THE LONE Spider
By Max Xu
There once there was a spider, but not an ordinary spider. This spider had a mission and that was to find out why he had a heart on his back. He would spend hours and hours to find out.
One day he said, "I am going on a journey to find out how I got a heart on my back".
So he prepared for his journey. He packed a hat, journal, paper, food, a large water bottle, flint and steel and a sleeping bag.
He thought he was ready but he said, "I'm missing something". Then he remembered what it was: it was his precious star saying "I'm a lone spider". He put it on and headed out. The road was dark and dusty he just ignored it and kept going.
By sundown the spider set up camp on a hill. There was no green to be seen. The foods he brought were beans, jerky, can of peaches, fried and salted fish, and 29 candy bars.
He quickly ate some of his jerky and saved the rest. Then he made the fire and carefully went into his sleeping bag and slept…Then he heard a sound, he quickly got out of his sleeping bag to see what it was. It sounded like a mustang. He thought to himself, "I could get myself a horse".
He carefully approached the mustang. Slowly he touched the mustang mane. The mustang snorted, like it was saying "Ride me". I quickly packed up and jumped on the mustang and rode off …
When we were on the road we spotted lots of cacti. We avoided some, but not all cactus's the mustang I named Seeker. But Seeker was tough and just ignored it like me. When we reached the end of the road, there was a sign that said THE START OF A LONG LUSH JUNGLE. So off we went. The way was hard at first, but got easier as we rode deeper. There were tons of insects and most were very small. When night fell we set up camp. We are almost through the jungle. When we ate, I gave him a little bit of peach and a lot of water. We slept really fast because we were so worn out. After I got into my sleeping bag, I fell asleep the second I got in there. The night was warm and the music of the birds made it better.
The next day when we woke up, we had breakfast Seeker had a salted fish and some nontoxic plants growing nearby. The journey now felt like a quest, because there were so many parts! I packed up and jumped on Seekers back and rode off
When we did get to the end of the forest there was a sign that said The Main land of Spiders. I was so excited. I rode through the gate and took a look at it. It was a large town. There were many different shops. Some of the shops were Drake's buffet, Coco's Ice cream shop; Steve's barber shop and a lot more. There were a lot of spiders, too. Some had black bodies, some white some blue and lots more colors.
But there was a store that caught my eye it was Don's test area. I went inside and I saw don I asked," Do you why I have a heart on my back".
Don said, "I am your cousin and I know the answer."
I said, "What is the answer!"
Don said, "Well, your dad was a police guard and some day some one put a sticker on his back and he did not know. Then he found an orphan that was you and put the sticker on the orphans back and then when he grew up he had it for the rest of his life".
I said, "Thanks for telling me" also I said, "Can I live in this area". Don said, "Sure".
So this is the end of the story The Lone Spider.