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In case you were wondering what my alter ego is like, here are a couple of pages from one of the stories my boys and I invented (together) about our super-powered alter egos...
Once upon a
time there lived two super brothers; Wonder Nik and his little brother Super
Mili. The super brothers had many wonderful powers, but they still enjoyed
doing what other little boys and girls did.
One day they
were playing in their backyard at home.
Wonder Nik was freezing the dogs with his ice-breath while Super Mili
thawed them out with his heat vision.
Finally, when the dogs began to yelp because they’d really had enough of
being frozen then thawed out so many times in one day, Amazing Amma (Wonder Nik
and Super Mili’s mum) came out and told them to find something else to do.
“But there is nothing else, Amazing Amma! We’ve played with all our toys, we’ve painted
the cubby house, we’ve thrown weeds to the chickens and we’ve even played
Battleship and Uno said Wonder Nik.
“Yeah,” said
Super Mili.
“Well, what is
it you’d like to do? Because you
certainly can’t go on tormenting the dogs,” said Amazing Amma sternly.
“Well...,” said
Wonder Nik, leading up to something he wasn’t sure they’d be allowed to do.
“Yes?” asked
Amazing Amma very patiently because she was an amazingly patient type of
mother.
“Well...,” said
Wonder Nik yet again, hesitating nervously.
“Yes Wonder
Nik? Just say it and we’ll see if it’s
possible,” said Amazing Amma still being amazingly patient.
“We’d really
like to go to the zoo,” replied Wonder Nik nervously.
“Yeah,” chimed
in Super Mili.
“Oh that sounds
like a great idea,” exclaimed Amazing Amma enthusiastically, “but I’m afraid I
won’t be able to come with you. You two
will have to go on your own. I have
great faith in you being responsible, and you have your super powers to help
you out if you get into any bother.
Would you like to go?”
“Oh yes
please!” shouted Wonder Nik.
“Yeah!”
enthused Super Mili excitedly.
“But how will
we get there?” asked Wonder Nik practically; he was a very practical super-boy
and liked to know the details like how they were to go somewhere or how long it
would take to get there.
“Well,” said
Amazing Amma, “you could take the train, bus and ferry, or since you do have
super powers, you could just fly there.
All you need to do is think about where you’d like to go and your
super-flying-power will get you there.”
So Wonder Nik
and Super Mili set off for a day of fun at the zoo. Within a few seconds of closing their eyes
and thinking hard of the zoo, they were soaring through the air. Super Mili opened his eyes, smiled a broad
smile and said,
“Yeah!”.
Pretty soon,
they could see the zoo up ahead. They
started to think about landing and before they knew it, they were getting lower
and lower, and closer and closer to the ground.
Amazing Amma was right, they
thought, this flying business is not so
hard. She was often right, but the
super brothers still couldn’t help questioning what she said.
Now that they
were at the zoo, they had to decide which animals they would visit first.
“Let’s go see
the tigers,” said Wonder Nik eagerly.
“No,” said
Super Mili.
“Let’s go see
the rhinoceros,” said Wonder Nik still eagerly.
“No,” said
Super Mili who didn’t really talk a lot.
“Ok... let’s go
see the monkeys then,” said Wonder Nik slightly less eagerly as he was starting
to get just a little annoyed with Super Mili continually saying no.
“No,” said
Super Mili.
“Well what do you want to see at the zoo?” asked
Wonder Nik, getting quite exasperated now.
“Crocodiles,”
said Super Mili calmly.
“Oh!” said
Wonder Nik. He didn’t like to admit it to
his super little brother, but he did want to go and see the crocodiles and he
did think that was a good place to start their adventures at the zoo.
“Oh, ok then,
we’ll go see the crocodiles,” said Wonder Nik, trying to sound like he was only
doing Super Mili a favour and didn’t really want to see the crocodiles himself.
“Yeah,” said
Super Mili confidently. He wasn’t fooled
by his wonderful big brother. He knew
Wonder Nik loved the crocodiles, that’s why he suggested starting there. He loved his big brother very much and loved
to do special things that made him happy.
Suddenly, they
heard screaming coming from their right.
They knew the lions’ cage was that way, and the screams told them that
something was definitely wrong. Wonder
Nik looked at Super Mili and they both knew at once that they had to go and
help immediately. They ran as quickly as
they could, and that was pretty fast because they did have super powers after
all. When they got near the lions’
cages, they came to a screeching halt. Someone had let the lions out! There were lions roaring and people screaming
and running in every direction.
Wonder Nik and
Super Mili knew they had to act fast.
Wonder Nik flew straight up in the air while Super Mili ran into the
lions’ cage. Wonder Nik used his
incredible-electricity-gaze to shoot electricity bolts into an enormous fence
around the lions. Meanwhile, Super Mili
used his magnificent-meat-fart-power to make the lions’ cage smell so enticing
to the lions that they would want to come running back.
Sniff,
sniff. The lions could smell the
scrumptious meaty smell coming from their cage.
Peeeuw! So could all the people
who had been running away. The smell was
so strong that the people all fainted, which was quite handy really because it
meant that Wonder Nik could round up the lions and herd them back into their
cage without having to worry about what the people were doing.
Once all the
lions were in, Super Mili shut the cage and used his super-hot-snot-power to
seal the cage door shut, just as all the people started to recover and cheer.
“Great job!”
exclaimed Wonder Nik.
“Yeah!” agreed
Super Mili.
