m3ghan Becky Clarke my story i made I am walking through the golden gates, and I step into this glorious palace. The queen is greeting me and asks if I would like to have dinner with her. We are celebrating that the bombs have stopped (the end of the war) and then I hear someone screaming at me saying “WAKE UP! WAKE UP! “ I’m back in the real world, with an awful lady whipping me for falling asleep when I am meant to be working in the mine and World War 2 is still on. I feel the pain in my back again and my burning hands. My name is Becky Clarke I’m 23 and life is not worth living. I’m not even sure if I should be doing this job for just six shillings a day. I want to be free from pain and danger. I have broken a few bones from almost getting hit by a terrifying bomb. My heart is beating so fast, I am trying to keep my lips closed but the words come out ...I....give...UP! I run out of the mine not thinking about anything. Suddenly I feel myself falling to the ground, but I just keep falling and falling and falling nonstop, wondering if I will ever stop. Suddenly I am in a horrible place and the hole beneath me closes up and I see on the ground words in blood saying “get the gold or you are TRAPPED!” This didn’t look so good, I pinch myself to see if I am dreaming but I’m not and all the things that have happened to me have happened in three seconds flat. The place was dark and gloomy; all the trees have no leaves and there were cracks all over the ground. There was complete silence except for the sound of the howling wind and the patter of my feet. Suddenly I heard a noise but it wasn’t me or the wind so who is it I asked myself. I heard that howling noise again and then I felt something breathing on my back. I turned round and the first thing I saw was a pair of fangs then I saw large red eyes on a hairy face. IT’s a wolf? It was the most terrifying wolf. I ran at the speed of light and as I was doing that I felt someone push to the side. It was a man, a human being. I was relieved I was not the only human there. We both hid behind a bush and he told me not to move, even though I was as still as a rock before he said that. The twigs were scratching my knees but it was not as painful as it would have been if that that ghastly red eyed wolf was clawing me into pieces. The wolfs nose was sniffing like there was no tomorrow and suddenly when it’s head was peaking through the bush I thought this would be my last. But then I realized that he couldn’t reach us. The wolf was struggling to get out of the bush but his head was stuck. The man told me to run before the wolf was freed. So I ran as fast as a strike of lightning. Eventually we were far enough away from the wolf so he couldn’t find us. I asked the man his name and he said “Danny Lee, what’s yours?” “Becky... Becky Clarke. Where am I? “, I asked . “I do not know”, he said. “How could you not know?”. “It is a long story” he said “you probably will not believe me but I sort of fell down a hole. It’s closed up now and a sign says find the gold or you will be TRAPPED!”. “Wow” I said “the same thing happened to me”. “Did you hear that” Danny said “here what” , I asked “there it is again”. “I heard it this time”, I said. We both turned around because we heard a voice from a cave shouting “HELP! HELP!”. “Are you sure we should help this person, that cave looks pretty terrifying.” “We might as well. It could not be any worse than out here” he said. “Ok” I said, “if you insist. As long as you have a torch“. “I do” he said. “That is a relief”. We walked slowly into the dark and gloomy cave and as he flicked his torch on I saw the most horrible things. There were rats, bats and bugs, even dead bodies! We walked a little further and when suddenly a millimetre away from me, two razor sharp daggers slammed in the wall in front of me, I thought it was the last of me. “Maybe this isn’t such a good idea”, I said in the most terrified voice. “Maybe you’re right”, Danny agreed. So we turned back, but as we were about to step out of the cave, boulders of rock fell down and were blocking the way out. We both tried to push the rocks out of the way, but they just wouldn’t budge. “This is not the day I expected when I gave up working in the mines. I knew it was probably the wrong choice but I thought I would be free. I was wrong and now I am in the most horrible place you could think of....a dark, gloomy, stinking cave” I said furiously. Eventually, after I calmed down we carried on walking. Suddenly we heard loud noises from either side of me. “Oh god”, I said, “I either have bad eye sight or the walls are closing in”. “Er, unfortunately the walls are closing in”, Danny said. “Maybe we should run”. “Yer” I agreed. So we ran although I wondered if we ran a little too late. But I still ran like there was no tomorrow. This time I really thought this was my last, but finally we were safe although blocked even further into the cave. We walked on, so glad that we were alive but I couldn’t walk because something was stopping me. It was either a creature or the walls. I turned around and thankfully it was the wall. “Danny” I said “DANNY, I’m sort of stuck”. “Just take your coat off” he said. “But it’s freezing” I said “and it’s my best coat”. “Well if you want to stay trapped , fine”. I had to abandon my coat if I didn’t want to stay there forever, so I took my coat off with a sulky face. We walked on again until suddenly when Danny took a step, a bit of pavement broke and fell even further underground. Danny looked through the hole and he could see for miles. “Wow”, he said. “What”, I asked as I started to peep through the hole. “Oh now I know why” I said in a terrified voice. “That hole goes on for miles; how on earth are we supposed to get across?”. “We’re going to have to hold hands and run like the wind” Danny said. “I’m not the most talented at running on extremely breakable concrete, but OK”, I said. So we both ran together and every step a piece of concrete fell miles below. We ran and ran for about 10 minutes, so amazed at how long we had been doing this dangerous task. “We did it”, said Danny. “At least you did”, a little voice behind him said (it was me). He turned around and looked down at the ground. There I was clinging on for dear life. “Any chance you could help me? I’m sort of so close to falling and killing myself,” I said in the most shaky terrified voice. “Of course I will help you, but I’m warning you that I’m not the strongest person in the world.” I started to take one hand off, but was too scared to. “You can do it Becky, I know you can”, said Danny. “OK” I said, still terrified. So I took one hand off and grabbed Danny’s hand and then did the same with the other hand. Danny pulled and pulled and used strength he had never used before, After his seventh pull I finally got up. “Thank you so much”, I said in the most relieved voice. I gave Danny a kiss on the cheek and saw him blush. We walked on still further, and when we went round the corner of the gloomy cave we saw a strange box. “We need a key”, said Danny, “I’m just wondering” I said “but how on earth did the person who was yelling help get across here without breaking the concrete.” “I don’t know”, said Danny “but let’s find the key whilst we are still alive”. We looked under rocks and cracks but it was nowhere to be found. I looked up and saw the key about four inches too high for me to reach it. “Danny, I think I’ve found it, give me a lift”. So Danny lifted me and I got the key. We both opened the box together and saw what looked like all the gold and money in the world. Suddenly we were transported magically back into our own time. We were both so happy and the money and gold was also with us in a giant room in a grand mansion. “Welcome to your new home”, a voice from nowhere said. And they lived as happily as possible.

m3ghan Becky Clarke poem the poem i wrote: I look into the dreaded red eyes of the Wolf, I hear the words HELP! HELP, Coming from a dark and gloomy cave, I step inside with a man I had just met, I change my mind and turn to get out, The walls have closed in, I pass the most terrifying tests , And find the treasure I needed all along.