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The Eye of Tarake. (a fairy tale i had to write for school)

The Eye of Tarake
Once upon a time, in a land far from far, far away lived a twelve year old girl whose name was Janna (sounds like honna).  Her hair was as blonde as the stars are bright, and her eyes were a peaceful blue.  Even though she should have been happy with her gifts, she was not.  Her mother was the Ice Queen and she never had time for Janna.  One day Janna was walking out in the snow, when she heard a strange sound coming from the Autumn Palace. There were six palaces in a giant circle, the Ice Palace, the Sleet Palace, the Hail Palace, the Hot Palace, the Warm Palace, and the Cool Palace. In addition, there was one palace outside the circle, the Evil Palace. Janna was told to never ever go to the Evil Palace because the Evil witch, Lorain, would eat her whole because she wanted to be the Evil Ice Queen. Janna went to the Autumn Palace to see what the noise was and where it came from. When she got there, she saw her friend Angie, who also was twelve. Janna asked what the noise was and Angie said, “it was my mother, she went to look for the eye of Tarake and instead she saw the evil queen with the eye!”  “Oh no Angie, that is terrible news!” said Janna.  “Well, naturally it would be but she got the fake one.” said Angie.  “Then why did she scream so loudly if she knew it was a fake?” Janna asked.  “Well at FIRST, she thought it was the real one that is why she screamed.” Angie answered.  Just then another scream was heard, this time Janna knew it must have come from the throne room because the throne room was next to the room they were in. Angie and Janna ran as fast as they could into the throne room, and saw Angie's mom with a surprised expression glued to her face. Angie ran next to her mother and asked what happened. At first the queen did not answer but then she said, “The evil queen came and took the REAL eye of Tarake!” the queen screeched. Then Angie said, “Oh no this is really bad! Really bad!” just then Janna had an extraordinary idea. “Hey Angie come to the ballroom with me, I have an idea.” said Janna, when they were in the ballroom, Janna said, “I just had the most brilliant idea ever!” “I don’t like the sound of that,” said Angie. “You should not like the sound of it because we are sneaking into the evil witch’s house!” whispered Janna. “I knew I would not like this idea.” Angie said. “Oh come on Angie! It will be fun.” said Janna. “Yea and what is your idea to get into her castle oh mighty leader?” said Angie. “Oh don’t be such a worry wort Angie. Have you ever even been near the castle?” without even waiting for a reply, she said, “well I have and I also saw a lot of trap doors and secret entrances.” “But what if you get eaten by the evil witch? She is the next air to what is supposed to be your throne!” said Angie hoping she would not have to sneak into the palace. “oh come on Angie, do you want me to do this myself, I will get all the credit for retrieving the eye and you will just stand next to your mom looking sad and wishing you had joined me.” Janna said, “WELL maybe I will join you, but only if you promise you will never do anything dumb ever again.” Angie said. “I promise I will never sneak into the evil witch’s castle ever again, and I will never do anything dumb again. Even if this is not dumb.” Janna said, “This is most defiantly dumb!” Angie said. “Whatever, we set off tonight at exactly midnight.” said Janna. At midnight, Janna and Angie set off for the evil palace. When they got there Janna said “I saw a secret passage around back.” then Angie said, “You went around back and you never told me?” “Yes, but only because you would have told your mom and she would have told my mom!” Janna said, “YES I would have told my mother and she probably would have told your mom Janna.” Angie pointed out. “We have to stop talking while we go through the tunnel.” Janna said, “We don’t know where it leads though.” Angie said “oh yes we do, it leads to the kitchen which is where she stores all her junk that she stole from other people.” Janna said, “You have been through this tunnel? Why, Janna why did you do it without me!?” Angie asked, “I figured you did not want to come with me, because you never ever want to come. Now be quiet.” Janna said then Janna opened the hatch that led to the tunnel, pushed Angie through and walked through after her. After five minutes of crawling through the tunnel, Angie made a little squeal and whispered “eew I think something slithered across my hand!”  “Shush Angie. We are almost there.” Janna said when the tunnel ended Janna said, “It is probably on the third counter to the right, or the left. She keeps her food on the four counters in the middle of the third and fourth on the left and on the right.” Janna said “have you also been in her castle?!” Angie asked curiously “no, but I have opened the trap door and the top kind of looks like her floor. OH, hey I made a rhyme! How cool is that?” Janna said, “Okay then. What are we going to do now?” Angie asked, “Well we are going up and you are going to search the two left counters and I will search the right. But be quiet so she won’t wake up.” Janna said quietly “okay but I do not feel comfortable with you so close to the door. She might wake up to get a glass of milk see you and eat you instead.” Angie said sounding very worried “shush and look for the eye.” Janna whispered they searched for two hours until they found it. When they finally found it Janna said “come on I found it on this counter.” then Angie said “oh hurry I think I heard something in the hallway. it might have been the witch.” they ran over to the trap door Angie took the eye and saw that it was a fake and said “oh no this is the wrong eye, this is the fake. did you see a different one next to this one?” then Janna said “I think I did, run across the room and get the other one it is the same one that I found that one on, hurry.” then Angie ran as fast as her feet could take her. However, the footsteps came closer and closer then they stopped Janna thought she saw Angie, but then a light turned on and then the footsteps continued. Angie grabbed the eye and ran back as fast as possible; she jumped down into the tunnel just before the witch stepped into the room. They crawled back through the tunnel talking very quietly to each other. When they got back to the autumn palace, they went into Angie room and went to sleep. In the morning, Janna and Angie went to the throne room and they saw the ice queen and the autumn queen talking about something. once Janna and Angie walked into the throne room, the ice queen and the autumn queen stopped talking and turned to the two girls. the ice queen walked over and said, “I figured you would be over here with angel.” then Angie said, “my name is Angie miss ice queen.” then Janna said, “miss autumn queen we have something to show you.” then Janna went back to Angie room and took the eye of tarake, brought it to the autumn queen and gave it to her. then the autumn queen said “how did you get this Janna?” then Janna said "Angie and I snuck into the witch’s castle last night and stole it back miss autumn queen.” then the autumn queen said “how did you get in her castle and why did you do it without telling me or the ice queen?” then Janna said “I go around her castle a couple times a season and I found a tunnel that led to her kitchen, and we did not tell either of you because you would have told us not to and forced us to stay home.” then Angie said “I wanted to tell you but Janna said not to.” then Janna said “no I didn’t you did not even try to tell them you are of just as much blame as me. And, miss autumn queen it was my idea to sneak into her castle.” then the ice queen said to Janna “you are in big trouble Missy. I am going to ground you from coming here for one month.” then the autumn queen said “we should punish them but not that much I mean they did get the eye of tarake back, didn’t they?” then the ice queen said “true, they did get the eye back… fine I will give you one week of grounding. Then they all lived happily ever after even if Janna and Angie had been grounded they were happy too, well except the evil queen but I will save her for another story                                                                                                                                                                   FIN