Short Stories from the 2^ Class

Witch Hunters

Once upon a time, in the XV century, there were two brothers who went from one village to another to kill evil witches and save the local population.

Their names were Augustus and Adam Blackwell and they started being witch hunters when a cruel and powerfull witch burn their house and killed their parents when they were kids.

Augustus, the oldest one, was 23 years old and he was tall and muscled with bronze-colored curly hair and green eyes. Instead the youngest, Adam, was short and thin, less muscled than his brother, with short dark hair and brown eyes.

He was only 18 years old but he had faced things that even a grown man can't imagine.

One day they went in a small village called Axams because the population was threatened by a group of witches that kidnapped and killed children for their sabbath.

When they arrived there the mayor explained them the situation, then they immediately went into the wood near the village to find the witches' hiding place.

They walked through the wood for the whole day but they couldn't find anything so they decided to stop because the sun was about to set.

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, while they were sleeping under a tree, they heard a noise behind a bush.

Augustus got up to see what that noise was, then he saw a witch right in front of him; she was a tall and thin woman with long dark hair and red eyes, moreover her skin was green and wrinkled.

Augustus took his sward and started fighting with her but she was too strong, so he screamed to call his brother Adam who came to help him.

The witch, called Tessa, hit Adam with a spell and the guy fell to the ground because he got wounded in the leg.

Augustus ran to his brother and helped him, while the witch ran away because the sun was about to rise and the sunlight kills witches.

Adam's wound wasn't very serious so he stood up and followed Tessa with Augustus to kill her.

They followed her until they came to an old high tower in the middle of a clearing.

Adam and Augustus climbed on top of the tower and entered from a small window.

Then they saw all the children of Axams in a cage supervised by Tessa and two other witches, the three evil women were preparing a potion to kill those children in their sabbath.

Tessa noticed the witch hunters and she ordered the other witches to kill them, the first witch attacked Augustus but he took his sward out of his scabbard and killed her.

The second one ran to Adam and tried to hit him with a spell but he grabbed his arc and hit the witch with an arrow.

Tessa saw that her two accomplices were dead so she tried to escape because she was afraid of the brothers, but they stopped her and hit her in her chest with the sward.

They thought she was dead but she was still alive; she cast a spell to kill Augustus but Adam saw that and pushed him away, then he ran to Tessa and stuck a dagger in her heart.

All the evil witches were finally dead so Adam and Augustus released the children and brought them back to their parents in the village.

The inhabitants of Axams were so grateful to the brothers so they gave them a reward for having helped them; the next day Adam and Augustus left the village to go on new adventures but Axams will never forget those two brave witch hunters who released the village from the evil Tessa.

(Francesca Berlinghieri e Michele Bertoni 2^ Liceo Linguistico/Scientifico)

IT DIDN’T WORK BUT…

Once upon a time, during the first century B.C., there was the Latin Man, an evil man who subjected the world population to his power. He was really cruel with people and with animals, in fact he liked spitting on them. He lived in Cemmo of Capo di Ponte, a little village near Civitas Cammunorum and he was a roman emperor. He was Julio Caesar’s son and he looked like a ghost, with a pearl grey skin. He used to wear a big gold chain with the symbol of the dollar at its end. He also would wore a football cap and a dalmatian fur, a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses and red high heels shoes. His castle was called “Zitti House”. The Nuns who lived there were the maids of the Latin Man and Bexy Silvy was his wife. Besides, the Latin Man had two ferrets called Antonio Banderas and Pietro Bubu, which he used to kill people when they were doomed to “damnatio ad furettum”.

One day two great friends came to Cemmo from Bethlehem; their names were Marcus and Trippy. Marcus was thin and very tall and he had black glasses with little round lenses. He had moustache like Captain Hook , he was intelligent and he loved reading the Divine Commedy and the Promised Mice. Trippy was a fat and short man, with orange moustache like those of Adolf Hitler. When they were together they were really funny and a little bit stupid.

When they arrived, they heard the people of Capo di Ponte complaining about the Latin Man: a man screamed: “He stole all my money”; a woman said in her tears: “He took away my children to turn them into gladiators”.

Marcus and Trippy were really sorry for those poor people and they decided to call their magic friends to help them. Trippy took out from his pocket his Iphone 6 plus and he did some calls while Marcus was revising the Latin grammar on his “New Expedite Plus”.

The heroes who Trippy had called couldn’t come at once because they were very busy and they said that they would have arrived later. In the meantime they went to the Latin Man. “Stop being rude with your people!” said Marcus, “You must love them!” added Trippy, but the Latin Man didn’t listen to them and sent them away.

Thereupon Cinderella came to Zitti House and she hit the bad man with her crystal shoe, but he didn’t give up. Then, also Otto from Rapunzel came and threw his biscuits onto the Latin Man’s head. But the cruel man answered: “Ego barcollus sed non mollum”. Just after that, Heidi arrived singing the Jodel and behind her came also Pota Pig screaming “Habemus Potaaa!!”. All this bustle caused the Sisters’ revolt and Sister Daniela with Sister Elvira tried to exorcize the Latin Man with their crucifixes, but it didn’t work. At the end the Beauty and the Beast came and, using their love, moved the Latin Man so deeply that he repented and became a good emperor. The moral of the story is that everything can be solved with love and kindness, however Latin is still a dead language.

(Giulia Missarelli e Sofia Franzoni - 2^ liceo Linguistico)