Anneliese and the Quest for Freedom
By: Joanne Mercer
Illustrated by: Joanne Mercer
One day on the beautiful island of Zobania, there lived a race of people called the Zobonian tribe. They had a lovely queen named Serephina, and a princess named Anneliese. Zobonia had a variety of beautiful trees, animals, and plants. But most of all, they treasured three different things. The beautiful diamond mine, Mt. Zargona, and the spirit of their island. While the Queen ruled the island, Anneliese took a visit to the different parts on the island. First, she visited Darby at sunshine meadows. Second, she visited Jose at baseball lane. Third, she visited Myra at dancing drive. Fourth, she visited Chris (commonly known as "Starr")
up in the moonlight sky. Fifth, she
visited Sammy in Zobania
Falls. Sixth, she went back
to dancing drive to see Bobby,
who was in charge of hip-hop.
Finally, she went to sour woods
to peer at the wicked twin pixies,
Ben and Veronica, who would later devise a
Plan against the Zobonians.
"And that's what I saw Ben and Veronica doing!"
Anneliese said to Chris, "Well, by calculating their doings inside my brain, I would say they were plotting
Something against us all as you watched them, Anneliese!"
"Then we must tell my mother right away." Anneliese exclaimed. Later that month, Ben and Veronica silently
stole away from their home to gather troops for the upcoming battle, and all the while Anneliese did the same.
She gathered some lightning bugs from sunshine meadows, gathered moonbeams from the starry sky, borrowed magic shoes from dancing drive, borrowed forty bats and balls, and gathered one hundred buckets worth of water.
Finally, on the one hundredth day of the year, Queen Serephina sent out the army for her kingdom, the Zobonians, on a quest for freedom with Anneliese as their
leader. Weapons pointed high,
The Zobonians fired the first
weapons that started what
is now called "The Quest
for Freedom." With Ben
and Veronica as the leaders
of the Hingot army, every
tree, plant, animal, pixie,
even princesses from far away kingdoms
under their command had either Ben or
Veronica telling them where to go and what to do.
At the first sign of weakness, the Hingot
Army chased them out of the field, but
most stayed behind to continue fighting.
Anneliese silently watched the
souls of those who had died evaporate
to the sky where Chris lived, where
they then would be either punished for sins
or sent back to their bodies until
they turned to dust. After that, Anneliese ran
through the woods to find their last hope,
Max. Max was a kind elderly man
Who had arrived in the country the
day Anneliese was born. Anneliese asked if their was any way that he could help them. "I'll see what I can do, and I know that there is something that could do
it over here in this shelf.." Max said, "Nope. That's paprika. Nope. That's a snake. Nope. That's
cousin Billy. Aha! Here is the recipe!" Max then explained that to win the war,
they had to believe that
they could do it
and they would succeed.
So Anneliese did what she
Had been told, and the
Zobonians won! Frightened screams
arose from the other side of the field
as scared Hingot troops ran to the
woods, except for Ben and Veronica.
Angrily, Veronica flashed a sword as
Piercing as the moonbeams that
danced in the sky at Anneliese!
Skillfully, Anneliese fought back with the bit of magic she still had left, and that was the magic of spirit. They finally
battled each other until they reached the cliff
on Western Zobonia. "Say goodbye to your little country,
princess!" Veronica said. And with that, everybody thought that their princess would
die, but Anneliese skillfully fought back,
and sent Ben and Veronica tumbling
down the side of the cliff, never to be seen again.
A grand parade and a celebration were held the following week in honor of Anneliese's brave effort in the quest for freedom. For their thankfulness towards those who had fought for their freedom, they built monuments
That now lye on Easter Island called
Tiki heads. Nearly 1,000 years later, Anneliese was married to Chris, and they had two children named Holly and Max. But their story does not need to be told right know. And this story is the beginning of the first of many stories of Zobonia. Just remember: Zobonia is a secret between you and me!
The
End
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