The Adventure to Destroy Gerald

Fighting Words: An extract from a story by Rang 6, Bunscoil an Chlochair, An Daingean, Co Chiarraí

Illustration: Godfrey Coppinger
Illustration: Godfrey Coppinger

Egg was a magnificent purple pencil who lived under a bridge in Pencilville. He had his best friend, Samantha the Mouse, by his side.

One day he was walking through Pencilville and he saw a machine that turns things into humans. The machine hadn’t been tested.

The machine was owned by Gerald the Jelly, who used to be Egg’s best friend but then he turned bad. He was now his enemy.

Egg wanted to turn into a human as he wanted to eat Gerald the Jelly but Gerald wouldn’t let Egg use the machine so Egg decided to…