Top of the North Pole Nadia Shiwdin Creative writing 10-3-03

The cold pinched my face and the rest of my body that was exposed. The sound of the wind blowing could be heard. The white terrain went on, and on so that my eyes couldn't see the end. Then, I began to walk across this cold and barren place. After what seemed any endless walk I finally saw something that wasn't white. What I saw was red. As I walked closer and closer to the red object dull outline of things that were standing next to it began to form. As I got closer and closer the outlines began to get darker. Finally I got to the red spot and what I saw was gruesome. I saw a pack of arctic wolves' eating out of a dead and bloody carcass. I was glad my nose was frozen because just seeing the bloody carcass was nasty. I was getting ready to turn around and run when one of the wolves spotted me. Its snow-white fur was stained with blood from its prey. It's eyes glared at me hungrily, and its mouth hung open filled with drool. It then let out a blood-curling howl and started snarling at me. Then its companions turned toward me and gave me the same hungry look. Their faces said that I was food so I began to run. I could taste the fear in my whole body it was what kept me running. I ran so fast that everything was just a blur to me, but I thought I saw a red and white pole when I was running. The loud patter of the packs' footsteps followed my footsteps; I also heard my heart beating like a drum. I turned around to see if the wolves were catching up to me when I bumped into something soft like a pillow and fell down. The last thing I remember before it went blank was a pair a black boots. When I woke up I was in a big red couch with a soft and warm blanket around me. "So you are wake?" said a man's booming but gentle voice. "Yes" I said in a cold and frost bitten voice.
Then the man who had asked me that stepped into the light, and I gasped with surprise.
"Sssssanta?" I mumbled. "Ohohohoho," laughed the man in a jolly voice, "yes, of course child who were you expecting, the Easter rabbit?"
"Nnnnnoo sir," said while my teeth banged together. Then Santa handed me some good smelling hot chocolate in a mug and said "Child I think that I should bring you home soon."
I was to busy drink the warm, hot and tasty hot chocolate to answer. Also my loud sips made it hard to hear what Santa had said. Then Santa walked out the door to fix his sled to give me a ride back to my house. I was then I began to look around Santa's room. There was a Christmas tree in the middle of the room with Santa's red sack under it, and a fire place rigth in back of the tree. The fireplace had been lit before I came so it was a roaring fire that seemed unstoppable. In a little corner of the room there was a desk and on the desk was Santa's newly half-finished list. I smelt the ink that was used for the list. Finally next to my couch there was a table with my empty mug.
Then Santa came back in from out side and told me that every thing was ready so, that I could go home. I then got up off the couch and followed Santa into the sled that was going to be flown by two beautiful reindeers. The reindeers had bells on there necks and whenever they moved it made a jingle sound. When I was in air I began to get very dizzy and sleepy, and soon my eyes began to close. When my eyes opened again I was in my room and Santa and the reindeers that brought me here were gone. I quickly looked out the window and there was no one there. So, I told myself that I must have been a dream and drifted back to sleep.