Jaime's magical adventures

Magical Animals

There once was a boy named Jaime.

He was a bright child.

"I wish I could fly" Said Jaime to himself one day.

"Fly high above the sky."

As he slept that night a wonderful thing happened.

Jaime became a bird.

He saw himself soar high above the clouds.

Up, up and up He went, higher and higher up into the clouds.

Oh how wonderful He felt.

The next morning He was so excited.

" I flew, " He told his Mother in excitement.

"Yes Dear" she said distracted as She prepared his breakfast.

"I would fly again tonight," He thought to himself, and that night He quickly went to bed excited at the prospect of another wonderful adventure.

But alas, nothing happened.

The next morning He woke up so disappointed and wondering what went wrong reluctantly went to school.

" Oh why didn't I fly?" He thought in despair.

That night as He prepared for bed He was convinced that He would fly again but, the next morning He woke up and nothing had happened.

A few weeks later He was playing in the yard with his dog Roger and a furry squirrel ran past.

" I wish I could run as fast as a squirrel," He said to himself admiring the speed of the animal and then continued playing with Roger.

That night a wonderful thing happened when he fell asleep, he woke up in a squirrel's burrow. It was an interesting place with new smells, delicious nuts all gathered up for winter and lots of space to run around.

He ran about in excitement nuzzling everything around him, hopping around and sniffing the nuts. He must have fallen asleep in exhaustion because the next morning he woke up in his own bed.

" I was a squirrel Mom," He told his Mother in excitement.

" Yes Dear" She said as she buttered his scone.

"He has such an active imagination," She thought to herself as she put his lunch in his lunch box.

Jaime thought of both times he had become beautiful animals in his dreams and tried to find out what was common in both cases.

He thought of what he had said or done differently and remembered the words he had uttered out loud.

"I wish, ..." he had said and his wish had come true.

" Those are the magic words," He thought.

And magic words they were indeed.

You see Jaime was in a special boy, one of those lucky boys whose belief in possibilities made his dreams come true.

Excited at this newfound knowledge Jaime wondered at the animals he could be, places he could go or things he could do if he just believed.

I would like to be a snake he thought to himself but he didn't want to waste his wishes just yet.

"Maybe a Lion" he thought to himself again but shivered at the thought of the scary big cat.

Then he thought of his lovely Dog Roger,

" I know " he yelled suddenly " I wish I could be a Dog"

And as he prepared for bed he shivered slightly at the thought of the great adventure.

Jaime woke up that night and didn't know quite where he was.

He looked around curiously but couldn't see quite clearly because it was quite dark, as his eyes adjusted to the dim light he realized that he was in a big cage. Shocked he tried to get out of the cage but it seemed to be locked.

He tried rolling the cage over and after he had exhausted himself from his numerous attempts he noticed that there were other cages in the big dark room.

There were four other cages in total and he could hear whimpers coming from them.

"Is anyone there" he said and was surprised at the sound of the loud bark that came out instead.

The whimpers stopped and he heard footsteps outside the cage.

" Stop that rattling Mutt" a grumpy male voice yelled.

Suddenly Jaime saw a door open at the end of the room and light flooded the room as the man switched on a bare light bulb, Jaime watched fearfully as a tall strongly built scruffy looking man stomped into the room.

The man walked over to the cage that Jaime was locked in and the kicked the cage, Jaime shrank back in fear.

The man laughed out loud as the frightened Dog

Jaime was frightened but he only barked louder.

The Man leant down and using a whip struck the cage

" I wont tell you again," The scruffy Man threatened as he walked away.

Jaime cowered deeper into the cage and sat on his hind legs.

He recognized the whimpers as those of other Dogs and realized that they were all trapped too.

" I have to help them, " he thought to himself.

The mean man left the room and Jaime tried to think of a way to escape.

He noticed that the cage was only shut tightly and not locked, so he rocked it till it fell to the side and popped open.

Quickly running over to the other dogs he nudged the cages till they fell to the side and popped open, when he was on the fourth cage he heard the door open.

He looked up at the shadow of the huge man, which filled the doorway and whimpered in fear

" I would get you Mutt," The man bellowed loudly and he ran forward.

Jaime darted to the left quickly and avoided him the man, the man stumbled on an open cage and fell.

Quick as lightning all the Dogs ran over him and out the door.

They raced over the grass and across a yard, past a small pond and out into the empty country road.

After a little while they slowed down and stopped running.

"I am glad we made it" Jaime barked in relief.

He was surprised when another Dog, a beautiful Big Golden retriever stepped forward and said

"Many thanks good friend".

Jaime was surprised that he could understand the Dog's loud bark and watched in wonder as all the Dogs turned and raced off into the night.

Jaime laid down in exhaustion to rest and must have dozed off because He woke up the next morning amazed at the great adventure.

He quickly got dressed and ran down the stairs, he saw his dog Roger and hugged him as he went in to the Kitchen for breakfast.

" I had the best adventure last night" He told her in excitement as he sat down to eat his pancakes.

" Lovely dear" She responded as she watched the morning news.

The reporter on the television was telling the story of a man who was guilty of stealing show dogs and who had been caught that morning.

" The suspect Mr. Quinn Kimble, was caught when the kidnapped Dogs led their owner and the Police to this location" The reporter said and the house where Jaime was the night before came on the screen.

" Wow" Jaime thought to himself, " it really did happen"

He watched the excited Dogs being embraced by their relieved owners and smiled at the joy on their faces.