Burnum and the Bunyip

It was early morning and Stephanie was perched on the edge of the deep misty lake, surrounded by lots of weeds. Stephanie, which meant water, was quite good at fishing but was still learning. She had a rod and a basket because she was fishing. The fish she usually caught were browny, silver on the top and light brown on the bottom. Although she would usually go fishing sometimes she would sit on the edge and watch the cascading waterfall crashing on the large, brown boulders as heavy as cars. The boulders were covered in light, green moss on the outside and darker on the inside. This was a very mysterious place! A dangerous place!
Later that day Burnum , which meant great warrior, came to look for his wife because she said she would be home by early evening but she wasn’t. He went to the lake and found her rod and basket on the edge of the lake but she wasn’t there! It was early evening and the shadows of the trees were closing in making everything cool and dark. The smell of mossy damp boulders filled the air. All the fish had disappeared as a monstrous shadow broke out of the water lurking in the cave. Then suddenly out came a fearsome creature! It was almost too late as the huge, strange shape of the Bunyip loomed over Burnum!
Without warning Burnum, quickly rotated and headed into the deep, dark forest full of trees like old twisted fingers. Out of the water the fierce, menacing Bunyip was rather slow and stomped heavily. Its feet were as heavy as elephant feet but like a duck’s feet so it could swim better. The colours of the Bunyip were browny, grey so it could camouflage amongst the murky, shallow waters of the lagoon. Burnum however, soon got to the old, mysterious forest where he found Stephanie, locked up in a cage guarded by the fearsome Bunyip she was crying and wailing in pain because her fingers were twisted together to keep her locked by the Bunyip who was ten times the size of an average man! The warrior had a plan to escape and as he set her free he told her his plan. Soon she was out but suddenly the Bunyip blocked them and they were trapped!!
Luckily burnum, who had learned about this fearsome creature, earlier in his life, new that its only fear was fire!! So quickly burnum commanded, “Fetch me some nice, long sticks and hurry!” After a few minutes Stephanie came back with some pretty long sticks and Burnum, who had brought a box of match sticks, set a fire right beside the fierce, camoufladgable Bunyip. It screeched in horror stepped back and fell down the large, grassy hill and sprayed the water of the lagoon everywhere! Burnum got a bow and arrow put some yellow flares on it and fired it into the air.

“Hopefully the aboriginal tribe will see the flares and come to help us." Exclaimed Burnum. They sat there waiting for an hour for the tribe to come.
Soon afterwards the tribe were sat in there camp watching the sun starting to go down when suddenly an arrow shot into the air and the tribe leader yelled,
“Come on tribe we have to go to the forest full of cooliba trees! “In a flash the Aboriginal tribe were ready in action! They ran towards the deep, dark forest and eventually found them. They slowly trekked back and after about an hour they were back in the camp.
As they sat down they watched the sun go down and they danced to a piece of Australian music. They ate their supper in the tent, rejoiced and celebrated by singing and dancing to their favourite songs. Mysteriously the bones of the Bunyip were never found!

By Maisie Bees