On a magic space ship Milly visits a distant planet
Millys Magic Tricycle
by Paul McCann
Milly sat in looking out the window at the spring flowers outside in the garden . In the silence she could hear the birds singing . She went down the stairs and out to the garden and jumped on her tricycle . As soon as she sat in the seat , a rainbow appeared in the sky and it started to shimmer as it fell to the ground . Milly started make her way to the where the rainbow was . As soon as she reached that spot her tricycle turned into a rocket ship that lifted off the ground and into the sky above and soon it was travelling into outer space .
She looked out the window of the rocket ship at the cosmos , where comets blazed across and stars shone brightly . Her little rocket ship continued its journey past meteors and floating debris that drifted past . Suddenly her little rocker was drawn as if by a magnet down to the surface of a red planet where it transformed into a buggy cart that made its way across the planet surface . It stopped now and as it did four legs came out from underneath the buggy and extended enabling the buggy to elevate for a better view of the planets terrain .
As the buggy continued to make its way over the surface of the planet there were some funny looking rocks with smoke coming out from vapour holes .
The purple smoke hovered in the air for a while and then it changed reddish in colour before it turned into a floating rock and eventually falling down to the ground .
These reddish rocks were scattered in circular patterns all over the surface ,
A compartment from the side of the buggy sent out a grabbing tool and picked up some of the rocks and placed them on a Shute that was extended from the side of the buggy and the rocks then were taken as samples inside a tray on the buggy .
Hovering above the planet a strange mother ship appeared . It looked like a huge tricycle with lights whirling and flashing . The tricycle ship started to make a whirring sound followed by a transmission of bleeping sounds which resulted in a series of whirling and swirling lights cascading down to the ground in a vortex of spiralling lights that descended upon the little buggy lifting it up off the planets surface and then back inside the mother ship.
Below on the planet’s surface small holes opened up from underneath the surface of the planet strange looking blue creatures appeared with large kaleidoscope eyes and feathered wings on their with arms that extended and started waving . The creatures took flight and grabbed each other making an arc that turned into a rainbow in the space that levelled out like a runway as far as the eye could see . The tricycle shaped mother ship landed upon the rainbow runway and blasted off at tremendous speed through space and then it landed at the top of a rainbow above the house where Milly , and it started to shrink in size until it was back to its normal shape as a tricycle with Milly making her way along the rainbow road to her front gate .
The spring flowers in the garden seemed to be dancing the wind as Milly made her way along the path to the front door of her house . She returned to the Attic and looked out the window as the rainbow disappeared . Putting her hands in her pockets she was very surprised to find some little reddish pebbles that glowed brightly in her hands . The pebbles had a musical sound that soothed her and she lay down on her bed and fell fast asleep .
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