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A Narrow Escape - 6th May 2020
Posted: May 17, 2020 by: A Richards (arichards) on: Mars, Mercury & Jupiter
The children have been writing a story about a prey narrowly escaping from their predator.
Matthew's tale
In the cold, icy arctic, surrounded by the vast, blue ocean, I tried not to move as I lay helplessly on the tiny iceberg. Patiently, two whales bobbed up and down floating like an abandoned ship, waiting for their lunch... ME! I lay there feeling afraid and defeated while the whales hid in the murky depths of the water hungrily staring at me from below. The big, white icebergs that I thought of as home offered me no comfort because they were so far away.
Suddenly the sun had gone and all was blanketed by darkness. Silently, the whales started to glide through the freezing waters towards me. I closed my eyes as I sensed them getting closer and closer. My heart was pounding like a drum in my blubbery chest.
SPLASH! The two colossal monsters thrust out the dark, freezing water like a jack in a box. Rapidly, the frightening whales swam to me with their killer sized jaws open wide ready to gobble me up…
CRASH! Before I knew what was happening the ice, that had been my bed, shattered and the whales and I were sent flying down deep below the surface. The whales tried to gobble me up and my tail got caught in the biggest one's hungry mouth. This was it .. I felt such sadness ….it was all over for me! Whilst they were doing some sort of underwater victory dance, the giant whales bumped heads with a ferocious bang. It was such a big and powerful bump that the whale unexpectedly dropped me from his menacing jaws. Silently and full of relief, I swam away in the snap of fingers.
Feeling dazed and confused, I swam to the surface to breathe before swimming back home to find a new place to sleep with my family. I hoped that would never happen again.
Evie's tale
My account took place in the scorching plains of Africa, a steep gully and higher land.
One spectacular Saturday, me and my herd (my herd and I - you always put yourself last) were munching happily away on patches of delicious grass. After a while, I suggested to the others with a grunt, Speech should be on the same line, until you introduce another speaker
“Shall we go down into the gully, it looks like there is some lush grass down there and it is very long. Yummy!”
We hopped into the lower land and started munching quite noisily once again.
Little did we know that, through the long, wavy grass, a beastly leopard was creeping up on us. Suddenly, the leopard did an enormous leap and landed right behind us! We all sprung out of the trench and carried on eating, but on higher ground. I know, we’re silly and CRAZY!
The leopard pounced out of the place where the lip licking food was and dashed across the field like a bomb being set by a cannon! Great simile
“RUN!” the chief snorted at the top of his voice.
By the time we had all got to the other end of the field, the leopard was gone, it had disappeared into thin air. We were all relieved. Feeling terrified, we went back to eating the grass but sadly not in the gully.
“That was a close one,” grunted Bashon the chef of the herd, “We almost got eaten!”
“Yum yum yum!”snorted Angus a bit of a round one. Chef rolled his eyes. Back to eating then I guess. We were all scared for life! At least a minute or two past. Then….
As quick as a flash, the leopard bounded out of the gully and shot around the plain like a bullet! She clawed me round the neck and yanked me down the steep passageway. I kicked and head butted. I did everything I could! The beast ran away worried that I might injure her! I galloped far far away, alongside some of my friends. And of course we saw a predator again so I won’t say we didn’t.But we didn’t see one for a long long long time.
Matilda's tale
It was almost sunset, I had been swimming around the Atlantic all day.I was looking for food for me and my pups. With tired eyes, I looked above the water and I saw a nice spot to rest my head for a while.I felt exhausted so I went onto the floating ice slab for a good nap.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a strange noise woke me. I opened my eyes quickly and saw the tip of a colossal black nose. With my heart pounding, I heard another sound. There was another black nose! Suddenly, both of their bodies rose higher out of the water. With hungry eyes, the two killer whales stared back at me from the choppy waves! Now I really started to panic.
Then both killer whales worked together slamming the ice! My body froze but I gripped onto the ice with all the strength I could find.But because I was too tired, It wasn’t working and I started to slip. Towards the massive open jaws and red panting tongue I slipped. Rows of yellow,wood-like teeth surrounded me.I thought to myself this was the end!
Anger started to bubble inside me. ‘Who would look after my pups if I was gone ?’ With all my mighty strength, I started to fight back. Whipping my tail furiously and slamming my nose towards the teeth,I suddenly felt the jaws open. That was my chance! Quick as a lightning bolt, I wiggled free and sped away into the safe distance, not looking back.
As I got closer to home I felt relieved. Because I had been brave, I was going to snuggle my babies again.I learned that from now on, I would never go so far from home alone again.
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