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The Witch...
In a dark. scary castle there lived a witch who loved children because she'd cut them up and give the meat to her hungry goblins and monsters. One time she decided to wait until the right moment came during Halloween night. Whenever a lot of children passed her squeaky gate, they were told to run past it really fast because they knew a witch with long nails lived in the scary castle. This Halloween though two teenagers named Darcello and Palassa who had never heard of the witch decided to check it out. When they knocked on the door to check who would answer, they thought they heard someone say come in. So they went in and asked if anybody was home. When there was no answer,they went upstairs where they saw a long hall with many doors. Palassa thought she saw her friend Olga and went over to check. But there was nobody there. Then Darcello freaked out when she saw something coming up the stairs.

Suddenly the witch popped out right in front of Darcello's face and Darcello ran with all her might back to Palassa and told her what she saw. Palassa got really scared and yelled, "What the devil's going on here? Let's get out of here before something creepy happens. "But when they were going down stairs they saw the witch and a couple of draculas coming up the stairs. So they ran into one of the rooms to hide from them. There they saw a deformed person with leeches all over his body.They both screamed and ran out the door and bumped into the witch. The witch grabbed Palassa, but she pulled the witch's hair. Her hair came off her head and worms started crawling around in it. Then Palassa screamed for Darcello to help her, and the witch let her go. When she ordered the draculas to get them, the draculas charged after them. But the girls grabbed two sharp sticks and stabbed them in their hearts. Then the two girls ran down stairs and right into the witch again. Palassa got so scared she peed in her pants and started to cry. When Darcello told Palassa to quit crying the witch grabbed Darcello. Darcello screamed then escaped to a room where she found Palassa being chased by the draculas. Darcello grabbed the draculas and bumped their heads together. Then maggots squirted out of their brains onto Darcello's shirt. Finally the girls found an open window and jumped out on top of the roof and climbed down the latter. The witch was waiting for them but then it started to rain and the witch turned into leeches and melted into a slimy, sticky goo. The girls were saved by the rain! Then they ran for home. They had learned their lesson not to go into strange dark, scary looking houses on Halloween night.

By: Carmen Fitka


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