Here is my story Kaitlyn Wittlewood, the Touckeneye and the Giant of Walls.
Hope you enjoy :)
Kaitlyn, the Touckeneye
and the Giant of Walls
Chapter 1
The First Sighting
Kaitlyn couldn’t bear to look. Her brother Thomas was about to tear
the head of her beloved doll right in front of her eyes! “Please don’t, Thomas!
You know mama won’t be able to afford another for me,” she begged. Kaitlyn knew
that her pleas and facts weren’t even going to be considered by him, though.
There was no hope of saving her precious Cathleen now. He started to pull!!
Kaitlyn fell to her knees, covered her face and started to weep. She knew she
shouldn’t cry over such a little unimportant doll but she couldn’t help it.
After a few seconds Kaitlyn looked up. Thomas hadn’t pulled Cathleen’s head
off. He was looking at something on the ground next to the porch.
Kaitlyn didn’t quite know what he was seeing though. “Is it a bird?”
she thought. Something was lying there. It looked rather like a huge over grown
eagle. But the strange thing about it was that it had a beak that looked like a
toucan’s! You couldn’t really see what colour it was because it was like a
shadow. “What do you think it is?”She whispered. Thomas didn’t reply. He
couldn’t speak, for it was a strange thing to see outside your front porch and
you mustn’t blame Thomas for not being able to answer. Kaitlyn seeing her
chance gathered her wits, ran over to
her brother and grabbed Cathleen from his hands and clasped her to her breast.
She was glad to have her precious doll back. When she turned around she
couldn’t see the strange creature anywhere. “Where is it? Where has it gone?”
That night after Kaitlyn had said her prayers and went to bed she
thought, “What was that strange bird on the porch today! If it even was a bird
it looked more like a shadow of some sort. Could it have been a great over
grown eagle? No, it couldn’t be, its beak was too large for an eagle… unless
the shape got muddled up in the shadow! That does happen sometimes though… I’ll
think about it in the morning.” And with that she fell asleep
Chapter 2
Meg
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!!!”
It was six in the morning and Kaitlyn had to get up. She wasn’t allowed to
sleep in. She quickly jumped out of bed and got dressed. She put on a white
dress that had blue roses all over it and a light blue trim with white polka
dots. Over the dress she put on a lovely bright red jumper that had been
knitted by her mother, walked down the stairs leading to the rest of the house and
went to the kitchen. Her mother, a kind lady, was busy making breakfast for
everyone. “Breakfast ready yet, Honey?” called Kaitlyn’s father from his room.
“Almost, dear!” mother called back. “Kaitlyn, please come here and help me set
the table.” Kaitlyn did what she was told for she had grown up in a place where
it was unheard of to disobey your parents. She set the table as fast as she could
because she was very hungry and wanted to get out of the house quickly to
finish her chores and play. “Well
Kaitlyn, you’ve done an excellent job of the table. And my, how fast you’ve
done it too! I could never have done it so quickly myself. Thank you for
helping,” said her mother. She often said things like this to Kaitlyn and
Thomas and their Pa. As they were all eating Kaitlyn decided to tell her father
about the strange thing she had seen yesterday evening. “It was so queer, papa.
It was like an eagle but much bigger and its beak was the weirdest thing of
all! Its beak was long and thick! What do think it was?” Her father and mother stared at each other
for a moment as if they where pondering whether to answer her or not. Finally Pa
said “Kaitlyn. Why are you lying to us? You have never lied before so we are a
bit shocked to hear you do it now.” “But Papa I’m not lying!! I’m telling the
truth! I promise I am!! I would never lie to you or Ma! Never!!” Kaitlyn
exclaimed. “That’s just the problem darling, we don’t know that. For all we
know you could be telling the truth but who ever heard of a giant eagle with a
long and thick beak! It can’t be true!” said her mother. Kaitlyn was astonished
that her parents didn’t believe her. She would never lie to them. She quickly
finished her food and rushed outside to milk the cow, Meg.
As she walked out to the barn she saw Meg, their only cow,
pop her head out from behind
the barn door and give a loud welcoming “Mooo!!” Meg was a sweet cow that always
let anyone milk her and was always waiting for Kaitlyn just inside the barn
door. Kaitlyn couldn’t help smiling when she saw Meg. She was the sort of cow
that made everyone smile. She had wonderful big eyes that were the colour of
the sea and big spots of brown all over that looked like someone had painted
them on her! Kaitlyn grabbed a large silver tin bucket and walked over to Meg
and started milking her. Suddenly Meg started to run all around the barn! The
milk in the bucket went everywhere! Kaitlyn stood up and tried to get Meg to
settle down, but she wouldn’t. “Stop Meg!! Slow down girl! Slow down!” Then something terrible happened… a huge bird
as big as an elephant flew in through the barn door and grabbed Meg from around
the belly and started to fly away with her!! Since she was such a heavy cow
though, the bird had to fly close to the ground at first until it got used to
such a heavy load. Kaitlyn immediately saw that it was the same bird from
yesterday! But this time it didn’t look like a shadow as it did then. It was
brown and its beak really was like a toucan!!
