Y5-+Cody+C.

Cody's Page  //Hi my name is Cody I'm in fifth grade Yargo Scope. I am excited to be writing with you and doing this creative writing with you guys! I've never done writing with people half way around the flat world! My favorite sport is Baseball. I hope that this goes well! // My Challenge (first draft)

It all started as a normal day in sunny Flordia when a Bright light suddenly shined and went away, but I thought It was the neighbors car at first but then it apeared again. "The neighbors would only do that if they forgot something," I told Tommy, my little brother. The Roberts weren't that fast on their feet or well bright enough to notice that right away so I thought there must have been something wrong. In a flash the light was back. "Tommy hurry go get inside!" I yelled. There was something wrong and what it was I had no idea what was coming or when it was coming. When I got inside I noticed no one was there not even Tommy who I just saw go in. The door creaked behind me the only thing I heard was the fossit running and mom always turned that water off. Maybe its just a bad dream I thought to myself but that was as if life was a box of chocolates nothing was as you dreamed it to be. I knew this was more than a dream I knew this as a real life problem, one that I had to face. One only I could face. I slept alone in my house that night I woke up knowing for sure this was not a dream. My families life might depend all on me one wrong move could send them into their death. The thought sent shivers down my spine, trembling I walked outside to see a yard of black, soot covered, and only half of what it used to be. The yard was completely burned I looked 360 and it was only my yard! I fell to my knees crying I flooded the yard. In a small corner I saw the purple flower my dad gave to my mom for her birthday. "That flower is just as strong as me!" I thought that gave me the power I needed to get through this. I went inside and got dressed the sun beaming in my window, I started thinking this has to be more than human power it has to be other worldly. "Aliens ha! No such thing!" I cried. I was scared my greatest fear was in front of me now, there was apicture of my family on my bed. On the back it read "If you want your family come and find them!" Then there was a riddle " Under wood they seem to lay hurry or it will come to your dismay." I thought no, no ,no its not happening!!!! My family is gone and it's up to me I have to find out what this riddle meant, but how? The riddle was confusing, under wood? Wheres the wood? My mind just kept racing. I suddenly thought dad's wood pile! I ran to the back yard only to find it was all burned too. I ran to where the charred wood was, I lit up when I saw Tommy. "Where's mom and dad?" I asked Tommy. He didn't know he saw them last but where they were was a mystery. "Come on Tommy," I told him. I thought there, was my answer dad's lumber yard!!!! "Come on big brother," Tommy told me. He was younger but he knew the shortcut better than me. We went through the woods and over the bridge then right in front of me on the luber cutter they were tied onto a log. I ran, but Tommy broke down crying. I tried to push the log but I couldn't. I took my pocket knife and cut the ropes they jumped off and we all took a long time to hug each other. There was my other answer, I found the light it was a saucer a flying saucer. It took off in a flash and that was the last I saw of it.