The Mysterious Pumpkin Carving
By Leilani
It was the morning before Halloween, Lightning flashed rain poured heavily down while tree branches scraped the windows Bang Crash Crack....
Kristy Karter’s favourite time of year is Halloween and her birthday. Kristy’s friends Kaitlyn, Lara, Lucy and Kellie always went ‘Trick or Treating’ together. It was kind of like a tradition.
Meanwhile Kristy Karter and her mother set out to the local shops. Since her father worked late she rarely saw him so Kristy and her mum had to do the shopping together.
Anyway they were in search of a nice fat Pumpkin to carve for ‘Trick or Treating’ kristy’s favourite time of year. After a while Kristy cried “look mum, look over there there’s the perfect pumpkin”!! Her mum rushed over to where she was pointing and immediately paid for it. After that they wandered around a bit more until they saw it. The perfect knife was there standing before them begging for attention.
By the time the pair got home it was lunchtime. Wow they thought time flies by in minutes. For lunch they had freshly brought scones and jam with a little glass of orange juice. Kristy decided to carve her Pumpkin after dinner so that it will still be fresh in the morning. She decided to make herself useful and go organize her Halloween costume.
She decided to go as a Vampire with a long black dress, sharp pointy fangs, a velvet red coat as red as blood, and pointy-toed black boots.
Then she headed downstairs to have dinner. As soon as she finished she got the knife carefully out of the cupboard and set it on the table along with her Pumpkin. First she thought hmm what type of face should I carve. I know I’ll draw it with fire shaped eyes, a big fat smile with long,sharp fangs to look like a vampire just like my costume.
As Kristy was carving she noticed something very unusual. Her pumpkin was glowing a strange orangey sunset colour. She thought ‘It’s probably just the light’.
That night she and her friends made arrangements to meet at Kristy’s house at 7.00 to go ‘Trick or Treating’. Everyone was quite happy about the time. That night at 10.7 Kristy put her gorgeous costume on and headed down stairs to retrieve her already finished carved pumpkin from her mother’s soft, gentle hands and made her way to the front door waiting for her friends to arrive. At last her friends arrived. Kaitlyn came as a zombie, Lara was a witch, Lucy pretended to be Lara’s pet midnight black kitten and Kellie dressed up as a evil version of her.
While they were walking down the street Lara stopped and stared “Kristy, Kristy your Pumpkin it’s talking!”. Lucy said “Lara don’t be silly it’s probably a technology one, right
Kristy, Kristy”. They all stared at kristy who was ghostly pale waiting for her answer, finally she was able to mutter “ I I carved it myself”.
They all stared at her dumbstruck. “But that’s not possible” lara muttered, “that’s so true”, they all agreed. “Kristy did you see anything strange when you were carving your pumpkin”, Lara said.
“ The pumpkin was kind of glowing when I carved”.
“ did the knife you used look a bit like this?” and showed her a drawing in her history notebook that looked exactly like the knife she had bought.
“ yes, it certainly looks like it”.
“Well then according to my notebook ‘if you use this knife on a vegetable it will make it talk, it may turn evil or nice, it depends’ she read.
“ It depends on what”, Kristy asked.
“ Kristy did you carve the pumpkin while it was still fresh”.
“ Yes, Why?”
“ Well, at least we now know if our pumpkin is evil or not”.
“ So what is it!!”.
“ It is evil”.
“ Whatt, how do you know because to me that is just ridiculous!”.
“ For your information, I know because it says right here that, if the pumpkin is still fresh while it is being cut it turns evil”.
“ Um, Lara is there someway to undo it, because I don’t think I like the idea of walking around with a evil,talking pumpkin”, Kellie whispered.
“Me too, everyone” agreed.
“ Well it says here that ‘ to reverse this curse you must find a replica of that knife and carve your vegetable again in exact spot and make sure the knife is glowing blue’.
“ Obviously we should search at the local shops as that was where Kristy got the original knife”.
“Agreed”.
In spite of their worries they ran off too Lara’s house to see if she could give them a ride. They burst through the door
“ Hey mum, do you think you could drive us to the local shops before it close because we have a huge mystery to solve!” Lara exclaimed.
“ Wait slow down, did you just say you have a huge mystery to solve because before I agree to anything I would like to know what this is all about”. You see lara’s mother was a detective that is why she is curious to know what was going on.
“Mummm, there is no time we have to leave right now, i’ll explain it in the car. “COME ON!!!!!!
“ Okay, okay lets go”
On the way lar explained with as much detail as possible to her mum.
“Hang on are you saying that Kristy has somehow made a evil pumpkin and that we need to find a replica of it before it’s too late”.
“YES!!”
“ Okay here’s the plan as, soon as we get there we will spit up and we we find the knife we will bring to the others, pay for it and get out of there. “We will try and get in there and then get out as soon as possible, got it?”
“ Yes” they all replied.
When they got there they rushed inside found it in record time and hurried back to the car. Lara’s mum drove as fast as she could to Kristy’s house dropped them off and went back home.
They rushed inside and grabbed the pumpkin took it to the dining room and set to work carving it once again. Kristy took the knife from Lara and started carving the pumpkin in the exact same spot. As they stared the pumpkin glowed a bright baby blue colour. When the process was over they all waited to see if anything happened. They waited and waited, but there still was nothing. They were silent for a long time. Anyway it was Lara who broke the tension.
“I might as well look in my notebook and see what it says to do”.
“ It says that ‘once the process has finished and the pumpkin is glowing blue remove the knife wash the pumpkin in water and it should be back to normal, you will be able to tell if it’s back to normal if the carving has turned black”.
Kellie removed the knife washed the pumpkin and checked to see if it was black. Luckily it had turned black.
“ Well at least all that drama is done, now we can sit back and relax”.
“Agreed”.
So that was the end of their adventure.
The End
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