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THE BOY WHO
CAN SEE THE FUTURE

by

Tyler Storm Arial



Chapter 1: The Cave

Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived with his parents in the woods. There was something very special about this boy. This boy was only born yesterday, and his parents found out how special he was. When he was born his first word was "Michael." When his parents heard that exact same word, they didn't know how he knew to talk at such an early age. Finally, they named him Michael, just like he said.

Nine years had past and one day Michael was taking a walk in the woods. He came to a cave between some old dead trees, and inside a wooden gate. Michael became curious and did "little by little" steps through the gate, but accidentally stepped on a twig and cracked it. He hoped no one heard him and he kept on walking until he reached the door. He slightly pushed the door open. Inside he saw spider-webs, bats, three little stones inside a glass case, a fireplace, and one table with one wand. Michael was going to touch the stone when he heard a voice yell. "DON'T TOUCH," the voice commanded. Michael jumped back in a terrible shock and tripped over the stone floor with a big B0000000M! Suddenly, he got up and saw a shadow. It looked as if it was wearing a long cloak with droopy sleeve and a long pointy hat. Then someone stepped out of the shadows. Michael gave an enormous gasp. "Do not be afraid," said the man. Then he told Michael to sit down at tne table. Michael got scared and didn't know what was going to happen. Suddenly the man in the blue cloak picked up his wand and told Michael that when Michael was born he made him talk. At that moment, Michael knew that this man was a wizard.

All of a sudden, Michael woke up and saw he was in bed at 1:00 A.M. He got up and got dressed. Then in his mind, he saw himself running in the woods being chased by a flock of wolves. He opened his eyes and ran outside to see the wizard he saw, or he thought he saw. While he was running he heard a growl behind him, he turned around and saw all black. The only thing he could see was two blood-red eyes in the shadows. Then the same wolf that he saw in his mind was there. He took off in a flash and started running. Then he saw a flash of green light and saw himself practicing magic. He saw another flash and saw he was still running in the woods until he came tc the cave, pushed it open and slipped inside. The first thing Michael saw was the wizard lifting up the three stones with his wand and saw that the stones were to spy on Michael Then the wizard looked at Michael in shock and pointed his wand at him sending a bolt of lightning out of the tip. Michael ducked before it could hit him. Then Michael saw another wand at the far table. He ran over to the table but another lightning bolt shot out. Michael ducked once more but it hit one of the stones and destroyed it. Then the wizard made one more shot and accidentally hit the wand. It fell out of the jar and landed beside Michael. Michael picked up the wand and threw it at the wizard and he disappeared in dust. Michael took some or tne wizard's stuff home. For five days, Michael practiced his magic. Michael soon knew how to pick things up without his hands, read peoples minds, and do one thing and another at the same time, but most of all he could see the future.

Chapter 2: The Vanishings

Michael kept on practicing until he was ten years old. He did magic and was very good at it. One day he was in bed sleeping when he heard his alarm ring. It scared him so bad that he fell out of bed. He jumped up and put his hand out facing his closet. Suddenly the doors swung open and his clothes flew into his hands. He put them on an4 ran downstairs for breakfast. He had scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, and toast. He ate everything and ran outside. No one had noticed that Michael had his wand under his sleeve. When he got outside he took his wand and waved it around. Suddenly he began to rise off the ground and took off into the sky. Then he saw a flash of green light and saw himself fighting the same wizard he had killed. He saw the same light again and saw that he was still flying in the air when he noticed that he was about to hit the cave. All of a sudden he turned in a heartbeat back to the cave and opened the stone door. Inside he saw nothing but cobwebs, and spiders everywhere. Then the spiders crawled onto each other and made the shape of the wizard. Then they burst into flames and there in front of Michael was the wizard that he killed! The cave started to rumble and things started to vanish until the wizard and Michael were both in the woods alone.Then out of the shadows stood the wolf beside the wizard! The wolfjumped on Michael and started biting him. He threw him off and tripped on a rock. Then the wolf jumped on Michael again, he threw the wolf to a tree, and the wolf vanished as well.

"You've done well," said the wizard, "You have taken most of my power." Then he put up his hand and Michael flew back into a thorn bush, got up quickly and ran home. While he was running, he didn't notice it but the scars started to heal. When Michael got home all his magical things suddenly disappeared.

Chapter 3: Spirits Within

The next morning, he woke up by the sound of a bowl breaking. He got up, ran to the kitchen, and saw things floating around with no one holding them. Then they all fell to the ground. He ran to his room and locked the door, but things were floating around in his room too. He ran around the house but everything was floating around. So he ran outside far away from the house. Then he felt a breeze around him and the ground started to rumble. Michael ran to where the cave was but it wasn't there. Then the ground started to split apart and Michael fell into a crack. When he woke up, he felt spiders crawling on him. He jumped up and saw a bat in front of him. It scared him so bad that he tripped on the floor and then realized that the bat was the wizard. Michael got up and saw a sword on the wall. Then the wizard said, "I have trapped you in my hide out and now I am going to lock you in tne dungeon forever!" Michael put his hand out, the sword flew into his hand, and he stabbed the sword into the wizard. Then the ground started to rumble and Michael jumped out and headed home. When he reached his house everything was on the ground and at that time he knew that he had killed the wizard for sure and all the evil things went with him in his grave.

Chapter 4: The End

Everything was normal after Michael had killed the wizard. Everybody celebrated that the wizard was dead and Michael and his family lived happily ever after

"Michael, wake up!" "Time to go to school!" Suddenly he woke up and saw that everything was just a dream! He sat up and thought about the wizard, and the magic Michael did and realized, everything was a dream. He got up, got dressed, and went to school. When he got home, he had regular days as usual.

When Michael was ten years old, the worst thing happened. The dream that he had, really happened! Michael really could see the future! Finally, when everything was over he and his family lived happily ever after just like the story was supposed to end.

THE END

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