Cranford Review 2014

The Mark Of The Shadow…
The wet breath of the horse tickled Rik’s ear. He
rifled through the contents of the bag slung across
the destrier’s back. He had been pickpocketing the
barracks for a good hour or two and had been rewarded
with a nick of his thumb from a dagger, now in his
makeshift scabbard. Rik removed his hand from the
bag. He sighed. All of the danger of sneaking into one
of the King’s barracks and he had been rewarded with
a dagger! Rik went outside, half fearful that the guards
would still be posted there. However, emerging from
the musty building, Rik found that the guards had gone
to join the battle. Suddenly feeling exhausted, Rik
slumped on a tree and closed his eyes.
“Oi, you” came a faint cry. “Oi, you there, boy!”
Rik opened an eye to find a tall Legion warrior standing
over him, yellow grass on his boots. “What do you
want?” Rik mumbled.
“Aren’t you meant to be in the battle? It’s already
started and you’re not even in armour!” Dragging him
with a gauntleted hand, the soldier took no mind to his
sleepy objections.
A half hour later, Rik found himself standing in line
with other boys, wearing rag-tag mail with a rusty
spear in his hand. He couldn’t believe it! As flaming
green arrows rained down upon King Rob’s vanguard,
Rik shook away his lethargy. He was in battle!
Sadaq Sharif (year 7)
Wonderful Luck
Her eyes were dazzling blue as she stared at the
hungry unicorn grasping the lush green grass. Helena
slowly moved towards the hungry unicorn she felt
the unicorn’s smooth silky skin and his soft hair. She
was mesmerised it looked like she was hypnotised.
Helena had the greatest happiest smile. Desperately
she jumped on the unicorns back; the unicorn gave a
welcoming grunt. Helena’s bright red hair glimmered
in the sun.
Shabnam Hashemi (year 7)
NNijjer
“You can’t destroy this castle Toothless!” yelled
Hiccup.
“Oh yeah, who’s going to stop me?” laughed Toothless.
“I will stop you from destroying this castle!” replied
Hiccup.
The Mendoza Twins
And The Morphing Man
The house stood there, abandoned and on its own. A
forbidding shape: shadowy and gloomy, it was the
size of a mansion, with pieces of cracked dry paint
surrounding it like a pool. It was a stormy night;
thunder over-powering the whole world. The naked
trees were fluttering and dangling like a poisonous
spiders building a web, covering up bits of the house.
Over at the bottom of the house a shadow darted across
the floor, it looked like a ferocious dog, and it was!
His beady eyes star-gazing at his home forever lost.
It looked like he was terrorized by the state of the
disrepair into which his home had fallen.......
Nadima Hiyati (year 7)
“You’re very funny! Now move!” boomed Toothless.
“No, I won’t move! I want you to fight me!” cried
out Hiccup.
“Fine, I will! However, if I win I get to destroy this
castle with everyone in it and you have to help me.”
Toothless said while doing an evil laugh.
“Ok! But if I win you have to protect the castle with
everyone in it.” said Hiccup and they began to fight.
As the dragon brothers fought they scared all the town’s
people and all the royals ran and hid in the enormous
hall in the magnificent castle. The fight between the
dragons was still going on. Then, finally, the fight was
over and Hiccup had won and now Toothless was the
protector of the castle.
Navjit Nijjar (year 7)
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