Group+A

This page is for Group A only:
 * 1) **Sarah Adams**
 * 2) **Monica Aplin**
 * 3) **Amy Boylan**
 * 4) **Erin Branch**
 * 5) **Koschina Davis**

=Don't Go Near that Wacked-Out Turtle!=


 * I was walking down a dirt road the other day and saw something standing dead still in the middle of it. It hissed a nasty noise (I promise I saw spit!) and jumped straight up. It scared the living daylights out of me, so I ...**

stopped and very slowly and carefully pulled out my phone. I was planning to take a picture of whatever it was with my trusty camera phone. I flipped open my phone and pressed the button for the camera. While I was waiting for the function to load, the creature began to crawl toward me. It was about 100 feet away and looked somewhat like a turtle. Its shell was like no turtle shell I had ever seen before, though! It was red with metallic silver cracks. This organism, or whatever it was, was about one foot in diameter. I snapped a picture of it quickly, and got away fast, hightailing it back the way I had come. EBranch


 * Stumbling through the doorway of an abandoned house I quickly closed the door. There was a flash of light and another hissing sound louder than the original by several octaves. I turned to make my way towards a window, when all of a sudden the house started to shake and vibrate. I was frozen in place as I silently willed my feet to move, but to no avail. Suddenly I heard a high pitched wail that sounded vaguely familiar. I turned towards the sound when all of a sudden the noise stopped. KDavis**

"What could it be?" I wondered. I started walking back through the house investigating when the sound started again. A hissing sound like I had never heard. I ran back toward the door hooing for an escape when the door locked. I was trapped. The sound became even louder now and I could feel something inching toward me. I had nowhere to escape. I was doomed. There was this red and silver looking thing that resembled a wacked out turtle coming straight for me. What do I do!!! ABoylan

My wand began to twitch from the pocket of my coat. I grabbed the wand, pointed it at the turtle, and yelled "turtleis felineus!" The reddish silver turtle quickly became a purring white kitten. With great hesitation, I stepped toward the kitten. It appeared to be harmless, so I leaned over to pick it up. I stopped suddenly! The kitten looked up at me with flaming red eyes surrounding glowing silver pupils. I slowly began to step backward, but my back was soon against the wall. The purr was quickly turning to a blood-curdling roar! I didn't know what else to do. The spell had simply transformed the attacker, not stopped it. My pounding heart was making it difficult to breathe. I tried to scream but had no voice. MAplin

I was not able to move. It was like I was frozen in my spot. I better think of something fast or I am going to be this thing's lunch. Quickly I ran past the kitten-lion thing just as it was about to attack me. I was able to open a window in the back of the house and escape. I ran as fast as I could with this roaring sound in the background. I came upon another house and quickly ran inside. Once inside I saw this family sitting at the table eating just staring at me. What do I say for this unexpected intrusion? ABoylan

Just as I started to speak, the kitchen door opened and a cat with flaming red eyes and silver glowing pupils emerged. Though strangely silent it was no less frightening. I turned to make a hasty retreat when I heard the slam of a door and click of the lock turning. Thinking I could appeal to the family I turned again towards them only to find myself surrounded by five semi-humans with flaming eyes and glowing pupils. They were emitting a hissing sound like none I've heard before. The patriarch of the family grabbed my arm in an iron clad grip as I frantically tried to escape.KDavis

"What have you done to our turtle?" asked the man. I was shaking and stuttering and could not possibly make my quivering lips form the words. I reached for my wand, but had left it at the other house. The only thing I had left was my cell phone. What help could my cell phone be in this terrifying situation? With my free hand, I reached into my pocket and took out the phone. Not knowing anything else to do, I shoved the phone at the man and snapped a picture. He threw his hands in front of his face to shield his eyes from the light. Apparently, he was temporarily blinded. I was free! I began flashing the phone in all directions until everyone in the room was hiding their eyes behind their hands...including the feline creature. I dashed out the door on trembling legs, and stopped abruptly when I spotted......... MAplin

