Alder and Dash

By Caroline Tatton-Brown

I am really bored being at Scare

School.

We should go on vacation. How about

spooky Island? That sounds spooky!

When should we go – at 11.30pm?

When we ditch school

“What about the students? Hmm we will get a really mean headmaster when we go. It will give them misery I like it.”

How will we find a

Headmaster?

How about we use the spooky phone?

Hmm Alder we don’t know the phone number.

We’ll make it up like 866334492110 Alder you’re a

genius.

Ok can we just ring them now .

Hello this is Grumpy Pants How

can I help?

Ok so we will dial 86633448216 is

that the right the number ?

Hi I am Dash we were just wondering if you can look after Scare School when we go on holidays.

Do you want me to make the students’

gross dinners and no candy or anything yummy and make

them go to bed really early and give them punishment when

they are being friendly?

OK

I will come first thing and have a spooky time .

Oh I am so happy that we are going to spooky Island

said Alder. And the students have to stay at

school we won’t get them anything at all it will be all

for us.We will have the best time ever. It is an awesome idea

Dash, two tickets to Spooky Island.

It will cost $10

ok.

Oh where is my monster

money?

Oh take better care of your money and this wouldn’t

happen.Oh it’s here it just fell on the

floor.

Curse you monster money. Please can you just pay

now? Sorry about my little

brother he is a bit slow at the moment.

OK I get that all the time just sibling

twins Thank you so much!

Have a spooky night.

But you started it by losing our

money.

But that was not the idea to take money. But you picked today to go on holiday

you’re the one who wanted to buy drinks and

candy blood worms.

Oh thanks Alder for wasting our time back

here but you didn’t take much care of your

monster money .

Look we will never get there bickering

No you did

I hope you’re happy now listen.

“Attention Alder and Dash the plane to Spooky Island is going in 10 minutes. Please get your body to the scary plane now or you will

miss your plane

You know the monster way by

scaring them they will be so scared we will

have all the money in the wide world.First we will creep beside

them while you get the money I will shout out

boo!

It works you got lots of

money and best thing is we have got the whole plane to

ourselves cool! Let’s get some

candy bloodworms

and let’s watch scary TV.

How are we

going to do that?

Alder just get

the monster

money.

I still don’t get it.

Then we will take

someone’s

money.

But I always

get hard

parts.

No you always get the easy

parts.

No I

come with plans while you follow

them.

AAARH!!

Oh look there is a person with some money come on let’s scare him on the count of 3 shout Boo! Ok

123 Boo!

I still don’t get it.

But how do we turn it on oh Alder don’t be a nincompoop

you just turn the TV

on with the remote.

Numskull there is nothing scary on this

nincompoop TV.Oh look this fat green

ghost oh no it’s Kibosh why is he on

TV. He is just the king

underworld he thinks he is cool.

We are better than he is too bad he is not getting anything from

us.

Alder and Dash what

are you doing on the plane?We are going You two are supposed to be at Scare School not goofing off

on a holiday.

on holiday to

Spooky Island and

you’re not

invited

We can do what to Mr fat green ghost.

You two are going to be in big trouble if you do not

come back to Scare School.

Oh yeah and who is going to stop us.Well you can’t

anyway we’re in

the plane Dash just turn the

TV off

Don’t you dare turn this TV back on ha-ha

We can’t hear you.

What do you mean you

have two ears.

Because we have ear ache from listening to

you we have just wasted our lovely time watching TV goodbye Mr fat green ghost.

Attention the plane is about to

land in 10 minutes so place your seat belts on while we

land the plane.Hooray we’re at Spooky Island.

Welcome

guests to Spooky

island.

This place is awesome we will first book a hotel to stay in.

How about Spooky Paradise hotel? It is a first class hotel that means

we get awesome beds, giant TV, giant bean bags and room

service.So you don’t have to get food or drinks we just relax in paradise.

This place looks beautiful there’s even paddle ball

yay! I can play my paddle ball. Oh

Dash look there is a painting set.

Oh awesome can we do some fabric

painting? This is the best hotel in the whole wide world that we

have ever seen in our lives. Lets go

and check in.

Hello I am Mrs Spooky

Cupcake how can I help you

two.

Hi I am Alder and this is Dash. We

would like to book in to

Spooky Paradise hotel and get room service.

Yes you may but there are some important rules in Spooky Paradise

hotel. Rule number one no pets especially no Dogs.

I hope you don’t have any pets with you.

Oh no we don’t have

any pets here.

Good I hope so Rule number two no sneaking out at night because we

don’t want anybody sneaking things in they think because it’s night time we can’t see anything but we have

security cameras everywhere especially by the door no can get past

without getting caught by us only brave people can try but it won’t

work. Don’t let me catch any of you going out only in the day time. Rule number three there is no watching

TV after 8 30pm because other people can’t sleep

Do you both get

my rules?

Yes Mrs Spooky

Cupcake.

Now here is your room key

your room number is 333

on the right side of the hallway.