Chapter 3
Taken
Kaitlyn ran as fast as she could towards the strange bird and grabbed
hold of Meg’s leg. She pulled and pulled with all her might trying to make the
horrible bird let go, but it was no use! The bird started to fly high! Kaitlyn’s
feet no longer touched the ground! Three feet, six feet, eight feet high! Up and up they went until they were at least seventy
feet off the ground! Kaitlyn was terrified! She had never been, much less even
seen anyone so high in her life!! She put her hand on Meg’s back and pulled
herself on top. She was still dreadfully scared but not as much as she was when
she was hanging from Meg’s leg! She could now see for miles in any direction.
If she looked behind her, she could see her little farm house and barn getting
smaller every second. If she hadn’t been so scared she might have enjoyed
flying so high, looking down at everything and feeling the wind go rushing past
her face at such a tremendous speed. Suddenly the great bird did a somersault
in mid air and Kaitlyn fell off!! Down, down, down- it seemed like it would
never stop. And then she hit a hard surface, but she just simply kept
falling!!!! She had hit a rock that was sticking out from the edge of a cliff
but just rolled off it! She had a terrible pain in her head and it was
bleeding, but thankfully it wasn’t bleeding too much. Then one of the same type
of birds flew over and caught her it its talons!
Kaitlyn was too weak and scared to do anything, so she just hung limply
like she was dead. After about five minutes she felt the huge bird put her down
on a grassy place and nudge her gently. The bird then did something
extraordinary… the bird in a kind and gentle voice (much like Kaitlyn’s mothers
voice) said “Auu. Excuse me dear but are you alright?” Kaitlyn looked up. There
was no mistaking it: there was no one else around. The voice had to have come
from the bird! “Aaahh! Please don’t eat me!!” “Eat you? Whatever for? I don’t
like human flesh.” “What? So you aren’t going to eat me?” “No. And I am ever so
sorry that Jelking dropped you from out of the sky and made you hit your head
on that rock.” “Jelking?” Kaitlyn said. “Yes Jelking. He is the Toukeneye that
brought you here,” It answered. “Toukeni? What’s that?” “It’s not ‘Toukeni’ its
‘Toukeneye’ you say ‘eye’ at the end not ‘ee’.” “Forget about all this, where
has Jelking taken Meg my cow?”said Kaitlin. “Your cow is going to be dinner for
me and all of the Toukeneye!” it said. “No!!! You mustn’t!! Please don’t! I
love Meg!! She’s the best cow in the world!”
Kaitlyn begged. “I’m sorry, but since the giant came here there has been
no game around for us to hunt. He has been catching and eating it all himself!
If we don’t eat your cow we won’t be able to live much longer!” “Who is this
giant you speak of?” “He is the Giant of Walls! He is huge! He eats Toukeneye
for dinner and he is mean! We Toukeneye must stay away from him! But no more
chat-I must go now to the feast.” with that she flew away before Kaitlyn had
even gotten a chance to plead for Megs life again.
Chapter 4
The Giant of Walls
Poor Kaitlyn was left alone in a country
she didn’t know. She couldn’t go home for she didn’t know the way, and she had
to try and save Meg from being eaten anyway. All she knew was that the kind
hearted Toukeneye had flown towards the north, so that was the way she had to
go. Off she trudged, not knowing where she was going. Every time she thought
she must be close and it must just be over the next hill she found out she was
wrong. After a long time Kaitlyn came to the edge of a dark forest, but she
kept going. Kaitlyn walked for hours. It must have at least been 7:00 p.m. when
she finally saw a twinkle of light in the distance. Although she was exhausted,
she ran. She felt sure Meg was still alive and was counting on Kaitlyn to save
her. As she got close to the light she saw that it was really a fire. She also
saw a crowd of Toukeneye gathering around it. Kaitlyn could not see Meg! She
walked around the outside of the clearing until she saw a path leading out to a
cave that was covered over with tree logs. “That must lead to where they are
keeping Meg!” Kaitlyn thought. She quickly went around and looked through a
crack. Meg was inside the cave! “Meg!! Your alive!” “Mooo!!” she replied. “Shhhh!!
