Blurb:Sleeping Beauty's thirteenth birthday looms on the horizon as she and her friends hole up in the cursed princess lab, determined to prove that science and technology can defeat dark magic and save the kingdom from 100 years of cursed sleep.
I rubbed my hands together warming my gloves. I then tapped my fingers, shooting slight red sparks between them. The sparks were meant to intimidate the twin princesses. It worked.
“She
shouldn’t get to wear the gloves!” April called out.
“They
give her an unfair advantage!” June agreed.
“Since
they help protect the kingdom from one hundred years of cursed sleep, I think
I’ll allow it,” Cinderella ruled.
“Go!”
Shouted Snow White.
First
to manifest was June’s monster fly. It was bigger than I remembered and I still
felt like it wanted to eat me. The fear became more real when June made the
monster fly wink its gross eye at me.
Next
came April’s speed-demon fly. It shot across the room in a blur, followed by a
booming noise, it was probably breaking the sound barrier.
Now
it was time for my fly to move from my two dimensional screen into the 3-D
world. My fly flickered then appeared in the classroom.
It
was still just a circle with two semi-circle for wings.
April
and June laughed, that perfect harmony laugh, the one that makes me feel two
feet tall when it’s directed at me.
Cinderella
and Snow White didn’t say anything but they both looked a little nervous about
my circle fly.
June’s
fly walked up to my little circle guy and opened its mouth wide. Her monster
fly had a full set of shark teeth now. As it went to bite down, my circle fly
shot across the room and crashed into April’s speedy fly. The collision knocked
April’s fly from the sky.
April
typed frantically as she attempted to move her fly off the ground.
Too
late! June’s fly speared it with it’s knife-like stinger.
April
was out, just like that!
My
circle fly was darting around still closely pursued by June’s fly.
It
tried to bite my fly again, but my fly simply vanished. April stopped typing.
She was scanning the room for my missing fly. She didn’t know my circle fly was
now microscopically small and flapping its wings inside hers. I tensed my fists
in the gloves then I forced them open. With that motion my fly turned from
microscopic to mammoth circle-fly, rupturing June’s monster fly from the inside
out.
Giant
animated fly guts splattered all around the augmented reality of our
classroom.
“Sleeping
Beauty wins!” Snow White called out.
I
threw my graduation hat ceremoniously in the air.
June
threw hers to the ground.
“Congratulations!
All three of you have completed Coding 101 with top marks!” Cinderella said.
“Welcome
to Introduction to Robotics,” Snow White said.
About the Author:
Emma Jean writes books for children of all ages.
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