Global Campus: Creative Writing Competition 2016

Shortlisted Creative Writing Competition 2016 Name: Hunter School: Dover Court International School Age: 12 Word count: 476 Be Ambitious Archer sat on an old, chipped, wooden rocking. He had illuminating, crystal, blue eyes and dirty, blonde hair. He wore a pair of dirty, tattered, mustard coloured jeans and a white shirt with the picture of a purple sunset on the front. He was 17 years old and had just finished in school. He was always asked what he wanted to be, Archer wanted to be an adventurer but had never thought much about it, but when Indiana Jones & the crystal skull came out, he thought a lot more about it. Archer remembered about a castle on the outskirts of his town. Within an hour he was ready to set off. The Forest in which the castle was located was a dark, mist covered forest. Once he arrived he noticed the silent swaying trees and mysterious, off pitch bird sounds off in the distance. The castles history is unknown except that it was built in 11th century. It had broken, Vine and root covered stones and pillars. It had the most demoniacal looking gargoyles that seemed to be staring right into your soul, and this seemed to strike archer for something this horrifying to be in such a wonderful building. Archer came upon the two enormous doors that stood between him and whatever lies inside this castle, the doors were a very dark colour of what tree Archer does not know the door had a gold plating though the middle and on the outline. It had the fanciest handles Archer had ever seen like grape vines. Archer had to use a lot of his body weight to push open the doors. He guessed they hadn’t been opened in many years as Vines had grown all over them. Once inside the first thing Archer saw was a huge gold chandelier with diamond like crystals hanging down from it. Archer walked up the giant sets of stairs leading to the second floor and saw a giant painting of a old man, he was wearing green, tattered, world war 1 American fatigues, he had a white short cut hair and a beard that covered up the bottom half of his face. Archer was just about to keep walking when he tripped over a lone book on the floor and fell onto a dirty, gold candle stick holder and broke it clean off. Archer and the holder hit the floor hard. Archer came down with a thump and the holder came down with an echoing metallic ding. A stone brick dropped out of the wall and inside was an old, chipped, iron lined box and a note. Archer opened the box to find a dozen old, shiny, gold coins that looked to be hundreds of years old and a note. He was just about to read the note when he heard an old, weary voice say “being Ambitious” 9 www.nordangliaeducation.com

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