Fearless Campite

• Brandon Tuivaiese, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2014

fearless campsite!!
As I ran to my tent I felt something tinkling in my ears, it felt as if it were was a woodpecker tapping on it now and then. As I reached my destination the voice echoed again saying
“LEAVE THIS PLACE IMMEDIATELY”
I didn’t know if it was the promptings of a holy spirit ,but I had a feeling someone was trying to warn me .Therefore while we were hiking around the most desolated forest ,I came across a girl with long black hair.
I asked if she needed help but she whispered in a very ghostlike voice saying
“LEAVE NOW YOUR LIFES IN GREAT DANGER”
I examined around to see if my fellow companions were here to help, I swiftly turned around and she disappeared as if her work here on earth was completed. When I returned to the campsite my heart raced like a cheetah. I told them what had happened but they laughed like a pack of wild hyenas. As I sat there eating my melted marshmallow on a kebab stick, I furiously looked at it. I just couldn’t stop thinking of that one saying that popped up every minute. Write after that moment we were fast asleep.

4 hours later
WHHOOOOOOOOOOOOSSHHHH! I woke up; shadows of the unknown filled the tent. The wind blew out smouldering fire; in the distance glowing white eyes made me tremble. Coldness of the air drifted through the open doors right into my sleeping bag. It was very quiet, I thought my friends were dead there was no one to be seen or heard the camp site was dead silent as if it was a grave yard. In the midst of the forest I saw a very long shadow; bravely I stood up and quietly took three steps outside.
On the long thick log there she sat brushing her hair. She looked at me distinctively turning her head side to side like a snake. I asked what she wanted again. She came walking up to me and whispered
“you must leave nnnooooooooooooowww!!!!!!!!”
Quickly I ran with my two feet to reach my destination (home) I ran this way that way everywhere my feet would carry me suddenly I stopped I looked around 5 girls surrounded me echoing the same word
“we must go now”
as I tried to make a runner I did a second one down a very steep hole I slipped on my bottom and went crashing down like a bird out of loose balance. As I glowered down to see if it were ever going to end. To my surprise I saw spikes looking up at me. Before I was going to die I shut my eyes quickly and before I could say, see you on the other side mate. I gasped to see I was still alive all my body limbs were still together. Around me I was lying on a bed and my mom was shouting wake up its time to go school



Brandon Tuivaiese
11 years old
year 6
Marsden state school