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Element Masters

hErE once were element masters at the top when suddenly a strong wind take the risk?”. “yes”, the Ice Master replied.
on Earth but one couldn’t control came flying in at him. he pushed himself So the master cast a spell on him and
This powers. It was the Ice Master, harder than he ever had before and got up melted the Ice Master but only to the point
wherever he wandered winter followed. he to the top. Then the Ice Master said, “Can that he could control his powers.
was the only one that couldn’t control his you teach me how to control my powers?”
powers and he was misunderstood a lot. “yes and I used to have a job and it was a So then he wandered off feeling bright and
doctor”, the master answered. “Show me happy to show people that he wasn’t a bad
One day he wanted to control his powers your ice blast”, the master asked. person after all.
so that people wouldn’t treat him bad. So
he set off on a journey to see the elemental So the Ice Master shot two snow flakes By Matthew Schembri
master of all elements. he started off slow from his hands out to the sea. “Wow that’s Year 5, St Luke’s Primary School
then he ran as if he was racing a cheetah. cold”, the master paused. The Ice Master LALOR – VIC.
thought all was lost but then the master Teacher: Miss Angelucci
As he ran he noticed people staying inside said, “I know a solution but it’s risky. It
shivering with fright. he was soon almost could kill you, are you sure you want to

“You are the chosen one”

MAgINE if these are the first more than harmless baby toys, the
words you ever hear, the first fire having no impact on my infant
Iwords that someone speaks body.
to you and the first words that
enter your ears and deep into The nurses called paramedics
your brain, like thick, wispy and the fire brigade, but I
smoke. Imagine if the first was completely unharmed. I
thing you ever remember watched lots and lots of people
is as an infant, lying in the look over into my bed to take
hospital bed, with a tall, wise another look at the miracle
and mystical person looming ‘fire baby.’ I heard the nurses
over you, looking deep into ring every News station on the
your eyes and even further into platform to come to the hospital
your soul. to made reports on me. But just
as the News cars pulled into the
This was me. 4 days old, a baby girl car-park, the mysterious
named Phoenix, different figure came to my bed.
from the start. Firstly, I
was born with a huge “you are the chosen
head of fiery red curls. one.”
There wasn’t just a little string of hair. It was Okay, maybe it wasn’t that dramatic.
fully-grown, bright red locks that billowed But I like to picture it that way. My That was all he said. Five words that he
down to my tiny shoulders. Secondly, my parents cradle me, with my frizzy hair uttered under his breath, but five words
eyes are different. Not a colour with a black and glistening eyes, and they gently lay me that I heard, and even as a tiny baby, I
centre at all. In fact, it was the opposite. My into my soft bed, smiling down at me, and somehow understood. I understood that I
eye colour was a dark, dark grey, and the this beautiful – if weird – person that they wasn’t like the rest, not at all. I was unique.
specks on my pupils were a burning red. created, when suddenly the red in my eyes I was different. But most of all…
starts flickering and the whole bed turns
But the thing that made me different, that into a bed of fire. It singes my Mum’s hair I was dangerous.
made me separated from the other babies, and my Dad’s clothes. They run out of the
that made my parents leave me running, hospital ward, screaming and yelling that By Alice Kennedy
was the strangest, the most curious of all. their child was the devil. Year 7, The Geelong College
GEELONG – VIC.
As soon as I was laid in the cot, the sheets All the while I lie in the fire, playing with Teacher: Mrs Rhonda Browne
burst into flames. the flames happily as if they were nothing

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