Ollie's Transformation (Part 2)

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When Luke and Nora's dad walked into Ollie's room with Merlin the Wizard,

they found something they never expected to see. Earlier that day, Luke and Nora had found a

mysterious magical wand in the woods that they brought inside their house, where it accidentally

fell on the floor and turned their dog out into a human boy. Now, this by itself was amazing,

but what they didn't know was that the magic wouldn't stop after this transformation.

It was going to continue, and things were going to get even crazier as the night went on.

When they walked into Ollie's room after he had fallen asleep, they expected to see a boy

lying in his bed, but instead they saw a great big bear snoring loudly and knocking the lamp

right off the nightstand and breaking the bed frame as he tossed and turned in his sleep.

Merlin took one look and said, oh, dear, goodness gracious me, my, my, my, uh, uh, uh, whatever,

are we going to deal? How could this ever happen? Oh, me, oh, my, what?

Dad said, can't you just tell me what's going on? Pardon me, sir. Sometimes I get lost in my thoughts.

One problem with my magical wand is that he doesn't simply turn an animal into a boy.

If the correct spell is not spoken at the cast of the wand, the magic will continue

turning the boy into something bigger, stronger and scarier and how the magic is stopped.

And dad said, well, stop it then. Can you stop it? The only way it can be stopped is

and before Merlin could finish his sentence, Ollie the bear woke up and looked at them standing

in the doorway. He kicked off his covers and ran out of the room. And as Ollie bear ran down

the hall, Luke and Nora got out of bed and ran to their doors to watch him tearing down the hallway.

Luke said, wait up, Ollie, where are you going? But Ollie didn't stop or respond.

He just ran down that hallway and down the stairs and out into the front yard.

And by this time the whole family was up and chasing after Ollie and when they all got outside,

Ollie started to transform again. This time two wings started growing out of Ollie's back

and his first started turning into scales in a matter of seconds.

Ollie the bear turned into Ollie the dragon.

What just happened? What was going to happen next?

Luke and Nora ran after Ollie and jumped on his back and just as they grabbed hold of him,

he started flapping his wings and he rose off the ground and started flying high into the air.

Ollie flew higher and higher until Luke and Nora looked over the edge of Ollie's back

and they were so far off the ground they could hardly even see their mom and dad

and merlin the wizard down on the ground. After flying around and screaming their heads off for

what seemed like forever, all of a sudden they heard a noise coming from behind them.

It was a helicopter and it was pulling up right next to Ollie the dragon as he flew

through the clouds and they looked over at the helicopter and saw that it was the police

and they saw somebody sitting in the back seat of the helicopter that they recognized.

It was their mom. Look in the world, mom was with the police and the helicopter flying right

next to them. How did she get up there? Their mom picked up the microphone and the helicopter and

said, Ollie, Ollie, do you want to go for a walk? Do you want to go out Ollie?

And when Ollie the dragon heard this, he turned his head and started panting with his tongue hanging

out of his mouth and he started to wag his tail back and forth and then mom said it again.

She didn't have to ask again. When Ollie heard that, he pointed his nose right down and flew

all the way back down to the front yard of their house and the police helicopter followed

them right down and when they finally landed together, mom jumped out of the helicopter and ran

up to Ollie and the kids. She helped both the kids off of Ollie's back and she went right

up to Ollie's face and gave him a great big kiss on the lips and just like that, something started

to happen. Instead of the hear sounds and noises like magic spells whirling around and around

and all of a sudden and a great big puff of smoke. Just like that, Ollie turned back into a

dawn just the way he was supposed to be and then they heard Merlin the wizard walk up behind them

and he said, you see my friends, true love's kiss is the only thing that can break the spell

and that's exactly what just happened and then Luke and Nora and mom and dad and Ollie and the

wizard all held hands while they actually had to hold Ollie's tail and they danced around and

around and circling celebrated and by this time it was really late at night and they said to Merlin

thanks a lot for your help Merlin we're really sorry about this mishap with the magical wand and

he said all right my friends I'd best be heading off to bed I am quite tired this evening

have a good night I'll see you all again first thing in the morning oh you mean you're coming back

to our house tomorrow you said oh yes of course I forgot to mention there's more work that needs

to be done unless you want your mother to be transformed to this is what you mean mom is

of the magical spell to he said ah yes true love's kiss may have turned the dragon back into a

dog but now the spell must be broken for your mother as well and if it's not then what oh we

don't want to go there my friends you don't even want to know what will happen to your mother if

we do not break the spell but that's a story for another day

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