Story Arc #4: The Hero of Pendown
The Wishing Well Portal
A chapter of a ‘choose your own’ story
This is a ‘choose your own’ story. Click here to return to the previous chapter. The beginning of the story arc can be found here.
Deep in the corn maze, you hear a trumpet sound. At your feet is… eww! A slime trail.
Following it, you see your axe against a wishing well.
And now, a voice: “Help me down!”
Down?
You grab the axe, then peer inside. A bald green-blue creature is hanging from an upside-down tree, head just above the surface. The tree is below the water; the creature is set to fall up.
“Help!”
The voice now sounds angry.
“What are you?”
It laughs, its eyeballs spinning. “A collector. This portal promised a world.”
It snatches your axe, snarls, then clambers out.
Continue…
As well as continuing a CYOA story, this is a response to Sweet Chaos’s Hodgepodge Challenge #3. Hopefully I got all the prompts/constraints, and I promise that it’s a drabble, too!
Working your way through a corn maze (1pt). Someone/thing is a kleptomaniac – the alien (1pt). Something (unnatural) falling from the trees – the alien (1pt). Someone’s emotions are expressed in an unusual way – alien's eyes (1pt). Wishing well grants distorted wishes – sort of...? (1pt, I hope). Something sticky – slime trail (1pt). Musical instrument/its sound (1pt). Drabble (1pt).If you enjoyed this piece, you might also like the other ‘Choose Your Own’ stories from this publication (see below). Want to join us in writing collaborative choose your own adventure stories? Learn more here!
