Young Storykeeper Volume III

74 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE EIGHT | 75
TRIP TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
THE LIGHTHOUSE OF WONDER
This all started on the 8th of April 2020, on a nice,
sunny and bright day.
Busy B.B. was a nice, smart and funny teenager
with a head full of dreams. She had an eight year old
sister and one year old baby girl. They also had an
four-year-old female dog.
On the 8th of April, it was Busy B.B.’s birthday.
Busy B.B.’s friend Candylicious and her sister BonBon
gave her a voucher for the boat trip. Candylicious got
one too.
The next day it was Sunday - the perfect day. It
was time to go to the beach! They all packed up and
got in their car and drove to the water park beside the
beach. Busy B.B. took a sunbath and Candylicious
was minding all the children in the water park.
Then the big ones swapped.
Finally the boat arrived! Busy B.B.’s dreams
finally came true! “Hurray!” They all got their bags
and got on the boat. Next, they put their bags in their
room. Busy B.B. went to the playground. The big
Zofia Synakiewicz
Co Dublin
sisters were looking at the view. It was just amazing -
especially the lighthouse!
Suddenly they heard a noise! Trrrrrrrtrrrr... the
engine stopped!
“Oh no!” said the girls. The babies started to
cry. All of the shipmates tried to fix the engine but no
one could. They decided to call the rescue helicopter!
Then Busy B.B shouted, “I can fix the engine! Show
me the engine.”
Busy B.B spotted a place with no screw. She
asked a little crab for help. The crab got the screw.
Busy B.B put the screw in and the ship was fixed!
“Hurray for Busy B.B!” everyone shouted.
They finally got to the lighthouse. They all visited
the lighthouse. The last thing they needed to do was
to get back on the ship. When they got off the ship
they got into the car and drove home.
It was a lovely, fantastic and amazing day full of
adventures and surprises.
“Millie, wake up!” Mum called.
Those were the first words to start off my
adventure. It was two o’clock in the morning. ‘“We
are going on holidays.”
“Whoa!” My jaw dropped.
“C’mon, let’s go,” said my little brother Nigel.
He was six.We set off to the airport.
“Are we there yet?” asked Nigel for the 1093rd
time.
“Can you please stop asking that?” I said.
When we got to our plane, Nigel asked where
we were going.
“You’ll see,” said Mum.
It was lovely! We were staying in a beach house
overlooking the ocean. One day I was playing on
the beach when I thought I spotted a lighthouse. I
went over to my mum and asked if I could explore
it. She said I couldn’t because there were rumours
that there was a nasty tiger in it, and she made me
promise I wouldn’t tell Nigel.
That night I snuck out of bed, put on my slippers
and headed for the lighthouse. It was cold. I shivered
as I crossed the bridge leading to the large rock that
the lighthouse was built on.
The door of the lighthouse was grey, with
specks of orange rust peeking through from years
of sea spray hitting it. It made a loud CREAK as I
opened it. I thought I would be caught, but nobody
came rushing out.
Inside was A TIGER! He was sitting by a chest
of gold. At first, he growled at me.
“Don’t worry, I’m only exploring,” I whispered.
“I’m Kylo,” he said.
A talking tiger? I nearly fainted.
“There are humans coming for this treasure
tonight,” he explained. “I’m supposed to guard it.”
Just then we heard the same creak as the
door opened. Somebody was coming! The treasure
hunters had arrived. The thieves peeked around the
door and turned on their flashlight, just in time see
me running to hide. They ran after me but I hid and
they ran past me. Quietly, I tiptoed back to Kylo and
made a plan.
I heard footsteps coming closer, so I went behind
the door, and when the robbers came, I howled.
“Woooo, I am a ghost.”
The robbers fled from the lighthouse empty-handed.
As for me and the tiger, I invited him to tea. He came
and he ate all the food in the fridge, and he drank all
the water in the tap, but that’s another story.
Alice Beary
Co Kildare
THE TRAP DOOR
Once upon a time, there was a man named Bob and
he owned his very own lighthouse. It was the tallest
lighthouse in all of Ireland, and its light shone out
bright every night. It was really special.
One day Bob was walking around when he found a
trap door underneath his lighthouse. He opened the
trap door and climbed inside. It was strange, there
was nothing inside his trap door. So, he climbed back
out. But, when he turned around, the trap door had
disappeared. He didn’t understand. He went to bed.
When he got up the next morning, he went
down for his breakfast and then he saw his table and
chairs were gone, then he looked in his living room
to watch some television and his television was also
gone. He went outside to get some fresh air and was
confused… all of his furniture was inside an open van.
He looked inside the van and saw two people with
masks on.
“Hey, you stole my furniture, get back here!” he
shouted, but by the time he ran inside to get his phone
to ring the police, the thieves were gone.
As he turned around the trap door had reappeared
and when he opened it this time, he found all new
furniture waiting inside. It was a magic trap door,
inside what he always knew was a magical lighthouse
- and it granted all his wishes.
One of his wishes was to catch the thieves and
he later found out that the police had arrested them.
Another wish was for a brand-new buoy and a helper
vehicle. He lived happily ever after in his magical
lighthouse, rescuing people with his buoy and rescue
vehicle.
Jacob Sheridan
Co Dublin