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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Teens
- Theme: Action & Adventure
- Subject: Adventure
- Published: 02/17/2018
Through the Keyhole
I walked through the winding woods. Every step I took, I got further and further away from home. The green slimy moss covered every part of the ground. The fresh smell of the green old trees. The feeling of furry trees rubbed up against me. Birds chirped and sung their song. The perfect natural habitat.
The big green haunted house came up quick. The only house for kilometres. It looked like a barn. Mouldy green with an old rusty lock on the front door. I was scared. I was only 18 and I had been sent out here on my first day on the job. I was told if I found the treasure in the big green building in the woods, I would be able to join the adventure team. I thought it couldn’t be that hard, and this is my dream job right in front of me. I’d been told I look like a bushman or an adventurer my whole life, with my big brown beard, mixing in with my lusciously long dreadlocks. My father disappeared when I was young, so my mother always looked after me. I have blue eyes and am quite small. I’m smart and creative and have always found another way to fix the problem. I was told when I was little that I would have been the perfect adventurer, and that’s all I ever needed.
I had to get into the door, but how? I couldn’t break it open because I wasn’t strong enough. I had to find another way in. I was given a whole set of keys to get in, but there were thousands of them and that would take hours to find the right key. But that was the only way at this stage, so I started to look through the set of keys. I tried big ones, small ones, round ones, weird ones, gold ones, blue ones, but none of the keys fit. I sat down for a while before it started to get dark. I had to make a fire so I collected some wood. When I saw this wooden key in a tree, I knew that was the one, but I had to camp out the night first before I went into my big investigation. That night I held the key to my chest tighter than I have ever held a teddy bear.
I was up bright and early putting the key straight into the lock and busting the door open. It was an old factory inside. The factory would have been as old as my grandma. Every step I took the creaking noise of the floorboards filled the whole factory. But I could also hear a chatter that came from below. As I walked into the factory I tripped over a handle. There was a door to the bottom level. I opened it up as I saw a whole city below. Everyone down there were wearing nice, big, beautiful clothes. I dropped down through the door, and hit the ground hard on the expensive tiles below me. I asked where we were. What is this place called? It was called Beauty Below. Everyone looked posh. Their guards standing outside the gates of a massive palace. With big round pillars, it was taller than the Eiffel Tower. That looked like the place to find treasure. I pushed the gate open and walked into the palace that could be seen from miles away. I walked up to a man and asked him if he could help me find the treasure. He told me to go ask the queen. She was sitting on a chair at the top of the stairs. She looked like the boss of the city, and this could be her treasure. But this was my dream job and nothing was going to stop me. I asked her if she knew where the treasure was. She screamed for the guards! I was put into jail.
What could I do now as I thought to myself? This was my dream job on the line. I don’t think staying in jail for two years would be able to help me get the job. It was cold. I was starving. How immaculate it was outside was the total opposite where I was. Rusted bars in front of me. Mould on my bed. An old stone bench to sit on. I was alone in my cell. But the officer was standing just outside the cell. With the keys dangling on the key ring of his belt. I asked him if he liked his job, if he liked the queen. He said the queen gives them food and a place to sleep, and that was good enough for him, apparently. He said his name was Bane. He had a shaved head with tattoos all over him. He had scars on his legs and looked like a big strong body builder. The perfect guy to help me get the treasure. I explained to him, what If we broke out of here and took the money for ourselves. I told him about the outside world that he had never heard of before. He felt betrayed because when the queen went on her holidays she went out the top door. He knew that he would love the treasure. He wanted to be an adventurer as well, so we could be partners in crime. The treasure was under the palace. The only way you could get down there was in the door underneath the queen’s seat. I told him the plan. He was on my team now.
Today was the day! 3 days after I had been set the mission and I was already this deep into it. Bane let me out. I walked off with Bane then I hid in the closest room to the queen’s chair. Bane told her that a prisoner escaped and she had to help him find some troops to capture him. As she left I creeped up the stairs and slithered under the chair while slipping down the door. As I dropped down to hit the floor hard. All I could see as I opened my eyes was a blank room with a ladder that I missed on my fall and a treasure chest open full of shining gold. I lifted it up putting all my weight behind it. I climbed up the ladder using all my energy doing so. I opened the door and had the treasure chest with me under the queen’s seat. The whole city was at the palace and the queen was talking. I crawled out behind the chair, seeing a way down the stairs to the door which lead to the main world. Bane was standing out the front, I sprinted off on the pathway. As I heard someone yell intruder, and there was a rumble of all the people running after me. Bane jumped up to the main world giving me a lift up. There was a rampaging sea of people storming after me up to the main world. We went straight to my boss giving him the treasure, with my legs as soft as jelly. We had been told we were partners for life. I couldn’t wait for what was going to happen next, with a little worry about Beauty Below. Until we saw the queen and a big mob of people who charged towards our city. My city!
It felt like an Earthquake was running towards us. But this time the people of Beauty Below were ready, they wanted to kill us! They were in their full armour. We started sprinting. We ran and told my old boss. He told the army. It was the army vs Beauty Below and I was in the middle of it.
I told them that it wasn’t the cities fault. It was my fault. But that was my distraction as we attacked them. Bullets flew left and right. Bombs exploding, it felt like my ears were exploded. I’ve never seen a war. I’ve never been in a fight. The city was braking. Buildings were destroyed and people were dying. I had one person left. Bane. Against the queen. The queen offered Bane to help her steal the treasure and they would marry and keep it for life. Bane just started running off with her to the office. I sprinted after them. I gave them the treasure after they forced me to give it to them. They took it back to Beauty Below. Luckily it was a fake and they didn’t open it up to realise it. I locked the door to Beauty Below so they would never be able to get back out. For now. My mission was complete and I was a true adventurer.
