…by Aaron

I, Arnav, was looking through the garbage when I smelt a foul smell.  It turned out it was the food scraps from lunch with my neighbors.

I was looking through my neighbor’s trash because my neighbors owned the biggest video game company in the whole world and sometimes they would throw away cool DS games. I had to see if there were any video games in the trash.

So I lifted the trash can and threw it on the ground. Food scraps were everywhere, but out of the corner of my eye I spotted a video game.

I picked up the video game and cleaned the trash that was on it.  I quickly ran home to play the new video game.  I opened the door to the house and rushed up stairs to my room.

I looked at the game and saw it was called Ancient Greek monsters.  I carefully put the game into my DS gameboy but all that showed up on my DS was a white light. Suddenly the ground started to rumble. A portal appeared in my room!  I couldn’t resit I touched the portal and I got sucked in!

I landed with a THUMP and realized I was no longer in my house.  I looked around in this new dimension.  It was sandy but there were rivers and trees.  Suddenly I heard a scream of pain.

“AAAHHHHH!” The man screamed. It was coming from the forests so I ran into the forest and saw a man wrestling a minotaur (A Greek monster half man half bull).

“Get out of here kid!” the man yelled.

I quickly ran, but it was too late.  The minotaur knocked out the man and chased after me! My pace slowed as I got really tired from running.  Suddenly I realized that I had stopped running and I was so tired I couldn’t feel my legs!

I was worried the minotaur would smash me to pieces.  But instead he threw a ball at me. The next thing I  knew I was inside the ball and a lot of warriors were in it too. I walked over to a man that looked the wisest.

I asked him “What year is it and where am I?”

“It’s 450 BC and you’re in Rome. Why?” he asked me.

“Oh nothing,”  I replied.

I had just traveled to another dimension and gone back in time with a video game!
About an hour later the minotaur shook us out into an armory.  I picked out a sword with a diamond at the bottom and two gems stuck on each side.  The sword also had a lightning storm carved on the blade.  So, I called it Storm Blade.

Then I picked out a roman helmet that looked really protective.  I picked armor to protect my chest it also showed a six pack on it, so it made me look a lot tougher.  Then I picked out a shield made of pure gold!

Suddenly a door opened to the labyrinth.  It was pitch black ahead.  That’s when I noticed that Storm Blade could glow in the dark. Suddenly I felt a brush of wind on my right cheek. So that’s why I decided to go right. About thirty minutes later I decided to rest for a while. I suddenly felt some gooey wet liquid on my left cheek. It turned out it was the minotaur again! I quickly lunged at the minotaur but it deflected my lunge easily.

I flew into the wall with a THUMP!  Blood was starting to flow out of my nose as if it was a volcano erupting. I quickly stood up and fled back the way I came from.  I stopped and rested when I was sure the minotaur was gone.  But I was wrong!

‘SSSMMMMAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!’  The minotaur smashed the rock wall behind me! This minotaur is fast I thought.

I quickly stood up and sliced a deep cut into the Minotaur’s arm that caused him to screech in pain. The minotaur thrust a punch that would have taken off my head of if I hadn’t dodged it.  But then the minotaur hit me with a blow that I would never forget. He made me fly to the wall and my sword on the opposite side. More blood started to flow out of my nose. I got up and threw my shield at the minotaur.  While he was distracted I went to get my sword.

When he threw the shield on the sand I dashed back to the minotaur and cut his leg. Blood started to come flowing out of the deep cut and kept on coming.

I picked up my shield and ran for an hour, but I could still hear the minotaur cursing, “I’ll kill you Arnav!” he shrieked. I wondered how he knew my name but right now I didn’t really care what he said.  All I wanted to do was rest.  I rested for about ten minutes until I heard a noise.

I picked up Storm Blade and limped closer to the noise, I limped because I had a really bad bruise on both knees from all the fighting.

Storm blade glowed at the enemy it turns out it was just a group of warriors.

