Eleanor Updale http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/eleanor-updale

14/11/2019

Why couldn’t anyone else hear the tapping? It was there in the night, but when Tom went to his mother’s room to tell her about it, she just mumbled something about dreams, rolled over, and sent him back to bed. All through his maths exam Tom was put off by the rhythmical clicks from the street outside. Afterwards, his friends said they didn’t know what he was talking about. Was he going mad?
Even he thought so when the sound started up again on a school trip to the museum. He followed the taps down a corridor, ignoring glass cases of stuffed animals on either side. The door ahead of him was marked ‘private’, but he couldn’t resist the urge to turn the handle. At first, he thought the room was empty, but then...

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Sarah Cook

15/11/2019 00:07:26

Through the slight crack in the door he saw a big matte black safe with a huge old fashioned padlock. In an urge he kicked open the door and slowly creeped into the room. As Tom secretly walked trying not to make a sound as security roamed the halls, he noticed suspicious numbers written all over the walls. He spun around only to see the numbers repeated again and again. The numbers read 4682. He approached the safe, on the bottom of the padlock and saw random numbers different to the numbers that were on the walls!

Tom clicked the right numbers back into place on the paddle lock. The moment he opened the safe he heard that annoying tapping sound again but it was louder this time and wouldn’t stop. He looked up only to see a huge grandfather clock sitting on top of the safe door. Strange that Tom hadn’t noticed it before. Inside the safe was a small crumpled note, it read...

“You have cracked my safe well done. But are you going to be able to find the hidden treasure. You might be wondering who I am, my name Mr Robert Baker, and I was the previous owner of this museum. Find all my clues to find my treasure.” Tom noticed a tooth from the dinosaur exhibit and before he knew it, Tom was at the dinosaur exhibit!!! He saw a…

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15/11/2019 12:54:20

all of a sudden, in the corner of his eye, he saw a dark, shadowy figure. Tom crept slowly towards it, wondering what it could be and why it was constantly tapping; he was curious and couldn’t resist the urge to discover the identity of the strange figure. He knew this was wrong but had to do it anyway because he felt an unusual connection towards the figure. HE HAD TO TOUCH IT!

His hand was shaking with fear and fright. As he went to reach the figure, it was like touching air. He had to leave, rushing out the room, he tripped over a hard object. In his thoughts, the museum was pitch black, empty, like a midnight sky: it looked completely different. He couldn’t put his finger on where he was or what was surrounding him.

As Tom gradually got back to his feet, he wandered around trying to discover what the name of this dystopian place was. He was trying to listen to the sounds around him but all he could hear was the harmony of the tapping noise in his head making sure that his brain couldn’t function right. His ear drums felt claustrophobic, like the noise was squishing them. Fearlessly, the shadowy figure was stood tall outside. What could he do…

Nikki Heath

15/11/2019 10:05:00

Broad triceratops charging at Tom with a loud roar, Tom knew that he was in hot water so he sprinted for the door behind him. However, it wasn’t there, it was replaced by a huge skeleton of a tyrannosaurus, Tom climbed the skeleton from the tail and he was standing on the spine. As he was trying to keep his balance, he stood on something wet, he looked down at his foot and saw a crumpled up note and a rusty, thin sword. The tapping had resumed, this time, more focused in his head. The Monstrous beast was right behind him and charged at him, Tom quickly grabbed the note as well as the sword before the skeleton would crash down on the floor. He quickly jumped onto the beast’s back, the note read something in a language he couldn’t recognise and the sword had read some faded words covered in the sheet of rust. Suddenly the floor tiles started to disappear, the floor was replaced something that looked like a colossal galaxy with a very dark background. He dropped the note and the sword was stiff in his hand.

The triceratops had disappeared all of a sudden. He started falling like it was forever, deeper and deeper into the beautiful but terrifying centre of the galaxy. From above, things started to fall down. Tom saw the note, he tried to float towards it, but out of the black a scaly green snake had appeared with ravenous eyes. Luckily, the note somehow flew towards him, Toms legs were now feeling numb, he looked below and saw the centre of the galaxy, two times larger and Tom realised this was his last. The beast glanced at tom and paced at him with anger.

Out of nowhere, everything was stationary. Tom looked at the other side of the note and it showed a human in a cage, the human whispered something. “Help this monster is going to kill me!” Tom held the sword firmly in his hand, he looked at the bottom of the note and it showed the beast, but there was a spot under its neck, Tom looked at the still beast, he floated towards it, he realized that the spot was the its weak spot, and with one strike of the sword to the monsters weak spot, he…

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Bev Humphrey

15/11/2019 11:39:06

Swung the rusted sword right under it’s neck. The animal let out a painful cry as time seemed to unfreeze itself. The cry shook him to the core and tried to run as far as he could but the lack of gravity didn’t help. Uncoiling it’s emerald, scaled tail, the beast whacked him in his back and sent him flying through the endless, black void. The ravenous snake slithered after, lighting fast despite the lack of gravity. The sword in his hand glowed slightly, barely noticeable at first, but eventually it grew bigger and brighter. The snake had stopped in it’s tracks and was slowly cowering back in fear. His right hand shook as the light started to consume him he let out a anxious cry as the light fully submerged him.

“I am here to help you.” Tom cracked his eyes opened and came face to face with a fallen angel. “I can help you,” she whispered, “But to do that, you have to let me take over.” He scanned her, taking in her features: she had cherry crimson hair and bright blue eyes. Her dress was white and beautiful, black wings spread from her back, longer than a fully grown man. Following his heart, Tom responded with a slight nod and a quick flash of dark light consumed him yet again.

In front of him was the same emerald scaled snake but instead of looking at him with the ferocious, blood-chilling eyes of a predator, it’s golden eyes quivered with fear like prey. The sword in his hand was no longer rusty but sparkling sliver with words engraved into it. Wasting no time, he tightened his grip on the sword and with a courageous cry he ran up to the monster with an unknown strength coursing through his veins, he once again struck the monster under its neck and fell with an anguished hiss.

The discarded note glowed faintly and the being on the other side started to speak but the scenery around started to fall apart and once again Tom was falling, faster and faster towards the light at the bottom and soon he felt his face smack the ground of a new unknown place...

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Bev Humphrey

15/11/2019 13:54:09

- As Tom fell towards the blinding light he wondered what it could be. He thought of what he believed was paradise. A calm and relaxing place where he could lie down and relax. He braced himself for what was to arrive and squeezed his eyes shut as...
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Christina Nguyen

15/11/2019 16:42:13

There he was. Tom was in the middle of nowwhere, nowhere to be found. There were houses all around him, no people in his sight. Only him and the steaming hot sun.
Tom was tired, he felt as if he were walking with ten pound weights. As he drifted away in sleep, he felt his stomach drop, he heard his scream as he falls into another world.
He feels overwhelmed, he doesn’t know why this is happening. As he plummets in his fall, he suddenly lands in a distinct world, a world where technology has taken over. The future.
He sits where he landed, overwhelmed with surprise and confusion. He sees pretty people, advanced technology, and fallen cities. Tom was in awe. He has never seen a place like this before.
As Tom becomes curious he gets up to walk around, but does not know what is bound to lay ahead...
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