"A Goat Story" by Felisa M.

A mysterious goat holds two keys in a forest. They are both hidden and if you want them you must go through obstacles. These two keys open a box that you must also find. As a story begins, a very serious and boring man was on his way to work when his car stopped near the forest. He saw a cabin nearby so he went and knocked, there was a breach at the door so he opened it. He heard a noise so he turned around looking at a goat. He became circumspect of where the goat came from. Suddenly, he fell somewhere in earth sitting next to a can of soup. He was cumbersome after the fall and hurt his leg. The goat began to speak; he didn’t understand what was going on as the goat began to explain. The goat admonished him that he was to find the two keys before dawn or he’d suffer consequences. He tries to speak as everything gets black…
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            Getting up from the ground, he realizes the goat is gone. As he finds his way out, he wonders into the forest with a bad headache. He finds a paper on the ground as he reads, “Now that you know you can’t leave, find the two keys and you’ll receive.” He continues to wander when he notices in front of him was a tree that doesn’t look real. Stepping forward he knocks on the bark of the tree and it makes a hollow sound. Randomly, the tree opens with a secret door he didn’t notice. While walking down the door shuts and he finds another note, “seems like you found your first entrance, ones blue but what about the shoe.” After reading the note, he feels water by his feet and drops the paper by accident. Tricky goat he thought to himself. He continues to walk up the stream and think what the note meant; he didn’t understand what a shoe had to do with anything. He hears a noise and notices three objects that have fallen behind him. The three objects found on the ground were a towel, a spoon, and a sock. He realizes that the sock has a relation to a shoe so he puts it in his pocket believing he will need it. Everything around him lights on fire so he quickly tries to grab the towel and the spoon but unfortunately the towel burns so he grabs the spoon. He looks back and believes he hears a dog barking but he continues to run. Tripping over a wire he finds a squirrel holding a key.  When he reaches after grabbing the key, he sees the squirrel running and many squirrels begin to run towards him. He hides behind a cave and finds another key! This one blue, it was stuck in between four heavy rocks. He manages to get the key and walks into the cave hearing the squirrels run by. To find another note at his feet he reads to see that it says, “well, two keys already?! In front of you there is a chest in a cage figure it out.” His arms could not fit through the cage so he ties the thin black sock to the spoon and blue key. He gets it in and the blue lock unlocks. He does the same thing to the other key but when he puts it in the lock the key breaks into two. He thought it was over, he should have known things went by quick. Standing before him was the goat holding a red key in its mouth, he runs as the goat does as well. When he touches the key he hears a dog barking once more. He opens his eyes waking up and looks out the window to see his does chasing a goat with a red key in its mouth.