“You’re not going fishing!” bellowed Tyler’s dad.
“Well that’s not fair!” Tyler said in anger, stomping his feet.
“But why can’t we go?” asked Honey, Tyler’s twin sister.
“Because it’s too dangerous,” said mum, joining in the conversation, “You know that there are deadly creatures lurking in the lake.”
Tyler whispered to Honey “They’re just lying. I don’t believe them, I’ve never seen any.”
Tyler was a brave daredevil, who could be very clumsy at times. Honey was brave and determined and very competitive especially with her twin brother Tyler. Honey was jealous of Tyler as he had been on many fishing trips with their father. She was curious to discover the dangers of the lake.
As Tyler and Honey went up to their room after dinner Honey whispered to Tyler, “Why don’t we plan to go on a fishing trip?”
“You heard mum and dad, they said ‘No!’ ” replied Tyler.
“But its alright for you, you’ve been with dad. I’ve never been. Are you scared? Please come with me, it’ll be fun. But if you are too scared I’ll go alone…” Honey said threateningly.
“Ok, Ok I’ll come with you. Stop pestering me. I’m not scared, I’m braver than you.”
They waited patiently until their parents were in bed, then they crept silently and nervously to the garage. Once they had got all the equipment together they sneaked out of the door towards the lake.
When they got there Honey’s first reaction was one of shock. “I can’t believe how huge the lake is!” she exclaimed.
“Look at that beautiful sunrise,” commented Tyler, pointing across the lake to the horizon.
“It’s breathtaking with the exquisite, golden sunrise and the reeds swaying gently in the wind.”
Looking around, Honey and Tyler saw the wonders of the lake: shimmering water, giant mountains, colourful fish, a golden sky and in the distance, silhouettes of animals.
Eagerly Tyler pushed the canoe into the murky, flowing water. Cautiously Honey climbed in and Tyler jumped in behind her. He carefully picked up the oars and started to row out to deeper water. Honey felt both scared and excited at the same time. As Tyler rowed further she gradually began to feel relieved and relaxed, it was so calm and peaceful.
“What’s that in the distance?” asked Honey
“What?” replied Tyler
“That dark, shadowy, ‘rock-like’ thing.”
“I don’t know I’ve never seen it before!” exclaimed Tyler puzzled.
Honey and Tyler’s minds whizzed with questions but no answers came to them. What was the ‘rock like’ object? What should they do? Their minds couldn’t focus on anything but the mysterious object. Terrified, Tyler and Honey’s mouths became drier and drier, until they felt like sandpaper. Their minds generated more and more questions. Where should they go? Would anyone have noticed they were gone? An owl hooted in the distance and they felt as though there something was watching them.
Eventually the twins summoned up the courage to speak.
“Maybe the legends are true.” whispered Tyler.
“There’s no point just sitting here,” complained Honey, “Let’s go and take a closer look.”
Petrified but as silently as mice, Tyler and Honey began to row their canoe slowly towards the ‘rock like’ object. Rowing stealthily, they noticed something strange, more of the ‘rock-like’ thing had appeared out of the water. Gripping the oars tightly, Tyler’s hands grew clammy and Honey’s pulse quickened, the twin’s hearts thudded like bass drums and they started to sweat like burst pipes.
All of a sudden, the current pulled them violently towards the object. “Maybe we should have listened to Mum and Dad!” muttered Tyler. Clinging tightly to the edge of their canoe to avoid being thrown overboard, Honey and Tyler tried to keep calm.
Now that they were closer they sniffed the air and could smell mould, slime and a foul fishy stench. Grumbling, groaning and gurgling seemed to be coming from beneath the canoe. Water lapped against the edge of the canoe, splashing their hands, whilst seaweed was blown onto the bottom of the canoe. The canoe started to rock violently from side to side and a sickly taste rose up from their throats. The murky water began to move in a mysterious manner and a shoal of fish swam frantically in the opposite direction to the mysterious, greeny-brown, ‘rock like’ object growing larger and larger until it was the most enormous and gigantic thing they had ever seen.