Don’t make a sound, Meg ,or they will find me, and you will become supper!” She
pulled free some of the logs; scrambled inside; led her cow out of the cave and
behind a small, nearby hill. Suddenly Meg let out a loud “Mooo!!!” A huge Toukeneye flew over to where they
were. “Run Meg!!” Kaitlyn grabbed Meg’s leash and ran. She didn’t care where
she was going as long as it was away from the dreadful Toukeneye. She could see
that the bird was Jelking, the same mean Toukeneye that stole her and Meg away.
Kaitlyn was running as fast as she could but he was catching up! Suddenly a
huge person as big as a two storey building came stomping up and grabbed
Jelking. “The Giant of Walls!” Kaitlyn muttered to herself. “Quick!! We must
save him!!” cried the kind Toukeneye that had helped Kaitlyn before. “Who will
help me get him back?” None of the other Toukeneye volunteered. “Will you help
me save Jelking, Kaitlyn? If you do, I will give you Meg back.” Kaitlyn
couldn’t resist saying yes. “Excellent! You may ride on my back if you wish,”
the bird said. “Yes! I would like that quite a lot, thank you.” Kaitlyn had to
climb on top of a big rock and then on the Toukeneye’s back. “By the way, I
don’t know your name yet.” said Kaitlyn. “My name is Juntra. And what is
yours?” “My name is Kaitlyn.” “Well off we go.” said Juntra. Up they went,
higher and higher. Gradually a gigantic house came into view. “Is that it?”
asked Kaitlyn. “Yes.” answered Juntra. Juntra flew down to the ground. All
around the dwelling of the giant were enormous cliffs that where so straight
and smooth that they looked just like walls of a colossal building. “Please get
off my back.” asked Juntra, sweetly. Kaitlyn got off. “Here, follow me,
Kaitlyn,” Juntra whispered. They ran over to a huge bush and walked behind it
until they got right outside the house. There was a big archway on the front of
the house that the giant must have used as the front door. Luckily the giant
hadn’t made a door. Just inside the house there was a very deep pit. “Careful!
Don’t fall in!! That’s the Bottomless Pit of Doom! If anybody ever falls in
they will never return!!”Juntra exclaimed softly. They cautiously went around
the pit. Across the room was another archway that they went through. Inside
that room was a large black cage hanging from the roof. Jelking was inside the
cage! “Quick! Get me out of here before the giant gets back!” he cried.
“Shhhh!!” said both Kaitlyn and Juntra together, but it was too late! They all
heard a loud thumping coming from the next room. The giant came in. “What have
we here? Mmmm, extra dinner!!” “Run!!” screamed Kaitlyn. “Wait!! Get me out! I
don’t want to be dinner!!!” shouted Jelking after them. They didn’t even hear
him. They were rushing out of the giant’s house as fast as they could. As the
giant was running past the cage that Jelking was in, he knocked it and it fell
to the ground. Luckily Jelking did not get hurt and the impact of the fall
broke the lock on his cage. He did not waste any time in escaping. Out of the
terrible house they all fled. Juntra was in front. Suddenly Kaitlyn had a
wonderful idea…
Chapter 5
The Defeat
Kaitlyn ran to the left and went back into the house. The
giant swiveled to the left too and followed her back in. She ran around the bottomless pit and stopped
at the opposite side. She turned around and said “Come on! You better run faster
or you won’t catch me!!” It wasn’t the best teasing but it was all she could
think of. Even so it did the job she wanted it to do. Kaitlyn’s teasing had
made the giant furious so he had speeded up and when he had come to the edge of
the pit he couldn’t stop in time. The
giant in all its rage had run right into the Bottomless Pit of Doom, never to
be seen again!
Kaitlyn had done what she wanted to do. She had done away
with the giant, helped save Jelking and received Juntra’s promise to return
Meg.
Chapter 6
The Glass Trumpet
Juntra gave Kaitlyn a ride back to the Toukeneye village. “Thank you
Kaitlyn for freeing us from the Giant of Walls. We are eternally grateful and
we are here any time you need us,” said Jamundra the chief of the Toukeneye.
“Here is a token of our appreciation and a tool to help you find us if you ever
need to,” he announced. He gave Kaitlyn a chain necklace that had a tiny glass
trumpet hanging from it. “When you want to call us just blow on this trumpet
and we will come.” “Thank you, Jamundra. I will.” She answered. “Now I’m
wondering if one of you would be so kind as to give me a ride home?” “I will!”
said a young Toukeneye called Jamsbeana. A few minutes later they were off,
flying very fast and high. Before
Kaitlyn knew it, she was home.
“I’m back Ma!!”She proclaimed when she came through the door. Her
mother, father and Thomas were all in the kitchen worrying about her. “Where
have you been?” asked her mother anxiously. “I’ve been having a marvellous
adventure, Ma…”
The End
Hope you liked!!
- Jamie
