The Best Friends

• Gabriel Kaye, Grade 3, Holy Spirit Primary School
• Short Story
• 2012

Excellence Award in the 'Legendary 2012' competition

Once upon a time, a long time ago, lived an elephant and a cheetah.They were two best friends.

They played 'It' but Cheetah always won. They played in the lake but like all cats, except the tiger, he hated the water but they always got along with each other.

One hot day after a boiling night the two friends went to the lake. Elephant accidentally squirted water on Cheetah and he thought it was on purpose and yelled "No more best friends"! and he ran as fast as all cheetahs could away from Elephant.

None of them ever knew a giant evil crocodile lived in the lake and that he had an evil plan. When Cheetah was running he did not know he was running into one of the evil crocodile's traps he had left to catch Cheetah and it worked. Cheetah was trapped!

The evil crocodile suddenly appeared driving a crane which had a big cage hanging down from it.This was to put Cheetah in and take him down to the lake to drown him. Elephant who was in his cave, spotted this and snuck after them.

While elephant was following them he remembered how strong he was. When he saw crocodile starting to lower the cage into the water, he snuck into the lake and started to push. Up and up the cage went and it went so high that the crane broke! Cheetah fell into the water but Elephant rescued him and carried Cheetah back to shore.

The water splashed some broken wires on the crane and the evil crocodile got electrocuted and died. Cheetah and Elephant lived and played happily as best friends forever.