...an old truck sitting in the driveway. I jumped into the old rusty truck and franticly searched for the keys. As I was searching, the truck started shaking. I looked out the front of the window to see turtles multiplying by the second attacking the car. My spell must have wore off! I reached for my phone again, but what do you, my Verizon family was not there to bail me out! I found a screwdriver and jimmyed it into the ignition, shifting into drive as soon as I heard the motor crank. As I pressed the gas, I heard Thud, Thud, Thud. Hoping it was the sound of the turtles falling off the truck, I histerically looked out the window to find the turtles knawing on the tires and the tires deflating. As I sat there with thoughts racing through my mind...KAdams

I heard a rustling noise coming from above. I looked up and witnessed the most spectacular light show I have ever seen. There were flashes of light coming from every direction. The thud,thud, thud sound coming from beneath my truck ceased. All was quiet as every turtle bowed in what appeared to be prayer. I could not believe what I was witnessing. I momentarily forgot the grave danger I was in as I watched the events unfolding before me. There was a final flash and hiss and then appeared a.....KDavis

what I would call a whacked out turtle! This turtle was very colorful and from what I could see, the leader of this group of invaders! A bright flash of light flashed across the sky, so bright I had to shut my eyes. When I opened them, everything was gone except for a note stuck to the front of the windshield. I was hesitant to get out of the truck to see what the note said because of everything I had just witnessed. Trembling, I grabbed the door handle...KAdams

I made my way out of the truck ever so carefully. I went to the front of the truck and grabbed the note off of the windshield and read what it said. It was a note from the wacked out turtle which said,"Sorry to scare you like that but I did not want any intruders in my territory." I am a turtle that keeps to myself most times and when that time is invaded,I become really wacked out." "It would be best for you to leave my territory immediately or face the consequences"." Easy for him to say but I have no clue where I am and no phone to call anyone."ABoylan

Since it was clear that I had to leave the area immediately, I looked around me, and seeing no one at the moment, ran away from the house, back toward the dirt road. I haven't mentioned this before, but here's the reason I was walking down the dirt road in the first place. I had been on a blind date with a guy the night before, and he had turned out to be a grade-A creep. He had put me out of the car in the middle of nowhere, and I was attempting to find my way back to the city. When I now found my way back to the dirt road, I started running. My shoes were gone, and I paid no attention to the rocks and pebbles that were brutally attacking my feet! I just wanted to get back home, and far, far away from this freaky place where nothing was as it seemed! I ran about two miles, and I saw an intersection ahead. It looked like paved road, and I was excited to be nearing civilization. Before I could reach the intersection, a dusty black car approached me from behind, slowed down, and the driver's side window rolled down to reveal...EBranch

Barack Obama and Sarah Palin! As I was standing there star struck, I felt the Earth shaking and a white light coming near me in the sky. The next thing I know I am on my back in the floor with doctors surrounding me. A nurse brought me some crackers and a Sprite to drink. "What happened?" I asked. The nurse took my blood pressure and temp. It was all coming back to me. I had seen this odd turtle on the sidewalk on the way to the walk in clinic. I thought to myself that it would have made a nice pet. When I got to the clinic to get my flu shot, I saw the needle and blacked out and hit my head. As I was rubbing my head... KAdams

...I noticed some dried blood on my arm. A closer look revealed what may have caused the leaking blood. I noticed a fine silvery powder on my arm next to a laceration. I touched it with the finger from my other hand. The spot tingled. What could it be? My mind began to race! I thought about the silver eyes and that metallic stare. My back fell against the bed just as I saw something at the window out of the corner of my eye. My heavens! Could it be.... -M. Aplin

that the craziest dream I ever had was actually real? The shape quickly moved away out of my view as I turned my head to get a better look. "Did you see that?!" I exclaimed out loud. The nurse who was working with his back to me asked, "What?", and turned toward me. Just in time for me to see his glowing silver eyes. He came towards me with a syringe filled with silver liquid. "Don't move, or it will only be worse for you," he calmly instructed. I didn't move. I couldn't... EBranch