Secret of the black puss Chapter 1 Unexpected “And this is the sydney Harbour bridge.” I yawned, as my teacher listed all the possible ways to bomb the sydney harbour ( seriously, who would do that?)We were on the bus heading to the state library. The wea

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First name, first letter of surname
Isabella w
Age
9
Secret of the black puss
Chapter 1 Unexpected
“And this is the sydney Harbour bridge.” I yawned, as my teacher listed all the possible ways to bomb the sydney harbour ( seriously, who would do that?)We were on the bus heading to the state library. The weather was storming. I was excited, not because of the two million books but because I could sneak away to the look at the interesting collection. It reminded me of my dad.

When we arrived I was the first one to get out of the bus. There it was, standing solemnly in the rain. The large building looked sinister in the rain and storm. By this time the class should’ve gotten out. I looked back, the bus was not there! Then I looked at my watch, it was exactly 12:38pm. Of all the peculiar things that happened to me this was the most crazy.

Running to the entrance I noticed something, a murder of crows. I approached the door. With simple pull of the door handel I was in the library.





Chapter 2 Trim
Advancing towards the Mitchell reading room I felt scared.
Goose bumps were creeping up my arm. This was not good. Every step I took, the courage inside me lessened.
After what seemed like an hour of creeping towards the reading room, I finally saw something. It was a shadow of a cat. “Who are you?” Realising cats couldn’t talk I staggered back. “Ahh, another passerby isn’t it?” Said a voice. It was coming from the cat. “I need your help, I have been left here when the time suddenly changed.”

“Can at least guide me.” I begged him. “Well you’ve come to the right person, I am Trim Captain Matthew Flinder’s cat.”
“I know everything about this place.” “I live upstairs, until…” he shivered. “Something came.” “Well nice to meet you… Trim.” I agreed.


Chapter 4 a good fright
“Well follow me rookie!” Then he marched up along the staircase. He led me down to the stacks. “Why are we down here?” I asked. “You’ll see.” He replied. I saw a figure in the darkness. Trim led me closer to it. Two bony fingers gripped my neck. I turned around. “Boo!”it was Trim. “Seriously Trim?” “Humans always need a good scare to be proven loyal to their guide.” “But DO NOT do that again.” I warned.


Chapter 5 The Globe Theater
We arrived in an empty room. With seven stained glass windows. I recognised this as the seven ages of man. A box in the middle opened slowly to reveal a bronze theatre. Several bronze people on the stage were ferociously stabbing a bronze person lying on the floor. But then it stopped. “Stop it Steven the someone has come.” One said in a sharp voice. “I agree, this is inhumane on this stage.” The one on the floor said in a strangled voice.

All of the bronze people hurried to the left wing of the stage “Hurry up Steven the defence position, go go Go!” The bronze person known as Steven. Stood in the middle of the stage and said. “Stand forth and tremble before me foul Carbanacle monster!” “I’m no monster Steven.” I said.

“Oh” he said in a monotone. “Why do you think I’m a monster?” “We moved the theatre downstairs because of the beast in the gallery.” “What beast?” “The time-nibbling beast” he said. “If you dare its somewhere in the gallery.”

Then the box closed slowly. I look at trim and he looked back. We have to resolve this.

Chapter 5 The time nibbler
As we crept through the gallery the paintings eyes seemed to follow us. The floor creaked and suddenly we fell into the floor boards. Down down DOWN we fell until…. THUMP. I fell hard on a stone cold floor. “This must be the monsters lair!” I gasped. We continued down the narrow passage. “So how did you get here?” “You see when Matthew Flinders died I continued on my voyage and I became immortalised through memories, I found myself here.” I saw his sadness. Losing a friend to mortality forever.