James Potter and the attack of the aliens
Alysa Wong, Group 2: Fiction, Victoria Shanghai Academy
ong ago, on a cold winter night, James was asleep in bed. He heard some noises. It was coming from
outside. James wanted to check it out. Without a sound, he tiptoed down the stairs, grabbed his coat
from the coat hanger and slipped out the door. When he got outside, he saw some lights flashing. He
went over to the lights and he saw UFOs parked everywhere and aliens were pouring out of them!
James couldn’t believe his eyes. It was the first time he saw aliens. The aliens were the same size as
him! He wasn’t so sure what they were doing in town. James remembered the story his grandpa told him. The
story was about a man that was brave enough to fight aliens. The man was very strong, he won the fight. The
aliens decided to fight back, but they lost. So they returned to space. James thought the aliens wanted to fight
again. He followed the aliens to see where they went. The aliens went into a large factory. The leader of all the
aliens talked for a long time using alien language. James thought the aliens were planning the revenge. He
believed in his grandpa’s story of the man brave enough to fight aliens. James had to plan a way of stopping the
aliens of attacking the people in town and hurting them. His plan must be done before the aliens come and have
their revenge. But there was just one problem: he didn’t know when the aliens would attack. As he was
thinking, he quietly slipped out of the factory. Hoping the aliens wouldn’t see him. When he got out of the
factory, he ran as fast as he could back to his house. He tiptoed inside and hung his coat back on the coat hanger.
He went up the stairs and into his room. He couldn’t sleep, so he took his notebook out and planned about how
to stop the aliens from attacking. After he drew in his notebook for what seems like a long time, he began to feel
tired. He went to sleep and he dreamed that he stood on a bridge and threw balls at the aliens. The aliens sucked
the balls up. Soon, their bodies were full of balls that they exploded. They left slimy green blobs everywhere,
but at least all of them were dead. He dreamed that he defeated the aliens on a very long and tall bridge. The
aliens couldn’t even reach him. He felt like a hero. And that was when he woke up. He had a feeling that his
dream was what he planned in his notebook. He looked at what he planned in his notebook. And sure enough, it
was what he dreamed of. His plan was already done. Before the aliens came and attacked the people in town.
Everyday he thought about the aliens, but he kept it a secret, he didn’t even tell his parents, or his best friend. He
kept it all to himself. He liked the idea of being a hero when he saves the people and he didn’t want anyone to
know and defeat the aliens first, then other people would be the hero and not him. He imagined people calling
him James the great. When he was at school, he could not concentrate on his schoolwork, he could just think of
the aliens. “Sooner or later,” he thought, “the aliens are going to attack.” Days passed by, the aliens didn’t
attack. Weeks passed by, the aliens still didn’t attack. A year passed by. That was when the aliens attacked. On
New Year’s Eve, when all the people in town were eating dinner happily with their friends and family, the
aliens came out of the factory. This time, the aliens approached noisily. The town’s people could all hear them.
James knew it was the aliens. The others rushed outside to see what was happening. They saw aliens. The others
ran for their lives. James told the people in town that he knew what to do. He told all the builders in town to
build a very long and tall bridge. He even told the builders to build some stairs. The builders sure were fast. The
bridge was done in only four hours. They were doing their best. They could have done it in a day or two. And
because the aliens were just blobs of green slime with a brain, they were very slow walkers. They didn’t have
any legs. They took exactly four hours to get to James and the other people in town. It gave him enough time to
stand on the bridge. He told some of the people to stand on the bridge with him. Then, he told some other people
to get some balls. They quickly got some balls and handed them to the people on the bridge. They threw balls at
the aliens and watched them burst. James laughed at the aliens. He defeated the aliens. Everyone calls him
James the great. After the alien war, a famous writer decided that he would write a book about the alien war and
about James the great. It was a good story and James loved it. The builders didn’t take the bridge apart. They
didn’t take it apart because James stood on that bridge and defeated the aliens. Now, there was even a museum
of the bridge and there was the story about him defeating the aliens. James went to the museum a lot of times.
He liked to see what people think about him. Then, when he grew up, he decided to name the bridge. He talked
about it with the people in charge of the bridge. The people that are in charge of the bridge said it was okay to
name it. James thought about what the name of the bridge could be. At last, he thought of one and he named the
bridge: The Great Wall.
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