Kaleb’s Travels

One day I went to buy a mask that I really liked the look of. I went to the market on Sunday I had my 18 dollars in my pocket from my allowance. I got to the market and ran into the shop at the end of the hall. I got to the counter and I could see the mask hanging on the wall. It was of a tiger's face and I liked it because I am a tiger in the Chinese zodiac. The owner came out and asked what I wanted (he was very rude). I said, "I would like that tiger mask". He grumbled "You can't have it, it's not for sale".

I was very sad about what he said because I really wanted the mask. When the owner was out the back of the shop I snuck around the counter until I was just under the mask. I tried to reach for the mask but it was too high up. I noticed a desk chair next to the counter, so I got the chair and rolled it over to the wall where the mask hung. I was climbing up onto the chair when I heard a noise that sounded like the owner's footsteps. I got down off the chair and had a look through the doorway. He was going to his room. "that means sleep!" I thought. I got back up onto the chair and reached for the mask. This time I was just the right height. I got it down and slid off the chair with the mask in my hand.

I got to the door of the market and ran out so fast that I didn't notice the rock in front of me, I ran right over the little rock and tripped over with the wooden mask. At least the mask was not damaged but me... I had a big cut on my hand! Wait a second, Where is my hand? I can't see anything! I tried to get up off the ground. When I got up I had something stuck to my face. It was the mask, and it had done something very strange...

I walked home with a strange feeling of fur on the pavement and it felt like I was walking like a dog. When I got to my house and saw my mum, she stared at me and before I knew it she was on the floor! I went over to where she was unconscious. I looked at where I was touching her on the head, and I saw a strange fury hand! I screamed so hard that a Plutonian popped into the house through the window and said "Be quiet! I can hear you all the way from Pluto!" Now I could guess what had happened, I was holding the mask of the tiger and I fell into it face first. And since I AM a tiger in the zodiac, the mask must have turned me into a tiger.

The next day my mum was in bed and I got up and went for a walk. It was very early in the morning and nobody would be awake. I got half way through the park when I saw a zoo keeper with a big net. He was looking for the old bears from up in the mountain, those bears often come down to look for honey around these parts in the morning. But today the zoo keeper was lucky because he noticed me, a tiger. He ran and ran until he was at the closest tree and climbed up the tree with the net, ready to catch something. He threw the net as soon as I was in sight and he caught me! I roared loudly and tried to escape from the net. But it was just too hard. He put me in his huge truck that was bigger than a house and he took me to the zoo.

At first I tried to get out of this cage all the time and escape back to my life, but I met lots of other tiger friends and now I am not bothered about being here even though it means that I am not a person anymore. And when my mum figured out what happened, she came to visit me at the zoo every sunday and she brought me ice-cream and cheese because they were my favourite foods when I was a person. And my whole family like to come and visit me at the zoo. So I actually think, that being a tiger is even better than being a person!

The End.