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Venezuela By: Tania One day a little girl was sitting high on a palm tree on her favorite beach. She was watching as her brother and twin sister where making sand castles on the white sand and putting gleaming shells on the top of them and going in the clear turquoise water. Then Daphney (that was her name) went back to reading her book. 20 minutes later she heard someone calling her; it was her mom saying it was time to go home.” But mom, I really want to stay" complained Daphney. "Let’s go" exclaimed her mother Maria. When they got home Tania (her sister) asked Daphney to play with her but Daphney simply wanted to read and she had to enjoy it because she wouldn’t be reading in a long time. Early the next morning she heard a voice. It was sweet and calm but it didn’t sound like anyone Daphne knew. Could it be Tom and Tania trying to bother her? (Tom was Daphney’s 9 year old brother; he was one year younger than her.) She glanced at the to beds right next to her Tom and Tania were still asleep. But whose was this voice? "Tania, Tom" whispered Daphney." What do you want Daphney" Tania asked madly. “Only ten more minutes" said Tom. “Wake up, now" exclaimed Daphney! "Tania did you hear that”, interrogated Daphney?" Hear what", asked Tania back. What was that strong voice? Daphney looked out the window, everything was normal, except for one thing, there was a shiny golden spot right there by the tree. Daphney went outside and examined the golden spot that grew every second that passed. It seemed to be making a shape. A horse but not any kind of horse, a big and strong one. Then she heard the voice again. But it wasn’t far away, it seemed like the horse was speaking. Could it be, was the horse really speaking to her, but what was he saying? Then it started to make sense. He seemed to be saying, "look in the cave were the rock lies in piece and release the power in it”. But what did this mean? Daphney thought about it some time and found the answer, the myth of the rock in the cave. The myth said there was once a magic rock in the prettiest beach in Venezuela. (Witch was Daphney´s favorite beach.)There lied a magic rock with the most wanted power of all: limitless powers for the person who owned it. Only one person could find it and reales it’s power. People of all ages had been looking for it for centuries with no success, so how was she supposed to do it. Days and weeks went by and there was no sing of the golden horse. On Daphey and Tania’s birthday the horse appeared again and repeated it’s message but this he left a map, but the map couldn’t be seen by anyone that wasn’t Tania, Tom or Daphney. On the weekend they went to the same beach they had gone 1 month before and this time they didn’t make castles or read books or swim. But they found the cave. They went through the small hallways and under big rocks until they saw a huge gleaming light at the end of the longest hallway: had they found the rock, where they about to discover the most wanted object ever? As they came closer and closer they had more and more questions that wouldn’t be answered, or that’s what they thought. Suddenly they stopped moving and no matter what they did they couldn’t move forward. Than a spot of light could be seen in the middle of the dark dark hallway. It seemed like a star falling from the sky at first but then it made the shape of an old man. As he got closer and closer the children were more and more scared. At last the old man reached the children and asked for a cup of water, his voice was old and tired. Tom ran back to were Maria (his mother) was and came back with a cup of cold, icy water. The old man thanked Tom and drank the cup of water, some seconds after that he turned into a young man who said he was a wizard and to reward Tom he let him go to the rock but before that he told Tom to only take a few steps and wait for the rest of them. Soon after that came a hungry little girl who said she was starving. Daphney dashed back to where Maria was without thinking about it first. She came back with a ham and cheese sandwich, the girl ate half of it and put the rest in her pocket. Then she asked Daphney if there was anything she could do to thank her but Daphney didn’t ask for anything at all. Then she started to walk away and Daphney didn’t notice she too could walk some more but she didn’t want to leave her sister alone in the ghostly darkness. Then came an old woman who said she was hurt, Tania dashed back to her mother and came back with the emergency kit. The woman thanked the two girls and left. Then they noticed they could move forward but their brother wasn’t. there and his foot prints clearly showed more than a few steps .Then the horse appeared and told them that their brother was trapped. They walked and walked for a long time until they found him, he was besides a huge monster with big antennas and spooky eyes. They tricked him into drinking a sleeping drink and they took Tom back with them .Then they grabbed the rock and only used the powers it gave them for good things (like giving people food and water, homes, ending wars, etc.) .When they didn’t have anything to do they enjoyed the beauty of their beloved country. They talked to their kind friends, had fun in the beaches, enjoyed the year round warm climate, they climbed mountains and did many other special things you can only do in one place out of the whole world, Venezuela.

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