The End Of My Life

• Matthew Toop, Grade 3, Dixon's Creek Primary School
• Short Story
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

SPLAT! Down I went, face first onto the rock hard court. Suddenly I was falling down the world’s scariest slide. Then I heard sloshy splashy beneath me. Just before I hit the bad smelling water, I felt the slide tilting upwards.
After two more hours of sliding, I shot out of a trap door. I blinked for a second, still out of breath from going that fast down the slide. I must have been going down there at about 8000 miles per hour. When I looked around, I found myself in a dense jungle.
Suddenly, a huge lion jumped towards me. I dived out of the way, just before the strong jaws snapped shut. The lion turned around and lunged at me again. This time it got closer. I tried to get out of the way but I wasn’t quick enough. The lion gave me a long scratch that went all the way down my arm. I started running and the lion chased me, just as I’d hoped.
When I got to a tree, I stopped. The lion launched himself towards me. When the lion was about 1cm away from me, I jumped out of the way. SMASH!!!! The lion slammed into the tree. The tree wobbled and then crashed onto the lion and squished it as flat as a pancake.
I ran back to where the trap door was but there was no trap door there. Suddenly I heard a roar behind me. I turned and saw another huge lion standing on its hind legs. It sprung like a spring and went for me. I ran around trying to find the trap door, my means of escape. I dived out of the way but when I hit the ground, my head hit something metal. I looked down and I couldn’t believe my eyes, it was the trap door! I jumped down into the slide. Unluckily, the lion grabbed me by the collar and tried to pull me out but the collar on my T- shirt ripped off. I started shooting down the slide. In three more hours, I was back on the court and playing.