Young Storykeeper Volume III

172 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE TEN | 173
MYSTERIOUS LIGHTHOUSE
In Russia, there is a girl called Christy. She
is a curious, intelligent and brave girl. She
has crystal blue eyes and dark brown hair.
Christy loves to solve mysteries. She is
hoping to follow in her mother’s footsteps,
as her mother is a top detective.
At the age of eleven, Christy’s friend
Kate called to tell her about a robbery. Christy
was so excited to solve this mystery. She ran
to her office, took her bag and ran out of
the house to collect information about the
robbery. She collected lots of information.
Christy called Kate to tell her about
the information she collected, but Kate’s
phone was switched off. Christy wondered
what had happened to Kate. She saved
the information for herself and dozed off to
sleep.
The next morning, Christy hurried to
Kate’s house to find out what happened
to her friend. When she came to Kate’s
house, there was a crowd. Christy ran to
find out what was happening. When she
saw Kate she was wounded, Christy called
the ambulance and went with Kate to the
hospital.
Kate said that there was a file in her
bookshelf about the robbery. Christy asked
the ambulance to stop and ran back to
Kate’s house. Christy searched for the file in
the bookshelf. But she saw saw nothing in
the bookshelf, except a note saying We are
going to get you!
When Christy turned the note around, it
was signed “Arthur.”
“Who could he be?” wondered Christy.
Christy searched the name Arthur and
found out that he was the most wanted
criminal in the county. He was caught in
three cases, but he had escaped. The cases
were all about robbery. He is king of thefts,
so he must have a connection with this one
too, thought Christy.
Christy called the police and asked if
they had more information about Arthur.
They said that he lived in a lighthouse, but it
had been abandoned a long time ago.
All the robbers stored their loot there,
the police explained. “There is one way to
get there. You have to take a helicopter,”
said the police officer.
Christy made a plan to go to the
lighthouse the next day. Suddenly, there was
a knock on the door. Christy thought it was
the police, but when she opened the door
she saw it was a man covered all in black.
He sprayed a powder on Christy’s face and
took her out to a lighthouse nearby.
It was covered with algae and wasn’t
very good looking. They put her in a room it
was dark and scary and something banged
Christy on the head.
To be continued...
Cherishma Premkumar
Co Dublin
THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE SEA-
MONSTER AND THE UNICORN
PANTS
“I’m going exploring tonight, Mum,” said
Jack.
“That’s okay,” said Mum. Jack walked
out the door with a very excited looking
expression on his face.
I’m gonna explore the abandoned
lighthouse tonight, he thought. The town
looked incredible that night as Jack looked
at it from a hill. In a good mood, he walked
down the steep hill to the lighthouse.
When he got to the lighthouse, there
was a weird glow coming from the windows.
The glow was very mysterious and bright, so
Jack decided to find out where the glow was
coming from.
When he got in, he found a group of
sea snakes slithering around.
“Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhh!” shouted
Jack when he saw the sea snakes, and he
ran out of the lighthouse. Then a big, green,
slimy sea monster swam out of the water
and grabbed him. And then everything went
dark…
Jack woke up some time later to the
hiss of a sea snake.
“You are stuck here with us now,” said
the sea monster. “You can’t keep me here,”
he said.
“Oh yeah, we can,” said the sea
monster.
The sea monster threw Jack into a
room at the top of the lighthouse where
escape seemed impossible. Jack cried in
his room for a few minutes before coming up
with an escape plan. He would steal the sea
monster’s big trousers, then jump off the top
of the lighthouse and use the trousers as a
parachute. It was fool-proof (not)! But when
he tried to get out, the door was locked and
the key was on the other side of the lock.
Jack found a pencil on the ground and he
had an idea.
He ripped off a piece of his shirt and
put it under the door, then he shoved the
pencil into the lock and the key fell out. The
key fell onto the piece of his shirt. Jack
pulled the piece of his shirt from under the
door and retrieved the key.
Then he unlocked the door and walked
out. He crawled across the floor to the sea
monster, and then quickly pulled off the sea
monster’s trousers!
The sea monster” s green skin turned
bright red as its unicorn pants were revealed,
and he ran off crying. And the sea snakes
slithered off too, not wanting their pairs of
dinosaur pants to be seen! ““Yeah, that’s it,
run,” said Jack.
When he arrived home, it was ten
o’clock. He sat down to eat his dinner.
““Did you have a nice time?” asked his
mum.
“Yes, I had a great time exploring the
forest,” said Jack, knowing that his mum
would freak out if she knew where he had
been.
The next morning, Jack’s little sister told
him she was going to explore the lighthouse.
“Can you come with me?” she asked. Jack
spat his milk out all over the table.
“Noooooooooooooo…!”
Liam York
Co Offaly