Murderer of Footballtesia
by Shristi
It was a mostly regular Sunday in the city of Footballtesia, but the Superball LIV was going on! My friends--Elisha, Gayatri, and Yamini--and I were in my treehouse watching TV and eating chips and salsa. But suddenly the news reporter said that Turner Will has just been murdered. I got up to get a snack, but I fainted.
When I was sleeping, I heard a voice. It sounded like, “Albus.”
I screamed. My friends were right beside me.
Elisha asked, “What happened?”
Gayatri asked, “Why did you say Albus?”
I fell right back to sleep. I kept dreaming of this wizard but I felt this thing, and it wasn’t a good thing. A few hours later, I woke up.
My friend Elisha was beside me. I knew she would be there because I have known her since pre-school. She was holding a bowl of chips. Then I told Elisha that there is a wizard popping up in my dreams, and he is saying that I must save Turner Will. I have the tool.
Elisha asked, “What must it be?”
Yamini and Gayatri walked in and asked, “What happened?”
“There is a tool and I have got it,” I said.
Elisha said, “She keeps seeing a wizard in her dreams who is saying Siya has the tool to save Turner Will.”
Yamini said, “It must be your necklace!”
Something started to glow. I picked up my necklace, and a hologram was shining on the wall. It was a wizard and a unicorn calling from somewhere.
I said, “You were the man in my dreams.”
The wizard said, “Yes, I am Albus Ford, and yes, I am a wizard.”
Gayatri asked, “Who is the animal behind you?”
The wizard said, “This is my unicorn, Luna. I am here because Turner Will was murdered by my brother Naveen Ford.”
Yamini asked, “So we use the necklace to help us bring back Turner Will?”
“Yes indeed,” said the wizard, “but you must be very …”
“Let’s go,” I said to the others.
“Careful,” the wizard whispered to himself.
“Where do we go?” asked Gayatri.
“Go to the dark forest,” said the wizard.
Meanwhile…
“We are expecting visitors,” said Naveen.
“Who?” asked Tanish.
“Looks like… a few girls,” said Naveen.
“I can handle them while you go and murder more football legends,” said Tanish.
“Sure,” said Naveen. “They’re here. Go!”
“We’re here”, said Elisha.
“Stop right there,” said Tanish.
“Whatever,” I said. “I’ll just… OW!”
“Siya, Siya, SIYA,” screamed Elisha.
“She’s dead,” said Gayatri.
“I’ll take that necklace,” said Tanish.
“No. Run!” yelled Yamini.
A few hours later…
“Let’s use Siya’s necklace to save her. It's our only hope,” said Elisha.
“Yeah”, said Gayatri and Yamini.
“Let’s go”, said Yamini.
A few months later…
“Oh my God, Elisha Green just made a hi-tech design of a new mansion in Japan,” said a man reading a newspaper. “I must go to Japan.”
In Japan...
“Aryan, go and get the other workers,” said Elisha. “I will be on a break.”
“Yes, mam,” said Aryan.
“Wait, Aryan, I...can I talk to you?” asked Elisha.
“Sure. What do you want to talk about?” asked Aryan.
“Over tea at 5:30 p.m. Be there,” said Elisha.
At 5:30 p.m.…
“Ok, what did you want to ask me?” asked Aryan.
“Albus, is that you?” asked Elisha.
“...Y… Yes,” said Aryan, “You are getting your memory back. Don’t you remember Siya, Gayatri, and Yamini?”
“Yes,” said Elisha, really excited. “How did this happen?” she asked.
Albus said, “When you and your friends went back to save Siya, Tanish put a memory loss spell on all of you.”
“We must go and find them, let’s go and get Siya first.”
“Here. Take this cream and Siya’s necklace. The necklace will save Siya, and the cream will reverse the memory spell. When you are there, put it on their foreheads,” said Albus.
“Ok,” said Elisha running off into the dark forest…
“Where are you, where are you, … there you are,” said Elisha. She put the necklace on my neck.
“Where am I?” I asked.
“Come on,” said Elisha.
We hurried to California. There we saw Yamini and ran up to her and put the healing cream on her forehead. Yamini hugged us. We all realized we still needed Gayatri, so we went to Russia.
“Be quiet. She is performing,” said Yamini.
“Ok," Elisha and I said. After the dance performance, we went up to her and put the healing cream on her forehead. She hugged us.
We all knew that we had to do something, so we headed back to the dark forest. On the way, Albus gave all of us wands. We went to Naveen Ford’s castle. When we got there, we saw Naveen Ford and Tanish waiting for us. I told Gayatri and Yamini to take care of Tanish and me, and Elisha would take care of Naveen.
We fought all day and night. Finally I got so close that I got hold of the football diamond, the thing that Naveen used to murder Turner Will! But Naveen got in my way. I finally had to say a spell, holding up my wand, to kill him. There was silence in the room. Naveen was dead, I grabbed the diamond and ran outside. Then as soon as the sun rose, we saw all the football legends Naveen had murdered! We were all amazed by what had happened. Best of all, I got Turner Will’s autograph! The only thing is we haven’t found out the motive of Naveen Ford. Why did he really want to murder all the football legends?
Shristi
Author, age 11
I was inspired to write this story because I really like football and fantasy. Stories usually have one conflict, I wanted to try two conflicts in a story. Also I wanted to see what would happen if I played with the past and future and made a story. I also really like to read sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery fiction stories. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I had writing it! The Young Authors Studio workshop and the website were of great help.