Unicorns save the day
Given only a limited time to write an essay, I came upon the idea to write about three unicorns on an adventure to defeat the sassy kitten boss. I decided to write about this random topic to try to interest the reader. I wanted the reader to feel confused and shocked by the topic so they wonder where the story was going. This topic interests me because it is very obscure and it allows me to create and imagine what the lives of unicorns and sassy kittens are like. I enjoy reading fictional stories and when I was a child, I would imagine characters with special powers and play with those around me. I do believe I will grab the attention of the readers. They would show interest in the topic through surprise that a college student, in a professional environment, would write about such a childish topic. I want that surprise to bring out their curiosity, causing them to pay attention to the story. Although they may show interest in the beginning, the readers may fade out of the story and get bored by predicting the plot.
Have you ever wondered what was on the other side of the moon? There are many stories of aliens or martians on the other side, which has not been proven false, nor has it been proven true, but on the other side of the moon there also lives a kitten. This kitten is known to have the power to torture their enemies through irritation and sass, explaining the reason for the kitten being known as SKB, Sassy Kitty Boss. Many worlds and warriors have trained hard to defeat this boss, but none have yet succeeded. The SKB has become more and more arrogant and became known as SKAB, Sassy Kitty Arrogant Boss. He stopped giving notice to people trying to defeat him because he believed nobody could even touch him. But what nobody knew was that there is a small dwarf planet where there are three warrior unicorns, Paul, Deron, and Kenny La, who are going to be the ones that defeat him.
One day, on this little dwarf planet, there was a festival, where the youngest unicorn of each family had to gather in the north of the planet. There was an event to test the different skills of the unicorns to test their abilities and enhance their skills. All the unicorns took the event seriously and considered each other rivals. The tension in the air was unbreakable as they all looked around at their competitors. In this band of unicorns, there were three unicorns destined to save the galaxy, Paul, Deron, and Kenny La. Paul was a fire unicorn, so he had to test his fire skills with power and stabilization His test was to control the fire that was coming out of his horn by drawing sunrise with different intensities of fire. Paul turned out to have the most control of the fire group. Deron is a glue unicorn, he had the power to spray glitter glue dust from his horn. His test was to quickly seal the cracks of the dam, so the water wouldn't leak. He was the only one that completed his task with no leaks. Kenny La is a web unicorn, some call him the spidercorn to recognize his spiderweb shooting speed. His test was to catch as many marshmallows thrown into the forest as he can using the trees and webs. Kenny La ended up being the quickest in shooting the webs but third place in catching. These three have been recognized by the Secret Unicorn Association and have been recruited to go on a mission to defeat the SKAB.
The SUA took these three unicorns in and trained their teamwork for 3 years until SKAB could not be handled any longer. Although they were still rookies, the SUA became desperate and had no choice but to send Paul, Deron, and Kenny La as their last hope. The three were shipped to the bright side of the moon to prepare for war with the martians at the border. Paul, Deron, and Kenny La panicked knowing they were not ready for this fight. They kept pacing back and forth confused as to what needed to be done. They needed to get to the other side without being noticed, but how. Paul's emotions began to get out of hand because of the stress for a plan. There were times where he would suddenly stop in place and freeze for a moment. The next second, you would find him stomping as tears rolled down his cheeks. Deron realized it was not the time to go crazy, but stay calm and collected. If they were going to start anywhere, it needed to be the basics of war, defense and attack. Deron decided to create a fireball catapult by making poles with glitter glue and the web as a launcher. But first, Kenny La and Deron needed to bring Paul back to his senses. Kenny La shot webs at Paul's legs while running around him, which caused Paul to collapse on his side. Paul began screaming with fear and panic as Deron placed his hooves on Paul's neck. Kenny La then yelled out Paul's name to get him back to the situation, “PAUL, look at me, LOOK AT ME!”. As Paul's eyes met Kenny La's, he began to quiet down and come back to his senses. His breath slowing and relaxing as their eyes were still in line. When Paul was back, Deron slowly explained the situation and what needed to be done for the catapult. Deron started making the globs of glue into two poles, Kenny was making a ball of web so Paul can light on fire. As they continued to use the fire, they did not know the smoke would disperse and alert the martians of suspicious activities. The next minute, the martians have begun setting up stinky cheese barricades until it became a giant wall of cheese. Realizing what the martians did, the three began shooting the fireballs at the wall in the hope that the cheese would break and melt away. They pulled the poles up using the webs and glued the poles to the ground. Kenny La used his horn to shoot a net of webs attaching the poles. Paul began lighting the web balls and placing them on the net, but the net began catching on fire causing the ball to drop and create a hole in the moon. After seeing that the moon reacts to fire, they planned to use fire to create a tunnel underground to the other side. So Paul began his adventure of the underground tunnel while Kenny La and Deron were building stairs to climb over the wall as a back up plan. Days passed as the martians built walls and the unicorns built tunnels and stairs. The SKAB began giving less notice to the three believing they are just another waste of time. Little did he know, Paul's tunnel was already under his kingdom. Kenny La and Deron ceased the building of the stairs and followed into the tunnel after Paul. The three stayed underground for two days thinking of a new plan. The martians and SKAB thought the three have given up and gone home, but in fact, they were just under their feet.
