There once was a boy called Bill.
He lived in a small cottage at the end of an deep dark forest with his
grandfather. They were quite isolated from life really . Bill’s life was quiet,
but he liked having long walks in the woods, hoping that one day he would find
someone or something different. Most people would think that the forest was
creepy but Bill thought it was beautiful.
One day he was walking through
the woods when suddenly he saw a small black locket lying on the branch of a
nearby birch tree. He slowy walked to the tree and grabbed it. BOOM! Something
yellow and gold flew out from the locket, It blinded his eyes for a moment and
then it drifted down towards the ground and burst into flames. Stunned at this
sight he ran back to the cottage and decided that he had only imagined it.
The next day he returned to that
exact spot to see if the incident the day before had really happened. Bill
searched and searched until he came across the identical ornament that had
given him such a fright yesterday.
Bill opened it to find a huge
pile of ashes and wondered if these belonged to that very same flame like
creature. A small beak popped up from the ashes, it was as red as the flames he
had seen not long ago, Bill shouted “What in the name of blazes is this!”
Bill grew up in West Virginia where there were
no myths or legend abouts fire creatures. Bill closed the locket, hung it
around his neck and shrugged, “Well I guess I’ll take it back anyways.”
He skipped back home knowing that
he would no longer have to feel scared about this locket. That night when Bill
slept he started to feel hot on the inside almost as if something was about to
come out of his chest . . . ‘Click’ the locket slowly creaked open and a
magnificent bird flew out of it. Bill awoke with a start, “Oh my, grandpa won’t
be very happy about this.” He tried catching it but had no luck. At last he
managed to catch it and crammed it into a cage.
Making sure that the creature was
secure he set off wandering back into the forest. It started to rain so he
found shelter underneath a big oak tree. the forest was made up out of many
different trees like Elm, Fir, Oak, Pine and Maple but only one Birch tree
stood out from the rest. It was the tree Bill had found the locket on.
Bill resumed his search
regardless of whether it was raining or not, for he really wanted to find more
artifacts to add to his ‘collection’.Bill screwed up his face when he had no luck
of finding something. When Bill finally got home he found that the bird had
escaped. “Why does this always happen to me?”
Once again he wandered through
the forest in search of the bird. Surprisingly Bill found the bird on top of
the one and only Birch tree. Bill wondered out loud “So… this is an enchanted
tree is it now?” Bill felt heart broken on the inside. “Will you please
come back to me?” Bill pleaded and
cried. He was filled with sadness and grief.
Bill
came back the next day “P-p-please come back!” As soon as those words came out
of his mouth the bird took flight and performed a dazzling show. Bill suddenly
realised what this meant, he must never want something for himself but to share it with the world.
