Norrisville Short Story

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Norrisville, Oklahoma.

Randy yawned, his arms outstretched over the desk. He didn’t listen to the teacher in front of him drone on about the history of the town. He obviously knew the truth about it. So why bother? Howard, who is next to him, has his head completely face down. A loud snore could be heard from across the room.

Honestly, how the cheese does the teacher not hear this? Several of his classmates had their ears plugged in from just how loud Howard is snoring.

“Can he be any more obnoxious?” Debbie Kang grunted from behind Randy.

The bell rang loudly, indicting the end of the day. Howard immediately jumped up from his desk from the loud noise. Randy stood up from his desk; seeing his friend with a somewhat annoyed look on his …show more content…

His family, friends and his sister. Right in front of him and then, just like that, there were gone. Jake’s face was evident of despair. He lets out a high-pitched scream that would make the ground rumble beneath him. Jake felt like history was repeating itself. Never, would he want to experience that kind of pain again.

How? Why? Those were the questions he had been asking himself. Jake had thought there was something wrong in the magical world. He was soaring around NYC, this looks like it had been more than just his family that it had happen to. Some of the residents are gone, vanished like his family back home.

He didn’t encounter any magical creatures around to ask for help. Possibly, whatever this--a spell, maybe? Had extended towards the Magical Community as well.

Which wasn’t a good sign.

His last hope was to contact his friends. They’ll know what to do, right? Right?! Gah! Jake ran his claws through his hair. Jake needed all the help he can get right now! Calm down, Long. Calm down. You can do this. You’re the American Dragon. You have to be calm in situations like this!

It was kind of hard when your whole family disappeared right in front of you. It was a thing that happened to him before, and still hurt.

Rose.

He hoped she was okay. That she was well, despite what was going

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