The next day, the three decided to execute with the plan. Paul began shooting his fire upward to create an opening to the dark side of the moon. Deron charged his glitter glue dust while Kenny La focused his web to try exerting force to push them up. As soon as Paul created an opening, Kenny La pushed them up and Deron began firing his dust creating a sticky overlay surrounding them. Kenny sprayed his web to coat the stick and Paul lit the web on fire. This created a defense barrier from the martians and also lit up the dark side of the moon. They looked at the martians in confusion. They realized martians weren't what they were said to be. They weren't green, they didn't have antennas, they weren't skinny long things. They were fluffy little balls with puppy eyes. The martians noticed the three and began creeping toward the defense barrier. They began getting mesmerized by the ring of fire in front of them. They were like children staring at something new. They began coming forward to the fire, trying to touch it, but there fur started catching on fire and the dark side of the moon began getting brighter than the bright side of the moon, revealing the location of SKAB. As the martians yelped and ran all around the moon, the three decided to take the chance and attack the SKAB. The SKAB was in shock, not realizing what had just happened, he began questioning and talking back with attitude. Paul, Deron, and Kenny La began shaking and losing energy at the sound of the voice. Kenny La and Deron tried shooting the SKAB with the glue and web, but their energy was quickly depleting. They didn't know what to do, they didn't know what they could do. Kenny La realized the only way to get rid of SKAB was to get him to stop talking. He decided to gather the last bit of his energy and charge at SKAB. Kenny La began charging as quick as he possibly could, leaving Paul and Deron in confusion. He turned around and used his last bit of energy to shoot his web at the ground to boost him up to SKAB's face, causing Kenny La to land in SKAB's mouth and block the sound. Paul and Deron began regaining their energy and rushed toward SKAB to help Kenny La, but it was too late. Kenny was gone. As they cried out in discontent, Deron shot the biggest bundle of glitter dust at SKAB's mouth, causing SKAB to be unable to speak. Deron lit the biggest ball of fire containing all his anger and threw it at SKAB's upper body making the fur to catch on fire. SKAB's fur slowly began burning off patch after patch, but it didn't stop there. His skin began turning dark and his flesh began opening as his escaping scream came to a hum. His flesh began coming apart and falling to the ground as it burned away. What was left was the teeth, bones, and a ball. The fire caught onto the ball and slowly melted the sides. Taken aback, Paul and Deron rushed to the melting ball and realized the ball was made of webs. They found Kenny La, curled and still alive. In shock, they stood there speechless, not knowing whether it was their eyes or if it was real. As they carefully helped him out they noticed something else in the ball. A kitten, a fresh baby kitten.
I have not found factual evidence about unicorns and sassy kittens, but I have played games and watched shows with their appearance, causing me to base my story on those. I have not written about unicorns or sassy kittens before either, but my friends and I have developed stories to make fun of them. Once every few months, someone thinks of something new to add to the story, like how Wardle and Downs said in Writing About Writing, “writers think up ideas over time”. I would think about what happened in the story and think about how I could make is better.
My outside information, experience, and time to write about unicorns and sassy kittens is very limited, which may cause some problems creating the actions and daily life of the characters in the story. Writing is created with inspiration, and with the lack of time, I may not be able to add as much details or even get to the ending. Although I am very limited, this is a fictional story, therefore I can experiment and create their lives and actions like what Susan Santog said in “Directions: Write, Read, and Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed”, “Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive”. This allows my imaginative world to expand and allow my writing world to flow.
I have never written a fictional story before. More than that, I never wrote a story about Unicorns fighting Kittens. After reading Stephen King's essay “What Writing Is”, and his quote, “You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, and hopefulness”, I decided “let's write about something new. Go with it, do it differently with weirdness”. Writing this essay got me nervous because I didn't know what to write about and how to make it better with such a short amount of time, but I got excited about writing about unicorns and kittens because they're so girly and make me feel hyper and frilly.

Citations:

Wardle, Elizabeth A., and Downs, Doug. Writing About Writing: A College Reader. 1st ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. Print.

Sontag, Susan. “Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed.” Wardle and Downs 315-318

King, Steven. “What Writing Is” Wardle and Downs 305-307