Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja (a hilarious adventure for children ages 9-12) Read Free

have.
    “In these woods?” Brayden asked as he looked at the trees. “I’ve never heard anything strange about them.
Why? Did you see something?”
    Zoe’s glare warned me not to mention anything, but she’s
family – she’ll forgive me. “I saw a set of eyes watching me yesterday.
Zoe saw them too.”
    “ Why would you say anything?” Zoe asked. She looked
at Brayden . “If you tell anyone about this,
just say it was Chase that saw something, okay? I don’t need this kind
of paranoid delusion following me into middle school next year.”
    Brayden scratched his head. “You two
saw someone watching you from the trees? What color were the eyes?”
    “Blue,” I answered. At least I remembered them being
blue.
    Brayden scratched at his rough chin. “ Y’know … I’ve heard stories… no. There’s no way.”
    Suddenly Zoe was interested. All this “cool girl” talk
disappears when you put a real mystery in front of her face. “There’s no way,
what? What were you going to say?”
    Brayden stepped closer to the tree
line. Naturally, Zoe and I followed. As he leaned into the shadows, he mumbled
some stuff to himself, but I couldn’t understand what he was saying. It was
strange… it sounded as if he said… ninjas .
    And then he reached his hand into the woods. I knew what was
about to happen next because it happens in movies all the time. The innocent doofus reaches his hand into a dark area and loses it.

    “Wait!” I shouted, but it was too late.
    Brayden was suddenly yanked into the
trees. In a rush of activity, he disappeared. It looked as if shadows came to
life and swallowed him up. I just met this kid and I already regretted it.
    Zoe cupped her hand over her mouth, muffling a scream I knew
would come out sooner or later. Without thinking (I seem to be guilty of this a
lot), I jumped into the woods to chase after Brayden .
    “No!” I could hear Zoe yell.
    As soon as I planted my feet into the ground beyond the
border of the woods, I kept my eyes clenched tight, afraid of what kind of
monsters I would be face to face with. Was Brayden’s theory of werewolves correct? Was one going to be standing there with a half
eaten boy in its jaws? I forced my eyes open.
    Nothing.
    The area was empty. There were no monsters, no people, and
no Brayden . I scanned farther through the trees,
focusing on seeing any kind of movement against the still areas, but there was
nothing.
    In that moment, the branches shook from behind me. I thought
my heart was going to explode as I flipped around to face my attacker. In all
the chaos, I forgot that Zoe was even with me. Weird too because less than ten
seconds had passed since I jumped into the woods.

    “Where’s Brayden ?” Zoe whispered.
    “I don’t know,” I answered. “And I can’t even tell where
they took him!”
    “Who’s ‘ they’ ?”
    I shrugged my shoulders. “Werewolves, I guess? Maybe they’ve
finally gotten fed up with his terrible hunting skills and have taken action
into their own paws. Get it? Paws?” It was a terrible joke, but hopefully it
helped Zoe feel better.
    She laughed. “Human hunters,” she sneered. “Too bad they
picked the strangest kid to kidnap and study, right? Look at the ground.”
    I did, but couldn’t see what she was talking about. It was
just moist dirt, or mud as a scientist would
probably call it. “What about it?”
    “There’s no tracks,” Zoe said. “It doesn’t even look like
there are tracks from Brayden . Whatever yanked
him in here had to have struggled with him, right?”
    “Yeah,” I said. “I don’t think Brayden would’ve gone willingly. And there wouldn’t have been enough time to cover any
tracks because I followed him in here almost immediately.”
    “What did you see right after you stepped through the
trees?”
    Another chill ran down my spine. “ Nothing . There was nothing back here. No signs of anything that would’ve grabbed him, and even stranger,
no sign of Brayden