Jacob's Blog Post

 Mixing BAM with Jams

“This is gonna be hilarious, the farmer won’t even know what happened,” said Ricky.

“I don’t know, that hay bale is really close to that barn,” warned Rocky.

“Who cares, I won’t do anything serious,” shrugged Ricky. 

    As Ricky put the match to the hay bale, it was immediately engulfed in flames. Then fire spread to the barn, while the barn went up in flames. Ricky started panicking and started running in circles. 

“Oh, no! Oh, no! Farmer Larry is going to kill me!”

    As he yelled, the animals' cries were heard as they roasted in their pens. The fire then spread to the dry grass, while the twins ran to the well to fetch buckets of water. They threw bucket after bucket of water onto the barn, to no avail. 

“What’re you boys doin'!” hollered farmer Larry. “You done burned my barn down and turned my cows into roast beef!”

    As he said this, the wind picked up and made the flames even hotter. Slowly, the embers floated high into the air. The straw roofs of the houses easily caught fire, setting the whole village aflame. Even Ricky and Rocky's parents, along with many others, died in the fire. Their only family member left was their aunt who lived as an inn keeper. Their aunt resented them a little for the incident, but tried not to show it. Rocky was a musician and played the fiddle. His loud practicing drove many people insane. They both barely spent any time in doors. The two turned to the countryside, since it was mostly unexplored. One day, as the twins ventured out farther, they found a cave. 

“Oohh, look, Rocky, a cave! I bet there’s a lot of cool things in there,” said Ricky.

“I don’t know, Ricky, it looks dark and ominous.” 

“Don’t worry about it. I’m sure it’ll be fine. There’s nothing to do in this boring town anyways.” 

    They ventured into the cave and it smelled rotten, but had a huge open space. 

“Eewwww. It smells like something Aunty’s cat would bring in from the streets,” sneered Rocky.

“Right, but I wanna see where that stench is coming from,” said Ricky.

    It was very dark, and dripping water could vaguely be heard bouncing off of the stone walls. As they both walked through, the smell grew worse and worse. 

“Hey, Ricky, what are these weird long sticks that I keep feeling. It’s kinda odd that there would be sticks inside of a cave,” said Rocky

“I’m sure we’ll figure it out when we get to the end of the cave. It sure is dark in here,” replied Ricky. 

    There were many more of these sticks as they walked further and further. After five more minutes, they saw a light glowing around a corner. 

“Look there, Rocky, I had a feeling there was something in here.” 

    As they drew near, the sticks started to look less like sticks.

“AAAAHHH, Ricky, these are bones!” yelled Rocky.

    As soon as he yelled, there was a low grumbling that echoed through the caverns. But Ricky didn’t care, because he saw a mysterious box on the ground with torches next to it. 

“Wow! Look at that! I bet there’s something important inside,” said Ricky, as he ran ahead. 

“No! Please don’t leave me here! Something is gonna come get me,” said Rocky. 

    The mysterious box creaked as he slowly opened it. The chest was dusty and had heaps of cobwebs. Ricky tore through the box and found a straight stick with engravings at one end. 

“Are you serious! I came all the way down this tunnel for a stupid stick!” complained Ricky as he kicked a bone into the darkness. “Not even a unicorn or a leprechaun!”

“I don’t think that could’ve fit in the box,” remarked Rocky.

“I know, but I was expecting like a flying carpet or something.”

“Well, you might as well take the stick since we went through all this trouble,” said Rocky.                               

    But the place where Ricky’s bone landed started to move. It soon caused the whole cave to tremble, sending dust and rocks everywhere. Then, slowly, an eye the size of a pregnant mare peered in on them! A hand emerged to grab them, but they already started running. 

“AAAAAHHHHH!” 

    The way back out of the cave felt like seconds. Soon, they slipped out and into the light.

“I told you we shouldn’t have gone in there!,” said Rocky

“That was terrifying, but at least we got something to show for it,” said Ricky, holding up the stick. “Man, I wish we could have some water right now. I’m thirsty from all that running.” Bam!! A glass of water fell right into Ricky’s hand. In astonishment, the two brothers looked at each other. 

“Did I do that? How did this happen?” asked Ricky.

“I think that stick is a magic wand, and that monster was guarding it!” said Rocky. 

    The twins went back to the town to test if it was really a magic wand. 

“I wish aunty’s stupid old cat would disappear.” Then BAM!! No more cat. Even in school they tried it out. “I wish I had the answers to this test,” whispered Rocky. Then BAM!! The test answers right there. “I wish for the best fiddle in the world,” BAM!! Soon, the mischevious twins found out a way to mess with everyone else. 

“You see that glass? BAM!! Gone. Those table legs? BAM!! Gone. That bicycle wheel? BAM!! Gone,” said Ricky as he terrorized the townspeople. 

    They soon got angry and banished the twins out of the town to a remote house in the countryside. With nothing else to do, Rocky decided to step up his musical skills. All day and night, every day. Even Ricky was starting to get tired. 

“Quiet down! I’m trying to sleep,” yelled Ricky. 

“I almost got it, I’ve been trying to make this song for a while now.”

    But as the twins slept, there was a rustle as the mouth of the cave burst open. A monster as tall as the windmill, and as wide as a river rampaged down to the town and started devouring cattle, houses, and people. He ravaged their houses along with the landscape. The only thing stopping him was the tune of a fiddle in the distance. 

“Yodelaideleheeeh, Yodelaideleheehoo.”

The brothers had returned! Their heroic entrance started with songs.

“Yodelaideleheeeh, Yodelaideleheehoo.”

The moster started to dance! His huge tattered overalls bounced up and down as he jumped. The brothers continued to sing.

“Yodelaideleheeeh, Yodelaideleheehoo.”

They got faster and faster until the monster ran out of breath and collapsed. Ricky went up to the monster according to the twins’ plan.

Then, “BAM!! Gone. The monster was zipped away and the town was saved. The townspeople cheered and sang along. 

“Yodelaideleheeeh, Yodelaideleheehoo.” This called for celebration! Everyone brought food and drinks for the party. Rocky brought together a band and they sang and drank all night long. Ever since, the wand was only used for helping everyone, especially Farmer Larry.