The Magical Desert

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Opal. She was 7 years old and had a mother and a father who was always on business trips so it was just Opal and her mother all alone in the desert.  They also lived by a coyote den.  So at night Opal and her mother heard howling and got barely any sleep, so they slept in everyday.

One day it was very windy so there was a sandstorm, but the coyotes stayed outside all day long. Opal wondered why the coyotes did that.  So when the sand storm stopped, Opal went for a walk. While she was walking by the coyote de, Opal heard a snarl, then a coyote cub came out of the den and started howling.  After a minute or two, the mother of the cub came out and ran at Opal and bit her on the leg.

"Oowwww!" screamed Opal.  Then she half limped, half ran back to her house.  When she got back her mother was in the kitchen making lunch.  Opal started saying "oww" over and over and over again.  Opals mother came into the front room and gasped "What happened to you?!"

"A coyote mother bit me"

"No! Get in the car right now!"

Opal and her mother drove to the doctors office and waited for their doctor to arraive.  When she got there, they went to the doctors room and the doctor was shocked.  She had never seen such a bite.The doctor asked what happened.

Opal said "I went out on a walk after a sandstorm and I was walking past teh coyote den when a coyote cub came out of the den.  Then a coyote mother came out of the den and bit me."

"Oh my!" said the doctor.  "Well all I can really tell you is rest, rest, rest."

"Ok" said Opal.  So Opal and her mother drove home and Opal sat down on her couch and turned on a movie called "Call of the wild".  It was an hour long.  After a while Opal fell asleep.  She dreamed of friends, brothers and sisters.  Just then something woke her.  It was a snarl.  Opal yelled for her mother "Help!"

"What do you need help with?" yelled her mother.

"I heard a snarl!"

"Go to your room...Now!"

Opal went to her room immediately but left the door open a crack so she could hear .  She heard scratching and yelping and finally a loud yell.  Opal ran out of her room and gasped.  Her mother had killed the coyote mother.  Opal kept the coyote cub and was forbidden to go into the desert ever again.

The End.

Ivy Faith Warnick
Second Grade