Young Storykeeper Volume III

78 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE NINE | 79
MARVELLOUS MOON LANDING
Terry Tortoise had always wanted to see Earth.
It’s funny if you say, “Well, just see Earth, then.”
But he can’t, Terry is a space tortoise and he lived with his friends
Senan Seal and Preston Pelican in a moon crater and he had never
seen a human. His moon crater had a lighthouse on top of it and this
lighthouse navigated spaceships.
Preston Pelican had told him he had seen a new planet it was
large, blue, green and misty.
“Earth!” Senan shouted out of his moon crater pool.
“What??” said Preston Pelican. “What a strange name.”
“It’s not too strange,” said Terry, unsure of himself. “I think it’s
rather nice. I will visit it one day.”
And he was right.
The next day Preston and Senan woke up. Terry had gone to visit
Charlie in his moon lighthouse. Terry saw the big lighthouse light and
a spaceship.
“We have landed on the moon,” a voice said. The person stood
out and looked at Terry.
Buzz Aldrin had now gotten out of the spaceship and was laughing
his head off. Neil Armstrong turned to Aldrin. “Where is the flag?”
Aldrin pulled it out of his suit. “I kept it safe,” he said.
”Good work, Aldrin,” Armstrong said.
He placed the flag on the moon. Just then another spaceship
appeared, it was the Russian spaceship. A man leapt out and placed a
Russian flag on the moon.
“We were here first!” Aldrin said. Then a fight broke out and the
Russians won! They were just heading back when Terry Tortoise
jumped into their spaceship and zoomed away.
When he got to Earth, he was so excited! Terry Tortoise loved
Earth. He saw many humans walking around. He took lots of photos.
He climbed up a building. it was the Sydney Opera House and he
looked over the lovely view of the city.
He thought, 194 countries done, now two more to go.
New Zealand and Fiji were the last countries to visit. In New Zealand
he snuck into a rugby game and then he went and saw some Kiwi
birds. He went to Fiji and found it a bit boring, so he decided to return
to England. London was glorious he felt he might want to live there!
Terry Tortoise then spotted a big palace. He went inside and there
sat an old lady.
“A tortoise,” she said.
“A space tortoise,” Terry said.
The Queen jumped into Terry’s spaceship and zoomed off with
him.
“Wow!” Queen Elizabeth said as she hopped off the spaceship
and stared at the lighthouse. “It’s amazing.”
Queen Elizabeth presented Terry, Sammy, Charlie, Preston and
Senan with medals. They told her all about their adventures. The Queen
was very impressed with all the adventures they had as she made
herself comfortable in a pile of cushions in Terry, Senan and Preston’s
moon crater.
“Yes,” said Terry. “Earth is lovely but there is no place like home.”
Cathal Bailey
Co Carlow