text: [Themes: fan fiction]
  
  You wake up and it is bright, bright enough that you can tell that it must be mid-afternoon. As your vision clears, you being to realize your situation. Alone. No one else. A sense of panic rushes in as you quickly check all around you. There are trees around you with fog clouding your sight into what's beyond. A little stream cuts through the forest to your right. Through the fog, however, you can just barely see a hill not too far away. You calm down now that you know your surroundings. You have no memory of before and no answer to why you're here or even where here is. You figure you'll probably be here for a while, so you decide that you might as well start getting supplies. The stream clearly has fish in it, the trees can be used for wood for a fire, and the hill can be used to see if maybe you're not completely alone.
  
  > get some wood and build a fire
  You grab some wood and sticks off of the trees and ground and make a fire. The black smoke billows out of the fire and mars the clear sky above you. Of course, you're obviously not too smart for building a fire in the middle of a forest with trees right next to you, so naturally a tree catches on fire. You run away in terror. You go on for a while and lose track of time. It's getting close to nighttime.
  
  > Continue...
  Night creeps closer and you figure that you need to get some shelter. You head off into the woods to look for something you can use for supplies. You take some wood and craft yourself a nice shovel and sword for protection, should you need it. With no house, you are left with two options.
  
  You wake up and it is bright, bright enough that you can tell that it must be mid-afternoon. As your vision clears, you being to realize your situation. Alone. No one else. A sense of panic rushes in as you quickly check all around you. There are trees around you with fog clouding your sight into what's beyond. A little stream cuts through the forest to your right. Through the fog, however, you can just barely see a hill not too far away. You calm down now that you know your surroundings. You have no memory of before and no answer to why you're here or even where here is. You figure you'll probably be here for a while, so you decide that you might as well start getting supplies. The stream clearly has fish in it, the trees can be used for wood for a fire, and the hill can be used to see if maybe you're not completely alone.
  
  > hunt for animals
  You look around on the ground and notice a sharp-looking rock. You pick it up and search for animals. Lukcy for you, there a nice little pig wandering around aimlessly. You raise your rock as you approach the poor, defenseless pig. It looks up at you with its piggie eyes as you bring the rock of justice upon its face. You chalk up pig-slaying to your resume and eat the thing. No need for gross raw-pig-eating details here! However, it is getting close to nighttime.
  
  > Continue...
  Night creeps closer and you figure that you need to get some shelter. You head off into the woods to look for something you can use for supplies. You take some wood and craft yourself a nice shovel and sword for protection, should you need it. With no house, you are left with two options.
  
  You wake up and it is bright, bright enough that you can tell that it must be mid-afternoon. As your vision clears, you being to realize your situation. Alone. No one else. A sense of panic rushes in as you quickly check all around you. There are trees around you with fog clouding your sight into what's beyond. A little stream cuts through the forest to your right. Through the fog, however, you can just barely see a hill not too far away. You calm down now that you know your surroundings. You have no memory of before and no answer to why you're here or even where here is. You figure you'll probably be here for a while, so you decide that you might as well start getting supplies. The stream clearly has fish in it, the trees can be used for wood for a fire, and the hill can be used to see if maybe you're not completely alone.
  
  > search for people on the hill
  You make the short walk over to the hill. You get to the top, only to be disappointed at what you see. Fog. Nothing but fog. There seems to be some kind of fog that's forever around you at a certain distance. You give up on searching for other people as nighttime begins to set in.
  
  > Continue...
  Night creeps closer and you figure that you need to get some shelter. You head off into the woods to look for something you can use for supplies. You take some wood and craft yourself a nice shovel and sword for protection, should you need it. With no house, you are left with two options.[Themes: fantasy, family friendly]
  
  Welcome to Grade 6 Labor Day Brainstorm Group's first Choose Your Own Adventure story.
  
  We hope you enjoy it!
  
  [Author's Note: Grade 6 Labor Day Brainstorm Group's collaborative story - Class 6-1's Yuki and Class 6-4's Tony, Wendy, and Sam.]
  
  > start the adventure!
  It was a dark night. The sky was calm and cool, and the fireflies were out. Two friends, Nami and Lili, wanted to go find some for themselves. They carried some snacks to eat and some nets to capture the bugs. They even had two jars to put the fireflies in.
  
