they could say “Deoxyribonucleic Acid” they had arrived in Tobago, and sure enough the sky was blue and the sea was lovely and warm. Mr Bear told Smelly to gallop to the best hotel on the island, and when they arrived Mr Bear purchased all the rooms in the hotel, leaving only the broom cupboard under the stairs.
Bluebelle arrived the very next day in her Ulsterbus, and she was not very impressed with her room. It was very small, it had no windows, and it smelt of cleaning products. Bluebelle immediately complained, and asked for another room, but unfortunately Mr Bear had already overspent Bluebelle’s credit limit on her credit card, so Bluebelle was really stuck. She wearily moved into the broom cupboard, and tried to cry herself to sleep standing up beside the vacuum cleaner.
Mr Bear and Mrs Ted knocked on Bluebelle’s door. When she answered, she could hardly believe her sore and swollen little eyes (Bluebelle was allergic to cleaning products). “Mr Bear, Mrs Ted! How did you get here? I thought I left you at home in the magical mountains of Magherafelt.” she exclaimed.
Mr Bear raised himself up to his full height of 32.5 centimetres (he was wearing his extra-high-heeled shoes), and peering into the room he quickly realised exactly what was going on....
“Ha-Ha!” he scoffed, “Just as I suspected, you, you, you.......” he struggled to find a suitably unpleasant word to describe Bluebelle, “You indescribably unpleasant person.”
Mr Bear pushed past Bluebelle into the darkness of the broom cupboard, and grasped another teddy by his little washing instruction label. “Uh-Huh! So who is THIS?”
Bluebelle was lost for words. She had been found out, and she was so ashamed. “This is Mr Cuddles, my new teddy,” she blurted.
“But,..... WHY?” cried Mr Bear, distinctly disappointed by Bluebelle’s deceptive dishonesty, disloyalty, (and strong smell of disinfectants).
“Well,” explained Bluebelle, “Mr Cuddles comes with washable acrylic fur, CE approved glass eyes, and a hot water bottle compartment. I didn’t want to upset you, Mr Bear, but Mr Cuddles is much better than you are,….. and he comes with a ten year warranty.”
“And what am I to do?” Mr Bear asked with a broken heart, “Am I destined to dig ditches in Dundonald?”
“NO!” boomed a voice from the corridor. Mr Bear and Mrs Ted spun round to see who was there. A tall policeman with fancy reflective sunglasses stood blocking their escape, “No, Mr Bear. I expect you to go to prison for a very long time, you wicked little furball,” he continued, “And anything you say will be taken down and used in evidence against you.”
“Trousers!” shouted Mrs Ted, and the pair of bears ran past the fumbling policeman as his trousers slipped to his ankles.
But it was no use, Mr Bear realised that even if he did escape, things would never be the same, ever again.
Needless to say, nobody lived happily ever after. Mr Bear was locked up in a horrible prison and was forced to eat porridge, which made him incredibly fat (because teddies don’t have digestive systems). And Bluebelle and Annabelle had to swim all the way home, and returned to such an enormous credit card bill that they had to increase the taxes, which caused all the people of Magherafelt to revolt (and the people of Magherafelt can be really revolting). And so the princesses were expelled to live in a caravan on the windswept land of woe and despair that is called Ballywalter.
Oh, hang on a minute..... Did I say that no one lived happily ever after? I forgot to tell you that Mrs Ted and Mr Cuddles eloped to live on a little pink boat, which they happily sailed from island to little island in the peaceful waters of Strangford Lough, and they lived very happily ever after, (yes, even after Mr Cuddle’s ten year warranty had expired).
The Spooky Forest by Bowen
Once upon a time there was a little boy called Sam who said to his mummy, "Can I go in to that forest over there."
His mum said No, but Sam thought she said Yes.
Sam ran into the forest. His mum shouted "No No No!" but Sam still didn't hear her.
Then Sam realised that he couldn't get out of the forest, "Oh no!" cried Sam, “What have I done?”
Sam couldn't get out because there was a force field around the forest. Sam heard his mum crying, "No, no, no.”
Sam had a wee walk around the forest and he heard a tree talking, the tree was a nasty tree, so he hid behind another tree. And then he realised that all the trees where nasty.
Suddenly a boy appeared, he was a good boy, and Sam could tell that he was a good boy because he had cleaned his teeth and brushed his hair.
The good boy was called Niall. Niall had super-powers so that he could do anything. Niall gave Sam half of his super-powers, and kept the other half for himself.
Niall told Sam that there were more super-powers in the forest, and if Sam could help him find the super-powers then they would both be really super-duper.
Niall said, “If we can find the forest dragon then we can take his super-powers, and then we can make all the nasty stuff be dead, and then you can get home, and the forest will turn in to a zoo.”
“Oh!” Sam said, "When I grow up I want to be a zoo keeper, so that would be very nice.”
Niall said, “I live in this forest, and the force field won't let me out.” Niall gave Sam a magic wand, because he forgot to give him it earlier. Niall told Sam to wave the wand and say “Magic, magic”, and then make a wish.
So Sam said, “Magic, magic: turn that tree in to a tent.”
“Oh? Why didn’t I think of that?” Said Niall.
That night Sam could hear something and Niall could hear something. At the same time they sneaked out very quietly, but before they got out they both knew it was the dragon.
The dragon had the last super-power that Sam and Niall were searching for, so they would have to kill the dragon to get the super-power.
Sam waved his wand and said, “Magic, magic: give Sam and Niall an invisible force field.”
“Oh. That’s a good idea,” said Niall, “I wish I’d thought of that because I always had to hide in a stinky cave.”
Sam said, "When is it morning it will be better because I can't see that much because it’s dark, and I'm tired anyway."
That night Sam had a good idea. When he woke up, Sam said, “Magic, magic: make the dragon dead.”
The dragon died.
Niall said, “Oh! I wish I’d thought of that.”
So the dragon was gone, and the spooky forest turned into a lovely zoo, and Sam became the zoo-keeper.
But all the super-powers that Sam had were all used up by turning the forest into the zoo, so Sam wasn’t super anymore.
“Oh No!” cried Sam, “I don’t have any super-powers, and there is a thief coming who might steal
