Way To Extinction

• Emma Ziebari, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2007

I was walking through the jungle in a great world of dreams when suddenly I tripped. I said “oh no” as I looked down “it’s a honey badger” I screamed. He won’t ever get off.

That’s the one thing with a honey badger it won’t come off. I took my shoe off and shook it and the honey badger got so scared that it scampered off like a wounded rat.

Next was the curvy mountain which was two hundred metres away, walking that will be more than two hundred steps, well it’s good for my exercise.
I am on my way to the Victoria Falls to unlock the code of the animals that are on their way to extinction.

I am just about there it’s a long walk but it’s to save my world! As I get to the curvy mountain I looked at the map, “now’s the big hit.”

Next is Victoria Falls in between Zimbabwe and Zambia, it’s getting so exciting I said to myself. I was jumping up and down nearly the whole way.

When we got there I had to just stop and look at the falls for a minute, it was such a beautiful sight. Now all I have to do is get under the falls and crack the code.

My code is on my tissue box.

Well let’s get it over and done with.

I swam and swam until the water fall stopped. I ran and ran under the waterfall it was all stony and dark, I turned around a corner but turning back I threw my back against the rocky wall and started talking to myself.

I said “am I doing the right thing what’s round the corner, wait calm yourself down and just walk slowly, Oh no butterflies are starting to come into my stomach. As I walked round the corner my butterflies started to go. Then I saw this amazing green crystal with a lock, I ran to the crystal kneeled down in a hurry and looked at the tissue box the code was xy210 I pinned it in, it opened and there was the piece of paper with all the animals on their way to extinction. The waterfall hadn’t started again, so with a thumping heart I swam back across the river, I ran through the forest back home and handed it into the scientists, then I sat down with a hot mug of hot chocolate and waited for the results and I am still waiting there today.