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The Magical Ring
Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, So, Daniel - 11
In the corner of a dark castle, a sailor tried to find a place to cry. The sailor was Paul and he always
cried. He was a tall, thin boy with small eyes and small ears. Although he was handsome and
hard-working, he always felt sad, like his brain made him cry for no reason.
He had found somewhere to sit and hide, but then he saw something in the sky outside the
window. He decided to follow it and chased it all the way to the forest. The thing landed on the
grass. It has a box. Paul opened it and he saw a ring, he put on the ring.
“Boom!” an explosion happened, Paul found out that personality had changed, he didn’t
know what had changed though. He had stopped crying. He felt brave and strong. He did a few
air punches and he saw that he was now punching fireballs! He thought, “The king needs
someone that is strong to help him. I should go to the Strong Man Competition so I can help the
king.”
The next day, Paul went to the Strong Man Competition. Paul needed to do a test to see if
he was strong enough to join the competition. Most of the sailors tried to join the competition,
but they were too weak to join, only the strongest sailor could join.
Paul went to the test and someone said, “You’re too weak to join the competition, now get
lost!” Paul said, “I look weak, but I am really strong.” He showed the person how strong he was,
and he passed the test to join the competition.
Through the competition, Paul took down the strong sailors one by one, all the sailors taKen
down by just one hit of Paul’s punches. But there was the strongest sailor in the castle left and his
name was John. John was pretty strong; nobody could take him down at all. He had helped the
king for fifteen years.
Paul and John were both really strong. They fought hard and it took about ten minutes until
John was tired. Because of the power of the ring, Paul did not get tired at all. Paul won the
competition and he helped the king to do all kinds of stuff like build a bigger castle, take down the
beast in the caves and more.
Every day they were doing something new. Paul got rewarded every week and lived in a
better room than any other sailor. He now thought life was very good.