“You wanna join us to get to the exit boy?” the warrior questioned.

“As long as you help me to walk, then yes,” I replied.

“I guess it’s a deal then. Justin!” he called.  Justin I guess was one of the warriors.  Because a man with armor came walking over to me.  I wrapped my hand around his neck tight like a anaconda strangling his enemy.

Justin’s face suddenly turned red.  “Could you please loosen your grip?” he stammered.

“Oh, yeah sure.” I quickly loosened my grip. About a hour later I quickly fell to the floor. I gave up because I couldn’t take the pain. But suddenly light started streaming in.  I looked up. The exit was right in front of me!  Ignoring the pain, I quickly stood up and went to the exit.  That’s when I finally knew why the minotaur dropped us out at the armoury. They wanted us to be entertainment. We were the warriors in a coliseum and they were about to let out a bunch of monsters crunch on our bones.

A crowd of monsters cheered, “LET OUT THE MONSTERS! LET OUT THE MONSTERS!” They screamed over and over again. I walked over to a group of warriors that were at the middle of the battle field. One of the warriors had a bald head and a shaved chin this man looked like my dad! I walked a little closer to him and took out a picture of him that I keep of him in my pocket. It was the exact match! I quickly went over to the man that could be my dad and questioned, “Dad is that you?”

“Arnav? What are you doing here?” my dad yelled. I was surprised! Wasn’t he happy to see me? “How did you get here!?” he spat. “I just found a game in a trash can and put it in my DS!  What’s the big deal?”  I spat back.  “That’s where I played the game Arnav!”  he shouted madly.

“Next to a trash can?”  I questioned confused.

“Well you’d be surprised where I play my games,” he murmured.

“Well that’s not the poi…!”  He stopped in mid sentence.

“Whats not the poi?”  I asked confused. Suddenly five new doors opened that surrounded the warriors and five monsters stepped out.  The first one was a minotaur fully healed, but looking angry.  Next up was a Cerberus (which according to Wikipedia, is a three-headed giant dog that guards the gates of Hades). The third monster was a Hydra (a dragon with five heads, but if you cut of one head two more grow).  Then the Manticore (again, according to Wikipedia is a creature with the head of a man with the body of a lion and a tail that throws spikes).  Last, but not least, was a Chimera (which Wikipedia describes as a three-headed monster with the foreparts of a lion, the hind-parts of a goat, a goat head rising from its back, and the tail of a headed serpent).

They all started to move closer and closer until we could all see them clearly. Suddenly rain started to fall like bullets clattering onto the ground. All the warriors started to raise their swords above their heads and ran toward to the monsters. Suddenly I thought of a plan to escape! I just needed the hydra to burn through the wall so I could run back to the portal that was closing. I quickly told my dad my plan. He agreed to my plan. I quickly got the hydras attention by stabbing it on the leg. The hydra shrieked with rage. I quickly ran over to the closed exit. The hydra darted its eyes at me. It boomed toward me when it walked. I held up my shield and waited for the hydra to blow fire at the exit.

I could hear warriors screaming with fear. Suddenly I felt the shield getting hotter and hotter every second. I turned around to see if we could run out of here and sure enough the gate had burned down.

I screamed, “DAD NOW!”  I quickly ran out with my dad along my side. But the monsters wouldn’t give up the fight the minotaur and the hydra started to chase after us! I could see the portal just ahead. Me and my dad ran faster and faster. Suddenly when me and my Dad were at the entrance of the portal the hydra picked up my Dad in its mouth. I quickly sliced of its head and got my Dad to his feet.  We entered through the portal unharmed, except that my Dad had a deep cut and a hydra tooth in his leg. When my Dad and I went into the kitchen to greet Mom, she screamed,

“Where have you been Eric?! I‘ve been looking for you for five years!” (Eric is my Dad’s name) “And Arnav, I’ve been looking for you for twenty minutes! Where have both of you been?”

Me and my Dad looked at each other and both said “It’s a long story!”