Lucky’s
Amazing
Adventure
Lucky’s Amazing Adventure
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“Not again!” yelled Lucky. “I can’t believe that I got locked in the school again! “But wait! ….HMMMMM. I have a
brilliant idea,” Lucky said in a low and mischievous voice as he rubbed his paws together. “I have never seen the staff
room before. I wonder what goodies are in there.” Lucky rummaged through the staff room, saw the kitchen and spied
the coffee machine. It was full. “I wonder why I’m told not to drink coffee at my age. What will happen if I do drink it?
What might happen to me? It’s worth the gamble to try it.” Lucky chugged the whole pot.
Soon enough, he was bouncing off the walls. It was like he was not in control of his body. He ricocheted back and forth
and back and forth straight into the dish cabinet. CRASH!!! “Oh no, I broke everything!” panicked Lucky. “What am I
going to do?” Lucky darted down the hall to the supply room and grabbed all of the glue that he could find. He was in
such a hurry that he mismatched all the plates. It took him two hours to fix all the plates and put them back together.
“I am out of here. That took a lot of energy, even for me.” Lucky left the staff room shutting the door on his way out.
As Lucky walked through the hall, he spotted the gym door. That’s always a fun place he thought, so he scampered
through the door and straight to the equipment room. Luckily it was unlocked. He grabbed balls willy-nilly and threw
them out into the hallway. Next, Lucky nabbed a scooter board and rode it through the sea of balls. As he glided
down the hall he picked up a basketball. He continued dribbling his basketball and riding his scooter. As he scooted
he saw a garbage can by the door. Lucky decided to make the jump shot but instead, he overshot the can and the
basketball went right through the window. The window smashed into smithereens.
Lucky looked at what he had just done. What a terrible mess he had created! It looked like a disaster-zone so he
decided to hide in the Art Room. He spotted crayons and pencil crayons and a giant piece of paper. He took a pencil
and wrote his name in block letters on the bottom of the page. Then, Lucky sketched a self-portrait. He clenched a
marker and outlined the picture. Then he coloured it neatly. “How amazing! What an artistic design,” he thought. He
grabbed a cart to use as he climbed stealthily up to reach the door. Lucky hung his portrait up on the door of the Art
Room. “Perfection!” he said to himself in admiration of his self-portrait. “Who is that handsome lynx? Why it’s me.
That’s who. Rawr”.
Next, he went back and snatched another huge piece of paper. He scooped up a pencil and wrote, “LUCKY RULES!”
Then he coloured it with all of the pencil crayons and markers he had. He sprang on to the cart and hung it up beside
his portrait. Then he surfed …a la the cart …… out into the hallway.
Lucky careened down the hall on the cart. He suddenly became airborne when the cart rammed into a stray backpack
left on the floor. He flew into the Music Room and landed with a flop into a bass drum. He shook his head to clear
the stars circling his head. When he could finally see again, he spotted the cupboards. The doors had flung open when
he had bounded into the drum. He noticed the flutes, clarinets, saxophones, and lots of instruments just demanding
to be played. Lucky created a lovely melody of his own.
He shoved the instruments into whichever cupboard was handy. “No need to clean off the mouth pieces. I’m not only
handsome, but I am a clean fellow as well.” He said as he strolled out of the room with his puffed up chest, showing
his pride in his latest accomplishment.
After the music performance, Lucky continued on to other classrooms. He went throughout the school. He rubbed off
all of the homework on the chalkboard. He grabbed a piece of chalk and wrote “NO HOMEWORK!!!” all in capitals
with three exclamation marks after it. He even went into each student’s desk and wrote “NO HOMEWORK!!!”
there as well just in case they didn’t get the message on the board. After visiting every classroom, he continued his
destruction as he moved on to the principal’s office. Lucky grabbed a post-it note and wrote a message; “Note to self:
remind teachers never to give homework again.”
He was bored with all of this note-making stuff so he strolled down the hall to the Kindergarten Room. When he
entered the room, he saw an abundance of toys. He said to himself, “I wish I was still in Kindergarten. These kids
know where it’s at. Play is the best part of any school day.” He stumbled upon the play-dough and whipped open
all of the containers. He conjured up an idea for a new makeover of the classroom. He mixed up all of the different
colours and spread them everywhere on the walls in a fantastic design. It resembled van Gough’s Starry Night. Next
he glared at the Lego. He pressed it into the play-dough to create a bridge that went over the coat racks. Lucky the
Lynx jumped on the bridge and it collapsed! The force of the collapse caused the play-dough to fall off of the walls
and everything came off the teacher’s desk and the shelves. Lucky turned to look. He kissed his fingers and said,
“Masterpiece! Mwah!”
Lucky walked to the Resource Room and saw the TV. He chose a comedy movie to watch and decided that he
needed a snack while watching the movie. He had a craving for popcorn and juice so he removed a bowl and a glass
from the cupboard. Lucky then carried his snack back to the chair to watch the movie.
Once the movie was over, he began to wash the dishes. He put the dishes in the sink, turned on the tap, added soap,
then went back to select a new movie. Suddenly he remembered the dishes. “OH NO!!!” Lucky yelled. He ran back
to the sink. Another fine mess! Blub, blub, blub, gurgle, gurgle. He turned off the tap, poured himself another glass of
juice, said, “Oh well.” and slunk away.
Lucky the Lynx vacated the Resource Room and went across the hall to the computer lab. He needed to make
invitations for a party that he planned to hold later on that night. He moved towards a computer and began typing:
You are invited to a party:
When: tonight - Time: midnight - Where: LCPS Gym
Lucky printed enough invitations for all of his friends. While logging off the computer he accidently knocked his glass
of juice over onto the keyboard. “OH NO!’ he shouted. “Too bad I don’t have enough time to clean this up. I have to
get these invitations to my friends right away.”
After handing out all of the invitations, Lucky set up for the party. He placed some blankets on the gym floor so that
there would be comfy places to sit. He hung streamers and balloons on the walls and stage. He made party hats for
everyone. At exactly midnight his friends strolled in. The first thing they did was run for the cake. It was gigantic! It
stretched all the way to the ceiling. It had twenty-two layers of a whole range of flavours. They dove into the cake.
They shoved samples of the delicious, wonderful delicacy into their mouths. Oh how wonderful it was! But oh, what
a mess!
How would the school ever get cleaned up? Who would do it? Lucky thought about how the school got cleaned
every day. Custodians clean the classrooms and the hallways. That would take care of the surprises that were
left behind this evening. The custodian would notice what needed to be taken care of first thing during the morning
check. Thankfully the custodian comes in before anyone else arrives so there should be enough time to make it right.
The gang left a note behind on the custodian’s cart with a sampling of the cake; “Thanks for the great time, it was
spectacular! Sorry about the mess!”