Old Journey

• Zavier Vicari, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2017

Old Journey
Once there was a man called Phill but people called him the old grandpa. Every day he would visit this girl called Lilly she was very nice to the old man and so he was nice back. One day he was walking to her little house to give her a bag of chocolates but when he got there, she was no where to be seen so he asked some people but every time the answer was no. but 5 minutes later one man said “yes she was kidnapped and taken to hoyleny hill.” that’s the biggest hill in town then the old grandpa thinks to himself. “I will get Lilly if it’s the last thing I’ll do” so he goes home and packs his stuff he gets some food, a backpack and some other things then he is off with his journey. 35 minutes later he makes it to the hill and starts walking, not much happens he just sees some birds some cows that’s mostly it but then he hears a kid crying and looks over and sees a man hitting the kid he is saying “tell me where your mother is so I can kill her” but the kid keeps saying no. Then the grandpa yells “OI GET AWAY FROM THAT KID” then the man grabs the kid and runs off so the grandpa chases him. After a couple of minutes he finally catches him then says “What’s wrong with you saying you are going to kill his mother? Shame on you” says the old man. The man then runs off, the kid gets up and says “Thank you for saving me”. “No problem. Do you want to come on a journey with me? I am trying to find a girl called Lilly”. Then the grandpa says “What is your name child?” “My name is Ben”. Then they both walk to find Lily. They start to get bored and hungry so they eat some food that the grandpa had with him. After a while they get back up and see some wood, pick it up, put it in the grandpa’s bag and start walking. Then again they see a tree that is nearly fallen down so they get the grandpa’s axe and cut it down. Then they cut it up into pieces, put it in the bag and go to bed. Eight hours later they start walking and see a house and decide to go to it then he opens the door and sees Lilly. Then he gets mad and powerbombs the man that’s in the room because that’s the man that was hitting the kid so he gets lilly and adopts her and they live happily ever after