Ilminster Green Team

This is a recount about The Green Team, a play performed by Ilminster Intermediate's best drama students. Below, I will try my best to write about something non-dragon related and as a Recount instead of a Fictional story. Enjoy.

The alien spacecraft beamed up the three morons and their robot, along with their one-use rubbish. Before I can tell you that story, let me tell you this one.

It was the 16th of November 2021 (or Tuesday for short). Wainui Beach School's Moana syndicate was seated on what looked like fuzzy stairs inside of Ilminster's great, big, huge, bigger than Wainui Beach School's, hall. In front of them there was a large-ish setup of two fabric walls, one painted to look like a small rockpool, the other painted to represent a skatepark. Two stools had grey fabric, spattered in black flecks, draped over them, making them appear to look like rocks. Silence filled the hall when Nana Koura, someone dressed up as a crayfish wearing pearls, came out from behind the fabric walls.

Nana Koura sat on the biggest rock while, Kina - a kina - ran out from behind the props and sat on the slightly smaller rock next to her. After Kina was seated, two smaller crayfish popped out from their hiding place and sat in front of the old crayfish; begging for a story. Nana Koura refused and sent the two young crayfish back behind the wall but one ran back, seating herself exactly where she was before. The young crayfish asked Nana Koura again for a story, this time getting one about how Nana Koura saved the earth from aliens.

Nana Koura droned on about how she saved earth then out from behind the wall came a group of 3 tennagers, this time on the skatepark side. I guessed this is the story part she was explaining. A few seconds later, another teen from the group entered the stage on a small, blue bike. One of them, a girl, pulled out a brown bag and explained she got 10c lollies for the group. They all grabbed one each, pretended to eat the lollie, dumped their rappers on the floor, then left the scene. Suddenly a loud noise, too loud in my opinion, came from the speakers, making a weird clanking machine noise. 

Behind the wall, from the same spot the teen group came from, emerged two aliens and a robot followed by their 'king'. He was actually acted by a girl. The king alien, or in the play 'The king Moron', grabbed a boombox out from behind his back and asked his bodyguards questions like 'Is this planet big enough? Is this planet strong enough?' As he asked the questions, the two morons behind him - including robot the robot - started dancing to the different songs that boomed over the speakers, answering the king's questions. King moron decided that Earth was the perfect planet to dump his rubbish on so he sent his two bodyguards to dump his load of one use rubbish at the skatepark. He even ordered the aliens to dump the robot. After he was finished dumping, he and his aliens got back into their 'U.F.O' and left Earth to gather more rubbish to dump.

When the Teens' returned to the park, they were confused to see metallic rubbish dumped all over the place. One tried to pick up the metal, getting electrocuted when he came in contact with it. Suddenly, a pile of metal started moving. It clanked and cloncked and scrapped. When the pile calmed down, the robot the morons left behind crawled out. The group was now surprised and interested about seeing a robot. One tried to shake it's hand but the robot was electric along with the rubbish. The robot told the teens how the morons had dumped him here along with their rubbish so the group asked if he could contact them to come back to Earth and pick up their rubbish. When the robot stuck up his hand to try and catch the aliens, he accidentally picked up other signals like Peppa Pig and Dora the Explorer. He gave up but just as he did, the morons were coming back down to Earth with another load to dump. The group of teens tried to convince the morons to pick up their rubbish but they refused.

Disappointed and worried, the group ran across the stage to the rockpool-painted wall to see Nana Koura. They told her how the morons were dumping rubbish everywhere. Before Nana Koura came to help, she made the teens promise not to dump their rubbish either. When they agreed, Nana Koura walked across the stage to the park to see the aliens. When they saw her they all bowed down, thinking Nana Koura was a long lost Queen of the morons. She hesitated for a moment then played on, pretending to be their queen. She told them to gather their rubbish, leave Earth and never come back. The king ordered his two bodyguards to load the rubbish back into their ship and leave. The alien spacecraft beamed up the three morons and their robot, along with their one-use rubbish. Nana Koura had saved the Earth.

Quickwrite Story Starters: "They Called me Dr.Snail and..."