Can you please

carry our bags to our

room.

Why would I want to.

Because our tentacles are not made for walking up the stairs that’s why. You can carry our

food, drinks, toys, clothes, toothpaste, toothbrush, bath things

and our camera too.

We would like to order candy blood

worms, eyeballs in fruit flavours, worms in goo, and fresh drained west cakes and chocolate frogs. Bring a bell to our room so we can ring you when we want things

because we need a break from being headmasters of Scare School and we

don’t need to worry about getting

ourselves food and drinks

Ok please leave, good day I said

please leave goodbye.

Don’t worry Dash we are never getting caught by Mrs

Cupcake we will just go out

the window.

But what’s it like down there, scary?

We are so going there we should go

visit our ankles (aunt) uncle um Dash what is it?

Are they going to remember us?

We are their nephews they will probably

remember us as their sweet little Alder and Dash. When we were

little kids.

Let’s go but what if Mrs Scary Cupcake catches

us? Alder you nincompoop It’s only at night time we are not

allowed out.

Oh my sweet little

Alder and Dash. We are so happy to see our

nephews. So you two are having a rest from being headmaster of

Scare School.

It is really hard work teaching students to scare fleshies escaping Casper is

a trouble maker.Because he is too friendly

and listens to teachers.

But my Alder and Dash can handle hard

stuff!

So would you like to have

some fun? How about scaring

fleshies?

Yes we will scare them so they will never come to Spooky Island we will go in teams.

We can’t go in teams because we are stuck together.

So Alder how was it getting

here?It was really

stressful; we had

trouble at the airport.

Why what happened?

Dash didn’t put his monster money in a

safe place so the Money fell on the floor. Then Dash

blamed me for not putting the money somewhere safe.

Then he said it was my idea that we go on holiday that day and it was my idea

that we take money to buy things.

I am sorry to hear that I am sure Dash won’t be that bossy now

that he is on holiday. He is probably just really tired. You

should go back to your hotel now because it is really late. You

growing boys need lots of rest. You have got a big day tomorrow

enjoying time back at Spooky Island.

Oh there is a cute little black

poodle. Do you think he has an owner

with him?

Hello I am Cheese, what are

your names?

My name is Alder and this Dash.

What lovely names you have.

We just noticed your cute poodle he is so adorable, what is his name?

His name is poly but his but his real name is Private. We call him poly for short. He is a medium black poodle.

Would like to look after my dog?

We would

love to.

Here is his collar and his favourite toy duck and his

dog food.

What time do you

want him back?

How about 10.30

Sounds cool.

Give this food to

him twice a

day.

Thank you Alder now

we are stuck with

a dog.

If he causes any trouble we will just

take him back.

Who is going to do that take him

back.Never mind we will just keep an

eye on him.

How do you think we will get into our room with a dog didn’t you listen to Mrs

Scary cupcake rule 1 no pets

especially dogs thanks we are

stuck with a pet.

It’s your idea that we take care of the

dog.No it was your idea you did

it.

No you did it you nincompoop.

You nincompoopYou nincompoop

If we keep arguing they will know if we sneak

out.Then we can’t let them see that we have a dog

with us.

What can we do? We can just hide him in our robe.The dog is not going to fit in here.

He’s not that big.

Ok here fine!

And what do you think

you’re doing?We are just going to our room.

You are keeping

something from me

aren’t you?

No we just got some fresh air.

You two sneaked outside what

were you doing outside?

Just visiting our Ankles. And you did

not take a dog home with you?

Definitely not just a funny

story. For a second I thought you said that that you did take a

dog. What you took a dog with you! Oh boy its trouble you two are going to be in. Time out for not listening to the

rules when I tell you.

Ok Skipper Take Alder and Dash to the time out room for 11 minutes and your dog will be kept outside all night.

But, but

No buts say

goodbye to your

dog!

Bye, no

Oh no! Ok that’s just fine for us we

would like some

chocolate mousse and some wine with

bubbles and some movies too

thanks.

This place is awesome Dash. We should go to the spooky gift shop for some souvenirs. How about a spy ball? So we

can spy on the students. They

will not no what it is.

Excellent I dare you Alder I know it would

be good fun. What about the dog

then? We will take the dog

back.

But how what if we

get caught?

We are not going to get caught if we hurry we could just say we are

going to the playground.

I know it’s just an

excuse to get out of here.

You just don’t get it Alder. Just follow the plan.

How come you

always come up

with plans?

Because I am just a quicker thinker

than you.

No I am better than you

It takes you 2

hours just to

remember the plan

No you are the one who get confused

with instructions.

No you.

No you.

No you too.

No you too.

Look it will

take four hours if we

keep fighting we will never

get out of

there.

But you started

saying your better at thinking

than I am.

Ok then you come up with the plans and see if you are

smarter than me.

Which of course it will be me that’s

smarter.

No it will not

be you it is going to

be me.

Fine you have four weeks to

prove that you’re smarter than me.

Fine!

Fine!We will start in

the morning

at 10 am.