Young Storykeeper Volume III

2 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE SEVEN | 3
AGE SEVEN
Matthew Kennedy
Co Meath
MAX AND SKIPPER AND THE
MAGICAL SWORD
Chapter 1: The Lighthouse
Once there was a boy named Max who had
a dog called Skipper. Max lived in Ireland
with his family, in a small house with a hay
rooftop. Max’s mum and dad wanted to buy
a nearby lighthouse to live in. The lighthouse
was for sale and they dreamed of making a
home there.
One day Max took Skipper out for a
walk. They visited the lighthouse and saw a
few cool things. Max saw a green emerald
on a barrel. Max ran home to his parents
with the emerald.
Max’s mum said, “Emeralds are actually
worth one thousand euros!”
“What will we do with the money?” his
dad said.
“We could buy the lighthouse and some
furniture now!” Max said.
Meanwhile, Skipper - who was still
at the lighthouse - found a bone! He tried
to grab hold, but the bone pulled back!!!
Skipper jumped back in fear. The bone flew
into the air and attached to the body of a
nearby pirate. Skipper ran away. He didn’t
get a bone, but he got to bite it!
Chapter 2: The Pirate Ghost
Big Beard was a very big, fat, pirate, he
was captain of the Boney Pirates. The
Boney Pirates were a group of dead pirates
who brought treasure from their ship to
the lighthouse. They kept a magical sword
hidden inside a very powerful chest. The
sword was made by the gods and could only
be used by the Chosen One for good.
The Chosen One will know where the key
for the chest is, they won’t know it but the
key will be in their possession. And only they
have enough power to turn the key and open
the chest!
Chapter 3: The Magical Sword
Max and Skipper went back to the lighthouse.
Max found the lever for opening a hidden
trap door. He pulled it and saw all the rubies
and diamonds, but Big Beard was down
there too!
Max and Skipper jumped down.
Skipper’s collar fell off and Max caught it.
“It looks just like a key, I never noticed that
before!” said Max.
Max landed beside a chest, the lock
looked very like the key. Max put it in the
lock and turned the key. Max was surprised
when the chest opened up. He found the
magical sword and pulled it out.
Big Beard pulled out his sword and
swung it. He said, “You don’t deserve that
sword! It’s mine, I took it!”
“You don’t deserve it… you stole it in
the first place!” laughed Max.
Max hit Big Beard’s sword and it
snapped in half. Big Beard was shocked that
his only weapon was broken.
So Big Beard retreated and Max won.
His family was rich and had an amazing life
now in the lighthouse. Max hoped for another
adventure one day. Skipper dreamed of
eating bones.
THE LITTLE BOY, THE BUOY &
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Once upon a time, in 1788, there was a
boy named Jake. Jake was only seven
years old and he was on a vessel ship.
There was a BIG rock and the ship
hit the rock. The ship started sinking. Jake
was swimming to shore when he saw he
was heading towards a buoy. When he got
past the buoy, Jake’s feet got hurt because
it was getting shallower.
When Jake got to shore, he saw a
lighthouse. Jake’s house wasn’t far away
from the beach, so he ran home.
Now whenever Jake sees a big light it
reminds him of the lighthouse.
Séamus Moriarty
Co Dublin
BIG AL’S LIGHTHOUSE
There was a boy called Fred and he loved
dinosaurs. Once Fred was swimming in the
sea and he got stuck. He looked under the
water to see what it was and his foot was
caught in the ribs of an allosaurus skeleton.
Fred tried to drag the skeleton back to
the lighthouse that he lived in. He couldn’t
pull it out of the water, but he told all the
fishermen and fisherwomen about what
happened. But none of them believed him.
That night, at low tide, the light from
the lighthouse shone over the skeleton of Al
the allosaurus. Everybody saw it. The next
morning Fred got up and said to everyone,
“Help me pull this dinosaur out of the sea!”
They all helped and pulled Al the
allosaurs to the shore. Everyone celebrated
because Fred the junior palaeontologist
had helped the other palaeontologists
discover more fossils and made the
lighthouse famous.
Luke Carson
Co Dublin