A Magical Story Jar Story - Adventures in Time by Sam

The sun shone brightly in the sky, warming the air, and giving the deserted platform a sprinkling of happiness to its tired and worn exterior.  Fossil and Charlie were fast asleep; they had arrived the night before and landed under the covered part of the platform.  Landing seemed a strange way to arrive, but that was exactly how they came to be on a deserted train station, by travelling through time on a magic flying bed.  Amazing really, but what was more amazing was the fact that Fossil was a young diplodocus dinosaur who had met Charlie on a previous trip.  Charlie had always wanted to see what it was like when dinosaurs roamed the earth.  It was here that he met Fossil and convinced him to be his travelling companion.

Charlie Darwin was a ten-year-old boy, who had found the incredible bed in his grandfather's attic. He had played on the bed many times, but it was only when he turned a loose bed knob three times, that a panel shot up from the bed frame which activated the magic bed.

Charlie had already been on so many exciting adventures to faraway places, to historical events in time and places in the future that he could have only dreamed of.  Fossil who was a very nervous dinosaur and was sometimes even afraid of his own shadow, had decided going on an adventure may help his confidence, so he decided to join Charlie, for at least a little while and a very unusual friendship was made.

Alarmingly, this time, they had arrived not knowing where they were or when it was.  Looking around, the silence was deafening and eerie. "Where are we?" asked Fossil. "Not sure," Charlie replied.  At that moment, two Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs in police uniforms walked onto the platform.  Thankfully, Fossil, Charlie and the bed were concealed behind a corner and out of sight. "What did the witness say again?," enquired the first T-Rex. "He said he saw a human child and a dinosaur riding a flying bed," said the other. "I think he was having a nightmare.  If you ask me, humans have been extinct for hundreds of years," replied the first. "Well, all we need to do is stay here for a while and then just go back and say we found nothing, right." With that, the two dinosaurs sat on a bench to take a rest.

Charlie could not believe his ears – 'humans extinct!' Where had they landed?  Just then Fossil moved his tail and it clanked on the brass bed frame; the sound alerted the attention of the two dinosaurs, who quickly rose from the bench and started to walk towards the train station stowaways.  Hastily, Charlie attempted to activate the bed, to initiate their escape, but it was too late, the two dinosaurs had discovered them and were pointing their weapons directly at Fossil and Charlie.  What were they going to do, how were they going to escape now?........

11 year old Sam created this magical tale about Charlie and Fossil's time-travelling adventures using story cards from our Adventure Magical Story Jar. Well done Sam!