The Space Baby
By Khadijah Qasim, age 10

 
          Once upon a time, there was an alien family.  A mother, a father, a sister and a brother. The Mother’s name was Eos, the Father’s name was Dues, the sister's name was Muho, and the brothers name was Blip. The sister was in grade 6 and the brother was in grade  4, so they were 2 years apart.
 
          The mom’s job was controlling monsters which some aliens wanted as pets, or protecting the aliens from monster attacks. This job was part of the alien government, called the Alien Council.
 
          One day Eos got the news that she was going to have a baby. She told the whole family and they got excited. For an alien who was pregnant, the baby would be born at midnight. So the family got into their shiny blue spaceship and went to Mars to get the baby bedroom ready. They got the things ready and decorated the room with toy stars, planets, and spaceships.
 
         Then they went to Mercury in their blue space ship and went to the emergency room, and then Eos had the baby. But the baby wasn’t an alien - it was a blue HUMAN!!!  The whole universe of aliens heard about this tragedy. The family was so scared, yet they had no reason to be at the same time. They were scared because they thought that the baby could attack them, but he was so small and easy to kill, and they were sure the other aliens would want to kill him!
 
          Surprisingly, the mother wanted to keep her human baby, despite the Alien Council's insistence that they must get rid of the human baby. The Alien Council only let Eos keep the baby because she said, "Do some research on the baby first, see if there's a cure, then we shall see what will happen!" So the doctors did some complex DNA research, and they figured out that there was an evil scientist who murdered one of the doctors and took his place.  He was the one who had given Eos a syrup which made her baby a human!
 
          The  doctors also found out that they only had 3 days till the baby was fully going to become a human.  "Give me three days. If I can't find a cure," the mom said, "then you can do what you want with him." So Dues and Eos set off on their quest to check all the planets in the area for the evil scientist, who they thought should be nearby since he gave Eos the syrup.
 
         Dues and Eos checked Sunbeam, Starzone, Hot Cone, Castle Island. But they didn’t check Mysterious Furee. They were too afraid to check that planet because anyone who went there never came back. But Muho thought they should check Mysterious Furee because the evil alien probably thought that even if they figured out he lived on Mysterious Furee, they wouldn’t go there because no one ever returned.
 
         Eos and Dues listened to their daughter and went to Mysterious Furee. When they got there, they saw a huge, dark but surprisingly clean underground tunnel. They went in it and found an underground science lab, where they saw a lot of potions on three enormous shelves. They thought it was going to take forever to look through all of them. "There must be a cure here somewhere!" said Eos desperately.
 
         Suddenly they heard someone walking behind them, and turning around they saw three aliens  behind them, two big ones and one normal-sized one. They didn’t know what to do. Then the two big ones tied them with huge, heavy chains around their arms and legs. They thought they would be stuck like all the others that had explored the planet, and Eos was sad she might never get back to her baby.

        The evil alien looked at them and told them his plan, "I gave you the syrup to change your baby because I want the Alien Economy to be destroyed - and all I needed was a little help from your child!"
 
          "How?" exclaimed the alien family.
 
           ”Because when the Alien Council kills the baby, the baby will turn into a Galacticon Squid, and he’ll destroy everyone of you piece by piece!" said the evil alien with a wicked laugh. The evil alien knew that the mother could control monsters so he chose the one that no alien could control.
 
            But what the evil alien didn’t know is that Eos and Dues wore secret spy cameras and secret hearing walkie talkies, and the Alien Council was listening to the mission. So the entire Alien Council heard the evil alien's plans. They immediately had a meeting whether or not they should still keep the baby, and the Council secretly chose that they would not kill the baby.   
 
           On the third day, the evil scientist thought that since the baby was now permanently human and no cure had been found, the Alien Council had most likely tried to kill the baby, so he let Eos and Dues free.  They went back to their planet, overjoyed to find their baby still alive and yet permanently human.
 
           The human baby lived with Aliens forever, looking like a human but acting like alien. The evil alien fainted and died because his plan failed!  But the alien family was very happy to keep their special human baby.
 
 
                                                                                              The end