 
"They called me Dr.Snail and..." "Snail," Interrupted Herring, picking bits of fish out of his teeth with one claw. "Firstly, you've never been called Dr.Snail, you've just been called Snail your whole life. Secondly," Herring started, jumping up off of the stone chair he was sitting on to his feet. "You don't even know how to bandage someone up with seaweed when they get wounded!" Herring had raised his voice higher than he intended, shyly sitting back down. "Herring, I meant it as a joke." Snail placed one talon to his forehead, making a why-can't-you-take-jokes impresion to Herring. "I know it was a joke," said Herring as he slumped into his chair, rough stone and shells stabbing at his camo-green scales. "It's just that - umm - being on patrol during the - umm - night is - uhhh... boring?" Snail slapped his hand against his face and peered through his claws, frowning at Herring. "That... Is a completely different subject!" Snail slammed his fist on the table. "I wish I wasn't on night guard duty with you!" "Hmmph," snorted Herring. "And I-" Suddenly, a deep blue Seawing crashed into their post, baring her teeth and snarling at the two guards. 

"Give me the key," said the Seawing, holding out her hand as if expecting the 'key' to appear in her palm. "T-t-the missing p-princess," spattered Snail. His eyes widened, making them look like two, miniature, full moons. "Yes, yes. I'm the missing princes, blah blah blah. Just give me the key and I will leave you unharmed." "What key," asked Herring, tilting his head to the side. "You know what I mean," spat Princess Tsunami, crinkling her snout as if someone had killed a fish three years ago, left it to rot, and dropped it right in front of Tsunami's face. "The key that unlocks the chain around Clay's - the Mudwings - Leg." Snail and Herring exchanged glances. "Spit it out you slimy worms!" Herring gulped, his eyes widening to match Snail's. "We have our orders," yelled Snail as he slapped his hands on the stone table, yelping when a sharp shell cut his palm. The princess sighed, calming herself down to finally speak in a kinder way. "Look, I know you have your orders from Shark but your just going to have to trust me." She placed one taloned hand on her chest, smiling. "That Mudwing is not some old regular Mudwing, he is from the prophecy, he is my friend. Without him we, The Dragonets of Destiny, will fall apart and the prophecy will never be fulfilled. Imagine the stories of  the two squid brains who let the Mudwing drown! So - just - give me the key."

The two Seawing guards were frozen for a minute, (that felt like several), then started whispering to each other. Herring and Snail turned around to face the female Seawing. The acidic-green Seawing turned his head to face Snail and bit his lip. Snail snarled at Herring and nudged him forwards towards Tsunami. He glanced at Snail, then at Tsunami, bit his lip harder - drawing blood, hesitated for a moment then finally held out his closed fist. As he slowly opened his talons, a ring of keys appeared in his palm. The keys glittered in Tsunami's eyes, some bronze some silver, some very rusted and falling to pieces, and one a beautiful gold; like Sunny's scales. Herring pointed at the golden one, the keys jingling as he lifted his pointing hand out from under the shiny objects. Tsunami held out her hand and winced as the keys hit her scales. They were colder than she expected. "Thank you," she said, holding the keys to her chest. Tsunami turned around, spread her wings - revealing her royal patterns around the edges of her skin, and dove out of the cave. "Well," said Snail after a few minutes. "That went well." "Well?!" Herring stamped his foot. "Queen Coral is going to kill us when she finds out we let the Mudwing go!" "Herring," Snail shouted, grabbing Herring shoulders. "Shark was the one who gave us orders and besides, that was the queen's daughter. If anything she would reward us." "Oh yeah," said Herring, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Tsunami!" Sunny ran over and gave the princess a hug. "You got it! You got the key!" "Yes I did, Sunny," Tsunami replied, smiling. "Wow," joked Riptide, water splashing around his webbed talons as he approached Tsunami. "I doubted that you would get the keys for a minute." "Hmph," grumbled Tsunami, half laughing. "Urrm," started Clay, interrupting Tsunami's grumpy-laugh. "Can you guys get this chain of me?" Clay gestured to the metal band around his back leg. "Oh, right. Sorry Clay," said Tsunami as she fiddled with the keys. There were around 35 keys on the ring and only one was gold - the gold key to unlock Clay's chains. The darkness of the cave didn't help with finding it either. After a few minutes of searching for keys and sticking them in the keyhole, Tsunami - with help from Riptide - finally found the gold key. "This one!" Tsunami grabben the key ring and grabbed the golden one. She stuck it in Clays keyhole and turned it right,causing the lock to make a clicking noise. The metal band creaked then popped of the Mudwing leg, clanking on the stone floor.

