Example Story

Rescue!

by Sam, aged 10

Eric was settling down to watch his favourite TV show, Battle of the Spy Ninjas, after a hard day of school work, when suddenly a thud on the door like a brick against a wall disturbed him. 

He leapt up, bounding over to the door finding a crumpled letter the colour of tea on the floor. He pulled open the door but all he could see was a black SUV pulling out of the long gravel driveway. Was this someone he was meant to know or was something more suspicious afoot? Oddly, the letter had no address, it just had Eric Jones typed in bold on the front. Why was it addressed to him? Why hadn’t they handwritten it? Was it to avoid the sender being detected or did they just prefer to type? In all of the hustle he had forgotten to pen the letter as it was addressed to him. He snatched the letter from the floor and tore it open. Inside was a carefully folded note that read ‘We have taken Timothy Taylor hostage. We will return him if you give us one billion pounds in person by May the fifth. 

Best wishes, Mr X.’ 

Eric was astounded; he didn’t have one billion pounds for sure, he only had 17 pounds he’d been saving up for 17 weeks. There was only one thing for it: he had to rescue his best friend Timothy the hard way. Eric had been doing lots of spying and he had decided Timothy must be in the mountain cave. 

Eric raced through the rain, hearing his feet splat as he ran on the wet road. 

There, in front of him, loomed the mountain. A  warm glow at the top of the peak beckoned him closer and closer. He brought one of his two pickaxes down on the hard rocky face of the mountain’s edge. Bang! Bang! A rock fell from a few metres beneath him and he pulled himself up higher, higher, closer and closer to his destination… the summit. 

An hour later, he reached it and he saw the silhouette of a man standing in the distance. His heart raced with joy when he noticed it was his best friend Timothy who was tied up in a chair which was then tied to a wall. “You came!” his friend cried.

“Obviously I would,” Eric replied,”Now let's get you out of this place!” He grabbed his penknife and started to work at the knots binding his friend to the chair. “It’s all done,” Eric exclaimed. 

“Thank you,” Timothy answered. They sprinted out of the building when suddenly a dog came after them getting closer, closer and even closer… It made a leap for Eric but Timothy kicked at it and it bounded away back into the building. They jumped onto a waiting quad bike Eric had put there the day before. They made a leap of the hill on the quad bike  and they landed in the river just as Eric had predicted. They jumped off the quad bike and ran back to their houses. They never looked back.