  Nami realized she was really good at catching fireflies. She caught a few very quickly. Lili helped her put them in the jars. The jars were starting to glow with a bright light due to all the fireflies inside.
  
  "What if we try and catch some in the forest?" Nami suggested.
  
  > continue catching fireflies outside the forest.
  They thought they might catch a few more fireflies outside of the forest, so they decided to stick around for a bit longer and catch a few more before going home. As expected, more and more fireflies surrounded them. They were very excited to see so many, so they happily got as many as they could inside their firefly jars.
  
  "Have you ever heard of a moonlight firefly?" Lili asked Nami.
  
  "Yeah, aren't those the kind that can glow forever? Do you think we can find one if we keep looking?" Nami replied.
  
  Suddenly, a big noise filled both the sky and their ears.
  
  "Buzzzzz...," a strange sound hummed as the girls saw something flying across the night sky.
  
  They couldn't see much, but they saw what seemed like a round shape surrounded by green light. Both of them felt curious yet afraid at the same time. Lily broke the silence first with a whisper, "What was that thing? Was it a shooting star?"
  
  Nami shook her head and said, "It didn't really look like a star. It might be something else. Do you want to go take a look?"
  
  Even though the noise worried them, their curiosity would not let them just forget about it.
  
  > go home and tell Nami's mom about what just happened.
  They quickly ran back home.
  
  "Good to see you girls back. How did firefly-catching go?" Nami's mom greeted them as they barged in through the door.
  
  "Mom! Dad! Guess what we saw in the forest! A flying object! We think it might have been some aliens," yelled Nami while she breathed heavily, tired from all the running she just did.
  
  "It's true," said Lili excitedly, "I saw it too! A buzzing object, surrounded by some lights. It had to be aliens, it was just like the UFOs in the books. You can go with us to see it if you don't believe us."
  
  "Nami,you know planes appear here and there every..."
  
  "Mom, this was not a plane, it was something like a round shape,a UFO!" Lili interrupted."
  
  "Darlings, UFOs only exist in sci-fi movies, they would never appear in real life," Nami's mom said. Both of the kids shook their heads. "Well, then. We can go and see. Where did you see this 'UFO'?"
  
  "Right over there! Above the forest....Wait..." Lili pointed to the distant sky above the forest, a quite spacious skyline, but managed to find nothing. Nothing except vacant space, just like what you would see looking into the void. The two children were shocked. Both of their jaws dropped. Nothing. A minute before, it had been looming over them, with dazzling bright lights, but now the lights had vanished. Completely disappeared. "No way..." they both said under their breath.
  
  "Kids, I think you must have mistaken a plane for a UFO," Nami's mom sighed. She still had work to do around the house, so she started to get frustrated with arguing.
  
  "Mom, we saw it!"
  
  She sighed again. "I know it's Halloween, but there's no need for jokes so late at night," she told Nami and Lili impatiently.
  
  "But,but..."
  
  "No more buts. Those things are not real. There was nothing in the sky. Now, kids, want any milk before bed?"
  
  Two disappointed 'no's' came from the kids as they went upstairs for bed. "We saw it, right before our eyes, but my mom keeps on saying it's nonsense," Nami mumbled.
  
  "I knew your Mom wouldn't believe us."
  
  "What if we actually were hallucinating?"
  
  > Maybe it was all just in your imagination.
  It was all back to normal. Everyone still yearned for weekends - something that always stays true, no matter what. They went back to school on Monday, had volleyball practice, and continued to do everything girls their age did. However, at night, one thing didn't go back to normal - they still thought about the UFO they had seen that night when catching fireflies. Perhaps it was just their imagination, yet it still appeared in their dreams.ri
  
  One week passed, then another. Soon, they had forgotten about that mysterious experience. It had been two weeks and another Saturday had already arrived. They were coming home from volleyball practice when they came across the same forest they had seen the flying object over. It was getting dark, around 5 P.M. Then, it appeared again. There was another flying object in the sky...no, the exact same one as before. The girls froze in their steps, horrified. Fortunately, it wasn't going their way...
  
  Or was it?
  
  Suddenly, it turned toward them. The white lights, in just a moment's notice, turned red. A sharp "skreech" rang in the girls' ears. "Maybe this is a good moment to run..." whispered Nami.
  
  Lili was still staring at the UFO, stunned when a laser came from the bottom of the spacecraft. It barely missed Nami. She cried out in fear and surprise.