally broke down. Mr. Mean confessed that he had been angry for years because one Christmas he had sent Santa a letter asking for a black lab and never got one. When Santa heard this, he told Mr. Mean that he had tried to deliver a puppy to him, but it was stolen from under his tree. Mercury heard the news and contacted one of his really good dog friends that had just had black lab puppies and brought one to Mr. Mean. From that day on Mr. Mean declared himself to be known as Mr. Happy and became a part of the North Pole Association.
Santa said, “Good work spies. You are going to get a raise for that!” The next day was Christmas Eve and Mercury started barking, talking to the reindeer to get ready to go. Santa started out in his sleigh to deliver his presents, with Mercury beside him.
Charlie King
429 Edmonds St.
Ketchikan, Alaska 99901
247-1989
Age 8, Grade 3
Nine Reindeer and a Bear
Once upon a time there was a bear that lived with Santa. Then one day Santa brought him to the sleigh and he wanted to see if the bear could fly. So, he said, “yah” and the bear did not move. Then Rudolph came along and the bear and Rudolph were talking to each other. Santa said, “Lets go”, all the reindeer got in line and Santa left. The bear went to see the elves. The elves were working on making jet skis that fly. The bear got on one of the jet skis and it broke. The elves were like “aaaaahhhhh” what do we do now? Santa is gone and we do not know what to do.” The elves put the bear in a cage. Cupid and Donner came back, and found the bear locked up. “Where is Santa?” asked the bear. Cupid and Donner unlocked the bear and said they had lost Santa and needed help finding him. The bear sniffed Santa’s sleigh out, and they found Prancer and Vixen, but no other reindeer and no Santa. The bear kept sniffing and found Rudolph. “Rudolph, where is Santa?” “I don’t know,” said Rudolph. Suddenly Santa appeared and said, “We need to go get the rest of the reindeer. I left them on top of a house.” Santa returned to the house and the reindeer were gone. Santa went down the chimney and found Blitzen and pulled him back up. Meanwhile, Dasher, Dancer, and Comet had found their way home to find the elves very upset about a broken flying jet ski. Lucky for them Dasher was especially good at fixing mechanics and he was able to finish the flying Jet Ski. Let’s try it out. Dasher, Dancer, and Comet all squished onto the flying Jet Ski and went racing around. Santa got tired of looking for more reindeer and started home. Right before he was about to land at the North Pole a flying jet ski ran into the side of the sleigh! Everyone fell into the snow!! Santa sat up, he had had enough!! He said, “NOW, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph line up and hook up to the sleigh we need to get some presents delivered.” Bear looked sad, as he was still unable to fly. Santa said, Bear, you can come too. Hop onto the flying Jet Ski! All the presents got delivered on Christmas.
Simon King
429 Edmonds
Ketchikan, Alaska 99901
Age 6
Grade 1
Santa’s Reindeer Helping Him on Christmas
Santa’s sleigh is broken and the elves do not have time to make a new one by Christmas. “We need to think of a way we can get these presents delivered,” said Santa. The reindeer talked it over and decided that everyone needed to work in pairs; Cupid and Blitzen, Donner and Rudolph, Dasher and Prancer, Dancer and Vixen, Comet and Santa. The elves showed up with special earpieces to fit in the reindeer’s ears so that they could communicate with each other. “Simon, you are the head elf and you will be in charge of keeping track of where everyone goes so we do not miss anyone and we get everything delivered. “Let’s head out!” Cupid and Blitzen stopped at the first house. They quickly discovered that it was not very easy getting down that chimney. With all the noise they made going down the chimney they woke up Little Bobby. When Little Bobby got up he saw the reindeer and screamed with excitement. He noticed right away the large bag of pixie dust attached to Cupid. Bobby grabbed the pixie dust and quickly put it on his head. Bobby began to fly. His dog started barking and trying to pull Bobby down. Soon Bobby was covered with dog slobber and his pixie dust didn’t work anymore. The reindeer knew they better get out of there quickly. The parents woke up in time to see Bobby covered in slobber. “I saw Santa’s reindeer and they helped me fly!” “Don’t be silly Bobby, come back to bed.” As they were heading back to bed, they heard a lot of footsteps on the roof. “I told you I saw reindeer!” They ran to the window in time to see Cupid and Blitzen fly to the next house.
Noah King
429 Edmonds St.
Ketchikan, Alaska
247-1989
Age 13, Grade 7
Dream To Fly
By Noah King
Once upon a time there was a horse, this horse had a dream of flying. But he was a horse not a reindeer so he decided to learn to write so he could write a letter to Santa. So from then on every night when the petting zoo closed he jumped the fence and went and got a pen and paper. He set the paper on the ground and tried to pick up the pen with his hoofs and so it went every night until Christmas Eve. Every night he got better and better and by Christmas Eve he could write as good as a third grader. That night after the zoo closed he jumped the fence and went around to the front where the ticket station was and where the paper would be. But today the stands door was closed and there was a lock on the door. Horse almost went bonkers because he had put in so much time and work to be able write and it was going to be for nothing, but as he thought about it he regained his composure. He wasn’t going to let all that work go to waste, so he started to run around the zoo looking for a way to break the lock. He found a pair of lock breakers, what a coincidence he thought. He grabbed it in his teeth and ran back to the lock. He had gotten fairly good at standing on two hooves, but now that he was in a hurry he couldn’t get his balance. He kept bucking up but it just wasn’t working so he told himself to calm down and to find out how he was going to balance on two hooves. So he started walking in circles. After he was calmed down he tried again. This time he got up for 15 seconds, the next time he stood up for 30 seconds, but then the lock cutters slipped and fell to the ground. He tried to grab the cutters in his hooves but he couldn’t grab them off the ground. He laid down on the ground and grabbed them in his teeth and then through them up in the air and bucked up really fast and tried to catch them. He did this for a half an hour, trying and trying. Finally he decided to take a break and go look for something else to use. He didn’t find anything so he went back to the lock cutters and tried one last time. He put the lock cutters right up to the ticket booth and bucked up. He caught the lock cutters in his hooves, pushed with all his might, and then he heard a snap. He fell back down on four feet and there it was, what he been waiting for, the lock was broken. Horse used his teeth got the lock off the door, he flung the door open, grabbed some paper and a pen, and started writing…
Dear Santa,
Please send me wings or a jet pack or something that helps me fly because flying is my dream.
Horse folded the letter up and put it in the mailbox. All of a sudden he heard something way off in the distance, it was sleigh bells. Could it be, yes it was, it was Santa. Now he could see him flying toward him. Wait, he is going to fast he can’t slow down fast enough. Santa flew right over his head. Horse, with his head hung, low started back to his pen. Just then, the sparkling sleigh with all it’s reindeer and presents flew back over the trees. It swung down and landed right next to horse and a big fat man stepped out of the sleigh and said, “Horse do you want to fly with my reindeer tonight?” Horses mouth dropped open. Then Santa said, “Wait, I almost forgot. You can’t talk.” He climbed up in his sleigh and got into his bag and grabbed a weird looking gun out of it. He shot horse with it. Horse started talking and said, “Yes I want to fly with you tonight.” So he did. The End.
The hint for this post is it has pads. Hope that helps, not Moahahahahahahahaha
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