"Kyla and the Magic Retainer"

a folktale adaptation by
Ashley
Grade Five
Riverview Elementary, Sioux CIty, Iowa



Once, far away on the wood planet of Catacult, lived a young werewolf named Kyla. Kyla had long, curly, brown hair that went to her shoulders. She had bright blue eyes and light peach skin. Her voice was soft and sweet like a bird's morning song.

She lived with her mean stepmother and evil stepsisters. The mother was very large and had long, straight, tan hair. It was very messy. Her eyes were fiery black and were always evilly laughing. She gave Kyla the meanest chores around the house and yard.

For you see, when Kyla was very young her mother died, and shortly after her father was remarried, he passed away of an out-of-control cold. When he was out of the way, her stepmother was free to express her short, nasty temper. She gave Kyla chores to do all the time. If that wasn't enough, she made Kyla wear uncool clothes and had her sleep in the dirty corner of the cave, while her daughters had cool clothes and lovely rooms.

It was another normal afternoon. Kyla was doing her chores when the doorbell rang. Kyla answered it. There on the doorstep was a note. She picked it up and read it.

It was an invitation to the party on the night before the triple full moon. It also said the son of the alfa wolf's son was looking for a wife and for all the young ladies to look their finest. She quickly took the note to her mother and sisters.

When her mother finished reading Kyla got up the nerve and asked, "May I go too?" Her sisters and mother looked at her blankly for a moment and burst out laughing! "You!" said the oldest," Your uncool clothes and ugly black retainer!"

That night, her sisters and mother got on their rollerblades and left. Kyla stuck her head out the window to say goodbye then cried, "Oh well, maybe next year." A small teardrop fell onto a lily in the flower garden under the window.

Kyla wiped away her tears and stood up. She thought she saw a white light flutter in, but the light was too bright to look at. so she paid no attention to it.

As she turned to leave she heard a lovely voice call, "Don't go!" She turned back and saw a dainty women with black hair and a warm smile in a lily yellow dress. "I can help you." the lady said, "First , I'll need eight tomatoes and two curved squash." Kyla got the vegetables without any questions. P>The moment she got back she laid the veggies on the ground. With a flick of the lily fairy's wand the tomatoes fit under the squash and turned into rollerblades! Beautiful ones at that. Black, blue, and red.

Again, the lily fairy flicked her wand and Kyla was no longer wearing uncool clothes, but a pair of Zonz jeans(baggy, wide-legged, of course) and a sky-blue short sleeve shirt with a single white strip on each shoulder. Her blue eyes were covered by cool sunglasses and a floppy, black hat was on top of her curly hair. she was totally awesome!

Kyla flung the boots off and put the rollerblades on. Before she left, her lily fairy told her to be back by midnight or the spell would be broken. Kyla looked in the mirror before she left and saw she was wearing a half-gold half-silver retainer. Off she rode, off to the party.

The sun had just set, so when she got there she had to be careful not to bump into the flying saucers. All eyes were on her as she entered the campfire's dim glow. Her sisters were over hounding Zang, the alfa wolf's son, so they didn't take time to look at her.

Zang walked up to her and introduced himself and asked her if she wanted to dance. She replied yes so he took her hand in his and danced until the feast. At supper Kyla took her retainer out and laid it beside her.

Before she knew it the midnight bells rang . Kyla said goodbye quickly, put on her blades and zoomed home. It was too late when she realized she had forgotten her lovely silver and gold retainer.

The next day, she was back in her normal clothes, the doorbell rang. In rushed a little man with her retainer on the pillow. He was to try it on every maiden.

First, he tried it on the oldest sister. She had straight, messy hair like her mom, only her's was bright red. Her name was Smalla, because her gray eyes and mouth were ensy, winsy, tiny! So of course, the retainer didn't even fit in her mouth. Next, he tried it on the youngest. She had messy, curly, black hair that was always in a tangle. Her eyes were bright green like a cat. Moua was her name because she had an enormous mouth! Of course it slipped right in, between her tongue and teeth.

Finally, he came to Kyla. She slipped it in her mouth with ease. All of a sudden, she was back in her cool clothes. The man rushed her off to the alfa's cave.

No one ever saw her stepmother or stepsisters ever again. Kyla never forgot them. Someone said they say them on the F.B.I.'s Most Wanted, but they weren't sure.

In the end, Kyla and Zang got married and lived happily ever after.




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Last updated Mar. 19, 1998