--- tags: Zixiao Yu --- # HS-TJ-1.5 ## Author Zixiao Yu ### Title ### Character #### Ella Ella is a young 8 year old girl. She is very timid and longs to have more friends. She lives with her Aunt Mary who goes on business trips a lot. Ella loves reading because she likes to escape her own reality. She longs to one day go on an adventure and find her parents or finding a new life. Because Ella reads so much, she is very book smart, she knows three languages. Although she is book smart, she is very naive due to her lack of life experience. She is not unhappy with her Aunt, just lonely. They live in a big house in a small town. Ella’s aunt is a museum curator so the house is always full of interesting new things, but her aunt always has to travel to get these things, which is why she is never home. Ella does not like having friends over because she is embarrassed about the mess in her aunt's house, which also leads to her not having many friends\. Ella’s favorite stories are classic fairy tales, she loves animals and painting. She has a pet bird named carl who she loves. Her favorite food is italian food and would love to go to italy someday. Everytime her aunt leaves Ella begs to go with her but her aunt can never take her. Sometimes her aunt leaves her with a babysitter named vicky. Ella hates Vicky because she is mean and ignores her. Vicky always brings other mean people over too. Goal: save parents Conflict : Change : courage Rule: demon can not touch the key which uses to open the steal. ## Plot ### scene 1 : Ella has lived with her aunt since her parents disappeared 2 years ago. Ella's aunt only care about her antiquitie's deals and often leaves Ella at home with a babysitter called Vicky because of work. Ella didn't like them, she always remembers the days when she lived with her parents. Every time Ella wants to enter her aunt's library, she is stopped by her aunt, who always tells Ella not to approach the library if she doesn't want to get in trouble. Ella didn't understand why, she just wanted to read a fairy tale book. ### scene 2 : Ella has noticed that Aunt would go out again tomorrow. Ella felt sad because Vicky was going to come to 'take care' of her again. Ella hated Vicky because Vicky was very bad to her and often looked at her with a strange smile. ### scene 3 : This night, Ella couldn't get sleep, and she quietly sneaked to the library and wanted to find a fairy tale book. However, she found that the lights in the library were on. Ella saw through the door slit her aunt was talking to someone . ### scene 4 : She was surprised to find that person was Vicky. Ella learned from their conversation that Vicky was a demon and she has controlled Ella's aunt and sealed Ella's parents in a book in the library. Ella has the blood of elves, and Vicky wanted to have this power, but the blood of elves wouldn't awaken until Ella was 10 years old. So Vicky controlled Ella by controlling Ella's aunt. ### scene 5 : Finally, Vicky warned Ella's aunt to keep the key which used to open the seal in the safe place. Ella's aunt told her no probelm because she carried the key all the time and she has never letted Ella approach the library. ### scene 6 : Ella was very scared and didn't know what to do. Ella escaped back to her bedroom, hoping what has happened just a nightmare.Soon after my aunt came in, she came to see if Ella was asleep. Ella pretended to sleep and saw the key on her aunt's neck, she knew everything was real. ### secene 7: Ella stayed in her room for the next two days and didn't dare to go out. Every time Vicky came to see her, she pretended she was sleeping. She tried to escape at night, but found that all the doors were locked. ### scene 8 : When Aunt Ella returned, Ella realized what she had to do. She must steal that key and free her parents, otherwise she and her parents would die. When Aunt fell asleep, Ella quietly sneaked into Aunt's bedroom, cut the rope around Aunt's neck and got the key. ### scene 9 : Ella rushed into the library to find the book that sealed her parents, and just then Ella triggered an alarm. Vicky's vision also appeared. She yelled at Ella to scare Ella away, but Ella realized that Vicky couldn't really do anything. Ella found the book at the last moment before her aunt arrived and opened the seal. ### scene 10 : Ella's parents were released, and they released Vicky's control of Aunt Ella. They caught Vicky and sealed Vicky into the book. Ella's aunt apologized to Ella and her parents because her greed (Vicky controlled Ella's aunt through an antiquities) led to all this.