The Legendary Pill

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Ricky who was a great scientist but his family was very poor. Ricky was an awesome kid, he would be friends with anyone. He was very athletic and smart. Sadly, he had to sleep on the floor every night.
One day while he was at home, a package came to him. “Huh, wonder what this is?” He opened the box and skimmed around for anything. Suddenly, he found a note in the bottom. It said: Does your family need money? Well lucky for you, here’s a recipe. I don’t have the ingredients to make this. Hope you have them. Bye. The recipe used laser beams, tator tots, and sugar.
“Wow,” Ricky thought, “how convenient. I have all those things.” He mixed the ingredients together at a friend’s house. To his surprise the recipe made a pill. He ate it. Then somehow he was a year older. He noticed this too. He had grown a little taller and heavier. It was amazing! He had to show this to everybody.
The next day, Ricky told everyone in school about the recipe and what had happened and they believed him. They all wanted to have one of these great pills. It was a long day, everyone gathering around asking to have a pill. It was exhausting for Rick.
The following day the principal found out about the magic pills and told all the parents and staff in the school about it. Within a few hours everybody, except Ricky, kept taking the legendary pill and they were getting old. He had to make an antidote for this! He rushed back to his house and figured out a cure: blueberries and pumpkin juice. He mixed them and brought it back to school. He gave it to everybody and they all went back to their original age.
Somehow, The Newscast was watching and filming all of this. They sent $1,000,000 to Ricky’s house to get new furniture. Shortly after school, he got home and there was $1,000,000. “Oh my goodness! I knew the note said I’d get some money, but I never imagined it would be this much! Now we can buy a new house and every that we need. I guess fame is a great reward, but it requires a lot of care.”

-By Richard Pekarski
Age 9