Hero’s Journey Story
Blake Cochrane | Upper Ferntree Gully Primary School |
5/6 English | Term 4 2024
Not far away from where we are now, a boy named Alexander was waking up from another nightmare. But this nightmare had been different from all the others. This one had been about his parents coming back to him. Just the thought of it made his stomach churn.
They’re gone, he assured himself. They’re dead, and I just have to get over it.
Which wouldn’t be that easy, considering every time he looked at his foster parents’ faces, his brain reminded him that they were his foster parents. Not biologically related to him in any way.
“Alexander!” his foster Mum called out, “Come have breakfast with us!” She said it so kindly that he smiled. Were his parents ever like this? He couldn’t remember. Alexander’s parents had left him as a baby on his foster parents’ front door. They had taken him in like their own, they had never had their own children, so it was a new thing for all of them.
Alexander slowly climbed out of his small bed and got dressed quickly, and rushed out to the smell of bacon and eggs. Yum, he thought.
*
Later, he was sitting in class reading next to his best and only friend, Leo. Leo’s usual smirk was spread across his face and Alexander could tell that he was in a good mood. Which was rare. The reason for that was that Leo didn’t like how different his parents were to everyone else. They had more money, more privileges in the government and were best friends with every politician in the whole continent of North America. Leo thought that his parents were quite snobby about their riches, and so most of the time he spent his spare time at the park, feeding the animals. Alexander sometimes went with him.
Leo’s parents had tried to sway him into liking them by signing him up to multiple martial arts classes, and Leo was amazing at those classes but that still didn’t get him to like his parents. He even asked his parents if his friends could join in. That’s how much he cared about everything being even. But his parents wouldn’t be convinced. Leo had stormed away and grumbled to himself about unfairness for the rest of the day.
*
After school, Alexander checked his mail and saw a letter addressed to him. He carefully opened the seal and inside it read:
To Alexander Bortochie,
We have your parents. If you want them back, you must complete these tasks.
Alexander gasped. His parents were alive…