“What is that?” asked Tyler frozen still like someone at the Arctic, his eyes wide with fear.
“I have no idea!” snapped Honey. “There’s no one out here! We’re going to die!”
Telling her not to scream, Tyler shouted, “Just concentrate on the colourful fish and the beautiful sunrise!” Quick as a flash they furiously tried to row their creaking canoe in the same direction as the fish. They panicked that their canoe would be wrecked like something demolished by a typhoon. What should they do? Being pulled ever closer they saw the ‘rock like’ thing loom over them and open up before their eyes.
Pulled in by a deadly current, Tyler and Honey found themselves in a perplexing place… a world turned upside down and inside out. Before their eyes they saw a bright yellow moon, sapphire grass and emerald sky. The aroma of cinnamon and mints was all around them. Just then Tyler tumbled backwards in to a patch of flowers, with green heads and brightly coloured stems. Noticing they were no ordinary flowers, he was covered in icing and smelt of cupcakes. He had tripped over an orange bunny eating a grey carrot.
Meanwhile, Honey was looking at all the fascinating things that surrounded her: golden go karts, diamond encrusted swings, grey rollercoasters on purple and red tracks. Excitedly, she rolled down a grassy hill. In the distance she saw the strangest sight… a rainbow, which was black, white and grey, leading to what looked like a pool of gold. “This park is amazing!” she exclaimed while playing on the colossal slide again and again.
Jumping on trampoline clouds, somersaulting and back flipping, Tyler shouted, “Look at me!” excitedly and then landed flat on his back.
Suddenly Tyler looked up because he could smell something horrifying. At that moment he saw a crowd with pointy hats and strange looking bubbles popping above their heads. “Look, look Honey, we better get out of here before those witches see us and turn us in to f…f…frogs,” stuttered Tyler anxiously.
Hurriedly, trying to leave, they turned around to head back to the door but it slammed shut. They were trapped!
Honey and Tyler stood frozen in shock, they could not believe it. Suddenly the truth hit them like a blast of icy wind. The people in the pointy hats were witches!
“Run!” shouted Tyler to Honey but the witches had now formed a circle around them and were closing in.
“Go, go, go!” yelled Tyler again. They ducked under the witches and using the last of their will power, bolted for the door! As soon as they thought all hope was gone, the door clicked and swung open. They were free.
Then they found themselves falling through thin air down, down, down.
“What’s going on?” shrieked Honey.
“I don’t know,” came Tyler’s reply over the howl of the air. “Where are we going to land and what will Mum and Dad do when they find out?” wondered Tyler aloud.
THUMP! They landed in a tangled heap of arms and legs on their very own king sized bed!
Honey turned to Tyler and said, “I can’t believe it! We managed to escape the witches!”
“I’ve never been on a fishing trip like that before!” joked Tyler, grinning.
“Shall we go and see where Mum and Dad are, and if they noticed we were gone?” asked Honey.
They sped down the stairs and raced into the kitchen. There was no sign of Mum and Dad, but out of the corner of her eye Honey saw something. “What’s that on the table?” she asked Tyler. It was a scrap of paper that said ‘Come into the garden. Love Mum and Dad’.
They rushed into the garden and found Mum and Dad in the middle of the lawn, standing next to a wooden hutch. They didn’t look angry, in fact they looked excited. Mum said, “Guess what’s inside the hutch?”
“Usually a rabbit lives inside a hutch,” explained Tyler.
“Correct!” replied Dad. “Go on then, look inside, whatever’s inside is yours to look after.”
Honey and Tyler skipped up to the hutch and carefully opened the door. Their jaws dropped. Inside, sitting on a bed of straw, was an orange rabbit gnawing on a grey carrot…….
by Year 4 pupils from St Edmund’s, Chase Bridge, Lowther, Heathfield Junior and St. Mary’s primary schools