Little Jojo And The Apple Witch
By Leo Parsons
CHAPTERS:
Prologue
I:
Apple-Picking
II: Little
Mouse
III:
Travelling In Style
IV: Stop That
Witch!
V: Freedom
Epilogue
Prologue
In the mystic woods of Ireland lived a
little six year old girl named Jojo. Jojo lived in an old worn-out mushroom
cottage with her mum, her dad had been believed dead when he was out far away
chopping wood and was never seen since then. Poor Jojo had only just turned one
so she never exactly knew her father, Jojo’s mum said that she would tell her
father’s name when she turned thirteen. Also, Jojo loved apples and the colour
red, but today something terrible and adventurous is about to happen…
Chapter
I
Apple-Picking
Every now and then Jojo had a job to
pick apples [Or Apple-picking] every day except Saturday and Sunday from the
apple forest, it was about a kilometre to walk, and more surprising Jojo loved
her job. Wandering around in the green woods, passing rivers and spotting frogs
as she goes by…it was all a adventure to her, not only that her and her mum
lived close by to a village. Mum usually goes around there to visit grandma and
borrow some cutlery from her, as soon as Jojo finished her apple pie dinner mum
wanted her to go out to pick some apples [kindly, kindly] so she put on her red
cape and hood and skipped all the way to the apple forest, the sun hadn’t set
yet, then as soon as she saw the apple forest sign “Finally here!” she said
happily and went galloping in. suddenly… she got jump-scared and let out a
screech.
Chapter
II
Little Mouse
She looked around and saw a little
old lady about half the size of Jojo that was dressed completely in black and
you couldn’t see her face only her old crispy lips. “Oh…Um Hello” Jojo said
puzzled, “who are yew” said the old blouse “My name is J-Jojo” shocked Jojo
nervously “Wut are YEW doink ere?” Screeched the old woman “P-P-Picking
a-apples” Shivered Jojo “DIS IS MAI APPWLE FONEST AND YOU ARE NOT ALUWED IN MAI
FONEST!!!” Screamed the old woman, and with that, the woman snatched a wand out
of her pocket and with one quick tick she turned Jojo into a tiny woodland
mouse! All her clothes [But not her basket, thank goodness] blanketed her and
couldn’t see nothing but red. The witch grabbed all her things but not her
basket and bleated “Now your moder is neextd!” the witch seemed to be terrible
at pronouncing her words, “Wut arr yew goink to dew naw?? AHAAHAHAH” and then
she galloped to Jojo’s cottage.
Chapter
III
Travelling In Style
Jojo didn’t know what to do now,
that witch was more powerful than her and her mother was going to end up like
Jojo. She thought to herself “what’s a dumb old woodland mouse like me going to
do about this?” but then she looked at her basket, and had an idea. Jojo climbed
into the basket and set off sailing down the river. Jojo climbed and peaked
over the top to see where she was going, whist sailing Jojo quickly clambered
out a long skinny oak branch and decided to use it as her paddle, it was a
rocky and bumpy journey, there were rocks, fallen-over logs which were very
tricky to pass, leafs sometimes fell in and on top of the basket, there was
even a green frog that jumped in and almost ate Jojo! I guess you could kind of
say it was travelling in style though you can judge for yourself. Now Jojo knew
that the river wouldn’t lead her straight to her cottage, and that’s when the
basket toppled over a big rock near the bankside. Jojo almost knew the whole
entire forest off by heart, so she got out of the basket and started zooming to
the cottage.
Chapter
IV
Stop That Witch!
Then at last she made it to the
cottage, “Time to stop that witch!” she went through the pipes and fell into
the sink bowl. It seemed the witch hadn’t arrived yet, although Jojo’s mum came
over to the sink, she let out a yelp “AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!” She screamed and threw
the mouse outside “Oh, I forgot my mum is scared of mice, especially woodland
ones” She mumbled. Jojo didn’t know what to do now, although suddenly she
realised she was changing back…To jojo! She was becoming taller and changing
back to herself “The spell must have only lasted a few minutes” She was
relieved that it was just some minutes. She turned back over to the cottage and
saw that the witch was inside!!! Jojo quickly rushed in and the witch was just
about to put a spell on Jojo’s mum when she leaped and grabbed the wand right
out of the witch’s hand.
Chapter
V
Freedom
She fell down on the floor and as
she got up, the witch screeched “GIMME DAT WUND WITE ‘OW!” but quickly, Jojo
waved the wand and said “MAKE THIS WAND AND OLD WITCH DISSAPEAR FOREVER!” and
as quick as a tick, both the wand and the witch disappeared into thin air “What
was that all about?!?” questioned Jojo’s mum “Ummm…It’s a long story” Babbled
Jojo, “By the way, we could have kept that wand you know.” Replied mum “Eh”
Commented jojo and then they both hugged each other. Just then, they heard
cheering outside, “FREEDOM” People were shouting, Jojo and her mum rushed out
to the village “You have freed all of us! The witch had us on a spell and was
trying to kill everyone in Ireland!” “You are the bravest girl we have ever
met!” Jojo had a slight chill go down her spine, she was surprised.
Epilogue
That day onwards, Jojo’s life and her mum’s was changed forever,
the villagers made them a large cottage for them and Jojo made tons of friends
with the village children, most were farmers, butchers, blacksmiths, librarians
and two of them were the daughters of the village priest. Another thing was
that Jojo was now trying different foods: steak, mince pies, banana splits, fudge
brownie, cherry tarts and oat bread were her top picks, and so, just like any
fairy tale they lived happily
ever after.