31 August 2011

Spanish Pilgrims Magic Soccer Game


One morning in Spain, the church bells were ringing as a line of pilgrims were walking down from the mountain towards the church. The first in line was a priest carrying a cross. 

The second in line was a famous Portugese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo carrying a soccer ball. He had a broad smile on his face and when everyone saw him coming they all cheered. 

Third in line was a young girl. Her name was Lucy and she was looking really sad.


She was saying, "Where's my mummy?"

When all the people heard her they said, "Oh."



An old Spanish Grandmother came hurrying out. She had a shawl around her shoulder and a walking stick.  

She reached out her hand to touch the girl on the shoulder and a ring on her finger sparkled in the sunlight. 




The old lady said something in Spanish to the girl. The ring turned into a necklace around the girl's neck. She said, "Oh that's nice. I wish, I wish my mother was here to see it." 



There was a loud woosh and her mother appeared and gave her a big hug. "Oh. Wow! That's great. This necklace must be magic!"

The priest turned to her and said, "Sssssh!"

Lucy said, "Oh I wish you would go away!" and woosh, the priest disappeared.

Ronaldo the soccer player said, "Cool!"


Lucy said, "Oh. You're Ronaldo the soccer player. Oh, I wish I could play soccer with you."


Woosh! Lucy and Ronaldo appeared in a huge soccer stadium and all of the people were cheering.





The soccer ball landed between them. Ronaldo kicked the ball to Lucy.







Lucy headed the ball back to Ronaldo. Every called out "Viva Lucy!" Lucy said, "Cool this is great!"





Ronaldo kicked to ball again and Lucy kicked it forward to Ronaldo and kicked the ball into the goal.


Hooray! Lucy and Ronaldo were so excited that they went running across the field and skidded across the grass on their knees. Lucy was jumping up and down she was so excited but she didn't realise that the necklace had caught on the corner post and broken and that the jewels were scattering across the soccer field.



The other team kicked off with the ball sailing high up into the air. Lucy called out, "Oh I wish I could intercept that ball."
But nothing magic happened. Lucy missed it and one of the other team members scored a goal.



Ronaldo gave Lucy a disappointed look and Lucy realised something was wrong but what? 


She reached up to touch the necklace but it wasn't there.


The other team had the ball again and Lucy said, "Oh I've got to do something quickly. Oh I wish someone would help me."


High up in the stadium was sitting an old Spanish lady with a walking stick. She pointed her walking stick at the broken necklace where it lay on the grass. With a woosh, all of the stones slipped back onto the necklace and the necklace came flying through the air.







It hovered over Lucy's head and when she looked up it dropped over her neck. Lucy said, "Oh, I wish we could win!" 


Lucy could see the ball flying towards her. She jumped up and headed the ball down towards Ronaldo. He passed it back to Lucy who gave the ball a tremendous kick and it sailed over the goalie's head and into the corner of the goal.


"Yes, yes. We've won. We've won."


They ran off the field and into the change rooms as everyone cheered. Ronaldo said, "Thank you. Thank you." He gave Lucy a big kiss.


Lucy said, "Oh it wasn't me. It was the old lady's magic necklace."


Ronaldo said, "Lucy could you give me the magic necklace?"


Lucy said, "Oh no. I need it to wish my mum back."

As soon as she did, Lucy's mum appeared, and Lucy said, " I wish, I wish my mum could marry Ronaldo."



There was a woosh and the priest appeared with his cross and straight away he married Ronaldo and Lucy's mum. And sometimes, just sometimes, Lucy lets Ronaldo borrow the magic necklace so he can score more goals.


(This story was created by Daryll Bellingham and the students from year 2A and 2B from Belmont State School as part of the 2011 Belmont Literature Festival.)

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