Through the Keyhole(Brad Jefferies)
Through the Keyhole
I walked through the winding woods. Every step I took, I got further and further away from home. The green slimy moss covered every part of the ground. The fresh smell of the green old trees. The feeling of furry trees rubbed up against me. Birds chirped and sung their song. The perfect natural habitat.
The big green haunted house came up quick. The only house for kilometres. It looked like a barn. Mouldy green with an old rusty lock on the front door. I was scared. I was only 18 and I had been sent out here on my first day on the job. I was told if I found the treasure in the big green building in the woods, I would be able to join the adventure team. I thought it couldn’t be that hard, and this is my dream job right in front of me. I’d been told I look like a bushman or an adventurer my whole life, with my big brown beard, mixing in with my lusciously long dreadlocks. My father disappeared when I was young, so my mother always looked after me. I have blue eyes and am quite small. I’m smart and creative and have always found another way to fix the problem. I was told when I was little that I would have been the perfect adventurer, and that’s all I ever needed.
I had to get into the door, but how? I couldn’t break it open because I wasn’t strong enough. I had to find another way in. I was given a whole set of keys to get in, but there were thousands of them and that would take hours to find the right key. But that was the only way at this stage, so I started to look through the set of keys. I tried big ones, small ones, round ones, weird ones, gold ones, blue ones, but none of the keys fit. I sat down for a while before it started to get dark. I had to make a fire so I collected some wood. When I saw this wooden key in a tree, I knew that was the one, but I had to camp out the night first before I went into my big investigation. That night I held the key to my chest tighter than I have ever held a teddy bear.
I was up bright and early putting the key straight into the lock and busting the door open. It was an old factory inside. The factory would have been as old as my grandma. Every step I took the creaking noise of the floorboards filled the whole factory. But I could also hear a chatter that came from below. As I walked into the factory I tripped over a handle. There was a door to the bottom level. I opened it up as I saw a whole city below. Everyone down there were wearing nice, big, beautiful clothes. I dropped down through the door, and hit the ground hard on the expensive tiles below me. I asked where we were. What is this place called? It was called Beauty Below. Everyone looked posh. Their guards standing outside the gates of a massive palace. With big round pillars, it was taller than the Eiffel Tower. That looked like the place to find treasure. I pushed the gate open and walked into the palace that could be seen from miles away. I walked up to a man and asked him if he could help me find the treasure. He told me to go ask the queen. She was sitting on a chair at the top of the stairs. She looked like the boss of the city, and this could be her treasure. But this was my dream job and nothing was going to stop me. I asked her if she knew where the treasure was. She screamed for the guards! I was put into jail.
What could I do now as I thought to myself? This was my dream job on the line. I don’t think staying in jail for two years would be able to help me get the job. It was cold. I was starving. How immaculate it was outside was the total opposite where I was. Rusted bars in front of me. Mould on my bed. An old stone bench to sit on. I was alone in my cell. But the officer was standing just outside the cell. With the keys dangling on the key ring of his belt. I asked him if he liked his job, if he liked the queen. He said the queen gives them food and a place to sleep, and that was good enough for him, apparently. He said his name was Bane. He had a shaved head with tattoos all over him. He had scars on his legs and looked like a big strong body builder. The perfect guy to help me get the treasure. I explained to him, what If we broke out of here and took the money for ourselves. I told him about the outside world that he had never heard of before. He felt betrayed because when the queen went on her holidays she went out the top door. He knew that he would love the treasure. He wanted to be an adventurer as well, so we could be partners in crime. The treasure was under the palace. The only way you could get down there was in the door underneath the queen’s seat. I told him the plan. He was on my team now.
Today was the day! 3 days after I had been set the mission and I was already this deep into it. Bane let me out. I walked off with Bane then I hid in the closest room to the queen’s chair. Bane told her that a prisoner escaped and she had to help him find some troops to capture him. As she left I creeped up the stairs and slithered under the chair while slipping down the door. As I dropped down to hit the floor hard. All I could see as I opened my eyes was a blank room with a ladder that I missed on my fall and a treasure chest open full of shining gold. I lifted it up putting all my weight behind it. I climbed up the ladder using all my energy doing so. I opened the door and had the treasure chest with me under the queen’s seat. The whole city was at the palace and the queen was talking. I crawled out behind the chair, seeing a way down the stairs to the door which lead to the main world. Bane was standing out the front, I sprinted off on the pathway. As I heard someone yell intruder, and there was a rumble of all the people running after me. Bane jumped up to the main world giving me a lift up. There was a rampaging sea of people storming after me up to the main world. We went straight to my boss giving him the treasure, with my legs as soft as jelly. We had been told we were partners for life. I couldn’t wait for what was going to happen next, with a little worry about Beauty Below. Until we saw the queen and a big mob of people who charged towards our city. My city!
It felt like an Earthquake was running towards us. But this time the people of Beauty Below were ready, they wanted to kill us! They were in their full armour. We started sprinting. We ran and told my old boss. He told the army. It was the army vs Beauty Below and I was in the middle of it.
I told them that it wasn’t the cities fault. It was my fault. But that was my distraction as we attacked them. Bullets flew left and right. Bombs exploding, it felt like my ears were exploded. I’ve never seen a war. I’ve never been in a fight. The city was braking. Buildings were destroyed and people were dying. I had one person left. Bane. Against the queen. The queen offered Bane to help her steal the treasure and they would marry and keep it for life. Bane just started running off with her to the office. I sprinted after them. I gave them the treasure after they forced me to give it to them. They took it back to Beauty Below. Luckily it was a fake and they didn’t open it up to realise it. I locked the door to Beauty Below so they would never be able to get back out. For now. My mission was complete and I was a true adventurer.
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