Quickwrite Story Starters: Turtle Knew This Was a Bad Idea

 Turtle Knew This Was a Bad Idea. Following an 2000 year old Nightwing animus that can read minds and forecast the future just to keep an eye on his sister and to maybe save the world. Turtle always imagined saving the world from evil villains and being a hero. He imagined being the hero in his mother's stories, fighting of bad-guys and protecting the Seawing Summer and Deep Palace, but that never happened. Now he was leaving Jade Mountain, for the second time, and heading towards the rainforest. He clutched his sack around his neck tightly - the sack that contained his animus touched objects including his stick that hid him from Darkstalker. Darkstalker's enormous, black, star splattered wings created wingbeats as loud as 50 blue whales snoring at the same time; which is very deafening. While Turtle was cautiously following the Nightwing at his own risk, Anemone was zipping and zapping - somersaulting and backflipping along side Darkstalker. It was obvious to see that she was showing off. Turtle nearly chuckled. The green Seawing prince had not flown so much in ages, causing him to have to use his animus touched stone on his sore wing muscles multiple times. 

After three tiring, sore and extremely boring days of flying over grassy plains, Darkstalker had finally came to a stop midair. The huge Nightwing suddenly plummeted down into the thick canopy of leaves of the rainforest along with Anemone and the Nightwings from Jade Mountain Academy, leaving a huge hole in the leafy cover. Turtle followed them, diving down and down deeper into the beautiful scenery of the rainforest. Around him, there were leaves of all shades of green glistening in the sun, hundreds and thousands of brilliantly coloured flowers swarmed the greenery of the rainforest. Down below, around 84 Nightwings were all huddled together in a empty section of the rainforest, ruining the beautiful colour scheme of the beautiful scene with a giant, black blob. On a thick branch, overlooking the Nightwing pile, was Queen Glory of the Rainwing and Nightwings. Her scales were a bright pink with dark purple dots, her underbelly was splotched with an outstanding yellow over vivid pink. Upon Glory's head was a perfectly woven sky-blue flower crown, hand crafted by the queen herself. She gave a friendly wave at Turtle but before he could wave back, Darkstalker settled down besides Glory blocking Turtle from the queens view. 

"Ahh," said Darkstalker after a long, awkward silence. "Don't you just love the smell of the rainforest?" "Uhh," started Moon. "Have you ever actually been in the rainforest?" "Nope," Darkstalker replied, ripping apart a leaf he yanked off the tree above him. Below Darkstalker, the Nightwings started to panic and shudder at the sight of the 2000 year old dragon. Turtle flapped down onto a branch opposite to Darkstalker and sat on in, the first rest he had has in days. It snapped. Turtle started flapping franticly as he fell, barley catching himself before he collided with the ground. Moon barely held in her chuckle while Anemone burst out laughing, nearly falling off the branch she was on. "What's so funny," asked Darkstalker, turning his head to face Anemone. "Was it the branch that randomly snapped?" "No it was Tur-." "Anyways," Darkstalker interrupted, waving one talon at Anemone. "Hello, fellow Nightwings. I am Darkstalker, nice to meet you." Darkstalker held out his hand as if someone was going to shake it. 5 of the Nightwings fainted. Darkstalker frowned, mumbling something under his breath. To Turtle, it sounded something like 'What a great start to waking over my hive'. Turtle thought he probably misheard him. "Nightwings, Nightwings," said Darkstalker, slowly closing his eyes then opening them after he finished his sentence. "There is no need to be afraid of me, I've changed. All the rumours you've heard of me are false." He put one hand to his chest. "Trust me." Another Nightwing fainted.